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CultureMy New Favourite Thing: 100 Cars Exploding In GTA V
Put explosions and decent physics in a game and you can be sure people will spend a lot of time making some very impressive things blow up. In this case, over 100 cars at a time, in what we can call a fiery display of metal-and-upholstery fireworks. If you’re wondering how it was done, creator…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 7, 2013 -
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The Week in Games: Two Souls, Two Pokémons
This week’s big news is Beyond: Two Souls, the PS3 exclusive from Quantic Dream, on Tuesday, and Pokémon X and Pokémon Yon Saturday. Not interested in those? Some collections and GOTY editions—including Farming Simulator 2013 Titanium Edition!—round out the releases. Monday • Sparkling Amber (PC) Tuesday • Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition (360,…
By Dealzon Published October 6, 2013 -
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Sunday Comics: Extreme Makeover
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The comics enlarge by clicking on the icon in the upper-left corner. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published Oct. 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Sept. 30. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins…
By Owen Good Published October 6, 2013 -
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This Week in the Business: Doomed to Repeat History?
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Industry veterans will remember the crash of 1983 … Today, the industry runs a similar risk.”—Analyst report from Superdata, on the data indicating consumers are resistant to adding more hardware to their living rooms QUOTE | “I know at least a…
By Steve Peterson Published October 5, 2013 -
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Assassin’s Creed IV Isn’t All Rum & Beaches. There’s…Montreal, Too.
While it’s easy to get carried away and think you’ll be spending your entire Assassin’s Creed IV experience walking planks and punching sharks, remember: there’ll be near-future shenanigans going on as well. And going by this art, looks like it’ll be taking place in Montreal. Which is convenient, since that’s where the main studio making…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2013 -
CultureWatch This Video About Robots Shooting Each Other, Right Now
This is Keloid. It’s not a movie. It’s not a trailer. It’s not even a short. It’s just a “spec” project, a mock trailer made to let those involved flex their creative muscles and come up with their vision of a future where robots fight wars, and those robots look fantastic If you’re wondering as…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2013 -
CultureWalter White’s Secret History Of Nerd Acting
OK, so it’s not that secret, but in this, a week where Bryan Cranston’s final performance as Walter White has been the talk of the internet, it’s as good a time as any to look back on a time when he was…doing voice-over work for anime. Before Breaking Bad, before Malcolm in the Middle and…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2013 -
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The Space People Of The Future Have Rad Spacesuits
The last we saw of Patryk Olejniczak, he was making Mass Effect fan art so good he won himself a job at BioWare. Today, though, we’re looking at two very different examples of his work: Game of Thrones fan art and insanely-detailed spacesuits. You can see more of Patryk’s work at his personal site and…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 2, 2013 -
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Not All Game Art Has To Feature Dragons, Mechs And/Or Wastelands
Kyrie is a Korean illustrator who freelances mostly for the games industry. Her work as a character designer is a welcome change from the armoured men, dragons, thick necks and post-apocalyptic wastelands you normally see around here. You can see more of her work at her CGHub and DeviantArt pages. To see the larger pics…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 2, 2013 -
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These Aren’t Video Game Levels. They’re Real Places.
Video game levels may often seem like absurd places. Who’d build a walkway there? Why didn’t anyone clean this up? Yet as with most things in life, truth is often just as strange as fiction. This gallery on Bored Panda is called “31 Haunting Images of Abandoned Places That Will Give You Goose Bumps”, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2013 -
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Dinosaur + Human Romance Novels Are A Real Thing. Huh.
A dinosaur + dinosaur romance novel would be something awesome. Tales of meeting over a leafy tree, the thrill of the hunt (for food), the joy of…sitting on eggs. I’m getting steamy just thinking about it. Sadly – or not, depending on your tastes – these dinosaur romance novels are not about that. They’re about…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2013 -
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How Disney Got All Its Characters Looking The Same
Regardless of what you think of the game, Disney Infinity will always be remembered for one big achievement: it’s managed to take a ton of Disney movies, all with their own signature visual style, and wrangle them all into the single project, where they’re looking mostly identical. One of the people responsible for this is…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2013 -
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The Week in Games: It’s Fannnn-tastic
The week’s big console launches are NBA 2K14, also arriving for PC, on Tuesday followed by the physical HD release of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on Wii U on Friday. Tuesday • NBA 2K14 (360, PS3, PC) • Flashback (PC) • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Trilogy Edition (360) • Assassin’s Creed Ezio…
By Dealzon Published September 29, 2013 -
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Sunday Comics: Inferior Decoration
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by you, our readership. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Sept. 23. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Sept. 23. Read more of Penny Arcade Brawl In The Family by Matthew Taranto. Published Sept.…
By Owen Good Published September 29, 2013
