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Modders Are Adding New Locations To Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley is a game about two opposing yet complimentary forces: routine and discovery. What happens, though, when you run out of things to discover? Why, you build more, of course. Tego’s Stardew Expansion and Yama’s Desert Expansion both serve roughly the same purpose: to make Stardew Valley a bigger, more vibrant place. In time,…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 4, 2016 -
UncategorizedDark Souls 3 Player Wrecks One Of The Hardest Bosses In A Single Hit
Holy crap. Take a look at this. Yes, that’s someone beating Pontiff Sulyvahn in one hit. It’s one of the more impressive things I’ve seen someone pull off in Dark Souls 3 so far. This clip comes courtesy of neptunusequester on YouTube: They claim it’s part of the 1HKO Challenge, aka one-hit knockout. I suspected…
By Patrick Klepek Published May 4, 2016 -
UncategorizedSeven-Year-Old Mario Maker Creator Just Hopes Nintendo Won’t Delete His Levels Again
My heart broke after reading a letter from a seven year old fan named Daniel, who was hoping I’d play his Mario Maker stage. The problem? He feared Nintendo would delete it before I had a chance to check it out. I play new Mario Maker stages every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Twitchand YouTube.…
By Patrick Klepek Published May 4, 2016 - Uncategorized
I Can Finally Play Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire Whenever I Want
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, much like the recently re-released Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, used to be a pain to get your hands on. Now, though, it’s just a few clicks away. Shadows of the Empire was a sort of Star Wars mid-quel, an attempt at bridging the gap between Empire Strikes Back and…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 4, 2016 - Uncategorized
People Are Mass-Disliking The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Trailer
It may surprise you to hear that YouTube, a place well-known for civility and intelligent discussions, is full of people saying mean things about the new Call of Duty trailer. As of right now, the video has 221,657 dislikes, and that number is going up by a few hundred every minute. This mass-dislike campaign has…
By Jason Schreier Published May 4, 2016 - Uncategorized
Spider-Man And Iron Man Have Beef Now
Spider-Man and Iron Man have been on-and-off allies for decades and worked in close partnership on the Avengers. Nowadays, they’re more like frenemies. It used to be that Peter Parker and Tony Stark saved the world in differently scaled adventures. The wall-crawler was more of a street-level guy while the armored genius fought everywhere from…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 4, 2016 - Uncategorized
Just Like That, Battleborn‘s Prologue Is Now Replayable
YesterdayI complained about not being able to replay the animated intro and prologue mission in Battleborn. Now I can, thanks to a game update so stealthy I didn’t even have to reboot. 2K senior communications manager Scott Pytlik dropped us a line to let us know the opening bits of Battleborn, previously inaccessible after completion,…
By Mike Fahey Published May 4, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Makers Of Titanfall Are Working On A Star Wars Game
Clearly not busy enough with Titanfall 2, the developers at Respawn are working with EA on a new Star Wars game, they announced today. EA says it’ll be a third-person action-adventure game, just like the one that’s currently in development at Visceral (Dead Space). Says the company: Today, I’m thrilled to be able to announce…
By Jason Schreier Published May 4, 2016 - Culture
To Assassin’s Creed…And Beyond!
Assassin’s Creed Art Director Raphael Lacoste, who we’ve featured many times here on Fine Art, has a new book called Worlds, featuring not just personal work and his contributions to Hollywood movies but a lot of the best stuff he’s done on the AC series over the years. Lacoste isn’t an art director, he’s AC’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2016 -
UncategorizedStar Wars: The Force Awakens LEGO Game Shows Us What Happened Before The Movie
Episode VII left fans with many unanswered questions. How did Lor San Tekka get part of Luke’s map? What were Han and Chewie doing alone on a ship full of deadly Rathtar? The answers to these and other burning questions arrive next month in LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Like previous games in the…
By Mike Fahey Published May 4, 2016 -
UncategorizedFallout 4‘s Biggest DLC Will Be Out This Month
Far Harbor, the next downloadable content pack for Fallout 4, will be out on May 19, Bethesda said today. And, hey, is our buddy Nick Valentine about to get an upgrade? The DLC looks promising, and Bethesda has promised it will be more substantial than the last two (Automatron and Wasteland Workshop). It’s also pricier,…
By Jason Schreier Published May 4, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe Flash‘s Best Character Has A Leeroy Jenkins Moment
Super-genius, gamer and lover of all things geeky, Cisco “Vibe” Ramon is our best friend in the Arrowverse. He’s the kind of guy I’d love to hang with, as long as he doesn’t go full Leeroy like he did last night on a regular basis. For reasons best left in spoiler territory, last night’s episode…
By Mike Fahey Published May 4, 2016 -
UncategorizedGoogle’s Self-Driving Car Goes Wild In GTA V
An autonomous, self-driving car in Los Santos? What could go wrong? YouTuber pizzaforbreakfast made a clip imagining how this new technology would work in the precisely designed environment of GTA AI drivers. It’d be a disaster. Although, on second thought, it’s not much different from GTA Online To contact the author of this post, write…
By Gergo Vas Published May 4, 2016 - Uncategorized
No One’s Missing From This Fan-Made LEGO Mos Eisley Spaceport
A wretched hive of scum and villainy. LEGO and Star Wars enthusiast I Scream Clone and his friends built a quite busy and enormous blocky version of Mos Eisley, including pretty much everything that can show up in a desolate place like this. The cantina with the main characters is in the center of the…
By Gergo Vas Published May 4, 2016 - Uncategorized
Enormous, Beautiful Minecraft Map Took 400 Hours To Build
Pictured above: six kilometers by six kilometers of pure magnificence, in Minecraft map form. Called Phain, or Game Board of the Ancients, this map is another one from the incredibly talented Darastlix, whose work we’ve featured on Kotaku three times before. Phain, which took 400 hours of work over a year to make, is the…
By András Neltz Published May 4, 2016 - Kotaku East
Meet The God of Cardboard Art
Kyoto artist Masahiko Senda doesn’t sculpt with stone or clay. He uses cardboard to create his statues and figurines. Senda says he strives to create pieces that “surprise and amuse people.” He should add “impress” to that list, because that’s exactly what his work does. “You can use hard cardboard paper to design (models) in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 4, 2016 - Kotaku East
Japan’s Movie Posters Could Be Great, Like This
In Japan, the rep for many modern movie posters is that they’re not cool. The ones distributors create for the local market are often criticized for lacking in style. Shame, because there are truly awesome one-sheets being done, many of which are totally unofficial and totally fantastic. During the Showa Period (1926-1989), poster design was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 4, 2016 - Kotaku East
The Up-All-Night Stream Plays Kirby: Planet Robobot [Stream Finished]
Come join me as everyone’s favorite pink puff ball tries to protect Dreamland from robotic invaders. Update: The stream is over but you can see the whole three-hour replay here Kirby: Planet Robobot was released for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan on April 28, 2016. It will be released in the US and Europe on…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published May 4, 2016
