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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why the HoloLens is a greater thing than you might think • A New Sub-genre of Music Is Growing in Japan • Under the Dog Loses Producers • A Visual Novel Fan’s Opinion on Eroge • Spacemon – A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 1, Chapter…
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UncategorizedThe Beginning Of A Beautiful Live-Action Naruto Battle
Fighting filmmakers Epic Rivals teases its upcoming live-action Naruto short film, with the most perfect Tenten and Neji ever prepare to test their might. I love a good live-action fighting short, and Epic Rivals, creators of last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-as-humans videohave certainly established their pedigree. It’s also great to see Tenten and Neji…
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UncategorizedEight Crazy Hacking Scenes That Shouldn’t Exist
Hack the planet! And I thought Hugh Jackman’s dancing scene with the 3D cubes from the 2001 movie Swordfish was weird, this recent video from Dorkly proves some movies and TV shows had much crazier scenes with hackers doing the impossible. Here are eight of them where typing fast and not hitting Enter or Space…
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World Shark? World Shark. It was built by Planet Minecraft’s Zeckou, who calls it a live coral reef, which explains the little floating fish and jellyfish. It’s also deceptively big. Check below for the hi-res version of the three pics and the obligatory in-game shots, and click here for the world download As I said,…
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Kotaku EastTaiwan To Fine Parents of Kids Who Spend Too Much Time on Mobile
I used to think that Taiwan was less archaic and draconian than the Chinese mainland. Turns out I was wrong. Taiwan’s ETTV reportsthat last Friday, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan, think Congress, approved new regulations that would fine parents of children under the age of 18 are using electronic devices for extended periods of times. The heaviest…
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Four Creative (if Bizarre) Games from Global Game Jam Beijing
The Global Game Jam, where thousands upon thousands of gamers join together to create a video game over a weekend, is over, and this year, for the first time ever, the game jam also came to Beijing. China has had development teams participate in the GGJ in the past. Over the last four years, Shanghai…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Behind Microsoft’s Holographic Wall
This past week Microsoft debuted Hololens, a holographic Windows 10 interface that could hide a Minecraft-like game behind your walls. What else can the holographic Windows of the future help us hide? Strap on your ‘Shop Contest goggles, kids. Now before you get all excited, no porn. It’s not that it’s offensive so much as…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Make Your Own Damn Zelda New 3DS XL: Winners!
Undaunted by the seeming shortage of Majora’s Mask limited edition New Nintendo 3DS XL consoles hitting North America on February 13, our Photoshop-savvy readers made their own, resulting in possibly the largest number of entries in ‘Shop Contest history, all of them gorgeous. When I say they are all gorgeous, I mean it. Nearly every…
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Sunday Comics: No Need To Yell
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 January 24. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 19. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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24 Karat Gold PS4 And Xbox One Controllers Are Dumb, Almost Sold Out
Earlier this week the folks at ColorWare (“The Color People” is probably not their slogan) released an extremely limited run of 24 karat gold-plated PlayStation 4 and Xbox One controllers. At $300 a piece the PS4 controllers are already sold out. Granted only 25 of each console’s controller were made, but that just makes the…
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Brian Fargo Revives Another Interplay Classic With The Bard’s Tale IV
Now that Wasteland 2 is out and the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment is nearly complete, Brian Fargo’s inXile is preparing to Kickstart the sequel to another classic Interplay RPG with The Bard’s Tale IV, a sequel 27 years in the making. Released in 1985 (happy 30th anniversary), Tales of the Unknown: The Bard’s Tale…
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UncategorizedArenaNet Reveals Heart Of Thorns, The First Expansion For Guild Wars 2
The news Guild Wars 2 players have been eagerly awaiting for ages is finally here. ArenaNet has announced Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, and expansion pack that takes players deep into the heart of the Maguum Jungle armed with mastery abilities and a brand new profession — the Revenant. In Heart of Thorns, Guild…
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UncategorizedFirst-Person Yoshi’s Island Gets A Little Too Personal
If the idea of Mario’s ride ingesting Shy Guys and spitting them out as eggs in Yoshi’s Island made you uneasy, this 3D first-person recreation of the game’s first level will not help at all. Bestvegeta has taken the opening level of one of Nintendo’s best platformers and made it weird. It’s one thing to…
By Mike Fahey
