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Do You Love The PS4 Enough To Eat It?
No, stop eating your PS4. I said stop it. Stop! Instead, have a look at these lovely PS4 cupcakes. They’re the creation of Stephen Rushbrook of UK developer Stainless Games, where it is office tradition to bring in treats on one’s birthday. Back when the PS4 was announced, there was lots of speculation surrounding its…
By András Neltz Published December 13, 2013 - Uncategorized
Rumored Alien: Isolation Screens Leak Online
This fall, a Kotaku source revealed that the next Aliens game was Alien: Isolation. And last night, screenshots rumored to be of the game appeared online. Four images popped up on Twitter account @Lifelower (via Eurogamer). You can see the other three below: As Kotaku previously reported, the source said the star of Alien Isolation…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2013 - Kotaku East
NouCome Is This Past Season’s Funniest Anime
When this fall anime season hit its midway point last month, I knew My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy deserved a place on the list of five anime you should be watching. This is because it is easily the funniest anime I watched this past season. Good – Great Comedic…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published December 13, 2013 - Kotaku East
Husband and Wife Freezing Their Butts Off for a PS4 Is Heartwarming
The PlayStation 4 won’t launch in South Korea until December 17. One man and his wife are lined up since two days ago with a banner that reads, “Waiting to buy a launch PS4.” The couple are already internet heroes. The man, 33 year-old Hong Suk Min and his wife, who’s also a big gamer,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2013 - Uncategorized
It’s Amazing What Modders Can Do with the 15-Year-Old Half-Life
Watching The Core‘s trailer makes you forget you’re looking at a mod for a game that came out in 1998. It’s just gorgeous. The Core is an in-development total conversion for the first Half-Life. It takes place during the resonance cascade, which is when Gordon Freeman and his scientist buddies accidentally unleashed the aliens of…
By András Neltz Published December 13, 2013 - Kotaku East
The Attack on Titan Mobile Game Is So Boring It Gave Me a Headache
With the release of 3DS title Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind this past week, now seemed like the perfect time to try out the Attack on Titan mobile game Attack on Titan: The Wings of Counterattack. Oh how wrong I was. Attack on Titan: The Wings of Counterattack is a mobile game…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published December 13, 2013 -
UncategorizedWatch What Happens When Internet Addicts Go Offline
You like the internet? I do! I’m online a lot (for work, work, I say), and perhaps you are, too. Think you could go off the grid for a week? Creative agency Mother London had five net natives go offline for a week and documented what happened next. No Internet Week [Vimeo via Digg via…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2013 - Kotaku East
Pro Gamer Retires So He Can Finish High School
Last night, professional StarCraft II player Kim “duckdeok” Kyeong Deok suddenly announced he was leaving eSports. He’s trading his keyboard and mouse for school books. “I have decided to retire S2,”tweeted Kim—news that surprised many. This past summer, Kim came in first at the 2013 WCS Season 2 Europe, winning US$20,000. “I was thinking about…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2013 - Kotaku East
Chinese Kids Fighting Smog with Martial Arts
At an elementary school in Shijiazhuang, China, students have been practicing a series of “anti-smog” martial arts exercises. Kick smog’s ass, kids! The children are doing wushu exercises. But according to website iFeng, the school instituted the “anti-smog” moves to help protect the students against pollution. Shijiazhuang residents need all the help against smog they…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2013 - Uncategorized
Report: Pirate Bay Founder Being Kept In Solitary Confinement
The mother of imprisoned Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm says that since her son was extradited from Sweden to Denmark, he has been placed in solitary confinement as though he were a “dangerous, violent and aggressive criminal”. Svartholm is in custody – he’s still awaiting a verdict – for allegedly hacking the mainframe systems of…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2013 -
UncategorizedWell, Here’s One Way To Get Around YouTube’s Copyright Robots
Angry about YouTube’s copyright policy? Want to get around its content ID filtering? Good news. Here’s one way. Watch as YouTube user SpookyFries69 shows you how it’s done in the A**a**ins Cr**d * B***k F**g video below. Enjoy! Lets Play A**a**ins Cr**d * B***k F**g [SpookyFries69@YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2013 - Uncategorized
Turn Your iPad Into The Neverending Story
Paper books? So 20th century. Today’s Neverending Story is a suede cover for your tablet that turns it into the iconic centrepiece of the 1984 children’s classic. Available for around USD$65, they’re hand-made to replicate the “real” thing as closely as possible. And if you don’t have an iPad, that’s cool, because they’re made by…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2013 -
UncategorizedIn The 90s, Sega Made This Boy’s Christmas Very Special
The 1990s were Sega’s golden age, but they were also a golden age for those who loved Sega, because every year on December 25 you could bet there’d be millions of kids around the world waking up to find new consoles and hardware under the tree. Kids like Tyler Esposito. Tyler put this video together…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2013 - Culture
BioShock’s Characters Were Not Born. They Had To Be Made.
Gavin Goulden is a lead character artist at Irrational Games, where he’s most recently worked on both BioShock Infinite and its first major DLC, Burial At Sea. Priot to that, he’s worked on games such as Dead Rising 2, Dragon Age and FEAR 2. You can see more of his work at his personal site…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2013 - Uncategorized
Epic LEGO Lord Of The Rings Diorama Took 200,000 Bricks To Build
Alice Finch – who earlier this year builtthe world’s biggest LEGO Hogwarts – has teamed up with another builder, David Frank, to recreate The Lord Of The Rings’ Rivendell. Using around 200,000 bricks The complete diorama spans 10 feet x 5 feet (or 3m x 1.5m), with work done not only by Alice and David,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2013 - Uncategorized
20 Year-Old Designs A Better Windows Than Microsoft
I like Windows 8, but only because its desktop mode is basically Windows 7 with faster boot times. The thought of using the “tablet” mode, or even swapping between the two, fills me with dread. Unless, that is, future versions of the operating system look like Jay Machalani’s design. The “self-taught user-experience designer” has shared…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2013 - Uncategorized
Drones and robots of all sizes. That’s some fine, detailed artwork—titled Game of Drones—by Montreal-based visual development studio OXAN. Could even work as a great concept art for a dystopian video game set in the near future. Game of Drones [OXAN, DeviantART] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
By Gergo Vas Published December 12, 2013 -
UncategorizedIntense Police Chase Shows Off How Cool GTA Online‘s Content Creator Is
While Grand Theft Auto Online‘s creator tools are still fresh out of the package, players like rechyyy—the YouTuber behind one of the best GTA V chase videos—are already filling up their custom maps with ramps, police vehicles and rockets. Not a bad start, and we’ll probably see a flood of awesome things made by this…
By Gergo Vas Published December 12, 2013 -
UncategorizedHere’s What GTA: San Andreas Looks Like on the iPad
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is out today for iPad and other iOS devices. So what does it look like? Well, like high-res San Andreas! In the video above, you’ll see what the game looks like when played on an iOS device. This version supports Apple-certified controllers like the MOGA Ace Powerand the Logitech Power…
By Chris Person Published December 12, 2013
