Scar from The Lion King is one dapper gentleman in Hyung86’s Disney University fanart series. In-universe, he teaches political science, and is a fan of classical music, English literature, and… Jeremy Irons films. Of course. Look below for Professor Scar in his full glory, and over here for more from Hyung86 Dayshot is an image-based…

Bravely Second, the sequel to Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, finally has an official subtitle. The game will be called Bravely Second: End Layer.

After Two Decades, I’ve Finally Outgrown Mortal Kombat’s Violence

It’s taken Mortal Kombat X to show me how much I’ve changed since 1992. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK See, back then I was in love with a new arcade game they’d just installed in the cinema at Sheffield’s Meadowhall shopping centre (this was before the proper arcade was even built). It looked…

Studio Ghibli Doesn’t Know What To Make Next

The studio behind Totoro, Porco Rosso and more is not dead yet. But as Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki explains, the studio isn’t sure about its next feature film project. “Right now, Studio Ghibli is open, but not in production,” Suzuki is quoted as saying by Oricon. “We’re worrying over what would be good to make.”…

The “Most Wonderful” Anime of 2014

Reader poll time! Japanese website Anime Anime (via Otanew) polled seven hundred of its readers, asking them to name the most splendid anime of last year. Here are the results. Keep in mind that this is a reader poll and not representative of all anime viewers in Japan. It is, however, representative of the seven…

Guy Swatted In Front Of 60,000 Viewers While Playing Runescape

Joshua Peters, a US Air Force vet who hangs out on Twitch playing video games, was the victim of a swatting hoax last week, during which his home was stormed and the police reportedly pointed guns at his brothers. Streaming as Koopatroopa787, Peters had around 60,000 people watching him play Runescape when the raid took…

So Long, RadioShack, And Thanks For All The Sweet/Shitty Box Art

RadioShack is gone, but it is not forgotten. Amidst all the weekend obituaries for a company that had already been dead for years, though, people seem to have forgotten one thing: the company’s legacy of making its own supremely dorky box art. I mean, get a load of the fonts! The placement! Some of them…

Crazy Russian Jumps 98 Feet Off Building. While On Fire.

So, you know how in Assassin’s Creed, the hero can jump off massive buildings, do a little flip in the air and somehow land alive? Turns out you can do that in real life, too. Even if you’re on fire. Of course, there are a few conditions you need to satisfy in order to pull…

The Week In Games: Evolve Or Play Something Else

I was going to say “Evolve or die” but that seemed a bit harsh, especially for a week with a new 3DS and an old Zelda game coming out. Between Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and Evolve, odds are I’ll be hunting something this week. Still on the fence about Majora’s Mask—I didn’t like it much…

Learn About Capitalism With Super Mario Bros. 2

I’ve not come across a finer means of illustrating the origins of our Western work ethic than this video featuring a recycled Japanese game. Why did’t we have 8-Bit Philosophy back when I was in college? In a way it’s ironic. Here I am watching a video about how Calvinism and Capitalism came together to…

Six Days To LEGO Left Shark? Not Bad. 

It’s easy to crank out a next-day t-shirt for a major Super Bowl happening, but assembling bricks in the form of the only part of Katy Perry’s halftime show that matters takes time and patience. Our friends over at The Brothers Bricktook a different route with their Left Shark coverage this year, so LEGO builderConradoPLG…

Wwwwwhen A Twitch Stream Donation Goes Horribly Wwwwwrong

Pokemon streamer SherwoodLIVE (via Reddit) finds out the hard way why having a simulated voice announce donations is a bad idea. Dubwee dubwee dubwee dubwee.