Japan Has A Kit Kat Museum

Of course it does! Clearly the country that has an array of Kit Kat flavors needs a museum to show them off. Recently, Japanese site Fashion Press visited the Tokyo museum, which is, sadly, only opened for a limited time. More below: The Kit Kat Museum is located at the Nescafe in Harajuku and runs…

Watch The New Resident Evil CG Animated Movie Trailer

As previously reported, Capcom is making a full-CG RE movie called Resident Evil: Vendetta. Here is the movie’s debut trailer. Resident Evil: Vendetta will be out next spring in Japan. No word yet on an international release. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea,…

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Hideo Kojima Denies Involvement With New Metal Gear Game

Konami is making a new Metal Gear. It’s called Metal Gear Survive and has zombies in it. This weekend at the Tokyo Game Show, Hideo Kojima briefly talked about the game and how he has nothing to do with it. During an audience Q&A, Kojima was asked if the rumor was true that Metal Gear…

Disney vs Capcom

Come on, relevant licensing departments. If Square can make Kingdom Hearts, surely Capcom can kick some ass with a fighting game crossover. Cosplay by Azulette, photo by Peter Muñoz

When Your Cosplay Is Built To Protect You From Superheroes

It’s one thing to look like DC villain Deathstroke, it’s another to build your cosplay outfit so that it could actually protect you from Batman punching you in the head. Or…some guy smacking you around with a piece of timber. And an axe. This outfit/helmet is by Friggin Boom Toys, who shot the video below…

The Week In Games: Pumping Iron

Rise of Iron, the final expansion for the game everyone wishes people would stop talking about, and everyone else wishes they could stop playing, is almost upon us. My fingers are getting twitchy just thinking about it. But of course the fall is almost here as well, which means that for everyone who never wants…

Ten Years Later, Okami Is Still Great

One day, my 8th grade art teacher decided to try to teach his class sumi-e, the Japanese art of Ink wash painting. It’s a minimalist style with a long history and subtle philosophy behind it, not exactly the best thing to show a bunch of distracted adolescent kids. He told us to be very conscious…

Last Man Standing In Counter-Strike Somehow Wins The Game

Virtus.pro went on to win the entire tournament, but before they could do that, Filip “NEO” Kubski had to help get his team through the semi-finals against Team Dignitas. Despite his age, the 29 year old Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro has really come into his own these last few years, helping VP take first place…

Diaries of A Spaceport Janitor Makes Cleaning Up Trash Beautiful 

Diaries of A Spaceport Janitor came out last Friday, so you can now relish the futility of late space-capitalism in all of its bright, low-poly glory. The object of the game is to go around a space port collecting other aliens’ garbage, with aim of eventually getting out of dodge and creating a new life…

Crowd Shouts, Throws Things At Counter-Strike Tournament

Today, Virtus.pro swept a two game series against Cloud9 to win the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive finals at the DreamHack Open in Bucharest. The all-Polish team appeared all but unstoppable, defeating the Americans 16-9 on both the first map, Train, and the second, Cobblestone. However, during the finals, some people in the crowd began holding up…

Deaf Destiny Player Petitions Bungie For Captioning

Tigersharkdude loves Destiny. He’s also deaf. As a result, he asked the “DestinyTheGame” subreddit to help him petition Bungie to make the game’s subtitle options more robust. Yesterday, he wrote: “I am asking if you all could help me start a petition to ask Bungie to caption the random NPC dialogue (think engram remarks from…

Study Confirms People Love To Play Pokémon Go While Driving

People do all kinds of absurd stuff while driving, including but not limited to: eating, texting, reading books and apparently even playing the guitar. Ever since Pokémon Go came out, people have also been trying to catch Pidgeys and Zubats while driving, because you can never have enough Pidgeys and Zubats. They’ve crashed into schools,…

Sunday Comics: Don’t Look Now

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published September 15. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 12. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Overwatch Player Uses Actual Turntable To Control Lucio

Video games have a long and sordid history of using various objects as controllers: guns, peripherals shaped like penises, and hell, even fruit. So it’s only natural that some of the weirder ones be put to more sensible use. That’s what YouTuber Whybeare did a couple weeks ago when he tried to play Overwatch’s Lucio…

Struggling Halo Team Replaces Players With Last Year’s Champions

Imagine it’s the end of the month. The new NBA season is about to start just days later, but right before that, a majority of the Los Angeles Lakers’ owners decided to cut their losses with the team and sign a new one. With a once proud legacy firmly in the rear-view mirror, they’d had…