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04 Aug 16:59

Bungie Is Erasing Peter Dinklage From Destiny

by Jason Schreier

For a long time now, the world has laughed at Peter Dinklage’s voice acting in Destiny, a video game about the slow, inevitable progression of death. Soon, that voice acting is going to change. One might even say it’s going to become legend.

04 Aug 12:54

Mega64 Reenacts "Dragon Ball Z" Frieza Saga in Five Minutes

by news+feed@crunchyroll.com

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Well I guess I don't have to watch Kai now.

Need a refresher course on Frieza before Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' starts its North American theatrical run this week? DBZ's Frieza Saga takes up episodes 75-107 in the anime adaptation, but the folks at Mega64 have you covered with a sweded reenactment that condenses the arc into a more digestible five minutes.

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. His first mini-comic, SLIME, is now available. His blog can be found at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

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03 Aug 20:02

Red Ash Kickstarter Falls Short By $280K

by Jason Schreier

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Maybe don't make it look like you're taking your patrons for a ride next time. And yes, I mean that in the most negative MVC2 sense.

Thirty days after launching, one of the sloppiest professional campaigns in Kickstarter history has come to an end at $519,999, well short of its $800,000 goal.

03 Aug 17:14

Final Fantasy VII Will See 'Dramatic Changes,' and That's Good

by Phil Hornshaw

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I think we all have at least one or two things from the original that we could do without

Don’t expect the upcoming remake version of Final Fantasy VII to be exactly the same game you remember excitedly talking to your friends about over the school lunch table.

03 Aug 17:11

Summer Games Done Quick Raises More Than $1.2 Million for Charity

by Phil Hornshaw

The weeklong speedrun event Summer Games Done Quick has come to an end, inspiring the games community to give a whole lot of their money to Doctors Without Borders.

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03 Aug 17:00

Report: Konami Is Treating Its Staff Like Prisoners

by Brian Ashcraft

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It just gets worse and worse

According to a report on Nikkei, the corporate culture at Konami—home of Metal Gear, Silent Hill and Pro Evolution Soccer—hasn’t only soured over the past few years, but has become almost terrifyingly Orwellian.

03 Aug 16:37

The First Attack on Titan Movie Stinks

by Brian Ashcraft

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It's even shittier than I thought it would be!

Attack on Titan, of course, is a massively successful—and popular—manga and anime series. This live-action entry is the Japanese film industry’s latest attempt to parlay manga and anime into cinema. Parlay? Sorry, plunder would be more fitting here.

03 Aug 15:42

Vega Gets a Shirt in Street Fighter V

by Evan Narcisse

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Great, Vega gets a shirt but Cammy can't get some fucking pants. I actually like her moveset dammit, I'd like to not feel ashamed while using her.

A few weeks ago, Street Fighter’s Ken character got a new look. This time, it’s Vega’s turn. Goodbye, pectoral muscles. Hello, frilly pirate shirt.

30 Jul 18:40

Konami's New Initiative: Erotic Castlevania Pachinko

by Jason Schreier

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DAMMIT KONAMI

Once upon a time, there was a company called Konami that would release all sorts of delightful video games in all kinds of genres under big, beloved franchises with names like Suikoden, Contra, Gradius, Silent Hill, Castlevania, Metal Gear, and Zone of the Enders.

30 Jul 18:09

The Red Ash Kickstarter Is A Disaster

by Jason Schreier

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woooooooooooooooooooooow

In 2013, game producer Keiji Inafune earned gamers’ hearts worldwide by promising to bring back Mega Man in the form of Mighty No. 9. Two years later, he’s launched a sloppy, misleading new Kickstarter that threatens to squander all that goodwill.

30 Jul 17:47

Five Things You Should Know About The Five Nights at Freddy's Movie

by Patricia Hernandez

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"According to Kenan’s Instagram, the animatronics will be constructed at the Henson Creature Shop. Meaning: the movie will be full of practical effects."

oh my god

Yesterday, Deadline reported that Gil Kenan (Monster House, Poltergeist remake) was set to direct the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie. Since then, Kenan has been answering all sorts of questions on Twitter and Instagram—and these juicy details give us a better sense of what we can expect from the movie.

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30 Jul 16:32

RIP Microsoft Solitaire, 1990-2015

by Patricia Hernandez

A screenshot from the Windows 10 version of Solitaire, taken by my friend @Andrew_Cycle. He captions it: “Our dystopian society is even more nightmarish than any sci-fi author predicted.”

