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PC Gamers Pick Their Top 10 Mods of 2014
One of the biggest PC game modding sites, Mod DB, has been running their annual Mod of the Year competition throughout the month, inviting their members to nominate and vote for their favorite mods. Following the nomination process in early December, which resulted in the creation of a Top 100 list, Mod DB announced the…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace: The Ani-TAY Review • Kingdom Hearts: The TAY Review • Dex Reviews Space Yuri, School, and More • Re: Metroid Other M TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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Manhattan’s Sony Tower, slightly modified, in Minecraft form. Built by Tiresh of Planet Minecraft, it’s part of a larger, unreleased city map called The Capitol, which should look damn great when it’s done, judging by Tiresh’s other builds. Hi-res shots, interior shots, and ingame shots below, map download here It looks okay ingame, though it…
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A Song about Stupid Deaths in DayZ
Oh hey, time to spend another few days trying to get this tune out of my head. Or weeks. Yeah, weeks. You might remember “Dumb Ways to Die,” the morbidly cute and catchy internet-sensation-slash-song-slash-PSA that made its rounds online in late 2012. This here is the DayZ version, written and animated by YouTuber Sam Waterfall,…
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One GTA V Player’s Absurdly Cool Plane Stunts
Most of these stunts are legit on-the-edge-of-your-seat harrowing, but the payoff is always worth it. The clip comes from one half of the YouTuber duo Venus & Nightmare—Nightmare, specifically—who recently shared an awesome three-minute montage of him doing various stunts with various planes. It’s really great. You might have noticed the title, Feather II. The…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Rockmandash Reviews: Durarara!! [Anime] • TAY Explores Comics: Yuusha Gojo Kumai Kouryuugata Keijiban • Thoughts on The Interview • Telltale and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Port TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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Painting Toon Link from start to finish, by redditor paosquared, made as a gift for a friend and then shared on r/zelda. paosquared documents the process in the imgur album embedded below, where you can also find hi-res photos of each stage. Toon Link watercolor + ink process! [r/zelda] Dayshot is an image-based feature that…
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Custom CryEngine 3 Environments Are The Best
CryEngine’s various iterations are great for 3D art, as we’ve seen time and time again. And by god, this one’s just beautiful. The map was created by environment artist Joakim Stigsson, who’s worked on Crysis 3 and the upcoming Homefront game. It contains a mountain lodge and its surroundings, rendered, of course, in stunning detail.…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: TAY Post-Opening Gift Showing • Just In Time For Christmas, My Latest Nendoroid Looks Down On Me [Kill La Kill Satsuki Kiryuin Nendoroid] • My Game Of The Year Did Not Come Out This Year • Pre-Cult: Pixel Piracy TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow…
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This is what happens when a talented Minecraft player Google image searches “modern house” and rebuilds what he finds in-game. I’d say redditor ELWORRIER did a darn good job. Look below for the full comparison pic, and an imgur album filled with more exterior and interior shots. [Copied] Modern House [r/minecraft] Dayshot is an image-based…
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Holiday Greetings from 7 Game Developers
’tis the season, and Kickstarter’s game dev community is making sure none of us forget it. In the past weeks, they’ve been sending out holiday wishes with their project updates, sometimes including some rather nice art. The GIF up top was shared today by Discord Games, creators of the metroidvania Chasm. And here’s a greeting…
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This single piece of concept art is all the info we have so far on Harebrained Schemes’ next Shadowrun Returns campaign, which is hitting Kickstarter next month Dragonfall was a huge improvement over the original game/campaign, so it should be interesting to see what they’ll come up with next. A Preview of Our New Setting:…
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Student Project Looks Like it Came Straight From a Big-Budget Game
It reminds me a lot of the Tomb Raider reboot, actually. The atmosphere is spot on. This is another project from Montreal’s NAD—the National Animation and Design Center—completed in fourteen weeks by a group of seven students, using Unreal Engine 4. It’s called “Trailed,” and it’s about a woman trying to survive in what appears…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-: The TAY Review • Next Stop: New Hyrule • Pre-Cult: GTA San Andreas HD • TAY Explores Comics: The Voynich Hotel • topgearFTW’s Top 5 Anime of 2014 • Zeus, The Almighty’s Top Ten [Games] of 2014 • Psycho-Pass 2: the Ani-TAY Review…
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The Scout tries to break through the fourth wall in redditor Karhunperse’s Source Filmmaker photoshop, aptly named “4th Wall.” It might also be a reference to the thematically similar Saxxy Award-winning short, Animation vs. Animator, mentioned by Karhunperse in the post’s comments. Full pic below. 4th Wall [r/sfm] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…
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Kotaku East
Sony Celebrates Yakuza Zero with Tattooed PS4s
The new Yakuza game will be out in Japan in Spring, and it looks like Sony will be releasing matching PS4s around the same time. The consoles will cost ¥41,980 ($350), coming in two editions, named after Yakuza Zero’s two protagonists. In addition to that, each edition will be available in both Glacial White and…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Star-Lord in Speed Painting Form! 2014 Finale! • Project Hydra – Corpse Party: Tortured Souls Episode 4 • Five things I didn’t like about Dragon Age Inquisition • TAY’s Top 10 Games of 2014 TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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Gotta love me some meta pixel art. Redditor jiraph52 “made a giant Hotbar” in Minecraft. Not much else to say, is there? You can find more closeups in the embedded Imgur album below. I made a giant Hotbar. [r/minecraft] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related…
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