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CultureA One In A Million Headshot… From Space
Every once in a while, the supply gods smile on an average player, and luckily, sometimes the player is running video capture when they do. In today’s Highlight Reel, we’ve got some great clips for you, showing how to properly use a shotgun in Call of Duty, how to rig up an autopilot for your…
By Steve Marinconz Published November 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Mario Kart 8’s DLC Is Great, But It Still Needs More
Mario Kart 8 got a big new update yesterday, complete with its first batch of DLC goodies. Players and fans have been looking forward to this with the highest of high hopes ever since Nintendo announced it back in August. So let’s take a closer look at what we’ve got. First, a quick reminder of…
By Yannick LeJacq Published November 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedHearthstone Player Forces Opponent To Draw 784 Cards
This one might be a little hard to follow for people who haven’t played Hearthstone, but it sure is ridiculous: above, watch a player kill his opponent by forcing them to draw a whopping 784 cards, dealing a total of around 300,000 damage. If you haven’t played Blizzard’s addictive digital card game, allow me to…
By Jason Schreier Published November 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Inevitable Head to Head: AC Unity Vs. AC Rogue • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: The Nitro Review “May the power of Spacey compel you!!” • Desert Bus for Hope 8: A Primer TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By András Neltz Published November 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Here’s How Humanity Could Build Halo‘s Ringworlds
Here’s a scary thought: a creepy, parasitic alien race like the Flood could be out there, waiting for us to stumble upon them. How would we theoretically build one of the gigantic, Flood-killing Halo arrays from the Xbox series of the same name? With super-science, of course. A new video over at Nerdist breaks down…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedHow To Get The Best Followers For Your World of Warcraft Garrison
If you survived the lag you’ve probably already obtained your garrison and a few followers —special NPC buddies you can send on various missions. Rares or a few epics, but most likely not the best ones. BellularGaming is here to help with a complete guide on current followers and how to find them on Draenor.…
By Gergo Vas Published November 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Cool Art Show Celebrates Dragon Ball‘s 30th Anniversary
30 years sounds crazy, but Dragon Ball’s about to reach that milestone. To celebrate, Q-Pop in LA will host an art show this weekend with some really creative works on display. They have put several highlights on Tumblr, including Kasey Williams‘ superb Android 18 (top), along with the ones below. Ancient Super Saiyan Duel by…
By Gergo Vas Published November 14, 2014 -
Kotaku EastOneChanbara Z2: Chaos Brings Zombie Killing and Fanservice Galore
If I were to sum up OneChanbara Z2: Chaos in four words, they would be “blood,” “swords,” “zombies,” and “fanservice.” Good – Fun Characters The previous game in the series, OneChanbara Z: Kagura, introduced a new pair of protagonist sisters to the series, Kagura and Saaya. The original pair, Aya and Saki, were cast as…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published November 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
GTA V’s First-Person Driving in Chaotic GIFs
First-person shooting and driving are coming to Grand Theft Auto V with the game’sre-release. And if these GIFs are anything to go by, it’s going to be great. As pointed out on webforum NeoGAF, someone, it seems, has been streaming GTA V. GAF user Dreamlock made GIFs from the footage. The GIFs are spreading around…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Kotaku UK spoke to Brittany, the wife of Eric, who received a unique gun from the creators of Destiny after he underwent brain surgery If you’d like to know who he is, what happened to him and how Destiny’s helping him heal, you can check out the article here
By András Neltz Published November 14, 2014 - Kotaku East
Iconic JRPG Series Inspires High Heel Shoes
The Tales Japanese role-playing series is being immortalized in footwear. See how Yuri Lowell from Tales of Vesperia and Leon Magnus from Tales of Destiny inspired these shoes? Priced at 16,800 yen (US$144), these heels are available for a limited time only. Pre-orders started this week in Japan and end on December 7. 『テイルズ オブ』シリーズのコラボパンプスはリオン&ユーリモデル[Super…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2014 - Reviews
A Look Back at the OneChanbara Movie
Over the past few weeks I’ve been playing the fanservice-filled hack n’ slash zombie killing fest that is OneChanbara Z2: Chaos. So what better time to look at the (absolutely horrible) 2008 film OneChanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad? Good – It Has What You’d Expect If there is one good point to the OneChanbara film, it’s…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published November 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
A Lot Can Happen to a Minecraft World in Four Years
For example, the grass color changes. Along with everything else. Four years is a long time. The world file belongs to redditor bmach, who shared it on the r/minecraft subreddit yesterday, showing off what his first map looked like after four years’ worth of building and terraforming (using a combination of actual in-game building, and…
By András Neltz Published November 14, 2014 - Kotaku East
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
