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Here’s Korean Jesus, Busy with Korean Stuff
If you’ve seen 21 Jump Street, you probably know about the Korean Jesus meme. But that’s not just some internet thing. There is a Korean Jesus. And starting this month, you can see him on display in Seoul. As noted by Up News, this is the work of Korean artist Woonbo Kim Ki-chang. According to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 18, 2013 - Kotaku East
The Eccentric Family is a Truly Magical Anime
When building my list of the five anime you should be watching this summer, there was only one anime out of the dozen I watched that I knew would make the list before I reached the first episode’s credits. This is because The Eccentric Family is so magical that it excites a sense of wonder…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published October 18, 2013 -
Kotaku EastDon’t Try Pikachu’s Thunderbolt at Home, Please
In Pocket Monsters, one of Pikachu’s attacks is the 100,000-volt Thunderbolt. You’ve probably seen that in the Pokémon games, anime, and maybe even the manga. Now, you can supposedly see it in real life. This clip was uploaded a million years ago by YouTube user aiaiaiai00. It’s as impressive as it was then. It’s as…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 18, 2013 - Uncategorized
PS4 Launch Game DriveClub Delayed, Sony Confirms
As Kotaku reported on Wednesday, the PS4 launch game DriveClub was delayed to 2014. Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has confirmed this on the Playstation Blog. “DriveClub will be a truly innovative, socially connected racing game,” writes Yoshida, “but the team requires more time in order to deliver on their vision — and I’m fully confident the…
By Gergo Vas Published October 18, 2013 - Kotaku East
A Japanese Cat Cafe That Specializes in Black Cats
If Japanese cat cafes weren’t niche enough, a “black cat specialty cafe” has appeared in Himeji, Japan. Dubbed “Cafe Cafe Nekobiyaka Kuro Neko cm,” the feline paradise, as MyNavi explains, opened as a “black cat cafe” late last month and is now filled with ten black furry friends. Nekobiyaka claims that it is (maybe! perhaps?)…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 18, 2013 - Kotaku East
NSFW: Japan’s $7 Million Sex Museum Sure Is Silly
Whether it’s North America, Europe, or Asia, sex museums dot the globe. But how many of them can claim Superman sex or phallic nunchaku? Warning: This article contains content that some readers might find offensive. Others might find it amusing. Enter the Ureshino Sightseeing House of Hidden Treasures. Located in the city of Ureshino in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 18, 2013 - Uncategorized
There Might Be A Playable PS4 Near Your House, Right Now
Sony has PS4 demo kiosks rolled out and ready to play across the US. Like, now. Sadly for the moment they’re only in Sony stores, making them a little harder to track down, they’ll soon be in more accessible spots like GameStop, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. If you want to see if there’s one…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 18, 2013 -
UncategorizedRole-Playing Not As A Warrior, But As A…Guy In A Suit Doing Cocaine
When you think of LARP, or Live-Action Role-Playing, you probably think of people in armour running around a field hitting each other with foam swords. But not everyone LARPS that way. Some people take the basic concept and run very far away with it, to the point where they’re basically LARPing as…Mad Men. This is…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 18, 2013 -
UncategorizedRobots Now Have The Balance To Run Us Down (And Dance)
Fire won’t stop them. Bullets won’t stop them. Now not even a road covered in loose rocks will slow down our demise at the hands of our eventual robot destroyers. This is Atlas, a humanoid robot from the nightmare factory that is Boston Dynamics. You’ll not only notice that it has such amazing balance that…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 18, 2013 - Culture
Apologies If This Art Slaps You In The Eyeballs
Based in Brooklyn, artist Roxie Vizcarra creates imagery for video games. What follows is some of my favourite stuff I’ve ever featured on Fine Art Why? Partly because, for someone working in the games business, it’s different. Even in their spare time, most game artists draw the same stuff they would for work: spaceships, robots,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 18, 2013 - Uncategorized
The Simplest Strategy Games Are Often The Best
I have spent hours today playing a strategy game on my PC. Hours. It wasn’t Civ V. It wasn’t Rome II. It wasn’t even Company of Heroes 2. It was a tiny little game called Kingdoms. You don’t do much in Kingdoms. You play as a King, and you ride around a 2D kingdom on…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
The PS4 Has Tiny PlayStation Screws Inside
German site Computer Bild have got hold of a devkit PS4 and cracked it open. Their findings aren’t terribly important to the average user – though it looks like swapping HDDs will be a cinch – but they did find one thing of interest. Dat screw. Such needless effort. So adorable. Playstation 4: Exklusiv –…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
Batman Games Look Best in Black and White
To this day, Batman: Arkham City remains a visually striking game. The grand, gothic feel of the comics was well-captured by art director David Hego and his team at Rocksteady. But I’ve never seen the game look quite like this These shots, captured by video-game screenshot master Duncan Harris at Dead End Thrills, go beyond…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 17, 2013 -
UncategorizedToday’s Cool New PC Game Wants To Screw With Your Head… And It Will
Perhaps you’ve heard of The Stanley Parable? It’s this game, see. It’s a game about stories. It’s… well, it’s complicated. Maybe you’re wondering what it’s really about, why everyone is talking about it? Well. Allow me to elaborate. The Stanley Parable is a first-person storytelling game that functions as a sort of narrative puzzle. What’s…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
From PC Gaming To Zelda, Readers Submit Their Last-Gen Heroes
We’ve been having fun with the first week of our month-long Last-Gen Heroes series, in which Kotaku‘s staff has been looking back at the heroes and zeroes of the past console generation. Over at TAY, readers have been having a grand old time themselves. Here’s some of what they’ve been talking about. Reader Zarnyx offers…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 17, 2013 -
UncategorizedThe Internet Reacts To Pokémon X & Y’s Silliest Feature
If the fantasy in Pokemon is that we get to travel the world with our trusty monsters by our side, it only makes sense that we’d get to play and pet them too, right? Now, with Pokemon Amie—a new feature in X & Y—we finally do exactly that…and the good people of the internet have…
By Patricia Hernandez Published October 17, 2013