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Kotaku XP: Red Dead Redemption 2, The Avengers, Fork Knife

It’s Kotaku XP, our weekly video discussion of hot Kotaku topics! This week we talk about “Fork Knife,” how to know you need a PlayStation 4 Pro, Red Dead Redemption 2‘s new trailer, a physics-based dating simulator, and the new Avengers film’s connections to God of War and My Hero Academia! We tried a slightly…

Here’s Where The Oblivious Anime Man Joke Comes From

An image of a young man mistaking a butterfly for the completely wrong thing has become one of the hottest joke formats lately. And as incredulous as the actual moment is, it isn’t the first time it’s been in the spotlight. The still comes from 1991 anime series called The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird.…

Monster Hunter: World‘s Sakura Costume Is Adorable But Not Very Useful

Monster Hunter: World is drowning in crossover events, from the recent Devil May Cry event to a Street Fighter V promotion that allowed players to dress up as Ryu. The Street Fighter love continues with a new event quest that unlocks a Sakura costume. It’s a fun but difficult mission, though the reward is a…

Fans Turn Darling In The Franxx‘s Tender Reunion Into Dub Fiasco

Darling In The Franxx fans are remixing a touching scene from the latest episode into an internet joke that made me laugh so hard I cried. At the end of the latest episode of horny mech anime Darling In The Franxx, Hiro and Zero Two finally get to have a heartfelt conversation that the show…

Call of Duty‘s Prop Hunt, One Year Later

It’s been a little over a year since Prop Hunt arrived in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered as nothing more than a silly, April Fools’ Day weekend event. Since then, it’s become a permanent institution in three different games in the series. You might think it would be too much of a good thing,…

Watch Us Fumble Through A Date In Check Please

Check Please is a new physics-based game for PC, Mac and Linux where you fumble around using only a mouse to perform simple tasks like pouring wine before your date gets fed up and it’s game over— as if dates weren’t nerve-racking enough. Check out the video above to see see how smooth Heather is…

Inio Asano Is A Dark Manga Artist For Adults Who Want Something Real

When you’re an adult, sprawling out in the manga aisle of your neighborhood bookstore with a copy of Fruits Basket isn’t the same. Even though it’s got nostalgic appeal for adults longing to relive their childhoods, manga written for teens might not be stimulating enough for the 20+ crowd. These days when I read manga,…

For Honor’s season six update arrives May 17 and includes a new map called Beachhead and reworks to the Orochi and Peacekeeper classes. It also adds a “Visual Collection” feature to streamline gear customization. The game is free to play this weekend on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

Fortnite’s Comet Drama Showed What The Game Does Best

You’ve probably heard about how a comet hit the Fortnite map by now. There’s a reason so many people were transfixed by this cosmic encounter: developer Epic made it feel like an event, worthy of wonder in the same way a real-world solar eclipse would be. In an age of instant social media updates, constant…

Vermintide 2‘s Pack-Rat Villain Is A Master At Creating Suspense

Killing the player is easy. Games do this all the time, often by surprising them with something unexpected and lethal or by simply ramping up the difficulty and pummeling them into submission. Vermintide 2 offers a third option, taunting your four-player squads without outright destroying them: the Packmaster. Vermintide 2 is a first-person action game…

Colossal Vintage Game Collection, 35 Years In The Making, Will Be Auctioned This Month

Tri-State Area game collectors may want to take out a second mortgage. The ultimate nerd basement, stacked to the rafters with classic video games and computers, will be put up on the auction block in New Jersey on May 31. This is no mere hobbyist’s garage stash. Page through the photos taken by auctioneer Bodnar’s…

My Hero Academia Is Superhero Anime For People Tired Of Superheroes

Hit anime My Hero Academia premieres on Adult Swim tomorrow, its first time on television. If you’re feeling superhero fatigue, don’t sit this one out. It may just remind you of why people love superheros in the first place. My Hero Academia takes place in a world where most people have a super power of…

Watch Us Blow Up Giant Robots In Battletech

Battletech is a really good tactics game that combines giant mechs with X-COM. I’ve spent many hours building experimental robots and taking dangerous jobs to keep my mercenary corps afloat. Kotaku video producer Paul Tamayo was curious about the game, so I ran him through a mission to learn the basics. This mission is a…

After Yesterday’s Overwatch Update, Being A Hanzo Main Isn’t So Bad

Sometimes, Overwatch force-feeds its playersunwanted changes, like giving its robot turret Bastion an overpowered self-healing arm or breaking porcine tank Roadhog’s hook. On these days, the sky falls. Other days, it’s Overwatch Christmas, complete with a big ol’ sack of crowd-pleasing balance changes. Yesterday was one of those days: Blizzard solved its two-year-old Hanzo problem.…

Despite Haters, Fortnite Players Fill Enormous Dusty Divot Crater 

Now that the Fortnite comet has hit, the map is doted with craters. The biggest crater, as we all know, is located at Dusty Divot. You can’t really go to Dusty without entering a fight now. Regardless, one group of fearless Fortnite fans challenged themselves to build over the entire crater, and it turned into…

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Is Delightfully Difficult

It is incredibly fun to die in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, a game that assaults your senses with enough cute animals, wonderful animations, and lovely music to make you forget that it’s beating the hell out of you. Tropical Freeze, which came out for Wii U in 2014 and launches again for Switch today,…

Korean League of Legends Player Retiring After Traumatic Time In Japan

Yesterday, Jeon “Dara” Jeong-hoon announced he was retiring from professional gaming. According to Dara, incidents that happened regarding his foreigner resident card were “truly frightening.” Dara most recently played for SCARZ Burning Core, but before that, he was a member of the Tokyo team Pentagram, which was previously known as Rampage. According to Inven, Japan’s…

Can Someone Please Help This Crow Buy A Train Ticket? 

Why fly places when you have access to excellent Japanese public transportation? While this crow probably wasn’t thinking that, it did look like it needed help buying a ticket. It even took a woman’s charge card. Have at look at the footage Twitter user Kinoshita filmed. The whole thing even made the news! Crows are…

How Nintendo Labo Is Doing In Japan 

Last year, it was seemingly impossible to get a Nintendo Switch in Japan. The console was always selling out. What about Nintendo Labo? Right now, you can easily pick one off the shelf. Well, it’s made of cardboard, so Nintendo can make a whole bunch, right? True, it’s not as complex to make as game…

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