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The Surprising Results of Selective Pokémon Breeding
Is that… a “Chargizard”? Concentrating on recessive genes and breeding Pokémon the Dorkly way might not get you to the end of the game, but it definitely has other advantages. This special method, you can see it below, works well with starter Pokémon, but what about the ones that are a bit weirder. Koffing? Diglett?…
By Gergo Vas Published January 19, 2015 -
UncategorizedSid Meier’s Starships Takes You Even Deeper into Space
There’s going to be even more sci-fi-styled Civilization action coming this spring, with a new strategy game coming from legendary game designer Sid Meier picking up where Civilization: Beyond Earth left off. Announced today at Gamespot, Sid Meier’s Starships will have players sending their own fleets of spacecraft out into the cosmos in an effort…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 19, 2015 -
UncategorizedWatch a Guy Build Bender in Minecraft
In 24 hours, no less—although the video clocks in at just 4 minutes. Thank goodness for timelapse. Made by Planet Minecraft member propank, this 250-block-high Minecraft recreation of Futurama’s Bender took 50635 blocks and 24 real-world hours to build. propank shows off the entire process in a timelapse video: The world download can be found…
By András Neltz Published January 19, 2015 -
Kotaku EastCall of Duty Online is a Big Surprise
Forget everything you saw and experienced in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, forget Jack Mitchell and harken back to the days of Soap, Ghost and Price. Remember those good ol’ days with them boys? Well, you can relive that whole experience again and then some in the China-only Call of Duty: Online That’s right, CoDOL…
By Eric Jou Published January 19, 2015 -
Kotaku EastTeam of Keisuke Honda Clones Plays Pro Evo
You know Keisuke Honda? He plays for Milan in Serie A. And Shunsuke Nakamura? He does stuff like this. Eleven Hondas just faced off against eleven Nakamuras. Honda. Honda. Honda. Honda. Nakamura. Nakamura. Honda. This comes from YouTuber Zyagariko san, who made each team, and then had both sides face off in auto play. The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 19, 2015 -
EsportsThe 2014 Hearthstone Championship Trophy Is An Egg
Hearthstone is a game of ups and downs, where anything can happen at the drop of a card. That sentiment is even more true at competition level. This past weekend, China’s Blizzard operator, NetEase, held the quarterfinals to their new Gold League e-sports event, and the HearthStone competition was fierce. Announced and launched last year,…
By Eric Jou Published January 19, 2015 - Kotaku East
Why Big Hero 6 Is Upsetting Some People in South Korea
You’d think Disney’s Big Hero 6 would steer clear of controversy. That it would be a fairly innocuous movie. You’d think! Money Today reports that the movie, which isn’t out yet, is already creating some controversy online in South Korea, because net users are upset that the movie features alleged Rising Sun imagery. The sun…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 19, 2015 - Kotaku East
Dota 2 Event Prompts Legal Spat Between Streaming Sites
The video gaming live-streaming business is huge right now. Amazon purchased Twitch.TV for $970 million last year. Well, in the land where everything has a Chinese version, China, the Chinese equivalents of Twitch are in a legal war over the Dota 2 Asia Championships. Sina news reports that two of China’s newest and fastest growing…
By Eric Jou Published January 19, 2015 -
Kotaku EastStan Lee Finally Makes His Kpop Video Debut
Phew! With all that Stan Lee has already done, you were probably wondering when he was going to appear in a Kpop video. Well, at the tender age of 92, it’s happened. As tipster Sang points out, Lee makes a special guest appearance in Clara‘s new music video “Gwiyomi Song 2.” You might remember the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 19, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Four-Decade History of Open World Games
Those Assassin’s Creeds and Far Crys and Grand Theft Autos had to come from somewhere In his video, YouTuber XboxAhoy takes a look at how games like the original Zelda, 1984’s Elite, or the legendary Ultima series contributed to open world and sandbox games as we know them today. There’s bits about some truly obscure…
By András Neltz Published January 19, 2015 - Kotaku East
Predicting Anime Characters’ Future Appearance Is Easy
Jibanyan is the most popular character in Yokai Watch, Japan’s new favorite anime and video game. The character is new, but what will it look like in ten years? As Kotaku has previously mentioned, characters change. Heck, look at how Pikachu has developed over the years. Via Japanese web forum 2ch, here’s a guess at…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 19, 2015 - Uncategorized
Sweet summer-themed (it’s summer down here) wallpaper from Nintendo Australia.
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2015 - Culture
Even Killzone Can Be Beautiful When It Wants To Be
Richard Dumont, whose Deus Ex art we featureda few years back, has just finished a stint with Guerilla Games working on the Killzone series. Rather than simply dump all his work, he’s done something very cool and put together a free “art book”, containing not just images but some of the creative process that went…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2015 - Uncategorized
Half-Life Reimagined As An Isometric Game
And just like that, Half-Life looks like a mid-90s RPG, or CD-ROM action title Using the HalfMapperprogram, which is able to render Half-Life’s Black Mesa in its entirety, gzaloprgmhas posted a gallery that changes the way we look at Valve’s iconic game. No joke, can someone turn this into an RPG, please? Gordon can just…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2015 - Uncategorized
Conan Game Crushes Kickstarter, Sees Your Money Driven Before You
Monolith wanted $80,000 for a Conan The Barbarian board game. They’re on track to get over $1 million With 23 days left to go on a Kickstarter campaign, which wants to bring the writings of Robert E. Howard to a co-op/adversarial board game setting, the project has already raised over $700,000. The game, simply called…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2015 - Uncategorized
Sick Kid Put In Video Game, Will Dunk All Over You
Matt Simon, a teenage basketball fan, is currently battling a “debilitating disease”. Not that you’d know this, since he also just hit the free agent pool in NBA2K15, meaning anyone with the game can now have him go face-to-face with (or put him in the same lineup as) LeBron James. As Bleacher Reports…reports, the game’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2015 -
UncategorizedNo, Arcade Games Are Not Dead
Arcades (and arcade games themselves) may not be as relevant as they used to be, but just because you don’t see them around as much these days doesn’t mean there aren’t new – and cool – arcade games being developed and released. And I don’t mean just fighting games and whatever Big Bucks are left…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2015 - Uncategorized
A Very Sweet Story About Life, Loss And World Of Warcraft
A Blizzard employee contacted us over the weekend to share the story of one of those radstatues that are going out to ten-year veterans of World of Warcraft. And how not all of them are necessarily going out to the living. Mortisana writeson the game’s official boards that back when the game first launched in…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2015 -
UncategorizedMan Opens Extremely Rare Counter-Strike: Go Weapon, Goes Insane
The lovely gaming couple responsible for TecAssault were enjoying a quiet evening opening weapon cases in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Then they opened one of the rarest items possible, and the husband completely loses his shit. While CS:GO weapon cases are earned through normal play, the keys to unlock them must be purchased, so every time…
By Mike Fahey Published January 18, 2015