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Sunday Comics: No Time To Explain
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published August 31. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published August 25. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
By Mike Fahey Published August 31, 2014 -
UncategorizedVideo Of Karen Gillan Getting Her Head Shaved To Play Nebula
Watch Karen Gillan getting her hair shaved off to play Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy: Previously: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published August 30, 2014 - Uncategorized
With a little modification, a loving wedding photo becomes a screenshot from the next, next Silent Hill game. Of course, the unmodified photo is also pretty creepy: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published August 30, 2014 - Uncategorized
Now They’re Enhancing Icewind Dale
Now that Trent Oster and his team at Beamdog have finished enhancing Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II, they’re moving north up the Sword Coast for an enhanced edition of Icewind Dale, coming later this year to iOS, Android and PC. While Black Isle Studios only published BioWare’s Baldur’s Gate games, 2000’s Icewind Dale was…
By Mike Fahey Published August 30, 2014 -
UncategorizedWandering The Wyoming Wilderness, Waiting For It To Burn
It’s easy to get freaked out on a solo trip through barren wilderness, especially when your job is waiting for it to catch on fire. Here’s our first look at Firewatch in action. Set in the gorgeous Wyoming wilderness, Campo Santo’s Firewatch is a first-person adventure game where your only link to civilization is the…
By Mike Fahey Published August 30, 2014 -
UncategorizedI Could Watch Civilization: Beyond Earth All Day Long
Debuting during the Firaxis Megapanel at PAX Prime this weekend, the “Master Control” gameplay trailer for Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth teaches us about the Purity Affinity, Virtues, the Orbital Layer and how October 24 can’t come soon enough.
By Mike Fahey Published August 30, 2014 - Uncategorized
A Titanfall Statue Without Those Pesky Titans
What wondrous timing! Just as a new, mech-free game mode is announced for Titanfall, we get a statue that’s 75 percent pilot, 25 percent debris and zero percent giant killer robot. While having a giant robot to boss around is all well and good, the more I played Titanfall the more I, like many others,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 30, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Coolest Cosplay at PAX Prime, Day 1
The PAX that begat all other PAXes has come back around, bringing thousands of fans of all stripes to Seattle to nerd out together. Is there cosplay? Of course. Take a look at some of the best geek culture get-ups right here. These pics come courtesy of Cosplay Boom, a documentary series dedicated to telling…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 30, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Saturday Morning Stream Casts Lichdom: Battlemage [Stream Complete]
In this week’s very special episode of the Saturday Morning Stream, the mildly-medicated Michael Fahey triumphantly returns to get his first-person magic combat on with Lichdom: Battlemage. What is Lichdom: Battlemage? It’s sort of like an Elder Scrolls game, only without the weapons. It tells the story of a person who can suddenly shoot fire…
By Mike Fahey Published August 30, 2014 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Casually Pathetic
QUOTE | “It’s kind of a passive attitude they’re taking, and to me it’s kind of a pathetic thing.” – Legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto explaining why Nintendo isn’t going to try to make games specifically for a casual audience like they used to on the Wii Elsewhere in the business of video games this…
James Brightman Published August 30, 2014 - Uncategorized
8/25/2014: Bad Plumber’s Mate
It’s not Wario, it’s Bad Plumber. It’s not Waluigi, it’s Bad Plumber’s Mate, as Ben Lee has found. Poor Waluigi. He’s not even “Bad Plumber # 2.” If you’re not wandering around PAX Prime today, like I am, you can feel free to review out best stuff from this week over at Kotaku Selects And…
By Tina Amini Published August 30, 2014 - Uncategorized
Mad Science Cat Game On Hold For Mobile Super Meat Boy
You might remember that Team Meat, two-man studio behind uber-tough platformer Super Meat Boy, was working on a mad science cat breeding sim, Mew-Genics. Moral of the story? Cats are gross, but awwww kitty! Now, though, it’s on hold in favor of a new Meat Boy game—for phones (and Steam). The new game is called…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 29, 2014 - Uncategorized
Peggle 2 No Longer Xbox Exclusive, Coming To PlayStation 4
Peggle 2, PopCap’s previously Microsoft-exclusive black hole time vortex of sheer addiction, is finally coming to PlayStation 4. PopCap confirmed the news on its Twitter account. The game will be out on October 14th. The EA published ball-based rainbow explosion classical music wonderment simulator originally launched on Xbox One late last year. It came to…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 29, 2014 - Uncategorized
Super Famicom Box Art Collection Kickstarter
This sounds wonderful—an art book collecting the box art from Super Famicom games. And the mockup pages also look great: The book is the goal of a new kickstarter by Super Famicom Guy, who explains that the art is from his own large collection of Super Famicom games. However, the kickstarter does not seem to…
By John Struan Published August 29, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Ominous First Advertisement For The NES
A menacing ROB stars in the first advertisement for the Nintendo Entertainment System: Via the excellent Video Game Preservation Dump (and Twitter). You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published August 29, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Good And Bad Of Mario Kart 8’s First Major Update
Nintendo made a few changes to Mario Kart 8 this week—some big, some small, some the size of a luxury car brand’s new SUV. If nothing else, this gives us a good opportunity to pause and reflect on how one of the summer’s biggest games is doing. So let’s do that. I’ve been playing Mario…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 29, 2014