Japanese Snacks Don’t Get Odder Than This

I love salted salmon. I love chewy candy. But salted salmon chewy candy? Eh… I’ll sit this one out. Japanese snack Puccho is teaming up with the Sanrio salmon character known as Kirimi-chan for a limited edition salmon candy. This is most unusual and is even surprising for Japanese people. [Photo: uma_1222] Typically, Puccho comes…

Japanese Gamers’ Opinions on Xenoblade Chronicles X

Xenoblade Chronicles X is set for release in the West on this December. But here in Japan, the game has already been out for two months. Here’s what Japanese gamers think of the game. Published in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu, the results of a reader poll on numerous aspects of the Wii U’s…

Metal Gear Solid V Has Cardboard Box Sledding

If the amusing dogs, pooping horsesandsheep balloons weren’t enough, maybe the game’s cardboard box sledding will be. Kotaku has already spent two hours with Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, but now, let’s sit back and watch thirty minutes of the game. The video below is in Japanese, with certain parts sped up on…

Kpop Dance Move Is So Attack on Titan

The Korean pop group Sistar has a smash hit on their hands with “Shake It.” The YouTube video has racked up over five million views. Congrats on that! Ditto for the Attack on Titan comparisons. Wait. What? As folks online in South Korea recently pointed out (via the Entasia Forums), one of the group’s dance…

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Big Mech, Big Head

JC Park is a concept artist from Korea who has worked on games like Aion and Legend of the Cryptids. He’s one of the best in the business. You might not know it from the games he’s worked on (since most are for Korea), but you’ll know it after seeing his art. If you like…

New Shmup Lets You Fly, Or Shoot, But Not Both

Aerobat is a shmup with a difference: you can charge your engines, or fire your weapons, but you can only do one of them at a time. Which sounds nuts until you see the bobbing gliding and weaving in the trailer above. Argh, it looks so good. It’s coming for PC, and you check out…

Twitch Is Playing Metal Gear. It’s Not Going Well. (Update)

Metal Gear Ghost Babel, the Game Boy Color title that relied on precise timing and expert stealth, is now being played by an anonymous mob, able to input random commands at will. What could possibly go wrong? Unlike the crowd-played Pokemon, which ended up OK, this is already turning into something more akin to Twitch’s…

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Comes To Life In Amazing Cosplay

We’re still a few months away from the release of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, but that hasn’t stopped Rick Boer (and friends) from putting together a very impressive set of outfits based on the game. Rick is dressed as Jacob Frye, star of Syndicate, while the Victorian-era costumes in the background were provided by Victorian Dreams.…

18 Minutes of No Man’s Sky In Action

For months, fans everywhere couldn’t help but ask, ‘what do you DO in No Man’s Sky?’ Recently, the developers seem keen on answering that very question. While we gave you some impressions on an E3 demo recently, this deep video dive by IGN is still worth checking out. You’ll see some familiar things we’ve mentioned…

The 5 Best TV Shows For Little Kids

One of the worst things about being the parent of a small child—I’m talking 2 to 5ish here—is the television. Green shit, sleepless nights, food spitting, all of those things are manageable, but the hours of inane TV they start to watch as they develop tiny, useless little brains? It’s the worst From shows that…

Bowser Gets Banana Bombed In Mario Kart

On today’s episode of Highlight Reel we have lucky banana snipes, Batman beatdowns, helicopter heads and much more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Batman: Arkham Origins – Physics – Phil…

The Toys I’d Wait In Line For At Comic Con 2015

The San Diego Comic-Con 2015 dealers room opens its doors on Wednesday evening, launching an extended weekend filled with standing in line to get limited edition stuff. Here’s what’s worth waiting for. For the second year in a row I’ll be missing San Diego Comic-Con, which is a sadness for the geek in me but…

YouTube’s Top 10 ‘Trending’ Games For June

A month ago we guessed that YouTube’s top 10 “trending” games for June would include Fallout 4 and some new Metroid announced for E3. Well, we got half of that right. As for rearliy, well, surprise: there are two Lego games on the June list! Remember, this list is not strictly a list of the…

Destiny’s Lag Situation Is A Huge Bummer

In Destiny’s competitive Crucible multiplayer, the most fearsome foe you’ll face isn’t a flame-slinging warlock or a knife-throwing hunter—it’s lag. One minute, you’ll be merrily floating around a PVP match, shotgunning fools and flinging space magic with abandon. The next, you’ll see something… impossible. An enemy will be standing in one place, then suddenly, he’ll…

Why I Sympathize With Shenmue III’s Most Hardcore Fans

One day in late 2013, I woke up to dozens of e-mails and Twitter messages from people with accounts like “@Shenmue5K” and “@SaveShenmue.” They wanted me to help them save Shenmue, a video game series I’d barely heard of. I’d just interviewed Sony VP of publisher/developer relations Adam Boyes at the PS4 launch event, see,…