Explore Peach’s Castle in Minecraft

The castle hub from Mario 64 got a rather faithful recreation in the form of a Minecraft map. There are a couple neat touches to this build. For example, the paintings are all there in-game, regardless of the resource pack you use, because the builders—redditor SlipNSchlong and a “buddy”—imported them as maps (the in-game ones…

Damn, This Is Good Drumming

This is Senri Kawaguchi. She’s 18 and has been called one of the best drummers in Japan, if not the world. Here, she’s showing her support for Japan’s national team by drumming in the new Samurai Blue uniform. If you’re not familiar with Kawaguchi’s drumming (you should be!), check out the clips below—some of which…

The Real Pokémon Gym Is Even Better Than We Thought

A Pokémon Gym is opening this month in Osaka. We’ve already gotten a peek inside, and it looked okay! Now, we’re going to get a better look, and it sure seems terrific. Website Gigazinerecently visited the Pokémon Gym and took a series of great photos. Here’s a selection of them. [Photo: Gigazine] [Photo: Gigazine] [Photo:…

Think Sailor Moon, But with Shirtless Dudes

Well, this is a thing, it seems. As IT Media points out, Italian musician Paolo Tuci has released a new Sailor Moon-themed song called “Sailor Moon e il Cristallo Del Cuore.” You can see the video below. The track is available on iTunes, and it looks like there’s even a physical CD release. Previous Tuci…

Life-Sized X-Wing Is Parked at a Singapore Airport

If you are strolling through Terminal 3, you might notice something. A giant rebel fighter. You can do more than just look at this replica. Toggle and The Strait Times report that regular folks can even climb into the cockpit for photo ops. A limited number of tickets are given out daily. Of course, this…

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Here, Some Very Cool Robots, Ships, Guns & Aliens

WETA’s Christian Pearce is, alongside guys like Ben Mauro, Aaron Beck and Leri Greer, one of the main artists to thank for all the amazing designs you see everywhere you look in movies like District 9 and Elysium Lovers of rad things may remember Christian was also one of the artists behind Ghidoragh You can…

Philip K. Dick: The Video Game

We’ve all seen movies, read books and played games inspired by the works of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick. Californium is different. It’s not a game about his worlds. It’s a game about Dick himself. While unable to actually use his name, Californium is a first-person title that mashes together various aspects of Dick’s life…

Card Games Are Invading Your Video Games

Don’t look now, but your favourite video games are being infiltrated by the humble playing card. Card games may be over 1000 years old, but as a way for people to get together and play (and talk shit) across a table, they should have been replaced in recent decades by video games, because video games…

Black Ops 3’s PC Version Fixes Crippling Slowdown Issue

Black Ops 3 launched on PC with some fairly serious issues, chief among them the fact it ran like stuttering garbage on i5 processors. A week later, is it safe to actually try and play the game if you’d previously been having problems? Probably. I can’t vouch for everyone’s PC, and the millions of possible…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Cloud-Based Gaming

Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud beingannounced for Super Smash Bros. got me thinking—what other games could benefit from the addition of stoic little Clouds? That’s right, this week you’re all the evil anti-Bob Ross. There are plenty of games out there. Surely some of the ones you’ve played don’t have Cloud in them but might benefit…

Cash Money For A Picture Of Spider-Man!

He doesn’t wanna be famous? Then I’ll make him infamous! Photographer Peyton Crim wanted to do a Spider-Man shoot that was a bit more “dynamic” than your average cosplay gallery, and teaming up with Chris Villain (as Spider-Man), they sure succeeded.

The Week In Games: Everyone’s Just Going To Keep Playing Fallout 4 Anyway

Last week saw only a handful of new releases as publishers got out of the way of Fallout 4. They probably could have skipped this week too. While I plan of getting my Star Wars: Battlefront on in some form or fashion, neither it nor Fallout 4 shall be my primary focus this week. Instead…

The New Tomb Raider Made Me Think About Going Back to Church

Lara Croft’s latest adventure is surprisingly religious. It’s not just about the good aspects of a communal belief in a higher power. Rise of the Tomb Raider’s main bad guy is a true believer, too. The plot of the new Tomb Raider revolves around Lara’s search for a mythical figure called the Prophet and his…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Fallout 4 Adventures: The Winners!

Remember last week, before Fallout 4 came out, when I asked our readers to envision where their newly-emerged Vault Dweller might go? No? Well there was a time before Fallout 4 came out (I think), and according to this week’s winner it was a happy little time. Combining two of the best things ever, Wormri…

Sunday Comics: Check The Fridge

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published November 14. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

KO’d Ronda Rousey Had Just Been Announced As An EA Cover Athlete

They call it the Madden Curse. Leading sports video game publisher EA puts an NFL star on the cover of its annual football franchise and then that star gets hurt or suffers some other bad fate. On Friday, EA announced Ronda Rousey as its cover athlete for its second UFC game. Whoops. The previously undefeated…

Fallout 4 PC Benchmarks: Post-Apocalyptic Performance

What may be the biggest game of 2015 is finally here with the launch of Fallout 4 this week. Set in Boston 200 years after a nuclear war, Bethesda’s latest open world action-RPG is the Fallout series’ fifth major instalment and along with touting a list of new features, the developer has teased gamers with…