András Neltz's posts

New Nintendo Direct incoming! The upcoming stream, which hits on Tuesday, April 8, at 6PM Eastern, will focus on Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS. Will they finally reveal Yoshi? We shall find out. Above is today's Smash Bros. picture of the day, featuring Isabelle from Animal Crossing. Read more

This is Popup Dungeon, a promising-looking, heavily customizable fantasy roguelike with a papercraft-esque aesthetic. It's currently trying to raise $80,000 on Kickstarter over a 45-day period, having already passed the $2,000 mark on its first day. Looks like it could turn into a real fun turn-based RPG!

Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Why Skyward Sword is The Best Zelda • Ignorance is Bliss: The Immersion Factor in Video Games • TPS versus FPS: The Battle of The Islands • Why is Innovation Not Selling Games? Read more

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, the first expansion to Blizzard's action-RPG, has sold 2.7 million copies on PC since its last week launch. According to Blizzard, the expansion's final boss has been slain 1.5 million times so far—a small number, considering you get to kill him over and over in Adventure Mode. Read more

Here's Pikachu conjuring a legit thunderstorm in the Wii U version of the next Super Smash Bros. As director Masahiro Sakurai put it, "Foes can dodge, of course, so the attack won't hit consistently, but when it does, it sure feels good!" Looking at the badass visuals, I can certainly believe that. Read more

"Free-to-play is the way that gamers should want their MMOs to be. If we don't do a really good job, we don't make a dime... it's entirely our responsibility to make sure you're entertained." Everquest Next director David Georgeson explains to IGN why he considers free-to-play superior to other, pay-up-front models. Read more

Daylight, the procedurally generated horror game, has a new release date—April 29. The date was revealed in the above trailer, released by Atlus yesterday. Hope that phone's got one of those extended batteries. In any case, nota bene, horror fans: Daylight, PS4, PC, April 29.

Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Ani-TAY: Golden Time Review and Discussion • Games: A medium for thinking outside the box • Molten-Hot Magmar! Pokemon One a Day! • On: What is a Game • Hearthstone: The TAY Review Read more

I like modern houses in Minecraft. They give a good contrast to the fantasy setting, and motivate me to build something more complex than the tried and true crappy cubical wooden plank hut. The simple yet pleasant home above, by redditor KiltedCobra, is a prime example. Check out the Imgur album for more screenshots. Read more

The 3DS is getting a new Tales of the World RPG in Japan, reports Weekly Shonen Jump (via ANN). The game, called Tales of the World: Reve Unitia, will star several characters from past Tales games, and takes place on Revaria, "a dream world linking the Tales franchise together." Read more

"[Virtual Reality] is a technology that I think will completely change the world. I think it's going to be a bigger phenomenon than smartphones." Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney to Polygon, in an interview about the future of VR, the Unreal Engine, and game development in general. Read it in its entirety here. Read more

Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Digital: A Love Story - An Appraisal of The Messiah • The Pilot's Love Song: The Ani-TAY Review • Gamer Logic: Why walk when I can... • Loving and Hating the Same Story: The Objective and Subjective • Pupa: The Ani-TAY Review Read more

This spectacular, Kirby-branded Game Boy Color would have been treasured by any self-respecting gamer of the nineties. The artist behind the custom handheld is French illustrator Oskunk—you can find more photos of his projects over at his blog. Read more

Caffeine's latest teaser brings us even more ghostly abandoned spaceship-porn, and it's looking pretty great. The first-person sci-fi horror game recently hit IndieGoGo, where its creator is asking for $80,000 to finish it in time for a 2015 release on PC.

Remember Gero Blaster, the new frog-platformer from Cave Story's creator? It's now called Kero Blaster, and it's coming out on PC and iOS on May 11. There's a nice pixelly trailer for you above, in case you wanna have a closer look.

Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Kill la Kill: The Ani-TAY Review • Escaping Reality: Confessions of a Ragnarok Online Ex-Player • A Comprehensive Look at the DLC of Bioshock Infinite • The Four Kinds of Anime Adaptations • Defining the Divide: How Price Hampers Popular Games Criticism Read more