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UncategorizedYour Selfie Game Is Too Strong, Just Cause 3
Real-time cutscenes are much better when something unexpected happens. And since it’s Just Cause 3, JayGold’s footage, with a helicopter crashing into the ground in the perfect moment, doesn’t even seem like something that isn’t supposed to happen. via r/gamephysics To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
By Gergo Vas Published March 23, 2016 -
UncategorizedTen Great New Locations In World of Warcraft: Legion‘s Main City
The floating city of Dalaran is returning as the main neutral hub in World of Warcraft: Legion. A new expansion means a new, reconstructed city, with most of its environments redesigned and filled with goodies that fit the upcoming level 110 Broken Isles theme. The city’s layout, the intercrossing towers, bridges and halls all make…
By Gergo Vas Published March 23, 2016 - Kotaku East
Nintendo Denies It’s Ending Wii U Production Anytime Soon
Respected Japanese newspaper Nikkei published a rumor this morning that the Wii U will soon be ceasing production to make way for the upcoming NX. Nintendo is now denying that report. Nikkei reports Wii U production will apparently end before the year is out. The reasons Nikkei gives are a lack of popularity compared to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2016 - Kotaku East
How Blade Runner Teaches Bad Japanese Table Manners
It’s something I’ve noticed. I’ve noticed it in the US, and I’ve noticed it among Westerners who visit Japan. After breaking apart chopsticks, they begin rubbing them together. There might be reasons why Westerners do this with chopsticks: maybe they are worried about splinters or maybe it’s something else. Maybe it’s Blade Runner’s fault. Early…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2016 - Kotaku East
Tokyo Looks Best at Night
And in the rain. I’ve always liked Tokyo in the rain. Expect if I’m out walking in it. Then, it sucks. These cool photos are from Instagram user Liam Wong, who also is a graphic designer at Ubisoft. You can see how he brings an artistic flair to his Tokyo photos. Okay, okay. Tokyo also…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2016 - Kotaku East
Mad Max: Fury Road Livens Up College Graduations
Take this as a warning: Post-graduation life is one brutal wasteland. Students at Tama Art University in Japan didn’t only dress up as Immortan Joe and War Boys, but created a Fury Road style vehicle, guitar guy all. (It’s probably for the best that it’s sans flames.) As previously reported (here, here, and uh, here),…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2016 -
Kotaku EastTen Catchy Anime Theme Songs from Winter 2016
As the winter 2016 season comes to a close, let’s look at some of the best anime theme songs it had to offer. Anime: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu Song: “Usurashi Shinjuu” Artist: Megumi Hayashibara Why I Love It: This lounge singer-style Jazz song is so unlike the vast majority of anime themes out there, I…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published March 23, 2016 - Esports
Team Secret Celebrates DOTA 2 Win By Cutting Two Players, Bringing Back Arteezy
Remember two weeks ago, when Team Secret showed they didn’t need a lineup of marquee superstars like Artour “Arteezy” Babaev to be the best team in DOTA 2? Well, apparently they’re over that now. Instead, they have decided they need marquee superstars exactly like Arteezy… and his fellow Evil Geniuses teammate Saahil “UNiVeRsE” Arora. Who…
By Rob Zacny Published March 23, 2016 -
CultureChris Le designed a Counter-Strike weapon skin in Vive VR. Le, a BFF of Danny Trejo, used a Google 3D painting program called Tilt Brush to do it. In it, you walk around and draw on thin air. It’s one of the more interesting Vive apps I’ve tried, and watching someone use it to make…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 22, 2016 - CultureCosplay
Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley, Reporting For Duty
It’s weird, for all its influence in both games and film, not that many people cosplay as characters from the Alien series. So it’s awesome seeing this ver1sa, not just because it’s OG 1979 Ripley, but because it’s so good. I like the make-up work to increase the likeness, but I love the uniform. There’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2016 -
CultureSkull Helmets? Are We The Baddies?
Division48 is a small Polish studio that has worked on games like The Witcher 3, Hard West and Dying Light You can see more of Division48’s work at their studio siteand at artist Grzegorz Przybyś’ page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2016 - Uncategorized
EA Apologizes To Muslim UFC Fighter For Giving Him Christian Victory Celebration
EA Sports UFC 2 is a game that does its damnedest to imitate every element of the UFC broadcast experience (except for the weird part where it pretends commentator Mike Goldberg knows what he’s talking about). By and large, it works. It’s in the particulars that EA falters. Khabib Nurmagomedov is a UFC lightweight fighter…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 22, 2016 -
CultureToy Time With Marvel Legends’ Red Skull Build-A-Figure Series
In all my years of toy collecting I’ve never managed to fully assemble one of Hasbro’s Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure sets. I’ve also never recorded a Toy Time video without a beard. First time for everything, I suppose. The six inch Marvel Legends line (the smaller Marvel Universe line has recently been rebranded under Legends as…
By Mike Fahey Published March 22, 2016 -
UncategorizedObsidian’s Tyranny Is An RPG Where The Bad Guys Already Won
Let’s get this out of the way upfront: Tyranny is not Pillars of Eternity 2. It’s a different animal, a decidedly more sinister one. But the gulf between them is more than skin-deep. After dozens of hours, I still haven’t finished Obsidian’s classic PC RPG revival, Pillars of Eternity. Don’t get me wrong: it’s great.…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 22, 2016 - Uncategorized
Maki Roll, a professional cosplayer and dancer, has written a fascinating essay about Microsoft’s recent GDC party controversy She examines the event from a dancer’s perspective, and takes a closer look at what the backlash says about an industry grappling with the increased visibility of women’s issues.
By Patrick Klepek Published March 22, 2016 -
UncategorizedA Close Look at Uncharted 4’s Ridiculous Attention to Detail
The stubble. The wrinkles. The sweat. The hair. Nathan Drake’s model has gotten pretty incredible in Uncharted 4 and Naughty Dog took the time today to shed some light on how they nailed it. In a word, the PS4. In Naughty Dog’s latest dev diary, they talk about what the PS4’s power allows them to…
By Patricia Hernandez Published March 22, 2016
