Kotaku: Graffiti

Float Like a Fireball, Sting Like a Dragon Punch

Pierre Bienaimé — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:30:00 EST

Take a look at this awesome graffiti found in the streets of Paris. A down and out Ryu from Street Fighter is added to that empowering image of Muhammad Ali's quickly-won 1965 heavyweight championship rematch against Sonny Liston, which these days you may see more often on the walls of college students than of boxing aficionados. More »

From Blank Wall to Guts Tank Epic in Seven-and-a-Half Minutes

Mike Fahey — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:20:00 EDT

A building in Dallas, Texas gets a Mega Man-flavored makeover courtesy of graffiti artist Kid NES and the fine folks at Oink, the official distributor of Sabotaz brand paint products. More »

I'd Like to Meet You in a Graffiti-Covered Alley

Owen Good — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:00:00 EDT

Vault Boy, from a Fallout perk icon, graces Central Square, Cambridge, Mass., right between Harvard and M.I.T. Image submitted by Gus Wezerek. More »

Cup-Art Bandit Strikes Again With Metroid

Owen Good — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EDT

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Last month's Mega Man mosaic of painted cups in a chain-link fence has a sequel, and an artist claiming responsibility for the acts of awesomeness. More »

Mega Man's Cups Runneth Over

Owen Good — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:30:00 EDT

Cup-in-the-fence tribute to Mega Man, on a bridge straddling an overpass, parts unknown. The makers (not the photographer), spray-painted the cups to make the mosaic. More detailed shots can be seen here. More »

It's Dangerous To Go Alone (In This Neighborhood)

Owen Good — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:20:00 EDT

Link battles graffiti in an unidentified urban landscape. Seen via Twitter by reader Corey S. More »

Portland Bicyclists Get A Boost From Mario Kart

Owen Good — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:00:00 EDT

Portland is a serious bicycling community. But not so serious that it can't have some fun with its bike lanes. Some wag painted a whole bunch of Mario Kart items along a stretch of North Williams Avenue in the city. More »

A Big Burner, And I Don't Mean The Cigar

Owen Good — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:00:00 EDT

Graffiti in London promoting Meeting Of Styles 2010, an annual graffiti artists' get-together happening Aug. 21. As seen on World Graffiti Urban Art via Hot Blooded Gaming. More »

Grand Theft Auto Blamed For Failed Teen Firebombing

Mike Fahey — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:20:00 EDT

"They appear to have crossed the line from virtual reality to reality," said Police Chief Lou Pachec of the two teens who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at an apartment building in Raynham, Massachusetts over the weekend. More »

Big Mega Man on Campus

Owen Good — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:30:00 EDT

Bricks become pixels in this sidewalk art Mega Man, spied by reader Amanda B. near the Belk Tower on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. More »

That Must Be One Big Ass Update

Owen Good — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:30:00 EST

Graffiti in a Berkeley, Calif. restaurant, as seen on Boing Boing. More »

Crackdown 2 Dev Wants Your Graffiti

AJ Glasser — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:30:00 EST

Developer Ruffian Games is calling for user-made "awesome" graffiti to include in their upcoming game, Crackdown 2, because they're too lazy to make it themselves. More »

Ximending Controller Bench

Maggie Greene — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:30:15 EDT

Snapped by my friend Kat W. as we wandered around Ximending - one of Taipei's painfully hip and trending shopping areas, as well as a great place to nose around for video game related stuff, but that usually happens in stores, not on benches. More »

Giant Nintendo Flickr Graffiti Set

Kim Phu — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:40:00 EDT

Way back in May we posted a mysterious picture of a prickly 8-bit snapsot in Oslo, Norway of all places. Well, today the mystery isn't totally solved, but we do have a 70 piece Flickr set showing all (probably) the Nintendo-themed creations. Flickr member TheFunkyHorror has put a description for these photos saying "This set contains pictures of my own Nintendo-based street-art". Not only are they super cute, but there's also one picture in the set that y'all better recognize. I added that one as a favorite. Kim Phu More »

Warriors Graffiti Invades NYC

fdemarco — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:00:00 EST

Rockstar Games seems to be pulling out all the stops for their new advertising campaign for The Warriors on PSP. Andrew Yoon at PSP Fanboy found this bit of Warriors graffiti applied to the sidewalk near his home in New York City. Certainly using graffiti to promote a game is nothing new, Epic Games did it for Gears of War and Sony got in hot water for their vandalistic (yes I just made that word up) promotion of the PSP. But, is this really a good way to sell a game or system? It certainly puts the name out there, but are you really going to go out and buy a game just because you saw it's logo spray painted on the side of the local Moose Lodge? Flynn De Marco More »

Bubble Bobble Street Art Makes Worlds Less Brown

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:20:28 EST

It's the perfect cure for video games that are just too damned brown! Throw a little mashup of Bub and Bob on the outside of an historic bear garden and bring wacky colorful fun to passersby. That kind of fun is on par with packs of hunting dogs being maimed by chained, wild bears. And vice versa! More »

