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The Among Us Animated Show’s Cast Is Stacked
15.3.2024
If you didn’t know or, like me, completely jettisoned the information from your brain, popular social deduction game Among Us is getting an animated series by way of CBS Studios. Today, Variety reported the series’ cast, and it’s absolutely stacked with talent, including actors from some...
Mario Helped Break Disney’s 7-Year Box Office Streak
4.1.2024
For the first time since 2015, Disney wasn’t at the top of 2023’s global box office. And while there are a few different factors and reasons for the Mickey Mouse empire slipping from first to second, a significant reason for the shift is because of the super-successful Super Mario animated film....
New Shooter Looks Like Cuphead Meets Doom
12.12.2023
A new gameplay trailer for upcoming indie shooter Mouse shows off the game’s cartoon action and awesome 1930s-inspired visuals, while also revealing a release window.Read more
Kotaku’s Top 10 Anime Of 2023, Ranked
8.11.2023
This year has been one of the most jam-packed years for anime releases in recent memory with the return of fan favorites like Jujutsu Kaisen and the release of new shows like Netflix’s Pluto. While not every show was a memorable work of compelling fiction, 2023 provided us with a bunch of fantastic...
GTA VI Patent Hints At Rockstar's Most Immersive Game Yet
30.10.2023
A recently uncovered Rockstar Games patent suggests the developer could be using new technology to make NPCs in its games more immersive, particularly when it comes to the highly anticipated action-adventure crime sim GTA VI.Read more
Dragon Ball Daima Is The Newest DBZ Series And Toriyama Is Back
12.10.2023
Today at New York Comic Con, Toei Animation announced a brand-new Dragon Ball anime series coming next fall.Read more
Crunchyroll’s Latest Fantasy Anime Will Make You Call A Friend Just To Catch Up
29.9.2023
Have you ever caught yourself doing something mundane, like picking at a blade of grass or walking on the sidewalk’s curb, only to be hit with the intrusive thought that your group of friends won’t be able to attend each other’s funerals? Heavy stuff, right? Well, the new fantasy anime Frieren:...
Spy x Family’s Loid Actor Says His Favorite Anime Scene Isn’t In The Manga
2.7.2023
Wit Studio and CloverWorks’ wholesome yet action-packed new anime series Spy x Family took the world by storm after it debuted last spring. Since its debut, Spy x Family became one of the highest-rated shows on the anime database and social media site MyAnimeList, beating out mega-popular shows...
Your Summer 2023 Anime Guide: What To Watch And Where It's Streaming
23.6.2023
Congratulations, you survived watching (and/or backlogging) last season’s whopping 50 new anime shows. Your reward: a helpful guide to yet another wave of new and returning anime shows and movies coming to your favorite 2D streaming service.Read more
This Wacky Magical Girl Anime Is Studio Trigger-Coded To Perfection
4.5.2023
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The Future of Web3 Animation
13.4.2023
In a CoinDesk interview, Colin Brady, Chief Creative Officer at AMGI Studios, talks about how Web3 and AI will change movie-making, and why big studios fail to adopt new technologies
Mastering Theatre.js Animations: Learn to Create Dynamic Visuals
30.3.2023
Learn how to code stunning animations with Theatre.js in this beginner-friendly tutorial
Your Spring 2023 Anime Guide: What To Watch And Where It's Streaming
22.3.2023
The spring anime season is jammed packed with 50 more shows for your to watch and backlog. Read more
Please Stop Taking Lewd Photos At Studio Ghibli's Theme Park, Authorities Ask
14.3.2023
Ghibli Park, a large theme park dedicated wholly to the works of Japanese animation giants Studio Ghibli, opened late last year. And it hasn’t taken long for people to start being weirdos with some of the statues found at the park, prompting calls from local authorities to please stop.Read more
That ‘AI-Generated’ Anime Is A Slap In The Face To Pro Animators
3.3.2023
Recently, “AI” machine-learning technologies have been creeping their way into artistic fields in both entertaining and harmful ways. While some AI content creators are just making videos for harmless fun, others, like the creators of a recent AI-generated anime short, wrongfully believe they’ve...
Sony and Astar Network Launch Web3 Incubation Program for NFT and DAO-Focused Projects
19.2.2023
On Feb. 17, 2023, Tokyo-based Sony Network Communications announced that it is co-hosting a Web3 incubation program with the multichain smart contract platform Astar Network. The program has started accepting applications, and Sony and Astar will jointly mentor Web3 projects “focused on...
Moving Backgrounds
9.2.2023
We often think of background images as texture or something that provides contrast for legible content — in other words, not really content. If it was content, you’d probably reach for an <img> anyway, accessibility and whatnot.
But there are …
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Netflix’s AI Anime Gets Roasted For Crediting Artist As ‘Human’
1.2.2023
The anime community has been rife with controversy over AI-generated images. Today, Netflix joined the hot new trend of being ratioed online for terrible AI takes. The streaming platform not only produced a commercial project with AI, it tried to justify doing so by citing the “labor shortage”...
Animating CSS Grid (How To + Examples)
25.1.2023
I’m pleased to shine a light on the fact that the CSS grid-template-rows and grid-template-columns properties are now animatable in all major web browsers! Well, CSS Grid has technically supported animations for a long time, as it’s baked right …
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Your Winter 2023 Anime Guide: What To Watch And Where It's Streaming
16.12.2022
Oh, you thought you were free of Kotaku-themed anime slideshows? Nah, fam, you’re still trapped in the weeb mines with me. But hark, there be light at the end of this dakimakura-infested tunnel. Winter is coming, and with it are even more anime for your viewing pleasure.Read more