Why Death Note and Attack on Titan Are So Popular 

Death Note and Attack on Titan’s successes as manga are only part of why they’ve gone on to become well-received mainstream anime adaptations. The other secret to their success? Tetsuro Araki, their director. Digibro eloquently argues what it is about Araki’s style that sets anime like Death Note and Attack on Titan apart. For one…

Video Game Tattoo Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong

When this dude asked for a God of War tattoo, starring the series’ muscle-bound hero Kratos, he was probably hoping for an effect that looked something like this Instead, he got this Better luck next time, champ.

You Need Quantum Physics To Explain Pokémon‘s Timeline

We already know that, thanks to alternate dimensions, the official Pokémon timeline has become ridiculous. If you break it down using science, things only get even more bonkers. The Game Theorists pull out quantum mechanics to explain the nitty gritty of how Pokémon‘s lore explains all the different versions of Pokémon that exist in the…

Please Stop Saying Video Games Are ‘Too Long’

One big thing that makes video games unique in the cornucopia of pop culture is the time investment they demand of their audience. This had lead to an age-old debate about whether games are “too long,” one that Kill Screen founder Jamin Warren recently tackled in his latest PBS Game/Show episode. Arguments about the merits…

One Way To Solo The First Part Of Crota’s End Hard Mode In Destiny

Now that Destiny‘s Crota’s End raid has a hard mode, the race is on to find creative ways to exploit and solo the raid’s various sections. This afternoon, I actually figured out a decent way to solo your way through the first phase. It’s mostly the same method as in normal mode, but with a…

One Reason Nintendo Has Such A Hard Time With New Ideas

Over the past few decades, we’ve come to learn two important things about Nintendo. One is that they make brilliant video games. The other is that they make absolutely baffling decisions. Whether it’s the lack of a unified account system or their persistent Virtual Console stubbornness, Nintendo’s choices are frequently questioned by even its most…

Uncharted Knockoff Is Busted In Hilarious Ways

Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta is not Uncharted. But boy does it try. Try is the key word here. While the game has been out for a while, videogamedunkey took the time to play through the Uncharted clone, and the results are rather silly. Everything from the cover system, to the physics and the way…

Smash Bros. Makes Mario Kart’s Most Notorious Items A Lot More Fun

As fanfiction, Super Smash Bros. takes bits and pieces from many different Nintendo games and weaves them together into a uniquely chaotic patchwork. It remains faithful to its source material, but only to a point. Some of the most interesting stuff the newest Smash repurposed came from Mario Kart, of all places. Mario Kart’s presence…

Kotaku Editor-In-Chief Here. Any Questions? [Q&A’s Done!]

It’s been a long time since I did one of these on-site Q&As, but let’s get one of these in for 2015, shall we? I’ll be answering questions here for the next 90 minutes or so. Fire away.

Microsoft’s Hologram Plans Apparently Leaked Back In 2012

Today, Microsoft announced Hololens, an ambitious new piece of hardware designed to make it so you can finally hang out IRL with Hatsune Miku. If that sounds familiar, that’s because it totally is: turns out we’ve kinda known about this for three years now. Way back in 2012, when everyone thought “Xbox One” meant the…

How The Subscription-Free Elder Scrolls Online Will Work

On March 17 the PC version of The Elder Scrolls Onlineditches subscription fees and gains the subtitle “Tamriel Unlimited.” What are we getting for free, and what does the change mean for existing players? In a live session streamed via Twitch earlier today, Pete Hines of Bethesda, game director Matt Firor and creative director Paul…

It Took 27 Minutes To Beat Destiny‘s Crota’s End On Hard Mode

The newest update to Destiny— that introduces a hard mode to the Crota’s End raid—has only been out for about two hours at the time of this writing, but a team of players has already beaten it. It doesn’t look like Invigorate—the team that was the first to complete the Vault of Glass raid on…

The Sex Games That Steam Censors

If you’ve paid any attention to the “Popular New Releases” tab on Steam, you might have noticed that lately, there’s been a big influx of anime games on the distribution platform. Featuring 2D babes, these games often let you romance and seduce scantily-clad characters. Warning: this post contains graphic sexual images that are not safe…

If you love horror games but can’t muster the courage to play them, I’m here to help. Over on my YouTube channel, I’ll be playing all sorts of horror games in the future. I’m kicking things off by trying to survive Five Nights at Wario’s. What could go wrong?!