The Problem With Streaming Dark Souls 3 So Early

A Japanese game like Dark Souls 3 being released a few weeks early in its native country isn’t usually a big deal. But if you’ve looked at YouTube or Twitch, you might think Dark Souls 3 is already out in the US; there are streams of the game everywhere, and it’s rubbing some fans the…

Podcast: The Future Of Gaming Hardware

By this time next year, we could be playing PS4.5 at home and NX on the go, with VR goggles strapped to our heads the whole time. Who’s ready for the future? On today’s episode of our podcast, Kotaku Splitscreen, Kirk and I take a deep dive into virtual reality, the Nintendo NX, and the…

The Man Who Wrote Earthbound

A few weeks ago, Marcus Lindblom logged onto TwitchTV. He found someone playing Earthbound, and he watched them stream for a while. Every time they smiled in the right place or laughed at the right joke, he felt a jolt of vindication. Validation. Eighteen years later, he could finally see people enjoying his work. This…

Sunset Overdrive, Dead Space Headline Xbox’s Games With Gold For April

Xbox fans are getting one hell of a lineup next month. As with PlayStation Plus, these games aren’t exactly “free,” since you need to have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription to renew them. Xbox One owners are technically getting access to four games, as everything added to Games With Gold is backwards compatible. Here’s…

The Robots In Fallout 4’s Automatron DLC Have A Messed Up Story

Robobrains have been a staple of the Fallout universe for ages. Ever wonder where the brains sitting atop those mech noggins actually come from, though? Fallout 4’s first DLC, Automatron, is all about the player’s quest to stop the robotic underlings unleashed by the Mechanist (pictured above.) In the process of infiltrating the Mechanist’s lair,…

Intense Paintball Match Edited To Look Like The Division

Playing paintball and throwing smoke grenades in a snowy Canadian forest sounds like serious fun, but AlabasterSlim and his friends didn’t stop there. They dressed up as characters from The Division, added some UI elements from the game to the footage, and captured the whole thing in first-person. To contact the author of this post,…

The Definitive 80s Cartoon Intro

The 80s had quite a few cartoons with the same formulaic opening scene, where only one thing could stop the forces of evil. YouTuber Jared mixed some of these together into one big intro and, well, a fake show like this would still make sense. It’d be confusing but who wouldn’t watch a cheesy cartoon…

The Most Ridiculous Battery Charger Ever Created

This will be difficult to top. Expensive, too. “This” is a life-sized statue of One Piece character Sanji prostrating himself before us, so we can plug stuff into the single port in the back of his head. There is a plug from his butt cheek to ensure Sanji has enough juice to charge your phone.…

You Don’t Love Hatsune Miku More Than These Fans Do

Well, ask yourself: Are you willing to pay for a billboard in a subway station to show off your Hatsune Miku love? That’s exactly what a group of South Korean fans apparently did. According to Ruliweb (via tipster Sang), Hatsune Miku fan art was turned into a billboard for March 9 to celebrate what the…

Dragon Ball Fans Must Always Wonder, “Why, Spain?”

In Japan, the Dragon Ball energy attack is called “Kamehameha.” In the U.S., it’s Kamehameha. In Germany, it’s Kamehameha. In Latin America, it’s Kamehameha and sounds fucking badass in Spanish. But in Spain? Heh. In Spain, “Kamehameha” is “Onda Vital.” In Dragon Ball, “Kamehameha” (かめはめ波) literally means “Turtle Devastation Wave,” while “Onda Vital” means “Vital…

Square-Enix’s New RPG Harkens Back To Their Big 90s Classics

Do you miss playing Squaresoft RPGs on your SNES? Then have I got the game for you: I Am Setsuna. Like many in their late 20s and early 30s, I was introduced to JRPGs back in the days of the good old SNES. While my first was Final Fantasy VI, these days I feel that…

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NBA 2K16 Players Furious Over Deal Gone Wrong

In 2014, 2K Sports promised that if their NBA2K Twitter account ever reached one million followers that players would receive a sweet bonus. Well, that day has finally arrived, and the bonus is…not sweet. The original promise, dated May 30, 2014, was: The account ticked over one million this week, and 2K did indeed make…

Jako, The Angry Little Mako

Timothy Rodriguez is a freelance artist from France who has done work for companies like Bethesda, Warner Bros. and Applibot. You can see more of Timothy’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 can save them as wallpaper),…

Darkest Dungeon‘s Harrowing Journey Through Steam Early Access

When Darkest Dungeon first launched on Steam Early Access in February 2015, it was almost universally beloved. A unique, polished, fleshed-out experience on Early Access? It was practically unheard of. So it was all happily ever after from there, right? Hardly. For a few months, things went according to plan. The punishingly difficult dungeon-crawler RPG/trauma…

Amazing Nathan Drake Cosplay Enters…Uncharted Waters

I mean, sure, you could just dress up as Uncharted’s Nathan Drake. Or you could become him, and spend a day running around waterfalls, climbing trees and abseiling with an AK-47 and flares. Italian cosplay superstar Leon Chiro opted for the latter, and ended up with these incredible shots taken by Alessio “Fotomania” Buzi