Peeing In A Coffee Can, And Other Gaming Marathon Stories

This week I asked all you fine, potentially troubled Kotaku readers what your most impressive (most disturbing?) gaming marathon story is. And, well, yeah… I’m…worried about most of you. Here are 15 interesting tales of perseverance in the name of gaming. Peeing In Coffee Cans (via Killer_WaLrUs) My senior year of high school, I decided…

Dark Souls Mod Lets You Play As The Game’s Bosses

The bosses in Dark Souls are assholes, the perfect virtual killing machines. Ever wanted to turn the tables and become one? Now’s your chance. DaTeHaCKs, which might be the most Internet name ever to appear on the Internet, is responsible for the mod that makes this possible. He hasn’t released it publicly yet, but he’s…

Fans Unite To Solve Bonkers, Globe-Spanning Video Game Riddle

After helping reveal and solve the original Trials Riddle, Brad Hill, AKA Professor FatShady, and an entire community of Trials fans have been hard at work trying to solve another riddle: the Trials Evolution riddle. This is the end result: a story that spans countries, continents and — crucially — time. Prepare to be amazed.…

How Street Fighter V Is Evolving

Yoshinori Ono claims that he campaigned for years for his employer, Capcom, to bring back Street Fighter. Following the release of the Street Fighter III: Third Strike in 1999, many at the company believed that it had perfected the one-on-one fighting game. There was nowhere left to go. Others, including Ono’s boss Keija Inafune, simply…

Fan Builds Goonies Pinball For The Movie’s 30th Anniversary

Mike Johnson’s custom table might be the only Goonies-themed machine in the world. While the theme of the timeless classic The Goonies seems perfect for a pinball machine (it has skeletons, pirates, treasure, and adventure, and it’s from an era when pinball was very popular), no company ever made one. So this one’s just perfect…

The Opening of Full House Remade In GTA V

Michael, Trevor, Franklin, Lester. They’re one big family after all, just like the cast of Full House. Merfish and his friends recreated the classic show’s intro, and while I don’t remember anyone falling off a truck or getting hit by a cable car, they really did nail the whole thing. Check out the side-by-side comparison…

Poll: The Top Twenty Most Anticipated Summer Anime

You excited? You should be. Because the summer 2015 anime season is coming. And if you don’t have any idea of what to look forward to, perhaps the results of this Japanese poll can help. Perhaps not! Biglobe News reports that Charapedia, which looks at the appeal of anime characters, polled 23,000 thousand people via…

The Up All Night Stream Plays Rhythm Heaven: The Best + [Finished]

I’ve played a lot of music games in my day, but none do I love more than the Rhythm Heaven games. So join me as The Up All Night Stream plays the brand new Rhythm Heaven: The Best + and let me show you why. Update: Stream Complete! But you can see it in its…

When CG Animation Goes Wrong and Boring

This is an image of Ganba no Bouken or The Adventures of Ganba. The anime debuted in the mid-1970s. Now, they’re making a CG version, and damn, it looks tragic. I quite like Ganba! So do many Japanese people. No wonder it’s one of the country’s most beloved anime. Ganba was originally based on a…

Dario—who has been cosplaying for twenty years now!—nails Diablo III’s Demon Hunter, even going so far as to do some make-up work that’s not quite cel-shaded, but certainly makes him look “flatter”, more like a video game character. You can see more of Dario’s cosplay at his Facebook page

Hurry Up Already, Cyberpunk Future

Sergey Zabelin is an artist based in the Ukraine who works for a mobile gaming company. Not that you’d know this from this portfolio. You can see more of Sergey’s work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as…