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Disney is Rewriting Your Childhood With Nostalgia For a Game That Didn’t Exist
Sega recently announced that their upcoming game Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed will feature the titular hero of Disney’s November film Wreck-it Ralph as a playable character. The movie’s director, Rich Moore, calls it a “dream come true” that we can see “Wreck-It Ralph in a real video game alongside Sonic and other iconic Sega…
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UncategorizedThe Best Street Races on the iPhone Only Last 10 Seconds
Making a good-looking racing game for the iPhone isn’t that difficult, but winding tracks and multiple laps don’t sit well with players looking for a quick fix. You know what does work well? Drag racing. In a console game, drag racing is generally pretty boring. When you’ve got stunning 3D environments and all of that…
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UncategorizedThomas Jane’s Punisher Returns with One Mighty Bottle of Jack
You have to admire a man who enjoys a role he played so much he stars in what is essentially a big-budget fan film based on the character. Thomas Jane wouldn’t mind being Marvel Comics’ Punisher again, and he’s got Ron Pearlman and an unbreakable bottle of Jack backing him up. Thomas Jane was a…
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The Magic of the Muppets is That This Guy Doesn’t Exist
I’d never seen a Muppet operated in person until Friday at Hasbro’s San Diego Comic-Con booth. In my heart and in my mind I still have never seen a Muppet operated in person — I just saw Super Grover. Thanks to the two tiny additions made to my household last year, I’ve been watching a…
By Mike Fahey - Kotaku East
Giants of Chinese Cosplay Bring You Lineage II and Evangelion
Our good friend Modashi (Mengjie Luan), has graced us once again with his cosplay photography. This time around the subjects of his camera are Chinese cosplayers Mei Wai and Tao Bao. Mei is seen here portraying New Linage II’s Goddess of destruction Shilen. Mei a long time collaborator with Meng has been featured on Kotaku…
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Bomb Buddies: Right Amount of Bombs, Not Enough Buddies
Growing up I was always excited to visit my cousins house for the summer, because my cousins Andrew and Anna had a Taiwan bought SNES with multi-tap and the holy grail of then multiplayer games, Super Bomberman. I can still remember the hours of frustration and anger over placing a self-destroying bomb and also the…
By Eric Jou - Kotaku East
Man Dies At Door Of Video Game Arcade
A man in west China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region died over the weekend from a 3-day gaming binge. The unidentified man was apparently frequenting the Happy Sunshine Animation Game arcade for the last three days of his life playing various video games. It appears that as he was entering the arcade on Friday, he just…
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