NouCome Is This Past Season’s Funniest Anime

When this fall anime season hit its midway point last month, I knew My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy deserved a place on the list of five anime you should be watching. This is because it is easily the funniest anime I watched this past season. Good – Great Comedic…

The Attack on Titan Mobile Game Is So Boring It Gave Me a Headache

With the release of 3DS title Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind this past week, now seemed like the perfect time to try out the Attack on Titan mobile game Attack on Titan: The Wings of Counterattack. Oh how wrong I was. Attack on Titan: The Wings of Counterattack is a mobile game…

Watch What Happens When Internet Addicts Go Offline

You like the internet? I do! I’m online a lot (for work, work, I say), and perhaps you are, too. Think you could go off the grid for a week? Creative agency Mother London had five net natives go offline for a week and documented what happened next. No Internet Week [Vimeo via Digg via…

Pro Gamer Retires So He Can Finish High School

Last night, professional StarCraft II player Kim “duckdeok” Kyeong Deok suddenly announced he was leaving eSports. He’s trading his keyboard and mouse for school books. “I have decided to retire S2,”tweeted Kim—news that surprised many. This past summer, Kim came in first at the 2013 WCS Season 2 Europe, winning US$20,000. “I was thinking about…

Report: Pirate Bay Founder Being Kept In Solitary Confinement

The mother of imprisoned Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm says that since her son was extradited from Sweden to Denmark, he has been placed in solitary confinement as though he were a “dangerous, violent and aggressive criminal”. Svartholm is in custody – he’s still awaiting a verdict – for allegedly hacking the mainframe systems of…

Well, Here’s One Way To Get Around YouTube’s Copyright Robots

Angry about YouTube’s copyright policy? Want to get around its content ID filtering? Good news. Here’s one way. Watch as YouTube user SpookyFries69 shows you how it’s done in the A**a**ins Cr**d * B***k F**g video below. Enjoy! Lets Play A**a**ins Cr**d * B***k F**g [SpookyFries69@YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to…

Turn Your iPad Into The Neverending Story

Paper books? So 20th century. Today’s Neverending Story is a suede cover for your tablet that turns it into the iconic centrepiece of the 1984 children’s classic. Available for around USD$65, they’re hand-made to replicate the “real” thing as closely as possible. And if you don’t have an iPad, that’s cool, because they’re made by…

Track: Unspoken | Album: Ultraviolet | Artist: Kylesa Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

In The 90s, Sega Made This Boy’s Christmas Very Special

The 1990s were Sega’s golden age, but they were also a golden age for those who loved Sega, because every year on December 25 you could bet there’d be millions of kids around the world waking up to find new consoles and hardware under the tree. Kids like Tyler Esposito. Tyler put this video together…

Drones and robots of all sizes. That’s some fine, detailed artwork—titled Game of Drones—by Montreal-based visual development studio OXAN. Could even work as a great concept art for a dystopian video game set in the near future. Game of Drones [OXAN, DeviantART] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Intense Police Chase Shows Off How Cool GTA Online‘s Content Creator Is

While Grand Theft Auto Online‘s creator tools are still fresh out of the package, players like rechyyy—the YouTuber behind one of the best GTA V chase videos—are already filling up their custom maps with ramps, police vehicles and rockets. Not a bad start, and we’ll probably see a flood of awesome things made by this…

Here’s What GTA: San Andreas Looks Like on the iPad

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is out today for iPad and other iOS devices. So what does it look like? Well, like high-res San Andreas! In the video above, you’ll see what the game looks like when played on an iOS device. This version supports Apple-certified controllers like the MOGA Ace Powerand the Logitech Power…

Watch These BF4 Players Search For A Mythical Hidden Shark

JackFrags is a well-known YouTuber among fans of Battlefield 4. So when he says he thinks there’s a giant megalodon hidden in the game, people start searching. I went to observe the search effort, and it was… interesting. The backstory: JackFrags posted this video explaining his theory about the secret megalodon in BF4 and a…

Mega Man Board Game Now Live On Kickstarter

An officially-licensed Mega Man board game went live on Kickstarter today, proving once and for all that Capcom doesn’t hate Mega Man—they just hate making Mega Man video games. The company behind this board game, Jasco Games, is asking for some $70,000 to make it happen. Looks pretty cool!