There’s Something Not Quite Right About The New DOOM

I hadn’t even finished downloading the beta on Friday when the first messages began flooding in. “If the campaign for the new Doom is anywhere near the quality of the multiplayer beta, then that’s the franchise over,” the most scathing take read. This post originally appeared 4/3/16 on Kotaku Australia It wasn’t that bad. But…

Donald Trump Tweets A Terrible Campaign Ad That Rips Off Mass Effect

I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my least favorite racist on the Citadel. Continuing his tendency to Tweet absolutely anything,no matter how ridiculous, Donald Trump recently shared the following video with his 7.3 million followers: Yes, that is Mass Effect music and voice acting throughout the ad, which appropriately ends with a title card reading…

15 Minutes of Uncharted 4’s Beautiful Madagascar Level

Surprising absolutely no one, Uncharted 4 continues to look amazing. Naughty Dog released a new chunk Uncharted 4 footage today, and though it’s brief, you can spot all sorts of cool details within: Some highlights… The mud physics! They’re great. Naturally, trying to drive your car up a very muddy incline is difficult, if not…

The Great Wars Of EVE Online

EVE Online is a complicated game full of politics, subterfuge, and grand-scale wars. Factions rise and fall, corporations are overthrown, and you don’t have to play the game to know that a lot of what’s going on in it is really cool. Empires of EVE: A History of the Great Wars of EVE Online by…

A 3D Legend Of Zelda Tribute You Can Play In Your Browser

Or at least while it lasts. A pair going by Scott and Mike are well on their way to creating a playable voxel-based The Legend of Zelda in honor of the game’s 30th anniversary. Hosted at Zelda30Tribute.com (via Nintendo Life), the fan recreation is built entirely in WebGL, mixing 3D voxels with the music, sound…

Snacktaku Eats Honey, Chili And Coffee Peanut M&Ms

This fall M&Ms is adding one of three new peanut flavors to its lineup. Much like the presidential race, they’re asking folks to eat each one and vote for which tastes best. Which one gets my vote? Originally published 4/3/2016 Now I may not know much about how the American political process works, but I…

A More Mature Super Mario

Super Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom becomes a dark world with some intimidating enemies in artist Sylvain Sarrailh’s fantastic fan-art. The top pic’s set in a crystal cave, while this second one looks like one of the first stages of any Mario game. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Overwatch‘s Tracer Has Some Powerful Abilities In Heroes of the Storm

Heroes of the Storm wouldn’t be a true Blizzard arena brawler without someone representing Overwatch. And finally, after all the characters added from Diablo or WoW, the first Overwatch hero is ready to make her debut Tracer looks like an assassin type hero here with a quite powerful basic ability: she can move while attacking.…

GTA V Mod Lets You Play as The Flash

Here’s a GTA V mod, in case you ever wanted to run so hard that you create a tornado and suck up all nearby objects. In GTA V This script mod which, of course, turns you into The Flash, was made by JulioNIB (via DSOGaming), he of legendary status in the modding community and purveyor…

Turning Photos into Anime Images

Twitter user ujr50138 has uploaded some images showing how photos can be turned into anime stills, thanks to the power of Photoshop. These effects can be achieved by lowering the brightness, but increasing the contrast and adding in blue shadows to show reflected light. Adding in yellow-green and blue highlights to vegetation also helps give…

Ace Attorney’s First Episode is a Cheap-Looking But Loyal Adaptation

With five main games and four meaty spin-offs, the only thing surprising about Ace Attorney getting an anime is that it took this long to happen. Too bad it’s not exactly the prettiest one out there. Episode one follows the first case of our hero Phoenix Wright as he defends his best friend, Larry, from…

The Inevitable Sailor Moon Hamburger

It’s very, very pink. The pink buns, we’ve seen before on Kotaku. And in Japan in recent years, other characters (here and here, for example) have been turned into burgers. This is the latest. Starting on April 16, a Sailor Moon-themed cafe is opening in Tokyo’s Roppongi for a limited time. Included on the menu…

Dragon Ball‘s Newest Super Saiyan Name Was a Mistake

The newest Super Saiyan form is Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Which sounds silly, yes. That’s why, as Kotaku previously reported, it was changed in the manga. Now the most recent Dragon Ball Super is following suit. As mentioned before, a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan is when a Saiyan gets the power of a…

Japanese Company Apologizes for 9 Cent Price Increase

Akagi Nyugyo Co. is apologizing for increasing the price of its long-selling ice treat Gari-Gari Kun. Starting April this month, each popsicle’s price will be raised from 60 yen to 70 yen. This is the first price hike in 25 years. Sorry about that! As the Mainichi News points out, Akagi isn’t the only company…

Counter-Strike Freed From European Hegemony Following Brazilian MLG Win

By the time the MLG Counter-Strike Major ended on Sunday with a lopsided Luminosity victory over Na’Vi, a long period of unbreakable European Counter-Strike supremacy had ended alongside it. Brazil’s Luminosity Gaming broke Na’Vi the way they broke Team Liquid last night: with a “back-from-the-dead” comeback on Mirage to an overtime win that left Na’Vi…

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