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One Wild, Occasionally Nauseating Week Of Virtual Reality With The Oculus Rift

For the past week, I’ve been strapping a headset to my face and embracing the sensory overload of modern virtual reality. I’ve watched VR short films and played around 30 VR games, all from the comfort of my own home. I’ve fought off space raiders, monsters, and VR-induced nausea. Let me tell you all about…

Worms Armageddon Feels Like An Appropriate Way To Predict The U.S. Presidential Race

Assigning candidate names to AI-controller, combat-ready invertebrates and letting them wage war until only one stands? YouTube’s Many A True Nerd might be onto something. In order to simulate the U.S. presidential race, Jon from Many A True nerd created a custom battle in Team17’s 1999 multiplayer battle classic. Worms representing Ted Cruz, Hilary Clinton,…

Streamer Transforms Super Mario World Into A Whole Other Game Just By Playing

Using an exploit allowing him to write processor instructions to Super Nintendo system memory, speedrunner and Minecraft builder extraordinaire Sethbling injected the code for mobile hit Flappy Bird into Super Mario World in under an hour. (Video below will autoplay, sorry.) This is not an emulator running code. The Super Nintendo was not modded. A…

Original Snake Voice David Hayter Has No Love For Hideo Kojima

“I was kinda hoping that Konami would take me back now that he was gone.” In a special edition of the Game Informer podcast, actor and screenwriter David Hayter talked about his “humiliating” replacement as Metal Gear’s leading man and how he really feels about the series creator who wanted him gone. If you’re interested…

Japanese Noodles Look Delicious with Bacon 

Be still my beating heart. We’ve got bacon, a fried egg and udon noodles. As recently noted on GNavi, Japanese restaurant Koya Bar in London serves up a very special English breakfast: fried egg, bacon and shiitake udon. I love fried eggs. I love bacon. I love shiitake and, goodness, I love udon. All this…

How An Artist’s Work Develops from Childhood to Adulthood

What a difference time and experience make. Artist Lee JeeHyung uploaded two of his Batman drawings: One was done at the age of 7, and the other one was as an adult. Here are some more of Lee’s adult-era work: Thanks, Sang for the tip! Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing…

A Stumble In Street Fighter V Overshadows A Great Justin Wong Performance

Justin Wong had a rough Sunday night at the NorCal Regionals. The fighting game legend endured a finals defeat in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 before coming within a round of the Street Fighter V final… only to be reverse-swept by Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi. Wong lost the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 final to Christopher “NYChrisG”…

The Cheapest and Best VR Experience Kids Can Have

You don’t need a fancy VR headset to entertain kids. But you might need a helmet. Via IT Media, here’s Hong Kong resident Newman Chan creating what is truly a wonderful VR experience for his daughter. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China…

Akihabara at Night. Tokyo, Japan. By Fenryl 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!

The Old Nintendo 3DS Turns Five

The Nintendo 3DS was released in North America five years ago today, and we’re still using at least two of its Ds. Do you still have yours, or did you trade it in for something sexier last year?

Five-Year-Old Two Worlds II Gets New Story DLC And A Sequel

The open-world fantasy role-playing series that opened with a horrid whimper but continued with a refined bang is getting bigger. Polish developer Reality Pump and TopWare Interactive announce fresh DLC for Two Worlds II and the beginning of work on Two Worlds III I made a lot of fun of Two Worlds II when it…

The Week In Games: Hyper Light Rifter

In case you hadn’t been paying attention to the calendar, this coming Friday is April 1. As I don’t work on Fridays, I plan to spend the day curled into a tight ball under my desk playing Hyper Light Drifter. Before that I will likely be playing some Nights of Azure, a strange hack-and-slash sort…

That Weird Time DC and Marvel Joined Forces

In 1996, something happened that most superhero comics fans thought was impossible: DC Comics and Marvel mashed their characters together into an all-new fictional construct. The Amalgam era was truly a once-in-a-lifetime event, because the comics published during this brief experiment probably aren’t getting reprinted anytime soon. Originally published 3/22/16 It’s long been a ritual…

It’s Been A Mythical Month, Celebi

Time’s almost up for the second Mythical Pokémon in this year’s monthly celebration of two decades of pocket monsters. As collector fever begins to ramp up, we say goodbye to the toys of Pokémon #251. I was wandering around Toys’R’Us the other day, as you do, and noticed a small swarm of toy collectors circling…

Everybody’s favorite seagull wannabe, Marin joins the cast of Hyrule Warriors on Wii U and 3DS later this year in the Link’s Awakening DLC pack. Squawk!

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bring Back The Beard: Winners!

Last week I lost my beard in a tragic shaving on-purpose, and some of our readers were quite upset. So I had them put the beard back, which they did—just not the way they found it. Damien Fate’s mash-up of my face with the famousYukon Cornelious has been haunting me all week. I see it…