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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Rockmandash Reviews: Kanon [Visual Novel & Anime] • 10 Things The International 4 Has Taught me About DOTA 2 • Back in the TAY Review: Ultraman – Towards the Future • In Defense of Sword Art Online TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By András Neltz Published July 22, 2014 -
Nvidia’s New Tablet Tries Damn Hard to Earn Real Video Game Respect
What would a tablet have to do to be seriously considered as the best place for you to play games? Native Twitch streaming? Good-as-console versions of popular games? Play-from-your-couch capability? Nvidia’s new gaming tablet can do all of that. And some extra stuff besides. You can use a controller with it, too. It’s been about…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 22, 2014 -
The moon from Majora’s Mask looks a lot scarier on Vincent Bisschop‘s artwork from deviantART. It’s definitely up there with the one from the upcoming Hyrule Warriors Majora’s Moon by Vincent Bisschop [DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can…
By Gergo Vas Published July 22, 2014 -
Valiant Hearts’ Trailer in Minecraft Is Both Silly And Poignant
We’ve got the first trailer for Valiant Hearts, Ubisoft’s fantastic game about World War I, with its own distinct visual style and powerful narration and music. Now, what if we take this visual style, and substitute it for Minecraft? Surprisingly, it works. Kinda. Done by Minecraft machinima group PowerTnTAllOver, the trailer remake uses custom skins,…
By András Neltz Published July 22, 2014 -
Who wants to mainline and/or liveblog this
This is the closest I’m going to get to binge-watching the entirety of The Simpsons once it finds its way onto Netflix (unlikely) OR I dig up all my old DVD collections from my mother’s storage unit (also unlikely):
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 22, 2014 -
Imagining Bioshock As A PS1 Game
NeoGAF has an entire thread dedicated to imagining more recent games as titles for the original Playstation. The highlight is these animated gifs for Bioshock: Via Wario64 You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published July 21, 2014 -
By Luke Plunkett Published July 21, 2014 -
Multi-Screen Gaming On A Laptop? Crazy, But Sure, Let’s Roll With It
Matt Relf has found a smart way to turn a small laptop into the kind of multi-screen setup you normally only see on a verge large desk with a very important desktop computer. He’s running a Kickstarter called Packed Pixels, which uses a mount to attach either one or two iPad-sized displays to the side…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 21, 2014 -
It’s Destiny, Running In 1080p, On The Xbox One
We’ve seen what Destiny looks like on PS3, and PS4, but what about Xbox One? Well. It’s complicated. The Xbox One beta for the game is not going to run in full, 1080p HD (it’ll be around 900p). But the final game will. Below is footage of the game running in said 1080p. Which you…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 21, 2014 -
There Appears To Be A Female Assassin In The Newest AC: Unity Video [Update: Alt Theory: She’s A Templar?]
We can’t tell who she is, and it’s unlikely that she’s playable. But it nevertheless looks like Assassin’s Creed: Unity, like earlier games in the series, will have female assassins. No comment from Ubisoft. The lady appears briefly at around the 7:24 mark of a new making-of video posted today by gaming site IGN Unity,…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2014 -
Xbox Sends Tweet That Doesn’t Understand The Word “Exclusive”
Um, I don’t think anybody is saying that. In case you haven’t got there already, three of those games (Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed and Evolve) aren’t just going to be released on PS4, but PC as well.
By Luke Plunkett Published July 21, 2014 -
Up Close With Valve’s First, Unfinished Game
The inner workings of Valve are shrouded in mystery, particularly when it comes to game development. Consider the unfinished game that Valve was working on at the same time as the original Half-Life: Prospero ValveTime.net took the time to unpack everything we know about the long lost game. They get into the nitty gritty about…
By Chris Person Published July 21, 2014 -
Destiny’s Beta On The PS3 vs PS4
While the final release of Destiny might differ a bit from what everyone experiences and sees during the beta, we’ve already gotten a sense of how the different versions of the game will visually compare. Obviously, something on a last-gen console won’t look as hot as a current-gen console release—as you can see in this…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 21, 2014 -
Adam Jensen is not a tidy man
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 21, 2014 -
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Ruins Most Movies
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man has improved exactly one movie: Ghostbusters. If you added him to any other movie, he’d probably kill the vibe. That was the idea behind last night’s #AddAPuftRuinAMovie, anyway, which takes the existing idea of #AddAWordRuinAMovie and makes it a little bit more Ghostbusters-specific. I like the 2001 one best, I…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 21, 2014 -
Eleven Years Later, Modders Are Still Making The Original Halo Better
Halo: Combat Evolved released in fall 2003 for PC. Bungie has moved on—but the community keeps the game alive through mods. Take SPV3, for example. SPV3 is an ongoing mod that not only enhances the graphics of the original Halo, it also adds new weapons, new enemies, new vehicles, revised and extended levels/environments, and even…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 21, 2014
