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Discounted Gaming Gift Cards, Mechanical Keyboards, and More Deals
If you own a game console, this is basically free money. 10% off PlayStation Gift Cards | Best Buy 10% off Xbox Gift Cards | Best Buy 10% off Nintendo eShop Cards | Best Buy Bonus: We’ve seen 12 months of Xbox Live for $40 recently, but how’s 13 months sound? [13 Month Xbox Live…
By Shep McAllister Published February 9, 2015 -
The Man Behind Some of the Best Cosplay Gear in the World
A badass Mass Effect rifle replica. Creepily realistic Skyrim bad guys. Armor and weapons from loads of beloved video games. Bill Doran’s Punished Props studio makes all of those things. And, man, it doesn’t sound relaxing at all. Bill Doran is a guy that other cosplayers look up to, someone who manages to craft fictional…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 9, 2015 -
Danganronpa is a wonderfully weird and subversive murder mystery series, so it makes sense someone would eventually cross it over with wrestling. Enter Danganwrestling, where we learn John Cena’s most coveted secret: he looooooooves anime. As luck would have it, that might actually be true A few episodes are already live, actually. Here’s the first…
By Patrick Klepek Published February 9, 2015 -
Evolve Impressions: ‘Just One More Round’
Evolve can be simplified in many ways, and you’ve probably heard them all before. It’s a first-person shooter. It’s like Left 4 Dead, four players banding together, but you’re up against a Tank—played by a fifth player—each round. It’s one big boss battle, over and over. But the details that go into the new game,…
By Tina Amini Published February 9, 2015 -
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: How to Make The Legend of Zelda TV Series Work • Elihu’s Four in February 2015: It’s Out of This World [The Bureau: XCOM Declassified] • Parasyte Continues to Impress • Anime Theme Song Roundup by Ani-TAY – Week 6 • Nintendo, I Have Some Questions TAY…
By András Neltz Published February 9, 2015 -
Cancelled Justice League Game Pops Up Again, Looks Bizarro
Let’s be real: the Green Lantern project that was also supposed to be a Justice League game didn’t look like it was going to set the world on fire. But it’s an interesting footnote in the history of superhero games, one that would’ve featured some of the most popular fictional characters ever created. The newest…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 9, 2015 -
Guy Turns His PS1 Into Final Fantasy VII‘s Midgar
Well, that’s one way to play the classic JRPG: With a miniature version of Final Fantasy VII‘s capital city on top of the console. MakoMod‘s creation, which took 10 months to complete, might look rusty and dark, just like Midgar, but the modified PlayStation and reads discs perfectly. The creator shared a gallery on his…
By Gergo Vas Published February 9, 2015 -
World of Warcraft‘s Next Patch Adds Racing Mini-Game
Warlords of Draenor‘s first big content patch is shaping up nicely, and besides a new quest hub, redesigned crafting, a selfie camera and some new Garrison features, one of the new additions will be a racing activity. The race’s final version will be added to the Darkmoon Faire island, WoW‘s ever-growing, mini game-filled theme park.…
By Gergo Vas Published February 9, 2015 -
Scar from The Lion King is one dapper gentleman in Hyung86’s Disney University fanart series. In-universe, he teaches political science, and is a fan of classical music, English literature, and… Jeremy Irons films. Of course. Look below for Professor Scar in his full glory, and over here for more from Hyung86 Dayshot is an image-based…
By András Neltz Published February 9, 2015 -
After Two Decades, I’ve Finally Outgrown Mortal Kombat’s Violence
It’s taken Mortal Kombat X to show me how much I’ve changed since 1992. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK See, back then I was in love with a new arcade game they’d just installed in the cinema at Sheffield’s Meadowhall shopping centre (this was before the proper arcade was even built). It looked…
Ian Dransfield Published February 9, 2015 -
Guy Swatted In Front Of 60,000 Viewers While Playing Runescape
Joshua Peters, a US Air Force vet who hangs out on Twitch playing video games, was the victim of a swatting hoax last week, during which his home was stormed and the police reportedly pointed guns at his brothers. Streaming as Koopatroopa787, Peters had around 60,000 people watching him play Runescape when the raid took…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2015 -
So Long, RadioShack, And Thanks For All The Sweet/Shitty Box Art
RadioShack is gone, but it is not forgotten. Amidst all the weekend obituaries for a company that had already been dead for years, though, people seem to have forgotten one thing: the company’s legacy of making its own supremely dorky box art. I mean, get a load of the fonts! The placement! Some of them…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2015 -
Transformers Commercials So Old They Weren’t Even Called Transformers
Hardcore fans already know this, but Transformers weren’t always Transformers. The biggest animated series of the 80s was actually cobbled together following a 1983 partnership between Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara, who had already released some transforming toys — many of who you might recognise — called Diaclones and Microman. The deal meant Hasbro…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2015 -
Crazy Russian Jumps 98 Feet Off Building. While On Fire.
So, you know how in Assassin’s Creed, the hero can jump off massive buildings, do a little flip in the air and somehow land alive? Turns out you can do that in real life, too. Even if you’re on fire. Of course, there are a few conditions you need to satisfy in order to pull…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2015 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Live-Action Legend Of Zelda
Netflix and Nintendo may be making a live-action Legend of Zelda television series. Not if we make it first! I guess they’d probably still continue on with theirs if we made one first, especially considering ours will just be a series of images created by you folks imagining what their series might look like. There…
By Mike Fahey Published February 8, 2015 -
Learn About Capitalism With Super Mario Bros. 2
I’ve not come across a finer means of illustrating the origins of our Western work ethic than this video featuring a recycled Japanese game. Why did’t we have 8-Bit Philosophy back when I was in college? In a way it’s ironic. Here I am watching a video about how Calvinism and Capitalism came together to…
By Mike Fahey Published February 8, 2015 -
Six Days To LEGO Left Shark? Not Bad.
It’s easy to crank out a next-day t-shirt for a major Super Bowl happening, but assembling bricks in the form of the only part of Katy Perry’s halftime show that matters takes time and patience. Our friends over at The Brothers Bricktook a different route with their Left Shark coverage this year, so LEGO builderConradoPLG…
By Mike Fahey Published February 8, 2015 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: ‘Shop Kotaku: The Winners!
What could be better than a group photo featuring the largest number of Kotaku staff ever assembled in one spot? Just about every entry inlast week’s ‘Shop Contest. I was expecting much more cruelty than we received, so thanks for that! Running themes included The Simpsons couch, They Live, head swapping and Battle Royale. And…
By Mike Fahey Published February 8, 2015 -
With Censorship This Inane, Criminal Girls Should Have Stayed In Japan
Somewhere beyond this eerily silent, pink-mist clogged screenshot is the “motivation” mini-game from the unabashedly risque Japanese game Criminal Girls. Stripping the sound and obscuring the action made it okay for Western release—only no it didn’t. It’s kind of amazing the 2010 PSP game from developer Imageepoch made it to North America in any form,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 7, 2015