Link Graffiti

Brian Crecente — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:00:48 EST

Check out this graffiti of Zelda's pixelated main-squeeze from Melbourne, Australia. Why doesn't Denver get anything cool like this? Brian Crecente More »

Mass Ave. Mega Man!

kotaku.com — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:00:22 EDT

I think this is my favorite bit of gamer themed street art we've ever posted. I like to think that this is less deliberate art than a miraculous coincidence — the sole remaining piece of a Byzantine mosaic's millennia-spanning decay. The rusted pipes give it an air of almost Turkish squalor. More »

Melbournian Zelda Graffiti

kotaku.com — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:40:35 EDT

The Amazing Mr. Pee — a Wildeian wit — sent us this shot of some graffiti in Melbourne, New Zealand. That's not just any Link you're seeing there: that's Link from The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap! More »

Montreal Home to Brixel Couture Graffiti Artist

egauger — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:20:02 EDT

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A Bit o' Backstory on the Pac Man Graffito

egauger — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:40:49 EDT

Olskoolninja answered my query for information regarding the Jay, Florida Pac Man graffiti, but his evocative reminisces serve only to deepen by curiosity. What do nudists, hurricane victims and the KKK have to do with Pac Man scrawlings? More »

Only Pacman Remains

egauger — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:20:23 EDT

In the fine Kotaku tradition of game-flavored graffiti, here's a spooky scrawl from the nearly-ghost town of Jay, Florida. If any Floridian Kotaku Scouts live nearby, perhaps they can enlighten me as to the significance of this work, if any. More »

Super Mushrooms Popping Up Everywhere

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:14:37 EDT

Hey guys, maybe this whole mushroom tagging thing is getting a little played out. Today alone we got tipped off about two separate power up mushrooms adorning very public areas. Are there that many rabid Super Mario Bros. fans out there, looking to make their mark on the world? Is Nintendo now in the business of hiring street artists worldwide to shill copies of New Super Mario Bros.? More »

Yoshi Eggs Cluttering Up Pittsburgh

egauger — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:40:23 EDT

Hot tipper Kirby wrote in to show us the pics he's been taking of Yoshi egg graffiti that has been materializing all over his territory: More »

Mario Mushroom in Be'er-Sheva

brownlee — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:40:12 EDT

Writes Kotakuite Yosubis: More »

Mario Graffiti Tags Sacramento

brownlee — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:40:13 EDT

Like Mickey Mouse, Mario looks better with no vitreous humor... just pupils hovering over his face like shoebutton eyes. And nothing points out what an attractive design it is like rust-on-black relief. More »

N.Y. Councilman Wants Sony to Pay for Graffiti

lsmith — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:40:22 EST

The PSP graffiti campaign hasn't been in the news much lately, but Queens Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. wants Sony to clean up the scribblings and then donate $20k to an anti-graffiti group, according to United Press International. A Sony spokeswoman defended the graffiti on the grounds that the drawings appeared in areas where public advertising is considered "normal," and asserted that Sony was simply "using the space differently." Will other communities and cities demand similar action from Sony? More »

WoW Graffiti Spotted in LAX Bathroom

Brian Crecente — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:00:50 EST

A friend of mine was traveling through the lovely shit hole that is Los Angeles International Airport when he was forced to make a stop in one of their scenic bathrooms in the American Airlines terminal. Much to his surprise he discovered some World of Warcraft-related grafitti scrawled on the side of one of the stalls. Being a braver man than I, said friend whipped out a camera and snagged a pic. The text reads: More »

Pissed Off Residents Paint Over PSP Ads

kourosh — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:14:07 EST

Man, Sony just can't take a clue that using graffiti isn't the best idea to reach an "urban" market. This article might slap the clue club upside the marketing people's heads. It says, neighbors in three neighborhoods around Philadelphia have painted over the ads in anger. A city manager even says the ads are "illegal" in that Sony didn't get the proper permissions. "They are disrespectful of the neighborhoods where Sony thought it could get away with this conduct." More »

Sony Polls Gamers on PSP Graffitti

Brian Crecente — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:00:09 EST

Not only has Sony fessed up to paying people to do PSP graffiti, they're asking around now to see if it was a good idea. Good idea? You're kidding right? More »

Nintendo Turns to Graffiti Art

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:22:50 EST

Don't roll yer eyes just yet, but Nintendo of Canada has roped in the world-renowned C.O.D. graffiti crew to produce a limited edition line of DS handhelds. The C.O.D. collective consists of New York-based artists who grew up painting subway trains. The limited edition prints they've created reflect the look and feel of 1980's arcade games. Irritating PSP building tags, this ain't. More »

Counter-Paint: Striking Back at Sony's Viral Graffiti

lsmith — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:40:26 EST

The PSP graffiti that Sony wasn't talking about earned mention at Wired. Finally, something more than just idle bitching, Wired snapped pics (see image) of people tagging over Sony's desperate, stupid marketing ploy. Sony finally loosened its lips on the whole fiasco, opening up a little bit to Wired. Spokeswoman Molly Smith offered the following: "With PSP being a portable product, our target is what we consider to be urban nomads, people who are on the go constantly." More »