Новости за 16.01.2016

I can’t stand Elmo, just can’t deal with this damn Muppet anymore. He’s cute, he’s shrill, and he has made Sesame Street worse.

At least the version of Superman in this comedy short from Gasm Media, who needs to work on his victim identification skills.

We’ve covered the anime car (or itasha) phenomenon in Japan previously on Jalopnik East, and at the time we mentioned that actual automakers were getting in on it. Well, Subaru partnered with famous anime studio Gainax (of Neon Genesis Evangelion) to produce an anime called Wish Upon the Pleiades (you know, Subaru = Pleiades). It had its own booth at TAS 2016.

Wildly popular Korean fantasy MMO Blade & Soul finally launches in North America and Europe this Tuesday. Check out the thrilling opening sequence players in the early head start are experiencing over and over right now.

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Add cel=shaded screenshots to the Australian rating, achievements and cover art for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants In Manhattan. The still unannounced game has leaked so much I’m beginning to suspect Activision is trying out a new viral marketing technique.

QUOTE | “We don’t want to dig too big a hole.” - Oculus VP of product Nate Mitchell, explaining why the company isn’t selling the Rift hardware below cost, at least for now.

Amir Hekmati, the former U.S. Marine and one-time game developer, has been freed from an Iranian prison after more than four years in captivity, according to an Iranian news report.

This weekend’s UFC fight has been four years in the making. Dominick Cruz pioneered a nigh-untouchable Matrix-like fighting style and dominated a whole division with it. Then he got injured. For years. While he was away, TJ Dillashaw claimed his belt with remarkably similar moves. Now, they’re finally gonna fight.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: The Futility of Being and Great Pop Culture References: A review of Punch Club • The Talos Principle Tackles an Unexplored Subject in Cyberpunk • Contradiction: Spot the Liar! - A Good Old-Fashioned Whodunit • The Game Dev Feels Blog: Week 5 - Crisis

The absurdly popular Xbox One early access game ARK Survival Evolved is supposed to be getting more than a hundred extra servers, according to a press release today. They’re not live yet, as the game’s several hundred servers remain stuffed.

Slime Rancher is a popular new Steam game where you adventure around, vacuum up smiley little slime creatures, plop them in a cage, and harvest their, um, poop. All the while, you try to stop them from growing miserable. It kills me to see them frown.

I didn’t do a “what are you playing?” post for January, so instead I’m going to do one for this coming weekend. Weekends are people, too!

A few days ago a bunch of members of the gaming press went and played Ubisoft’s upcoming tactical shooter/RPG Tom Clancy’s The Division. Let’s see what they thought of it.

Jezebel I Will Eat Chipotle Until It Fucking Kills Me | Gizmodo The Real Reason Chipotle Hasn’t Been Able to Solve Its E. Coli Problem | Gawker I Watched Michael Bay’s Benghazi Movie With 30,000 Pissed-Off Patriots | Jalopnik We Played Patty-Cake While The Tesla Drove Itself |

When Mario Maker launched, Nintendo warned players it could remove stages from the game for a variety of reasons, including ones that were merely unpopular. Nintendo has made good on that threat, but folks in the Mario Maker community are upset because it’s not really clear what “unpopular” means.