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How To Find Pokémon On Google Maps
Today as part of an April Fool’s prank, Google updated Google Maps for iOS and Android to include Pokémon. Let’s try to find all of them! There are at least 150 Pokémon currently floating around on Google Maps. All you have to do is zoom in, tap on them and select “catch”. Here are just…
By Chris Person Published April 1, 2014 -
UncategorizedStreet Fighter‘s Ken Cut From The Tournament For Obvious Reasons
With Ryu making the roster despite serious translation issues, there’s absolutely no use for Ken in Pete Holmes’ Street Fighter tournament. Dhalsim‘s out. Vega is out. Chun-Li has been creeped on and asked to put on pants. So far this is looking like a very Ryu-centric tournament Pete Holmes is putting together. I’m having a…
By Mike Fahey Published April 1, 2014 - Uncategorized
New cyberpunk miniature game Aetherium
A look at the concept art and miniatures from new Kickstarter game Aetherium: Enter the Aetherium – a world between worlds, a place capable of containing the human mind, a place of infinite possibility, a place that is no place at all. Atherium is a miniatures board game by Anvil Eight Games for 2 or…
By John Struan Published April 1, 2014 - Uncategorized
This spectacular, Kirby-branded Game Boy Color would have been treasured by any self-respecting gamer of the nineties. The artist behind the custom handheld is French illustrator Oskunk—you can find more photos of his projects over at his blog Custom Game Boy Color “KIRBY” [Oskunk’s Blog, via Tumblr] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every…
By András Neltz Published April 1, 2014 - Kotaku East
South Korean Kids Pull Hardcore April Fools’ Pranks
In South Korea, you shouldn’t trust everything you read online today. Nor should you trust everything you see in the classroom. With Korean kids in school in April, some of them—but certainly not all—take advantage of April Fools’ Day to pull some pranks. Some of them get pretty dark! This has been going on a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2014 - Kotaku East
Sakura Trick is My Favorite Anime of the Winter Season
The 2014 winter anime season was full of over-the-top action, tongue-in-cheek comedy, and interesting thought experiments. But even with all those possibilities, the anime I most looked forward to wasn’t one of those, but rather the lesbian romantic comedy Sakura Trick. Here’s why. A Real Love Story All too often, TV, books, movies, and especially…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 1, 2014 -
Kotaku EastWatch As One Piece and Fist of the North Star Battle It Out
New mega-crossover game J-Stars Victory Versus lets you battle as 52 different characters from across 32 different Shonen Jump series. But how exactly does it play? Check out our exclusive video to find out. J-Stars Victory VS was released on March 19. 2014, for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in Japan. There is currently…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 1, 2014 -
UncategorizedCaffeine’s latest teaser brings us even more ghostly abandoned spaceship-porn, and it’s looking pretty great. The first-person sci-fi horror game recently hit IndieGoGo, where its creator is asking for $80,000 to finish it in time for a 2015 release on PC.
By András Neltz Published April 1, 2014 - Uncategorized
Our Reader-Run Blog Now Has an Anime Podcast
Need more anime news and reviews in your life? Well the guys over at our user-run blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves, have been working overtime to put out more anime content than ever before. The latest addition? An anime podcast with four of the most prolific Ani-TAY bloggers—and, of course, yours truly. In this episode, we…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 1, 2014 - Kotaku East
Atlus Has a New Logo. Some People Hate It.
Atlus is back! And it’s got a slightly tweaked logo as well. Do you like it or hate it? Some commenters on game forum NeoGAF do not like it. “Please be April fools,” wrote GAF commenter Kulapik. “It’s hideous.” This isn’t April Fools’ as Kotaku previously reported that Atlus, as a corporate entity, was being…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2014 -
UncategorizedLongest Journey Creator’s Next Game is “Gone Home Meets Amnesia“
More specifically, it is a survival horror-adventure game. Inspired by fairy tales and legends. It is called Draugen—a name taken from a certain undead creaturefrom Norse mythology. It was first presented by developer Red Thread Games last October, and it takes place in a small Norwegian fishing village in 1923. There’s also… actually, let me…
By András Neltz Published April 1, 2014 -
Kotaku EastA History of Shonen Jump Crossover Games
Late last month saw the release of J-Stars Victory VS, a 3D fighter where characters like Goku, Luffy, Naruto, and Kenshin all battle it out. But this is not the first Shonen Jump Magazine mega-crossover game. Rather, it’s the fifth sixth. Famicom Jump: History of Heroes The first Jump crossover game was Famicom Jump: History…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 1, 2014 - Kotaku East
Polluted Chinese City Gets Bags of Clean Mountain Air
While today is April 1st, this is apparently no joke. The air quality in Chinese city Zhengzhou is awful and listed as “unhealthy.” That’s why late last month, bags of air were brought in for its citizens to get a taste of clean mountain air. At the March 29 event, people lined up to breath…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2014 -
Kotaku EastAmazon Boxes Reborn as a Remote Controlled Tank
Remember the cardboard wizard who turned Amazon boxes into a Japanese temple? Well, he’s back, and this time, he’s created a remote control cardboard model tank. In the video below, you can see NicoNico Douga user Upuaza Touryou create a Type 97 Chi-Ha, which was used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the late 1930s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2014 -
Kotaku EastSome of Japan’s Best April Fools’ Jokes
Today is April 1st. Be wary! There are some pranks and tricks online that you might fall for. Some of them are not very good. But some of them are. Let’s have a look. Japanese manga Weekly Shonen Jump, a magazine for young boys, is turned into Jumpteen, a magazine for teenage girls. [Weekly Jump]…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2014 - Uncategorized
Imagining Mara Jade And Teenage Leia in Star Wars Rebels
Star Wars Rebels poster, part of a series of illustrations imagining classic, Clone Wars and Expanded Universe characters in the upcoming Rebels cartoon: These and more, including Thrawn, Echo, and Maul, are on display in Englelha5t’s gallery.
By John Struan Published April 1, 2014 - Uncategorized
It Is Now April 1. Don’t Believe Everything You Read On The Internet.
Most days on the internet are pretty sweet! Today, however, is not sweet. It is an ordeal, something to be endured through gritted teeth. Please, tread carefully. There’ll be folks out there thinking they’re funny, when really, they’re not. There’ll be folks out there thinking they’re clever, when really, whatever brilliant scheme they’ve got cooked…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 1, 2014 - Culture
Geez, Buddy, You Look Like You’ve Had A Real Bad Day
Not many artists get to put “Killzone” and “erotic PC adventure” on the same CV, but hey, Andrejs Skuja does. In the two years since we last took a look at his work, he’s helped out on another Killzone game, the adult PC title Seduce Me and even something new for Guerilla that, like most…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2014 - Uncategorized
Pirate Bay’s Oldest Torrent Is Not Porn, Music Or A Video Game
Torrenting may be a practice dominated by the sharing of movies, tv shows, music, porn and games, but the oldest active torrent on the internet is none of those things. It is, instead, a cook book. “Top Secret Recipes” was uploaded ten years ago, at a time when the Pirate Bay was, as TorrentFreak put…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2014
