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Obsidian’s Newest Game Isn’t Quite What You’d Expect
Last night at GDC in San Francisco, Obsidian Entertainment announced a new game. You might expect the company behind RPGs like Fallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth to have another massive adventure up their sleeve, but nope! It’s a free-to-play tank game. It’s called Armored Warfare, and it’s an online tank-battling…
By Jason Schreier Published March 20, 2014 -
UncategorizedWe Tried Sony’s PS4 Virtual Reality Headset. We Like It.
Yesterday, Sony entered the virtual reality fray by announcing Project Morpheus, a new virtual reality initiative aimed at making a VR headset for the PS4. Today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Stephen Totilo and I swung by Sony’s booth to check it out. In a private meeting with Sony’s Anton Mikhailov and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 20, 2014 -
UncategorizedThey Built An Actual Gundam in Kerbal Space Program
For most of us, it’s hard to even get into orbit in the space flight sim Kerbal Space Program. Clownbaby244‘s Gundam can fly, it has retractable wings and it lands on its feet. So it’s not just a cool-looking mech, but a cool-looking mech whose creator got the physics right. NASA! Hire this guy! It’s…
By Gergo Vas Published March 20, 2014 - Uncategorized
Here’s Dark Souls II with the chosen ones gathering around the bonfire, reimagined in glorious 16-bit by pixel-wizard Bandygrass. Pretty neat animation, and it reminds me of the superb character selection screen in Diablo II 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 March 20, 2014 -
UncategorizedModders Are Adding Oblivion to Skyrim, One Town at a Time
Beyond Skyrim is a series of in-development mods that seek to add lands… well, beyond Skyrim, to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Now, thanks to a new trailer, we have some idea of what one of these mods will look like: Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil, which deals with the country seen in TES IV: Oblivion The…
By András Neltz Published March 20, 2014 -
Kotaku EastThe New Metal Gear Solid Game Was Censored for Japan [Updated]
Japan’s getting a slightly different version of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes than everyone else. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, the separately sold prologue to the highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is out this week. The Western version will feature the vocal talents of actor Kiefer Sutherland as Big…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 20, 2014 -
Kotaku EastI Want a Giant Cat To Carry Me To Work, Too
Morning commutes in big Japanese cities are notoriously awful. If only people had giant cats to keep them company! The most recent commercial for Fit’s chewing gum is one of the more memorable Japanese commercials of late. The commercial marks the fact that the gum’s flavor lasts for fifty minutes and the song’s refrain keeps…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 20, 2014 -
UncategorizedGame of Thrones Is Much Better With Tyrion Lannister In The Spotlight
Being one of the coolest characters, Game of Thrones‘s Tyrion deserved a re-edited trailer, and YouTuber Jacob Grant has put him in the center using The Wolf of Wall Street as material. He just became even more badass. the Dworf of Westeros – “The Wolf of Wall Street” parody – Game of Thrones [Jacob Grant,…
By Gergo Vas Published March 20, 2014 -
Kotaku EastAttack on Titan‘s English Dub Isn’t Half Bad
I actually dreaded hearing Attack on Titan in English more than I fear actual titans. Now I just fear titans. For me, Attack on Titan is one of those series that I really like, but don’t know why. FUNimation, the North American anime distributor, is releasing the series in the US with a new English…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 20, 2014 -
UncategorizedCustom LEGO Ghostbusters Firehouse Has Potential
Even if it won’t be an official release, as the 30th anniversary Ecto-1 model, this LEGO Ghostbusters firehouse build would fit pretty well with the car and Bill Murray. The build is an improved modification of Brent Waller‘s Ghostbusters set with custom lights and a pretty cool interior design by Sergio Herencias Lego Ghostbusters HQ…
By Gergo Vas Published March 20, 2014 -
UncategorizedBorderlands 2 on the PS Vita looks… pretty much like you’d expect. Courtesy of YouTuber AtomixVG, here’s four minutes’ worth of footage of the portable version of Gearbox’s loot-happy shooter, straight from this year’s Game Developers Conference. Vid’s above, enjoy.
By András Neltz Published March 20, 2014 -
Kotaku EastEver Wonder Why Japanese Trains Aren’t Late? Here’s Why.
Trains in Japan are incredibly punctual. Being on time is counted down to the centiseconds. And unless there’s an accident, Japanese trains simply are not late. In the above Discovery Channel Asia video, you can see some of the reasons why the country’s rails run, well, like clockwork. Super Japan: On-time Metro [Discovery Channel Asia@YouTube]…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 20, 2014 -
Kotaku EastNo Objections to Resident Evil‘s “Deaf Composer” in Ace Attorney
The controversy around Resident Evil‘s supposed “deaf composer” has been the center of attention in Japan and recently culminated in what could only be described as “a fiasco” worthy of everyone’s favorite video game courtroom. In case you didn’t know, Mamoru Samuragoch* was the composer for the DualShock version of Resident Evil Director’s Cut and…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 20, 2014 -
Kotaku EastInside South Korea’s Coolest Military Theme Park
This is the Wanju Military Theme Park in South Korea. If only more video game first-person shooters were this colorful! The self-described “military theme park” is an airsoft pellet gun map that uses the GunPower system. According to YouTube user Ds4odk, this system employs wireless BB detectors—one on the front, one on the back, one…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 20, 2014 -
UncategorizedAwesome First-Person Spellcasting RPG Is Now Playable
Lichdom: Battlemage first emerged several months ago in the form of a trailer showcasing some excellent-looking spellcasting action. Now, its pre-alpha version is on Steam. It’s pretty great. Admittedly I only played a whopping 44 minutes of it, but I can already tell that this is probably the most polished and fun pre-alpha game I’ve…
By András Neltz Published March 20, 2014 - Kotaku East
Are the Attack on Titan Fries Big Enough for You?
Today, fast food chain Lotteria launched its new bucket of Attack on Titan french fries. It’s literally just a massive bucket of fries—but served up in an AoT container. I guess you could say it’s a titan-sized bucket? Or maybe you were hoping for something larger? Website Gigazine ordered the fries, which clock in at…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 20, 2014 - Uncategorized
Replicas Of Classic Controllers, Available Now For Your “PC” Gaming
Let’s say you, um, found some way of playing old console games on your PC. You cold use a keyboard, or a 360 pad, but that’s lacking in authenticity. No, if you’re playing a classic console game, you need a classic console controller. Think Geek are thus selling what they’re calling “Classic Console USB Controllers”,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2014
