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Mario & Co. in Wonderland, which is a bit darker than the Mushroom Kingdom. And the best part of DeviantART user SkribbliX’s fan art? No, not the edgy princess or the evil Goombas, but the Donatello Koopa! Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and…
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Culture
The Week in Games: With Liberation for All
We’re still in hibernation for major new releases, so our recap will again be more forward looking than focused on the present. Assassin’s Creed Liberation gets a console release this week. More to come later. Jan. 14 Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD (PSN) Broken Age Act One (PC, Ouya, for Kickstarter backers) The Banner Saga (PC)…
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It’s Hard to Make a Game When Nintendo Doesn’t Use Xbox Live, Says Dev
An unidentified developer of a third-party game that launched with the Wii U—and man, that shouldn’t be too hard to narrow down—has written for Eurogamer a thorough post-mortem of his studio’s experience developing for the console. It touches familiar themes of the console’s struggles, but in a more detailed, firsthand way. The money quote, though,…
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North America’s New Disney Game Is Last Year’s Japanese Hit
This morning Nintendo surprised us with the announcement of Disney Magical World, which sounded like Animal Crossing with Disney characters, coming to the 3DS April 11. It’s actually a port of this Japanese game, which did quite well for itself when it launched last August. Courtesy of the eagle-eyed folks at Siliconera, Disney Magic Castle:…
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Sad Horse Is Dressed As Mario
Hey there, Sad Mario Horse. How you doing? OK? You look a bit down. Is it because a human being dressed you up like Mario? Yes, I agree that it is a bit degrading, but you do have to admit that it is also pretty funny. Look at that little hat you’re wearing. Look at…
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All The Joy Of The Legend Of Zelda In One Plunderphonic Masterpiece
Artist Jeesh, who we’ve featured here before, plunders sounds from more than two and a half decades of The Legend of Zelda and mixes them all up to to create some of the most delicious ear candy I’ve heard in ages. This is going on everything I have that’s capable of outputting music. It’s a…
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Yoshi’s New Island surfaces on the 3DS on March 14. The sequel to Super Nintendo classic Yoshi’s Island has a lovely Friday release date now. Yoshi and Baby Mario are playing middle men to February 28’s Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy and the newly-announced Disney Magical World, releasing on 3DS April 11.
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Gotta avoid ’em all! Damn these zombie Pokémon are suffering. Just look at that poor Weepinbell on top. Artist Daryl Hobson did a great job creating a collection of zombified Pokémon. Head over to his site formore and for a 2014 Zombie Pokedex Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of…
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Six Things You Should Know About Alien: Isolation
Alien: Isolation officially made itself known yesterday. If you caught a dated-looking vibe in the game’s visuals, that’s deliberate; Creative Assembly wanted to render the Alien universe as looked in the original 1979 film. You can get a better view of it in this video—but you won’t see any of this on the Wii U.…
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Kotaku East
Hold Your Horses, Don’t Get Excited about Consoles in China…Yet
Earlier this week, China’s State Council sneakily released a document about regulations in the nifty Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Due to this release, media outlets have been calling China’s archaic 13-year ban on video games consoles to be over. I’m here to rain on everyone’s parade. The new official documentreleased on Monday by the Chinese…
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Is that… a Link to the future? Digital artist Jamie Boylan on DeviantART created one of the weirdest (in a good way!) pieces of Legend of Zelda fan arts. You can’t say it lacks enough twists. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art…
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Canadian digital artist Steph Caskenette’s low polygon Super Mario World map is just stunning with all these details. It’s just like a carefully crafted paper sculpture. Here’s the whole thing and head over to his Behance page for more: Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related…
By Gergo Vas
