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If you’re having trouble downloading anything on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you’re not alone, as the App Store and iTunes has been down for several hours. Given Apple earned $4.8 billion from the two storefronts last quarter, you’d imagine it’ll be up real soon. As of this writing, here’s how Apple is reporting the…
By Patrick Klepek Published March 11, 2015 - Culture
Tell Us Your PAX Love Stories
Walk around a PAX convention and you’ll see more than just video games: you’ll see tons of bonding. Cosplayers gather together for pictures, developers visit each other’s booths, and, sometimes, even new love blooms. There are plenty of opportunities—both orchestrated and serendipitous—to meet new friends and new loves. Did you meet any new romantic interests…
By Tina Amini Published March 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
Game Freak, developers of the Pokemon games, is teaming up with Sega for a 2D action platformer called—wait for it—Tembo The Badass Elephant It’s coming to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 this summer, and has already locked up best new game name of 2015. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected]…
By Patrick Klepek Published March 11, 2015 -
UncategorizedA Game Where You Have to Fight Against Becoming Vaporware
Longtime gamers know how terrible it is to keep waiting and waiting for vaporware. Turns out the characters inside these stillborn worlds hate not knowing where they’re coming out, too. Games like Duke Nukem Forever and Daikatana have shown that the years of pining away for an anticipated game build up massive amounts of frustration…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
With New Mod, Fans Are Making Sure System Shock 2 Never Ends
There are few games with more loyal followings than System Shock 2, Ken Levine’s classic sci-fi horror game. System Shock Infinite, an ambitious fan mod, kicks into gear as the game ends. System Shock Infinite has been in development for a few years now, with regular updates flowing to ModDB. Just a few days ago,…
By Patrick Klepek Published March 11, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe First Five Minutes Of Parallax, First-Person Portal Puzzler
Traversing portals to solve puzzles split between two worlds, one black and white, the other white and black? Sounds like a simple enough concept to grasp in five minutes. Toasty Games’ Parallax, launched this week on Steam, is a $10 puzzle game with sharp style and a game mechanic borrowed from the grandparents of the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
If you’re looking for a reason to dive back into Titanfall, here’s a good one: all of the downloadable content is now free on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC (on Origin!). Not bad. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek
By Patrick Klepek Published March 11, 2015 -
UncategorizedGTA V Character Jokes About How Long It Took for Heists to Come Out
“I know you’ve been complaining but you weren’t ready. Now, maybe, just maybe you are.” Grand Theft Auto V was supposed to get online multiplayer co-op Heists soon after the PS3 and Xbox 360 release of the game’s first iteration. Then a year later, Heists were still absent from the new-gen versions of Rockstar’s hit.…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Kirby and The Rainbow Curse: The TAY Review • Masterwork Mondays: Shaman King • Pokémon One a Day, Series 2: Espeon, Umbreon, Murkrow TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By András Neltz Published March 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
What’s Your Favorite Chrono Trigger Memory?
Chrono Trigger, a video game about a guy with spiky hair who refuses to talk to any of his friends, officially turns 20 today, because we are all old as hell. Yep, Chrono Trigger was originally released for the Super Nintendo on March 11, 1995, forever changing the way we look at frogs. To celebrate,…
By Jason Schreier Published March 11, 2015 -
UncategorizedTen Easy Ways To Make Gold In World of Warcraft
With subscription tokens, purchasable with gold, coming to WoW, people with enough in-game gold income might get away with not paying any real money to keep their account active. So why not go through a bunch of methods on how to make a small fortune in Warlords of Draenor? They might come in handy soon.…
By Gergo Vas Published March 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
Uncharted 4 Delayed to Spring 2016
The next entry in Naughty Dog’s well-loved action/adventure franchise won’t be out this year, according to Uncharted 4 directors Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann. Druckmann and Straley broke the news on the official PlayStation blog: Since we showed you our first gameplay reveal of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, more of the game and story…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 11, 2015 -
UncategorizedHuge Star Wars LEGO Set Is Full of Cool Details
The AT-AT walkers are slowly advancing on Echo Base in Martin Harris‘ Battle of Hoth diorama. It’s a huge one that includes everything we’ve seen in The Empire Strikes Back: Snowspeeders, a complete rebel base, a giant snowy battlefield and a some other tiny things. Here’s a video from The Brick Show showing all of…
By Gergo Vas Published March 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
Shovel Knight in Smash? Maybe someday. The eponymous hero of Shovel Knight was drawn by DeviantArt’s hextupleyoodot, AKA Artsy Omni, the guy behind the Rayman “leak,” as part of his Smashified series. You can find more of his art in his DeviantArt gallery here Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some…
By András Neltz Published March 11, 2015 - Kotaku East
How To Get Perfect Sailor Moon Hair
One of the most iconic things about Sailor Moon is Usagi’s hairdo. Just look at it. Isn’t that just terrific? It really is. Japanese site Naver Matome recently did a roundup on the ways to do this hairstyle. Over the past few years, there have been several explainers on YouTube. Some of them are easy…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2015 -
UncategorizedLeague of Legends Made with 44,000 Dominos
YouTuber Tobben Domino brings League of Legends to life in domino form. What do you say about that? You can see five champions take on five champions—kind of like in the game. That is, if League of Legends was made of tens of thousands of dominos. To contact the author of this post, write to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2015 - Kotaku East
Sony Japan announced today it’s ending the PlayStation Mobile service. After July 15, no new paid content will be added to the store, and after September 10, you won’t be able to re-download any purchases. No word yet on how this impacts the service outside Japan.
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2015 - Reviews
The Anime Encyclopedia 3rd Edition: The Kotaku Review
First released in 2001, The Anime Encyclopedia has long been a mainstay of many an anime fan’s bookshelf. Now, fourteen years later, comes the third edition: 4.6 pounds and 1160 pages covering anime from its genesis to the summer of 2014. That is a lot of anime—and it even includes a staggering amount of entries…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published March 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
Which JRPG Has Better Sliding: Xenoblade Chronicles X or FFXV?
There are many things we could compare between Xenoblade Chronicles X and Final Fantasy XV. But today, we’re going to see which has the coolest-looking sliding. That’s right, sliding The hell am I talking about? This. Above, you can see a GIF of Prompto Argentum‘s sliding attack from Final Fantasy XV, which Kotaku recently checked…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2015 -
UncategorizedDragon Ball Figures Are Cooler with Holograms
Sorry, cooler? No. I meant, hotter Using a Dragon Ball Goku figure and a clear pyramid, Brazil’s ZW Design created this impressive hologram effect. If you are interested in how effects like these are made, YouTuber RimstarOrg has a helpful walkthrough. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2015