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Here’s the latest from Kotaku‘s official reader-written blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves: The Cathartic Sportsmanship Of A Fencing Simulator • DayZ Survivor Stories • The Complete Skyrim Vs. Dragon Age Retrospective TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By Tina Amini Published February 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedNintendo Is Slowly Reinventing The Video Game Instruction Manual
Like the daily newspaper, the printed phone bill and personal checks, the video game instruction manual is facing extinction in our increasingly paperless world. Hold off on mourning, though. Nintendo has spent the last year or so quietly implementing a digital revival that’s been a joy to behold. If you haven’t noticed what’s been going…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedSigns That You Have An Unhealthy Obsession With A Game
BestGameShowEver is a brand new series on YouTube from one of our favorite DayZ-obsessed YouTubers. In today’s launch of said series, they invite several other hosts and producers of various other YouTube shows to discuss what it means to be obsessed with a game. We’re talking interrupt-your-lifestyle levels of obsession. They may not always be…
By Tina Amini Published February 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedFlappy Bird Won’t Get Any Easier In Minecraft
As if the original mobile version wasn’t frustrating enough, now there’s a remake in Minecraft by CodeCrafted. The gameplay is in 3D, so it’s a bit different, but if you set the difficulty level to the hardest, you’ll probably end up ragequitting after a couple of minutes. Head over to Planet Minecraft for more details.…
By Gergo Vas Published February 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedDrakengard 3 Comes To North America In May. Preorder Now Or Else.
All the dragon-riding and hack-and-slashing a growing action role-playing fan needs arrives with Square Enix’s Drakengard 3 for the PlayStation 3 on May 20. Want to see what comes in the collector’s edition? Maybe you should preorder first. Before we worry about expensive collector’s editions, let’s talk about tiered timed preorders. Doesn’t that sound like…
By Mike Fahey Published February 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Xbox One’s First 2014 Dashboard Update Adds Some Important Stuff
The Xbox One is about to improve in a couple of small but useful ways. The console’s first dashboard update, zapping into consoles on Tuesday, February 11, will add a controller battery-level indicator and an interface for managing system storage. The battery indicator is self-explanatory. You can see it in the screenshot above (we added…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Borderlands 2 is getting another dose of DLC on Tuesday. “Mad Moxxi and the Wedding Day Massacre.” Then, in April, the game gets “Sir Hammerlock and the Son of Crawmerax,” the fifth and final installment in the Headhunter series. 2K Games has more screens and all of the information here.
By Owen Good Published February 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
If Dark Souls Were a 16-Bit Platformer
Artist Dave Rapoza took Dark Souls and reimagined it as a 2D platformer from the 16-bit era, and man I can already see that health bar dropping like a fly. Besides Castlevania, it kind of reminds me of the boss fights of ActRaiser on the SNES. Those were the nineties equivalent to Dark Souls‘ more…
By Gergo Vas Published February 5, 2014 -
Kotaku EastKpop Groups Called “Too Sexy” for South Korea
Several of Korea’s hottest musical acts are coming under fire for sexually charged performances. And they’re essentially being told, hey, knock off the sexy! In particular, the groups Girl’s Day, AOA, and Rainbow Blaxxx (a sub-unit of the group Rainbow) are being singled out by the Korean media and commenters online for being “too sexy.”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
How Much Gaming History Does $50,000 Get?
This much. Actually, a bit more. They couldn’t fit everything on one photo. Over at Ebay, Grithiffth’s Games Megamart is selling what they call the “Ultimate Nintendo World Championships 1990 Collection.” This includes: NWC 1990 Grey Cart #305 NWC 1990 Denver 11 & Under Trophy NWC 1990 Denver 11 & Under Nameplate/Plaque Certificate of Authenticity…
By András Neltz Published February 5, 2014 - Kotaku East
Three Amazing Chinese Indie Games, Created in Just One Weekend
Developers from all over the world took part in the Global Game Jam in late January. Over 4000 games were made in the span of a weekend, with about 15 coming out from China through the game jam location in Shanghai. Let’s take a look at what the Chinese developers came up with. Over 30…
By Eric Jou Published February 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Cutest, Coolest, and Coldest Snow Sculptures in Japan
Just in case you were worried the country had lost its ability to sculpt amazing snow art, rest easy. It hasn’t. The 65th annual Sapporo Snow Festival recently went underway in Hokkaido, Japan. As in the past, there is a “Snow Miku,” featuring the character Hatsune Miku. There’s also a “Miku Dayoo” (“It’s Miku”) snow…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2014 -
Kotaku EastMiddle School Flag Team Twirls it to Assassin’s Creed Liberation
Video games often have epic music. The Encounter music from Metal Gear Solid will always be burned into my mind as something that instills urgency. Music from the Assassin’s Creed series is the same, so no wonder that students from Taipei’s Dongshi Middle School used the music for their flag-twirling performance. Dongshi Middle School’s Flag…
By Eric Jou Published February 5, 2014 - Kotaku East
Resident Evil Composer Admits to Being a Fraud
Mamoru Samuragoch* has been called “Japan’s Beethoven.” Even as he went deaf, Samuragoch continued to compose scores for video games like Resident Evil and Onimusha. This week, he revealed that he used a ghost composer. A gifted musician, Samuragoch had a degenerative hearing condition that left him completely deaf by age 35. However, as AFP…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2014 - Kotaku East
A Brief History of Chinese Game Consoles
China and video games have a long and ridiculous history, but in the age of the internet, it’s a story that’s yet to be completely put together. And so, here at Kotaku, we will try to make sense of the history of consoles in China. Stay awhile, and read? One of the earliest game consoles…
By Eric Jou Published February 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Starbound Studio Possibly Working on a New “Open-World Pirate Game”
On Starbound’s official site, Tiy, Chucklefish Games head honcho and lead developer for the side-scrolling sandbox RPG, shared the team’s plans for Starbound, Chucklefish themselves, and their upcoming second game. Yes, there’s gonna be a second game. No, it won’t affect Starbound’s beta at all. Tiy mostly talks about Starbound’s future in the news post—specifically,…
By András Neltz Published February 5, 2014 - Kotaku East
The Curtain Opens on a Special Final Fantasy 3DS XL
Aw, look at that! They’re all singing. How adorable. Upcoming 3DS game Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call is the latest entry in the Final Fantasy-themed music game series. To mark its April 24 release in Japan, the game is getting a special 3DS XL. No word yet about a Western release for the game or…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2014
