How An Elaborate Glitch Lets You Finish The Legend of Zelda In Under Four Minutes

Many games offer ways to program new code that allows players to skip to the credits. It’s a complicated process that’s allowed people to leap to the end of Super Mario World and skip over most of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. So why not jump right to the end of The Legend of Zelda?…

Bikers Update Brings Motorcycle Clubs To Grand Theft Auto Online

Coming soon to the multiplayer side of Grand Theft Auto V, the Bikers update will allow players to recreate their Sons of Anarchy fantasies in real-time with up to seven fellow motorcycle enthusiasts. Detailed in a news post over at the Rockstar website, the Bikers update introduces motorcycle clubs to the game, allowing players to…

Toy Time Plays With Marvel Legends’ New X-Men Build-A-Figure Series

Hasbro’s excellent six-inch Marvel Legends line has relatively X-Men free since 2014’s paltry Toys’R’Us exclusive Jubilee series. Now Marvel’s mutant heroes return with eight figures and the parts to build the Juggernaut, bitch. Sorry, reflex The new X-Men line, showing up in stores as we speak, features eight heroes (or anti-heroes) coming together to battle…

Lego Movie Batman Meets Knight Rider In Lego Dimensions Next Year

Continuing to pile on the properties into 2017, Lego Dimensions gets a massive story pack based on the upcoming The Lego Batman Movie and ‘80s David Hasselhoff on February 10. The good news is not only are we getting a chance to play as iconic ‘80s hero Michael Knight, driving about saving people from whatever…

Metal Gear Survive Gets 15-Minute Demo And Lots of Dislikes

Konami sure is trying. Gotta give them that. But if YouTube likes are any indication, loads of people aren’t feeling Metal Gear Survive. As Kotaku UK previously explained in great detail, Metal Gear Survive is a co-op stealth game in which you sneak up and kill zombies. During the Tokyo Game Show, Konami showed off…

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…