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Destiny‘s Squads Are Too Small
Something feels off in Destiny—and it’s not just Peter Dinklage’s delivery. On Wednesday, I started playing Activision’s much-hyped new shooter for the first time alongside some co-workers (jazz aficionado Kirk Hamilton and middle-school dropout Sam Biddle). Though I don’t normally play a lot of shooters—as most of you know I’m more of a turn-based kinda…
By Jason Schreier Published September 12, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Indie Delve: An interview with the lead developer of Noct [With limited edition dev Q&A in the comments!] • Video Games, Visual Novels, Walkthroughs, and True Endings • Adventures in Blind Gaming 4: Hitting a Wall • The Suck of Destiny TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…
By András Neltz Published September 12, 2014 - Esports
“When I heard that there was such a thing as the Pokémon World Championships in 2000 I became obsessed with getting there.” Keza MacDonald from our sister site, Kotaku UK, summarizes her experience at the recent Pokémon World Championships. You can read her story here
By András Neltz Published September 12, 2014 - Uncategorized
Hyrule Warriors Characters Are Awesome In 2D
They are so colorful and detailed. Artist AbyssWolf put together a fantastic piece with all the playable characters of Hyrule Warriors to celebrate the game’s upcoming release. The top pic only has seven of them, here’s everyone below. Impa and Ganondorf are my two favorites: Hyrule Warriors [DeviantART] To contact the author of thispost, write…
By Gergo Vas Published September 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedLet’s Examine Grand Theft Auto V‘s New-Gen Trailer
We finally know when the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions ofGTA V will be coming out. Here’s a look at the souped-up open-world game in action. Better visuals are one thing but this upcoming version of GTA V will also be adding new vehicles, weapons and activities to the already-packed virtual city of Los…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedSpinning LEGO Rotor Is Brilliant On So Many Levels
Those tiny soccer balls and basketballs are in good hands. Famous for his crazy Lego Technic builds, Akiyuki Kawaguchi‘s latest—Tilted Rotors—probably isn’t the easiest solution for moving objects from Point A to Point B. But that doesn’t mean it’s not brilliant. Here’s the full clip. Check out the inverse-spinning part around the 1 minute mark,…
By Gergo Vas Published September 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedNew-Gen Grand Theft Auto V Will Be Out In November, With More Stuff
The improved version of Grand Theft Auto V for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will be out on November 18, according to the game’s developer, Rockstar. The PC version will follow on January 27, 2015. The company says the new edition of the massively popular game will contain new weapons, vehicles, activities, wildlife, and other…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 12, 2014 - Kotaku East
Virtual Reality Roller Coaster Lets You Ride the Internet
Folks are using the Oculus Rift for all sorts of interesting things. You name it, and there’s probably a Rift demo for it. But this has to be the first Rift-enabled rollercoaster simulator for the internet that I’ve ever seen. It’s called the “Trend Coaster,” and it’s from Yahoo! Japan. As website IT Media explains,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 12, 2014 - Kotaku East
The Upcoming Yakuza Prequel Is Looking Quite Good So Far
Sega has updated the character section at their official site for Yakuza 0, uploading a slew of new screenshots showing various side characters from the game. They’re all pretty impressive. There’s a few good ones below. You can find the rest over at the site Characters [Yakuza: Zero] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian…
By András Neltz Published September 12, 2014 - Kotaku East
Danganronpa Zero is the “Ultimate” Danganronpa Novel
We here at Kotaku are big fans of the High School death game/courtroom drama of Danganronpa. But the two games out right now are not the whole story. There is also a duology of prequel light novels called Danganronpa Zero. And if you enjoyed either of the games even a little, you really must read…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 12, 2014 - Kotaku East
People Say This Sailor Moon Wallet Looks Like a Vagina
Um. Well, this is unfortunate. Note: This article contains content that some readers might find objectionable. To mark the 20th anniversary of Sailor Moon, Bandai is offering a slew of Sailor Moon-related goods—from clothes to cosmetics. There’s also this wallet, which looks like a regular wallet from this view. But, from this one, it looks…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedImpossible GTA V Flying Has to Be Seen to Be Believed
YouTuber Mario4LYF3 seems to have a different kind of gravity in GTA V to the rest of us as they put their jet through some incredible moves in this video. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The grasp they have of how the game’s gravity works is incredible here as they use stalls and…
Leon Hurley Published September 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedEvery Monster Dies in this Badass Minecraft Fighting Animation
The mythical Herobrine, a ghost supposedly haunting Minecraft, is usually depicted building creepy structures, standing around menacingly, and being all-around unpleasant. But here, he’s more of a legendary warrior god. The video, called Gods Don’t Die, was done by animator Dillon Gu. He’s quite talented, so if you haven’t seen his stuff yet, make sure…
By András Neltz Published September 12, 2014 - Kotaku East
Porn Star Accidentally Ends Up on Math Book Cover
Who said math isn’t sexy? Oh but it is. It is. The Nation reports that Muang Thai Book, a textbook publisher in Thailand, recently uploaded the cover of its upcoming math textbook. Online, somebody noticed that the photo of the teacher was from a Japanese porno movie. Here is the original book cover. As you…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 12, 2014 - Kotaku East
Oh Hey, It’s Just a Super Nintendo Sitting on Mt. Fuji
It’s not every day you get to see a Super Famicom (aka SNES) sitting on top of Japan’s highest mountain. On Japanese web forum 2ch, one commenter recently brought the console with him as he climbed Mt. Fuji, writing, “The feeling of nature and harmony is freakin’ amazing hahahaha.” Obviously, it would be difficult (but…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedInteresting Stealth Game Is…Sneaking Up On Us
Have we really not written about Styx yet? Good God, I’m sorry. Styx: Master of Shadows is an upcoming stealth game that looks awesome. Like someone went hey, all those things you like from different stealth games, we’re going to throw them all together in one stealth game and just let you have at it.…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 11, 2014 - Culture
Nice View, But It Gets A Little Windy
Jedd Chevrier is a lead concept artist at Microsoft, where he’s most recently been working on the very interestingProject Spark. He’s also worked on the 5th addition of D&D, and you can see some of that art below. You can see more of Jedd’s work at his sketch blog To see the larger pics in…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 11, 2014 - Uncategorized
Yondu From Guardians Of The Galaxy Is Coming To Disney Infinity
I sure hope this means we can also look forward to Nebula being a playable character (and getting a figurine)—Yondu is coming to Disney Infinity. You can get a rough idea of how his figure will look below: The Falcon/Sam Wilson will also be a playable character, but no image of his figure has surfaced:…
By John Struan Published September 11, 2014 - Uncategorized
Why Buy A New 3DS When Your Old One Can Look Like A Cat?
For as long as there have been Nintendo handhelds, there have been humans wanting to put imagesof cute animals on them. These cases for the 3DS continue that trend, but they’re way less creepy. They’ve got little ears! And whiskers! And they’re…well, $20-$30 for a case is pretty steep, but what price cat faces on…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 11, 2014