Kotaku: Italy

Get a Load of These Awesome Painted Miniatures

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:00:00 EST

Over the weekend, the Monte San Savino show went down in Italy, bringing together some of the world's best miniature painters for a competition. More »

The World's Economy Needs Rescuing. Super Mario Is On the Case.

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:15:00 EST

Europe is in a mess right now, so much so that it threatens to drag the whole world down into another global financial crisis. Sounds like a job for...Super Mario? [News] More »

Deus Ex Hackers Hit With Lawsuit (and Here's how They Got the Game)

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:00:00 EDT

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A preview build of Deus Ex Human Revolution, containing a rough version of the early sections of the upcoming game, was leaked onto torrent sites in late May. More »

Tetris Tampons

Owen Good — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:30:00 EDT

Feminine hygiene display in an Italian drugstore. The box reads: "It takes more to say than to do," which idiomatically means, "It's more trouble to do it than to talk about it." Maybe the L-piece is pitching condoms and the squiggle's flacking laxatives. More »

Distracted Ten-Year-Old Games Himself Off A Railway Platform

Mike Fahey — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:20:00 EST

A ten-year-old boy in Italy is saved from possible death by a heroic off-duty policeman after walking off a railway platform while playing his PSP. This is why we do not walk and game at the same time. More »

European Lawmaker Gives Free Publicity To Wants Mafia II Banned

Owen Good — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:00:00 EST

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Italian-Americans wanted Mafia II banned because they said it portrayed offensive ethnic stereotypes. A European Parliament member wants it banned because it trivializes mob murders. I have a better strategy: STFU about banning bad games, and they'll eventually fade away. More »

Roman Politicians Allowed To Game During Meetings

Owen Good — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:30:00 EDT

Rome. The Eternal City. Its elected leaders are the inheritors of a millennia-old tradition forming the basis of modern municipal and state government. Yet where senators once debated inside the august walls of the Curia, now city councillors play video games. More »

Gran Turismo 5 Designer Responds To Italian Controversy

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:00:00 EDT

Officials from the Italian city of Siena are ticked that the city's Piazza del Campo is a track in Gran Turismo 5. There have been legal threats with Siena saying it'll seize the game. More »

Italian City Pissed At Gran Turismo 5

Owen Good — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:30:00 EDT

Officials of Siena, the historic walled city in Tuscany, Italy, are unhappy that their Piazza del Campo is a race course in Gran Turismo 5's new kart mode, and will demand that Sony remove it from the game. More »

Vote Kratos, Forza Italia!

Owen Good — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:40:00 EDT

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Elections are this weekend in Italy, where apparently a Greek is eligible to run for regional president. More »

Italian Teen Stabs Father Over FIFA 2009

Mike Fahey — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:40:00 EST

An Italian man giving video game advice to his son Sunday evening was repaid with a 15-inch kitchen knife to the neck. More »

Retailer Leaks Final Fantasy XIII Collector's Edition Contents?

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:30:00 EST

It would appear that GameStop's Italian portal has jumped the gun and revealed the contents of Final Fantasy XIII's hitherto-mysterious collector's edition. More »

European 'Dante' Edition Getting ... Dead Space's Isaac?

Owen Good — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:30:00 EST

Chalk this one up to weird. Visceral Games has announced a Europe-only "Death Edition" of Dante's Inferno that will include a Dead Space's Isaac Clarke's getup as a playable in-game costume. More »

Koei Tecmo Donates To Italian Earthquake Relief Effort

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:00:00 EDT

Earlier last month, a deadly earthquake rocked Italy's mountainous Abruzzo region, killing hundreds and leaving tens of thousands homeless. More »

Sauerkraut Pays its Tribute To The History Of Video Games

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:30:00 EDT

Yup. That's a bowl of sauerkraut. Which, thanks to the wonders of stop-motion animation, is able to walk us bitterly through the history of gaming, from Tetris to Prince of Persia to Pac-Man. More »

Video Game To Sponsor Pro Football Team

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:30:00 EST

Games companies sponsoring sporting teams is nothing new. Sega (Arsenal), Nintendo (Fiorentina) and Microsoft (Seattle Sounders) have all tried their hand at it. But a game sponsoring a football team, that’s new. More »

Just a quick heads up for our Italian readers....

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:00:00 EDT

Just a quick heads up for our Italian readers. (Hi Italian readers!) There's an upcoming event in Torino called VIEW Conference 2008. There will be speakers like Pixar's Brad Lewis (Maybe the site means Brad Bird?), Capcom's Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Devil May Cry 4), Will Wright of Will Wright fame, plus Pixar Director of Photography Sharon Calahan and Total Annihilation creator Chris Taylor. More details in the link below. More »

Dario Argento In Dead Space

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:00:00 EDT

Italian horror filmmaker Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red) is doing voice work for EA's scary sci-fi title Dead Space. According to EA, the director lent his horror know-how in actively creating character Doctor Kyne. Here's the catch: His voice work will only appear in the Italian version. That's good for those who understand Italian, but not so good for those who don't. Still, it's neat to see Argento lend his name to the project. Don't think we can master the Italian language in time for the October 14th shipdate. More »

Are The Kids Still Hot For Lara?

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:30:00 EST

Shhhh. It's Kotaku After Dark. Time to dim the lights, pull the door closed and look at these. This. These. This Italian minx is Silvia Shon, and Silvia likes Tomb Raider. That or she thinks a Tomb Raider-inspired calendar - with naughty bits - will still do good business on the internet. Could be both, but is probably the latter. This has absolutely nothing to do with SCi or Eidos, and is already two months late, so don't expect a marketing blitz. What you can expect are Lara Croft poses and, predictably, lady bits. Clicking through while at work is not advised. More »

Italian Retailers Boot PS3 Street Date

Mike Fahey — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:30:03 EDT

This isn't simply a case of some lucky guy getting his PS3 early by mistake. No, this is two relatively big retail chains in Italy making a conscious decision to break the street date on the PS3 by two days. More »

Space Invaders Invade Italy

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:22:35 EDT

There is a Space Invader in this pic. Can you find it? Reader Ruining Heaven sends word that on his way to Kenya, he stopped over in Italy. He provides this sole hint: More »

Mario Spotted... In Italy!

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:22:49 EDT

That Mario you see now is not the real Mario. He's a stand-in, a doppelganger. The true Mario fled sometime after the travesty known as Mario Party 4 was forced upon the general public. The question's been, where did he go? Reader Thanius found out: More »