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UncategorizedSomeone Wrote A Book About Street Fighter‘s Greatest Match
It’s been ten years since the greatest comeback in competitive video games happened. In the decade since Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong met in a fateful match of Street Fighter III: Third Strike, EVO Moment 37 has become the stuff of legend. Now there’s a book about it. The myriad low-res videos that capture their…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedI Think I Found My New Favorite Titanfall Move
Instead of calling in your Titan just as the match is ending to unload on the enemy dropship, what if you saved your Titan? Just for a bit longer? At the end of this episode of DefendTheHouse’s latest Mythbusters show they call in their Titan just as the dropship’s health is nearing its end. The…
By Tina Amini Published April 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedVoice Of Planet Earth Making A Nature Documentary For The Oculus Rift
David Attenborough, the journalist behind many beloved nature documentaries including the Planet Earth series, is going fully next-gen for one of his upcoming projects. It’s a movie called Conquest of the Skies, and unlike any of Attenborough’s previous work, it’s being made for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, director John Morris told the website…
By Yannick LeJacq Published April 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedNew Game from the Creators of Guacamelee Looks Wickedly Twisted
This is Severed, a game where the heroine has to put herself back together. Literally. Drinkbox Studios—makers of last year’s well-loved luchadore action-platformer Guacamelee—just revealed their next game via the very flashy trailer above. It looks like it’s headed to touchscreen devices, based on the gestural input prompts seen in the clip. Here’s how Drinkbox…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Kotaku UK Is Officially Live
If you missed it last month, we announced a partnership with Future Publishing to launch Kotaku UK, the UK’s own version of Kotaku. And that site is officially live today. If you have any questions about what this means for you as a reader, the lovely Keza MacDonald—the UK site’s editor—has all the answers To…
By Tina Amini Published April 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Vita Gets A Sweet-Looking New Action Game
Freedom Wars, announced for Japan last year, is coming to North America at some point in 2014. Sony announced the news on their YouTube channel alongside this new trailer (above) for the upcoming Vita game, which lets you team up with other players to take down monsters and shoot your way through prison colonies Looks…
By Jason Schreier Published April 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Nintendo Made It Great, The Community Made It Better • Tales of Vesperia: Thoughts and Feelings • A Day at PAX East 2014 • Why Brütal Legend is Actually A Super Amazing Game TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By András Neltz Published April 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedNew HBO Show Makes A Pretty Good Joke About Mass Effect‘s Ending
The characters on HBO’s new show Silicon Valley work in tech, and they clearly know a thing or two about video games. So when it comes time to articulate the pointlessness of one of their peers, they’ve got a pretty solid frame of reference to work with. In this scene from last night’s episode, the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Enjoy Logging Into Your Workstation With These Gaming Wallpapers
An Animus workstation screen is one of today’s dozen gaming wallpapers: Battlefield 4 by Timu Battlefield 3 by Leibniz Project Cars by R8TEDM3 Skyrim by Unreal Dishonored by Blinck The Banner Saga by RK9039 Bioshock Infinite by Thorgal Batman: Arkham Origins by Thorgal Remember Me by Alastor Castlevania Lord of Shadows by Auto-Reply DMC by…
By John Struan Published April 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedGeorge R.R. Martin Is A Horrible Wedding Planner
A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, wedding planner. Guaranteed to make your special day an event to remember. No Game of Thrones spoilers here, but there are sure to be one or two in the comments, unless everyone pulls together in the spirit of cooperation and only comments on Martin’s beard…
By Mike Fahey Published April 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Cool Macroshots Show The Dramatic Adventures of Star Wars Figurines
Photos with Star Wars figurines can’t really get more dramatic (and funny) than in Malaysian photographer Zahir Batin’s machroshots on DeviantART. He only needed a few droids, some stormtroopers and the touch of nature to fill his series with emotion. Here’s some highlights below. Check the artist’s Facebook page and his gallery on DeviantART for…
By Gergo Vas Published April 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Vintage Arcade Flyer For Rush’N Attack
Rush’N Attack—a game so bad, even the woman in the promotional photo seems to be mocking it. See the entire flyer below: Via the Arcade Flyer Museum Previously: Vintage Punch-Out Arcade Flyer You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published April 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Some Skyrim mods just break immersion completely. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got them. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
By Gergo Vas Published April 14, 2014 - Kotaku East
Meet China’s Next Cat Celebrity
As much as I love dogs, cats are the ones who rule the internet, and in China it’s no different. Taking China’s largest social network by storm in conjunction with the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, is this Beijing kitty, Piggycat KeLe Ke Le, which just happens to be the same name for…
By Eric Jou Published April 14, 2014 -
Kotaku EastJapanese Service Lets You Hide Photos of Ex-Lovers Online
Breaking up is hard. But you probably keep moments of the relationship: photos, letters or gifts. But those items suddenly become dangerous once you get in a new relationship. What if your new squeeze discovers them? A service in Japan fixes that. Tokyo-based storage company Terrada Warehouse is launching a new service called MinikuLove. Terrada…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 14, 2014 -
CultureHalf-Life Speedrun Breaks World Record at Just Over 20 Minutes
After months of theorycrafting and planning, speedrunner quadrazid and his friends were able to run through Half-Life—a game that’s anything but short—in 20 minutes. And the fact that it’s almost 10 minutes faster than the previous world record shows how perfectly executed their run was. You can see the entire speedrun above, it’s just amazing.…
By Gergo Vas Published April 14, 2014 -
Kotaku EastTaiwanese League of Legends Pro Gets Charged for Insulting The Police
A Taiwanese man was recently charged with obstruction of police business after badmouthing police officers on an online forum. First reported by Taiwan’s CNA News and Apple Daily, Taiwanese celebrity gamer Zhang JiaHang of League of Legends fame was approached by the district court of Taichung Taiwan. Zhang was charged with something along the lines…
By Eric Jou Published April 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedThat’s a Perfectly Executed Slam Dunk… in Kerbal Space Program
Performing a Space Jam!-style ultimate dunk with an asteroid is not how you finish Kerbal Space Program, but that’s how it should end. It probably took hours and hours of quicksaving and retries for SweetieKat to pull this off, since even getting into orbit is a challenge in this game. Kerbal Space Slam! [YouTube, via…
By Gergo Vas Published April 14, 2014