Project Rap Rabbit Is A Rhythm Game With RPG-Style Rap Battles

Traditional rhythm games give players a series of set songs to tap along to. In Project Rap Rabbit, the newly-announced collaboration between Parappa the Rapper’s Masaya Matsuura and Gitaroo Man’s Keiichi Yano, players participate in rap battles powered by RPG-style dialogue trees. According to the Kickstarter video for Project Rap Rabbit, the battle system in…

Smash Champion Loses First Tournament This Year In Wild Match Against Top Player

Super Smash Bros. Melee champion Adam “Armada” Lindgren lost his first tournament this year against crowd favorite Joseph “Mango” Marquez at yesterday’s Royal Flush tournament in Atlantic City, New Jersey. After it looked like Lindgren would take home #1, Marquez made an adrenaline-fueled comeback that made the audience go wild. Leaving few openings for Marquez’s…

Elgato’s Stream Deck Is Fancy Tool For Fancy Streamers

Streamers seeking more control over their broadcasts often use external keypads to do things like switching scenes and controlling chat. Elgato’s $150 Stream Deckaims to replace those makeshift solutions with 15 dedicated LCD buttons capable of handling up to 210 different actions. It’s quite fancy. The Stream Deck, launched today and available at Elgato’s website,…

Japanese Game Companies That Won’t Allow YouTube Comments 

Nintendo America, for example, allows comments on its YouTube videos. The company’s Japanese headquarters does not, and some people online in Japan don’t sound too happy. This has been going on for a while now, but a recent 2ch thread shined a light on the discrepancy. It’s kind of strange that Nintendo doesn’t allow comments…

Tokyo Ghoul Gets An Official Cafe With Disgusting-Looking Food

That seems to be the point! An official Tokyo Ghoul eatery is opening in Tokyo later this month features freaky food inspired by the manga. As Japan Trends points out, meals have names like Kaneki’s One-Eyed Curry and Tsukiyama’s Eyeball Cheese Mousse. Surely they taste better than they look! The Tokyo Ghoul Cafe runs from May…

Insane Yakuza Character Gets Cute Birthday Greetings

In the Yakuza games, psychotic Goro Majima is known as “Mad Dog of Shimano” for good reason: He’s violent and bonkers. He’s also a fan favorite, which might explain the adorable birthday messages for the character.  It’s not uncommon for artists to create fan art to celebrate a character’s birthday. Majima’s b-day is May 14,…

Report: Nintendo Is Bringing The Legend of Zelda To Smartphones

Nintendo’s beloved Zelda series is headed to smartphones, states The Wall Street Journal in an unconfirmed report. It’s somewhat unclear if this is a port or an entirely new game like Super Mario Run. If true, that seems most likely. According to The Wall Street Journal, sources say this is Nintendo’s latest effort to expand…

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Here Come The Buffs

While we’ve seen a ton of Japanese Persona 5 cosplay, the game has been out long enough in the West now for a fresh wave to come rolling in. This is Sea Of Rabbitz as P5’s Futaba, with photos by The Will Box The costume and room decor are perfect! But that meal looks way…

Stick To Cammy, Cammy

Dylan Ekren is an artist based in LA who has worked for Disney on movies like Frozen, Big Hero 6 and Zootopia We’re here, though, for his series of Street Fighter sketches, in which he’s drawing a different Chun-Li for every day in May. You’ll find his progress so far below, but for a similar…

Half-Life 2: VR Lets You Get A Little Closer To City 17

Here’s a Steam Greenlight campaign, run by fans, featuring a virtual reality mod for a game made by the guys who own Steam. Playing a proper VR version of Half-Life 2 seems like a no-brainer for anyone with a VR headset. It also seems like something Valve would have made and released for free with…

Paradox Publishing A “Hardcore” Strategy Game About Mars

Surviving Mars is a strategy game coming to the PC, Xbox One and PS4 courtesy of Paradox, the publishers of games like Crusader Kings and Hearts of Iron. It’s all about building cities from Mars, and trying to avoid getting everyone inside them killed in the process. Developed by Haemimont Games, Surviving Mars is described…

Dota 2 Commentator Reveals She’s Been Diagnosed With Cancer 

Jorien “Sheever” van der Heijden, one of Dota 2‘s most prominent casters and streaming personalities, revealed earlier today on her Twitch channel that she has cancer and will start undergoing treatment for it later this week. “Well I have breast cancer,” she told her viewers during her daily Dota 2 stream. “It hasn’t spread. It’ll…

The Week In Games: Injustice For All

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: who do you think would win in a fight, Batman or Superman? It’s been almost a decades since Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe first unleashed the Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader upon one another within the gritty context of the Midway fighter universe but the…

The Moms In Chrono Trigger Had It Rough

How would you feel if your son had died trying to save the world and his best friends never told you? Chrono Trigger is one of the most famous video games ever made. You’d be hard pressed to find a top 100 list that doesn’t include it, and when it comes to the SNES’s library…

Here’s A Brief Look At The Maps Coming In Call Of Duty Zombie Chronicles 

Just over a week ago this guy revealed Black Ops III’s fifth and final Zombies DLC would be a collection of eight remastered maps from previous games by unzipping a hoodie. Set to release on Tuesday of this week, here are some videos showing just what they’ll look like. Three of the maps below are…

Pros Continue Reviving Old Rivalries At The Latest Smash Bros. Melee Tournament

This was the scene in the Tropicana Showroom Theater in Atlantic City last night after the day’s Smash Bros. Melee matches had wrapped up as some of the game’s beloved pros tried to resurrect a decades old rivalry between East and West coast players. In the middle was Ryan “The Moon” Coker-Welch, a top-ranked player…

Podcast: Let’s Spoil Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Join us, won’t you, for a Kotaku Splitscreen spoilercast of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a video game about a mute young man who obsessively collects seeds. First, Kirk and I talk this week’s news including the rocky future of Mass Effect (5:20), an eleven-year-old getting GTA V and finding a bag…