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Joe Biden Gets Too Close To Anime Girls
What is it with this administration? First the President goes on an anime-is-real crusade, and now Vice President Biden is invading the personal space of anime girls. Sheesh! Twitter user @neontaster recently uploaded these images, showing the V.P. getting a little too close: [Photo: neontaster] [Photo: neontaster] [Photo: neontaster] Of course, a couple of images…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 2, 2015 -
UncategorizedOur First Look at the Next Trine
The last new entry to the Trine action-adventure-platformer series was with Goblin Menace in 2012, an expansion for Trine 2, which itself came out in late 2011. So yeah, it’s been a pretty long time, and it looks like Trine 3 is right around the corner… ish. Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power will star…
By András Neltz Published March 2, 2015 - Kotaku East
Detective Conan Has His Own Airport in Japan
We’re not just talking about an airplane, but an entire airport that’s named after the famous manga and anime character Detective Conan. The character appears in the series known by the same name (though, in North America and the UK, the manga and anime are called Case Closed). [Photo: singo0822] Websites AnimeAnime, Natalie, and ModelPress…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 2, 2015 - Uncategorized
What Comic Books Don’t Show You
It’s not always exciting to be a superhero. There’s downtime, when superheroes go back to their daily lives, screw around, play jokes on each other, and pass the day. Finally, we get to see all this recreated in collectible figures and slick photography. Using Hot Toys figures and little toy props, photographer Edy Hardjo recreates…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 2, 2015 -
Kotaku EastThe World’s Most Advanced Hug Pillow
Technology! It does good things like make our lives better. You know, like making things such as computers, smartphones and talking hug pillows possible. As noted on Japanese site Weekly ASCII, a researcher named Kouchi Uchimura pitched his idea for a talking hug pillow platform called Itasupo on crowd-funding site Makuake (think Kickstarter), with the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 2, 2015 - Uncategorized
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By Luke Plunkett Published March 1, 2015 - Culture
League Of Legends’ Character Art Is Awesome
Jason Chan once worked at Massive Black (and also once drew Kotaku mascots). He’s now at Riot Games, the guys who make League of Legends. I’m not the world’s biggest League of Legends fan, but hot damn, every time I see the character art for the game I get tempted. It’s a testament to not…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 1, 2015 - Uncategorized
There will never be another Kotaku ‘Shop Contest ever again until next week. Due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control, this week’s contest has been postponed. Fahey may be convinced to run a new one tomorrow instead should a good enough idea arise. Until then, here’s a picture of a man hugging an aardvark he found…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2015 - CultureCosplay
Dragon Age Cosplay Is Very, Very Fancy
Ophidia’s take on Dragon Age’s Morrigan here may as well be a promo shot for a HBO series. It goes to show that as awesome as an outfit can be, sometimes it’s the location that turns a good cosplay shoot into a great one. Photos by aKami777
By Luke Plunkett Published March 1, 2015 - Uncategorized
Guilty Pleasure: Sweet Drawings Of Military Aircraft
I did a post the other day on Total War’s art, which has been collected into a book, and while looking at that publisher’s site I saw something that made me lose my shit, just a little. It was a book called Warbirds It’s a book full of images done by Adam Tooby, whose job…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 1, 2015 - Reviews
Hori Racing Wheel For Xbox One: The Kotaku Review
Pursuing my newfound love of racing wheels has been an expensive endeavor—so far I’ve played with a $400 Mad Catzwheel and a $400 Thrustmaster wheel. Ringing up at a modest $90, the Hori Racing Wheel for the Xbox One provides excellent motivation for spending a lot more. What It Is TheHori Racing Wheel is the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2015 - Culture
The Week In Games: Down With Triple A
With big budget retail games resting for the next week, the next seven days shall be dominated by the indie, the budget and the downloadable. I am not complaining. Having played a ton of the $39.99 Screamride this weekend, I’m looking forward to other players getting their hands on the game and creating their own…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2015 - Uncategorized
Dead Or Alive Community Leaders Soft Ban Sexy Costumes At Tournaments
Acknowledging that the Dead or Alive fighting franchise has a sexy image problem, community leaders at the series’ go-to forum have added an over-sexualized costume soft-ban to their tournament rules. Reactions from the community-at-large have been overwhelmingly negative. With the biggest competitive tournament push in franchise history accompanying the release of Dead or Alive 5:…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2015 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: A Better Class of Game Criticism: Part 1 • Games People Hate: A Primer • Pre-Cult: Transistor • Assassination Classroom Makes Me Like the Octopus Guy • Elihu’s Four in February 2015: A Journey Through Time and Space [Majora’s Mask & Metroid Prime] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…
By András Neltz Published March 1, 2015 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Commander In Chief Of Anime: Winners!
Does President Obama really love anime? It really doesn’t matter. What does matter is it’s so much fun imagining he does thatlast week’s Kotaku ‘Shop Contest produced some of the most wonderful work of the year thus far. Fresh from telling funny anecdotes about the children he teaches on Facebook, GiantBoyDetective brings home the imagined…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2015 -
UncategorizedLight Trivia Fails To Sap The Scary From Five Night At Freddy’s
Having had nightmares about animatronic animals for most of my life, I’m fine learning about Five Nights At Freddy’s through second-hand sources. Between Patricia’s excellent explainer and Did You Know Gaming‘s latest video, I’m all set. Did you know animatronic animals are terrifying? Robots I can handle, but the moment you start dressing them up…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2015
