Snacktaku Presents Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Breakfast

While the ultimate showdown between DC Comics’ iconic heroes doesn’t hit theaters until Friday, the battle begins now, in your mouth. Originally published 1/30/16, brought back to prepare you for what’s to come. Or in my mouth, unless you want to run out to your local purveyor of fine breakfast grains and pick up a…

How The First Resident Evil‘s Been Censored And Changed Since 1996

Plenty of games have been touched up and altered as the years went on, but few games have seen as many changes as the original Resident Evil. This piece originally appeared 1/19/15. Ports of old games are common, but what’s interesting about Resident Evil is how often Capcom has actually censored, changed, modified, and added…

Day of the Tentacle Remastered: The Kotaku Review

For nearly 23 years, Day of the Tentacle has been resoundingly praised as one of the greatest adventure games of all time, a shining example of point-and-click glory. Two decades later, how does it hold up? Pretty damn well, it turns out. Even without the graphical overhaul offered in Day of the Tentacle Remastered, which…

IO announced today that they’ve delayed the release of Hitman’s Elusive Targets until April. The unfortunate news is that we’re pushing out the Elusive Targets until closer to the planned release of the next episode, Sapienza in April, but you’ll get two Escalation Contracts coming each week until the release of Sapienza and between these…

UK Artist Makes Enormous Pikachu Mosaic Out of 12,987 Pokémon Cards

In possibly the most ostentatious celebration yet of Pokémon’s 20th anniversary, UK artist Quentin Devine has created a Pikachu mosaic out of nearly 13,000 different Pokémon cards. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The thing is about 10 meters tall and 7 meters wide, and was unveiled in Paris yesterday. Photos via The Pokémon…

Lara Croft’s going to fight zombies in Rise of the Tomb Raider’s next DLC. The Cold Darkness Awakened add-on hits next week, bringing with it a mini-campaign that has the heroine facing off against infected, rabid enemies.

One Does Not Simply Prepare for World of Warcraft: Legion

Anduin, the Prince of Stormwind is not just a Hearthstone priest hero everyone hates. As Dark Legacy Comics shows, the heir to the throne of Stormwind has his issues in World of Warcraft as well. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Laputa LEGO Castle Is Also a Tiny Music Box

As the tiny LEGO version of the castle in the sky rotates, a music box beneath is playing the theme tune of the Studio Ghibli classic. It’s an awesome, compact build (via Brothers Brick) by Bangoo H and Yeom-E, small enough to fit inside a glass bottle. To contact the author of this post, write…

Meet South Korea’s High School Esports Team

Forget basketball or baseball. These students are members of their school’s official League of Legends team. And like many young esports hopefuls, their dream is to go pro. According to Daily Esports and Fomos (via tipster Sang), principal Bang Seung Ho of Ahyeon Polytechnic High School in South Korea created an esports department (which was…

Toads Are Pretty Good at Pokémon Cosplay 

Just as long as they stick with Venusaur or Ivysaur. Twitter user Shuka Moe, who’s doing research at the Tokyo University of Agriculture, has proven just that. If you are curious how the outfits were created: Which leads to: Then, there’s this: Shit just got real. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture,…

One Piece Creator On Drawing Boobs

Eiichiro Oda, workaholic and One Piece creator, was asked how to draw the curvy bodies of the characters in his famed manga and anime. As noted on 2ch, the first question, actually, was whether or not Nico Robin’s first name, Nico, explicitly meant “ニ個” (literally, “niko”, or here “two round spheres”), because of her breasts.…