Cookies That Look Like Delicious Japanese Food

Japanese food looks beautiful. So do these cookies. As Japanator points out, Osaka-based Instagram user Masako has been uploading sugar cookies that look like popular meals in Japan. There are cookie versions of katsudon, soba, tempura, sushi, udon, and more. They might look too good to eat! Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet…

Oshino Hakkai. Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. By Charlez Chong. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

A Final Fantasy XV Audi For $470,000

This is a special Final Fantasy XV Audi R8. It’s a real car you can drive, one of a kind, and going on sale in Japan. Dubbed “The Audi R8 Star of Lucis,” this car appeared in Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV and is a collaboration between the Final Fantasy XV team and the German car…

A Fascinating Study On Destiny Player Behavior

Look, I’m not going to pretend that everyone should read this, but if you play Destiny—or are just curious about what would make a Destiny player tick—then this research paper based on the game and its players is an interesting read. Called Guns and Guardians: Comparative Cluster Analysis and Behavioral Profiling in Destiny (remember, it’s…

Overwatch‘s Pharah Can Fly Forever Now

Forged in the blue (plate) flames of the Tribes series, I am a Pharah main. You may not come across many of us, but that’s because we have better things to do than play in the dirt with all the worms and Reaper mains. Things like owning the damn skies In a recent update on…

GTA V Helicopter vs 100 People

The Grand Theft Auto V community’s fixation with destroyingthings in their 100s continues, with this showdown between a crowd of floating human beings and the rotor blades of a large helicopter. As with the other vids, it’s not about the explosions or gore. It’s about the joy in testing just how far you can push…

Tyranny Makes It Fun To Be Evil

I usually play good characters in RPGs, but in Tyranny, I’ve found myself drifting toward the most diabolical path possible. Tyranny, the latest classic-style RPG from Pillars of Eternity and Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian, takes place in a world where evil won. Overlord Kyros (a name that falls just below “Adolf Sauron” on the…

Video Game About A One Night Stand Is As Awkward As It Sounds

One Night Stand is a game about, well, a one night stand. In this game you wake up naked in a stranger’s bed and try to piece together how it happened. While the scenario can play out in 12 different ways, the story as a whole is a gentle look at how two people can…

Bandai’s New TMNT Figures Are The Heroes In A Halfshell We Deserve

Even with only half of the brothers available so far, it’s clear that Bandai’s S.H. Figuarts versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are the best action figures based off the classic animation yet. The secret’s in the soft shell. It may seem puzzling that an action figure company would release only two of the…

Skate 3 Comes To Xbox One BC, Still No Word On Skate 4

Skate 3 is coming to the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility program, in part thanks to renewed interest in the Skate series as the result of an inexplicably loud movement for Skate 4 This news comes attached to the one-year anniversary of this backwards compatibility feature, which allows Xbox One owners to play any of the…

All 30 NES Classic Games, Ranked

Most NES games have not aged very well. The Nintendo Entertainment System relied too much on antiquated principles from coin-operated arcades—timers, limited lives, inflated difficulty—that just don’t make for good video games in 2016. That doesn’t mean the NES Classic, which comes out Friday, is a waste of your money. For $60 you’ll get a…

People Are Still Competing To Beat A Mini-Game Record In Smash Melee

The Super Smash Bros. Home-Run contest always felt like a joke. Ha-ha, the developers must have thought, Let’s have a mode where you hit a bag with anime eyes with a bat across a field Pass the Asahi. Where is the drama? The art? On Tuesday, these questions were answered when HRC typo, a Super…

Dishonored 2 Is Having Trouble On PC

Here’s an unexpected disappointment to cap off an otherwise lovely and completely not-disappointing week: Dishonored 2 is rougher than expected on PC. The first Dishonored has always been an incredibly smooth game for me on PC, so I was expecting no less when I installed the sequel last night. Everything seemed fine at first, but…