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New Names For Smash Bros. Fighters, Supposedly From Six-Year-Old Girl
That’s not Samus Aran in her Zero Suit, guys. That’s Fighting Girl. Tumblr user The SoupyOne says that he asked a younger sibling the names of the various characters showing up in the latest Nintendo’s all-star brawler. She got some of the more popular characters right, like Mario, Luigi and Peach. Still, it’s when she…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
Happy Fiftieth, Ryu!
They grow up so fast, don’t they? Street Fighter characters, that is. One day, they’re just a bunch of pixels in your favorite arcade game. Next thing you know, they’re being cast in live-action dramas including one regrettable movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme Sigh. Enjoy middle age, Ryu. It’s pretty damn impressive if you’ve been…
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 21, 2014 - UncategorizedBy Kirk Hamilton Published July 21, 2014
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UncategorizedA Single Sailor Moon Episode Drawn In Over 250 Different Styles. Woah.
If you have twenty minutes to spare and didn’t get enough of today’s newest episode of the Sailor Moon reboot, then you should totally spend some time watching this parody episode of Sailor Moon. It’s kind of incredible. It’s called Moon Animate Make-Up, and it’s a project that started back in October 2013. The result…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
They grow up so fast…
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
People Sure Are Mad That Kim Kardashian’s Game Wasn’t Working
Sometime during the weekend, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood stopped working for some players. Given the game’s popularity—it’s currently the number one free game on iTunes—it’s probably not surprising that some fans got miffed that their game time was interrupted. Even so, getting death threats over something like this is kind of ridiculous. The outrage is mostly…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
Star Wars Bounty Hunter Prints, Including A Surprising Character
Alex Griendling has a new selection of Star Wars bounty hunter portraits. Along with the typical group of Empire Strikes Back bounty hunters, the selection includes Shae Vizla from The Old Republic: You can buy the set, or individual portraits here You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming…
By John Struan Published July 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedMy Favorite Mobile Game, Ruined By Free-To-Play
Brilliant in concept and nearly flawless in execution, Sword & Poker and Sword & Poker 2 were two of the best reasons to own an iPhone. With the release of the free-to-play Sword & Poker Adventures, the whole thing has gone to shit. The first Sword & Poker game, available still for $2.99 on iPhone,…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedSony will be staging a live reading and musical performance of The Last Of Us in Santa Monica on Monday, July 28 at 10pm ET. The performance will feature the game’s voice actors and is overseen by the game’s creative director, Neil Druckmann. Livestreamed on PSN/Twitch/YouTube. More details at the PlayStation blog
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
Watch The $5 Million Dota 2 International Grand Finals Right Here
What does $5 million worth of Dota 2 look like? Find out today, as team Newbee faces off against team ViCi in the grand finals of The International. I’d say the pressure is on, but it really isn’t. With a second place prize of $1, 475, 699, it’s hard for me to imagine either team…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
Reminder: the Destiny beta’s going bye-bye for a bit, for scheduled maintenance. The preview test of Bungie’s sci-fi shooter will be down starting today and returns on 7/23, the first day Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners will have access to the beta.
By Evan Narcisse Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
Deals: BOGO 3DS Games, Superhero Blu-rays Assemble, Xbox One
Select 3DS games are buy one get one free today at Best Buy. It’s not the entire library of course, but there’s Bravely Default, both Pokemon games, Link Between Worlds, and more. [BOGO 3DS Games] If you don’t mind heading into the store, Target will take $15 off a $40 game if you put down…
By Shane Roberts Published July 21, 2014 -
CultureSome Sports Fans Upset ESPN Is Airing Video Game Tournaments
This weekend, ESPN2 aired a preview for the grand finals of Dota 2’s The International, the 10 million-dollar tournament for the very popular video game. The move is kind of a big deal—arguably, it grants competitive gaming more mainstream legitimacy. But not everyone was happy to see Dota 2 on ESPN. You can watch the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
‘You Want Goku? Have Goku’
(Fake Sakurai Miiverse post via Nentendo)
By Jason Schreier Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
300 Famous Characters, Redrawn in Pixels
Inspired by Bubble Bobble, pixel artist Paul Robertson took Taito’s 1986 classic’s style and redrawn a whole bunch of video game and pop culture characters. 300 of them to be exact. Here’s all of them, and I’m pretty sure this would be the best tileset ever for an RPG Maker game. Even JoJo is there!…
By Gergo Vas Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Cooking with TAY: Cacio e Pepe (Italian Mac n’ Cheese) • Starsector: A Story of Indie Development Done Right • This is One of the Best Eras of Anime, Stop Saying It Sucks • 4 Dark Souls 2 Lore Gaps I Hope the DLC Will Fill TAY…
By András Neltz Published July 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedTen World of Warcraft Mysteries
Four expansion packs later, there are still some unsolved mysteries out there that plague World of Warcraft. DDGuides‘s here with ten of them compiled into an entertaining video. If you dig deep enough into various blue posts on the official forums and dev Q&As, you could probably find bits of information on these. But number…
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UncategorizedOne-Woman Choir Takes on Game of Thrones
The finale to Game of Thrones’ fourth season had some really nice music. Now, if we take that music, and add one of YouTube’s greatest cover artists, what we get is something truly magical. Malukah is mostly known for her renditions of various video game tunes—she even composed a song for The Elder Scrolls Online—…
By András Neltz Published July 21, 2014