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With Censorship This Inane, Criminal Girls Should Have Stayed In Japan
Somewhere beyond this eerily silent, pink-mist clogged screenshot is the “motivation” mini-game from the unabashedly risque Japanese game Criminal Girls. Stripping the sound and obscuring the action made it okay for Western release—only no it didn’t. It’s kind of amazing the 2010 PSP game from developer Imageepoch made it to North America in any form,…
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How Mortal Kombat X Brings Players Together While Tearing Them Apart
While the fighting is always nice, my favorite elements of modern Mortal Kombat games are the extra bits—challenges, unlockables, and side activities outside of the core one-on-one battles. That’s why I’m excited about Mortal Kombat X‘s Faction War meta game. When players begin their journey in Mortal Kombat X this coming April, they’ll choose from…
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The Latest Transformers Game Had Me Until I Spent $20 On Nothing
Forming a team of four Transformers characters from throughout franchise history and participating in online turn-based battles? Transformers: Battle Tactics had me written all over it. Then I dropped $20 on… well, nothing much. The core game behind DeNA’s Transformers: Battle Tactics, available now for free on iOS and Android, is pretty sweet. Create a…
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Live-Action Naruto Play Saved The Best Cast Pictures For Last
No live-action stage spectacle covering the first story arc of the Naruto manga series would be complete without the brave boys and girls of Team Kurenai and Team Asuma. Now where’s Akamaru? Live Spectacle Naruto launches next month in Japan, gathering the most attractive actors the country has to offer and transforming them into top-tier…
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The Saturday Stream Plays Grow Home, A Wondrous Robot Adventure (Done!)
If it’s worth your time, it’s certainly worth mine. Today the Saturday Stream takes a flight of fancy with Ubisoft’s Botanical Ultility Droid, the kindest BUD of them all. An experimental platformer with clunky controls and strange alien physics, Grow Home is nothing short of delightful. It’s the exact opposite of dark and gritty, in…
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The Final Disney Infinity 2.0 Characters Are Digital-Only, Because Tron
With tons of props from both movies in the series already in the Toy Box, it’s about time Disney Infinity 2.0 added a couple characters from Tron, and even if they’re from Tron: Legacy. Call me an old man who’s behind the times, but I will always prefer original Flynn, Tron and Sark to the…
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Reviews
Kingston HyperX Cloud II Gaming Headset: The Kotaku Review
Last year the folks at memory and storage company Kingston Technologies showed the world theyknew a thing or two about putting together a good gaming headset. Now they’re back with the HyperX Cloud II, adding virtual 7.1 surround sound to an already successful piece of hardware. What It Is The HyperX Cloud II gaming headset…
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LEGO Doctor Who Is Officially A Real Thing
Back in November I told you we were dangerously close to getting an official LEGO set based on the adventures of everyone’s favorite Time Lord. Today LEGO Ideas made it official—we’re getting an official Doctor Who set, courtesy of Andy Clark of Firaxis Games. LEGO’s Ideas program is a place for builders to submit their…
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Kate Upton Is Shilling A Terrible Game
During last night’s Super Bowl, millions watched as Kate Upton stepped out of a bathtub, donned battle armor and escaped a crumbling stronghold on horseback. The game she’s advertising is nowhere near as exciting. The game is Game of War: Fire Age from Machine Zone, and thereported $40 million advertising campaign featuring the world famous…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: ‘Shop Kotaku
Look at us. We’re just asking for it. Last week the largest gathering of Kotaku staff ever assembled in New York City to, among other things, pose for this picture. Standing from left to right we have Nathan, Evan, Patricia, Keza, Luke, Brian Posehn, Gergo, Chris, Kirk and Yannick. Seated from left to right are…
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Culture
The Week In Games: GameBob ThronePants
What I am trying to say here is I really wanted to use a screenshot from the second episode of Telltale’s Game of Thrones series here, but all I could find was SpongeBob HeroPants. We do what we can. We’ve got a relatively quiet seven days ahead of us, Game of Thrones aside, with a…
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Can A Doom Marine Really Carry Nine Weapons? Mythbusters Finds Out.
Doom‘s space marine protagonists are some hearty fellows, carrying some 80 pounds of weapons, medkits and ammo boxes effortlessly while taking on demons from hell. In last night’s inaugural Mythbusters video game episode, Adam and Jamie build a real-life Doom level to see if it can be done. The first video game-centered episode in the…
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I’m Already Sick Of This Street Fighter V Stage
Top-tier Street Fighter rivals Daigo and GamerBee face-off in a Street Fighter V exhibition match during the Taipei Game Show, and I couldn’t be more bored. New background, please. We saw it during the teaser. We saw it in the reveal trailer. We saw it in thefirst exhibition match during the Capcom Cup finals last…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Behind Microsoft’s Holographic Wall: Winners!
After Microsoft showed us what Minecraft might look like enhanced by its futuristic Hololens technology, I asked our ‘shop-savvy readers to show us what would really be behind that shattered wall. They delivered. Big time. Wow, what a contest this was. So many entries. So many duplicate entries. Seems people enjoy The Shining, Attack on…
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Delve Into The Hidden Horrors Of The Universe… With Kittens
“Because there exists no method known to man, more terribly suited to expose the cosmic meaningless of existence than pairing the words of H.P. Lovecraft with seemingly delightful and charming pictures of adorable kittens” — H.P. Lovecat. Until this weekend I had never been known to have a favorite Tumblr — indeed I had only…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: With Divine Porpoise
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published January 30. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 26. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Stud-Free LEGO Enterprise Is Much Larger Than It Seems
It’s one thing to build a model of the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek with LEGO bricks. It’s another to build it so that none of those signature LEGO studs show. It took builder extrodinaire Chris Melby eight months and around 18,000 pieces to make this five foot-long masterpiece a reality. It takes a lot…
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That’s Certainly A Metal Gear Rising Looking Number Two [Update]
Appearing incredibly briefly in a Sony flavor reel shown during the Taipei Game Show, this is definitely the sort of two one might expect to find following the words “Metal Gear Rising.” While Metal Gear’s big boss Hideo Kojima didn’t mention a follow-up to the over-the-top crazy that was Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance during his…
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Bill Paxton Is Just The Best
After playing through several hours of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s Exo Zombies game mode, I’ve come to the following conclusion: Bill Paxton is pretty awesome. It all comes down to three little words. Okay, so he changed things up a bit. The essence of the quote remains. Game over indeed, Bill Paxton. Update: Now…
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How To Find Call Of Duty Exo Zombies‘ Musical Easter Egg
As with past installments of Call of Duty‘s co-op zombie slaughter downloadable content, the first episode of Advanced Warfare‘s Exo Zombies contains a hidden song. Unlike previous installments, this one’s a bit more classy. In case the famous John Charles Dollman illustration weren’t clue enough, the song we’re hunting for is Wagner’s “Ride of the…
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