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Massive Crowds Gather To Watch Dragon Ball Super Together
Over the weekend, anime fans in Latin America gathered to watch Dragon Ball Super’s 130th episode streamed in stadiums, plazas and parks. The Dragon Ball Super TV anime will come to an end for the time being. However, a Dragon Ball Super movie will hit theaters later this year in Japan. Toei Animation sent out…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2018 -
Girl Shot In The Head By Her Brother During Argument Over Video Game Controller [Update]
A 13 year-old girl from Monroe County, Mississippi has been shot in the head by her 9 year-old brother during an argument over an unspecified video game controller. The Associated Press reports that the incident took place on Saturday, when the girl “wouldn’t give up the video game controller when her brother wanted it.” It’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2018 -
Suspected Drug Dealers Arrested Hiding Cocaine, LSD Inside Fake Nintendo Cartridges
Four people were arrested in The Netherlands last week after a police raid on a premises that had been using 3D printers to create fake Nintendo cartridges, inside which were hidden a variety of drugs like LSD, cocaine and MDMA. As De Telegraaf report, Dutch police raided a dark web drug dealing setup last year…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2018 -
Historians Discuss The Real-World Inspirations For The New Colossus
2017’s Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is a game that trades on the grand spectacle of alternate history. Like Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle or Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt, it asks us to consider a bombastic “what if” that is, nonetheless, grounded in some kind of…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published March 18, 2018 -
Watch Us Play Video Games All Day
Today from 10am to 6pm Pacific (1pm-9pm Eastern), Kirk and I will be streaming video games. We’ll be speedrunning Super Mario World, killing bosses in Mega Man X, and trying to figure out if Red Dead Redemption is a good enough real-life version of Westworld You can watch it all on our Twitch channel right…
By Jason Schreier Published March 18, 2018 -
A Malaysian City Recreated In Cities: Skylines
I love a good Cities: Skylines build, and this cinematic flythrough of a recreation of the Federal Territory of Putrajaya in Malaysia is something special to see. There’s real care taken by the creator, Gilbert Plays, to make something that models the feeling of an actual city. While I’m no expert on Putrajaya (and so…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published March 17, 2018 -
Finally, A Tool For Figuring Out How To Jump In Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons has some complex rules, and a studious fan has created a tool to help you figure out exactly how jumping works. There are a few things in 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons that are tough for a Dungeon Master to handle. Last night, for example, I had to figure out the a…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published March 17, 2018 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Amiibo Gold Rush, Winners!
The triumphant return of the ‘Shop Contest brought many entries, but the capricious soul of victory chooses the best of the best! Thanks to everyone who spent the last week making images of amiibos. I don’t own any of those fun little toys, but I would be more likely to buy them if they were…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published March 17, 2018 -
The Creatures of Dark Souls Look Silly While Falling
Players digging through the animation files of Dark Souls have found some very funny falling animations for creatures that rarely fall in the game. A user named DarkSoulsJunk has posted an album of gifs made from some little-seen fall animations from Dark Souls enemies. They are, in a word, hilarious. There’s something fulfilling about seeing…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published March 17, 2018 -
Fans Discover Game-Changing Typo In Civilization VI‘s Code
Religion has been a powerful motivating force throughout human history, but some Civilization VI AIs are a little too into religion, at the expense of, well, pretty much everything else. It’s a real bug, and it’s all because of a typo. Earlier this week, a Something Awful thread pointed to a bizarre irregularity in Civilization…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 16, 2018 -
Sonic Mania is getting an updated version called Sonic Mania Plus on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC this summer. It’ll include an Encore Mode which changes up some of the levels, two new playable characters, Mighty and Ray, and a four-player competitive mode. A physical version will also be available.
By Ethan Gach Published March 16, 2018 -
Britain Is The Latest Country To Ban A Sexy Dungeon Crawler
The roguelike dungeon crawler Omega Labyrinth Z is coming to the West sometime this year on PlayStation 4 and Vita—but not in the United Kingdom., nor in a handful of other countries that have banned it. According to the BBC, the U.K. has added its name to a list of countries that have refused to…
By Ethan Gach Published March 16, 2018 -
Ghost Of A Tale Is This Year’s Second Really Good Game About A Mouse
It’s been an outstanding couple of months for mouse-based video games. In February we gotPlayStation VR adventure Moss, and now we have the PC release of Ghost of a Tale, an action RPG about a mouse bard slinking through a dangerous fantasy world in order to save his true love. It looked outstanding in 2016.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2018
