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UncategorizedThe Least-Hyped Xbox One Game Has The Most Potential
Someone already made a Star Fox for the Xbox One. Someone made a Flappy Bird. Someone recreated the first area of the first Fable. And, yes, a whole bunch of people have re-made Super Mario Bros. 1-1. They’re doing this all in a thing called Project Spark that we’ve told you about a bit, but…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Worst Thing About Physical Game Discs • Proof That Anime Isn’t Just For Kids • Should More Games Let You Choose Your Gender? TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By Tina Amini Published March 5, 2014 -
Uncategorized”It’s not my fault people keep killing themselves.” The latest environment trailer for Frictional Games’ upcoming space horror game SOMA adds voices to excellent effect. I’d be happy just wandering these halls and listening to people talk. Knowing Frictional, there’ll probably be things try to kill me too. Always with the killing me.
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Pokémon Would Be a Really Fearsome 90s Horror Show
Like something straight out of cult horror show Tales from the Crypt (or Braindead, even), these Pokémon illustrations by DeviantART artist Dante are anything but cute little monsters you wanna catch. There’s something really scary in their eyes: The flying types freak me out the most: Pokémon Art by DanteCyberMan [DeviantART] To contact the author…
By Gergo Vas Published March 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Twitch Announces Mobile Streaming And Capture Tools
For years mobile gamers have had to jump through hoops to record and stream gameplay. Today Twitch gives mobile developers the ability to build such functionality directly into their apps. It’s about damn time. Services like Everyplay are nice, but built-in Twitch functionality will be much nicer. The Twitch Mobile Software Development Kit gives mobile…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Adventure Time’s Jake, transformed into a giant, ridable, pixelized mech, thanks to Kid Skeletor’s awesome mod pack for Starbound You can download the pack here, with all the other characters included. Adventure Time Mod Pack 1.1 [Starbound Community] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…
By Gergo Vas Published March 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedGTA IV Modder Creates Gaming’s Most Gorgeous Clouds
Skybox of dreams This is, of course, the work of the very talented person behind the iCEnhancer graphics mod for GTA IV, who posted new footage of some really darn purty HD clouds on his YouTube channel after several months of inactivity. Take a look: gta4_clouds_test [Hayssam Keilany@YouTube, via DSOGaming] Questions? Comments? Contact the author…
By András Neltz Published March 5, 2014 - Kotaku East
Hey Children! Here’s Your First Conveyor Belt Sushi Set
If you want to eat at a conveyor belt sushi (回転寿司 or “kaiten zushi”) restaurant, kids in Japan need to have their parents take them. Not anymore! Soon, they’ll be able get aboard the sushi train at home. This is “Super Seizing At Home Conveyor Sushi,” a toy that will be out this spring in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 5, 2014 -
Kotaku EastHeroic Man Makes Working Toilet for His Toys
In Japan, there are plastic models of… urinals. I’m convinced that they’re a gag product for folks who want to mess around with figurines, but yeah, they exist. And one guy named Masa just did something amazing with one. He got it to work! The plastic model urinal is just designed to look like a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 5, 2014 - Kotaku East
Ever Wanted to Play Frozen in an MMO? Now You Sorta Can!
Popular South Korean MMO Aion just got an update. Included in this recent patch was a new golden blond braided hairdo. Gosh, this looks like Elsa from Frozen As pointed out by tipster Sang, the patch, which is called “Purple Light Revolution Update,” was released today. Above, you can see how the hairstyle compares to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Scorpion. Go Home. You Are Drunk.
Turns out Scorpion was drunk all the time in Mortal Kombat. Now that Szarvas on Tumblr has put the character’s various animations—and also the classic paintings in the background—in a new perspective, it’s clearly visible. Gifs by Szarvas [Tumblr] – Scroption models by Gabriel Melendez [DeviantART] To contact the author of this post, write to:…
By Gergo Vas Published March 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedGame of Thrones‘ Jason Momoa Shows How To Improve Relationships
Jason Momoa, aka Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones, was Conan O’Brien’s guest last night, and what else could have been their topic if not relationships. He showed the Khal Drogo way of fixing a relationship. And this could have been much more interesting if the other Conan (the barbarian) replaced Conan O’Brien…
By Gergo Vas Published March 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedIt’s Like Portal, But Instead of a Portal Gun, You Get Time Travel
Stop me if any of this sounds familiar. Awakening from a cryo-tube, you make your way across an abandoned testing facility, following the commands of a character you cannot directly interact with, using a piece of ultramodern technology in increasingly creative ways to overcome obstacles. Yeah. The conceptual level is pretty much where the similarities…
By András Neltz Published March 5, 2014 - Kotaku East
Three Years After Her Death, Daughter Sends Parents a Touching Letter
March 11, 2011 was truly a tragic day in Japan. Lives were changed and lives were ended. Yet, three years later, two parents who lost a daughter have just received a letter she mailed a decade ago. “Mom and Dad, by the time you get this letter, perhaps you’ll have a grandchild?” the daughter wrote.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedA Fan Film That Pretty Much Could’ve Been an Actual Matrix Scene
In fact, if there was another Matrix movie in the works, it would probably look a lot like this. Matrix Online: The Movie? Might work. Probably not. In any case, Trickster was created by director Felix Joleanes after he came up with a 3D Sentinel (the squid robot) model in his free time. A friend…
By András Neltz Published March 5, 2014 -
Kotaku EastNose Typing Doesn’t Get Faster Than This
Everyone has something they are good at. Something that makes them special. For India’s Mohammed Khurshid Hussain, that’s typing really fast. With his nose. Late last week, Hussain set the world record for typing an English language sentence in the fastest time. The sentence read, “Guinness world records have challenged me to type this sentence…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Uncharted Writer Leaves Naughty Dog
IGN reports that Amy Hennig, the lead writer and creative director on the Uncharted series, has left developers Naughty Dog. Having originally reported “trusted sources” as saying she had been “forced out” of the company by Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley, the site has since updated with confirmation of her departure by a Sony rep.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 5, 2014 - Culture
Space Guns, Come Get Your Space Guns
Stephan Williams is a senior 3D artist at Carbine Studios, the team working on sci-fi MMO Wildstar. We recently saw some great 2D Wildstar art from Garrett Hanna; this stuff is of the 3D variety but has all the colour you’d expect from a game that’s setting out to burst people’s eyeballs. You can see…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
How To Make A Cool Sports Game When You’re Not EA Or 2K
Pixel Soccer is a game currently in development at Super Rock Games, an indie studio in London. It is speaking directly to my interests. Chief among those being football and the classic Sensible Soccer series. Pixel Soccer is basically an attempt at remaking that vintage “arcade” approach to the sport, only instead of using tiny…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 5, 2014
