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Japan’s Newest Meme Is “Self-Defense Geezer”

Last week, a Japanese morning show interviewed a man on the street about the country’s national pension. His brief response has turned him into an internet superstar. The guy’s name was not given, and the show only listed him as a “35-year-old man.” He’s now known as “Jiko Bouei Ojisan” (自己防衛おじさん) or “Self-Defense Geezer.” In…

The Mob Psycho 100 anime is returning for a second season with Bones once again doing the animation. No word yet as to when it will begin broadcasting.

Massive Crowds Gather To Watch Dragon Ball Super Together

Over the weekend, anime fans in Latin America gathered to watch Dragon Ball Super’s 130th episode streamed in stadiums, plazas and parks. The Dragon Ball Super TV anime will come to an end for the time being. However, a Dragon Ball Super movie will hit theaters later this year in Japan. Toei Animation sent out…

Classic 1980s anime City Hunter is getting a new feature animated film. Sunrise is handling the animation duties, and the movie is slated for a spring 2019 release in Japan.

Foggy Night. Bangkok, Thailand. By Zack Lowe. 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! 

Girl Shot In The Head By Her Brother During Argument Over Video Game Controller [Update]

A 13 year-old girl from Monroe County, Mississippi has been shot in the head by her 9 year-old brother during an argument over an unspecified video game controller. The Associated Press reports that the incident took place on Saturday, when the girl “wouldn’t give up the video game controller when her brother wanted it.” It’s…

Suspected Drug Dealers Arrested Hiding Cocaine, LSD Inside Fake Nintendo Cartridges

Four people were arrested in The Netherlands last week after a police raid on a premises that had been using 3D printers to create fake Nintendo cartridges, inside which were hidden a variety of drugs like LSD, cocaine and MDMA. As De Telegraaf report, Dutch police raided a dark web drug dealing setup last year…

Historians Discuss The Real-World Inspirations For The New Colossus

2017’s Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is a game that trades on the grand spectacle of alternate history. Like Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle or Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt, it asks us to consider a bombastic “what if” that is, nonetheless, grounded in some kind of…

Watch Us Play Video Games All Day

Today from 10am to 6pm Pacific (1pm-9pm Eastern), Kirk and I will be streaming video games. We’ll be speedrunning Super Mario World, killing bosses in Mega Man X, and trying to figure out if Red Dead Redemption is a good enough real-life version of Westworld You can watch it all on our Twitch channel right…

Yakuza Kiwami 2 is headed to PS4 on August 28, 2018 for $49.99. A recreation of 2008’s Yakuza 2, it will also feature new minigames and an additional campaign in which you play as Majima. Check out the trailer

A Malaysian City Recreated In Cities: Skylines

I love a good Cities: Skylines build, and this cinematic flythrough of a recreation of the Federal Territory of Putrajaya in Malaysia is something special to see. There’s real care taken by the creator, Gilbert Plays, to make something that models the feeling of an actual city. While I’m no expert on Putrajaya (and so…

Finally, A Tool For Figuring Out How To Jump In Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons has some complex rules, and a studious fan has created a tool to help you figure out exactly how jumping works. There are a few things in 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons that are tough for a Dungeon Master to handle. Last night, for example, I had to figure out the a…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Amiibo Gold Rush, Winners!

The triumphant return of the ‘Shop Contest brought many entries, but the capricious soul of victory chooses the best of the best! Thanks to everyone who spent the last week making images of amiibos. I don’t own any of those fun little toys, but I would be more likely to buy them if they were…

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Jason Schreier and I (Kirk) are going to spend the day streaming video games from my place in Portland. Schedule is above; tune in to the Kotaku Twitch channel to watch.

The Creatures of Dark Souls Look Silly While Falling

Players digging through the animation files of Dark Souls have found some very funny falling animations for creatures that rarely fall in the game. A user named DarkSoulsJunk has posted an album of gifs made from some little-seen fall animations from Dark Souls enemies. They are, in a word, hilarious. There’s something fulfilling about seeing…

Fans Discover Game-Changing Typo In Civilization VI‘s Code

Religion has been a powerful motivating force throughout human history, but some Civilization VI AIs are a little too into religion, at the expense of, well, pretty much everything else. It’s a real bug, and it’s all because of a typo. Earlier this week, a Something Awful thread pointed to a bizarre irregularity in Civilization…

Sonic Mania is getting an updated version called Sonic Mania Plus on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC this summer. It’ll include an Encore Mode which changes up some of the levels, two new playable characters, Mighty and Ray, and a four-player competitive mode. A physical version will also be available.

Britain Is The Latest Country To Ban A Sexy Dungeon Crawler

The roguelike dungeon crawler Omega Labyrinth Z is coming to the West sometime this year on PlayStation 4 and Vita—but not in the United Kingdom., nor in a handful of other countries that have banned it. According to the BBC, the U.K. has added its name to a list of countries that have refused to…

Paul and Heather are streaming Yakuza 6: The Song of Life right now on YouTube. Join the stream while we explore the amazing seaside town of Onomichi, punch people, and sing the sweetest karaoke.

Ghost Of A Tale Is This Year’s Second Really Good Game About A Mouse

It’s been an outstanding couple of months for mouse-based video games. In February we gotPlayStation VR adventure Moss, and now we have the PC release of Ghost of a Tale, an action RPG about a mouse bard slinking through a dangerous fantasy world in order to save his true love. It looked outstanding in 2016.…