Report: Manchester United Want To Sign An Overwatch Esports Team

There’s a rumour going around that Manchester United, a name even our dear American readers will recognise, are interested in signing an Overwatch esports team. Do not let this news surprise you. Esports News UK report that United are among the bidders (along with Fnatic and another third party, rumoured to be German football club…

The Warcraft Movie Is Not Good

Some people had hoped, after months of hype and the pedigree of director Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code), that Warcraft might break the long and storied Curse Of Bad Video Game Movies. I have some sad news for those people. Maybe video game adaptations were just never meant to be. This post originally appeared May…

Sony Confirms PlayStation 4.5, Says More Powerful Console Won’t Be At E3

Sony has finally acknowledged that it is indeed building a more powerful version of the PlayStation 4, as Kotaku first reported in March. PlayStation chief Andrew House told the Financial Times that the codenamed Neo is “intended to sit alongside and complement the standard PS4″ and that “”We will be selling both [versions] through the…

Sushi Chef Makes Star Wars Vegetable Sculptures

Meet Okitsugu Kado. For the past ten years, this sushi chef has been honing skills as the best Star Wars vegetable carver around. Kado uses veggies like carrots, cucumbers and sweet potatoes to create an array of Star Wars characters. To date, he’s carved over 90 different Star Wars characters. Kado even appeared at last…

Overwatch Devs Show Up At A Korean Gaming Cafe

This is cool. Members of the Overwatch team appeared at a Korean PC bang (net cafe) in Seoul, challenging other players to defeat them. The visit was supposed to be secret. However, before the visit, someone posted on an Inven forum (warning: NSFW images) that the Overwatch devs were coming to a Korean PC bang…

Cammy Can Pull Packages Out Of Her Butt

Uh. Well. Okay, then. Note: This article might contain spoilers as well as content some readers find objectionable. Previously, Kotaku reported what you could expect with the game’s upcoming story mode. Now, ten minutes of footage seems to have popped up online. The footage shown below looks totally bonkers. The first minute is, well, especially…

Richard Says Goodbye From Japan

For over four years, I have spent every free moment either writing or thinking about video games and anime for the crazy world that is Kotaku. And frankly, moving on is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I came to Japan back in 2005 with only the roughest grasp of the language. Soon Kotaku became…

Gardeners. Kenrokuen Garden. Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. By Hannes Bohn JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Geralt Isn’t The Only Witcher In Town

Sure, Geralt’s the star of the series, but it’s always nice to see a male cosplayer tackling someone who’s in the same trade, but not quite as smooth with the ladies. So hats off to Krishna Dammert for giving Eskil some love. Photos by Andreas Krupa

Beat Cop Is A Cop Game About Difficult Decisions

While other studios craft games about fighting robot dinosaurs or piloting spaceships, a small group in Poland is making one about being a cop in 1980s New York City. It’s called Beat Cop, and it has you pointing and clicking to make a police officer patrol a few blocks of Manhattan. He walks past a…

Overwatch Match Overrun With Damn Dirty Apes

Today on Highlight Reel we have Winston rushes, passive explosions, knocking zombies, surreal explosions, deflections, and much more! Watch the video above or on our Youtube Page, 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 Witcher 3 –…

House of the Dying Sun Gets PC Space Combat Super Right

Space dogfighting fans are in for a treat this week, as House of the Dying Sun, previously known as Enemy Starfighter, has emerged on Steam early access. Man, it is pretty damn good. House of the Dying Sun is another indie PC game made by one person—in this case Mike Tipul, a Bungie vet who…

What To Expect From Street Fighter V‘s Upcoming Story Mode

Though multiplayer is the main draw for games like Street Fighter V, people have come to expect those games to have story modes for solo players. At the end of the month, Street Fighter V gets one for free. Capcom has been teasing Street Fighter V’s story mode for a while now, but as development…

You Blew It Up, You Maniacs

Dongjun Lu is a concept artist from Singapore who has worked on series like Ninja Gaiden, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Nobunaga’s Ambition You can see more of Dongjun’s work at his personal site, as well as his ArtStationand Patreonpages. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough,…