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The Origins of BioShock’s Vintage Art

We all know the Circus of Values clown. We’ve all bought ammo, EVE hypos and health kits “from him” dozens of times. But did you know that he originally sold melons? While the fact that some of the BioShock series’ period artwork appears to have been inspired by real-world vintage advertisements was already known (shown…

Lordran, The Setting of Dark Souls, Almost Entirely Redrawn

From Firelink Shrine, where you first set foot in Lordran upon your arrival from the Asylum, to Blighttown and the Demon Ruins, it’s all there. Well, almost all there. The image was created by redditor tettix over the course of about three months, who shared it recently in the r/darksouls subreddit. It’s incomplete and may…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: One Less Resident • Game of the Week—Not Quite D&D, but Sort Of [Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance] • The Eccentric Family: The Ani-TAY Review • This is How Much We 3D • Dying Light Impressions • Spacemon – A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 5 TAY…

Link, Sephiroth and The Avengers, Turned into Fearsome Robots

Oh man, I feel sorry for whoever has to face these in a fight. The robots were drawn by ChasingArtwork of DeviantArt, who appears to have a thing for redesigning popular characters as badass bots, with Link being the most recent one to receive the treatment. There’s a selection of them below—visit CA’s DeviantArt gallery…

Starbound’s big Winter Update, titled Upbeat Giraffe, went live on Steam overnight. Head over here for the full list of changes and additions, which is rather long—understandable, considering they worked on this patch for nearly a year.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Archer! In Speed Painting Form! • Tears to Tiara 2Impressions: Crouching TRPG, Hidden VN • Elihu’s Four in February 2015: Prologue • Ani-TAY’s OP/ED A Day Initiative – Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 • Spacemon – A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 4 TAY Classic—TAY…

When Kerbal Space Program Meets Skyrim

But what does it take to create a robot dragon in Kerbal Space Program, a game centered around building space rockets? Patience, time, and lots of trial and error, apparently The dragon is featured in the second episode of Viking Space Program, a KSP comedy video series by redditor Space_Scumbag. And what’s in the first…

I guess when your game has lynx kittens, it makes sense to call your new trailer “Cuteness in Shelter 2.” Might and Delight’s follow-up to their first adventure-survival game, this time starring a lynx mom and her four kittens, is currently set to arrive on PC in February. Trailer’s above, enjoy.

Nintendo Still Profitable, Has Sold 50 Million 3DS Consoles to Date

Nintendo’s financial results for the October-December 2014 quarter are in, and they’re showing numbers reminiscent of the the ones we saw last time, which is good. The company reports an operating income of 31.8 billion yen (~$270 million) for this quarter, which puts their running total for the financial year at an operating profit of…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why It Took Final Fantasy VI to Show Me Life Was Worth Living • Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Ledyba, Ledian, Spinarak • Koda’s Top 10 Winter Anime Openings • Retrohunter’s 5 most anticipated 2015 games • What Fire Emblem: Awakening taught me about life TAY…

Even More Disney Characters Go To College

DeviantArt’s Hyung86 has been hard at work on his Disney University series which, as the name implies, depicts Disney characters as members of a real-world university—whether they were originally human or not There’s been a lot of new additions to the DU family since our last look, so let’s jump right in. Don’t forget to…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why the HoloLens is a greater thing than you might think • A New Sub-genre of Music Is Growing in Japan • Under the Dog Loses Producers • A Visual Novel Fan’s Opinion on Eroge • Spacemon – A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 1, Chapter…

World Shark? World Shark. It was built by Planet Minecraft’s Zeckou, who calls it a live coral reef, which explains the little floating fish and jellyfish. It’s also deceptively big. Check below for the hi-res version of the three pics and the obligatory in-game shots, and click here for the world download As I said,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: What Zelda Items would improve other video games? • Protonstorm’s Fall 2014 Anime Music Awards • Game of the Week—The Pointed Finger of Justice [Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney] • We Need To Talk About Yanmega TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Oh Hey, a Giant Monster in Starbound

While the game already had giant monsters in the form of summonable bosses, this is an early test for “a huge monster generator”—yes, randomly generated giant monsters. That should make for some exciting exploration if or when it gets implemented. Tiy, lead dev for the currently-still-in-early-access space sandbox game, tweeted out the animation recently, mentioning…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: A Beginner’s Guide to Goose house • Giant Monster Diaries: Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Demo Impressions • Three Outlaw Samurai [Film Review] • Why The End of Club Nintendo Means A Unified ID System • Pokémon One a Day Series Two: Hoothoot, Noctowl TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…

Alice In Wonderland-Based Minecraft Build is Kinda Magnificent

It also doesn’t have a world download, which is criminal. Instead, it has a rather well-put-together video. The map was built by PlanetMinecrafter RubicCubeMan. If you look at his submissions page, none of his builds have a download attached, except for that one unicorn, which is a darn shame seeing how good this guy’s building…

The Limited Edition Bloodborne PS4 is a tad Uninspired

After a recent delay, Darksoulslike Bloodborne will be coming out on March 26 in Japan—along with this pair of PS4 models which, uh, basically have a slight variation of the box art on them. But hey, they at least include the game. The Limited Bloodborne PS4 comes in two flavors—Jet Black: And Glacier White: It’s…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Saints Row IV: Gat Out of Hell: The TAY Review • Worst Anime Jobs: Mecha Pilot • Rockmandash Reviews: Anime Backlog Review Gauntlet #1 • Fabulous Fyst’s Trainime Winter Season Impressions Part 3 • A Whole New World: Stand-out Game Settings TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…

3D Artist is Really Into Half-Life

Evidence number one: a highly detailed (and awesome) Unreal Development Kit recreation of Dr. Kleiner’s Lab from Half-Life 2 Level designer/environment artist Charlie Pharis started by painting over a screenshot of the original HL2 location to create a concept: Then, after several weeks of work, he came up with the finished map: Exploring Pharis’ website…