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My Brain Just Melted While Reading This
It used to be so easy to buy video games. But just try wrapping your head around how Tecmo explains the various ways to buy the upcoming Dead or Alive 5 Last Round: Core Fighters: Players wanting a taste of what DEAD OR ALIVE 5 Last Round has to offer can play the main game…
By Patrick Klepek Published February 3, 2015 - Uncategorized
Now You Can Make Your Own Damn Warcraft IV
So you want a fourth Warcraft RTS? Join the club. And although Blizzard doesn’t seem to plan on making Warcraft IV any time soon, it just got way easier for some enterprising fan to do it themselves. Yep, Blizzard just announced that Warcraft III models are now live on the remarkably robust StarCraft II map…
By Jason Schreier Published February 3, 2015 -
CultureGuy Beats All of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out Blindfolded
For some reason, high-level gamers like to take on Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out blindfolded. Folks have gotten awfully close to beating everyone including Mike Tyson without their eyes. But this latest attempt looks the first one to actually do it. To clarify, Sinister1’s attempt at Awesome Games Done Quick 2o14 got him all the way up…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 3, 2015 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Haters Problem • Reclaiming the Mario Kart Throne • Five Games in 2014: Retrospectin’ • OP/ED A Day By Ani-TAY – Week 5 • Codename STEAM Impressions: My Time With Tears to Tiara 2 is Ruining My TRPG Skills • The Arrow! In Speed Painting Form!…
By András Neltz Published February 3, 2015 - Uncategorized
Fallout 3‘s Lone Wanderer as a Silly Balloon Sculpture
He even has a proper Pip-Boy 3000. The bakery might ruin the immersion, but this is where the creator, DjDrummer, makes his balloon sculptures, though usually not gaming related ones. Here’s the Lone Wanderer in his full glory. I wonder what perks this version would have. Increased poison resistance? Silent running? Unique dialogue options? To…
By Gergo Vas Published February 3, 2015 -
UncategorizedScientifically Accurate Barney Hates Children
No educational messages this time from the purple T-Rex. You can also forget the cute songs and dance moves. ADHD’s scientifically accurate Barney, a new version of the purple T-Rex from the 90s show Barney & Friends, is simply just hungry. And although ADHD’s animation is full of blood and destruction, the original Barney is…
By Gergo Vas Published February 3, 2015 -
UncategorizedMove Over Far Cry 4, This is How You Do Mountains
It’s not that Far Cry 4’s version of The Himalayas is ugly, far from it, but just look at this The map was made by artist Simon Barle of DICE, who also worked on the most recent Battlefield. It’s an Unreal Engine 4 recreation the real-life Huangshan mountain range, and it was finished late last…
By András Neltz Published February 3, 2015 - Kotaku East
What’s Already Causing Street Fighter 5 Hate
Over the weekend, pro gamers Daigo Umehara and GamerBee put Street Fighter 5 through its paces. According to some, its leisurely paces. Cue the unhappy folks. The recently announced Street Fighter 5 is still early in development. From the looks of this gameplay footage, it sure seems like it. Even with two of the greatest…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2015 -
UncategorizedWeirdness Ensues When 32 Fans Re-Animate The Pokémon Intro
You’ve got two types of animators here, basically: the ones doing straight-up recreations of the first Pokémon opening’s iconic shots, and the ones with… different ideas. Inspired by the similar Moon Animate Make-Up project, Pokémon ReAnimated comes from an Ottawa-based group of 32 animators, headed up by Spencer Moreland, who also edited the whole thing,…
By András Neltz Published February 3, 2015 - Kotaku East
The One Piece “Mistake” People Are Talking About
The latest One Piece manga is out in the new issue of Weekly Jump. And in the above image from the magazine, there is what looks like an artist mistake. Try spotting it. Go on. Do it. Here’s the full image,. [Photo: onepiecesokuhou] For those who weren’t able to notice the mistake, Twitter user Takumi…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2015 - Kotaku East
The Up All Night Stream Plays Kirby and the Rainbow Curse [All Done]
Back on the Wii, you saw everyone’s favorite pink blob turned into a ball of yarn. So now join me in his new Wii U adventure where he is a ball of clay. Update: The stream is now over but you can watch it in its entirety below. Watch live video from BiggestinJapan on Twitch…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published February 3, 2015 -
Kotaku EastFinal Fantasy XV, The Cat Simulator
Just as Square Enix used a “Dog Cam” to show off FFXV, it’s now using a “Cat Cam” to do the same. At the recent Taipei Game Show, a feline friend explored an in-game train station. The below video is from ETtoday: Here’s the same footage, but at a slightly higher resolution: While right now…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2015 - Kotaku East
The Studio Ghibli Theme Park We Deserve
While you can visit Studio Ghibli, it’s not a theme park. It’s a museum (hence, the reason it’s called the Ghibli Museum). But what we really want is a proper Ghibli amusement park. Like this. As noted on 2ch, Twitter user Takumi created a map for what he calls “Tokyo Ghibliland.” Sure, it’s heavily modelled…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2015 - Culture
Sadly, This Sumo Scene Didn’t Make It Into Big Hero 6
Ryan Lang is an artist we featured a while back for his work on Wreck-it-Ralph, but now that Big Hero 6 is out, which he also helped out on, it’s time to take another look at his stuff. These images are part of Lang’s contribution to the look and feel of the movie. There are…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2015 -
UncategorizedIn Which A Zombie Is Kicked Into The Ocean
Dying Light has a dropkick attack. It’s cool, if only for the visual effect, but when you mess with the values determining how powerful it is on the PC version, it gets a lot cooler. Nice soundtrack selection, btw.
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2015 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy Kitchen Knives Deal Critical Damage To Fruit, Vegetables
Yes, I know. I want them too. But, much as I’d like to own some rad Final Fantasy cutlery, these were custom-made for one specific super-fan. We can ogle them from afar, though, and ogle we shall The Super-Fan Builds team enlisted the help of the ever-talented folks from Man At Arms to construct four…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 2, 2015 - Uncategorized
GTA V’s Los Santos vs The Real Los Angeles
Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto V may be a caricature of Los Angeles, but that doesn’t make it complete fiction. Like the bestcaricatures, it shares its foundations with the real thing, as you’ll see in these imageswhich compare certain landmarks in the game with their LA counterparts. Sure, some of the scenery around them…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2015 -
UncategorizedIf Only Lego Skyrim Were A Real Video Game
Batman has a Lego video game. So do Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and Indiana Jones and a million other series. That’s nice. That’s cute. Whatever. I want Lego Skyrim, and I want it yesterday. The Guildmaster Studio put together a painstaking re-creation of Skyrim‘s opening scene using Lego blocks and stop-motion, and…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 2, 2015 - UncategorizedBy Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2015
