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CultureKotaku Game DiaryEverything I Did While Waiting For The Rain To Stop In Breath Of The Wild
I recently started a new game in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild after I took my Switch to my sister’s house and my nephews deleted my save. I’d played a few hours of the game last year but never picked it up again. This time, it’s totally sucked me in, and I…
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CultureThe Week In Games: Jason Returns, Again
You can never really escape Jason Voorhees. The masked slasher from The Friday The 13th films is returning again this week. A new edition of The Friday The 13th game is heading to the Nintendo Switch. I wonder if in 20 or 30 years people will still be making and watching Jason films. How many…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 12, 2019 -
UncategorizedAn improved version of System Shock 2 is in the works. Nightdive Studios, which is currently working on remastering the first System Shock, announced it’s also working on System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition during a Twitch stream last night celebrating the game’s 20th anniversary
By Ethan Gach Published August 12, 2019 -
CultureFinally, A Nintendo 64 That Can Breathe Fire
This modded Nintendo 64 looks more like a botched entry for Robot Wars than a nice retro gaming console for people to gather around and play classics like Banjo-Kazooie. But it still works as a console—flamethrowers and all. It was spotted by Attract Mode and created by retro gaming YouTuber BitHead1000 He built a heavy-duty…
By Ethan Gach Published August 12, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Never | Artist: Orbital | Album: Wonky
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2019 -
Kotaku EastWatch A Dude Make Dragon Ball‘s Goku From Wood
Workshop Au Lac Wood Art does highly-detailed, traditional wood carvings in its native Vietnam. Instead of watching artisans carve a Buddhist deity, let’s watch one make a Goku! But first, take a moment to appreciate the artisan’s skills and dedication: Incredible, no? Below, those skills are brought to bear in creating this Goku wood carving.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2019 -
UncategorizedMan Threatens Square Enix With A Kyoto Animation Repeat, Gets Arrested
Forty-year-old Kenichi Hiratsuka has been arrested after allegedly sending a threatening message to Square Enix. Fuji Network News reports that the message was sent via Square Enix’s inquiry page. “Gimme my money back for your shitty game,” read the message. “Want me to do a repeat of Kyoto Animation?” In July, a suspected arsonist allegedly…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2019 -
UncategorizedFortnite’s Teenage World Champ Swatted Live On Stream
Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, the newly-crowned 16 year-old Fortnite World Cup solo champion, was playing the game in a stream last night when his home was “swatted” Because he streaming live on Twitch, we’ve got video recorded at the time the cops arrive, and in the middle of a game we can hear as he’s interrupted…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2019 -
CultureThe Kids Are Alright
Darren Bartley is a concept artist based in the UK working in the video game business. Below you’ll see a ton of art from Tribal, an original IP Bartley has been dreaming up in his spare time. You can see more of Bartley’s stuff at his ArtStation page
By Luke Plunkett Published August 11, 2019 -
UncategorizedNinja Understandably Upset That His Old Twitch Channel Was Promoting A Porn Stream [Update]
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who recently left his 14 million-follower Twitch account behind to go and stream on rival platform Mixer, has issued a statement labelled “disgusted and so sorry” today after that now-dormant account—which he no longer operates—was promoting streams from other users, including one broadcasting pornography. Ninja obviously has no control over that Twitch…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 11, 2019 -
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UncategorizedCooking Mama Has Gone Vegetarian
There’s a new Cooking Mama game coming to the Nintendo Switch via publishers Planet Digital Partners, pitched as a reboot for the series, and while the announcement was centred around some bizarre blockchain news, the most interesting part is that there’s now a new vegetarian mode to go alongside regular recipes that include meat. “New…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 11, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Comfort Eagle | Artist: Cake | Album: Comfort Eagle
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 11, 2019 -
CultureSteam Workshop Content Must Now Go Through An Approval Process
Valve has quietly changed the way the Steam Workshop handles new content and updates to existing content. Maps, weapons and other user-created items will now need to go through moderation and get approved before they can be downloaded by other players. This was first spotted on the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive subreddit by PCGN. User TanookiSuit3…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 11, 2019 -
UncategorizedGetting The Highest Score Possible In Mario Maker 2 Is Harder Than You Might Expect
If I asked you what is the highest possible score achievable in Super Mario Maker 2, you would assume 999,999,990. That’s usually how video games work. And technically you would be right. But actually reaching that perfect high score is basically impossible through normal gameplay, due to the limited amount of time players have in…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 11, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Danny Trejo
Did you see the recent news about how Danny Trejo saw a car crash and jumped into action, saving a young child and then taking care of that kid until the scene was safe?That dude is cool. He should be in more video games! So… Your challenge this week: Put Danny Trejo in video games!…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 11, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe GTA San Andreas Mission That’s So Easy, There’s No Way To Fail It
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is filled with some famously annoying and difficult missions. Everyone knows of the infamous mission where the player is tasked with following a train while riding a dirtbike. Or the extremely hard Zero RC missions, which were so bad and challenging that Rockstar actually changed them in later versions of…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 11, 2019