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Kotaku EastThe Prettiest Game I Saw at the Tokyo Game Show
Among my personal Japan-only favorites is the PlayStation RPG Walk Over My Corpse (Ore no Shikabane wo Koeteyuke). It took sumi-e style graphics, turn-based combat, and a breeding system to make an infinitely replayable classic. Now, a decade-and-a-half after its release, the sequel was playable at this year’s TGS. The demo for Walk Over My…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 27, 2013 -
UncategorizedThe Birth of Mega Man’s Successor
In four days, Mighty No. 9’s Kickstarter will come to an end and soon, development for Mega Man’s spiritual successor will be in full swing. But the Kickstarter isn’t where the story of Mighty No. 9 began. In this special, zeroth episode of the project’s making-of documentary, which takes place during the weeks leading up…
By András Neltz Published September 27, 2013 -
Kotaku EastJapanese Spock Lubes Up for Captain Kirk
Leave it to a Japanese lube maker to keep Captain Kirk’s seat free of rust. Oh my. As noted on MSN and NariNari.com, a commercial for Kure 5-56 features scenes from Star Trek Into Darkness, which opened in Japan about a month ago, mixed in with footage of celeb Shigeru Izumiya as a Japanese Mister…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2013 - Kotaku East
Hair Fetish Site Sure Is Horrific
If you’ve seen The Ring, you’ll certainly agree: Long hair is scary. Website Vnlonghairs.com is a paid membership site ($15 a month!) for those who want to look at photos of Vietnamese women with long hair. It doesn’t look to be a porn site per se. It does look to be numerous photos of women…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2013 -
UncategorizedThe Best Game Trailers Are Set To 80’s Power Ballads
After Saints Row 4, Stan Bush’s “The Touch” makes yet another appearance in a video game context—this time, the Shadow Warrior reboot’s launch trailer. And it is glorious. Indeed, Shadow Warrior is out and available, ready to be enjoyed by the blood- and old school FPS-hungry masses. It can be found on GOG, Steam and…
By András Neltz Published September 27, 2013 -
Kotaku EastMalaysian Politician Makes Crap Up, Says GTAV Is Banned in the U.S.
In Malaysia, a member of Parliament named Reezal Merican Bin Naina Merican is asking his government to ban Grand Theft Auto V due to violence. His rationale is that the United States and the United Kingdom have already banned the game. They have? Oh really? Um, no. They have not. Courtesy of tipster Mohamad, below…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2013 - Kotaku East
You’ve Never Seen Tattoos Like Banana Tattoos
Think human beings are the only ones who can enjoy tattoos? Ha! Bananas can get them, too. Japanese artist End Cape specializes in giving the yellow fruit tats. His process is time consuming and taxing. End Cape punctures small holes in the banana’s skin using a pin, and this causes the peel to “bruise” and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2013 - Kotaku East
Silver Spoon is an Anime with Real Heart
Six weeks ago, I listed Silver Spoon as one of the five anime of the summer you should be watching—and with good reason. From start to finish, Silver Spoon is an anime that walks the fine line between realistic drama and comedy to create a series brimming with real heart. Good – You May Learn…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 27, 2013 -
UncategorizedSecond Life Turns 10, Gets Creepy Facelift
Yes, Second Life still exists. Yes, there’s enough money left in it to upgrade the engine. No, I don’t know anyone who has touched this thing since 2006 either, so if you find one, tell them they’re a very special little unicorn.
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013 -
UncategorizedI Had No Idea Schwarzenegger Was In Skyrim
Come for the admirable attempt to recreate Predator using Skyrim. Stay for maybe the best Schwarzenegger impersonation I have ever heard. Especially since it’s not like there’s practice reference for the man saying “THROTHGARD!”. Skyrim At The Movies: PREDATOR – TYRANNICON [YouTube]
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013 -
UncategorizedFirst-Person Shooters? I’ll Take A First-Person Scorer, Thanks.
I’m right in the middle of playing both FIFA 14 and PES 2014 (I’ll be comparing them here next week). But as I play them – and in particular the former, which is looking old – my mind drifts to what the football games of the next (or next) generation could/should look like. And I’m…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013 -
UncategorizedDon’t Laugh. Klingon And Elvish Are Real Languages.
You might think Lord of the Rings’ Elvish, Star Trek’s Klingon and Game of Thrones’ Dothraki are all just collections of silly words, but nope. They’re actual, real languages, no different from English, Spanish or Japanese. This TED Talk by John McWhorter explains why this is. It’s not just a collection of words that makes…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013 - Culture
The Pirates Of The Future Don’t Buckle Swashes
Sergi Brosa is a Spanish concept artist and illustrator who works mostly as a freelancer and on comission pieces. Why a comic publisher or video game studio doesn’t have him on their books escapes me, because Sergi’s stuff is insane Be sure to scroll to the last image. Then…keep scrolling. If you can. You can…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013 -
UncategorizedThe Xbox One Can Trim Your Fat, That’s Why It Comes With Kinect
Until December 2014, everybody who gets an Xbox One will have free access to something called Xbox Fitness. Which is basically a collection of videos that use the Kinect’s sci-fi powers to help you lose the weight you accumulate playing all your other games. The vids appear to simply be pre-existing fitness productions, but tie…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013 -
UncategorizedThe Best Game This Year Is Jumping Into Swimming Pools (And Failing)
You know the best thing about GTA V? It’s not the scale, the cars, the missions or the guns. It’s the fact there are swimming pools. And a brutal physics engine. This is the good Jackass game we never got. I had a lot of fun with the GTA physics… [thanks Will138!]
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013 -
UncategorizedThief Has An Old-School Homage Mission. Which Is DLC. Sigh.
Hey, here’s where there should be some good news! The upcoming Thief game, which already has people a little worried, thought it was doing the right thing by including a mission that was a straight homage to Thief II’s bank heist. Which it immediately spoils by making it pre-order DLC. I’ve said before how awful…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013 - Uncategorized
We Already Know He’ll Have Mother Issues
Presented without further comment.
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2013 -
UncategorizedWe Don’t Need A Metal Gear Movie. We’ve Already Got A Real Snake.
When the Metal Gear movie is done – if it’s ever done – it’ll be 17 hours long, 16 of which will be people talking about something you don’t quite understand. What a drag. So let’s watch this much shorter Metal Gear movie, made by one of the world’s best cosplayers, instead. The man in…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2013 -
UncategorizedStar Citizen, You Just Keep Looking Better
You know, I think Chris Roberts’ pitch for Star Citizen probably went something like this: “Hey, I made Wing Commander, so I’m going to do that again. Oh, and also, Battlestar Galactica was awesome”. The game’s not out until the end of next year, at the earliest. Which is about the only bad news in…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2013 -
UncategorizedImagine If Skyrim Had Better Combat…
Once was a time, when you play games like Hexen and Heretic, that first-person shooters weren’t always about shooting. Sometimes they could be about throwin’ fireballs and castin’ spells. Lichdom is a return to those times, and a good-looking one at that. Though billed as an “action adventure”, and with RPG elements up to its…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2013