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Kotaku EastTaiwan’s Sea of Scooters Is a Sight to Behold
So. Many. Scooters. If you like motorized bikes, then Taipei is the place for you. Well, unless you hate traffic, that is. The following videos show rush hour at Taipei Bridge, which is well-known for its flood of scooters. As website Plotting The Course points out, there are 415 scooters for every one thousand people,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Most Violent Game Boy Game Isn’t On The Game Boy
“Adventurer Lenna sets out on a quest to hunt down the Archangel that killed her child-prodigy students.” Well, we’re off to a good start. Apart from child murder, Lenna’s Inception, a PC action-adventure game published by Starbound developer (and publisher) Chucklefish, features a top-down view with Game Boy-inspired graphics, procedurally generated locations, and “occasional gory…
By András Neltz Published July 9, 2014 - Kotaku East
Shirtless Spartan Warrior Cosplay Made Easy!
All you need are incredible art skills, and bam, and you too can look like King Leonidas. This is Mr. Nagata from Japanese comedy site Omocoro, which recently had artist Hikaru Cho paint him a chiseled chest. Kotaku has featured Cho’s body paintings before (here, here, and here). They are terrific. The process took over…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2014 -
Kotaku EastNintendo just revealed that two games featured on Kirby Triple Deluxe are getting released as standalone downloadable 3DS titles for Japan. Kirby Fighters Z and DeDeDe’s Drum Dash Z will be out July 23, both with new content. No word yet on a Western release.
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2014 - Kotaku East
Japanese Young People Are Imitating That Crying Politician
Politician Ryutaro Nonomura made national news in Japan after he turned into a crying mess during a press conference. The incident spawned internet memes, the latest of which is Japanese youth posing as Nonomura for laughs. In case you missed it, here is the now infamous press conference, which was supposed to address the Hyogo…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2014 - Uncategorized
Numenera Technology Compendium
The cover for The Technology Compendium: Sir Arthour’s Guide to the Numenera. The 150-page hardcover contains “400 new cyphers, 225 new artifacts, and 300 new oddities” and will be available in August for $40 or $15 for the ebook. Here’s a sample illustration from the book: Via the official site You are now looking at…
By John Struan Published July 9, 2014 - Uncategorized
Yay, One Of Pokémon’s Best Features Is Coming Back
One of the best things about Ruby and Sapphire was “secret bases”—a feature which let players decorate their own special space, ala Animal Crossing. Alas, secret bases aren’t in the newer games, X & Y-but they’ll be in the upcoming remakes, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. From the Pokemon website: Super-Secret Bases are an awesome…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 8, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Brazil-Germany Match, Explained Via Pokémon
If you’re having trouble understanding what happened in the World Cup today, then perhaps this highly scientific Pokémon image of Mega ‘mon versus baby Pokémon can break it down for you. Makes sense to me, at least. (Via Will Thompson)
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 8, 2014 - Culture
Don’t Fight The Rainbow, It’s Here To Help
Ryan Lee is an artist who has worked for companies like Massive Black, Ubisoft and Wizards of the Coast. You can see more of Ryan’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand”…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Sun Is Gone, So It’s Time To Make Friends
This is Ashen. It’s “an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home”. It looks awesome. Set in a world with no sun, which I first took to be Scotland (sorry Mark) but which is instead some kind of fictional wasteland, its developers say the main aim of the game…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2014 - CultureCosplay
The Smoke Is A Cosplay Superstar
Eric “The Smoke” Moran is a wrestler, actor and producer (and comic book hero). He is also one hell of a cosplayer. You know what’s most impressive, other than the obviously fantastic outfits? It’s the range. From Spawn to Battle of the Planets to Batman to Appleseed to Judge Dredd to Assassin’s Creed, he’s covering…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2014 - Uncategorized
If Sailor Moon Starred In A Fantasy RPG
Sailor suits might work when it comes to fighting evil by moonlight, but in an RPG? Maybe not so much. Check out these cool GIFs by Sasha Mutch, which reimagine a few sailor scouts as fantasy RPG characters: Sailor Moon, the armored cleric (It’s based on Marek Jarocki’s Sailor Moon design.) Sailor Mercury, the mage…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 8, 2014 -
UncategorizedHey Space Game Fans, Check This Out
Indie developer Stéphanie Rancourt emailed me the other day with a proposal. She wanted to see if I was interested in the space game she was working on. Little did she know it was about as much my thing as a video game can get. The game, Deep Space Settlement, is something she’s been working…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2014 -
UncategorizedAn Amazing Glitch That Makes Super Mario World Way Easier
Ever heard of the “cloud glitch” in Super Mario World? It’s a technique that allows you to spawn a usable Lakitu cloud in your item box, which you can then use to speed through the game. Heck, the glitch even allows you to skip some of the animations in the final Bowser fight, peculiarly enough.…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 8, 2014
