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My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week
Short week last week. But we wedged some good stuff into it, I dare say. My favorites: Fallout 4’s User Interface Is Truly Terrible – Comprehensive and convincing. Why So Many People Are Yelling About Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 – A complicated controversy clearly explained. Nobody’s Sure How One Of Counter-Strike’s Best Players Nailed…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 30, 2015 - Culture
Beloved PC Game Gets Surprise Comic DLC
To The Moon was a story-based Steam game that made everyone cry. Years after its release, it just got surprise DLC… in the form of a comic. The comic takes place after To The Moon’s conclusion. It’s not a full sequel or anything like that, though. Consider it more of a cute follow-up. Here’s the…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedYouTube Copyright Nonsense Hitting Yet Another Community: Hatsune Miku Fans
Sega released a trailer yesterday for the new Hatsune Miku game, Project Diva X, but if you live in the United States, it’s blocked on YouTube. This isn’t new. Rather, it’s part of an unfortunate but increasingly predictable pattern of Japanese companies butting heads with the world’s largest video service. Hatsune Miku is not a…
By Patrick Klepek Published November 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedWorld’s Best Jigglypuff Player Gives Heartbreaking Interview After Winning Smash Tournament
Star Super Smash Bros. player Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma won first place in the fighting game’s Dreamhack tournament this weekend, making him the first American Smash pro to do so on European soil. The post-game interview he gave immediately after winning quickly turned personal. You can watch the full post-match interview here: HungryBox is known in…
By Yannick LeJacq Published November 30, 2015 -
CultureChef Turns Splatoon‘s Biggest Stars Into Tasty Squid Recipes
The most important factor in creating Splatoon-inspired dishes, as Food Network’s Justin Warner does in his latestFoodie Call video, is to make sure the main ingredient is a squid now. Once that’s confirmed, cook away. Warner, winner of the eight season of the Food Network Star series, is a pretty big fan of the game,…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedWhat Happens When You Release 50 Synths At The Start of Fallout 4
In two words: pure chaos. It’s hilarious. Normally, no combat occurs at the start of Fallout 4. It’s a pretty linear experience: you spawn, you make your character, you meet your son, and then you dash into the vault before the bombs fall. If you dilly-dally at all, it’s game over, and everything explodes. Unless,…
By Patricia Hernandez Published November 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedPlaying Against League Of Legends’ Annie In A Nutshell
Annie always looks so small and easy to kill when she’s wandering around with her stuffed teddy bear until…TIBBERS!!! Then, this happens: As YouTuber Darkk Mane shows, being slapped by what looks like a large overstuffed taxidermied grizzly doesn’t always look super impressive. But it sure feels intense when you’re on the receiving end. Watch…
By Yannick LeJacq Published November 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedModder Turns Dota 2 Into A Third-Person Shooter
You know what would make Dota 2 more fast-paced and exciting? Turning it into a different video game, of course! Say hello to “Slayers of the Ancients” a “highly experimental” mod made by Steam user BMD that turns the MOBA into “a capture-the-flag 3rd person shooter in the style of Team Fortress 2.” Spotted earlier…
By Yannick LeJacq Published November 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Marvel’s Cute New Superhero Comic Has An Awful Tension Lurking Inside
At first, you think you know what you’re getting in the first issue of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1: adorable girl genius befriends crimson T-Rex for eventual hijinx. Then you get to page 8 and a very bleak moment adds a grim undercurrent to everything. The main character of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur—out…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Fallout 4 and Skyrim Might Be In The Same Universe
There’s a pretty great easter egg hidden in Fallout 4, and it has some juicy implications about two of Bethesda’s biggest series. Some of you have probably found this already, especially if you’ve allied with a certain faction in Fallout 4, but! For the rest of you, here’s something pretty cool that you can see…
By Patricia Hernandez Published November 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedFarming Simulator Is Much More Fun With A Complicated Controller
Real farmers do not operate their tractors using keyboard and mice. They don’t operate their tractors using Saitek’s $300 Heavy Equipment Precision Control System for PC either, but it’s much closer and a hell of a lot more entertaining. I love Giants Software’s Farming Simulator series. Or maybe I just love the idea of it.…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedJust Cause 3 Has a Cool Marvel Comics Easter Egg
There’s something very heavy in one of Just Cause 3’s mountain craters and no amount of fancy tether-work by Rico Rodriguez can pick up it up. The latest entry in Avalanche’s open-world chaos series comes out tomorrow but YouTube channel Arekks Gaming has already uncovered a cool nod to the thunder god of Norse mythology.…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedDisney Infinity, LEGO Dimensions Or Skylanders: Which Toy-Based Game Is Right For You?
First Skylanders, then Disney Infinity and now LEGO—the video game sections of major retailers everywhere are slowly being taken over by toys. Which plastic portal of power should you be plugging into your game console? Let’s see if we can help. In a perfect world where no one needed to care about cost or shelf…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedComputers Sure Looked Goofy In 80s Movies
It’s a supercut of the weirdest movie scenes with computers and computer interfaces from a time when even copying a simple file to a floppy was shown as some sort of magic trick. YouTuber elsafrickey collected a whole bunch of these scenes from the 70s, the 90s, but mostly from the 80s. Obviously, a giant…
By Gergo Vas Published November 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedCustom Super Mario World SNES Is A Thing Of Beauty
Custom-themed, limited edition consoles weren’t really a thing back in the day of the SNES and the Genesis, so it’s up to a dedicated few to set things right. Zoki64 picked Super Mario World, the most obvious choice for his custom SNES. And it looks prety shiny! He also made a similar one with a…
By Gergo Vas Published November 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Fallout 4 is at its best when it’s a horror game—at least, that’s what our esteemed overseas colleagues at Kotaku UK say in their most recent feature (and we can certainly attest to how terrifying Salem is in-game.) Head over here to take a look
By András Neltz Published November 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedFallout Fan 3D Prints a Mini Nuke
Mini nukes sure look a lot more high-tech on the inside. Valcrow of the 3D printing blog Redicubricks dug the fact that Bethesda’s Fallout Anthology came with a mini nuke case, but they weren’t interested in playing the older games. So, of course, they did what any other sane person would and decided to print…
By András Neltz Published November 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Beloved Manga Artist Shigeru Mizuki Has Died
The man behind the spooky manga GeGeGe no Kitaro passed away this morning in Tokyo, reports Nikkan Sports. Mizuki was 93. The highly influential GeGeGe no Kitaro debuted in 1960 and went on to spawn anime adaptations and live-action films. His manga, and the cartoons, helped rekindle the country’s love affair with yokai. Prior to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2015
