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Clever Mario Maker Levels Contain Dialogue And JRPG Menus
People are making all kinds of stages in Super Mario Maker. There are brutally hard stages, traditional stages, clever stages, and others. These are clever ones. The interesting thing these two stages have in common is their use of comments. Nintendo intends for comments to be exactly that: comments on a level. But with some…
By Patrick Klepek Published December 31, 2015 - Kotaku East
Listen up, King of Fighters fans. SNK exec Yutaka Noguchi tells Famitsu that many former SNK devs have returned to the company since it has refocused on gaming and left the pachinko business. Noguchi also added that devs who were working on pachinko-slot machines have been switched back to games. This all sounds promising.
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 31, 2015 - Kotaku East
Japan Says Goodbye to 2015 with Cosplay
And that just might be the best way to say it. This year’s winter Comic Market has drawn to a close. It’s the last big otaku (geek) event of the year and the last chance for all the cosplayers to gather in a major way and strut their stuff. Let’s have a look at some…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 31, 2015 - Kotaku East
The McDonald’s Of The Future Opens In Hong Kong
Hong Kong is now home to the newest and neatest McDonald’s around. Say hello to McDonald’s Next, the McDonald’s of the future. According to Trend Hunter, Contemporist, and Hong Kong Navi, design firm Landini Associates joined forces with the fast food chain to create this oh-so slick McDonald’s in Hong Kong, located near Admiralty Station.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 31, 2015 - Uncategorized
This is the best.
By Patrick Klepek Published December 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedI’ve Found The Perfect Competitive Online Game For Me
Years of Puzzle Quest, Candy Crush Saga and Bejeweled have all been preparing me for this moment. Now is my time to dominate. To stand over the battered and broken gems of my enemies in Force of Elements. Just released on Steam Early Access from developer Wicked Fun, Force of Elements could easily be mistaken…
By Mike Fahey Published December 30, 2015 -
The Bests2015’s Best In-Game Map? Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
Let us praise a thing that matters a lot in video games: the quality of an in-game map. Zooming in, let us heap praise upon 2015’s most magnificent in-game map, the one that appeared in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. The video above is all the proof you need. This map is great. Shall we count the…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Kirk Hamilton’s Top 10 Games Of 2015
My 2015 was a little bit like Luke’s: I never felt like I had a shortage of cool things to play at any given moment, but when I sat down to pick my top ten, I wasn’t overwhelmed by my options. In past years, I’ve always wound up listing more than ten games. (Those lists:…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
The Revolt 2 Gaming PC Wears Its Graphics Card Like A Pretty Hat
Every part of your gaming PC is precious, working in harmony with other parts to make your games smooth and pretty. But the graphics card is the crown jewel, so iBuyPower’s small form factor Revolt 2 puts it in the appropriate spot. Doesn’t it look pretty? Normally we get a side view of our graphics…
By Mike Fahey Published December 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Valve Apologizes For Steam’s Christmas Malfunction, Says It Affected 34,000 Users
Valve has finally apologized for last week’s Steam Christmas disaster, explaining in a lengthy statement today that the issues stemmed from a Denial of Service attack and wound up exposing the information of around 34,000 users. Valve said they’re still working to identify the affected users and will contact them once the process is complete.…
By Jason Schreier Published December 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedSomeone’s Building Mario Maker For PC
That might look like Super Mario Maker—but it’s not. It’s Super Mario ReMaker, a fan-made project that hopes to bring Nintendo’s creation tool over to the PC with a bunch of new additions. Nintendo is a company in the business of selling its own hardware. They haven’t released Super Mario Maker for 3DS, let alone…
By Patrick Klepek Published December 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Phantasy Star Online 2 Is Still MIA In The West, But Hey Look Anime
Nearly four years ago, Sega announced Phantasy Star Online 2 for western release. That still hasn’t happened. But at least we’re getting the anime? Sentai Filmworks, a North American anime distributor, announced last night that they’ve licensed the animated version of Sega’s wayward MMORPG and that it’ll be out next year. Meanwhile, Sega still won’t…
By Jason Schreier Published December 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedGrim Fandango, Dragon Age: Origins Headline January’s PS Plus Lineup
Sony’s finally announced its PlayStation Plus lineup for next month, and it’s coming with some pretty great games. Though these games are often touted as “free,” remember that PlayStation Plus is a subscription service that you pay for every month. Here are the games coming next Tuesday: PlayStation 4 Grim Fandango Remastered Hardware: Rivals PlayStation…
By Patrick Klepek Published December 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
When the Oculus Rift finally ships next year, it’ll come with a free copy of the impressive VR platformer, Lucky’s Tale. It remains one of the better VR demos I’ve played—the ability to look around the world with the headset while controlling the character was neat—but it remains to be seen how great of a…
By Patrick Klepek Published December 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedExactly The New Amplitude I Was Hoping For
The new Amplitude isn’t an evolution of the track-mixing music gameplay that made the original and its predecessor, Frequency, so popular with rhythm game fans. It’s almost exactly the same, and that’s perfect. In 2003 I played a game on my PlayStation 2 that involved flying a ship over colorful bands of light representing the…
By Mike Fahey Published December 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Artist Meiura-Venn drew a pretty cool mash-up of Papyrus and Sans from Undertale and Dark Souls’ Solitaire and Siegmeyer. Pretty sure Papyrus is saying “You can’t spell ‘prepared’ without several letters from his name.” Here’s some more Papyrus and Sans with another Dark Souls boss, Nito. To contact the author of this post, write to:…
By Gergo Vas Published December 30, 2015
