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It Only Took $7,000 To Build This LEGO Halo Spaceship
The iconic “Pillar of Autumn” from Halo, now in LEGO form. And it’s damn huge—not exactly minifigure-scale, needing more than one person to move it. According to its builder, Lee Jones, it took 3.5 years to complete it and it weighs a massive 220 pounds (100 kg). It’s around 7 feet (2.15 meters) in length…
By Gergo Vas Published December 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Earthworm Jim, You’ve Changed
Everyone’s favorite video game worm—and his buddy Snott—might look realistic in concept artist Soren Zaragoza‘s pieces, but the madness in his eyes remained the same. Would love to see these in motion. Earthworm Jim by Soren Zaragoza [ArtStation] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
By Gergo Vas Published December 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Then And Now: Five Generations Of GeForce Graphics Compared
It may not seem like it, but we’ve been gaming on DirectX 11 graphics hardware for half a decade. The AMD Radeon HD 5870 arrived in September 2009, while Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480 shipped six months later — a trivial delay considering there were so few DX11 games available at the time. The first game…
By Steven Walton Published December 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Gotta love me some meta pixel art. Redditor jiraph52 “made a giant Hotbar” in Minecraft. Not much else to say, is there? You can find more closeups in the embedded Imgur album below. I made a giant Hotbar. [r/minecraft] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related…
By András Neltz Published December 22, 2014 -
Kotaku EastDragon Quest Heroes May be My Favorite Warriors-Style Game Ever
For the playable demo of Dragon Quest Heroes, I went in expecting just another Warriors-style game with a Dragon Quest skin over it. What I got was much more. During this past weekend in Japan, the annual Jump Festa was held, during which – among other things – Square Enix revealed a playable demo for…
By Toshi Nakamura Published December 22, 2014 - Kotaku East
Farmville-like App Wants People to Put Their Phones Down
Focus, it’s apparently what old people say young people lack these days. Well in China, a new mobile app seeks to use public humiliation as a means to help its users focus better. Oh, did I mention that this app was also a game? The app, aptly named “Focus (专心)” has been making the rounds…
By Eric Jou Published December 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Homebuilt Submarine Ready for Dive
For the past two years, 62-year-old Zhang Junlin has been tinkering away at an old warehouse, building a submarine with his friends. Now, fast forward into 2014, Zhang and his crew are about to take their puppy on its inaugural dive. ChinaNews brings us this series of photos of Zhang’s submarine, named Shenlong Number 3.…
By Eric Jou Published December 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Here’s Another Wonderful Map to Play Minecraft on
So, how about36 more square kilometers of hand-crafted fun? Yes, this is another map from Darastlix, the creator of Meiva, but the landscape we’re dealing with here is more natural than magical. This is because one of Darastlix’s inspirations for the map was a real-life location, namely the delta of the Siberian river Lena. The…
By András Neltz Published December 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Kotaku UK’s Favourite Games of 2014
Kotaku UK’s three main contributors share five favourite games each from 2014. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Leon Hurley, News Editor It seems a bit strange, writing a games of the year list when I feel like I’m still working through some very worthy potential choices. I’ve only clocked a few hours of…
Keza MacDonald Published December 22, 2014 - Culture
Nathan Drake Thinks He’s On An Album Cover
In which, for a fleeting moment, Nathan Drake is convinced he’s the other Drake. The above image, and everything below, are the work of Frank Tzeng, an artist at Naughty Dog who we’ve actually featured beforefor his uncanny Walter White portraits. But you know, since he works at Naughty Dog, Frank also gets to work…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
Pinball Game Made Out Of All The Internet Memes
Liberty Games, a British pinball company, has made Internet Meme Pinball (a real machine, mind you, not an online game). It is everything you are probably imagining. They took an old existing game and modified it, replacing most of the casing and art with meme fodder like “not sure if”, grumpy cat and “winter is…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Evolution Of Nintendo’s Control Pads, Illustrated
While changes to the Xbox and PlayStation pads have been relatively minorover the years (though that doesn’t mean changes haven’t been interesting), Nintendo’s controllers have been to hell and back over the last 30 years. As this hypnotic gif illustrates. While the gif above is at a fixed speed, you can adjust things to suit…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2014 - CultureCosplay
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By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Best Cosplay Of 2014
As cosplay continues to explode in popularity, I feel like rounding up the “best” cosplay in the world for the year is a task that’s almost impossible. But whatever, that’s not going to stop me from trying 2014 was a big year for cosplay, at least in terms of this site. We opened up our…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2014 - Culture
The Week In Games: Now Sony’s Just Showing Off
Here I am, trying to blip the Week in Games because nothing’s coming out this week except for a couple of Wii U eShop games, and Sony rolls up and drops six titles on Tuesday. Typical. They’re all downloadable titles, mind you, and several are just ports from one platform to the other. The point…
By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedHumanoid Raccoons, Supermutant Invasions And Other Cut Fallout Content
I would have loved the original Fallout so much more had the planned mutant raccoon faction made it into the game. VG Facts’ “Leftovers” series looks at the S’lanter faction, extra maps, the planned Supermutant invasion and other bits left out of the post-apocalyptic classic. Fallout spent three years in development as a game based…
By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
The PlayStation Vita Makes A Lovely Little VR Headset
Ukrainian developerBeatshapershas access to Sony’s Project Morpheus PlayStation 4 VR headset and various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, but those weren’t enough to sate their virtual reality madness, so they strapped a PlayStation Vita to their heads. Speaking to the lovely folks over at Push Square, Beatshapers founder Alexey Menshikov explains how the PlayStation Vita…
By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedFFXIV Community Holds Massive Vigil For A Dying Player
As a Final Fantasy XIV player reportedly lay dying in the hospital, friends and strangers within the game gathered to pay their respects as he passed. According to a real-life friend of Codex Vahlda, a level 50 bard on Final Fantasy XIV‘s Gilgamesh server, the 29-year-old player behind the character had been brain dead in…
By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2014 - CultureShop Contest
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: What’s In The Box?
This is not an expression one wants to see on Christmas morning. What could possibly upset this vaguely Chris Evans-ish model so? That’s up to this week’s ‘Shop contest participants. We’re keeping it simple one last time in 2014. We’ve got a picture of a man who seems very upset with the open holiday gift…
By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2014 - Culture
Sunday Comics: The Goat Hurler
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 December 16 as the first of a five-part comic. Hit the link for parts 2-5! Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published…
By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2014