A Link Between Worlds Brought To Life As Chalk Art Animation

Here’s Awe Me and their latest chalk animation, featuring Link and his special ability from The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds While the animation was inspired by the 3DS game, and I know we agreed that we wouldn’t speak about the CD-i Zelda games, the animation just reminds me of those. (But in…

Gotta love the contrast between the castle and the surrounding desert-like “Mesa” landscape of Minecraft. A beautiful render by nowami that almost looks like it’s made of real blocks. Castle in Creative [imgur, via reddit] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that…

Persona Q is a Mixture of Old School Gameplay and Fanboy Joy

I love Persona 3 and Persona 4. They are easily among my favorite JRPGs. So a game that mixes together the characters of both games in an all new adventure seems right up my alley—which it is for the most part. But when it comes down to it, Persona Q lives or dies based on…

NASA Concept Aircraft Looks Like a Flying Vegetable

NASA dubbed this futuristic aircraft concept the “Supersonic Green Machine.” Online in Japan, it’s being compared to a vegetable. A flying vegetable. Twitter user K0ZiR0 created the above image, comparing the NASA aircraft to the negi, or what’s known as a Welsh onion in the West. The negi is the flying object at the bottom…

One Week Friends Teaches You All You Need to Know About Friendship

There are a lot of anime out there about falling in love, but rare are the series that are willing to spend 12 full episodes doing nothing but exploring the growth of two people’s friendship. And still rarer are those that do it even half as well as One Week Friends Good – Real-world Exploration…

The World Cup of Iffy Japanese and Chinese Tattoos

Some of the best athletes in the world are facing off at this year’s World Cup. Shame that a couple of them are sporting some rather interesting, if not unfortunate, Japanese and Chinese tattoos. Previously, Kotaku profiled the perplexing tattoo of Greece’s Theofanis Gekas that was baffling people in Japan. As noted on Mixi News,…

Why Snowpiercer Started with a Digital Pig Head

Snowpiercer, it seems, is fantastic. The movie debuted in South Korea last summer and is finally opening in North America later this week. Before filming started, the cast and crew held a traditional ritual with pig’s head—but with a slight twist. A digital twist. Note: This article contains imagery some readers might find objectionable. In…

40 People Hitting Each Other In The Face

Screenwriter Max Landis had an idea: put 40 people (some who knew each other, others total strangers) in a room, pair them up randomly and get them to slap each other in the face. These gentlemen were not involved. These folks were A lot of these are kinda gentle, but boy, some folks get smacked

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When Cosplay Goes From A Pastime To A Job

When Stacey Lee Feldman first saw Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in 1999, her life changed forever. And not in a “Star Wars will never be the same again” kind of way, either. [Top image: Peter Verrant] After seeing the film’s two Jedi protagonists spend most of the film wearing luxurious brown robes, Feldman instantly…