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Save on a Great Plasma Screen While You Still Can, and More Deals
The TV industry is a transitional period, and as such, we haven’t had a lot of deals to get really psyched about in a while. Here are two: Samsung 60-Inch 4K Ultra HD 120Hz 3D Smart LED HDTV ($2598) | Amazon Samsung 51-Inch 1080p 600Hz 3D Smart Plasma HDTV($1398) | Amazon | The Wirecutter’s favorite…
By Shane Roberts Published October 6, 2014 - Culture
Mountain Dew Game Fuel Once Again Heeds The Call Of Duty
It’s time for the annual running of the bladder, as Mountain Dew once again teams up with a major fall video game release to market alien flavors of its citrus-like carbonated beverage. Now with lemonade flavor! For the blissfully unaware, Game Fuel is the label Mountain Dew uses to market limited edition flavors to the…
By Mike Fahey Published October 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedAssassin’s Creed Unity Is Looking Very French
Ubisoft just releasee a snazzy new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Unity that emphasizes the game’s story. Without spoiling anything, I think it’s safe to say the game is looking very French. That’s a good thing, in my book. I mean: who doesn’t want to try and kill Robespierre, am I right? Ok, I’m not actually…
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Driveclub‘s Box Has Some Questionable Grammar
Box art grammar flubs are the best kind of grammar flubs. And while the back of Driveclub doesn’t quite compare to Capcpom‘s Resident Evil Revelaitons, this one is pretty great too. See the line on top there? “Race in hundreds of online & offline players”? That does not make sense. You cannot race inside of…
By Jason Schreier Published October 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Real World Reflected In The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter
Video games often strive to appear “realistic” in one way or another, but the new indie horror game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter took things a step further verisimilitude-wise: creating many of its levels by pulling from real-world photographs. Using a nifty technique known as “photogrammetry,” Ethan Carter developer The Astronauts built the game’s spooky…
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: 199X: An Earthbound Odyssey • Video Games and the Fine Art of Subversion • Hidden Treats in… Luigi’s Mansion • The Curious Case of Handheld Smash TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By András Neltz Published October 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
That Awesome Car Crashing Game Finally Gets A Real Name
We’ve been writing about Bugbear Entertainment’s single-player vehicular carnage simulator, Next Car Game, since January. No longer. From now on we’ll be writing about Bugbear Entertainment’s multiplayer vehicular carnage simulator, Wreckfest. Yeah, I buried the lead there a bit. What’s important about this news is that the $30 Steam Early Access game that’s provided lonely…
By Mike Fahey Published October 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
This is a Skyrim screenshot. It’s from DSOGaming’s latest roundup of ENBSeries-modded Skyrim shots, proving, once again, that Skyrim can be the planet’s prettiest game to take photos of—provided you take the time set up those mods, and have the (beastly) rig to support all that eye candy. Look below for more. Skyrim Screenshot Roundup…
By András Neltz Published October 6, 2014 - Kotaku East
From StarCraft Pros to TV Stars
Pro-gaming is hard. You gotta be good. You gotta train hard. But, like for any sport, it doesn’t last forever. A handful of StarCraft pros have taken a rather unusual post pro-gaming career path in South Korea: The entertainment industry. For years now, StarCraft has been incredibly popular in the region—not just playing it, but…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 6, 2014 - Kotaku East
Report: Microsoft Sells 100,000 Xbox Ones in China
The Xbox One, the first official video game console to launch in China in 14 years, has started its console life in the middle kingdom with a bang! According to Chinese news sources, the Xbox One sold over 100,000 units within the first week of sales. According to Chinese video games news site 17173, during…
By Eric Jou Published October 6, 2014 - Kotaku East
Häagen-Dazs Wine Ice Cream Won’t Get You Drunk
And it’s called “Antoinette.” So let them eat…um…ice cream! Going on sale this December in Japan, Häagen-Dazs’ Antoinette ice cream is made with, according to Japanese website NariNari, “high-grade red wine” from Bordeaux, France. There is glittery, edible foil sprinkled a pink red wine sauce on top of the mellow-flavored wine ice cream. The bottom…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Want to know more about all those graphics options PC games have? PC Gamer has posted a comprehensive multi-page guide which explains everything from anti-aliasing types to anisotropic filtering and texture quality, with plenty of example images and even some benchmark statistics. Head over here to check it out
By András Neltz Published October 6, 2014 - Kotaku East
World of Warcraft Joins Forces With McDonald’s China
With the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Warlords of Draenor, coming in November, October seems to be a big month for Blizzard in China. The company’s doing everything to drum up hype for the game, from an online cosplay contest to now an offline promotional partnership with fast food giant, McDonald’s. Last week, three McDonald’s…
By Eric Jou Published October 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe GameCube’s Secrets, Revealed
Hidden intro screens. Controllers that don’t exist. Dolphins. The GameCube has quite the collection of secrets and easter eggs. Did You Know Gaming’s latest video takes a look at the venerable Nintendo GameCube, which turns thirteen years old this year. And, like pretty much every other game system, it’s far from just a receptacle for…
By András Neltz Published October 6, 2014 - Kotaku East
Ridiculous Burgers Get Ridiculous USB Memory Sticks
Lotteria, one of the most unusual fastfood chains in Japan, has rolled out burger towers in the past (more here and here). And now, those burgers are being memorialized in actual sized burger-shaped USB memory sticks. According to Weekly ASCII, these burger USB sticks mark the seventh anniversary of Lotteria’s line of “zeppin” (superior) line…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 6, 2014 - Kotaku East
The Naruto Manga Ends Next Month
It sure has been an impressive run, no? And next month, the Naruto manga is coming to a close. According to the Asahi Shimbun, the last entry in the long-running Naruto series will appear in the Weekly Shonen Jump that goes on sale November 10 in Japan. Naruto debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1999…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Saturday Night Live Sketch Skewers the Gap Between Gameplay and Story
You’ve probably noticed it called out in some Grand Theft Auto, Uncharted and BioShock games: those moments where the emotions being presented to you in cutscenes or dialogue don’t match up with what the player’s being told to do. And while that issue has been a point of contention for many years, I wasn’t ever…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 5, 2014