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UncategorizedThe Truth About Ninjas
If you do anything for Halloween this weekend, chances are pretty good you might see a child (or an adult) trick-or-treating (or partying) dressed as a ninja. Maybe it’ll be a generic ninja, or maybe a specific one, like a Naruto character or a Ninja Turtle. Today, ninjas are all around us. They’re in our…
Matthew S. Burns Published October 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedDota 2 Turns Into A Haunted House For Halloween
Dota 2 has always led the MOBA pack in rad game modes and fun seasonal Halloween content, but they managed to outdo even themselves this year with “Haunted Colosseum.” It’s a new custom game mode that makes Dota much more…haunted. More in a ridiculous slap-stick way than a creepy one. As the name implies, “Haunted…
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedPlanetary Physicist Tries To Work Out The Science Behind Halo
The temperature is dropping and it’s threatening to snow, so why not cozy up with Worth Reading, your weekly guide to the best in games writing? C’mon. Hey, You Should Read These “Halo Science 101” by Kevin Grazier This is an old piece, but I love stuff like this. Kevin Grazier takes the ridiculous fiction…
By Patrick Klepek Published October 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Sony’s announced its PlayStation Plus lineup for November, which includes The Walking Dead: Season Two and Magika 2 on PS4. PS3 owners are getting Mass Effect 2 and Beyond Good & Evil; it’s Dragon Fin Soup and Invizimals on Vita. Contact the author at [email protected]
By Patrick Klepek Published October 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Festival South By Southwest has reinstated the two cancelled gaming panels, and announced an all-day seminar. One panel was about harassment; the other, GamerGate-leaning panel focused on ethics and politics. Both return, though SXSW will work with them to “to develop the most productive focus for their appearances.”
By Patrick Klepek Published October 30, 2015 -
CultureSplitscreenWhat It’s Really Like To Work At Kotaku
Ever wondered what a day in the life of a Kotaku editor is like? Curious about what it’s really like to work here? We’ve got just the podcast for you. Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we take a behind-the-scenes look at the well-known Destiny fan-site Kotaku. We also talk about our ideal Nintendo mobile games (hint:…
By Jason Schreier Published October 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedBadass Player Makes GTA Online Look Like A Horror Movie
Wow. GTA Online can be damn terrifying! Yesterday, GTA Online got a special holiday update that included a new “Slasher Adversary” mode. Seven people get flashlights. One person gets a shotgun. If the prey can survive for three minutes, they get a chance to be a slasher. Obviously, this is pretty seasonally appropriate given that…
By Patricia Hernandez Published October 30, 2015 - Reviews
Halo 5: Guardians: The Kotaku Review
Halo 5: Guardians is the first time I haven’t loved a Halo game. Though, thankfully, the latest chapter in the sci-fi shooter universe has a few things going for it. Development studio 343’s second Halo game since taking on the mantle of responsibility from Bungie three years ago tries to tell the story of a…
By Tina Amini Published October 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
What the New Assassin’s Creed Gets Wrong (and Right), According to a Historian
Bob Whitaker, a historian of modern Britain at Louisiana Tech and the host of the YouTube series History Respawned, recommends Assassin’s CreedSyndicate, the entertaining new Ubisoft game set in Victorian London. He likes the way it successfully captures the feel of the British capital in the 19th century, and he particularly likes the way the…
By Chris Suellentrop Published October 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedStreet Fighter EX Character Gets A Badass Tribute Video
It’s an awesome combo video with a twist: Street Fighter veteran Desk used Street Fighter IV’s Mexican luchador El Fuerte and one of the game’s new horror costumes to recreate the goofy fan favorite from the EX series. He even remixed Skullomania’s theme to make it perfect. To contact the author of this post, write…
By Gergo Vas Published October 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedReal-Life First-Person Shooter, Controlled Through Chatroulette
RealmPictures’ concept was to build an immersive first person shooter level, and let unsuspecting people on Chatroulette take control of the protagonist. They had to make it perfect for it to be immersive, but it’s safe to say they succeeded. Their first level took place in a garden, so this second one is a huge…
By Gergo Vas Published October 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Mario Sure Likes To Play Dress-up
This piece of fanart illustrates just twelve of Mario’s many, many outfits. Here’s the artwork itself: Called “A Fashionable Plumber,” it was drawn by Dave Bardin, a freelance illustrator, over the course of several months. It would make a cool poster. There’s a sampling of Bardin’s other works below. You can find more, mostly comic-related,…
By András Neltz Published October 30, 2015 -
Kotaku EastThink Pixar, But Japanese
This is the closest I’ve seen to a Japanese-made Pixar-style animated short. So, I’m guessing it’ll be the closest you’ve seen, too. This is Tokyo Cosmo. It’s an independent animation made by a small Japanese team. It was entered in Digicon 6 Asia, a short movie contest. I quite like it. Maybe you will also.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 30, 2015 - Kotaku East
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth: the Kotaku Import Preview
Digimon. Digital Monsters. Digimon are the champions. Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth follows a young teen (in my case, a girl named Ami) and her adventures in both the real world and the virtual reality world of EDEN. One day, she and her two friends, Nokia and Arata, are given the hacker ability to capture and…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published October 30, 2015 - Kotaku East
Running Your Own Game Company Seems Exhausting
Maybe you have fantasies of becoming a famous game creator with your own game studio. You should also have fantasies of not sleeping. This is Akihiro Hino. He is the president of Level-5, the studio he founded and the studio behind Yokai Watch and Professor Layton. He writes, produces, and designs games. He also doesn’t…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 30, 2015 - Kotaku East
Making a Zombie Film During a Zombie Outbreak is Wonderfully Silly
If your first thought at the outbreak of a real zombie apocalypse would be to grab a camera because the resulting footage will look great in your zombie movie, you’re probably a character in the newest Neptunia title. The Neptunia series was created around a fun concept: What if game consoles—i.e., the Playstation 3, Xbox…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published October 30, 2015 - Kotaku East
Classroom Crisis: The Kotaku Anime Review
If I were to try to briefly describe what the anime Classroom Crisis is like, I’d say it’s similar to an 80s “save the rec-center” movie—only set on Mars and involving teenage rocket scientists. …Okay, actually, that may make it sound better than it really is. In the not-so-distant future, mankind has colonized Mars thanks…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published October 30, 2015 - Kotaku East
Nintendo’s Bold Predictions for the Future
Yesterday, Nintendo unveiled its new mobile app Miitomo. Some folks were underwhelmed! They might be counting Nintendo out. Don’t count Nintendo out. In a newly published interview with Nikkei, Nintendo boss Tatsumi Kimishima briefly mentioned some of the Kyoto-based game maker’s ambitious plans. Kimishima explained that Nintendo started first with Miitomo because a communication app…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 30, 2015 - Kotaku East
I Am a Hero Is a Manga That Does Zombies Right
Zombies—if you’ll pardon the pun—is a genre that just won’t die. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t still good stories to dig up if you look for them. I Am a Hero is one such gem. In terms of outbreak stories, Japanese manga has some really amazing go-to examples I like to bring up whenever…
By Toshi Nakamura Published October 30, 2015