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20 Mar 17:59

They Built An Actual Gundam in Kerbal Space Program

by Gergo Vas
Dsider

This game is crazy.

They Built An Actual Gundam in Kerbal Space Program

For most of us, it's hard to even get into orbit in the space flight sim Kerbal Space Program. Clownbaby244's Gundam can fly, it has retractable wings and it lands on its feet. So it's not just a cool-looking mech, but a cool-looking mech whose creator got the physics right.

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20 Mar 17:11

Replicas Of Classic Controllers, Available Now For Your "PC" Gaming

by Luke Plunkett
Dsider

OMG, need 4 n64 and 4 cube ones ASAP. Or, closer to the holidays I guess. But this is seriously fantastic news.

Replicas Of Classic Controllers, Available Now For Your "PC" Gaming

Let's say you, um, found some way of playing old console games on your PC. You cold use a keyboard, or a 360 pad, but that's lacking in authenticity. No, if you're playing a classic console game, you need a classic console controller.

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20 Mar 14:58

Ever Wonder Why Japanese Trains Aren't Late? Here's Why.

by Brian Ashcraft

Ever Wonder Why Japanese Trains Aren't Late? Here's Why.

Trains in Japan are incredibly punctual. Being on time is counted down to the microseconds. And unless there's an accident, Japanese trains simply are not late.

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20 Mar 13:51

I Want a Giant Cat To Carry Me To Work, Too

by Brian Ashcraft

I Want a Giant Cat To Carry Me To Work, Too

Morning commutes in big Japanese cities are notoriously awful. If only people had giant cats to keep them company!

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19 Mar 18:08

Crimea's Attorney General Spawns Anime Fan Art

by Brian Ashcraft
Dsider

...wut

Crimea's Attorney General Spawns Anime Fan Art

With all the turmoil in Crimea, a press conference clip of the new Prosecutor of the Crimean republic, Natalia Poklonskaya, went viral in Japan, spawning anime-style fan art.

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19 Mar 17:13

EA Is Again A Contender For 'Worst Company In America'

by Jason Schreier
Dsider

Oh man, it's time to get all stupid up in here again

EA Is Again A Contender For 'Worst Company In America'

Can EA take the title three years in a row? The Consumerist's Worst Company In America bracket is live once again, and again the video game publisher Electronic Arts is a contender.

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19 Mar 17:07

Let's Roll One Up For The 10th Anniversary Of Katamari Damacy

by Mike Fahey
Dsider

"We are moved to tears by the size of this thing."

Let's Roll One Up For The 10th Anniversary Of Katamari Damacy

One of the happiest gaming days of my life was the first time I played Katamari Damacy for the PlayStation 2.

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19 Mar 17:07

PS4 Gets A Virtual Reality Headset

by Luke Plunkett
Dsider

I'm too tired to make the usual jokes, you figure it out

PS4 Gets A Virtual Reality Headset

Sony has just announced that virtual reality is coming to the PS4. It's called Project Morpheus.

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19 Mar 17:04

Wait, Are Frozen, Tangled and The Little Mermaid All Connected?

by Patricia Hernandez
Dsider

o_O

Wait, Are Frozen, Tangled and The Little Mermaid All Connected?

Pixar films aren't the only movies with amazing fan-theories, you know. Disney movie fans have come up with some rather out-there theories about Disney films, too.

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19 Mar 17:02

Minecraft Looks Better Than Ever

by Steve Marinconz
Dsider

fffffffffffffffff

Minecraft Looks Better Than Ever

"Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders" is probably the most aptly-named mod I've ever seen.

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19 Mar 17:01

Guy Scammed Online Gets Revenge By Texting Entire Shakespeare Plays

by Luke Plunkett
Dsider

kind of amazing

Guy Scammed Online Gets Revenge By Texting Entire Shakespeare Plays

Edd Joseph bought a PS3 online from some stranger, and guess what, despite paying for it, the PS3 never arrived. Edd could have just sulked and got on with his life, but no. Edd got revenge. And Edd's revenge was sweet.

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19 Mar 16:57

LEGO Robot Breaks Rubik's Cube World Record, Looks Badass Doing It

by Luke Plunkett

LEGO Robot Breaks Rubik's Cube World Record, Looks Badass Doing It

This fancy machine just broke the world record for solving a Rubik's cube. While pathetic humans can take minutes to get the job done, the CUBESTORMER 3 takes just 3.25 seconds.

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19 Mar 16:16

It's The Portal of Mirror's Edge-Style Parkour Games

by András Neltz
Dsider

sick

It's The Portal of Mirror's Edge-Style Parkour Games

With a touch of Minecraft to boot—but only if you squint.

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19 Mar 16:15

NES Classics, Turned Into Digital Origami

by Gergo Vas
Dsider

That Metroid one, oh man

NES Classics, Turned Into Digital Origami

Digital artist Steph Caskenette picked a couple of iconic NES moments from games like the Castlevania, Contra or Metroid, and made them look like it's all curved paper.

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19 Mar 15:38

PS4 Video Sharing Is Getting Some Big Improvements

by Evan Narcisse

PS4 Video Sharing Is Getting Some Big Improvements

The mega-success of Twitch. The popularity of top Let's Play video creators. Sharing your video game experiences has become an increasingly important part of how folks talk about the stuff they love and hate. So, it was a bit of downer when Sony launched the PS4 with recording and sharing options that presented owners with hurdles and a walled garden. That's going to change with the console's next update. That's right: you'll be able to turn off HDCP and upload footage wherever you want.

