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Share Your Xbox One Stories
Six months ago, the Xbox One was released unto the world. For a half a year since then, Microsoft’s giant new chunk of plastic has sat in our living rooms, asking for our voice commands, showing us movies, and letting us play games. How’s all that going? While most of us on staff at Kotaku…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
Say Goodbye To Online Services On Your Wii And DS Games
Hope you’ve already gotten all your Dragon Quest IX treasure maps and downloaded all those daily Professor Layton puzzles. If not, now’s your last chance. At some point in the next 24 hours, Nintendo is turning off online functionality for Wii and DS games including Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and Pokémon. You’ll no longer…
By Jason Schreier Published May 19, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Epic Rap Battle Between Superman And Goku Is Too Close To Call
The Epic Rap Battles generally present me with a simple choice — Mozart Vs. Skrillex, Bob Ross Vs. Pablo Picasso —but when the Man of Steel goes up against Dragon Ball‘s Kakarrot, I just don’t know. Goku’s rapping skills are clearly more advanced than Superman’s, and he does go Super Saiyan all over the underwearing…
By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
This Is The Cover Of The First Wasteland 2 Novella
Here is the cover to The Earth Transformed, a novel by Mike Stackpole and Nathan Long, available this week as a reward to kickstarter backers You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published May 19, 2014 -
UncategorizedYou Can Play As Snoop Dogg In League of Legends
If you play as Nasus in League of Legends, good news: you can wear a skin that turns that character into Snoop Dogg. And naturally, he can do the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” dance, as well as perform weed-related moves. You can see him in action in the video above, by ThePentaT. Heck, you…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
Remember The Universim, that gorgeous-looking god game I wrote about late in April? If its early development is any indication, it looks like everything I want out of a good god game. But before my prayers can be answered, it has to finish that whole crowdfunding campaign thing successfully. So if you’re also interested in…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
Master Chief Looks So Much Cuter In Minecraft
Further confirming the adage that if something exists, it will eventually be in Minecraft, here’s a newly-announced Halo skin pack. It’ll include a bunch of character skins and music tracks from Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter series. More details to come
By Jason Schreier Published May 19, 2014 -
EsportsYes, The Blue Team Has An Advantage In League of Legends
Red versus Blue. Shirts versus skins. Zombies versus humans. These are all surface level distinctions, saying nothing meaningful about one team’s likelihood of trouncing the other…right? If only there was some way to quantify the results of many different matches of a particular game and then use this information to come to a conclusion. Big…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 19, 2014 -
UncategorizedOh Yeah, The Second Guardians Of The Galaxy Trailer Has Everything
If Bradley Cooper’s take on Guardians of the Galaxy‘s psychopathic raccoon doesn’t sell you on Marvel’s next big comic book movie, then wait until you hear Vin Diesel utter his first “I am Groot.” Whether or not this tale of Marvel’s team of intergalactic “heroes” captures the imagination of the general public is moot at…
By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
You Can Watch Sailor Moon Again Starting Today
Starting today, uncut and remastered episodes of Sailor Moon will be released weekly on Hulu. Already, they have four subtitled episodes up—and more will be released every Monday. You can watch the first two episodes here if you’d like. I already started, and they look great. Lesson learned: fuck jewelry. Also: sleeping instead of doing…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
Watch Dogs, Sony Gold Wireless Headset, Pandemic, Reaper of Souls
Watch Dogs is finally coming out on the 27th. Don’t miss your chance to save by pre-ordering, not to mention the bonuses. Watch Dogs pre-order with $15 Xbox Gift Card | One/360 Watch Dogs pre-order with $12 credit | PC Watch Dogs Deluxe pre-order with $14 credit | PC The Sony Gold Wireless Headset is…
By Shane Roberts Published May 19, 2014 -
UncategorizedNintendo Characters Celebrate Gay Marriage
Mario and Link are pretty psyched about Nintendo’s promise to be more “inclusive” in future games. Last night’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver discussed Nintendo’s recent apology for not including gay marriage in the upcoming 3DS game Tomodachi Life. “We pledge that if we create a next installment in the Tomodachi series,” Nintendo wrote,…
By Jason Schreier Published May 19, 2014 -
UncategorizedSuper Monkey Ball Gets In On Some Of That Hot Peggle Action
Everybody loves Popcap’s Peggle. Everybody loves monkeys. Sega does the math and gets Super Monkey Ball Bounce, or as I’m going to call it — Seggle. Coming this summer to iOS and Android, Seggle takes its inspiration from the classic arcade game of pachinko, and not Peggle at all. See? Bananas. Peggle doesn’t have bananas.…
By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
Go To Google.Com Now To Play With a Rubik’s Cube
The Rubik’s cube was first invented by Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik in 1974. Google is commemorating this achievement with one of its trademark Doodles that lets you play with the legendary toy in the comfort of your own web browser. Head over to Google.com to give it a whirl. But be warned: as the New…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 19, 2014 -
UncategorizedWhat Nintendo Is Doing Right
The conventional wisdom is that Nintendo has screwed up. They’ve lost the plot. Dropped the ball. Somehow sunk their own battleship. But they’re actually doing a bunch of things right, too. Let’s not focus on the very real storm clouds, for once, and focus on four bright spots that might change how you think about…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Mario Kart 8: The TAY Review • TAY’s Top Ten Super Nintendo Games! [Update] • The Megas’ “History Repeating: Red” • Muv-Luv Alternative Chronicles 01: The TAY Review Follow them here.
By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
Posters Remind Us Of A More Peaceful Era In Gaming
Before the Oculus Rift and the Kinect, there was a time when the 3-button wheel mouse and NES Zappers ruled the earth. It was a much simpler time. These paintings by artist Heather Martinez are just perfect to take us back a few decades. These are all part of POPzilla‘s video game art show. Prints…
By Gergo Vas Published May 19, 2014 -
UncategorizedMake Shadow Of Mordor‘s Combat Even More Brutal With Runes
The most savage Lord of the Rings game adds an additional layer of violence with its Rune System, a method of upgrading weapons and generating retailer-specific preorder bonuses. Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor‘s vaguely heroic Talion comes equipped with a bow, a longsword and a dagger. That’s a fine arsenal for fantasy combat, but where are…
By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2014