The Sources of One Piece. It Seems. 

Ever feel like you’ve seen One Piece characters somewhere else before? It’s not just you who thinks that. In the past, Kotaku has profiled the ways that One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda allegedly borrowed from other cartoons. There was also that image showing the famous people that appear to have inspired numerous One Piece characters.…

From Dragon Ball to DoTA, Here’s a Resort for Geeks

This is Jed’s Island Resort. There are many places in the Philippines to unwind in the sun. There is only one resort with a DoTA Tauren Chieftain statue. Since 1995, Jed’s Island Resort has been severing vacationers in the province of Bulacan. The resort continually rotates out new statues that are often video game, anime,…

Cyberpunk Diablo & Studio Ghibli’s Star Wars: An Artist’s Impressions

Stormtroopers are comical at the best of times. Turn them into bearded Studio Ghibli sidekicks and they become downright slapstick. And yeah, Diablo is a fantasy series, but close your eyes and try for a second to imagine it as a cyberpunk thing instead, with neon lights, hacking and sweet future motorbikes. These images, and…

Kinect Is Teaching Cops Some Sweet Beatdown Moves

So Microsoft’s Kinect was a video gaming bust. Whatever. It’s still got its uses. Like…helping police work on their “use of force options” against suspects. You know, whether to shout or shoot at a guy. Prepare for unintentionally hilarious police action/acting. Via Attract Mode, the Windows version of the peripheral is being used as part…

If you google “Sexy Sonic”, it’s not long until you hit images of Manzi DeYoung. Which is probably more information than you ever thought you needed to know about them, but Motherboard has a neat feature article where they interview Manzi for the story behind the costume (and the concept of “sexy something” cosplay itself).

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: They’ll Never Find Waldo

So science thinksit’s cracked the code for finding perennial hider Waldo every time? Oh we’ll see about that. It’s time to hide Waldo where they’ll never, ever find him. So they’ve found the optimal search algorithm for finding out where the bespeckled world traveler might be lurking on any given page. That just means we…

How To Create A Convincing Fake Smash Bros. Rayman Leak

A “leaked video” showing Ubisoft’s mascot character being selected in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U stirred rumors of suprise Nintendo DLC over the weekend, at least until YouTube’s Artsy Omni posted a clip showing how he faked the whole thing. With an odd Rayman trophy already present in the latest installments of Smash Bros.,…

Sunday Comics: The Ocarina Of Time Management

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 February 9. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Transformer‘s Most Fearsome Combiner Team Finally Gets Its Due

Today at Toy Fair 2015 in New York City, one of the Transformers most imposing figures—the Constructicon combiner Devastator—finally has a physical toy worthy of his reputation. Check out the first official pics, along with shots of the new Defensor, Ultra Magnus, Cyclonus and more. Hasbro’sCombiner Wars line of Transformers Generations figures is one of…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Live-Action Legend Of Zelda: Winners!

Inlast week’s ‘Shop Contest our image-manipulating community went on a quest to create the perfect live-action Legend of Zelda TV series on the heels of new of a collaboration between Nintendo and Netflix. The winning entries are better than anything those two could put on not-TV. The winning-est entry of them all this week belongs…