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The Coolest Japanese Video Games With Over The Top Action
You don’t need to worry about Japanese developers when it comes to creating an insane, over-the-top frenzy on the screen. It’s in their veins. Just think about the superb 60 frames per sec action in Bayonetta or having twelve characters on the screen all at once in Guardian Heroes (thank you Sega Saturn), few things…
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The Evolution Of DC Comics’ Characters In Video Games
Injustice: Gods Among Us, the latest fighting game based on the DC Universe characters, just hit the shelves today in North America. This gave us a great opportunity to ride back in time and see DC Comics characters featured in video games evolve from large dull pixels to realistic entities. Since these games are almost…
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The Real Legend of Zelda Gale Boomerang Flies Much Further
You could probably deal more damage with this replica of the Gale Boomerang from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess than the one in the game, which is more a tool to cut ropes and put out fires than weapon. YouTube user Victor Poulin is really into making boomerang replicas, and he’s got a really…
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The Most Random Looking Fighting Games
The success of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, not to mention all the SNK titles, spawned a crazy amount of abominations. Developers certainly took their inspiration in…interesting directions. Adding some really cool, unique Japanese arcade fighters, we already have a nice list of weird looking fighting games. Dark Edge Dark Edge was Sega’s first attempt…
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Stunning Minecraft Video Shows All The Castles of Westeros
The creative minds behind the Westeroscraft community —the same guys who made this insane replica of King’s Landing— made their next move to recreate the whole world of Westeros from Game of Thrones in Minecraft After putting up galleries and videos of the main cities, they have released this timelapse video showing every single fort…
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The Most Amazing Video Game Continue Screens
The continue countdown screen was introduced to arcades in the 80s. It was a simple and effective way of getting players to fork over more money. When you fail, the screen comes up for a limited time with a countdown to insert additional coins or press a button. Most of these games’ continue screens were…
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Everything on The USS Enterprise Can Be Explored In This Stunning Minecraft Replica
With its own custom-made texture pack, this 1:6 Minecraft replica of the USS Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation is simply amazing. It looks absolutely ready for a tour of duty outside Federation territory. Even more impressive is the fact that creator, Zinnsee had to battle mobs, stave off hunger and craft everything he…
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The Goofiest Moments Mass Effect, Now In Motion
The Hanars and the Batarians are not the weirdest things people have seen in the Mass Effect series. Take these goofy-looking Shepard creatures, for instance. Thanks to the game’s deep character customization, people have made some downright freaky Commanders. Let’s laugh at these together. (It might take the images a few second to load.) The…
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EsportsA Rare Look at the Blazing-Fast Hands of a StarCraft II Champion
Korean players excel at StarCraft, putting enormous effort into improving their game. We see the results of those efforts in game replays, but rarely do we get to peek over the shoulder of one of the world’s top players as their supernatural hands do horrible things to their opposition. This is Korean pro gamer StarTale_Sound,…
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Watch Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Recut Into a Really Long Feature Film
Andy Gilleandnears completion of his planto recut every main Assassin’s Creed gameas a full-length movie. Now he works his magic with Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, weaving together cutscenes and gameplay into a three hour epic that someone with no Assassin’s Creed experience could understand. That just leaves Assassin’s Creed III, at least until Black Flag comes…
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Kotaku East
The Darkest Cyberpunk Worlds In Japanese Video Games
Cyberpunk was a big deal in the 80s and in the 90s. Writers like Philip K. Dick and William Gibson, movies like Blade Runner, and anime such as Akira heavily influenced video games. The result was games with a dark, dystopian future, high technology and low life. We’ve gathered Japanese games from this era to…
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The Most Iconic Moments of the Mass Effect Trilogy
The Mass Effect series is a true space opera full of interstellar battles, irreversible decisions, sprawling story-lines and so, so many defining moments. The events of the trilogy could fill twice as many games and novels as there already are. The story of Commander Shepard is over, which creates a good opportunity to collect—in no…
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Iron Man 3 Comes Out Next Month. You Can Play Iron Man IV Right Now.
Aspreviously proven, the huge environment of Grand Theft Auto IV’s Liberty City is a perfect playground for billionaire industrialist Tony Stark. Now GTA modder supreme H1Vltg3 teams with JulioNIB to create the ultimate Iron Man mod, complete with multiple suits of armor, a custom interface, and the ability to play as Stan “The Man” Lee,…
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The Beautiful Alien Worlds of Mass Effect
Three games and a truckload of books, comics and supporting material supplied the Mass Effect universe with heaps of amazing-looking alien planets, moons and space stations. Over the course of the trilogy, we visited planet-sized cities, tropical beaches, and space-stations the size of moons. Some visits were short, others lengthy, but each place we visited…
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The Drunken Dovahbear Of Skyrim Still Can’t Find Its Peace
After drinking too much honey mead, Skyrim‘s most ambitious bear has to rocket jump (with a dragon shout, obviously) through a mountain of enemies to earn his rest in the third part of the superb Dovahbear animation series by Bowz The previous parts are awesome as well, and there’s even a mod out there based…
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The Weirdest And Most ExcitingTetris Look-Alikes
The original Tetris, released in 1984, is one of the most well-known and played games in the world. But for those who’ve played the game to death and moved on to a wider variety of games, it could feel like Tetris is missing that extra love it needs to be exciting again. Here we have…
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EsportsBlizzard’s Boss Shows Everyone How To Watch A Starcraft Tournament Properly
This awkward yet funny moment happened during yesterday’s stream of the Starcraft II WCS series in South Korea, showing Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime making himself at home (well, technically he is). Front row, some pizza and the best pros in front of you—that’s the way to do it. Blizzard just announced its plans for a…
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The Most Deserted, Abandoned Places In Video Games
You don’t necessarily need noisy, crowded cities to make a section of a game exciting. Uninhabited wastelands, post-apocalyptic worlds, a sea of sand dunes, vast grasslands… These can all be strikingly beautiful places, and capable of telling enticing stories. We’ve gathered some choice games below to show how well abandoned places can set the general…
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The Rules of Grand Theft Auto Box Art
Rockstar not only recreated the 2D universe of the previous games in 3D, but the developers also came up with a new standard for the North American box art. For each title after Grand Theft Auto III, the cover art would focus on characters and various staples from the game. The mosaic-like designs consistently portray…
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Mega Man X‘s Spark Mandrill Theme, In An Amazing A Capella
The spectacularly-bearded Smooth McGroove has an impressive knack for rearranging well-known video game themes in a capella, using only his voice and his cat. He picked a really good one in his latest video, the Spark Mandrill theme from Mega Man X You gotta love this guy’s taste in video game music. His YouTube channel…
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