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Steam Summer Sale Day 6, Injustice Vol. 1, and a Really Cheap TV
The Steam Summer Sale goes on with deals on Brothers and… well, this isn’t the strongest day so far, but definitely pick up Brothers and Nidhogg. [Steam Summer Sale] Pick up your your choice for best gaming mouse, the Razer DeathAdder 2013 today, and Best Buy will pack in $50 of Steam credit with your…
By Shane Roberts Published June 24, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Game of Thrones Cast, Now In Pug Form
Game of Thrones is a wonderful, heartbreaking piece of television. But you know what would make it better? You guessed it — tiny, costumed, inbred dogs! Behold as some of your favorite Game of Thrones characters are transformed into tiny pugs. Do you think they ever hang out withBane Cat or that Dog in Batman…
By Chris Person Published June 24, 2014 - Uncategorized
Anti-Cheating Software Is Wrongfully Banning Battlefield 3 Players
Battlefield 3 players have been running into some renewed performance issues as of late, ones that are related to the 2011 shooter’s third-party anti-cheating software. Over the weekend, EA posted a message on its help website saying that PunkBuster, Battlefield 3’s anti-cheating program, was incorrectly marking some players and thus kicking them out of the…
By Yannick LeJacq Published June 24, 2014 - Uncategorized
Sources: Crytek Not Paying Staff On Time, Ryse Sequel Dropped
Crytek, the developer behind Crysis and Xbox One launch game Ryse, is having trouble paying employees, and the company has been bleeding staff since March, according to people who work there. In addition, from what I hear, the multi-national studio has had to cancel work on multiple games over the past few months, including some…
By Jason Schreier Published June 24, 2014 -
UncategorizedWhy Mortal Kombat X Is So Gory
If you, like me, were in the front few rows of Sony’s E3 press conference when they showed off Mortal Kombat X on stage, you would also have been deafened by the loud cheers of excited gamers. They were oohing and aahing at decapitations and exposed organs and lost limbs. This isn’t new for a…
By Tina Amini Published June 24, 2014 -
UncategorizedIce-T Celebrates Call of Duty Wins by Dancing with His D***
It’s a good thing that the veteran rapper/actor doesn’t livestream his video game sessions, huh? During an interview with Conan O’Brien last night, Ice-T talked about his well-documented gaming habit. As you’d expect from a guy who rapped about thug life back in the day, he loves to trash-talk. But the most, um, pointed anecdote…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 24, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior: The Ani-TAY Review • The Obvious (And Not So Obvious) Problem With Licensed Games • Battle Princess of Arcadias: The TAY Review • Back in The TAY Review: Gundam Wing: Endless Duel TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…
By András Neltz Published June 24, 2014 -
UncategorizedA 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…
By Gergo Vas Published June 24, 2014 - Uncategorized
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…
By Gergo Vas Published June 24, 2014 -
Kotaku EastPersona 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…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 24, 2014 - Kotaku East
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 24, 2014 - Kotaku East
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…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 24, 2014 - Kotaku East
In Japan, a Fast Food Chain Is Selling $12 Burgers Until Next Spring
Like Japanese beef? Burger chain Lotteria is rolling out a series of pricey wagyu burgers, costing between $12 to $15 a piece. Yes, this is fast food! On the 29th of every month until next March, select Lotterias will have expensive burgers made from a different type of high-grade Japanese beef. The number “29” is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 24, 2014 - Kotaku East
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,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 24, 2014 - Kotaku East
A Diary of My First Day at Pokémon Art Academy
Dear Diary, after Mom kicked me out of the house because of my radical views on the role of Pokémon in our society, I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. Everything in our world seems to rely on Pokémon slave labor—from construction work to farming! Heck, even photography seems to…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 24, 2014
