The Order: 1886 Special Editions Feature Different Statues

Sony showed off the Collector’s and Premium Editions of The Order: 1866. Among other things, the two sets include entirely different statues: The Collector’s Edition is $79.99: “Galahad under Fire” Statue (7 inch) The Order: 1886 Game Collectable Steelbook Stickers Digital Content Pre-Order DLC (Knight’s DLC) Official Soundtrack with Bonus Tracks Unreleased Behind-The-Scenes Footage The…

For a 100-Pound Woman, This Lady Can Eat So Many Burgers

Meet Tae Ryun Huh. She isn’t today’s hamburger hero. She is the hamburger hero of a lifetime. As Kotaku first broke back last December, watching males and females eat is very much a thing in South Korea. In the past few years, more and more Korean television shows have featured thin people eating insane amounts…

Final Fantasy Agito is the Most Fun I’ve Had with a Freemium Game

Once upon a time, there was a game developed for cell phones called Final Fantasy Agito XIII. And when that game was moved to the PSP and became Final Fantasy Type-0, that meant the name was free to be used—which it has been by the new iOS/Android title Final Fantasy Agito Final Fantasy Agito takes…

Samurai Dazzles with Soccer Tricks

For this year’s World Cup, Japanese noodle company Nissin thought it would be a good idea to send Red Bull athlete Kotaro Tokuda to Brazil. To do soccer tricks. In samurai gear. Tokuda is a freestyle football champ and apparently pulled off these moves without the help of CGI or wire trickery. カップヌードルCM 「サムライ in…

​Heroic Rescue of a Kitten Captured on Twitter

There’s lots of stupid on the internet. Then, there are things that are truly quite wonderful. Recently, Japanese Twitter user Yuusuke Mieno was waiting for a traffic light, when, according to website Otakuma, a stray kitten was almost hit by car. Surprised, the cat tried to get out of the way and accidentally fell into…

Project Cars, You Continue To Look Amazing

This PS4 trailer doesn’t tell the game’s whole story – it’s also coming to PC, Xbox One and Wii U – but this new trailer for Project Cars shows just how good a video game can look when you put new/big hardware to work.

Incredible! (sorry). Cosplay by hazu-nyan, photo by Lunckens

E3 Winners & Losers: Day Zero

Forget the nuances of preference and the pointlessness of starkly dividing subjective events into overly-simple categories. E3 demands winners and losers, so it is glory and blood that it shall receive. Day Zero, so called because the show doesn’t actually begin until June 10 (there were only press conferences today, the showroom floor was closed),…

E3 Comic #2: Better Than Being There

Have you ever wished you could be in the audience at one of E3’s big press conferences? Kotaku comic artist Elizabeth Simins‘ experience might change your mind. Elizabeth Simins is an artist & illustrator living in New York. She makes comics primarily about games, but also sometimes about other things. Follow her @elizsimins for way…

The Many Hand Gestures Of Playstation America’s New CEO

After Jack Tretton stepped down as CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, Shawn Layden stepped in. And as you can see by his hand gestures, he’s well-prepared for the job. The President: It’s Cold In Here: The Subliminal Applause: And YOU Get a Car: The Rest: