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UncategorizedA Stop-Motion Dreamcast Striptease, Trivia Included.
Jake Roper of Vsauce3 included six awesome facts about the Dreamcast in the latest stop in his stop-motion teardown trip through console history, so you didn’t have to feel as bad about watching console porn. But it’s still console porn. The Dreamcast was a beautiful machine, inside and out. None of these hardware failures. No…
By Mike Fahey Published December 23, 2013 -
UncategorizedThe Most Unsettling Way To Ask For An N64 For The Holidays
As Christmas approaches, now is the time to reflect on holidays past. And what better way to celebrate that than with an incredibly creepy song about the N64? In the video above, an incredibly weird man-child asks his mother for the gift of the N64. He then proceeds to twerk it out like he’s John…
By Chris Person Published December 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
eShop Credit, Deals On The Most Popular Games Of 2013 [Deals]
Nothing like free money, especially free money good toward video games. Grab yourself some discounted eShop credit and pick up Link Between Worlds or any number of other great titles for your holiday gaming. $50 eShop Gift Card for $40 $20 eShop Gift Card for $16 Need last-minute gifts with free one-day shipping? Gizmodo has…
By Shane Roberts Published December 23, 2013 -
UncategorizedMetal Band Avenged Sevenfold Is Making A Diablo Clone
What, you expected a pet sim? Tapping into the band’s deep love for video games (like Diablo) and working in elements of their signature (Diablo-ish), Avenged Sevenfold has teamed with developer Subscience Studios to create a mobile dungeon crawler that hearkens back to the … Diablo. It’s called Hail to the King: Deathbat. From the…
By Mike Fahey Published December 23, 2013 -
UncategorizedDrunk Gran Turismo Champion Drives About as Well as I Do Sober
Responsible Young Drivers, despite its English name, is a Belgian advocacy group that, well, advocates responsible driving for the young. What better way to illustrate that than with a video game, and a smashed driver behind the wheel? Tina was skeptical that AMO_RACING87, the top Gran Turismo driver in all of Belgium, was really this…
By Owen Good Published December 23, 2013 -
UncategorizedThe Card Game That Brings Out The Best In Every Nerd
Who would win in a fight: Spider-Man or Batman? Ninja or pirate? Drunk Godzilla or Adventure Time’s Jake coupled with a million Twitter followers? Wait, what? In the video above, you can watch some of the Kotaku team make our cases in arguments that sound pretty much just like that last Godzilla versus Jake scenario.…
By Tina Amini Published December 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki joked about his plans for future Souls games on twitter today: We here at Kotaku are fully behind the idea. Here’s your first piece of concept art, Mr. Miyazaki: Feel free to leave your Ernest-Borgnine-in-Dark-Souls related photoshops in the comments.
By Chris Person Published December 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Dead MMO’s World Could Live On as an Explorable Relic, says Developer
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning closed down on Wednesday when the licensing agreement Electronic Arts had with Games Workshop ended. A developer who worked on the game says there is a way to preserve its world in a kind of museum-exhibit way, should EA choose to release it. Andrew Meggs, who was the lead client…
By Owen Good Published December 23, 2013 -
UncategorizedAh, So Lara Croft: Reflections Is A Card Game. Great.
Back in March of this year, Square Enix trademarked the name Lara Croft: Reflections. Some speculated it would be a 3DS or PlayStation Vita game. Nope, it’s a free-to-play card battler. Lara Croft: Reflections is in testing right now in Austraila and New Zealand, so anyone with an account in those regions can download it…
By Mike Fahey Published December 23, 2013 -
Uncategorized‘I Know A Gangster When I See One,’ Says Angry Street Batman
Who knows what set off this Times Square performer dressed up as the Dark Knight? But it takes a team-up with two Spider-Men to ensure that this Batman doesn’t go all Death in the Family on the dude he’s arguing with. Warning: contains language that may be considered NSFW. The rage-filled rant that Batman goes…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
The 13 Most Popular Video Games Of 2013, As Purchased By You
We’ve come to the end of another great year in gaming, and we at the Commerce Team can’t think of a better way to celebrate than by looking back at the games our readers chose to treat themselves to. There are some no-brainers and some big surprises, and we can’t wait to see how next…
By Shane Roberts Published December 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
The official high-capacity battery for the Wii U GamePad is now available in the U.S. The $32 part increases the GamePad’s battery life from between three and five hours to a luxurious eight. For a solution that doesn’t involve unscrewing the GamePad, there’s always the Nyko Uboost.
By Mike Fahey Published December 23, 2013 -
UncategorizedThe Creepiest Legend of Zelda Character Gets His Own Live Action Movie
Here’s an early Christmas present for Legend of Zelda fans: a live-action preamble to the story of Majora’s Mask, giving the backstory of the Skull Kid who stole it, fell under its spell, and emerged as the principal antagonist of the game. Majora’s Mask Live Action: The Skull Kid was written, directed, produced and edited…
By Owen Good Published December 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Souls lets us in on how Assassin’s Creed IV made him cry. FoolProofAdam talks about how spoiling The Last of Us made it an even better experience. And Cill Bosby sings the praises of The Knights of the Old Republic Don’t forget that you can…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
How Street Fighter‘s Ryu Changed Over The Years
26 years of Street Fighter means a lot of change in graphics and art direction, and what a better way to show this than a huge gallery of the series’ main character, Ryu. Here’s EventHubs‘ visual trip from a simplier 1987 to a detailed present day: The Visual History of Ryu in Street Fighter, Vs.…
By Gergo Vas Published December 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Tomb Raider Makes An Excellent Argument For iOS Controllers
Last week, Square Enix quietly released the original Tomb Raider for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. You can almost see the game through the haze of virtual controls. Might be time for a gamepad. Gamepad support, recently introduced to the platform with iOS 7, is likely why we’re seeing the original Tomb Raider being…
By Mike Fahey Published December 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
A StarCraft II mod, based on the popular Carbot Animation series? Yes please. That’s something many of us would put on their Christmas wishlist. And I’m pretty sure no one could resist picking Zerg and massing those cute zerglings in the pic above. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of…
By Gergo Vas Published December 23, 2013 -
Kotaku EastThe Best Japan-Only Games of 2013
Japanese games can be quite at odds with their Western counterparts. They can be strange. They can be sexy. They can be horrific and brutal. They can also be pretty much similar to what we’re used to, crafted, of course, with love and great care. This year, it was no different. Here are, in no…
By András Neltz Published December 23, 2013 - Kotaku East
WoW Hacker Group Mastermind Sentenced To Two Years In Chinese Prison
Late last week, in Zhejiang province’s Songyang county court, ten men were sentenced to prison terms of up to two years. These men didn’t commit super heinous crimes, but they did commit a terrible one: they were found guilty of hacking and defrauding over 10,000 World of WarCraft accounts. The sentence hearing and the results…
By Eric Jou Published December 23, 2013