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UncategorizedPainted Pigeon Wooing Is A Popular Competition In Spain
Why are these pigeons painted? It’s their dating uniform: A popular past-time in Spain is competitive pigeon courting. Participants train their male pigeons to pursue hens with a white spot or feather on their tails. For the competition, the pigeons are released in the same area as the hen. The pigeon that most successfully woos…
By John Struan Published August 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedHere, Meet the Top Guns of GTA V
“You don’t have time to think up there. If you think, you’re dead.” The spectacular flying seen in this clip—directed by GTA Wise Guy— is done by GTA Online collective The Originals Crew. As you can probably tell, they’re very dedicated to looking awesome way up in the sky. And, tricks and stunts aren’t all…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Nintendo announced some good stuff that’s coming to Mario Kart 8 in a new update alongside the…controversial Mercedez Benz DLC pack. They’re incremental tweaks, but they sound like welcome improvements all the same. Here are the ones I’m looking forward to: Players will be able to display a map of the racetrack on their TV…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: ConsulTAYtion: Online Relationships, Mad Dads, and Bears • The End of Piracy: Chasing the Gaikai Dream • (Not so) Back in The TAY Review: Rogue Legacy • FoodTAYku: White Duck Taco Shop TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By András Neltz Published August 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Oh No, Square Enix
DARGON Quest IV. Not a good sign. Not a good sign at all. Dargon Quest IV is pretty good, BTW, and I imagine it’ll be worth checking out when it does hit iTunes in North America, which should be soon. (It launched in New Zealand today.) Hopefully Dargon Quest VII 3DS comes to the U.S.…
By Jason Schreier Published August 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedSumming Up All Seven X-Men Movies In Under Three Minutes
Don’t have the time or willpower to sit through X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past? Here’s everything you really need to know about the franchise in about two minutes forty-five seconds. True to their name, the folks at Mashable…
By Mike Fahey Published August 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
“Bonar” And Other Embarrassing Soccer Uniform Sponsors
From 1989 to 1991, Scottish soccer team St. Johnstone was sponsored by a textile company called Bonar. Here are more ill-advised soccer uniform sponsors: You can see more at Uni Watch You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published August 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Warlords of Draenor is shaping up to be one giant World of Warcraft nostalgia trip. If the new Upper Blackrock Spire didn’t hit you hard, the revamped Nagrand, one of the fan-favorite zones of the BC era, will. These preview shots look really cool—hopefully the zone will still be exciting without the floating rocks. Warlords…
By Gergo Vas Published August 6, 2014 - Kotaku East
A Guide To China’s Biggest Game Convention… Through Selfies
Throughout the years, China Joy has been labeled various names by both the foreign and Chinese press. Some have called it a show about busts, others have called it a giant sea of people. Personally, I call China Joy fun! Now, bear with me, China Joy isn’t exactly fun. There isn’t a lot of news…
By Eric Jou Published August 6, 2014 - Kotaku East
The Lady with the Bug-Filled Hair is Back
It’s summer! In Japan, that means watermelon, trips to the beach, and Shoko Nakagawa covered with insect shells. Note: Some readers might find this objectionable. Because, well, it’s kinda gross. In late July and early August, you can hear cicada (セミ or semi) chirping in Japan. And each summer for the past several years, celeb…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 6, 2014 -
Kotaku EastEagerly Anticipated Anime Spawns Amusing Water Meme
Kantai Collection, which Kotaku first covered in June 2013, is getting an anime series next year. And the trailer for it has already spawned an amusing meme. Let’s have a look. In one part of the anime trailer (which you can see below), the character Akagi glides across the face of the water, firing an…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 6, 2014 -
Kotaku EastHello Kitty Leads a Moment of Prayer
The scion of all things pink and cute, Hello Kitty is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. In Taiwan, where they love all things Hello Kitty, a celebration for the silent cat’s birthday turned into a more somber affair. Last week, multiple explosions from a gas leak killed at least 26 people and injured 267…
By Eric Jou Published August 6, 2014 - Kotaku East
Teacher Warns Parents: Anime Leads to Bad Grades
Chinese students, like students across the world, have summer break: a time when they’re free to pursue non-scholarly activities. Unfortunately for a group of students, their interest in anime and comics have been hindered by an overzealous teacher. Sina Games reports that earlier this week, a text message went viral on China’s twitter-like Weibo. The…
By Eric Jou Published August 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedThis Is Why You Don’t Give an Axe to Little Red Riding Hood
Red Riding Hood is going to be the protagonist of her very own “cinematic” action platformer called Woolfe – The Red Hood Diaries. This Red Riding Hood is vengeful, angry, and wields an axe. In this case, “cinematic” basically means that the game looks great: It’s like the evil, bloodthirstier twin of Trine, with a…
By András Neltz Published August 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Square Enix in Trouble with SNK and the Cops
Police are investigating Square Enix for allegedly using copyrighted SNK characters in the manga High Score Girl. Square Enix, which publishes the manga, says it didn’t receive requests from SNK to halt publication and SNK says it never gave Square Enix permission to use its characters in the manga. According to Sankei News, characters from…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 6, 2014 - Kotaku East
In Japan, Buy an $18,000 Evangelion Statue from 7-Eleven
Attention Neon Genesis Evangelion fans! Make that, Eva fans with lots and lots of money to spend. 7-Eleven if offering a limited edition statue for a large amount of money. According to 7-Eleven, the Evangelion Unit-01 statue measures around two meters tall and is priced at 1.836 million yen (or US$17,892). It’s limited to 25…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 6, 2014 - Kotaku East
Alleged Toy Thief Threatened with Internet Shame
Besides anime and manga, retail chain Mandarake also specializes in retro toys. One of the rarest was apparently stolen earlier this week. Mandarake says it captured the alleged thief on a security camera and now it wants the toy back. Or else. The missing toy in question is a Tetsujin tin wind-up toy made by…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedHow Metal Gear Solid: Rising Became Revengeance
This video details how the game initially teased, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, eventually turned into Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance. Along the way, the game lost features like wall-running, abandoned the stealth concept, and settled on a dramatically different story: Via VG247 You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming…
By John Struan Published August 5, 2014 - Culture
What Dune Should Look Like
Mikhail Borulko is a freelance artist based in Russia. This Dune image has stopped me dead in my tracks. I can’t stop looking at it. And wishing it was the poster for a 70s psych rock concept album. You can see more of Mikhail’s work at his DeviantArtand ArtStationpages. To see the larger pics in…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2014
