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They’re Making A Yakuza Stage Play

They already had a live-action movie and a TV show, so I guess a stage adaptation was only a matter of time. Next month, Sega’s popular video game, Ryu ga Gotoku (龍が如く) – or as it’s better known in the west, Yakuza – will be getting a stage adaptation. The stage adaptation, which will be…

By Toshi Nakamura Published March 19, 2015

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Today, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XI service for the PS2 and Xbox 360 will end in March 2016. However, it will continue for the PC version.

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2015

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Cooking Bacon with Machine Guns Is Delicious and Lethal

Let’s say you find yourself hungry with loads of uncooked bacon and an…assault rifle. Add lots and lots of bullets, and you have yourself a tasty bacon meal. A couple YouTubers have shown how to make machine gun bacon. It looks like wrapping the bacon in tinfoil is the most effective (wiring bacon to the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2015

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Final Fantasy XI Gets Smartphone Version and New Spin-Off [Updated]

With the amount of money smartphone games make, this shouldn’t be that surprising. But Square Enix is bringing a version of Final Fantasy XI to smartphones. It’s called Final Fantasy XI Mobile. There’s also a new FFXI spin-off title called Final Fantasy Grandmasters. Update: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Final Fantasy…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2015

Kotaku East

Drew Barrymore Knows How To Eat in Tokyo

If you ever need advice on what to eat in Tokyo, you can always ask Drew Barrymore. She sure knows. Recently, the actor and movie producer was in Tokyo and uploaded a series of photos of her culinary adventures to Instagram with the hashtag #tokyofoodtour. So! One morning, Barrymore’s breakfast looked like this. She had…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2015

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Bad Men Destroy 12 Retro Consoles, Film It

WIRED’s Battle Damage thought it would be fun to take 12 old consoles (for YouTube purposes, the PS3 is now “old”) and smash them all up to see which was the most physically durable. My money’s on the GameCube, because it didn’t have that handle for nothing. SPOILERS: I was wrong.

By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2015

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Why Does Link Cry In Majora’s Mask? It’s…Pretty Dark

OK, so every time Link puts on a mask in Majora’s Mask, he makes a kinda screaming sound. If you ever wondered why—maybe he’s just really excited!—well, a Nintendo employee has an answer. Chatting with fans on Miiverse, a Nintendo rep/developer posing as the Happy Mask Shop guy from Majora’s Mask says (via @mnemosynekurai) “It’s…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2015

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Screw CGI, This War Movie Used 15,000 Real Soldiers

We may never see a movie like 1970's Waterloo again

By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2015

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Elite: Dangerous Honors Terry Pratchett With Discworld Space Station

Last week, revered author Terry Pratchett, best known for his brilliantly witty, insightful, and incisive Discworld series, passed away after a battle with Alzheimer’s. The makers of Elite: Dangerous have created a whole space station in his honor. The space sim’s latest patch added a location called Pratchett’s Disc starport. If you want to check…

By Nathan Grayson Published March 18, 2015

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Track: Courtesy | Album: PRhyme | Artist: PRhyme Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2015

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Every Time I Beat A Demon’s Souls Boss, I Feel Like A Badass

Games don’t prompt me to stand up and scream on a regular basis. When I kill off a boss in a Souls game, however, I feel powerful. I earned this victory, and want to shout it to the world. There are few games I’m proud of beating, but Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls…

By Patrick Klepek Published March 18, 2015

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The Best (And Weirdest) Cities: Skylines Creations

We’ve seen road porn, we’ve seen useful mods, now let’s take a look at the best of the most obvious kind of Cities: Skylines creations: buildings and maps. The game’s vanilla building selection is…weird, throwing together European, American and Asian architecture in a way that means your city never really feels as cohesive (at least…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2015

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Getting A Bot ‘Turned On’ With Fake Sexts

I just spent the past 15 minutes trying to fool a bot into thinking blurry phone pics of my elbow crease were steamy photos of the world’s greatest butt. That, in a nutshell, is Sext Machine. Offworld came across the amusing oddity, which you play by texting an actual phone number (text “;)” to 669 333-SEXT…

By Nathan Grayson Published March 18, 2015

Culture

Final Fantasy XV Has Unlimited Chicken Wings

On today’s Highlight Reel we have reality-defying food in Final Fantasy XV, 2 Chainz Xbox One remixes, perfect unintentional heist getaways and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. The Last…

By Chris Person Published March 18, 2015

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The Dragon Age Secret That Took Months To Find

Up until very recently, there was something hidden in Dragon Age: Inquisition that nobody knew about. That is, until an alleged Bioware developer leaked part of the secret to some players. As ProjectFalconPunch explains it, there’s a secret quest that you can find in the Emerald Graves—around here, to be specific: Near that marker, you…

By Patricia Hernandez Published March 18, 2015

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Players Are Making The Best Dragon Ball Xenoverse Characters

Dragon Ball Xenoverse lets players create their own custom characters, which they can then insert into classic DBZ storylines. The character creator is pretty robust, too—which also means that players are having a lot of fun with the tool. Some players like to make their DBZ characters riff off real people, places, or things. Other…

By Patricia Hernandez Published March 18, 2015

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A Better Take On Video Game Sex

A few exceptions aside, video games are pretty shitty at sex. It’s often presented as a stilted, awkward “reward” or a tool for cheap titillation. It’s also heinously un-sexy. Games have come a long way since Dragon Age: Origins‘ infamously nightmare-inducing dead-eyed doll sex, but I think there’s still ample room to grow, for games…

By Nathan Grayson Published March 18, 2015

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Q&A: The People Behind Helldivers Spill Some Secrets

I like Helldivers. It’s one of my favorite PS4 games. But I had 11 questions about it. I posed them to one of the game’s designers. He had answers. Thank goodness. The following Q&A was conducted over e-mail. Answering my questions is Patrick Lasota, a designer at Helldivers dev studio Arrowhead Game Studios. Oh, and…

By Stephen Totilo Published March 18, 2015

Culture

Tell Us Your Best Toxic MOBA Player Stories

Toxicity is a fact of life in popular MOBA games like League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, and Dota 2. No two toxic players are exactly the same, though. Encountering toxicity can even lead to genuinely heartfelt moments between people who’ve never met before. What’s your most memorable run-in with MOBA toxicity? These can…

By Yannick LeJacq Published March 18, 2015

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StarCraft II Is Transforming In Some Huge Ways Very Soon

Blizzard is launching a closed beta for StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void on March 31, and it sounds like the upcoming expansion pack will change their real-time strategy game in some totally drastic ways. For one, starting worker count is going to double, as outlined on Blizzard’s blog You’ll also notice that the starting…

By Jason Schreier Published March 18, 2015