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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 - Uncategorized
Survival Games Are Moving Beyond “Zombies & Crafting”
Survival games are normally bleak affairs. Tense, unforgiving simulations of desperation and death. So why is it that playing Eidolon, a survival game, feels so…peaceful? I’m someone who is in love with the idea of a survival game, but rarely with their execution. The prospect of eking out a living from nothingness still sounds original…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedMario Kart 8’s DLC Is So Gross
That weird Mercedes DLC for Mario Kart 8 is out at the end of the month. And yeah, it’s not pretty. We initially thoughtthere was going to be one real car made available for the game (for free, since this is sponsored content), but there are actually three. Which gives Nintendo/Mercedes enough cars to make…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedOne Of The Best PC Games Of All Time Is Now Free
Origin’s “On The House” deal, which randomly gives away free PC games, is doing a very good thing today, because it’s giving away Wing Commander III. One of the greats OK, so it was never that great a game, and especially won’t be now, but you don’t enjoy Wing Commander III for the flight. You…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Misleading Steam Racing Game Now Offering Refunds
Last week I reported on a Steam racing game, Colin McRae Rally, that seemed to be a remake of a classic from the ’90s. Instead it turned out to be a port of a mobile game from last year. Fans were pissed, feeling misled. Now publisher Codemasters is offering refunds. Now, it’s important to note…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
When 90s Tom Cruise Got Stuck On A Game, He Called For Help
In 2014, celebrities playing video games is as natural as the sun rising and the earth spinning. But in the 1990s, it wasn’t. Especially when it came to relatively obscure shooters on the Mac. Hardcore fans of the game might already know about this story (it’s quietly done the rounds for years now among the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedMario Vs Pokemon Live-Action Short Is Kinda Disturbing
I don’t even know what I just watched. I think… I think I liked it? It’s, um… huh. So I know for sure that this is a movie. Ostensibly it takes place in an old-school Game Boy and is about a Pokemon trainer attempting to battle and capture Mario. For reasons. He’s got some kind…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 5, 2014 - UncategorizedBy Kirk Hamilton Published August 5, 2014
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UncategorizedWell Of Course Broforce Is Getting An Official Expendables Tie-In
Let’s be honest: Broforce was basically already an unofficial Expendables video game, so it’s not a huge shock to hear that they’re making it official. It is, however, a reason for there to be more (free!) Broforce, which is always a good thing. Titled The Expendabros, the promotional tie-in is a collaboration between the people…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 5, 2014