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Kotaku EastTitanfall Online Is Coming To South Korea
Yes, yes. Titanfall already has online play, but this Nexon-released title is specifically an online game. Titanfall Online was announced for Asia as a collaboration between EA, Respawn and Nexon. So no word on an international release. It appears to be based more on the first game than its sequel. Here is some gameplay footage:…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 1, 2016 - Kotaku East
Japan’s Giant Gundam Will Be Torn Down Next March
On March 5, 2017, the giant Gundam statue in Tokyo’s Odaiba will be no more. So there’s still time to see it, but not much. This giant Gundam statue went up in 2012, and it’s not the first of its kind. Previously, a giant Gundam went up in Tokyo in 2009, and there was another…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 1, 2016 - CultureCosplay
LoL Cosplay As Radiant As The Dawn
Well. This is impressive. This is Aoime as Leona (the Radiant Dawn) from League of Legends. It took her over a year to put this together, but its detail and heft looks 100% worth the trouble, especially when you see (below) how she had to move the thing around.
By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2016 - CultureCosplay
PC Company Accused Of Stealing Cosplay Image For Ad
On the left, a photo of cosplayer Lindze A’la Mode. On the right, an advertisement for PC and hardware company MSI. Aside from the crime that it’s a terrible photoshop job, MSI is being taken to court in Georgia because the cosplayer and photographer involved in the original shot say it was made (and used…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2016 -
UncategorizedRIP Cities: Skylines, Everyone Is Dead, Everything Turned To Ash
Cities: Skylines, a game which until this week was all about building things, has a new expansion out. And will henceforth be a game about tearing shit down, burning it, shaking it loose then watching it sink under the waves. The new expansion is called Natural Disasters, and looks to bring a little of that…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2016 -
UncategorizedNearly 40% Of All Steam Games Were Released In 2016
2016 has been a hellscape. Everywhere. Even for those managing online video game marketplaces. Pub trivia and business development resource Steam Spy posted this chart earlier today, breaking down Steam’s catalogue by each game’s year of release. In 2012, for example, 379 games were released on Steam. In 2016, that number has leapt to 4207…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Sheer Terror Of Introducing A Friend To Your Favorite Game
A few days ago, I was hanging out at some friends’ house. One of them, Ian, decided to buy a new PS4 game. “Get The Witcher 3!” I yapped, briefly outdoing his tiny dog, who looked on with a mix of curiosity and some other dog emotion. “Get it, get it, get it!” It was…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 30, 2016 - CultureCosplay
Well Played, Witcher 3 Cosplay
Just when you thought Witcher 3 cosplay couldn’t get any better, along comes a recreation of some of the game’s best fan art, Ástor Alexander’s noir take on Geralt and friends The photos were taken by Milligan. Toph is Ciri, Iris is Yennefer, Anna is Triss and Andrew as Geralt.
By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2016 -
UncategorizedTop YouTubers Say They’re Being Screwed Yet Again By The Platform
Recently, top YouTubers are saying that, yet again, the behemoth video sharing network is fucking them over. This time, it’s about an alleged issue with subscribers—suddenly, they’re disappearing. And, no, it’s not because they unsubscribed. YouTube, for their part, denies that there’s a glitch. Regardless, several popular YouTubers are up in arms about shrinking subscriber…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 30, 2016 -
UncategorizedOverwatch Players Are Finding Ridiculous Ways To Use The New Map’s Cars
Overwatch’s new map, Oasis, has cars and jump pads. You know what that means: the dreaded S-word. I speak, of course, of shenanigans Among other things, Oasis is populated by cars that can and will do what cars do: mercilessly plow through cartoon heroes. Overwatch players, who happen to overlap with the ten percent of…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 30, 2016 -
UncategorizedFive Must-Watch Anime Of Fall 2016
Compared to the summer’s plush anime selection, Fall 2016’s offerings are a little slim. We had Berserk, Orange, Mob Psycho 100, ReLIFE, 91 Days and other high-impact titles scattered across shonen, fantasy, shoujo and historical fiction genres. This season’s a little different. My top pics for this season are more about girls and female audiences.…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 30, 2016 -
UncategorizedInvisible, Inc., Stories: The Path Of Destinies Headline PlayStation Plus Lineup For December
There are some cool games available on PS Plus this month. We loved Invisible, Inc., and we had a great time with Stories: The Path of Destinies. Several games are available across platforms, too. As ever, the games aren’t “free”: an active PlayStation Plus subscription is required to download and play them. PlayStation 4 Invisible,…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 30, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe Dopest Dishonored 2 Unconscious Body Party
Friends, I have been bested. You might remember that I’ve made it my life goal to arrange unconscious bodies in stealth games so that it looks like they just got done having sick parties, and Dishonored 2 is the current canvas for my art. Well, I got to be (arguably) the master of my craft…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
Overwatch Cheaters Thought They Were Using Undetectable Cheats, But Got Banned Anyway [Updated]
Overwatch got an update yesterday. The biggest addition was a new control map on the test server where you can play in traffic. However, a major wave of bans came alongside the update as well, with some players complaining that it seems to have caught previously undetectable cheat programs. A post on the official Overwatch…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
Years Later, Rockstar Releases New PC Patch For GTA IV
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been sitting around wondering when the next next Grand Theft Auto IV PC patch is going to hit. Wait no longer. I’m actually not entirely kidding—I’ve been wanting to replay GTA IV for a while now, and have been bummed to find it so difficult to even start the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 30, 2016