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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Mareep, Flaaffy, Ampharos • Indie HYPE: Breach and Clear: Deadline • Indie HYPE: Fortified! • The deadpan TAY Review – “New” 3DS XL • Pre Cult: Octodad: Dadliest Catch • My Teenage Romantic Comedy SNAFU: Ani-TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…
By András Neltz Published February 16, 2015 -
CultureTotal RecallNintendo’s Ballsy Star Wars Knock-Off
Nintendo had a pretty strange relationship with Star Wars in the early years of its video game enterprise. We’ve already seen the weird shit that went down when Star Wars came to the NES, but a 1979 arcade game was even weirder. This is art for Nintendo Space Launcher, one of the company’s earlier arcade…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 16, 2015 - Uncategorized
How Items In Pokémon Would Actually Work
The fine folks at Dorkly imagined how Pokémon items—that usually are just a few pixels with a short description—would actually look like. Here’s the “Ring Target” (moves that would otherwise have no effect would land on the Pokémon that holds it) above, and a few more below. To see all of them head over to…
By Gergo Vas Published February 16, 2015 - Uncategorized
Diablo III Player Reaches Level 1,000 Without Dying
Gaining 1,000 Paragon levels in Diablo III is no small feat and it’s only accomplished by a very few amount of players. But doing it on Hardcore difficulty, where your character’s death is permanent, that’s some next level insanity. Ukranian player Nokieka is the first in the world to do it. According to Battle.net and…
By Gergo Vas Published February 16, 2015 - Kotaku East
Let Zelda Remakes Show You How Instruction Booklets Are Vanishing
These days, many companies—Nintendo, included—have been moving away from game booklets. That’s making some nostalgic for the days of printed instructions. Newly released The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D does not come with a printed instruction booklet in Japan, something Twitter user Cocoa was quick to point out was a buzzkill. [Photo:p_cocoa_f] There’s simply…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 16, 2015 - Kotaku East
The Sources of One Piece. It Seems.
Ever feel like you’ve seen One Piece characters somewhere else before? It’s not just you who thinks that. In the past, Kotaku has profiled the ways that One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda allegedly borrowed from other cartoons. There was also that image showing the famous people that appear to have inspired numerous One Piece characters.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 16, 2015 - Kotaku East
From Dragon Ball to DoTA, Here’s a Resort for Geeks
This is Jed’s Island Resort. There are many places in the Philippines to unwind in the sun. There is only one resort with a DoTA Tauren Chieftain statue. Since 1995, Jed’s Island Resort has been severing vacationers in the province of Bulacan. The resort continually rotates out new statues that are often video game, anime,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 16, 2015 -
UncategorizedSpace Game Tricks Me Into Enjoying The Boring Stuff
When I first saw Offworld Trading Company, the videos were full of cute little spaceships on an alien planet…and while those things technically feature, this is not really a space strategy game. Despite the fact that the same guy who was lead designer on Civ IV was in charge of OTC’s development, you’re not getting…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 15, 2015 - Culture
Cyberpunk Diablo & Studio Ghibli’s Star Wars: An Artist’s Impressions
Stormtroopers are comical at the best of times. Turn them into bearded Studio Ghibli sidekicks and they become downright slapstick. And yeah, Diablo is a fantasy series, but close your eyes and try for a second to imagine it as a cyberpunk thing instead, with neon lights, hacking and sweet future motorbikes. These images, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedMaybe The Laziest RPG You Could Ever Play
Dreeps is an RPG where you do almost nothing. And as terrible as that may seem, I actually kinda like the idea. Designed for iOS, it asks you to simply set an alarm. When you wake up in the morning, a little robot boy in the game will also wake up and start adventuring, all…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedKinect Is Teaching Cops Some Sweet Beatdown Moves
So Microsoft’s Kinect was a video gaming bust. Whatever. It’s still got its uses. Like…helping police work on their “use of force options” against suspects. You know, whether to shout or shoot at a guy. Prepare for unintentionally hilarious police action/acting. Via Attract Mode, the Windows version of the peripheral is being used as part…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 15, 2015 - Culture
The Week In Games: A Large Order Of Kirby
Why wait until Friday for Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, when you can wait until Friday for Kirby and the Rainbow Curse and The Order: 1886 as well? No Sony. No, no no. Friday is Nintendo’s day. Why you gotta encroach? Tuesday, February 17 Dead or Alive 5: Last Round — PS3, PS4, Xbox 360,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2015 - CultureCosplay
If you google “Sexy Sonic”, it’s not long until you hit images of Manzi DeYoung. Which is probably more information than you ever thought you needed to know about them, but Motherboard has a neat feature article where they interview Manzi for the story behind the costume (and the concept of “sexy something” cosplay itself).
By Luke Plunkett Published February 15, 2015 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: They’ll Never Find Waldo
So science thinksit’s cracked the code for finding perennial hider Waldo every time? Oh we’ll see about that. It’s time to hide Waldo where they’ll never, ever find him. So they’ve found the optimal search algorithm for finding out where the bespeckled world traveler might be lurking on any given page. That just means we…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2015 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Indescribable Allure of Avatars • Kairosoft Stole All My Free Time Again with Anime Studio Story • Some Reasons You Should Watch Danger Man • How This War of Mine Helped Me Understand My Refugee Mom • A Really Short Review of the New Nintendo 3DS…
By András Neltz Published February 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedHow To Create A Convincing Fake Smash Bros. Rayman Leak
A “leaked video” showing Ubisoft’s mascot character being selected in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U stirred rumors of suprise Nintendo DLC over the weekend, at least until YouTube’s Artsy Omni posted a clip showing how he faked the whole thing. With an odd Rayman trophy already present in the latest installments of Smash Bros.,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2015 - Uncategorized
Heroic Doom Mod Adds 37 Instagram Filters And A Selfie Stick
After almost 22 years Doom is finally finished thanks mod-maker Linguica’s “InstaDoom”, which adds 37 InstaGram filters to the game and swaps out the fabled BFG with a selfie stick. Available as a free download over at Doom World, “InstaDoom” gives players of the classic shooter a chance to take the battle to the next…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2015
