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With An 8-Inch Screen, This Is The Game Boy Advance XL We Never Got
It wasn’t until Nintendo had two screens to play with that they figured out we wouldn’t mind oversized portable gaming. Had they realized it earlier, they might have come up with modder John “Baccteria” Grayson’s BigBoy Advance. That’s right, the man who brought us the 18-console Project Unity has crafted a very large Game Boy…
By Mike Fahey Published July 9, 2014 -
Mother Brain Has Never Been So Intimidating
Behold this massive version of Mother Brain, the number one villain of the Metroid games. She’s been turned into a difficult puzzle and Samus is not around to solve things. A guy named Mallo is. What you’re seeing is actually a user-made level in Pushmo World, the new Wii U block—pushing game. The blue square…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 9, 2014 -
3D Print Your Own Official Evolve Toys
I wish they did this for God of Blades characters—you can download the files to print out your own Evolve hunters and monsters. When you first print them out, they look like this: But with a little love and care They’ll look like this: You can download the files and follow instructions for purchasing the…
By John Struan Published July 9, 2014 -
Sniper Elite 3 on Xbox One vs. PS4 vs. PC
Sniper Elite 3 seems like a perfect summer-doldrums game, a guilty pleasure that will keep you occupied while not much else is on the horizon. Wondering which platform should you get it for? You should watch these comparison videos first. There is a clear loser. One sequence from the stealthy WWII game gets captured on…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 9, 2014 -
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Ani-TAY Late To The Party Review: Gosick • Adventures In Blind Gaming 2: Hands Off The Mutants, Please • Game of The Week – Lockpicks And Sandwiches Of The Jill Variety • Back In The TAY: RoboCop Vs. The Terminator TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…
By András Neltz Published July 9, 2014 -
Pokémon As Colossal Beasts From Attack on Titan Are Unsettling
Attack on Titan eyes make everything a lot creepier. Beth Emery, an artist on DeviantART, drew a few mash-ups, and even the cutest Pokémon like Jigglypuff or Bulbasaur would look, well, unsettling with Titan features. That Colossal Titan and Cubone mashup is really great though! Attack on Titan Pokémon by zsparky [DeviantART, via TinyCartridge] To…
By Gergo Vas Published July 9, 2014 -
I Wish The Movie Turtles Looked More Like Build-A-Bear’s Turtles
Available today online and in-stores Friday, Build-A-Bear Workshop’s take on Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is going to cost me at least $140. Considering the alternatives, I think it’s worth it. As most stores begin filling up with these: It was such a wonderful relief to see these plush turtles show up in my Build-A-Bear…
By Mike Fahey Published July 9, 2014 -
One Of The Coolest Dungeons in World of Warcraft Is About to Change
It’s an established tradition that whenever a new World of Warcraft expansion comes out, some classic dungeons get a redesign. After Scholomance and The Scarlet Monastery it’s time for a new Upper Blackrock Spire (UBRS), an awesome old dungeon that—among other things—became famous for Leeeeeeeroy Jenkins Now that people have access to the beta and…
By Gergo Vas Published July 9, 2014 -
Original Cast Of Alien Joins Isolation… As Pre-Order DLC
Ellen Ripley and crew will join the upcoming sci-fi horror game Alien: Isolation when it comes out this fall… if you pre-order. Yep, we’ve reached a whole new low for pre-order DLC—not content just to offer costumes and maps as bonuses for pre-ordering Alien: Isolation, Sega is now offering two bonus missions that will feature…
By Jason Schreier Published July 9, 2014 -
Kirby? Krang? What The Hell Happened?
Krang’s home, Dimension X from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is apparently Kirby’s Dream Land, or at least that’s how artist Tohad imagines it. He’s been busy lately with badass mashups of video game characters and different regions of pop culture. Krang X Kirby is just shocking. But here’s Sonic and Donkey Kong with a bit…
By Gergo Vas Published July 9, 2014 -
Doodles Make Selfies Way Better
Washington D.C. resident Helene Meldahl has figured out a way to improve selfies: Add your kick-ass doodles. Using acrylic markers, Meldahl does charming illustrations on mirrors and windows, some of which can take around thirty minutes, and then inserts herself into the scene for a selfie. The resulting photos look terrific. Here are some of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2014 -
The Tracking Board reports that a Thief movie, based on the universe of the original Thief trilogy (ie. not this year’s reboot), is in the works. Vertigo, known for The Lego Movie, and Prime Universe, which produced 2007’s Hitman, are collaborating on the project. (via Kotaku UK)
By András Neltz Published July 9, 2014 -
The Most Violent Game Boy Game Isn’t On The Game Boy
“Adventurer Lenna sets out on a quest to hunt down the Archangel that killed her child-prodigy students.” Well, we’re off to a good start. Apart from child murder, Lenna’s Inception, a PC action-adventure game published by Starbound developer (and publisher) Chucklefish, features a top-down view with Game Boy-inspired graphics, procedurally generated locations, and “occasional gory…
By András Neltz Published July 9, 2014 -
Numenera Technology Compendium
The cover for The Technology Compendium: Sir Arthour’s Guide to the Numenera. The 150-page hardcover contains “400 new cyphers, 225 new artifacts, and 300 new oddities” and will be available in August for $40 or $15 for the ebook. Here’s a sample illustration from the book: Via the official site You are now looking at…
By John Struan Published July 9, 2014 -
Yay, One Of Pokémon’s Best Features Is Coming Back
One of the best things about Ruby and Sapphire was “secret bases”—a feature which let players decorate their own special space, ala Animal Crossing. Alas, secret bases aren’t in the newer games, X & Y-but they’ll be in the upcoming remakes, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. From the Pokemon website: Super-Secret Bases are an awesome…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 8, 2014 -
The Brazil-Germany Match, Explained Via Pokémon
If you’re having trouble understanding what happened in the World Cup today, then perhaps this highly scientific Pokémon image of Mega ‘mon versus baby Pokémon can break it down for you. Makes sense to me, at least. (Via Will Thompson)
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 8, 2014 -
The Sun Is Gone, So It’s Time To Make Friends
This is Ashen. It’s “an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home”. It looks awesome. Set in a world with no sun, which I first took to be Scotland (sorry Mark) but which is instead some kind of fictional wasteland, its developers say the main aim of the game…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2014
