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Despite the community showing up, California’s popular Super Arcade had its new location turned down again. Founder Mike Watson is filing an appeal, but it won’t be heard until September. Read our previous story if you missed how the city of Azusa, California has made Super Arcade’s life difficult in recent months. Contact the author…
By Patrick Klepek Published July 16, 2015 - Uncategorized
The Big Things That Change When Someone Else Becomes Batman
Batman is Bruce Wayne. Except, of course, when he isn’t. Other folks have worn the pointy ears of Gotham City’s shadowy superhero over the years, too, and every new Batman brings a few changes with them as well. In the comics these days, we’ve got a cop in a robot suit as the Dark Knight.…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 16, 2015 -
UncategorizedRiot Says It’s Fixing League Of Legends’ Crippling Teleportation Bug
League of Legends took a big hit last night thanks to a bug affecting a standard teleporting move that every playable character regularly uses. While Riot still hasn’t gotten its hugely popular multiplayer game back up to full speed quite yet, the developer said that it’s now found a fix. The bug was first discovered…
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 16, 2015 -
UncategorizedA Horror Game That Stops Working When Too Many People Die
There aren’t usually “endings” for mulitplayer games—it keeps going until people stop being interested. But the developers behind multiplayer horror game The Flock have different plans. The community has a finite number of lives burn through, and when they’re gone, it’s all over. Here’s the game’s setup: Set in the year 3000, an unrecognizable Earth…
By Patrick Klepek Published July 16, 2015 - Uncategorized
There’s DLC coming for Never Alone, the touching indie adventure produced by an Alaskan Native community. The Foxtales add-onis due on July 28 and will feature all-new springtime environments for Nuna and Fox to romp through. In addition to the DLC, Never Alone is also coming to PS3 and Vita too. Contact the author at…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 16, 2015 - Uncategorized
Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection: The Basics
What it is: Why, it’s a PS3 game ported to PS4! Make that three of them, three excellent PS3 action-adventure games, Uncharted 1-3 (just the singleplayer), ported by development studio Bluepoint, coming out in lieu of the delayed-out-of-2015 Uncharted 4 on October 9. What’s been changed: I saw it at a PlayStation demo event yesterday,…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 16, 2015 -
UncategorizedTelltale’s next Game of Thrones episode, A Nest of Vipers, arrives next week. It’s the same schedule as before: Tuesday on PC, Mac, PS3, and PS4. On Wednesday, it hits Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Then, on Thursday, those with iOS devices can join in.
By Patrick Klepek Published July 16, 2015 -
UncategorizedAdventure Time In 3D Is Uncomfortable
I know change in general can be immediately off-putting just by virtue of it being a change, but, Adventure Time as a 3D animation is… D: Maybe it’s the loss of exaggerated eyeball motions and facial expressions, or the pronounced boyishness in Finn. Whatever it is, this rendition of season 2’s episode, “Go With Me,”…
By Tina Amini Published July 16, 2015 - Uncategorized
Deadpool hasn’t been available on Steam since December 2013, but seemingly out of nowhere, the action game has returned Something tells me it’s because the merc with a mouth has a movie coming out in February 2016. Contact the author at [email protected]
By Patrick Klepek Published July 16, 2015 - Uncategorized
Satoru Iwata Memorial At The Nintendo World Store In NYC
This was the scene just inside the Nintendo World Store near Rockefeller Center in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon. A touching tribute—especially those bananas—to the passing of the Nintendo’s well-regarded president: While the big line of Nintendo fans outside was for Amiibos, there were several people inside waiting to write messages honoring Nintendo’s late president and…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 16, 2015 -
UncategorizedGuy Beats Ocarina of Time With DDR Pad
You’ve probably seen people glitch the hell out of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and you may have seen people beat it with blindfolds on. But have you ever seen anyone beat it with a dancepad? Video-maker ATwerkinYoshi—who also has one of the greatest handles on the internet—has spent the past few months recording video of…
By Jason Schreier Published July 16, 2015 - Uncategorized
World of Warcraft‘s PvP Is Getting a Big Change
Doing all the Tanaan Jungle dailies and raiding Hellfire Citadel are pretty fun in Warlords of Draenor, but even after patch 6.2, there’s one thing that’s just not shaping up as intended: the large PvP island Ashran. In an upcoming patch, a new feature called “Mercenary Mode” that allows players to join the battle for…
By Gergo Vas Published July 16, 2015 -
UncategorizedIf Pokémon Evolutions Were Realistic
Bad news Bulbasaur. You might be one of the most popular Pokémon out there, with the ability to evolve into Ivysaur and Venusaur, but in the real world, things would be a bit different, and natural selection would settle things really quickly. Darwinism has a word with Pokémon evolution in Dorkly’s latest video: To contact…
By Gergo Vas Published July 16, 2015 -
Kotaku EastWidescreen Can Make NES Games Better
The classic 1980s baseball game Bases Loaded is coming to the PS4. And it looks like Bases Loaded! But widescreen. Via Inside, you can see in the above screenshot what the PS4 version will look like. Compare with a clip of the NES version below. Bases Loaded was originally released in arcades, but as a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2015 - Uncategorized
Angry Birds 2 Will Be Released This Month
Never mind that there are already fifteen Angry Birds games, Finnish developer Roviojust announced a sequel to Angry Birds. It’s called Angry Birds 2. To date, Rovio has made twelve games in the main series (including a sequel to Angry Birds Star Wars called, wait for it, Angry Birds Star Wars II) and three spin-offs…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2015 -
Kotaku EastHandsome Men, Goofy Anime
Gakuen Handsome is a silly game. Silly on purpose. The same looks true for the anime version. The Boys’s Love title, which is set in all-boys school, is getting an original anime video this August in Japan. Titled Gakuen Handsome: The Animation, the 30-minute DVD is priced at 2,980 yen (around US$25) and features the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2015 - Kotaku East
The Cute World of Japanese Warning Signs
Why make boring looking warning signs when you can make cute ones? Seriously. Photographer Luca Eandi has been uploading sign photos to the Tumblr blog Signs of Japan Many are adorable, and provide a nice look at Japanese graphic design and visual culture. The sign warns people not to enter because the construction site behind…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2015 -
Kotaku EastFighting Over Senpai
What do you get when you combine martial-arts style wire work, green screens, and notice-me-senpai? This, apparently. Akihabara idol group Dempagumi.inc appears in this Mets soft drink spot, with all the members vying for their senpai’s attention. If you’re curious how this was made, watch the behind-the-scenes clip below. To contact the author of this…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2015
