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UncategorizedLatest Sword Art Online Game Lets Twitter ‘Raise’ A Character
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization, to be released November 8th, is asking fans for help “raising” one of its protagonists. Premiere, an NPC, will scan and mine Twitter feeds for personality traits and mold her in-game persona in our image, Crunchyroll reports. Premiere is a SAO: Hollow Realization’s protagonist, a teenaged girl who is an…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 31, 2016 - Reviews
Titanfall 2: The Kotaku Review
When I finished Titanfall 2‘s campaign, my body felt numb. I left my apartment, walked to the street corner and bummed a cigarette. I needed to calm myself. I’d just been through an astounding experience. The original Titanfall was a game of overly high ambition. Fluid player movement led to frantic and gorgeous ground battles…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 31, 2016 - Culture
A Very Pokémon Plushie Halloween
It’s Halloween, the festive holiday when Pokémon toys dress up in costumes and sit on my desk until at least Christmas. The Pokémon Center’s line of masquerading circus pocket monsters is adorable this year. While I could not catch them all this year, The Pokémon Company International sent along a trio of trick or treaters…
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2016 - Uncategorized
THQ Nordic now owns the rights to all titles and projects from classic military game developer Novalogic. That includes such storied series as Delta Force, Comanche, Joint Operations and F-22. THQ Nordic is open to talks with any developer looking to continue said series. Please.
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2016 -
UncategorizedSkyrim Remaster Makes This Massive Dragons Versus Archers Battle Possible
Cosmic Contrarian, the man behind countless ridiculous custom Fallout 4 battles, tells us that this epic encounter between 100 dragons and 1,000 archers would have been impossible to stage in the original release of Skyrim, especially at 4K resolution. Cosmic punctuated his recent birthday with the release of the first custom battle in a whole new series,…
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2016 - Kotaku East
Don’t expect a Level-5 game for the Nintendo Switch’s launch. Level-5 honcho Akihiro Hino is quoted (via Siliconera) as saying, “there surely won’t be a title of ours on launch, but when we find the way to take advantage of it, we will work with it.”
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 31, 2016 - Kotaku East
Halloween Turns Tokyo Into A Giant Street Party
It’s Halloween. And in Tokyo, people are dressing up, people are getting together, and things are getting bonkers. Don’t believe me? Here are a mass of people singing PPAP in Shibuya. Okay, now you believe me. A little over a decade ago, Halloween wasn’t much of a thing in Japan. But now, it most certainly…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 31, 2016 - CultureCosplay
The Cosplay Police Seem Awfully Chill
Photographer Lawrence Brenner took these shots of cosplay superteam Spiral Cats while they were in NYC doing some League of Legends work. I’ve never seen an assault rifle-carrying police officer look so happy in my life. You can see more of Lawrence’s photos here
By Luke Plunkett Published October 31, 2016 - CultureCosplay
This is Jelfishwith some Ring cosplay. Photos by Georgia Nelson
By Luke Plunkett Published October 30, 2016 -
CultureCosplayNegan Cosplay Is Going To Kill Your Favorite Halloween Character
Blizzard artist Rene Koiter isalso one heck of a cosplayer, which he showed once again this year by taking out (along with co-worker Jaime Scheffler) the company’s internal Halloween contest dressed as Negan from The Walking Dead A reminder this is not the first time he has won Blizzard’s contest Jaime is the zombie. Photos…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 30, 2016 - CultureCosplay
Narcos Cosplay Keeps It All In The Family
There may be more elaborate Halloween costumes on the internet this year, more technical costumes, but none will win my heart like this family’s take on Narcos It’s not the first series that comes to mind when I think “wholesome family cosplay”, especially given the relationships between some of the characters here, but I’m willing…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
Guy Spends Five Years Building A Minecraft Castle
Five years ago, danrharvey wanted to “get stuck into a creative mode build” in Minecraft. Looking back on it today, he’s built something that’s not only original, but beautiful. “It was fairly aimless at first”, he says, “I just started building a castle, with tunnels beneath, then about three or four months in, during an…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 30, 2016 - Culture
The Week In Games: If These Sprites Could Talk
Owlboy is finally coming out. Like for real. This week. It’s here. The game has been in development for ten years. Originally intended to ship in 2011,development became a long and winding road of what-ifs and some-days. Life is complicated. The team wanted the game to live up to the hype. So instead of coming…
By Ethan Gach Published October 30, 2016
