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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…
By Eric Jou Published January 26, 2015 - Kotaku East
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…
By Eric Jou Published January 26, 2015 - CultureShop Contest
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…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2015 - Uncategorized
Sounds Like Destiny‘s Next DLC Will Be Way Less Cruel
When Destiny‘s first expansion pack came out last month, hardcore players were stunned. Not only did it ask them to upgrade their old exotic gear through a messy, convoluted process, it also rendered much of the loot they had acquired from the game’s first raid, Vault of Glass, totally useless. Suddenly you could buy better…
By Jason Schreier Published January 25, 2015 - Uncategorized
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…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2015 - Uncategorized
Geforce GTX 960 Review: Sweet Spot’ GPU or Not?
Introduced last September, Nvidia’s Maxwell-based GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 delivered twice the performance per watt of their Kepler equivalents on top of bringing support for Microsoft’s upcoming DirectX 12 API as well as other new features such as Nvidia Voxel Global Illumination (VXGI), Multi-Frame sampled AA (MFAA), and Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR). Despite…
By Steven Walton Published January 25, 2015 - Culture
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…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2015 - Uncategorized
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…
By Mike Fahey Published January 24, 2015 - Uncategorized
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…
By Mike Fahey Published January 24, 2015 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published January 24, 2015 -
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 Published January 24, 2015 -
UncategorizedBatman Beats Superman in Footage of Cancelled Justice League Game
Long before the release of Injustice: Gods Among Us, there was supposed to be another fighting game that featured the members of DC Comics’ premier superhero team kicking each other’s butts. It got cancelled and footage was never seen. Until now. Images of the brawler—which would’ve been a last-gen title linked to a scuttled Justice…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 24, 2015 - Uncategorized
The Saturday Stream Plays Citizens Of Earth (All Done)
Today we take a short dive into Eden Industries comical role-playing game Citizens of Earth, in which we play the Vice President of the entire planet. No pressure. Well, except for the pressure of forgetting to install the game you’ve been looking forward to playing all week long. Luckily the Steam version of the game…
By Mike Fahey Published January 24, 2015 - Culture
This Week In The Business: An (Over) Promising Future
QUOTE | “It did remind me of [Kinect]. You kind of want to scream ‘don’t over promise these things.'” – Designer Peter Molyneux of 22cans, talking about Microsoft HoloLens from his perspective as an early Kinect developer Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “There have been a lot…
By Steve Peterson Published January 24, 2015 - Uncategorized
1/19/2015: A Terrible Realization
Poor Luigi. I mean… What would you do if you saw doodles of yourself placed in seemingly random places? I’d be pretty freaked out, too, as Completely Serious Comics shows here. You can browse our best stuff from this week over on Kotaku Selects as usual. To contact the author of this post, write to…
By Tina Amini Published January 24, 2015 - Uncategorized
Best Buy Mistake Screws Some People Out Of Majora’s Mask 3DSes
Best Buy cancelled a number of pre-orders for the limited edition Majora’s Mask 3DS tonight, informing customers via e-mail that the demand had “exceeded the quantities made available” to the retailer. The 3DS, which has been in hot demand since Nintendo announced it last week, went up for sale on Best Buy’s website last Wednesday…
By Jason Schreier Published January 23, 2015 - Esports
The first big Counter-Strike competition of the year is happening right now. MLG X Games Aspen just kicked off, and it’s running all weekend. GosuGamers has a good primer on the big storylines to keep an eye out for. Watch it all unfold below. If you want to know when various teams are playing, there’s…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 23, 2015 - Culture
If Microsoft is serious about PC games, Xbox One should be the real Steam Machine. Here’s some interesting reading fromVG247 on how Valve’s living room centric Steam Machine plot failed, and how Microsoft—fresh off a years-long stint of pretending PC gaming doesn’t exist—could partner with Steam and pick up where they left off. The gist:…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 23, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Top 50 Smash Bros. Plays of Last Year
The Smash Bros. community has seen a lot of hype in the last year, culminating in a lot of excellent plays. Now that 2014 is over, let’s look back at some of the best moments in competitive Smash Bros. plays. EvenMatchupGaming has been counting down the best plays of 2014 this entire week, and their…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 23, 2015
