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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 - Culture
The Week In Games: Let The 2015 Games Begin
Two of them are remasters and one’s an incredibly quirky downloadable role-playing game, but there are definitely games coming out this week. Will the trend continue? We’re slowly making our way out of the year change drought, that quiet period of time where the only titles released (for consoles at least) are things like Pure…
By Mike Fahey Published January 18, 2015 -
UncategorizedPrank Transforms Living Room Into Gigantic Ball Pit
I am not generally a fan of being pranked, but I fully endorse anyone who wants to fill my home with colorful plastic balls while I’m out running errands. YouTuberRoman Atwood has pulled some pretty horrible pranks on his poor wife in the past, including my personal least favorite, pretending he accidentally threw their toddler…
By Mike Fahey Published January 18, 2015 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Make Your Own Damn Zelda New 3DS XL
So you might not get the Majora’s Mask New 3DS XL. It’sreally no big deal. Besides, you could make a better one. All you’d need is Photoshop or something. Hey, I have an idea! The internet is swimming with artwork from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. This post is swimming with PNG images of…
By Mike Fahey Published January 18, 2015 -
UncategorizedAfter This Smash Bros. Rap Nothing Will Ever Be Okay Again
Smosh‘s lewd and crude Smash Bros. rap has generated more than two million views since Friday’s debut, with countless Villager-induced nightmares to come. I’m never getting this out of my psyche. While the chorus is catchy as hell (We used to be tight like brothers / By the end you want to murder each other),…
By Mike Fahey Published January 18, 2015 - Culture
Sunday Comics: He’ll Be Fine
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 16. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 12. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
By Mike Fahey Published January 18, 2015 - Kotaku East
The Up All Night Stream Plays Box Boy (Stream Finished)
While everyone was learning about the new 3DS and the re-release of Majora’s Mask, Nintendo quietly released their newest game, Box Boy, in Japan which is half-Tetris, half platformer. So let’s play it. (Full disclosure: It’s really cute, you guys.) Update: Stream is over, you can see it below! Watch live video from BiggestinJapan on…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published January 17, 2015 - Uncategorized
Red And Black New 3DS XL Preorders Still Available Everywhere
“Holy shit.” That’s what I said when I first saw the limited edition Majora’s Mask New 3DS XL during the Nintendo Direct earlier this week — when I first felt that overwhelming need that fueled apost about limited availability that’s so far racked up over 1.5 million page views. I had the money. I had…
By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2015