If You Are Going To Play Dragon Ball VR, Please Cosplay Like Vegeta

Because cosplaying as Vegeta makesDragon Ball VR much better. Here is comedian R Fujimoto, whose schtick is that he dresses as Vegeta, playing the Dragon Ball VR game while he’s dressed as…well The result looks awesome. Know what else looks awesome dressed as Vegeta? Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you…

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Stay Classy, Anchorman Cosplay

ronburgundy3 nailed pretty much everything for this shot, which was taken at Kansas City’s Planet Comicon last month. Photo by Eugene Photography

Haha Here’s The Witcher 3 Running In 8K Haha

This is footage of The Witcher 3 running 60fps at 8k resolution. That’s 7680 x 4320. On max settings. Gulp. If you need to know what kind of monster could run the game like this, here’s how Thirty IR got the footage across two PCs, the first for playing, the second for capture: GPUs: 4x…

Valve Wants To Be More Transparent About How Busy Steam Customer Support Is

For years, Valve has faced heavy criticism over lackluster customer service efforts. On the upside, they’ve confessed that they need to improve, and things are definitely better than they were in Peak Badness Year 2015. But there’s still a long way to go. The next step? Making customer support data public. Valve has launched a…

Tell ‘Em, Sailor Moon

Iris Muddy is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in France who has worked for companies like Hasbro and Massive Black. You can see more of Iris’ work at her ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration…

Guy Turns His Zelda: Breath of the Wild Photos Into A Book

You can take a lot of nice photos in Breath of the Wild, but really, what can you do with them? Share them with friends, I guess, but they don’t really care, they’ve seen your horse 100 times before. NV/Haru had a better idea: turn them into a book. It’s not big, it’s not glossy…

The Best Xbox Games

It’s hard to believe given its place in history, but the original Xbox was only really around for four years. That’s not long in console terms, but as we all found, when it came to Microsoft’s first console the focus was on quality, not quantity. Leveraging the console’s horsepower, hard drive and online capabilities, the…

Gnog Is A New Puzzle Game About Up Opening Beautiful Boxes

Released today on PlayStation 4 and coming soon to PC and iOS, Gnog is a musical adventure through a series of diorama puzzle boxes filled with wondrous creatures, strange contraptions and gorgeous music. Let me show you how it works. First we’re given a box. Something like this: Turning the box around, we’re presented with…

Overwatch Pro Sets Up Surprise Attack By Balancing Winston On A Roof

There are plenty of “correct” ways to play Winston. Dive into the back line, tear up a healer, throw down a shield, etc. LuxuryWatch Blue player Song “Janus” Jun-hwa’s strategy was not “correct.” That did not, however, stop it from being effective. In a recent APEX season three match against CB Spirit, Janus jumped onto…

Tumbleseed Is An Adventure You Tilt Your Character Through

TumbleSeed is a game where you guide your character forward on a seesaw-esque swing on a journey to scale a hazardous mountain. We play the first twenty minutes in this Kotaku Plays. TumbleSeed has two sides. On the one hand, it offers a friendly world of cute monster pals and relaxing music. On the other,…

This Fan’s Incredible Amiibo Display Case Is Probably Better Than Yours

Amiibo may look like Smash Bros. trophies, but they don’t act like them—not normally, anyway. One fan has spent two years trying to make that fantasy into more of a reality, and the results are awesome. CaliburLord K uploaded a video showcasing an elaborate Amiibo display that not only lights up, it can tell different…

Source: The Rumored Mario x Rabbids RPG Is Real, Coming To Switch

One of this fall’s big Nintendo Switch games will be Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, a game that has been rumored for quite some time and does indeed exist, as confirmed by art assets provided to Kotaku. The game will mix Nintendo’s iconic plumber (and friends) with characters from Ubisoft’s popular Rabbids series. Although the…

Fans Keep Trying To Revive Smash Bros. Brawl‘s Competitive Scene

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the problem child of the Smash franchise—at least when it comes to its esports scene. Not as quaint as Smash 64, as technically rich as Melee or as polished as Smash 4, Brawl is considered a fun but flawed game exclusively for casual players. So, while other competitive Smash scenes…

Video Game Graphics Took A Huge Leap In The Early 2000s

In the late 90s, video games sat on the precipice of a 3D graphics revolution. Everything was about to change, and it was gonna change fast Last week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason Schreier and I were joined by veteran video game programmer Brett Douville. Douville started out at LucasArts in 1998, where he worked on…

Mario Kart 8‘s Splatoon Inklings Must Be Protected At All Costs

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a great time. Cruising around tracks and shooting Koopa shells all over the place will never get old. But someone’s enjoying it way more than anyone else: the Inklings from Splatoon. They are precious children and happy to be here. Be nice to them. The Inkling Boy and Inkling Girl…

Mario Maker Player Keeps Risking Bans From Nintendo To Keep Game Alive

Mario Maker’s last content update dropped over a year ago, but hardcore fans aren’t ready to let go yet. Instead, some of the community introduces new features through glitches, though Nintendo doesn’t seem to be a fan of the practice. Since release, Mario Maker players have found all sorts of ways to exploit the level-creation…

PlayStation’s Golden Week Sale Is Full Of Ridiculous Deals

If you have ever wanted to play the best video game of all time for only two dollars, this is your lucky week, because Suikoden II is on sale as part of an excellent set of PlayStation discounts that also includes Final Fantasy XV for $36 and Persona 4 Golden for $9 (all with PlayStation…

Nier: Automata DLC Drops Today, Hope You Kept That Save File

There’s more Nier to play today, as Square Enix releases the game’s “3C3C1D119440927” DLC. New sidequests and odd coliseum battles reward players with music, costumes and other cosmetic items, as long as you’ve got that game’s Chapter Select feature unlocked. Nier: Automata’s DLC allows players to battle powerful machine enemies like Square Enix exec Yosuke…

When Fans Take Their Love For Twitch Streamers Too Far

It was one in the morning when the Twitch streamer Ellohime heard a knock at his front door. He had been grinding away at a PC game that night in December 2015 while his infant daughter and fiancée slept. His 22-year-old brother was crashing in the central Florida home, too, and it wasn’t unheard of…