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Dying Light, Wii U Bundle, Final Fantasies, and More Deals
Dying Light’s release is imminent, preorder the PC version for $48 preorder Dying Light ($48) | GreenManGaming | Use code 20PERO-FFDIGI-GAMESX The Wii U Bundle you want is close to its Black Friday price low, grab it while you can. Wii U Mario 3D World Bundle ($260) | eBay If you’re stuck inside this winter…
By Shane Roberts Published January 26, 2015 - Uncategorized
If Doctor Doom Was a Character in Destiny…
He’d look a lot like this cosplay. Pretty much exactly this. “Doom has no need of your exotics. Doom is his own exotic.” One of 2015’s first big fan conventions happened this past weekend, bringing some great costume-crafting with it. Ever wonder what the Fantastic Four’s greatest enemy would look like if he favored kick-ass…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 26, 2015 -
UncategorizedLatest GTA IV Mod Reminds Us That PC Games Always Look Best
The PC version of GTA V might be just around the horizon, but PC gamers are still happily modding GTA IV to make it look incredible. Here’s the latest update to the well-known iCEnhancer GTA mods, which, while not finished, still makes the 2008 game look like it was actually released in 2015. Kind of…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 26, 2015 -
UncategorizedDestiny Players Embarrass Opponents With Gimmick Matches
Watch as a team of Destiny players win matches despite having handicaps. This match, for example? It’s melee only. No shooting. The team still wins. By a lot. It’s amazing to watch this set of Destiny players bob and weave around the enemy team, especially as the other team tries to frantically shoot down the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 26, 2015 -
UncategorizedResident Evil Modders Have Removed The Game’s Doors
If there’s a new Resident Evil, there will eventually be a mod to remove (or mitigate) the series’ iconic door animations. The latest update to the original game has now joined the club, thanks to a modder named Sectus, allowing people to move from room-to-room a few seconds faster. One of the most popular Resident…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 26, 2015 -
UncategorizedIt Takes Nine Minutes To Break Down The Amazing Super Mario Timeline
There are a lot of Mario games out there. Though most of these games aren’t particularly story heavy, some people have still set out to try to place these games in chronological order in an effort to make a single Mario timeline. Here’s the latest crack. If you include every single Mario game you can…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 26, 2015 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why the HoloLens is a greater thing than you might think • A New Sub-genre of Music Is Growing in Japan • Under the Dog Loses Producers • A Visual Novel Fan’s Opinion on Eroge • Spacemon – A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 1, Chapter…
By András Neltz Published January 26, 2015 -
UncategorizedI Played The Witcher 3 And I Still Have Some Doubts
“Eh, it was a video game,” I flippantly told a friend shortly after I got back from a recent Witcher 3: Wild Hunt preview event in San Francisco. “I don’t know. It was alright, I guess.” I’d had a nice enough time tracking down supernatural beasties (and regular, non-supernatural arsonists) and snarling my way through…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 26, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Beginning Of A Beautiful Live-Action Naruto Battle
Fighting filmmakers Epic Rivals teases its upcoming live-action Naruto short film, with the most perfect Tenten and Neji ever prepare to test their might. I love a good live-action fighting short, and Epic Rivals, creators of last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-as-humans videohave certainly established their pedigree. It’s also great to see Tenten and Neji…
By Mike Fahey Published January 26, 2015 -
UncategorizedEight Crazy Hacking Scenes That Shouldn’t Exist
Hack the planet! And I thought Hugh Jackman’s dancing scene with the 3D cubes from the 2001 movie Swordfish was weird, this recent video from Dorkly proves some movies and TV shows had much crazier scenes with hackers doing the impossible. Here are eight of them where typing fast and not hitting Enter or Space…
By Gergo Vas Published January 26, 2015 - Uncategorized
World Shark? World Shark. It was built by Planet Minecraft’s Zeckou, who calls it a live coral reef, which explains the little floating fish and jellyfish. It’s also deceptively big. Check below for the hi-res version of the three pics and the obligatory in-game shots, and click here for the world download As I said,…
By András Neltz Published January 26, 2015 - Uncategorized
A Limited Edition PS4 Just Went for $128,000
A super special PlayStation 4. A good cause. An internet auction. You better believe this 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 just went for well over a hundred grand. Sony held a charity auction online in Japan for the first serialized anniversary console (it’s number one out of 12,300). The auction recently came to a close, drawing…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2015 -
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
