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Smash Bros. Creator Is Always Being Recorded At Work and He Hates It
You wanna see video of Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai in his day to day work overseeing game development? Apparently, there’s tons. Sakurai is hard at work on the upcoming Smash Bros. games for the 3DS and Wii U. According to his column in Weekly Famitsu, generally whenever he talks about editing and changes at…
By Toshi Nakamura Published November 14, 2013 - Kotaku East
Red Panda Curry Is Best Served with Real Pandas
No, no, no! You’re not eating curry made from Red Pandas. You are eating a panda-shaped meal while you watch those furry critters frolic and play. IT Media reports that Safariland, an “animal park” in Yamaguchi Prefecture, is now offering “Red Panda Curry.” The curry is made to look like a Red Panda (meatballs form…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2013 - Kotaku East
Cops Called for Underboob Cosplay Controversy
This weekend, there was a big anime event in Singapore called Anime Festival Asia. Many cosplayers showed up. And so did the police. According to forum Singapore HardwareZone, an older woman called the police after seeing a cosplayer dressed as the character Ryuko Matoifrom popular anime Kill la Kill. The outfit was Ryuko’s battle gear,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2013 - Uncategorized
A Graphics Card That Will Melt At High Temperatures
Don’t go overclocking this LEGO graphics card. It’ll melt into a puddle of rainbow goop. Builder Nick V even made an accompanying specs sheet for it: >>PowerBuild CRLMRM IRON HD 1640 9IB 64-bit HNSL DVD Extreme x32 HD Ready ABS Support Video Card Get ready for the latest development in plastic-based video card technology! The…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2013 - Culture
From Paris To Japan To…Rayman
Kevin Aymeric works at Japanese anime powerhouse Production IG, but prior to that he helped out on Ubisoft’s gorgeous Rayman Legends. He got the OK from the publisher to release his artwork from the game earlier in the week, and wondered if we’d like to share it. Um. Yes Kevin is just one of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2013 - Uncategorized
Look At This Giant Machine. Just Look At It.
I never grew out of that childhood thing where giant vehicles are just the best. So when I saw images of this thing today, I nearly lost it. On Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be destroying over six tonnes of ivory goods, seized over the years in violation of an illegal trade.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2013 - Uncategorized
Someone Inside The Vatican Is Pirating Video Games
Last year’s version of divorce simulator Football Manager contained an interesting hidden secret: there was code inside that let the developers track the IP of everybody who pirated a copy of the game. Speaking at the London Games Conference, attended by MCV, the results the developers disclosed are fascinating. Over ten million copies were passed…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2013 - Uncategorized
This Xbox One Takes Around 13 Seconds To Boot Up
Microsoft’s Larry Hryb has posted a short clipshowcasing how long it takes an Xbox One to boot up from a Kinect voice command. I timed it at 13.3 seconds. That’s going from the moment he stops talking to the point where the dashboard pops up ready for user input, which seems to me the most…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2013 - Uncategorized
The Best Box Art Of This Generation
You can’t judge a game by its cover. You can, however, judge a game cover by its cover. With the growing importance of digital sales and preorders, what’s actually on the front of a game box is in many ways becoming less important than it once was, since it’s not the main thing driving sales,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2013 -
UncategorizedHere’s How To Install a Hard Drive in a PS4
The PlayStation 4 comes with a 500GB hard drive, and let’s be real—that’s not gonna be enough space for some of you. The good news is that you can upgrade it. Check out this video by gamespot, which walks you through what you need to do to swap in a new hard drive into your…
By Patricia Hernandez Published November 13, 2013 -
ReviewsResogun: The Kotaku Review
A twin-stick shooter with a mess of action on screen is the perfect launch title for the PS4. For the uninitiated: twin-stick shooters are pretty easy to control. One joystick moves you around, the other joystick shoots in the direction you push it. The challenge is in using these controls in the best possible way.…
By Tina Amini Published November 13, 2013 - Uncategorized
Sony Promises There Won’t Be A PS4 Game Drought
Will the PlayStation 4 keep getting new games, or will it suffer through the dreaded software drought that inflicts most video game consoles during their first few months on the market? Sony is hoping—and promising—the former. Sony’s got big plans for their next PlayStation, which comes out on Friday. They want to keep pumping it…
By Jason Schreier Published November 13, 2013 - Uncategorized
From Wii Sports to YouTube Itself, Readers Share More Last-Gen Heroes
We’re nearing the end of our Last-Gen Heroes series, but that doesn’t mean our readers have any less to say about the games of the last eight years. I haven’t run a roundup post for a little while, and our readers over at the Talk Amongst Yourselves blog have been busy. Here’s what everyone’s had…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 13, 2013 - Uncategorized
Michael Jordan’s Big Space Jam Win Gets a Gloriously Fake Documentary
Seventeen years ago on Friday, Space Jam hit theaters. That makes now the perfect time for this fake oral history of the film’s climactic throwdown between the Tune Squad and the Monstars, done with all the self-regarding gravitas of an ESPN 30-For-30 documentary. Yahoo! Screen’s sendup (Director: Tony Yacenda) is very well edited, but what…
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2013 -
UncategorizedGTA V Mansion Is An Aircraft Carrier For The 1%
Bless glitches: not only can you launch cars into the air using gates in Grand Theft Auto, but you can also do the same with aircrafts judging by this mythbusting video by DefendTheHouse. And that’s not all. You can also take Amanda’s yoga ball and make it into a rolling bomb—I bet there’s a lot…
By Patricia Hernandez Published November 13, 2013 - Uncategorized
Study The PS4’s Social Network Settings Before Putting It Online
To get the most out of the PlayStation 4, you should connect the system online and enmesh yourself in the console’s social network—maybe hook it into Facebook, too. How much of yourself can you share? How much can you keep private? Let me show you. Upon booting up the console and applying a day-one patch,…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 13, 2013 -
UncategorizedBetween Kanye Westand Jay Rock, its clear that music videos that make ample use of Link’s expressions in Wind Waker is a thing. Further proof: this silly Wind Waker music video made last month by Kryptick Bidoof of Phil Collin’s sentimental ‘In The Air Tonight.’ So good!
By Patricia Hernandez Published November 13, 2013 - Uncategorized
An Insomniac Games graphic arts intern, who worked on Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus, lost her leg in a hit-and-run accident and is facing a long recovery and financial uncertainty with medical bills and college loans. Insomniac has donated $5,000 to Ana Kessel; a fund raiser for her has been established here. Update: An…
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2013 -
UncategorizedNo, The PS4 Doesn’t Have A “Wobbling” Problem
The PS4 does move if you press down on it. Is it a problem? No. I made a video to demonstrate the “wobble” issue, and what you can do to fix it. If you’re not familiar with the PS4’s wobble, when Giant Bomb did an unboxing earlier this week, they noticed that the console would…
By Steve Marinconz Published November 13, 2013
