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Manga and Anime Characters Made Beautiful

Canadian digital artist Sakimichan does stunning portraits of famous manga and anime characters—often bending their genders and making them very, very beautiful. This isn’t to say the the characters aren’t originally attractive. They are! But whether the characters are male or female, Sakimichan just makes them pretty Kotaku profiledSakimichan’s lovely portraits back in 2012. Recently,…

Japanese Artists Make Deus Ex A Little More Real

The link to this story was actually sentout by the official Deus Ex twitter account, and with good reason: some of the stuff Japanese pair XSENSE (artists Yoshinori Sakamaki and Taketo Kobayashi) are coming up with looks like it came straight out of Human Revolution. Using 3D printers, they’re designing artificial limbs that go way…

70s Alien Abduction Mystery Is Inspired By The X-Files

To Azimuth is an “alien abduction mystery” set in Alabama, circa 1978. You play both characters of a sister-and-brother team looking into the disappearance of their brother, and work your way through a story that’s heavily inspired by stuff like The X-Files. What I’m liking the looks of, though, is the detail in their recreation…

PC Game Has The Funniest Out-Of-Context Forum Topics

As we’ve seen with its patch notes, Crusader Kings II is a game that, taken out of context, sounds completely insane. The game’s forums are no different. Here’s a selection of recent thread titles from CKII’s Steam forums, put together by @shadowmar Yes, they’ve been cherry-picked, but they’re hardly isolated instances. In the days since…

The Worst Possible Ways To Play Team Fortress

Thing about video game strategies is, they’re always helping you win. What’s the deal with that? What if you want to find the most spectacular routes to glorious failure possible? Well then, look no further. Muselk has an ongoing series of videos in which he selects the worst possible weapons for each TF2 class and…

Here’s The Attack On Titan Movie’s Cast, In Costume

So, a live-action Attack on Titan movie is being made in Japan. And in case the spot where it’s being filmedwasn’t enough of a hint, these new posters revealing the cast in costume show it won’t be set in the manga/anime’s medieval-ish world. Instead, it appears to be set in a more modern post-apocalyptic location.…

Far Cry 4 Tricks People Into Revealing They’d Pirated The Game

If your copy of Far Cry 4 on PC doesn’t have FOV (Field Of View) options, and you complained about this on a forum, you might want to go and delete your comments. Because there’s a very good chance you’ve just outed yourself as someone who pirated the game. Ubisoft Montreal creative director Alex Hutchinson…

People Are Scamming Walmart With Bogus Cheap PS4 Listings [Update]

There’s nothing like some good ol’ fashioned corporation scamming on the holidays. And as we inch closer to Black Friday, some particularly ambitious shoppers have convinced the mega-chain Walmart to sell them PlayStation 4s for as cheap as $50 thanks to a simple new price-matching scam. Don’t cry for Walmart, though. Cry for price-matching. “We’re…

World Of Warcraft Gains 2.6 Million Subscribers In One Month

Enticed by the sweet siren call of the Warlords of Draenor expansion, World of Warcraft subscriber numbers have jumped from October’s 7.4 million to more than 10 million, all of them apparently on my home server of Moon Guard. Blizzard announced the massively multiplayer jump today, along with the news that 3.3 million copies of…

Your PC Must Be This Solid To Run Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Snake? Snake? SNAAAAAAAAKE? Oh, sorry about the yelling. Just wanted to know what you’ve got under the hood of your PC. Konami’s released the PC specs for the (phantom) painfully long-awaited PC release ofMetal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, the mini open-world prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Here’s what you’ll need…

Someone Remade A Bunch Of Classic Custom Halo 3 Maps In The New Halo

The ability to create and tinker with custom maps in the Halo series was first introduced in Halo 3‘s Forge mode. Players went wild with it, creating all sorts of maps and introducing new gameplay rules to go along with it. Take, for instance, Duck Hunt, where the objective isn’t exactly a team versus team…

When Dragon Age Goes Wrong, Everyone’s Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker is no longer the moonwalking-est game on the block. Not by a longshot. Also, could Michael Jackson leap 800 feet in the air against his own will? Didn’t think so. Thanks to the dark magic that is glitches, Dragon Age: Inquisition characters absolutely can. OK, let’s start with the moonwalking, which can…

Rocket Raccoon And Groot Are One In Marvel Puzzle Quest

How close are the Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Rocket Raccoon and Groot? So close that they count as one character in their big Marvel Puzzle Quest debut. With D3Publisher so up on adding Marvel characters to their popular puzzle RPG they’ve already got the new female Thor in the mix, I’m surprised it’s taken this…

More Hints That Dragon Age And Mass Effect Are In The Same Universe

Hidden inside the vast world of Dragon Age Inquisition are a few nods and references to Bioware’s other big game, Mass Effect. And you know what that means, right? It’s Bonkers Theory That Connects Both Games Time™. First, let’s look at the easter eggs. Eagle-eyed Redditor grimxxmastr uploaded a screenshot of a Krogan’s head, which…

Glitches Turn Pikachu Into Nightmare Fuel

Pikachu…are you okay? Where did your face go? Why is your body doing that!? Turns out, all you need to transform the iconic critter into a demon is to glitch him out. In this case, Chadtronic finds that “cartridge tilting” a copy of Hey You, Pikachu! results in a Pikachu that would feel at home…

Mystery Smash 3DS Patch Leads Players On A Hunt For What Changed

Yesterday, Nintendo released the v1.0.4 update for Super Smash Bros. 3DS, which, as they announced last week, adjusts balance in the mascot fighting game. Yet… nobody’s quite sure what they actually changed. Yep, inexplicably, Sakurai and crew decided not to include patch notes in the most recent update for their handheld Smash game. Here’s the…

People Are Taking Really Great Pictures in The New Grand Theft Auto V

Many oohs and aahs rang out at the upgraded visuals when Rockstar first started showing off the upgraded PS4 and Xbox One versions of Grand Theft Auto V. Now that the game’s out, players are documenting the game’s beauty themselves with some amazing photographs. In-game tools let readers share in-game photography on Twitter, Facebook and…

Free Monument Valley, GTAV, Black Friday TV Deals, Tarantino XX

Mobile Gaming doesn’t get much better than Monument Valley. It’s one of Kotaku’s Best iPad Games, and today it’s free on Android from Amazon Check out all of today’s app deals in our Apps Post, lots of iPhone games on sale today. The now optionally first-person Grand Theft Auto V current gen port gets a…

Far Cry 4’s Loot Is Full Of Hidden Jokes

Far Cry 4 is the kind of game that’s deeply in love with its loot. It wants you, the player, to love its loot too. So it packs the stuff full of silly jokes and insular references. Here are some of the silliest I’ve seen so far. Is this a Grand Theft Auto V reference?…

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