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Saturday Deals: Homeworld Remastered CE, Titanfall, Final Fantasies
Hurry up and grab these deals so you can go back to sleep. We’ll update this regularly throughout the weekend. pre-order Homeworld Remastered Collector’s Edition Titanfall with Season Pass Bundle | $70 Humble Spring Sale Day 5 Gamefly Ubisoft Sale | Additional 20% off withMAY20OFF Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn [PS3, Physical] | $13…
By Shane Roberts Published May 10, 2014 -
The Return Of The Worst Pokémon Trainer Ever
After more than a year on standby, Dorkly recently returned to continuing saga of Rusty, the Pokémon trainer who kept a dozen Bidoofs in a single ball, killed Snorlax with a Toyota Camry and drowned his Zubat trying to teach it Surf. As Rusty enters a Ghost Pokémon tower, past mistakes return to haunt him.
By Mike Fahey Published May 10, 2014 -
The Saturday Morning Stream: Bound By Flame (All Done!)
In this week’s exciting episode of The Saturday Morning Stream, I play a challenging fantasy action-adventure game that just sort of showed up this week — Bound by Flame. I love it when a game sneaks up on me. It hardly ever happens in my line of work. When it does, it generally means one…
By Mike Fahey Published May 10, 2014 -
3D-Printed Banner Saga And Dishonored Character Sculptures
Ubin from The Banner Saga sculpted by James Cain and 3D-printed by i.materialise. See his other busts based on Dishonored (which you can download and print yourself) and The Banner Saga below: You can download the Dishonored files to print your own bust here You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to…
By John Struan Published May 10, 2014 -
The Best of Kotaku, The Week of May 5
I don’t know about you guys, but I sure am grateful that this week is over. So let’s celebrate by reading all our best content right here. And if you want a t-shirt of the above Atari dig commemoration by pacalin found on Gamefreaks, here you go To contact the author of this post, write…
By Tina Amini Published May 10, 2014 -
Video Game E.T. Paper Toy
To celebrate the discovery of the buried Atari E.T. video game cartridges, Tubbypaws made this paper toy based on E.T.’s look in the game: You can download the E.T. paper toy here. Also, available: Doge Via GI You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs…
By John Struan Published May 9, 2014 -
276-Hit Combo In Street Fighter IV
Above is the culmination of a 276-hit, 1076-damage combo in Street Fighter. Watch video of the combo below: Chun Li’s infinites are a perfect place to start but there’s one major problem. As they only work against crouching characters, after the opponent is stunned (and they reset into standing) you won’t be able to use…
By John Struan Published May 9, 2014 -
New Super Time Force Trailer Shows Off Slow Motion
The latest Super Time Force trailer lets you savor the flying cars, giant mechs, and dinosaurs in slow motion: Super Time Force is frantic hyper-action videogame filled with total mayhem, total madness and total non-stop shooty-shooty-bam-bam destruction, but it’s also a game with super sweet, soothing, perhaps even quite sublime moments of slow motion. Every…
By John Struan Published May 9, 2014 -
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends, racing through super high-res backdrops! These beautiful screenshots come to us from Duncan Harris at Dead End Thrills, who’s been using a debug build of Sonic & Allstars Racing Transformed provided by developer Sumo Interactive to grab some beautiful high-res images. Enjoy:…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 9, 2014 -
Wind Waker Link Joins The Assassin’s Creed Universe
I commissioned M.S. Corley to illustrate Wind Waker Link as an Assassin’s Creed IV-style pirate as a gift for fellow Kotaku-writer Luke Plunkett. He created this illustration, and also a color version suitable for use as a desktop wallpaper: Check out more of Corley’s art at his site. He also has several Dungeons and Dragons…
By John Struan Published May 9, 2014 -
A Fan Vastly Improved Wasteland 2’s Dialog Screen
Above is the dialog screen the Wasteland 2 developers created. They sought feedback in the game forum, and a fan helped them vastly improve the design: One of our fans by the name of Alex ‘Olovski’ Drożyner saw this UI and responded by offering some mock-ups of his own, improving and tweaking our work. We…
By John Struan Published May 9, 2014 -
PS4 Shooters Are Getting Pretty Weird
Sony has long had a gaping, Killzone-sized hole in its roster of PlayStation exclusive titles. This has left it shuffling behind arch-rival Microsoft, a company that’s always seemed to have a finger of the dudebro’s pulse when it comes to figuring out what people want from their shooters: Halo, Gears of War, Titanfall. If a…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 9, 2014 -
Granola Bars Have Become Anime As Heck
Oh, Twitter. You can be so silly sometimes. Take what’s recently happened with the Nature Valley Twitter account, for example. Back in April, someone made a joke about Nature Valley granola bars—and Nature Valley’s community manager Jess Wangsness responded: Later, Nature Valley tweeted this: And boy, did people start flooding them with anime granola tweets.…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 9, 2014 -
Please Don’t Ask Repairmen To Fix Your Mario Kart
Poor guy. All he wanted was to provide a service: fixing go-karts. Instead, a jerk repeatedly responded with Mario Kart jokes. textastrophe, a blog that pranks people who post phone numbers online, came across the following Craigslist ad: This is the exchange that followed: Aww. Makes me laugh and kind of wish that this is…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 9, 2014 -
Final Fantasy III Is Coming To PC
Over the past couple years, Square Enix has brought Final Fantasy VII and then Final Fantasy VIII to personal computers via Steam. Naturally, their next step is Final Fantasy III. There’s no release date for the game yet, but there’s a Steam listing up now. This looks like a port of the PSP version, optimized…
By Jason Schreier Published May 9, 2014 -
Nintendo Apologizes For Not Putting Gay Marriage In Tomodachi Life
Following widespread controversy earlier this week, Nintendo has apologized for not supporting gay marriage in Tomodachi Life, promising that if they do make a sequel, it will be “more inclusive.” Here’s Nintendo’s full statement, posted on their websitethis afternoon: We apologize for disappointing many people by failing to include same-sex relationships in Tomodachi Life. Unfortunately,…
By Jason Schreier Published May 9, 2014 -
A Horror Game You Have To Face As A Two-Year-Old
YouTuber Jackfrags usually posts videos about Battlefield 4, but he took a break from that to play through Among The Sleep, an upcoming horror game where you play a toddler looking for his mother. The game is coming to PC, Mac and Linux. If you’re curious what it’s like to be a toddler in a…
By Steve Marinconz Published May 9, 2014 -
They Took An Oculus Rift On A Real Roller Coaster For Some Reason
You may be asking yourself, why would anyone strap on an Oculus Rift while riding an actual roller coaster—why not just enjoy the experience of riding the roller coaster? Good question. And yet these guys snuck an Oculus Rift on a a real ride anyway. Edmond O’Driscoll and Jonathan Forder concealed the device under their…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 9, 2014