Why Speedrunners Use Glitches

Any time Kotaku writes about speedruns, we find that a good chunk of the community can’t understand why someone would willingly use glitches and cheats to play through a game. Doesn’t that make the playthrough less valid? Isn’t abusing glitches, you know, wrong? This piece originally ran 5/28/14. Let’s forget for a second that there…

Nvidia’s $250 Geforce GTX 1060 Brings Pascal Power To The Masses

Launching July 19 and priced for mass consumption, Nvidia’s Pascal-powered GTX 1060 promises power comparable to the company’s former flagship GTX 980 and twice the energy-efficiency in virtual reality. Now that Nvidia’s gotten the high-end GTX 1080 and mid-range GTX 1070 out of the way, it’s time for the mainstream event. The GTX 1060 is…

Japanese Products That Sound Awful in English

Japan has come up with some truly fantastic English product names. “PlayStation,” for example, is terrific. Then, there are some product names that are bad. Wonderfully so. This article was originally published on May 4, 2015. This isn’t really Japan’s fault. The country’s language, like English, borrows a bunch of foreign words and has done…

One Piece Isn’t Becoming A Monthly Manga, Says Publisher

One Piece is slated to miss the next issue of Weekly Jump magazine. It’s only a one-week break, and One Piece will be back on July 18. This has caused all sorts of speculation. Namely a rumor that One Piece will go from a weekly publication to a monthly one. A spokesperson for One Piece’s…

Leon’s Jacket From Resident Evil 4 Only Costs $1,200

Only! For that price, you can dress like Leon from RE4 with this replica bomber jacket. Capcom is asking 129,600 yen (US$1,286 with tax) for the leather jacket with wool lining. According to Famitsu, it’ll be out this November. This isn’t the only pricey Resident Evil jacket Capcom has released. Previously, we saw another $1,200…

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Hey, It’s Spiral Cats!

We’ve posted plenty of pics from Korean cosplay supersquad Spiral Cats, but they’ve usually been studio photos shot locally. This year, at Anime Expo 2016 in LA, they were there in person. Photographer Mineralbluhad the chance to do a shoot with Spiral Cats’ Tashaand Doremi, and these are some of the pics he took. More…

15 Pokémon Go Captures Made While Sitting On My Ass

In case you were worried about having to walk to capture anything in Pokémon Go, my phone’s been sitting at my desk since I downloaded the game this afternoon, and I’ve done alright. As much as I enjoyed wandering the streets of my neighborhood in the Pokémon Go beta, normally my workday movements are a…

Pokémon GO Is Now Out In The US

Americans, your long and torturous wait is over. Pokemon Go is now out on both iTunes and the Google Play Store. Don’t spend all your money at once That means the game is now out in America, Australia and New Zealand. Everywhere else? Nintendo says “The mobile game is also coming soon to Canada, Europe,…

XCOM 2‘s Last DLC Is Also Its Best

XCOM 2 is a phenomenal strategy game. The DLC Firaxis has released in its wake, on the other hand, has mostly been middling. Thankfully, Shen’s Last Gift is straight-up good. It lets you improve the shit out of your squad. With mechs. Like Alien Hunters before it, Shen’s Last Gift is comprised of two portions.…

Mass Effect Cosplay Is Almost Perfect

Blackwater Cosplay and photographer Paul Hillier have teamed up to basically bring Mass Effect’s EDI to life. The photos, shot in a studio, are incredible. As is the outfit itself, a collaboration between Blackwater and Kink Engineering (who have worked on Hollywood movies), which involved many layers of latex glued and layered atop one another…

Prey for the Gods, an ambitious survival game influenced by Shadow of the Colossus, continues to look incredible, as it seeks $300,000 on Kickstarter

Street Fighter Mods Are Getting A Little Too Nude

Today on Highlight Reel we have good bones and calcium, Mei bullfights, gravity deflects, smooth operators, and more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! AC: Revelations…

Meet The Developers Who Are Still Making A Kinect Game

When Microsoft unbundled Kinect from the Xbox One in 2014, it was the beginning of the end. Unfortunately for the developers of Fru, the game they were building required Kinect. They were more than two years away from shipping. “We were shattered,” designer Mattia Traverso told me. When Microsoft announced Xbox One in 2013, Kinect…