How Blade Runner Teaches Bad Japanese Table Manners

It’s something I’ve noticed. I’ve noticed it in the US, and I’ve noticed it among Westerners who visit Japan. After breaking apart chopsticks, they begin rubbing them together. There might be reasons why Westerners do this with chopsticks: maybe they are worried about splinters or maybe it’s something else. Maybe it’s Blade Runner’s fault. Early…

Tokyo Looks Best at Night

And in the rain. I’ve always liked Tokyo in the rain. Expect if I’m out walking in it. Then, it sucks. These cool photos are from Instagram user Liam Wong, who also is a graphic designer at Ubisoft. You can see how he brings an artistic flair to his Tokyo photos. Okay, okay. Tokyo also…

Mad Max: Fury Road Livens Up College Graduations

Take this as a warning: Post-graduation life is one brutal wasteland. Students at Tama Art University in Japan didn’t only dress up as Immortan Joe and War Boys, but created a Fury Road style vehicle, guitar guy all. (It’s probably for the best that it’s sans flames.) As previously reported (here, here, and uh, here),…

Ten Catchy Anime Theme Songs from Winter 2016

As the winter 2016 season comes to a close, let’s look at some of the best anime theme songs it had to offer. Anime: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu Song: “Usurashi Shinjuu” Artist: Megumi Hayashibara Why I Love It: This lounge singer-style Jazz song is so unlike the vast majority of anime themes out there, I…

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Sega said today that Yakuza 0, the newish prequel to the Japanese gangster series, will be released on PS4 in the West in “early 2017″ (it was out in Japan in 2015). If you want to know why this is exciting news, just look at this

Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley, Reporting For Duty

It’s weird, for all its influence in both games and film, not that many people cosplay as characters from the Alien series. So it’s awesome seeing this ver1sa, not just because it’s OG 1979 Ripley, but because it’s so good. I like the make-up work to increase the likeness, but I love the uniform. There’s…

Skull Helmets? Are We The Baddies?

Division48 is a small Polish studio that has worked on games like The Witcher 3, Hard West and Dying Light You can see more of Division48’s work at their studio siteand at artist Grzegorz Przybyś’ page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them…

EA Apologizes To Muslim UFC Fighter For Giving Him Christian Victory Celebration

EA Sports UFC 2 is a game that does its damnedest to imitate every element of the UFC broadcast experience (except for the weird part where it pretends commentator Mike Goldberg knows what he’s talking about). By and large, it works. It’s in the particulars that EA falters. Khabib Nurmagomedov is a UFC lightweight fighter…

Toy Time With Marvel Legends’ Red Skull Build-A-Figure Series

In all my years of toy collecting I’ve never managed to fully assemble one of Hasbro’s Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure sets. I’ve also never recorded a Toy Time video without a beard. First time for everything, I suppose. The six inch Marvel Legends line (the smaller Marvel Universe line has recently been rebranded under Legends as…

Obsidian’s Tyranny Is An RPG Where The Bad Guys Already Won

Let’s get this out of the way upfront: Tyranny is not Pillars of Eternity 2. It’s a different animal, a decidedly more sinister one. But the gulf between them is more than skin-deep. After dozens of hours, I still haven’t finished Obsidian’s classic PC RPG revival, Pillars of Eternity. Don’t get me wrong: it’s great.…

A Close Look at Uncharted 4’s Ridiculous Attention to Detail

The stubble. The wrinkles. The sweat. The hair. Nathan Drake’s model has gotten pretty incredible in Uncharted 4 and Naughty Dog took the time today to shed some light on how they nailed it. In a word, the PS4. In Naughty Dog’s latest dev diary, they talk about what the PS4’s power allows them to…

Tom Clancy’s The Division: The Kotaku Review

Tom Clancy’s The Division is exciting enough that I don’t mind how dull it can sometimes be. It’s fun enough that I can usually live with spending most of my time shooting virtual poor people. It’s well enough made that I don’t mind how clumsy and unbalanced it often is. The Division is a shared-world,…

Fallout 4 Players Are Turning Codsworth Into A Monster In The New DLC

Here’s Codsworth, like you’ve never seen him before. As you might already know, Fallout 4’s Automatron DLC is all about robots. You can build them, you can customize them, you can pit them against each other. It’s not just random bots, though. You can also outfit your loyal Codsworth, and the options are pretty ridiculous,…

The Skywalker Ranch Has A Treasure Trove Of Old LucasArts Games

In Northern California, Star Wars creator George Lucas has a sprawling complex called the Skywalker Ranch. If you found your way inside, you might stumble upon a big room full of concept art, design documents, and files for all sorts of old games. When working on Day of the Tentacle Remastered, Double Fine boss Tim…