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Things Get Retro With An NES-Style Xbox One Controller
There’s something that’s just incredibly classy about the NES controller—so it should be no surprise that its color scheme meshes well with an Xbox One controller, too. It goes well with everything! This gorgeous paint job comes from Reddit user alechere, and it just further proves that the Xbox One controller would look great in…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Tracking Down The Odd Rumors About Nintendo’s Next Console
Here at Kotaku, we love insider info. We like getting information both from random tipsters and our own sources. And because of those people—to whom we grant anonymity in our reporting—we’re able to tell you storiesyou might not otherwise know about, and give you all the details about games like Titanfalland Alien: Isolation before they’re…
By Jason Schreier Published January 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
The SSD Your PS4 Deserves, PSN Update, Cheap Speakers [Deals]
Your system deserves a better class of storage. We covered upgrading your Playstation 4 to a bigger and/or faster drive a few months ago, and today, the 1TB model of the best SSD you can buy is down to $480, $120 less than it was when we last covered it. [eBay] We’ve utilized more than…
By Shane Roberts Published January 22, 2014 -
UncategorizedKids Talking About Which Game Console Is the Best Is Hilarious
Adults talking about which video game machine is better can be annoying and downright stupid. Grade-schoolers doing it, though, is adorable. This video from YouTuber Game Dave rounds up letters from a bunch of kids stating the reasons they believe a PlayStation, Xbox or Wii console is superior to its competitors. They get some of…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Founder of Ultra-Arcade Cabinet Company Gets Two-Year Prison Term
The founder of the Ultracade, a MAME-type arcade cabinet that once was a status item among video game connoisseurs, will spend the next two years in a federal prison for secretly copying and selling video games and code whose rights he had sold to another company. The sentencing of David R. Foley concludes a legal…
By Owen Good Published January 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Crap, We’re Going to Have to Go Down That Tunnel, Aren’t We?
Clumps of probably-sentient, probably-murderous super-fungus. A vent that looks to have been violently wrenched open. A space suit with some kind of tentacles growing out of its head-place. And a dead body off in the distance. Yup, that’s where you’re supposed to go. The screen above is from Soma, the sci-fi horror title coming from…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 22, 2014 -
UncategorizedA Nice Assassin’s Creed IV Moment That I Didn’t Expect
As I continued my new year’s tradition of playing the rest of the previous year’s Assassin’s Creed, I finally played the PS3/PS4/PC-only missions of ACIV. Good timing, if I dare say so. The missions star Aveline, the assassin who also stars in AC: Liberation, the HD version of which I just played right before trying…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
New Gameplay Changes Will Make Super Smash Bros Wii U A Lot Harder
One of the well-known techniques of Smash Bros, “edge-hogging,” will be revamped for Super Smash Bros Wii U, as a recently released screenshot and comment from Masahiro Sakurai shows. Edge-hogging, or edge-grabbing is one of the more advanced (and funny) techniques in Smash Bros where you hold onto a ledge so that the other player,…
By Gergo Vas Published January 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Hey that’s cheating! 15 yards penalty for the triple frontflip. Glitches like this in Madden NFL 25 are inspiring. I’d totally play a football game where you can pull off ridiculous stunts like this. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we…
By Gergo Vas Published January 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Candy Crush Makers Say They’re Going After Copycats, Not Banner Saga
The makers of Candy Crush Saga, who have filed for a trademark on video games with the name “candy,” and are opposing the trademark application of The Banner Saga, (pictured) say they are “not trying to stop Banner Saga from using its name,” but are compelled to defend their position under trademark law. “We do…
By Owen Good Published January 22, 2014 -
UncategorizedBill Gates Just Took Over Late Night With Silly Costumes
It’s seems like Bill Gates is still in shape and his sense of humor is the same as 20 years ago. He was Jimmy Fallon’s guest last night, promoting his website, GatesLetter.com with the help of this little clip. Here’s the complete segment: Did they remove Fallon’s Macbook during Gates’ visit? Don’t worry, it was…
By Gergo Vas Published January 22, 2014 - Esports
Why StarCraft Pros Apparently Make Good Poker Players
Listen up. If you are world-class StarCraft player, then you’d probably make an excellent poker pro. So says Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (pictured), a former StarCraft pro-gamer who’s gone on to make over US$11 million as a poker pro With the news that former StarCraft player BoxeR was turning to poker, Grospellier told website PokerListings why…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
“Virtual reality really is going to take over the world… it was better than real life—people will get lost in this and not want to leave.” Indie developer Lee Vermeulen, in a blog post about his experience with Valve’s Virtual Reality tech at Steam Dev Days.
By András Neltz Published January 22, 2014 - Kotaku East
You Don’t Want To Live Next to China’s “Bacon Apartment”
Some people hang clothes on their balcony. This resident, it seems, hangs meat. Lots of it. Online in China, photos of what looks to be a butcher working out of an apartment have popped up online. If this resident is not a butcher, then he or she certainly has an interesting hobby. Large amounts of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Next-Gen Historical RPG Gets “Surprise” Kickstarter Campaign
For the past week or so, Warhorse Studios has been teasing some new information about their upcominghistorically-inclined RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, on their website. There was a big countdown clock and everything. And now, the cat’s out of the bag: Kingdom Come will be crowdfunded! Surprise! Now, from our standpoint, there are advantages to this,…
By András Neltz Published January 22, 2014 - Kotaku East
Real Version of Mythical Anime Sword Discovered in Japan
In the Rurouni Kenshin manga and anime, there’s a reverse-blade sword called sakabato. An old, real-life version of this fictional sword was apparently discovered in Japan. Last October, what’s being compared to a real sakabato turned up in an old family storage cellar, located in Chiba Prefecture’s Shiroi City, that dates from the Edo Period…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 22, 2014 - Uncategorized
Taking a break: Daniel Benmergui, the developer behind Storyteller, the story-building puzzle game for PC and iOS, is putting his game on hold to work on another project of his, titled Ernesto – A Quick RPG. He expects to go back to working on Storyteller in “less than three months.”
By András Neltz Published January 22, 2014 -
UncategorizedWhen a PC Game From 2001 Masquerades as a Next-Gen Game
The creator of the ENB series of mods, which serve as foundation for some of those quite impressive graphical enhancements for GTA IV and Skyrim, among other games, is now going after a not-too-well-known hack and slash game from 2001. The results… well, you should probably take a look. The game, Blade of Darkness, is…
By András Neltz Published January 22, 2014 - Kotaku East
The Delicious World of Japanese Doritos
This weekend I was shopping for snacks. I picked up a bag of corn soup-flavored “Gourmet” Doritos. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Most Doritos in Japan are typical Doritos—”Dorito-flavored,” if you will. But, like Kit Kats, Doritos also get an array of interesting flavors in Japan. The vast majority of them are…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 22, 2014
