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UncategorizedJust Cause 3 Glitch Is Truly One In A Million
YouTuber teamcream brings order to Just Cause 3’s chaotic mess with a pretty lucky move. Even though he places some boosters randomly on a cargo container, after some spins, the object stops and remains perfectly balanced on one of its corners. Pretty sure that won’t happen again anytime soon. To contact the author of this…
By Gergo Vas Published December 28, 2015 -
UncategorizedOne-Punch Man‘s Opening, Remade In MS Paint
It must have been a hell of a job to remake One-Punch Man’s entire opening with the limited capabilities of Microsoft Paint. But here it is. It took YouTuber Jim Boom around 50 hours to do a frame-by-frame remake showing Saitama beating up everything and everyone. To contact the author of this post, write to:…
By Gergo Vas Published December 28, 2015 -
CultureForget The Apple Watch, The Yo-Kai Watch Toys Are Here
Having already sold umpteen-bajillion units in Japan, the wildly popular Yo-Kai Watch toys have finally arrived in the States. Let us dance with them. Stephen Totilo and I both played Level-5’s Pokemon-esque Japanese sensation when the 3DS game was released earlier this fall, and weboth like what we played. It’s bright, colorful, relatively innocent fun,…
By Mike Fahey Published December 28, 2015 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo 2DS is coming to Japan in the best way possible: With Pokémon! The clear plastic 2DS units, some of which already got a U.S. release, will be Pokémon themed and pre-bundled with Pokémon Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow—along with a download code for Mew, which can be used in Pokémon XY, Omega Ruby…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 28, 2015 - Kotaku East
How To Make a Great Wedding Invitation: Add Dragon Quest
If you ever need inspiration for wedding invitations and like JRPGs, here’s a good place to start. According to Buzz News, some folks named Kenta and Ayano sent out Dragon Quest themed wedding invitations in PlayStation 2 boxes. This images were originally uploaded by Twitter user NobuChinShoki. As pointed out on 2ch, the art takes…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 28, 2015 - Kotaku East
Next year is Pokémon’s 20th anniversary. To mark the event, the card game’s first starter pack is getting a re-release. Originally, the card game first went on sale in October 1996, and this reissue will be out next February in Japan for 1,300 yen (US$10.80).
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 28, 2015 - Kotaku East
The Perfect Insider Is a Locked-room Mystery for the Digital Age
On a small island, a brilliant computer programmer has spent the last 15 years of her life confined to her small apartment in a high tech research lab. In that time, no one has entered or left—until the day her armless, legless, wedding dress-clad corpse comes rolling out of her room. But before we get…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published December 28, 2015 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bayonetta Everywhere: Winners!
Earlier this month we found out that M-rated action star Bayonetta would be one of the final competitors added to Super Smash Bros. on Wii U and 3DS. I asked our image-manipulating community toput her in all the games. They did not disappoint. We had many outstanding entries, though several of them wound up disqualified.…
By Mike Fahey Published December 27, 2015 - Culture
The Last Week In Games Of 2015 Ever
That’s a wrap, everybody. Hit the streets. You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay in this year. Wednesday, December 30 Beatsplosion for Kinect — Xbox One Digital Coming Soon Tuesday, January 5 Amplitude — PS4 Digital Hardware Rivals — PS4 Digital Volume—Vita Digital (Cross Buy) Did I miss anything important? Anything you’re…
By Mike Fahey Published December 27, 2015 - Uncategorized
Boy Opens Christmas PlayStation 4, Finds A Block Of Wood With A Dick On It
It’s bad enough that a Massachusetts family’s Target-purchased Christmas console wound up being a piece of wood in a PlayStation 4 box, but did whoever swapped it out have to draw a dick and balls on it? According to areport by Boston’s Fox 25 and the step-mother’s Facebook post, nine-year-old Scott Lundy was over-the-moon when…
By Mike Fahey Published December 27, 2015 - Uncategorized
A Perfect Example Of Why You Shouldn’t Buy Used Games Online
Redditor Vernm51’s parents couldn’t find a copy of Pokemon HeartGold for the DS locally for Christmas, so they ordered it online from GameStop—and received a bootleg copy that didn’t work. The cheap Flash card-based bootlegs that plagued the original DS don’t work anymore due to 3DS firmware upgrades—they register as THQ’s Alex Rider Stormbreaker game…
By Mike Fahey Published December 27, 2015 - Uncategorized
Star Wars Fan Spends A Year Building The Best LEGO Millennium Falcon Ever
LEGO builder Marshall Banana spent a year planning and building this 7,500 piece replica of the latest version of Han Solo’s ride. It’s one of the most beautiful pieces of garbage I’ve ever seen. The official LEGO set for The Force Awakens’ Falcon is 1.329 pieces, and it doesn’t look so hot. The biggest official…
By Mike Fahey Published December 27, 2015 - Uncategorized
Sunday Comics: Please Monkeys
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published December 23. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 21. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
By Mike Fahey Published December 27, 2015 - Uncategorized
Captain America’s Latest Comic Book Enemies: Corporate Snakesssssss
The Serpent Society used to be a group of slither-themed lamers that Steve Rogers used to pound on for months at a time. They were supervillains in the classic mustache-twirling mode. Today, they’re a lot more dangerous. Today, their leader name-drops his buddies at Bain Capital. It’s acerbically funny—and wince-inducing—stuff. Originally posted 12/23/15 The newest…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 26, 2015 -
UncategorizedLightning Would Like To Return This Purse
Final Fantasy XIII’s pink-haired star is modeling for Louis Vuitton now, but that doesn’t mean she’s made of money. Square Enix posted a video of a new collaboration with the famous French fashion house yesterday, demonstrating how alien the concept of a purse is to the heroine of Lightning Returns She seemed much more comfortable…
By Mike Fahey Published December 26, 2015 -
UncategorizedFahey’s Top 10 Games Of 2015
It’s late December with just days to go until the clock strikes the new year, which makes it the perfect time for Kotaku’s various editors to list their favorite games of 2015. I’ll go first, for I have no fear. Well, I have a little fear. If you’ve kept track of my lists from 2012,…
By Mike Fahey Published December 26, 2015 - Culture
The Official Awesome Holiday Gift Sharing Post 2015
As people around the world fill garbage cans and dumpsters with discarded bits of colorful paper, we take a look back at the wonderful things we gave and got during the 2015 holiday season. In other words, what’d ya get? I’ll go first. Each year I’m getting more into the giving than the getting, though…
By Mike Fahey Published December 26, 2015