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UncategorizedWatch Troy Baker Play A Slice Of Bread
If you played any video games in 2014, there’s a good chance you came across Troy Baker. The guy is in everything. Last year, he even played against himself as both Batman and the Joker in a single Lego game. How does someone so multidextrous keep challenging themselves? By playing a piece of white bread,…
By Yannick LeJacq Published December 3, 2014 - Uncategorized
Etrian Mystery Dungeon is coming to North America this spring, Atlus just announced. The upcoming 3DS game is a crossover between Etrian Odyssey and Mystery Dungeon, combining the former game’s characters and levels with the latter’s randomized spelunking. More info on Atlus’s website here
By Jason Schreier Published December 3, 2014 -
UncategorizedWhere To Find All of GTA V’s Secret Peyote Plants
Hidden across all of Los Santos are secret drugs that let your GTA V character do wild, funny things. There are twenty seven of them—and if you want to find them all, you’ve come to the right place. If you don’t want to be spoiled on this cool feature included in the current-gen versions of…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 3, 2014 - Culture
A Month-Long Race To See Who Can Finish 21 Final Fantasy Games First
One month. Two speedrunners. 21 Final Fantasy games. It’s an insane, sleep-depriving mission that will likely drive both participants insane: for the entire month of December, two gamers are going head to head in a live race to beat the entire single-player Final Fantasy catalog, plus some extras, like X-2 and Lightning Returns. (Here’s the…
By Jason Schreier Published December 3, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Koda’s Top 10 2014 Anime Openings • Album of the Week: Halo 2 Anniversary Original Soundtrack • Game of the Week — Why Only 970 Gamerscore Points? [Condemned: Criminal Origins] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By András Neltz Published December 3, 2014 - Uncategorized
Target Australia Pulls GTA V Due To Depictions Of Violence Against Women
Citing customer concerns over “the game’s depictions of violence against women”, Target stores in Australia are no longer selling Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V. Update: Take-Two Interactive chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has issued a statement regarding Target’s action. In an official statement (via Kotaku UK), Target’s general manager of corporate affairs said that the…
By Mike Fahey Published December 3, 2014 - Uncategorized
Model Hangars Look Much Better With Tiny Mecha Inside
You have to be really talented to build tiny LEGO mecha that fit right into ordinary dioramas and, as a result, make it all look natural. Robot enthusiast Zi Zy builds small-scale scenes just like that, and on top of it, takes beautiful shots of them. Here are some highlights, but be sure to check…
By Gergo Vas Published December 3, 2014 -
UncategorizedSeth Rogen and James Franco Play Freaks & Geeks Game, Recall Memories
The folks at TheFineBros got none other than James Franco and Seth Rogen in their latest clip to sit down and try out an interactive mini-game based on Freaks & Geeks, a fan favorite show that ran about 14 years ago, with younger and much different versions of these two guys in it. They seem…
By Gergo Vas Published December 3, 2014 -
UncategorizedNothing says video games like a space marine dancing to “Funkytown” in a subway station. This is a “learning project” made by game designer Frank Van Noordt—in his words, it turned out “better than [he] thought.” Make sure to watch the vid below, it’s a lot better with music. Reminds me of that old LithTech…
By András Neltz Published December 3, 2014 -
Kotaku EastThis Sure Seems Like Fez with JRPG Elements
Japanese social game maker Gloops just announced a new role-playing game with a very familiar bit. It’s not clear if the game makers were influenced by Fez, but the stages and the 2.5 gameplay mechanic certainly scream Fez, namely in how it’s used to find doors and items. Even some of the art style in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 3, 2014 - Kotaku East
A Shocking Number of People Want This Fugly Anime Car
This isn’t only the most hideous car offered for sale this year on the planet Earth, but also expensive and rare. There’s only one of these cars in existence. And nearly six hundred people put in orders to buy it at 7-Elevens in Japan. Yahoo News reports that there were 588 orders for the one-of-a-kind…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 3, 2014 -
Kotaku EastThe 20th Anniversary Edition PlayStation 4 Is a Thing of Beauty
To mark the 20th anniversary of the PlayStation, Sony is releasing a special 20th anniversary PlayStation 4. The console is limited to only 12,300 numbered units worldwide. The anniversary edition’s color scheme harks back to the original PlayStation. Here’s what’s included in the box: And here’s the full unboxing video: This limited edition console is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 3, 2014 -
UncategorizedUtada Hikaru Makes for Some Emotional Anime
To mark the anniversary of Utada Hikaru’s debut, Rebuild of Evangelion co-director Tsurumaki Kazuyahelmed this music video for her hit song “Beautiful World.” Of course, “Beautiful World” was the theme for Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone. The song was originally released in 2007 and was remixed for 2009’s Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 3, 2014 - Kotaku East
Goodness, Orange-Flavored Potato Chips Sound Gross
But, you know what, they might not taste so bad. Right? Right?? C’mon, let’s just be glad this isn’t orange and toothpaste. Later this month, “mikan” (orange or tangerine in Japanese) potato chips go on sale nationwide in Japan. [Photo: masayothi] Actually, they’ll be out December 22, reports Street Girls Snap. The chips are from…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 3, 2014 - Uncategorized
Red Faction: Guerrilla, the free-roam action game where you blow up buildings on Mars, just got a free “Steam Edition” update on PC. Among other things, the patch moves the game to Steamworks, adding leaderboards, achievements and trading cards, and completely removes Games for Windows Live. Full patch notes here
By András Neltz Published December 3, 2014 - Kotaku East
A Sneak Peek at Where Naruto Is Created
To mark the upcoming feature-length The Last: Naruto the Movie, Japanese television took at look at where Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto, well, creates Naruto With the manga’s current run wrapped up and a mini-series in the works for next spring, Mezamashi TV sent pop star and manga fan Rina Ikoma to check out Kishimoto’s studio.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 3, 2014 - Kotaku East
The PlayStation Is Twenty Years Old Today
Has it been that long? Yes, it has. Today, the PlayStation turns twenty years old in Japan. The PlayStation went on sale in Japan on December 3, 1994. It wasn’t released in North America and Europe until September 1995. That really seems like a million years ago. In video game time, it is. On the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 3, 2014 - Uncategorized
A Game About Spanking. Consensual Spanking.
Hurt Me Plenty is a game about spanking. Consensual adult spanking, not debatably-traumatic-for-small-children spanking. It aims to do one thing games are notoriously terrible at: be sexy. (Warning: might be mildly NSFW, though not really.) The free game, as you may have surmised by now, is about spanking dudes. For the time being, it only…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 2, 2014 - Culture
How A Company Can “Brand” A Video Game, From Concept Art To Its Name
BASIC is a design agency that does something pretty unique, at least in the world of video games: instead of just doing concept art, or making logos, or promotional art, they kinda do a combination of all of it, helping give a game – which might otherwise be a pitch and some mechanics – a…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2014
