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People Can Now Charge Money For Game Mods On Steam
Generally speaking, PC game mods are free. Steam, however, just added an option to let creators charge for them. This is pretty huge. Valve made the announcement with a new Steam page, adding that Skyrim is the first game that will support the ability to charge for player-made modifications via Steam Workshop. Unlike in games…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 23, 2015 -
UncategorizedSmash Bros. Players Found A Way To Break Mewtwo
The most menacing Pokémon of all can become quite game-breaking in the hands of savvy Smash Bros. players. Following the early release of Mewtwo for Club Nintendo members, Smash Bros. players have found a curious bug that can transform Mewtwo into a god. While Mewtwo does not have custom moves, players figured out that if…
By Patricia Hernandez Published April 23, 2015 - Uncategorized
PSN Pre-Order Glitch Has Gone Ignored For Months
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 has been out for a while now, but a pre-order glitch has been causing havoc for users, and Sony has yet to address it. This seems wrong. A lengthy threadon the PlayStation support forum (and another on Capcom’s forums) has been around since late February, and details how a quirk with…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 23, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Fake Video Game Rumor Someone Spread For… Homework
What drives a person to make up a video game rumor and spread it around the internet? They might do it for the fame or the infamy. Maybe for a laugh. Sometimes, it’s… to get a good grade on a college paper. In early March, a Reddit user going by the name certain_ability posted a…
By Jason Schreier Published April 23, 2015 - Culture
Tell Us About The Time You Exploited A Game
I’ll admit it: I’m not above exploiting a game if I feel like it adds to the experience. In the case of Left 4 Dead 2, when I ran into some players who taught me a trick to lagging out the game, I was happy to play along. The trick was you had to quickly…
By Tina Amini Published April 23, 2015 - Uncategorized
Square Enix has confirmed it’ll be holding an E3 press conference on June 16, which suggests the publisher has lots to show off in Los Angeles. We’re sure to hear more about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (and maybe Final Fantasy XV?!) around then. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 23, 2015 -
UncategorizedOverlord Is Finally Coming Back, But I Have Concerns
It’s been six years since Codemasters released an Overlord, but I’ve gotta admit Overlord: Fellowship of Evil is not the sequel I was expecting. They seem to have turned it into Diablo. What made Overlord so interesting and unique was both its sense of humor (you play as the quasi bad guy, after all) and…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 23, 2015 -
UncategorizedMario Kart 8 Is Now Officially The Cutest Mario Kart Ever
Mario Kart 8’s second batch of DLC finally came out today. Just like the first round that added Zelda and F-Zero stuff into the mix, this one looks pretty rad. Perhaps more importantly, it also looks ridiculously, disgustingly cute. What’s in the new DLC, exactly? 8 new tracks (divided into two cups), three new characters,…
By Yannick LeJacq Published April 23, 2015 -
UncategorizedPlay GTA V As A Deer In Rainy Los Santos Using A New PC Mod
It’s finally possible to embrace your inner animal and become a chimp, deer, fish, or countless other things in Grand Theft Auto V, thanks to the quick advances of the modding community. If we ever had any doubts GTA V would become moddable on PC, they’re now gone. Modder Alexander Blade has released Script Hook,…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 23, 2015 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets just announced his first game since leaving Ubisoft, and although details are scant, it’s got the clunky title Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. Eurogamerwas in attendance for the reveal in Dubrovnik, and you can watch the teaser there (but don’t expect much—it’s just a teaser).
By Jason Schreier Published April 23, 2015 - Uncategorized
Dota Renders Sure Are Detailed
Valve artist Max Aristov shared renders of a couple of Dota character models with a very high polygon count. And even without textures, they look like real-life sculptures or minifigs from a board game, not something from a MOBA. Maybe one day technology and PCs will catch up, and instead of the current low-poly models,…
By Gergo Vas Published April 23, 2015 -
UncategorizedOur First Real Look At Actual Gameplay In Mad Max
For the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen a non-stop deluge of trailers for the upcoming Mad Max movie, which comes out next month. Now it’s time to get a real look at the game, too. This new Mad Max, developed by Avalanche Studios (best known for Just Cause), is mostly a third-person action game,…
By Jason Schreier Published April 23, 2015 -
UncategorizedMechanical LEGO Display Is Another Level Of Awesomeness
You don’t often see clever builds like this Technic Dot Matrix Display by AncientJames from New Zealand. As the reel starts rolling, the patterns on the cards inside correspond with the patterns on the display and can show anything that fits into a 5×5 square. The creator’s video is titled, “Everything is awesome”. Well, this…
By Gergo Vas Published April 23, 2015 - Kotaku East
Pokémon Artist Creates “2.5D Manga,” and It’s Incredible
Manga is flat. It’s on printed paper. It’s two-dimensional. This manga is somewhat different and totally wonderful. As pointed out by Get News, this “2.5D manga” was created by an artist named Muneo Saito. Besides working as a manga artist on several comics published in Weekly Shonen Sunday and CoroCoro Comic, Saito did the manga…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 23, 2015 -
Kotaku EastYakuza Movies Don’t Get More Bonkers Than This
Vampire yakuza, minigun-toting trucks, a guy in a flying fuzzy frog suit… Sounds like Miike Takashi all right. Miike, of course, is the filmmaker behind such movies as Ichi the Killer and Audition. Gokudo Daisenso (極道大戦争 ) or roughly translated, “The Great Yakuza War” is an upcoming movie from director Miike Takashi that’s about… it’s…
By Toshi Nakamura Published April 23, 2015 -
Kotaku EastHow to Become Pokémon World Champion
Se Jun Park won the Pokémon Video Game World Champion Master’s Division last year. You’d think preparing for a tournament that has the words “world” and “champion” in it would require months of dedicated prep beforehand. You’d think. “Actually, I spent less time playing Pokémon in 2014 than I ever have ever since I really…
By Toshi Nakamura Published April 23, 2015 - Kotaku East
The Gold Darth Vader Helmet You’ve Always Wanted
The Dark Side of the Force? Oh no. This is the bling side. Tokyo’s Ginza Tanaka has covered a Darth Vader helmet in gold. According to The Wall Street Journal, the jeweler won’t divulge how much it cost to create this glittery Vader and isn’t offering the mask for sale. Instead, as Reuters adds, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 23, 2015 - Kotaku East
The Latest Idolmaster Anime is Somewhat Lacking
Cute anime girls on stage singing and dancing… S’okay, but I feel I should be more entertained than I actually am. The iDOLM@ASTER: Cinderella Girls is the spiritual successor to The iDOLM@STER anime. Where The iDOLM@STER was based on the Xbox 360/PS3 game, Cinderella Girls is based on the smartphone spin-off. While both shows supposedly…
By Toshi Nakamura Published April 23, 2015 -
UncategorizedBloodborne Loads Way Faster After New Update, Hooray
Bloodborne’s biggest flaw has now been fixed thanks to a new patch. Instead of suffering through 45+ second load times, now you can enjoy 10-15 second load times. Think of all the deaths you can fit into every session now! You can see the new load times in the video above. The exact time it…
By Patricia Hernandez Published April 23, 2015
