Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series Two: Cyndaquil • Heroes of the Storm Could Use Some More Heroes to Help Balance • My Top 5 Anime of 2014 (as told in gifs) • Fatalis’s Thoughts on Anime in 2014 (Also my Top 5 List) TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…

Guy Saves His Drone From Drowning At The Last Second

Nice catch! Zweier Spanjer‘s first day testing out his DJI Phantom II drone took an unexpected turn when its batteries started to deplete and the $700 gadget started plummeting towards the nearest pond. It ended up getting rescued by its heroic owner. Hopefully he didn’t have a phone worth more than $700 in his pocket.…

You Can Buy Missed Garrison Followers in WoW‘s Next Content Patch

World of Warcraft devs are sharing more and more details on the MMO’s next big patch as its inevitable release is gets closer. Besides improved flight paths, one of the recent and most interesting changes announced for the update, shared by community manager Crithto, will be a Garrison NPC who’ll sell all the followers—buddies you…

Hollywood star Chris Evans makes an appearance in this Chinese promotional clip for Call of Duty Online. [Thanks, Sang!]

Our UK sister site has released an immense list of 51 British-made games that will (or should) be coming out this year, from triple-A greats like Arkham Knight to indie titles like No Man’s Sky or I Am Bread. Check it out here

The Worst Mega Man Box Art Makes for the Best Action Figure

Seriously, what were they thinking with that box art? In case you’re not aware of the original NES Mega Man’s infamous North American box art from 1987, here it is in all its glory, courtesy of GameFAQs: The bizarrely redesigned Mega Man and the completely random scenery catapulted it into the bad box art hall…

How One Piece Characters Have Evolved

Ch-ch-ch-changes! Nothing stays the same—people, places, and manga characters, included. Let’s see how the likes of One Piece have evolved over the years. The appearance of characters changing is not new, nor is it unique to One Piece. Previously, Kotaku showed how an array of manga characters had evolved over the years. Now, via Japanese…

The New Attack on Titan 3DS Game Is a Solid Upgrade of the Last One

Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind -Chain- is an update of last year’s similarly titled Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind. And while it has only one major new feature, it is one that changes the entire game for the better. Good – Harder Than It Looks When it comes down…

Coding Conference Postponed Because One Direction Ruined Everything

DjangoCon is an annual convention for people who code in Django, which powers websites like Instagram and Pinterest (and can also be used in games development). Its European version was supposed to go down in June, but then a boy band happened, and everything went to shit. Soppy British teens One Direction, one of the…

A Snow Day in GTA V‘s Fake Los Angeles

The central city in Grand Theft Auto V is supposed to be, essentially, Los Angeles. In real-world LA, snow is pretty much a mythical phenomenon. But Rockstar made flakes fall from the sky in GTA V over the holidays and it looked downright peaceful. The timelapse video above is courtesy of YouTuber 8-Bit Bastard, who…

Bungie Is Fixing Destiny‘s Most Ridiculous Exploits

Sorry, Destiny players—starting next week, you won’t be able to use the LAN trick on Crota anymore. Bungie is finally fixing the Crota cheese—and implementing a bunch of other fixes and tweaks—in an update that they say will go live next week. In addition to the LAN fix, Bungie says they’re fixing many of the…