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UncategorizedVideo Shows How Far Project CARS Has Come in Two Years
One racetrack, one car, one game, two years apart. From the foliage to the road textures and the overall colors, the changes are quite noticeable. The eight-minute clip comes courtesy of Adrián Bermúdez, aka ADRIANF1esp, who is also responsible for this spring’sProject CARS-to-real-life comparison video. Here, he races across the same track in two different…
By András Neltz Published August 7, 2014 - Kotaku East
Every Dorm Room Should Come With an Inflatable Pool
It’s summer. It’s hot. In China, some college students have figured out a way to beat the heat: Inflatable pools in their dorm rooms! In Chinese, these are called “college student dorm inflatable pools” (大学生宿舍充气泳池). Summer sessions are notoriously hot, and Chinese university students have come up with a variety of ways to cope, including…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 7, 2014 - Kotaku East
Your Rival in Keiji Inafune’s Next Game is Basically Mega Man
In Azure Striker Gunvolt, you play the role of the electricity manipulating Gunvolt. If you thought that with Keiji Inafune as producer, Gunvolt would be just another enemy power-stealing Mega Man clone, worry not – That’s your rival character. Produced by Keiji Inafune and developed by Inti Creates, Azure Striker Gunvolt is an upcoming 2D…
By Toshi Nakamura Published August 7, 2014 - Kotaku East
Hearing “Ebola” After Eating Bat Meat Can’t Be Good
On August 4, one of Japan’s largest newspapers, the Asahi Shimbun, published a story on eating bat meat. You know what happened that same day? Another Japanese site warned that bat meat could be spreading Ebola. That’s unfortunate timing. The Asahi Shimbun article was titled “I Tried Eating a Whole Bat.” The writer described her…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 7, 2014 - Kotaku East
Regarding those misconstrued Studio Ghibli comments Kotaku previously pointed out, producer Toshio Suzuki recently said he was talking about changing the the way Studio Ghibli works. What’s more, he said, “It looks like Hayao Miyazaki also wants to make something.” There’s talk of Miyazaki doing an animated short, which wouldn’t break his retirement from animated…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 7, 2014 -
Kotaku EastI Had No Idea Electric Guitars Were So Damn Dangerous
Well, they are electric. But, I guess I’d never really thought about it. But if you’ve never wondered what happens if there isn’t proper grounding, watch this. That’s Bae Chul-soo, the singer for the legendary Korean band Song Gol Meh. The clip is super old, but was recently unearthed on Japanese site Livedoor News. The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Game Of Thrones Subway Map Is A Handy Guide To Westeros Travel
Michael Tyznik, a graphic designer, has built something that could have saved some folks – Arya and The Hound especially – a lot of time and bother. It’s a subway map for the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. I love that not only does it look great, but the lines and stations serve a kind of…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Worlds Collide: Pokemon vs Final Fantasy, Dragon Age vs Mass Effect
Artist Andrew Ryan, who it’s safe to say is a fairly huge BioWare fan, has a portfolio full of amazing images. Images that are a crossover fanfic writer’s dream While many are related to BioWare’s big universes in some manner, like crossing characters between Mass Effect and Dragon Age, there are some outliers, like a…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2014 -
CultureTotal RecallLost Akira Game Spotted, But It’s Not Pretty
It’s a shame. For such an awesome manga/film as Akira is, its games have been pretty shoddy. One, however, was so shoddy it was never even released. The storyof this missing game is one that’s eluded folks for some time, but today, we’ve finally got some footage of it (well, the Genesis version at least).…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Gordon Freeman Is A (Relatively) Tiny Murder Machine
Artist Andrew McGee, who did something similarfor Shadow of the Colossus, returns with another “for scale” pic, this time for Half-Life 2. Funny how size, while looking impressive on paper, means so little in that game. I’d fight 1000 Striders before taking on a single Poison Headcrab. Half-Life 2: Freeman vs. Combine [DeviantArt]
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedCome On Dark Souls, Even Link Can Jump
I mean, Link’s just a kid and he can get up there. Work it out, dude. “Try jumping,” they say. Hahaha, oh that’s rich. The Dark Souls struggle is real, everyone. Not that a spoiled prissypants like Link from The Legend of Zelda would know. Always leaping small gaps and scaling short barriers everywhere he…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 6, 2014 - Culture
Which Game Has The Best Intro Sequence?
Most of the best video games grab your attention right from the start. They show you something amazing, or mysterious, or beautiful, and pull you in. Yesterday, Gone Home developer Steve Gaynor made the bold proclamation that the intro to Fallout was the greatest video game intro of all time: It’s a strong entry, to…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedIt Took Seven Years To Find 400 Stunts In Halo
The Ultimate Stunting Tutorial is a tremendous effort by dozens of people who came together in the name of doing awesome stuff in the original Halo. Flips. Explosions. Balancing acts. Vehicle launches. Defying physics. UST has it all. Best of all, as the name implies, the video series—which takes place entirely in Blood Gulch—teaches you…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 6, 2014 - Reviews
Nvidia Shield Tablet: The Kotaku Review
Last year’s Nvidia Shield portable was the most powerful Android gaming system on the market at the time. The Nvidia Shield Tablet is the most powerful Android gaming system on the market, but it’s also something its predecessor was not — useful. The original Nvidia Shield, rebranded the Shield Portable in the wake of the…
By Mike Fahey Published August 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Twitch Cracks Down On Music In Videos, Users Freak Out
Twitch has made some changes today. Some were pretty boring. Another, however, has a lot of people very upset. The streaming giant has implemented audio monitoring tools similar to those used by YouTube, aimed at identifying the use of copyrighted music in archived copies of user’s videos. The software will scan 30-minute sections of videos;…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedKratos Is A Loser Even When He Wins
If there was ever a video game character that needed to go into therapy, it’s God of War star Kratos. Even David Jaffe, one of his creators, has said that the guy should calm down But can you really blame him? He lost his entire family before the original God of War even started. And…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Someone’s Suing Sony Because A PS4 Game Isn’t 1080p
Proving the theory that anyone will sue anyone for anything, a legal firm filed a class-action lawsuit for $5 million against Sony yesterday because the multiplayer mode in PS4 game Killzone: Shadowfall doesn’t run at a “native” resolution of 1080p. Yep, this is for real. The suit, which you can read below, alleges that Sony…
By Jason Schreier Published August 6, 2014