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30 Jul 16:32

Tri-Ace and Spike Chunsoft's New RPG Realizes a Decade-Old Dream

by Toshi Nakamura

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I'm interested, but as always, those joke proportions :|

You’re caught in an explosion, your fiancée, in her dying breath, tells you she can’t stand you, then you die and wake up in a strange land as the vessel for the soul of an evil god... How dandy.

29 Jul 12:48

LEGO Exoskeleton Is Like A Tiny Pacific Rim

by Luke Plunkett

Now if we can just scale it, we’ll be able to kick those Kaiju’s asses.

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29 Jul 12:47

Multiplayer Games Where It's Okay To Suck

by Mark Serrels

There’s a man in our office, let’s call him Danny. Because his name is actually Danny.

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29 Jul 12:24

The World's Most Powerful Laser Has Been Fired in Japan

by Jamie Condliffe on Gizmodo, shared by András Neltz to Kotaku

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In continuing with their poorly disguised real-life Gundam project

Take cover: scientists from Osaka University have begun using the world’s most powerful laser, that pumps out 2 quadrillion watts. That’s 2,000,000,000,000,000 watts.

29 Jul 12:23

One Piece Kabuki Is Really Happening

by Brian Ashcraft

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uh

Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates are getting a live-action version, but it might not be one you’d expect.

29 Jul 12:18

The Most Unusual Japanese Hamburger Buns Yet

by Brian Ashcraft

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NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

We’ve seen black buns , blue buns , and red buns . All bread buns! Screw that, let’s use tomatoes.

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28 Jul 16:24

These Videos Show All the Changes Ever Made to the Star Wars Trilogy

by Germain Lussier on io9, shared by Stephen Totilo to Kotaku

Even before George Lucas created his Special Editions, the filmmaker was tinkering with Star Wars. Case in point, if you saw the 1977 original in 1977, it didn’t have an “Episode” or even a title beyond “Star Wars.” That was added in 1981 and ever since then, the changes haven’t stopped.

28 Jul 12:56

Tri-Ace and Spike Chunsoft are teaming up for a new RPG called Exist Archive: The Other Side of the

by Brian Ashcraft

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hmmmmmmmmmmm

Tri-Ace and Spike Chunsoft are teaming up for a new RPG called Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky. The game is headed to the PS Vita and PS4 in Japan this year. No word yet on an international release.

28 Jul 12:51

The Desk Chair for Sleepy Workers

by Brian Ashcraft

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YES

Do you work hard? I know I do! Sometimes all that streneous effort makes me tired. I need to relax. I need a nap.

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22 Jul 12:46

What's Really Happening On Pluto

by Gergo Vas

This tiny spot on Pluto in one of NASA’s latest photos looks suspicious. Let’s take a closer look!

22 Jul 12:29

In The SPECTRE Trailer, All of Bond's Misery Is Christoph Waltz's Fault

by Katharine Trendacosta on io9, shared by András Neltz to Kotaku

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OMG Cristoph Waltz is the villain in this one!? YES PLZ

We’ve finally got a good look at SPECTRE, and there are all the usual Bond trappings — Q even presents 007 with a tricked-out car and hacking skills this time — but at the root of everything? Bond backstory.

22 Jul 12:18

Smash Bros. Creator Remembers Satoru Iwata

by Toshi Nakamura

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Just one more for the road, I'm done

“My mind went white and even now the reality hasn’t sunk in.” wrote Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai, recalling when he heard the news that Nintendo president Satoru Iwata had passed away .

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22 Jul 12:07

Square Enix Boss Thinks New Games Need Multiple Sequels for Success

by Toshi Nakamura

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/facepalm

Square Enix’s top bossman explains his theory of threes.

22 Jul 12:07

Japanese Twitter Users Go After ISIS with Anime Girls

by Brian Ashcraft

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Yeah sure it's stupid, but y'know, I can't argue with the rules they have in place.

If there’s one way to stand up to ISIS, I guess, it’s with memes.

22 Jul 08:55

A Good Reason To Celebrate The Virtual Boy's 20th Anniversary

by Mike Fahey

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Honest to god, I liked this console. The only things I didn't like were the forced stationary setting needed to play it in, and the HUGE battery amount needed to power it. I was never able to get the AC adapter for it.

Nintendo’s first foray into 3D gaming was released in Japan on July 21, 1995. On this, the Virtual Boy’s 20th birthday, let’s take a moment to appreciate all the joy it has brought gamers over the years. No really, I’m serious.

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22 Jul 07:17