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Venture Bros. Cosplay Is Too Real
Sometimes, you see a group cosplay effort that looks like it took a lot of design and planning, and looks pretty good for a bunch of humans in costume. Other times, like here, you see a group cosplay effort that looks like three characters walked straight off a TV set and into the real world.…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 22, 2016 -
CulturePalpatine Will Dab On Those Fools
Today on Highlight Reel we have a dabbing Palpatine, bad rocket aim, Rainbow 6 breaching failures, tasers, and much much more. Watch the video above or on our Youtube page, then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below.…
By Chris Person Published February 22, 2016 - Uncategorized
Whoops, Looks Like Ubisoft Forgot To Give Far Cry Primal A Season Pass
Pop quiz: What makes Far Cry Primal different than all the other games Ubisoft has released over the past year? No, it’s not the mammoths. Not the fake language they made just for this game, either. Give up? The answer: There’s no season pass. It’s 2016, man. Big companies don’t just release games and then…
By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2016 -
CultureCosplayThe Best Cosplay From MAGFest 2016
The 2016 edition of MAGFest, a big music games festival, went down in DC over the weekend, and there was a ton of cool cosplay on show. Photographer Devon Rowland was there, and she took these shots of the cosplayers in attendance. You can see more of Devon’s cosplay photography here If you recognise (or…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 22, 2016 -
CulturePlayers Find Half-Life And Left 4 Dead Demos Buried In Valve’s VR Code
Valve’s new VR performance test program contains a two-minute snippet of the infamous Portal-themed Aperture Robot Repair demo. But there’s also more, if you know where to look. SteamDB and ValveTime dug through the code of an older version of the performance test, and they unearthed all sorts of interesting artifacts from Valve’s earlier attempts…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 22, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe Witness‘ Lead Designer Tries To Race Through ‘The Challenge’
A full one hour and 30 seconds into this Giant Bomb video of Witness lead designer Jonathan Blow playing and talking about his team’s new game, he takes onThe Challenge. That’s the hardest puzzle in the game. He struggles, probably because it’s not as easy when people are watching. It’s still illuminating to watch him…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 22, 2016 -
CultureWitch House Looks Like Gothic XCOM
Supernatural crimes? Turn-based tactics? A detective main character who sounds like when he says he wants a whiskey on the rocks, he means jagged shards of gravel? Gee, Witch House, it seems an awful lot like you’re trying to get my attention. Witch House takes place in the prohibition era. More specifically, it’s set in…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 22, 2016 -
UncategorizedThat Time A Zelda Trailer Supposedly Made Grown Men Cry
Few game reveals are more anticipated a brand-new Legend of Zelda game, but nothing touches the intense reaction Twilight Princess generated at E3 2004. It’s common for game companies to stuff their press conferences full of employees. These are the people who are happily clapping for every announcement, big or small. But at Nintendo events,…
By Patrick Klepek Published February 22, 2016 -
UncategorizedHalo’s Arbiter Has Been Holding Back On Us
The Covenant’s best warrior has been a bad ass in the Halo games, but not nearly the bad ass he’s being in his appearance in season three of fighting game Killer Instinct As hinted late last month, the third season of Killer Instinct features a cameo from Microsoft’s storied shooter franchise. Instead of going with…
By Mike Fahey Published February 22, 2016 - Uncategorized
A Video Game’s Stats For The 2016 Presidential Candidates
There were many bad omens foretelling the demise of Jeb Bush’s laughably ineffectual run for the White House. There was his confusion about his position on the invasion of Iraq, his awkward performances in the debates. “Please clap.” That desperate gun tweet. On top of all those real life failings, he also got thrashed in…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 22, 2016 - Uncategorized
Spider-Woman Just Had a Baby
Jessica Drew ain’t letting a little thing like an emergency C-section in a space station hospital slow her down. Shown as being well into her third trimester after the series’ post-hiatus reboot, last week’s Spider-Woman #4 finally saw the lead character become a mom. It was a pretty dramatic childbirth, coming in the middle of…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 22, 2016 -
CultureOur Favorite (And Least Favorite) Vita Memories
The PlayStation Vita turns four today in North America, which makes for a good excuse to look back and reminisce about Sony’s much-criticized portable console. Come join some of Kotaku’s staff for a chat about the Vita and what we’ve done with it over the past few years. Jason Schreier: Hi guys! Four years ago…
By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Black Superhero Who Helped Me Navigate a White World
By the time that Power Man and Iron Fist #125 came out in the late summer/early fall of 1986, I’d already learned not to trust comic-book covers. (This essay, originally titled “Steel-Hard Skin,” was written in 2011 and appeared in Hey Kids, Comics!: True-Life Tales from the Spinner Rack, an anthology that collected personal essays…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 22, 2016 -
CultureSnacktaku Eats Stale Munchkins And Sadness At LaGuardia Airport
After spending nearly a week in New York City eating Taco Bell and attendingToy Fair 2016 I was more than ready to fly home to see my wife and children. Due to uncooperative weather I spent the night on the floor at LaGuardia instead, eating the worst version of tasty things. My flight to Atlanta…
By Mike Fahey Published February 22, 2016 -
Tips & GuidesTips For Playing Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest and Birthright
You’re going to need more than a cool dragon transformation if you want to survive out in the battlefield. Thankfully, we’re here to help. As you may have heard by now, Fates is way tougher than Awakening. I’ve had to readjust some of my thinking about how Fire Emblem should be played. I thought I’d…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 22, 2016 -
UncategorizedDaredevil, Remade In Fallout 4
A game set in Marvel’s version of Hell’s Kitchen, featuring Matt Murdock and Frank Castle would be pretty cool. UpIsNotJump’s recreation of the Season 2 trailer of the Netflix series in Fallout 4 proves this perfectly. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
By Gergo Vas Published February 22, 2016 -
UncategorizedFan Creates Awesome Holographic Pokémon Projections
Great fan project! Kennywdev made a prism of plexiglass and mounted a camera on top for image tracking. Then, he projected some 3D Pokémon scenes that he made in Unity on it. It’s a very smart way to create cool-looking holographic projections. It’s worth watching a tutorial on how these are made, it’s actually not…
By Gergo Vas Published February 22, 2016 - Uncategorized
Duriel, Scariest of the Lesser Evils
Duriel, with his tiny-ass lair, slow-down aura and incredibly dangerous attacks, is an annoying Diablo II boss to fight. Now, thanks to this piece of fanart, he’s also terrifying to look at. Yay! The one responsible for Duriel’s HD-ification is one Svein Yngve Sandvik Antonsen, who works as a character artist at Interceptor Entertainment (the…
By András Neltz Published February 22, 2016 - Kotaku East
Beards Make Dragon Ball Characters Sexy, Too
We’ve seen how facial hair turned Street Fighter character Ryu into “Hot Ryu.” And now, in the most recent Dragon Ball Super episode, let’s see how beards do the same for Vegeta and Goku. [Image via SoulOfAngel] Of course, Vegeta had a mustache in Dragon Ball GT (above), but this time, he and Goku are…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 22, 2016
