Check Out this Sanrio Character’s Butthole

Sanrio character Pom Pom Purin is overtaking Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station. On Biglobe News, two helpful models were on hand to point out the obvious. Yep, that’s a butthole. Thanks. The display marks the character’s 20th birthday. (Back in 2014, a sweet-looking Pom Pom Purin cafe opened in Tokyo, but I don’t remember the character’s backside…

First Look at the Ace Attorney Anime

Phoenix Wright and co. are making the leap to an animated TV series. Here’s the debut trailer. Well, what do you think? The anime will debut April 2 in Japan. In case you missed it, here is Kotaku’s review of the Ace Attorney feature film. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com…

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Wartile’s World Looks Too Pretty To Bleed All Over

As I’ve said, we are currently living in a golden age of turn-based video games. The latest example (well, potential example) of this is Wartile It’s a turn-based tactics game that’s been designed to be “a living and breathing tabletop video game”, combining the flexibility and visuals of a video game (along with some design…

Hello Sir Have You Heard The Good Word About Cthulu…

Sam Lamont is an artist who has worked for companies like Games Workshop, Creative Assembly (Total War) and Fantasy Flight. You can see more of Sam’s art at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the…

Bob Ross And The Joy Of Super Mario Making

“A little bush has entered our world. Our Super Mario World.” Very nice work from A Dumb Thing. The only way this could be more Bob Ross is if the clip was streaming on Twitch instead of YouTube

Ambitious Fallout Mod Has Snow, Space, Tanks

Fallout: The Frontier is an in-development mod for Fallout: New Vegas that doesn’t just introduce new weather, weapons, quests and enemies, it takes the game to a space station. We actually saw this mod around a year ago, and back then the big deal was that it featured winter snow and some serious expansion to…

Vigo, Scourge Of Cosplaythia, Sorrow Of Moldavia

So welshenzie’s outfit here might not have been the most elaborate at Cardiff’s Film & Comic Con, but it’s certainly one of the most effective.

Hi, Gross Witcher 3 Villain, That Is Some Excellent Cosplay

Klaudia Utnicka is, as far as we know, a regular human being living in modern times. Or, at least she is at the beginning of this nine-minute video. By the end, she’s Brewess, one of the super gross Crones from The Witcher 3. Absolutely incredible work.

The Week In Games: Long Division

This is the most excited folks have been for a Tom Clancy game since EndWar Online. Yeah, I’m waiting for myself to burst out laughing too, but I think I might actually have this. Yeah. Maintaining the straight face after mentioning EndWar Online. Pretty sure I just unlocked an achievement. How about that The Division,…

Team Secret The Only Winner At The DOTA 2 Shanghai Major

With a decisive 3-1 victory over Team Liquid on Sunday morning, Team Secret finally brought the troubled DOTA 2 Shanghai Major to a mostly-satisfying close. In a tournament where nothing had gone as expected, it was only fitting that two teams that entered as complete dark-horses vied for the $1.1 million grand prize while the…

Successful $100,000 Kickstarter Dev Calls It Quits Due To Drama

In 2014 nearly 4,000 backers pledged $100,000 for a silly game about being a bear. Yesterday, despite seemingly happy backers and 78 percent positive reviews on Steam, Bear Simulator’s developer says updating the game any further is “a lost cause.” I playedJohn Farjay’s Kickstarted bear sim last weekend. While it could certainly use a lot…

The Omega Men Are Not Superheroes

As discussed previously, they’re more like super-terrorists. And they just did something shocking in the latest issue of their great series. Originally published 3/4/16 The basic set-up of The Omega Men—written by Tom King, with art by Barnaby Bagenda, Jose Marzan Jr. and Romulo Fajardo, Jr.—is a familiar one. The evil Alpha Empire (also called…

Sunday Comics: Booze Fighter

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 March 5. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 29. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

UFC 2’s Cover Is Now A Monument To Sadness

A few months back, EA’s marketing team probably thought that their choices for the front cover of this year’s UFC game—two of the world’s most popular and successful fighters, Ronda Rousey and Connor McGregor—were as safe as could be. Then this happened. And now this Somewhere, tonight, EA’s marketing team is dying. Rousey, seemingly invincible,…

Fnatic Win The IEM Katowice Counter-Strike Championship Using Magic Bullets

To nobody’s surprise, the unstoppable Fnatic Counter-Strike team claimed yet another major championship today, and put an end to Luminosity’s ongoing Cinderella story with a 3-0 finals sweep at IEM Katowice. That score doesn’t do justice to how hard Fnatic had to fight for this championship, and just how close Luminosity came to taking a…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: An Unfortunate Acronym: The Winners! 

I’ll admit I was a little worried about how wild our community might get given a‘Shop Contest that plays on the abbreviation S&M for the recently-announcedPokemon Sun & Moon. But you guys kept it mostly nice and tasteful. Great job, everyone! Some of my favorite entries in last week’s contest abandoned the implied meaning of…

There’s A Lot Of Killing Things In The First 30 Minutes Of Black Desert Online

Black Desert Online launched in North America and Europe this week, giving many players their first taste of that character creator everyone’s been raving about. This is what happens in the 30 minutes following character creations’ end. Now thatthe bumps have been mostly ironed out and Daum Games’ massively multiplayer role-playing game is available to…