What We Liked And Didn’t Like About Age Of Ultron

You went to see Avengers 2. We went to see Avengers 2. Let’s talk about Avengers 2, too. A bunch of Kotaku staffers went to go see the latest movie featuring Marvel’s premiere super-team. Some of us liked it more than others. Some people made fun of Hawkeye. Not me, though. Spoilers follow for the…

That Sure Looks Like Brock Lesnar In The New Assassin’s Creed

Hm, what have we here? While watching today’s Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate reveal, reader Adam Curtis spotted something odd: a brief shot of a muscular man tank who definitely appears to be Brock Lesnar. Let’s do a quick comparison. Here’s the Assassin’s Creed shot, which appears to be art, not in-game (you can find it at…

Awkward GTA Online Glitch Changes Israeli Flag Into Palestinian One

This isn’t some kind of subtle political commentary, is it, Rockstar? It’s nice that GTA Online lets players customize their appearances in all kinds of unique ways. But, sometimes all that customization runs into some particularly weird problems. Like, say, when the parachute bag of a country locked in seemingly unresolvable conflict gets changed the…

Ubisoft Announces Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate

It’s official: the next Assassin’s Creed is called Syndicate, and it’ll be out for PS4 and Xbox One on October 23, with a PC release coming later in the fall. If you read Kotaku, you already know a lot about Syndicate—it’s set in Victorian London, it will have both male and female protagonists, and it…

The First Five Ico-Riffic Minutes Of Toren

While we continue to wait for another masterpiece from the makers of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, Brazilian developer Swordtales captures their spirit perfectly in the achingly beautiful Toren. Nathan Graysonwas rightto call out the similarities between those classics and this strange and wonderful indie from a relatively unknown developer. Had I not seen…

Announcement Of Announcement Of Announcements

By now we’re all used to announcements of announcements, but Nintendo is taking things to the next level: here, for your amusement, is an announcement of an announcement of how they’ll deliver their E3 announcements. Video games! You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @jasonschreier

26 Years Later Jean-Claude Van Damme Remakes His Kickboxer Dance Scene

JCVD is still in good shape, and he proved it last night on Conan when he recreated a few minutes of VHS history: A dancing scene from his 1989 movie Kickboxer that didn’t really end well. The original scene from 26 years ago, with a different pair of angry dudes, is in the clip below…

Artist Lap Pun Cheung created a speed painting series featuring Final Fantasy VII’s most memorable moments. It was a 6-month-long project and he only finished it recently with Cloud & Co. finally facing Sepiroth. You can check all 130 paintings here. It’s quite the ride. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing…

Five Must-Watch Anime for Spring 2015

This season there are 50 new anime on the air, so it can be more than a little difficult to know which ones to watch. But now that the season has reached its half-way point, we at Kotaku East come bearing our recommendations. Fellow Kotaku author Toshi Nakamurai and I have spent the past few…

Years Later, Revisiting Manga Drawings from Childhood

Toraneko is a Japanese artist and illustrator. When she was a kid, she wasn’t just into video games, but also into drawing manga based on them. Now, as an adult, she can show how far her skills have come. Via Twitter, she did just that. Here is the cover to Pokémon manga she drew when…

Selfie Level: Expert

You might think you are something else. That your selfie ability is pro level or simply unparalleled. Maybe it is. But can you do this? I’m sure you can if you tried! These no-hand selfie snaps have been appearing on Chinese social networking site Sina. We’ve seen a similar style with the “Caught Me Sleeping”…