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The Vault Boy Of The Month T-Shirt Is Cyborg
This month’s limited edition Fallout tee celebrates the cyborg perk: On sale in Bethesda’s Fallout shop You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published April 7, 2014 -
UncategorizedAirMech Arena is Like DOTA For People Who Love Robots
If you’ve always wanted to have more automatons in your DOTA experience, then I may have just the thing for you. AirMech Arena is a fast-paced free-to-play MOBA that puts you control of giant killer mechs that can transform into vehicles like a military jet or helicopter. And it’s coming out for the Xbox 360…
By Yannick LeJacq Published April 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Ani-TAY: Buddy Complex Review and Discussion • My Time Gender Bending in MMOs • The Ultimate Guide to Fishing in Elder Scrolls Online • Multiplayer Unlocks Really Suck, Don’t They? • Why I’m Bored with Adventure and Art Games TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow…
By András Neltz Published April 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Happy Meals Will Feature Boys And Girls Spider-Man Toys
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be featured next in McDonald’s Happy Meals. Above, you can see the toys for boys. Girls will be getting a different selection of Spider-Man toys: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published April 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Iconic Album Covers, Recreated in… GTA V
It’s a really great way to prove how big and popular GTA V is, when someone uses it to recreate some classic album covers. Here’s PizzaBagels‘ gallery, with Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon on top and Blondie, The Beatles and The Ramones below. No Skrillex this time—must be the effect of the…
By Gergo Vas Published April 7, 2014 -
UncategorizedIt’s Looking Bad For Peter Parker In The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Game
As if three movie villains weren’t enough, Electro and the Green Goblin are are joined by the ugliest Kingpin ever, bad-hair-lighting Black Cat and… is that Carnage? Yeah, Parker is screwed. Activision tried to sneak a little Carnage into the trailer, but I can smell a Cleetus a mile away. It helps that I was…
By Mike Fahey Published April 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
To celebrate the start of Game of Thrones‘ fourth season, DeviantART artist Betteo made an excellent stylization of the show’s characters. Despite the minimalistic style you can still recognize all of them easily. Tiny (but funny) spoilers and more characters in the full piece: Play the game by Betteo [DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature…
By Gergo Vas Published April 7, 2014 - Kotaku East
China Hangs On to a Dying Windows XP
Today is April 7th, the last day before the worldwide phaseout of Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system. While most people out West will be operating happily in either Windows 8, 7 and even, hahaha, Vista, close to 200 million people in China will still be holding onto XP. According to StatCounter close to 50 percent…
By Eric Jou Published April 7, 2014 -
Kotaku EastHave You Ever Seen a College Entrance Ceremony Like This?
Glowsticks. Confetti. A pop music group. This looks more like a party than an entrance ceremony. But Kinki University isn’t your typical academic institution. Kinki (近畿) does not mean “kinky.” It refers to the region of Japan that consists of Osaka, Hyogo (Kobe), Kyoto, Nara, Shiga, Mie, and Wakayama. It can also be called “Kansai”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 7, 2014 -
UncategorizedShrek Mod for Goat Simulator Breaks the Game Even More
Goat Simulator might be one of those games that don’t need any fan-made mods, being already glitchy enough—in a good way of course. Modder Dafini thought otherwise and added an angry, rampaging version of poor Shrek to the game. Who’s no longer bipedal… Here’s a quick demonstration by MattShea369. It will test your faith in…
By Gergo Vas Published April 7, 2014 - Kotaku East
Finally! Convenience Store with Karaoke Opens in Japan This Month
Japan is famous for its convenience stores. They’re so, um, convenient. The country is also famous for karaoke parlors. And this month, they’re finally coming together. Literally. On April 17, “Family Mart Plus Karaoke Dam” is opening in front of the south exit at Kamata Station in Tokyo. According to an official Family Mart press…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 7, 2014 - Kotaku East
A Miniature Version Of Yourself That’s Good Enough To Eat
Simple dough, made from flour and water is used for everything from feeding the masses to making toys in China. Highly personalised toys. Personalised toys made out of what can be cooked and eaten. Across China, a special type of sculpting has been passed down from generations to generations. It’s basically taking a lump of…
By Eric Jou Published April 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Budapest’s New Subway Totally Looks Like Quake
With its monumental, raw design and lighting, Budapest’s new, fourth metro line undeniably has a lot in common with old-school FPS games. Quake II in this particular case. The mock-up pictures, made by Tumblr user Neveletlen speak for themselves, though hopefully no one will rocket jump through these concrete walls: Pics via Neveletlen [Tumblr] To…
By Gergo Vas Published April 7, 2014 -
Kotaku EastTaiwanese Cardboard Artist Makes Iron Man Suit
Cardboard is great. It can be shelter, it can be storage, it can be entertainment, it can be invisibility on the battlefield, and if taken to the extreme, it can be art. Taiwanese artist Xhong Kai-Xiang definitely takes cardboard to another level. According to a blog post on the Stan Winston School of Character Arts,…
By Eric Jou Published April 7, 2014 -
UncategorizedHere’s Bruce Lee As A Playable Fighter In EA Sports UFC
EA announced that Bruce Lee will be a playable character in UFC. See the announcement video and learn how to unlock him below: Bruce Lee will be unlockable by completing career mode or instantly available as a reward for preordering the game. EA promises: This does not just look like Bruce Lee. It is Bruce…
By John Struan Published April 7, 2014 -
UncategorizedIdiot Throws Firecrackers into Starbucks, Streams It Online
This man might be the stupidest person to use the internet. Ever. Or, at least, one of them. On Japanese internet video service Nico Nico, a recent stream showed a man throw firecrackers into a Starbucks, while another screamed through a bullhorn. You can watch a segment of the stream below: The man who threw…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Meet The Mystery Fighter of EA Sports UFC: Bruce Lee
Lee joins the impressive roster of UFC fighters in EA’s mixed martial arts game. The character is the product of a partnership between EA Sports and Bruce Lee Enterprises, who agreed to support Lee’s inclusion with plenty of background material which, according to EA Sports, allowed them to create a highly authentic digital representation of…
By András Neltz Published April 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Fantastic Minecraft City Was Built on Xbox 360 Over Almost 18 Months
Welcome to Titan City. In development since October 2012 and modeled after NYC, Titan City has been a one-man project of (and later, a group project led by) redditor FoxGaming, who posted renders of his map over the weekend. A fan of engineering, FoxGaming built the structures based on real-world methods saw in documentaries, with…
By András Neltz Published April 7, 2014 -
Kotaku EastWhy Japan Couldn’t Have Made the New Godzilla Film
Next month, Hollywood’s latest take on Godzilla will roll into theaters. Online in Japan, people are saying that this film couldn’t have been made in Japan. And for good reason. Due to the awful job Hollywood did with the last Godzilla film, there wasn’t initially much confidence in this effort when it was originally announced.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 7, 2014