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UncategorizedNext Month’s Call of Duty Adds… Aliens
A rumor yesterday, an official trailer today: it’s the new co-op mode for Call of Duty: Ghosts. We’ll be shooting aliens. Activision says: “Call of Duty: Ghosts introduces Extinction – an all-new 1-4 player cooperative game mode featuring a unique blend of fast-paced survival action, FPS base defense, scavenging and class leveling…” To contact the…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2013 - Uncategorized
Gamers More Numb to Pain, Others’ Misery, Say Scientists
I’m not sure what to make of this study, by researchers in Germany and Australia. On a literal level, RPG gamers are better than others at fishing paper clips out of a container of ice-cold water. Scientists think that means they’re desensitized either to pain or, going further, important life events, even. The study, recently…
By Owen Good Published October 28, 2013 -
UncategorizedRyse is Gonna Beat the Truth Out of You. Or Stab It, Whatever Works.
If Ryse’s main character, Marius Titus, is on a truth-finding mission, as this live-action trailer for the Xbox One game suggests, then he has a rather confrontational approach to conducting an inquiry. No, I think this is more a sword-and-sandals tale of vengeance. Come on, once he confronts Nero (or whoever that is at the…
By Owen Good Published October 28, 2013 - Uncategorized
Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Rathorial offers high praise to Red Faction Underground as a Last-Gen Hero, noting how it let the player controller the pace of the story. This outgoing generation’s greatest RPG? It’s Mass Effect 2, according to Cimeas. And 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors gets…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2013 - Uncategorized
The Walking Dead: Season Two will be revealed tomorrow, if this teaser from Telltale Games’ Twitter is any indication. Looks like Clementine is again the focus of the story. Expect news at 3 p.m. EDT. Telltale had earlier said a new season was due for this fall.
By Owen Good Published October 28, 2013 -
Kotaku EastGTA V‘s Sex And Violence Toned Down In Japan
Two weeks back, I picked up a Japanese copy of Grand Theft Auto V and began leisurely working my way through the game. After a few hours of playing it, I started to notice that some things were curiously missing in the sex and violence department. [Note: Video is NSFW and contains major spoilers for…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published October 28, 2013 - Uncategorized
In GTA Online, It’s Never a Good Idea to Get in a stranger’s Car. Weird things happen in the virtual version of Grand Theft Auto Online. So, yes: people may not think twice when it comes to getting into a car that a stranger just drives up and gets out of. Stay safe out there.…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2013 -
UncategorizedPC game capture and streaming built right in. The latest version of Nvidia’s Geforce Experience launches today, adding ShadowPlay game footage capture and streaming that uses the built-in video encoder on every GTX graphics chip to take the weight off of the CPU. Check out the Batman: Arkham Origins gameplay we capped with it over…
By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2013 -
UncategorizedNow Nvidia’s Shield Is A Set-Top PC Game Streaming Machine
Starting today, Nvidia’s Shield Android gaming console adds the ability to stream gameplay from a gaming PC to your television set. It’s incredibly cool. Want to see? The coolest feature of the Nvidia Shield Android gaming handheld was the ability to stream PC gameplay directly to the handheld from any gaming rig equipped with a…
By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2013 - Uncategorized
Happy Monday! Well…OK, Monday sucks. But here’s some cool stuff to get your morning started on a slightly-less-sucky footing. Fans Trash Call Of Duty Booth At Games Expo So People Are Cosplaying As Screenshots Now Nintendo, Steal This SNES Paint Scheme And Sell It, Please Street Fighter II Facts That May Blow Your Mind…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2013 - Kotaku East
China’s Radiation Masks Sure Make Computer Work Interesting
Due to dodgy air quality, a good face mask is a must have accessory for residing China. While air-pollution masks are more and more common outdoors in China, another sort of mask is turning heads indoors: computer radiation face masks. Called “fang fushe mian ju” (防辐射面具), the radiation prevention masks, unlike air-pollution masks, are are…
By Eric Jou Published October 28, 2013 -
Kotaku EastIn this iOS Game, You Beat Up Hentai Characters
Has it come to this? I guess it has! In iOS game Punishment Punch Girl, your job is to dish out a beating to pervs. Noritaka Funamizu, who designed and co-designed several Street Fighter games, oversaw the development of Punishment Punch Girl. So, this iOS game does have a pedigree. 女子高生に××されちゃうヘンタイが大集合 [Famitsu via Siliconera] To…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 28, 2013 - Kotaku East
Unseen Tetsuya Nomura Sketches From the 1990s
These days Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura busies himself with Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III. But let’s take a look back in time, before he was the famous game designer he is today. Takashi Aki, who worked as a planner on Final Fantasy V and FFVI, was recently cleaning up and discovered a handful…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 28, 2013 - Kotaku East
Chinese Buildings with Fake Windows Painted On
In the city of Qingdao, a new apartment complex is raising eyebrows. Some of the windows, it seems, aren’t windows. They’re paint. China’s iFeng reports that on one side of the buildings, there are “false windows” that were painted to look like the real deal. From a distance, it is hard to tell that they…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 28, 2013 - Kotaku East
Who Thinks Japan’s Owl Cafes Are a Hoot?
Forget cat cafes. Or black cat cafes. Or penguin bars. Japan’s latest novelty cafe is the “fukurou cafe” (フクロウカフェ), or the “owl cafe.” Owl cafes like Fukurou no Mise (“Owl Shop”) and Tori no Iru Cafe (“The Cafe with Birds”) started getting noticed online in Japan late last year. This summer saw more owl cafes…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 28, 2013 -
UncategorizedSee What An Xbox One Dashboard (Might) Look Like In Action
This video could have been great. It shows the kind of thing a prospective buyer of a brand new console wants to see: menus, commands, switching between programs. The nuts and bolts of your every day experience. It’s a shame, then, that Microsoft decided to take such a “real” premise and make a staged advertisement…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2013 - Uncategorized
Street Fighter II Facts That May Blow Your Mind…
Street Fighter II was an important video game. It was one of the very first video games I ever fell in love with, and I know I’m not alone. So many of us just have the tiniest details of Street Fighter II embedded in our consciousness. That’s what makes the Twitter feed of Akira Nishitani…
Mark Serrels Published October 28, 2013 -
UncategorizedVideo Games Bring Dead City Back To Life
In 1666, most of London burned to the ground. The old city as it once stood, from the buildings to the streetplan itself, are lost to history. Oh, unless you take a look at this video. Built using old maps and drawings of the city which predate the fire, a team of students from De…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2013
