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It Took Five Years For One Man To Find The First NES Advertisement
A neat little piece of gaming history has been archived in full thanks to preservationist efforts. The original advertisement for the Nintendo Entertainment System has been catalogued after a five year search. Archivist Frank Cifaldi managed to get his hands on an issue of Consumer Electronics containing the advertisement after an extended search period. The…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 19, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Best Teams For Overwatch’s 3v3 Elimination Mode
Overwatch’s 3 vs. 3 Elimination mode, out since November, turns on its head everything we know about team composition. Heroes beloved in 6 vs. 6 Quick Play and Competitive modes, like Lucio and Torbjorn, are damn near useless in 3 vs. 3, where your priorities are a bit different. That makes composing a viable team…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 19, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe State Of The Wii U In 2016
The Wii U spent 2016 on life support, relying on a slow trickle of exclusives to keep owners from pulling the plug completely. As Nintendo prepares to release the Switch in March, the Wii U readies its dying breath. This is part of our 2016 “State of” series, a look at how the major consoles,…
By Mike Fahey Published December 19, 2016 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy XIV May Let You Pay To Catch Up
The biggest barrier for entry in Final Fantasy XIV, a tremendous video game, is that you have to catch up with the entire story to play each new expansion pack, which can take dozens and dozens of hours if you’re behind. Square Enix wants to change that. Over the weekend, FFXIV director Naoki Yoshida published…
By Jason Schreier Published December 19, 2016 -
UncategorizedHuge Skyrim Mod Enderal Gets A 20-Hour Expansion Pack
The massive total conversion mod for Skyrim, Enderal, is getting DLC that will add 10 to 20 hours of quest content. It’s scheduled to arrive sometime in 2017. Enderal is less a Skyrim mod and more a completely new game built upon the bones of Skyrim, taking place in its own world with its own…
By Gita Jackson Published December 19, 2016 - Uncategorized
Sources: WB Montreal Cancels Unannounced Suicide Squad Game, Shifts To Batman
Warner Bros. Montreal has cancelled their long-rumored Suicide Squad video game, sources tell Kotaku. The studio will now focus mainly on their other big project, a Batman game starring Damian Wayne Executives at Warner Bros. decided to axe the Suicide Squad game earlier this month following a long period of turbulence at WB Montreal, according…
By Jason Schreier Published December 19, 2016 - Culture
Final Fantasy XV, Now 30% Dreamier
Final Fantasy XV, a game about cute boys driving around, is now even cuter thanks to the animated treatment given to the game’s cast by artist David Adhinarya Lojaya. We featured David’s Final Fantasy art last year, but now that XV is out he’s returned to the series to draw the new game’s cast in…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 19, 2016 - Culture
What We Liked And Loved About Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Star Wars universe expanded in a whole new way with the release of Rogue One, the first in a series of live-action films exploring the bits between the main episodes. We assembled a ragtag band of Kotaku writers to talk about this very different sort of Star Wars movie. Set between the events of…
By Mike Fahey Published December 19, 2016 - Kotaku East
Here Is The Latest Yu-Gi-Oh Hairdo
Oh, and the protagonist sporting it, too. This weekend, a new Yu-Gi-Oh! anime was revealed. Know what that means? New Yu-Gi-Oh! anime hair. Because previous duelists have had amazing hair, with Yami Yugi, perhaps, having the most amazing. How do you top this? Easy, you don’t. Though, this was pretty great, too. The latest protagonist…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 19, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Internet Reacts To The Hollywood Naruto Movie Announcement
This should end well. Over the weekend, it was announced that Hollywood is moving forward with its live-action Naruto Michael Gracey first made his name in visual effects and is currently directing The Greatest Showman with Zac Efron and Hugh Jackman. As ANN points out, Lionsgate secured the film rights to Naruto back in 2015.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 19, 2016 -
CultureThe Art Of 1313, A Star Wars Game We Never Got To Play
Star Wars 1313 was a big-money game in development at Lucasarts, scrapped after the publisher’s demise and seemingly never to return. We may never get to play the game, but we can look at its concept art and dream. It gives us a real good look at the design and feel of Coruscant’s seedy underbelly.…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 18, 2016 -
UncategorizedAnd Here’s Wolfenstein 3D On A Game Boy
When you think about it, it’s amazing this didn’t pop up earlier. Swedish programmer and enthusiast Anders Granlund has been working on a little pet project: getting Wolfenstein 3D to work on a Game Boy Colour. There’s no way to actually just port a file of the game over, so he’s had to build his…
Alex Walker Published December 18, 2016 - CultureCosplay
Russia’s Cosplay Is Fantastic
Russia doesn’t just have some of the best cosplayers on the planet, but some of the best cosplay photographers as well. One of those is KIRA, someone whose photosI’ve featureda bit here recently, so I figured it was time for a showcase entirely of her work. You can see a lot more of KIRA’s photos…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 18, 2016 -
UncategorizedKoreans Are Building A Real Mech
Vitaly Bulgarov is a concept artist who used to work at Blizzard on stuff like StarCraft. He’s now working on something a lot cooler. Bulgarov has been helping out a company called Korea Future Technology on their latest project, which is called METHOD-1: a big, real, functioning mech. Not a stage prop, not a promotional…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 18, 2016 - Culture
The Week In Games: We Dream Of Half-Genie
The end of 2016 is nearly upon us, which means there are hardly any games left to come out. A few still remain, however. We searched long and hard, and managed to scrape together something resembling a list of games coming out this week. Fortunately, the rest of the year was filled with so many…
By Ethan Gach Published December 18, 2016 -
UncategorizedNappa’s Beard Totally Does Grow When He Goes Super Saiyan
Almost a decade since Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 was released, we now know the answer to an age old question, originally poised by Nappa, of whether the big, burly, bald fighter’s goatee would grow if he went Super Saiyan. The answer, of course, is yes. The revelation comes by way of Twitter user MrTrikey…
By Ethan Gach Published December 18, 2016
