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This big-ass arcade machine stands 11 feet tall. It would require quarters 3 1/2 inches in diameter. The trackball is 4 1/2 inches wide. The screen is 73 inches. The whole thing is about 2.2x bigger than a standard arcade machine. More »
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FAO Schwarz and giant pianos combined to provide a touching moment in the movie Big in 1988. Xbox 360's Kinect and modders combined to recreate that scene without a real piano more than 20 years later. More »
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The man. The myth. The legend. The corporate vice president of Xbox Live, John Schappert. Here's parts one and two of Leigh's interview with Schappert, where we ask the hard questions and get the answers you'd probably expect. More »
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It's time for more weird stuff from my personal collection. One of the things that has interested me, both in my research and my design work, is advertising games (three chapters of my recent book Persuasive Games are devoted to it). We may think that advertising in games is as new as the web, or dynamic in-game ads, but it goes back much further than that. More »
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While U.S. cities are pulling Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories ads from their public transportation systems, other countries seem to have no problem with it. In the U.K., where Bully was made to change its name and Rule of Rose's release was canceled due to media outcry, GTA is apparently A-OK. So ok, in fact, that instead of the regular on bus posters, they have decided to plaster the GTA:VCS ad on to the entire back of a bus. More »
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Here at Kotaku, we're size queens. Bigger means better. (Unless, it's small and cool.) So when we saw this giant PSP display promoting Tekken at a Korean bus stop, we swooned and fainted. This 15:1 scale, non-playable portable, was encased in class around the Han River area in Seoul. Hit the jump for a pic of the folks flocking to this bus stop. More of this please, Sony and less of the stupid! Brian Ashcraft More »
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