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Make Your Own Silly Titan from Attack on Titan
To promote the upcoming Attack on Titan art exhibit in Tokyo, the show’s website launched an online Titan creator. It’s a fun time waster, especially if you make goofy-looking Titans. To make your own Titan, open up the website and click on 自分でつくる (Make Your Own). Then, you’ll see faces, hair, eyes, and more to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2014 - Kotaku East
More Wonderful Chalk Art from Japanese Classrooms
There’s more to do than study at school. For example, you can draw amazing pictures on the chalk board. So, let’s have another look at just that. Last fall, Kotaku took a look at some of the terrific chalkboard art found in Japanese classrooms. Some of these drawings were done after school during club activities.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2014 - Kotaku East
Soon, You Can Eat Gundam Burgers in Japan
Yep. Japan is getting official Gundam burgers with Gundam-themed buns. AnimeAnime reports that the Tokyo Station Gundam Cafe is being turned into McDaniel Hamburgers Gundam Cafe. The restaurant appeared in the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam anime as a secret meeting place for the Anti-Earth Union Group, and now it will appear in Tokyo starting November…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
New Video Games Shouldn’t Be So Broken
It seems these days that a big game just can’t launch without some kind of technical issue. The accepted response to this by both consumers and the press seems to be “well, that sucks, but it’ll probably get fixed soon”. That’s not good enough anymore. I get that making games is hard. That publishers force…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2014 - Culture
Not So Powerful Now, Are You, Potato
Kimmo Kaunela is a 3D artist from Finland, who works in the games industry as an environment artist. You can see more of Kimmo’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2014 - Uncategorized
New Halo Toy Is Crazy Realistic
3A, masters of detailed (and precariously fragile) action figures, are putting out a Master Chief. He looks amazing All that amazement comes at a price, though: he’ll be $240 when he goes on sale on November 20
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2014 -
UncategorizedThumb Wrestling Video Game Is As Absurd As You’d Think
It’s called ThumbderDome Wrestling. ThumbderDome. Language is dead, because the most intense thumb wrestling video game in history (that I’m aware of) killed it. Despite being extremely silly, ThumbderDome Wrestling is actually kinda unique from a control standpoint. It’s multiplayer, but two people split one controller, each with—wait for it—a thumbstick of their own. So…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 13, 2014 - Uncategorized
Stormtrooper Walking Across Australia (Not Yet Killed By Spiders)
Scott Loxley, a member of the 501st Legion, is walking around Australia. It’s a big country, I should know, but I also know that he’s walking around the parts full of animals that kill humans for sport. In 18 months, Loxley has walked 5700 miles, which is just over halfway. In keeping with the Australian…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2014 - Uncategorized
Valve Honors Aussies With In-Game Cameo
Gamers 4 Croydon were a political party that helped Australians turn the tide against archaic ratings laws. In appreciation for their efforts, Valve will be honouring them with a little shout-out in Left 4 Dead 2. The zombie shooter was one of the more high profile victims of Australia’s old ratings system, and had to…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2014 - Uncategorized
Stats Suggest Most League Of Legends Players Actually Aren’t Jerks
League of Legends‘ community doesn’t exactly have the best reputation for sportsmanlike conduct or grace in defeat. It’s a rough neighborhood, folks say in hushed, fearful tones while chattering in Internet speakeasies, especially for newcomers. Riot, however, would like to refute that claim. With numbers As part of an announcement that LoL will soon be…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 13, 2014 - Uncategorized
Guess Who’s Not Playing Warlords Of Draenor Tonight
In an effort to stem issues caused by tons of people trying to get to the expansion content at once, Blizzard haslowered the server live population caps. For someone on one of the most populous servers in the game, that pretty much means no.
By Mike Fahey Published November 13, 2014 -
UncategorizedNintendo’s Best Ad In Years Is Also One Of Their Cheapest
Forget thecornball romance and creepy action figure fixations and excruciating store clerks. Seems someone, somewhere at Nintendo remembers how to make a good video game trailer. The answer was staring them right in the face, this whole time. Just make it using another Nintendo video game! In this case, Tomodachi Life. Never have I wanted…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2014 -
Uncategorized10 Advanced Techniques That’ll Make You A Bettter Smash Bros. Player
The Wii U version of Smash Bros. drops next week—and in the meantime, you can start brushing up on some of your skills on the 3DS version, or at the very least start learning how to up your game. Some of these pointers, which are showcased in the following video by Zangoosinite, are things we…
By Patricia Hernandez Published November 13, 2014 -
UncategorizedThere’s Actually A Point To Halo‘s Dumbest Achievement
Halo: The Master Chief Collection has a so-called “mystery” achievement, whose description is simply “inscrutable, mysterious.” The way to unlock it might seem totally arbitrary (and kinda lame), but it actually ties into a story from Halo‘s distant past. As seen in videos like this one from OneTickShaka, unlocking the achievement is as simple as…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 13, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Master Chief Collection‘s Multiplayer May Be Getting Better Soon
Been frustrated with the multiplayer matchmaking in Halo: The Master Chief Collection? Microsoft knows it’s a problem and is working to fix it. A big part of the appeal of the Master Chief Collection was getting to experience re-mastered versions of Lockout, Blood Gulch and other classic maps from older Halo games. But finding and…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 13, 2014 -
UncategorizedThere Are Altogether Too Many Links In Mario Kart 8
Mario Kart 8 got some new stuff today in a DLC update. The thing we were all most excited for, by far, was getting to play as Link in Mario Kart. A little too excited, by the looks of it. Let’s be honest, we all knew this was going to happen. Prescient Mario Kart players…
By Yannick LeJacq Published November 13, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Anita Sarkeesian Hater That Everyone Hates
In mid-October, I was approached by some Gamergaters who wanted to show me something important. They had bagged a big one, they said. They said they had tracked down one of the people who was sending death threats to feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian. I didn’t know how to react. Members of Gamergate—an amorphous campaign that…
By Jason Schreier Published November 13, 2014 -
UncategorizedRealistic Cosplay Of Futurama’s Farnsworth Is Effin’ Terrifying
*coughs, sips water* Good news, everyone! The good folks over at Tested (who you may remember from their Zoidberg cosplay) created a hyper-realistic mask of Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth from Futurama, with all his ghastly proportions intact. The video above shows the exact process they went through to achieve such a phenomenal recreation. The end…
By Chris Person Published November 13, 2014 -
UncategorizedA Beginner’s Guide To All Things Dragon Age
Good news: Dragon Age: Inquisition is pretty great. Less-good news: Being a story-heavy role-playing game, it relies heavily on a familiarity with the Dragon Age series’ dense lore. Newcomers might be a bit lost at times. I get the sense that a lot of people who missed the first two games are going to give…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 13, 2014
