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Dragon Ball Is Made in a Very Orange Building
This is “Bird Studio.” It’s where Akira Toriyama churns out new Dragon Ball, and boy, is it orange. Recently online in Japan, photos of Toriyama’s home studio have been posted on 2ch, the country’s biggest internet forum. This isn’t the first time as photos have been floating around for a while now. This is a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 23, 2014 - Kotaku East
Don’t Be Fooled, “Pet Crab Walking” Is Not a Trend in China
Following up on the faux cabbage pet trend that fooled some Western media is this: crab walking. It is not a trend in China! Just trying to cut this off at the pass before some Western media outlet tries to pass this off as an actual trend—which is what happened with the cabbage nonsense. As…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 23, 2014 -
CultureCosplayAn 80’s X-Men Music Video. Just In Case That’s Something You’re Into.
Hey, it’s Dazzler, who is about as 80’s as an X-Men character gets, starring in her own 80’s music video. Yeah, it’s as weird as it sounds. The number of comic in-jokes going on here is bananas. Gentry Roth stars as Dazzler, while costumes were done by Cozday Clothing. Arvin Bautista directed
By Luke Plunkett Published July 23, 2014 - Uncategorized
A Better Look At Halo: Nightfall’s Hero
Mike Colter is Agent Jameson Locke in Ridley Scott’s upcoming series Halo: Nightfall: Via Halo Waypoint and Variety You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published July 22, 2014 - Culture
War Is Hell (Except With Tiny Pigs)
Redsteam is a creative studio based in Shanghai that “maintains an essential role in the production of Gameloft games”. We’ve featured the work of some of their individual artists previously on Kotaku, but today we’re going to look at the studio’s recent output as a whole. You can check out more of their stuff at…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
LeBron James Sounds Like The World’s Best/Worst Gamer
This ESPN storyon the “mighty mind” of the basketball superstar leads with an unexpected anecdote: LeBron was really, really good at playing….Shaq Fu on the Genesis. “LeBron was the only one who had memorized all the moves and so he’d win every time”, remembers James’ friend Brandon Weems. “We all thought he definitely was cheating.”…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
League Of Legends Testing New System For Banning Assholes
As popular as it is, League of Legends has always had an issue with its community, which to be polite can often be seen as “rude“. And while developers Riot are trying some novelapproaches to mending this the nice way, that carrot is being joined by a new, heavy stick. Riot is currently testing a…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2014 - CultureCosplay
FFXIII’s Lightning. Cosplay by Rainer, photo by vaxzone
By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Tips For Playing Civilization V
Civilization V has grown over a few big expansions to become one of the very best games on the PC. I’d go so far as to say it’s *gasp* the best Civilization game of them all. To help out newcomers, then, or just those who are upgrading with the expansions, I thought I’d put this…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Stop Licking The Screen, Doofus, This Is A Screenshot
By my count (*checks watch*) this is about the 117th time I’ve posted screenshotsfor the upcoming Project Cars. Whatever. They keep looking this good, we’ll all keep on enjoying looking at them. These pics in particular show off the game’s weather, which the devs describe as a “fully-dynamic weather engine include rain droplets, riplets and…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Original Unreal Got Aliens Right
Editor’s note: I’m sure I’m not the only one with fond memories of the original Unreal, which came out on PC one million years ago in 1998. What was it that made that game special? Let’s find out. The following is an excerpt from the new book Escape to Na Pali: A Journey to the…
Kaitlin Tremblay and Alan Williamson Published July 22, 2014 -
UncategorizedWatch Assassin’s Creed Cosplayers Hunt Soldiers Through Paris
In this promotional video for Assassin’s Creed Unity, four Assassin’s Creed cosplayers hunt two soldiers through the streets of Paris: The making of video is nearly ten minutes long: And this last video shows the team running from the police: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images,…
By John Struan Published July 22, 2014 -
UncategorizedDisney Infinity Collector’s Edition With Light Up Dark Base
The Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes Collector’s Edition comes with the Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes Starter Pack, all Avengers figures, and the Frost Beast Collector’s Edition display, which lights up: Via Playstation Blog You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published July 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
8-Bit-Style Batman Action Figure
NECA has previously released Predator and Jason figures based on their 80’s video game appearances, and just published images of a new Batman action figure based on the video game adaptation of the 1989 movie: Batman stands 7″ tall, with over 25 points of articulation for great poses, plus removable cape, Batarang and Spear Gun…
By John Struan Published July 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
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By Kirk Hamilton Published July 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
HULK HATES BEING TIMED PLAYSTATION EXCLUSIVE
The Incredible Hulk figure for Disney Infinity 2.o will not be available at launch, except to those who spend $179.99 on this lovely PlayStation exclusive collector’s edition. Rage….building. Available this fall for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3, the collector’s edition of Disney Infinity 2.0 comes with the game, the Avengers playset, six figures, including…
By Mike Fahey Published July 22, 2014 -
UncategorizedAngry Birds Transformers Toys Do Transform, Basically
Roaring into stores at the beginning of October with all the articulation of a Happy Meal toy, Hasbro’s Angry Birds Transformers Telepods toys change from vehicles with heads to robots with heads. They’re Headmasters! Of course they aren’t Headmasters. Headmasters are Transformers whose heads transform into smaller robots. That’s extra transforming. What Angry Birds Transformers…
By Mike Fahey Published July 22, 2014
