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The Witcher Comes To Life With Very Witchery Cosplay
Cosplayers LastSoul and GreatQueenLina, along with photographer La-Clover, sure know their Witcher, because everything about this shoot is perfect, from the outfits down to the super-depressing lighting. To be correct, this cosplay is from The Witcher 2. And while it’s awesome they brought horses, I think I like the attention to detail more, from Geralt’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
German Pro Gamer’s Visa Denied, Kicked Out Of America
Marcel “Dexter” Feldkamp, a pro gamer on the League of Legends circuit, landed in Washington on Friday on the way to a tournament in California. It’s as far as he got. As The Daily Dot first reported, Feldkamp was detained at Washington’s Dulles International Airport. In a series of tweets, he says he first had…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Has To Give Some Of Its 3DS Money To Another Company
It’s the kind of run Nintendo’s been on lately, that even the company’s one piece of good news – the growing success of the 3DS – has to get a little gloomier. With the Wii U a disaster, it’s 3DS sales that are making Nintendo’s money right now, but from here on in the Japanese…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
RIP Greg Martin, A Guy Who Drew Awesome Box Art
The Nintendo Age Forums bring us the sad news that artist Greg Martin, responsible for some of the most iconic box art in video game history, has passed away. A former animator at Hanna-Barbera, where he worked on series like The Jetsons and The Flintstones, he also contributed to later animated series like Teenage Mutant…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedIn 2015, We Might Finally Get Next-Gen Visuals
Polish company Better Reality, who do effects work for advertisers and Hollywood, have developed a piece of technology called Thorskan. It’s designed to scan real environments then recreate them in 3D. And the effects are impressive. While the tech has been built for – and is being used by – studios like 20th Century Fox,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
NES Remix, a medley of bite-sized challenges based on familiar NES favorites, ended a time challenge after an exploit was discovered. The game’s director said yesterday on Miiverse that the “Collect all the coins!” challenge is done after finding out some were able to goose their times by repeatedly pausing the level.
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedStreet Fighter Themes Go Great With Hockey [Update: Punch-Out!! Too]
Montréal and Dallas hooked up on Jan. 2 and at 4:56 in the second period, the Habs’ winger Travis Moen decided he’d had enough of counterpart Antoine Roussel’s shit. Hockeyfights.com Metacritic’d this spectacle at 84, with Moen clearly winning the fight. Our ears perked up because … wait … is that Guile’s theme? Yes it…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2014 - Culture
The Week in Games: 2014’s First Cut
Video gaming new releases are still deep in hibernation but there are a couple of notable titles coming this week. Let’s also look ahead through the next couple of months to see what else is on the way. Here’s the—uh, well, it’s a span of time, in games. Tuesday, Jan. 7 Don’t Starve (PS4) Thursday,…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: High-Class Hookah
The slow holiday week means we’ve got to reach back into 2013 for our first ‘Shop Contest of 2014. It’s the Good Ole VapeCube. More concretely, I need you guys to develop me some more bongs out of well known video-gaming paraphernalia. And put your weed in there! So while I’m not going totally open-ended…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedMorrowind-in-Skyrim Video Shows Modders’ Impressive Progress
The team of Elder Scrolls fans working on Skywind—the project bringing Morrowind into the series’ most modern engine—released their first development video yesterday. It’s five breathtaking minutes of the massive effort needed to properly bring a beloved 12-year-old game into present day. Skywind‘s development team, which began with about 8 modders two years ago, now…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2014 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Combat Training
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best gaming-themed webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Jan. 2. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 30. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2014 -
UncategorizedKotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Year-End All-Star Extravaganza: The Winners
We wrapped up 2013 with an encore comprising the the 10 best exploitables for the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. Including Docherty’s training montage (which we already featured), there is a full complement of 20 finalists bringing paying tribute to 2013’s best jokes, including overall No. 1 Ginger Snap! For those who missed it the first time,…
By Owen Good Published January 4, 2014 - Uncategorized
A Father Says His Baby Daughter Was Named For a Mass Effect Character
“Tomorrow my daughter is scheduled to be born,” wrote a soon-to-be-dad named Adam last night. “Since day 1 her first name was always going to be Tali’Zorah. … My wife fell in love with the name during our first playthrough of [Mass Effect] many years ago.” “Confused friends and relatives are told ‘we wanted a…
By Owen Good Published January 4, 2014 - Uncategorized
Once again, 2K Sports says it knows what the problem is with NBA 2K14. Ronnie Singh said yesterday developers are fixing crashes in the MyCareer/MyGM modes and the online “ThePark” mode. “We’re getting back to normal everywhere else.” Singh said. He’s indicated he’ll do a Reddit AMA“after a couple more things stabilize.”
By Owen Good Published January 4, 2014 -
UncategorizedYou Can Buy Farmville Stuff With Bitcoin Now
Bitcoin, the “currency of the Internet,” is now accepted by Zynga, whose FarmVille franchise also celebrates the economic ideal of paying real cash to acquire completely abstract commodities. Zynga said very early this morning it was beginning a Bitcoin test using BitPay, a “leading Bitcoin service provider,” to pay for virtual crap in FarmVille 2,…
By Owen Good Published January 4, 2014 - Uncategorized
Ten Years Later, Fans Bring Resident Evil Outbreak Back Online
Fans of Resident Evil Outbreak, a spinoff series for PlayStation 2 released about 10 years ago, have managed to restore online play for the game on a private server, though only for its Japanese versions. Outbreak Server came online recently for both Resident Evil Outbreak and Resident Evil Outbreak: File #2. The project reverse-engineered the…
By Owen Good Published January 4, 2014 - Esports
eSports Owner Vanishes and Top Starcraft Player Says He’s Owed $23,000
The 23-year-old CEO of a leading eSports team has been missing since Dec. 17 and his team’s top StarCraft 2 player says he’s owed $23,000 in unpaid salary and prize money, The Daily Dot reports. The Daily Dot, which first wrote about Boudreault’s disappearance on Tuesday, returned again for this in-depth look at the aftermath.…
By Owen Good Published January 4, 2014 - Culture
This Week in the Business: It (Doesn’t) Print Money …
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Nintendo continues to underperform even our very low expectations. However, it is more of a business failure than a product failure.”—Analyst David Cole of DFC Intelligence, with other analysts, discussing what happened in 2013 and predicting what will happen in 2014…
By Steve Peterson Published January 4, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Best of Kotaku, The Week of December 30th
Welp, folks, no more 2013. But you can browse a few 2013 (and some 2014) articles over at Kotaku Selects This image by Lily’s Factory, and found by Assorted Goodness, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Have a good weekend, everyone! To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find…
By Tina Amini Published January 4, 2014