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UncategorizedDC Comics Characters Armor Up For Injustice 2
Yesterday’s retail leak becomes today’s confirmation, as Warner Bros. officially announces Injustice 2. coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in 2017. The second installment of the DC brawler picks up where the first left off. Batman and his super friends are trying to rebuild society in the wake of Superman’s madness, while others attempt…
By Mike Fahey Published June 8, 2016 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The E3 2016 Decorating Committee
Sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? As we did in 2014 and 2015, it’s time to dress up the Los Angeles Convention Center in it’s E3 clothes, or at least the E3 clothes we’d like to see it wear. Originally posted 6/5/2016 — We’re halfway there, living on a prayer and all that. Winners will…
By Mike Fahey Published June 8, 2016 -
UncategorizedHey, It’s A . . . Oh, It’s Just A Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Trailer
Aqua demonstrates exactly how I feel when I see “Kingdom Hearts” from Square Enix in my inbox and it’s not about Kingdom Hearts III Not that I don’t mind getting a preview of the very-long-awaited third installment of the series via Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep–A Fragmentary Passage. Aqua looks pretty amazing in the…
By Mike Fahey Published June 8, 2016 -
Kotaku EastScarlett Johansson Spotted In Ghost in the Shell Costume In Hong Kong [UPDATE]
Until now, we haven’t gotten that good of a look at Scarlett Johansson in the upcoming Ghost in the Shell film. The only released publicity still is a profile shot, so it’s hard to see how she’ll pull off augmented-cybernetic human Motoko Kusanagi. Johansson’s casting has been a source of controversy in the West, with…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2016 -
Kotaku EastTeaching Human Anatomy With Chalkboard Art
Chuan-Bin Chung teaches art at Taiwan’s Shu-Te University, creating impressive chalkboard drawings for students in his Illustration, Anatomy of Arts and Painting Skill classes. The class does have a textbook, but the students do not use it. Instead, as Chung draws skeletal structures on the chalkboard, the students must draw what he’s demonstrating. “The process…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2016 - Kotaku East
More Dragon Quest Characters Get A Facelift
Like with the original Dragon Quest Heroes last year, the sequel Dragon Quest Heroes II, is taking many of the franchise’s most popular characters and is giving them an HD makeover Checkout the gallery below to see how the character designs have evolved. New to Dragon Quest Heroes II Torneko (Dragon Quest IV, Dragon Quest…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 8, 2016 -
UncategorizedSega’s Warehouse-Sized VR Shooter Looks Neat
Oh, you can use the Oculus Rift in one spot? And you can walk around a little square with the Vive? Sega, with plans for a virtual reality shooter that lets you run around inside a warehouse, thinks that’s cute. They’re working with Australian company Zero Latency on a giant co-operative shooter which, according to…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2016 - Uncategorized
Some Fallout 4 Xbox Mods Are Being Stolen From The PC Version
Because users have been modding Bethesda’s games on PC forever, a functional community has evolved alongside the practice. On console? It’s the Wild West, and surprise, some people are being dicks about the finer points of mod creation and crediting. There have been numerousreports(see also: this Reddit thread) of mods—including parts of some of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2016 - Uncategorized
GTA Online’s newest big free add-on is out today. Further Adventures In Finance and Felony adds the ability to serve as an in-game CEO as well as a “trading places” PvP mode that swaps you and the person you kill from one team to the other–if you were in the losing team. Sounds crazy! More…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 7, 2016 - Uncategorized
Doom 64 Is The Most Underrated Doom Game
Though credits have rolled on the new Doom, I wanted to keep blowing up imps and pinkies. It seemed like the right time to revisit Doom 64 Doom 64 wasn’t actually developed by id Software; it was created by Midway Games. It picks up after the events of Doom 2: Hell on Earth, when attempts…
By Patrick Klepek Published June 7, 2016 - Uncategorized
Overwatch Is Still Hiding Lots of Clues About A Mysterious Character
On the surface, Overwatch seems like just a wacky, brightly-colored shooter. Don’t let that fool you though. Overwatch hides some secrets which nobody has found yet according to Blizzard. Earlier this year, there were rumblings of a character named “Sombra.” As Eurogamer explains here, some of the maps in Overwatch contain mentions of Sombra in…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 7, 2016 -
The BestsThe Best Video Game Trailers
Over the past decade, video game trailers have gone from blurry little montages bundled on magazine cover discs to a multi-million dollar industry that exists almost entirely separate from the actual games they’re representing. This post originally appeared 1/26/16. They’ve become perhaps the single most important part of video games marketing, and just like we…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2016 -
UncategorizedNaturally, Somebody Beat Dark Souls 3 With Their Feet
People beat the Dark Souls games in all sorts of ridiculous ways. This one might be the weirdest. People have beat Dark Souls with Donkey Konga’s bongo drums. Another person did it with the game flipped upside-down. The Souls games are hard enough on their own, but fans love one-upping each other. Celesterian Games has…
By Patrick Klepek Published June 7, 2016 -
UncategorizedParagon‘s Essentials Edition Is Paid Early Access In A Box
Having to purchase a special founder’s pack to gain exclusive beta access and special content for a free-to-play game like Paragon is quickly becoming the norm. Releasing a $60 physical copy of a free-to-play downloadable game that scores players the same sort of benefits is a bit odd. The Unreal Engine 4 (because what else…
By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2016
