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See All of Ocarina of Time‘s Overworld Remapped in A Link to the Past‘s Style
Continuing today’s theme of “Superhuman Efforts that Deserve a Standing Ovation,” we now turn our attention to The Legend of Zelda. MaJoRa, a member of the Zelda Fan Game Central community, has rendered all of the overworld from Ocarina of Time in the 2D style of A Link to the Past This is a project…
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Watch All of the Uncharted Trilogy—Edited into Feature-Length Films
You know how, on Sunday afternoons, a great adventure flick you’ve seen a dozen times comes on the TV at random and you spend the next hour watching it? Well, here are three great adventure flicks, courtesy of Reddit user morphinapg. It’s the Uncharted series, joined by “the minimum gameplay needed to connect the cinematics…
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Patently Ridiculous
Some putative game designs—I think, who really knows—from the delightful Tumblr Context-Free Patent Art provide the grist for this weekend’s Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. I’m especially interested to see how you can make, as one commenter called it, “Hot Tub Whackashark” more awesome than it already looks. You’ve got four images here, Hot Tub Whackashark (thanks,…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Mike Haggar’s got some competition for the mayor of Metro City, thanks to Angryrider. Good morning and welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves. [Update:] Uh, whoops. That was last week’s pic you first saw. Heh heh … (stares at floor) … Feel free to discuss anything on the subject of video games in our comments…
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PAX Ejection: The Winners
A trio of cosplayers, two of whom were either ejected or threatened with it at PAX East two weeks ago, provided the grist for our latest ‘Shop Contest challenge. Whose boobs are bigger—B.A. Baracus or Juliet Starling? Doesn’t matter, we’ve got Pan1da7 down as the winner inside! Angryrider (1) gets us going with the best…
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Will We Have Any Baseball Video Game on the Xbox 360 Next Year?
Though I wish I could say I was smart enough to think up this ruse in advance, I really did forget my backpack somewhere inside EA Sports’ Tiburon studio during a recent visit. This became an opportunity to roam all of its upper four floors of development, though not unescorted. Madden has its own section,…
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The First Perfect Game in Two Years Doesn’t Hold Much Promise in MLB 2K12‘s Contest
The Chicago White Sox’ Philip Humber threw a perfect game against Seattle today. The matchup is available now in the MLB Today feature of MLB 2K12, which means it’s a qualifying game for the $1,000,000 Perfect Game challenge. One problem, though: It’s rated at 52 (of 100) in difficulty, so rushing right out to replicate…
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Mom Sues Facebook After Kid Racks Up In-Game Purchases
Out in California, a woman is suing Facebook because her teenage son bought the social network’s virtual currency to spend in video games, and that transaction should be illegal under the state’s consumer protection laws. Glynnis Bohannon, reports Gamasutra, is suing to have the purchases refunded to her, and for all other purchases of this…
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I Don’t Know if I Want to See The Avengers. But The Avengers (on a Budget)? Hell, Yes.
How the brilliant “On a Budget” trailer series by Table 8 Productions doesn’t have a million YouTube views is a mystery to me. Their latest get-together, “The Avengers (on a Budget),” is solid gold, showcasing all of the members of the comedy and filmmaking gang in superhero roles. Which is fitting, as they describe themselves…
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Sonic 4: Episode 2 Beta Accidentally Leaked to Steam Users
A user at The Sonic Stadium, a Sonic the Hedgehog community and forum, noticed that a beta version of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 was available to download through Steam earlier today. Though the leak has since been plugged its resulted in some additional screenshots of the game and early user impressions. Jumping feels…
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3DS Owners Getting Two AR Apps for Pokémon Black 2 & White 2
More news from last night’s Nintendo Direct announcement event: While Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 are DS games, playable via the 3DS’ backwards compatibility, there will be some apps released (in Japan, as of now) to enhance the 3DS experience. • Pokémon AR Searcher (pictured) is an AR shooting game Pokémon caught in this…
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Bullets and Booze, Bottles and Brass Litter Max Payne 3‘s Official TV Ad
Here’s the official Max Payne 3 promotional trailer, which premiered last night on ESPN during the Los Angeles Lakers-San Antonio Spurs game. I suppose I should have been watching that, but I was playing Trials: Evolution and swearing loudly. Where was I? Well, the slow motion and the trails following every. single. round are rather…
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Oh, Dear God, Please Let an Archer Pinball FX 2 Table Happen
Granted, this is only a bunch of dudes talking over Twitter, but these dudes are ones who work on Pinball FX 2 and Archer, and both seem to favor the idea of creating a virtual pinball table for the outrageously funny espionage spoof. Major caveat: “End of the day, it’s FX’s call though,” tweeted Neal…
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Proto-Typical Savings
If you’re looking to pick up Prototype 2 on Tuesday, there’s no need to pay full retail price. The Moneysaver has found a discount on it even before the game is released. That is, unless you really want the bio-butt bomb thingie you get with the GameStop preorder. Either way, the usual 60-plus discounts, deals…
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The Best Of Kotaku, This Week
This week’s beautiful image comes from one Noah Bradley, who submitted this Magic: The Gathering photoshop painting to Reddit recently. It’s an awesome rendition of the Kjeldoran Outpost. Bradley does awesome work, and offers his other prints for sale, if you’re interested. You can follow his work over on his Facebook page or Twitter, too.…
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Kirby Anthology Coming This Year for Wii, Says Nintendo
Not much more than a brief tease; as part of today’s “Nintendo Direct” news event in Japan, the company said “a special Wii disc featuring all your favorite Kirby games,” will be released this year, the character’s 20th anniversary.
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Animal Crossing 3DS Arrives This Fall in Japan
Inexplicably thin on details for a game announced two years ago in Los Angeles, Animal Crossing‘s 3DS version will release this fall in Japan, Nintendo said in tonight’s “Nintendo Direct” news event. That’s a gallery of new screenshots above. Here’s it’s video from E3 2011.
By Owen Good