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CSR Racing 2 Does Its One Thing Better Than Before

When it debuted back in 2012, CSR Racing’s bite-sized bouts of drag racing were just the right amount of driving excitement for mobile gamers. CSR Racing 2 keeps the action brief, but gives players a little more control over a lot prettier cars. While games like Real Racing 3 and the Asphalt series aimed to…

Japanese indie mystery and survival horror game Back in 1995, which is already available on Steam, is coming to the Nintendo 3DS, reports Inside. The game takes it visual cues from PlayStation 1 and Sega Saturn games and should evoke warm fuzzy nostalgia feelings for folks of a certain age.

When Your University Looks Like A Giant Toilet

Bet the students learn all kinds of shit there. ViaPeople’s Daily and ShanghaiIst, a new university building opened in Henan, China. People online were quick to note the obvious: It looks like a giant toilet! Even People’s Daily, the official news outlet of China’s ruling party, reported that the building looks like a huge potty.…

Windows 10 Update Makes For A Good Speedrun Prank

During SGDQ 2016, the charity speedrun event to benefit Doctors Without Borders, speedrunner Blood Thunder saw his BioShock playthrough get a sudden interruption: a Windows 10 update. You can watch what happened next here. But, as Eurogamer points out, Blood Thunder was actually trolling organizers Games Done Quick (and Microsoft?) with a tongue-in-cheek prank. The…

Dragon Ball Turned Into A Traditional Japanese Woodblock Print

This makes perfect sense. According to AnimeAnime and Unsodo, this hand-carved Dragon Ball art marks the anime’s 30th anniversary and is limited to only 200 prints. Like the Star Wars prints Kotaku previously covered, these were done in the woodblock printing method that has been used in Japan for hundreds of years. Considering how woodblock…

ehmaysi’s nice GTA V tilt-shift video makes it look like a very expansive game of Toy Soldiers.

Tokyo 42 is stilllooking like a very, very cool video game.

Look At These Destiny Action Figures

This glory is what $190 of action figure will get you, Destiny fans. Following on from last year’s Titan, here are shots ofs 3A’s Warlock and Hunter figures, which are being released in three flavours: one each for 3A’s store, Bungie’s store and other retailers. The 3A and Bungie versions will ship with four weapons…

Blizzard Taking Overwatch Cheat Maker To Court

Blizzard is suing German company Bossland over its sale of an Overwatch cheat program called Watchover Tyrant, which does things like reveal enemy player locations on a radar. As TorrentFreak report, this isn’t the first time Blizzard has gone after Bossland; the two have had a long-running battle over cheat programs in games like World…

The WWE 2K Commercials Are Loaded With Easter Eggs

Whatever 2K Sports is paying their marketing department employees, it’s not enough. The WWE 2K games get mixed to positive reviews, but the promotion of those games is consistent, first-rate, and exemplary. Whoever makes the games’ commercials has a masterful grasp on why fans love the WWE. A huge part of the abiding love that…

Should Tekken Keep Its Ridiculous Joke Characters?

Kuma is a veteran fighter in the King of the Iron Fist Tournament. For six official tournaments, two non-canon tag tournaments, and one crossover tournament, he’s been an aggressive force. But now, it seems that Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada is hesitant to let the bear compete in Tekken 7. In an interview with Siliconera that…

The Last Of Us Has The Most Horrifying Death Scenes

I am an intermediate player; it takes practice and time for me to complete a single player campaign, and inevitably, I die a lot during that journey. And out of all the video games death scenes I’ve witnessed, The Last of Us’s are still in a disturbing class of their own. I’ve been replaying this…

Yogurtland Has Mario-Themed Flavors, And I Will Eat Them All

Were you were outside today, barbecuing hot dogs in the sweltering heat, and thinking, “Gee, I wonder where I can get some Nintendo-themed frozen yogurt?” If that’s the case, have I got some fantastic news for you. Yogurtland is teaming up with Nintendo to offer yogurts based on the characters from the Mario franchise. So…

In Hitman, It Pays To Plan Out A Kill

I love the Elusive Targets in Hitman. There have been five Elusive Contracts since the game’s launch, and after failing the fourth one, I decided to do extensive reconnaissance work and pre-planning for the fifth target. This time, I would be ready for anything. Here are the results. Elusive Targets are IO’s attempt to make…

Hi Kotaku! I’m Your Guest Editor For Today.

Good morning! My name is Kevin Wong, and I’ll be editing Kotaku today. The last time I did this was a year ago, and I’m excited to be doing it again. Usually, I’m an AP English Language teacher. But a few days ago, I wrapped up my school year, and that gives me more time…

Metroid Prime Looks Great In VR

The release of v5.0 of the Dolphin emulator has one very cool trick: it now has proper support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Below is JoshDub (thanks, RPS) playing through the game everyone is going to jump to first: Metroid Prime, which is perfect for the platform given its visor-like HUD. It’s not…

Overwatch’s Play Of The Game Goes Full Circle

If Game of Thrones can do it, actual sports—the inspiration for Overwatch’s “Play of the Game” moments in the first place—can too. You’re going to be very sick of these by the time the next NBA/NFL/EPL/UCL seasons are done. Update: It’s happening:

Single-Celled Organisms Playing Microscopic Pac-Man

If you’re going to study the behavior patterns of unicellular protozoans and predatory pseudocoelomates in a microscopic 3D environment, you might as well have a little fun with it. Researchers at the University College Southeast Norway led by Professor Erik Andrew Johannessen of the Institute of Micro and Nano System Technology, created the “Mikroskopisk Pacman”…

All The Racy Stuff Changed For Tokyo Mirage Sessions’ Western Release

From bathing suit to Punky Brewster cosplay in one cross-Atlantic trip. Some of the changes made to Japan’s Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem to make it North America’s Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE are quite odd. Having been busy not caring too much about worrying over things like fanservice, I’ve managed to avoid discussions of…

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Oh come on, Lego Star Wars. She might be a general now, but she’ll always be a princess.