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18 Mar 17:00

SimCity Finally Gets An Offline Mode Today

by Jason Schreier
Dsider

Today's kind of a hilarious day.

SimCity Finally Gets An Offline Mode Today

One year later, SimCity will finally be playable without an Internet connection—a new update, live today, adds an offline single-player mode to the controversial city-building game.

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18 Mar 15:59

The Challenge of Leaving Castlevania (and Konami) Behind

by Brian Ashcraft
Dsider

Only ones I'll miss as much if not even more are the fantastic composer (Michiru Yamane) and the main series artist (Ayami Kojima), who made some of the best business cards I've ever seen.

The Challenge of Leaving Castlevania (and Konami) Behind

Koji Igarashi is 46 years old. Dubbed "Iga" by fans, he's best known for his work on the Castlevania series. Nearly half his life was spent making games at Konami. Yesterday, he announced he was leaving that company, and in an exclusive interview with Kotaku, he explains why.

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18 Mar 14:12

Watch Dogs Now Has A Scene Suggesting Sexual Violence

by Luke Plunkett
Dsider

............./facepalm

Watch Dogs Now Has A Scene Suggesting Sexual Violence

Watch Dogs' delay hasn't just meant months of bug squashing and fixes. The team also found the time to add some new content to the game, some of which has seen its rating bumped to adults-only in Australia.

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18 Mar 14:06

Ah, So This Is The Guy Who Made One Of Last Year's Best Jokes

by Luke Plunkett
Dsider

AKA the hero of the Spike VGAs.

Ah, So This Is The Guy Who Made One Of Last Year's Best Jokes

Tal Peleg is senior cinematics animator at Naughty Dog, where he worked on The Last Of Us. If you ever wondered where the wonderful Joel-does-the-Banderas animation came from, well, Tal's your man.

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18 Mar 13:35

The Best Way To Learn Dothraki Comes on VHS

by András Neltz

The Best Way To Learn Dothraki Comes on VHS

If you wanna raise your kids to be blood-hungry nomad horselords, you need to start early.

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18 Mar 13:26

Take a Virtual Tour of Cowboy Bebop's Iconic Ship

by Richard Eisenbeis
Dsider

Man, I've never even heard of this game. But I guess that shouldn't be surprising. Good job guy!

Ever wanted to explore the ship where Spike, Faye, Jet, Ed, and Ein spend their downtime?

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18 Mar 13:22

The Diablo III auction house is gone.

by Gergo Vas
Dsider

Might just be a game worth playing now if I still had people to play it with.

The Diablo III auction house is gone. Just as promised back in September , as preparation for Reaper of Souls, Blizzard removed one of the most hated features of the game.

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18 Mar 13:01

Japanese Star Wars Book Covers are Awesome

by Richard Eisenbeis

Japanese Star Wars Book Covers are Awesome

I love me some Star Wars—so much so that I have read every single post-A New Hope book that has come out (and more than a few of the comics, too). A lot of the novels have come out in Japan as well, but with one major improvement: the awesome covers.

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17 Mar 20:22

How The Turn-Based Angry Birds RPG Works

by Mike Fahey
Dsider

wut

How The Turn-Based Angry Birds RPG Works

Last week's oddest announcement , Angry Birds Epic has now soft launched in Australia and Canada, giving players pretending to be in those countries a chance to find out just what the hell is going on. Let's take a look.

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17 Mar 20:21

Arcade Classic Gauntlet Is Getting A Remake

by András Neltz
Dsider

I'd say we should play this, but if you can still accidentally shoot the food and destroy it or something, I'm out.

First released in 1985, Gauntlet was a genre-defining arcade dungeon crawler. Now, it's being re-released for PC, in the form of a top-down co-op action RPG, all prettied up and modernized for a new audience.

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17 Mar 20:17

Beloved Castlevania Producer Koji Igarashi Leaves Konami

by Brian Ashcraft
Dsider

Well that's it, close up shop. No more Castlevania.

Beloved Castlevania Producer Koji Igarashi Leaves Konami

Koji Igarashi, a veteran game producer best known for his work on the Castlevania series, has left Konami. His last day at the Tokyo-based game company was March 15.

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17 Mar 19:58

Japan Is Bringing Pikachu And Pals To The 2014 World Cup

by Mike Fahey

Japan Is Bringing Pikachu And Pals To The 2014 World Cup

Pikachu and ten other Pokemon are Japan's official mascots the 2014 World Cup in Rio. I bet Domo and Hello Kitty are kicking themselves right now.

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17 Mar 16:06

Trolling This Dating Service Should Be Cruel, But It's Great

by Luke Plunkett
Dsider

Probably the only capacity in which I could effectively use a dating site.

Trolling This Dating Service Should Be Cruel, But It's Great

As Bart Simpson has shown, trolling people looking for love is usually a dick move. The trick, then, is to keep it short, keep it simple, and make it funny.

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17 Mar 15:48

Help A Man Build A 300-Foot Water Slide In The Middle Of A Road

by Luke Plunkett

Help A Man Build A 300-Foot Water Slide In The Middle Of A Road

Artist Luke Jerram wants to build a 300-foot-long slip-and-slide right down the middle of a street in Bristol, England. That is God's work you are doing, Luke.

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17 Mar 13:38

One Piece and Dragon Ball Destroy Tokyo Street

by Brian Ashcraft
Dsider

Did... did Luffy's arms suffer frostbite?

One Piece and Dragon Ball Destroy Tokyo Street

The front of department store Shibuya Parco in Tokyo is a mass of rubble! One Piece's Luffy threw a massive punch into the pavement. Just wait until Goku unleashes that kamehameha!

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