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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 - Uncategorized
Steam Goes Nuts, Offers Access To Other People’s Accounts [UPDATES]
Steam faced something of a catastrophe this afternoon, giving players across the world access to some of the personal information in other people’s accounts. It’s not yet clear how this happened, but it’s a doozy. Call it the Steam Winter Fail. Various players across the world logged into their Steam clients today to find their…
By Jason Schreier Published December 25, 2015 -
UncategorizedGTA Online’s Coolest Christmas Present Turns Players Into Building-Hopping Monsters
There’s snow in Los Santos today, which is, y’know, nice. But the other freak occurrence—becoming or slaying feral manbeasts that can jump over buildings—in Rockstar Games’ fake Los Angeles is a lot more fun. See for yourselves. A bunch of holiday-themed goodies hit GTA Online this week, most of it fairly predictable in nature. But,…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 25, 2015 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Network Is Having Trouble Creating New Accounts Today
People trying to create new PlayStation Network accounts this Christmas are running into a significant digital roadblock which is keeping people from effectively using their new PlayStation 4s. Sony is currently failing to immediately send verification e-mails to new users, hobbling new users’ efforts to create online accounts and sub-accounts that can access the PlayStation…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 25, 2015 - Uncategorized
How The Legend of Zelda Changed For U.S. Shores
Did you know that Pols, the rabbit-looking things in the original Legend of Zelda, are meant to be destroyed not with arrows but by talking into a microphone? And that the Japanese version of the Zelda board game was way better than the North American one? Legends of Localization Book 1: The Legend of Zelda,…
By Jason Schreier Published December 25, 2015