Overwatch‘s Tracer Has Some Powerful Abilities In Heroes of the Storm

Heroes of the Storm wouldn’t be a true Blizzard arena brawler without someone representing Overwatch. And finally, after all the characters added from Diablo or WoW, the first Overwatch hero is ready to make her debut Tracer looks like an assassin type hero here with a quite powerful basic ability: she can move while attacking.…

GTA V Mod Lets You Play as The Flash

Here’s a GTA V mod, in case you ever wanted to run so hard that you create a tornado and suck up all nearby objects. In GTA V This script mod which, of course, turns you into The Flash, was made by JulioNIB (via DSOGaming), he of legendary status in the modding community and purveyor…

Turning Photos into Anime Images

Twitter user ujr50138 has uploaded some images showing how photos can be turned into anime stills, thanks to the power of Photoshop. These effects can be achieved by lowering the brightness, but increasing the contrast and adding in blue shadows to show reflected light. Adding in yellow-green and blue highlights to vegetation also helps give…

Ace Attorney’s First Episode is a Cheap-Looking But Loyal Adaptation

With five main games and four meaty spin-offs, the only thing surprising about Ace Attorney getting an anime is that it took this long to happen. Too bad it’s not exactly the prettiest one out there. Episode one follows the first case of our hero Phoenix Wright as he defends his best friend, Larry, from…

The Inevitable Sailor Moon Hamburger

It’s very, very pink. The pink buns, we’ve seen before on Kotaku. And in Japan in recent years, other characters (here and here, for example) have been turned into burgers. This is the latest. Starting on April 16, a Sailor Moon-themed cafe is opening in Tokyo’s Roppongi for a limited time. Included on the menu…

Dragon Ball‘s Newest Super Saiyan Name Was a Mistake

The newest Super Saiyan form is Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Which sounds silly, yes. That’s why, as Kotaku previously reported, it was changed in the manga. Now the most recent Dragon Ball Super is following suit. As mentioned before, a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan is when a Saiyan gets the power of a…

Japanese Company Apologizes for 9 Cent Price Increase

Akagi Nyugyo Co. is apologizing for increasing the price of its long-selling ice treat Gari-Gari Kun. Starting April this month, each popsicle’s price will be raised from 60 yen to 70 yen. This is the first price hike in 25 years. Sorry about that! As the Mainichi News points out, Akagi isn’t the only company…

Counter-Strike Freed From European Hegemony Following Brazilian MLG Win

By the time the MLG Counter-Strike Major ended on Sunday with a lopsided Luminosity victory over Na’Vi, a long period of unbreakable European Counter-Strike supremacy had ended alongside it. Brazil’s Luminosity Gaming broke Na’Vi the way they broke Team Liquid last night: with a “back-from-the-dead” comeback on Mirage to an overtime win that left Na’Vi…

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Snatcher Cosplay! 

Hideo Kojima’s Snatcher is great. As is this homage to it from Japanese cosplay superstar Omi Gibson. You can see more pics like this on Omi’s website

When You’re A Regular Guy, But You Can Also Fight Like A Witcher

This is Alan Padziński. Actual human being, but also master of the various sword styles of The Witcher universe. We’ve seen Alan’s work before, but I thought this new clip was also worth sharing, if only for the comparison montage there at the end.

Jon Snow, Lord Commander Of The Night’s Watch Mechanized Scout Division

Jean-Sébastien Rolhion is a veteran concept artist working in the video game business, who has helped out on games like Ryse and the Crysis series. You can see more of Rolhion’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you…

Perfect One Punch Cosplay

Saitamo is Isho, Genos is Zephyrphoenix. Photos by The Will Box

The New Day Just Entered Wrestlemania In Dragon Ball Cosplay

Yes, this is Wrestlemania. Yes, this is Xavier Woods’ New Day making their entrance in full-blown Dragon Ball cosplay. Out of a giant, assy box of cereal. An entrance for the ages.

PlayStation Employee Builds Custom Controller For Gamer With Cerebral Palsy

College student Peter Byrne has cerebral palsy, and as a result has been having problems with his new DualShock 4 controller. Or, was having problems, until a PlayStation employee got him sorted out. Byrne wrote to Sony to explain an issue he was having, where his left hand was constantly brushing against the DS4’s touchpad,…

Never Forget Your Horse Armor

Ten years ago today Bethesda defined bad downloadable content with two dollars and fifty cents’ worth of horse barding. Downloadable content was a relatively new thing back in 2006 whenmy favorite Elder Scrolls game was released, and players and publishers alike were still getting a feel for what worked and what did not work. Then…