There’s a Ninja Festival This Weekend in Japan

Got plans, Tokyo residents? You do now. While all most people know about ninja is probably “wrong,” this weekend in Tokyo’s Ueno Park, there is a Ninja Festa. Recently, there have been ninja festivals in Japan (typically Mie Prefecture, traditionally a hotbed of ninja activity, but earlier this year there was one in Osaka). What…

Carry Your Cat with This Fluffy Neko Suit

It’s fall. It’s cold and wet. Maybe you don’t want to go outside. Maybe you don’t want to get properly dressed. Maybe you have a cat. Called “Meowgaroo Jumpsuit” in English, it’s house wear with a pouch for you to carry your cat around. [Photo: Unihabitat] Because, chances are, your cat doesn’t want to get…

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Goofy Dad Recreates Street Fighter’s Victory Poses

It’s not the sweet-as-pie recreations themselves that get me. It’s the thought of how much practice must have gone into a video like this. The hours, days, weeks spent leaping and thrusting and combing his hair just to get it this right. If it all seems a bit familiar, that’s because Nick Luciano managed to…

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Grzegorz Rutkowski is a Polish freelancer who has worked for companies like CD Projekt Red (The Witcher), Ubisoft and Games Workshop. You can see more of Rutkowski’s work at his personal siteand ArtStation page. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper),…

CS:GO Player Talks About The Death Threats His Team Gets After Losing

Every online community has some small element that is difficult to discern from scum, and the Counter-Strike community is certainly no exception to that. But in a new interview, one Australian player revealed just how absurd things have become. In an interview with HLTV.org following the first day’s play from the RNG Pro Series Championship,…

Why A ‘Bad’ Steam Game Has Good User Ratings

Dispatcher is not a very good game. And yet, it’s a got a “very positive” review average on Steam. What’s going on? Dispatcher is a game I decided to check out on a whim. The horror pseudo-RPG been out for a few days, and I noticed that its 227 user reviews averaged out to “very…

StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void: The Kotaku Review

How to review a game like StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void? Where do you even start? Do you try to figure out how it fits into today’s landscape of competitive multiplayer games? Do you ask whether it makes for a worthy conclusion to the story that began nearly 17 years ago? Do you just…

How I Survived My Latest Mario Maker Nightmare

After nearly seven hours of ridiculous platforming, The Klepocalypse is finally over. As part of my ongoing Super Mario Maker rivalry with Giant Bomb editor Dan Ryckert, I played yet another stage designed to completely ruin me. That moment above came after a “breakthrough” that resulted in forward progress in the stage. The problem with…

Star Wars: Battlefront Helped Me Understand How The Empire Lost On Endor

How could a powerful military force like the Empire lose to a scruffy band of rebel scum and a handful of teddy bears? I’m thinking it has something to do with the Imperial dress code. While I’ve only been playing the release version of Star Wars: Battlefront since yesterday, I’ve played enough to dread the…

Luke and Vader Face Off in Marvel’s Best Star Wars Comic So Far

Star Wars canon has changed, and some of that has happened in a new wave of Marvel Comics series. Months ago, we saw Luke Skywalker wield a lightsaber against his father way before their fateful meeting in The Empire Strikes Back. This week’s Star Wars comic has them dogfighting against each other and it’s damn…

Fallout 4 Mod Replaces Mini-Nukes With Your Baby

Babies can be like ticking time bombs. You never know when they’re gonna go off. In Fallout 4, they can also be literal bombs. The game’s main quest sees you searching for your lost son, Shaun, who was abducted as a baby. Trainwiz’s Atom Bomb Baby mod makes the hunt for your babbling bundle of…

Let’s Play A Round Of Paladins, Where Overwatch Meets Hearthstone 

Launching into closed beta today, Hi-Rez Studios’ Paladins is a hero-based shooter like Overwatch, but its collectible card-based in-game leveling system is something else. Here’s how a match of Paladins plays out. Players pick a character out of the eight currently available (no doubling up) and spawn in their base. The match begins with the…