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CultureTotal RecallWatch (Part Of) A Mario Anime That’s Been Lost For Almost 20 Years
While most of Mario’s adventures through 1980s animation have been preserved on YouTube, not everything has managed to find its way online. Like 1989’s Super Mario Traffic Safety, which for the first time we’re now able to watch (well, at least some of it). Produced by Toei as an instructional safety video for Japanese schoolkids,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2017 -
CultureBattlegrounds Player Pretends To Be An Army Man, Crushes It
In PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, squads live and die on effective communication and, when all else fails, gutsy bravado. There are worse things you can do, then, than pretend to be an over-the-top military commander. In a video posted over the weekend, StoneMountain64 dropped into a random matchmaking squad and immediately began acting like an absurdist pastiche…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 31, 2017 -
Culture
Lightning Strikes Once
Gabriel Beauvais is a character sculptor who has worked on movies like Edge of Tomorrow, Alien: Covenant, Fantastic Beasts and Jupiter Ascending You can see more of Gabriel’s work at his personal site. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2017 -
CultureCosplay
Incredible Lucio Cosplay Sounds As Good As It Looks
Here’s Neverending Dreamz with the best damn Lucio cosplay you’ve ever seen (or heard). That music you hear in the video below isn’t coming from the con; it’s coming from the gun, which is an 8-inch subwoofer with two 4-inch speakers on either side. It plays music from his phone, and both the gun and…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2017 -
CultureTotal RecallA Rare Video Tour Of Peak Sega
The Innoventions pavilion at Epcot is still around, but it’s a bit blergh in 2017. In 1994, though, it was the future, and a big part of that was getting to enjoy Sega in its prime. Which we can all do now, thanks to this video. It was shot by iretrogamer’s dad during a vacation…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2017 -
CultureToday is Memorial Day. I invite you to celebrate it however you see fit, which for me includes grilling up some fine meats and witnessing M3nt’s latest world record speedrun achieved earlier today in the original Lethal Weapon game for NES. 26:30 deserves a sax solo
By Ethan Gach Published May 29, 2017 -
CultureCosplay
How To Cosplay When Your Guns Are Banned
There was a potentially serious event at the Phoenix Comicon over the weekend that saw prop weapons banned from the showroom floor. Which would wreck your cosplay plans if, like these guys, you couldn’t improvise. Up top is Amorongand her husband thedocdorlooking great as D.Va and Soldier 76 from Overwatch. That cardboard might not look…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2017 -
CultureThe Art Of Blizzard’s Heroes Of The Storm
Blizzard’s MOBA throws all the company’s famous properties into the one game, which means the artists tasked with imagining Heroes of the Storm’s look got to have some fun smashing everything together. Below you’ll find a selection of art that went into the game’s production, from characters to skins to environments, along with links to…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2017 -
CultureCosplay
It Cosplay. Sweet Dreams.
Here’s Stooshwith something you don’t see every day: clown cosplay. Specifically, Pennywise from Stephen King’s It It’s the new Pennywise, not Tim Curry’s immortal version, which I’m kinda glad for, because the 1990 clown with this photography might have been a bit too much. We’ve featured Stoosh here before for his awesome, reimagined Mega Man…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2017 -
Culture
The Week In Games: Tokyo Vice
Tokyo 42, Star Trek: Bridge Crew (for real this time), and a bunch of other stuff comes out this week. As Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, it’s only fitting that release schedule starts winding down as well. The last few months still feel like a blur though, so I’ll be taking this…
By Ethan Gach Published May 28, 2017 -
CultureEverything You Wanted To Know About Super Mario 64‘s Surfaces
People have been playing Super Mario 64 for years but few have plumbed the depths of how it was constructed and the unique ways its world works the way speedrunners have. “Every surface in SM64 is made up of triangles,” writes YouTuber, speedrunner, and Mario 64 analyst Pannenkoek at the beginning of his latest video…
By Ethan Gach Published May 28, 2017 -
CultureSplitscreen
Podcast: Why A Couple Would Get Married At Taco Bell
Dan Ryckert, Giant Bomb editor and lover of terrible Mexican food, joins today’s Kotaku Splitscreen to tell us why he’s getting married at a Taco Bell. First, Kirk and I talk about YouTube copyright strikes (10:21), Red Dead Redemption 2‘s delay (21:10), and Overwatch’s one-year anniversary (27:19). Then we bring on Ryckert (31:58) to chat…
By Jason Schreier Published May 28, 2017 -
Culture
Sunday Comics: Cohesive Branding
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published May 26. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 22. Read more…
By Ethan Gach Published May 28, 2017 -
CultureRemnants Of Naezith Shows Gaming Needs More Grappling Hooks
Remnants of Naezith is a platformer that stars a grappling hook and wants to be the Super Meat Boy of twitch-based ledge swinging. There are dragon souls and remnants of them (as the title suggests), but in the end it’s all about being a futuristic Tarzan in a low-res world. “I loved playing Spider-Man 2…
By Ethan Gach Published May 27, 2017
