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Let China Show You How to Chun-Li and Final Fantasy

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:00:00 EST

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You might not know how to Chun-Li. You might not know how to Final Fantasy or SoulCalibur. Chinese photographer Mengjie Luan sure does. More »

This is China's iPad. The One Apple Is Getting Sued Over.

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:30:00 EST

Apple's iPads are disappearing from Chinese stores shelves. The reason is that a Chinese company called Proview is contesting the use of the iPad moniker. More »

Do You Want To Do It? With This Japanese Meme?

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:01:00 EST

Whether it's a Japanese video game or a comic convention, he's bound to pop up. He even appeared on fan-made Valentine's Day chocolate. He is the Yaranaika Guy, and he's keen to know if you'd like to screw. So, would you? More »

Kotaku East Starts Now

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:00:00 EST

Kotaku East runs from 4am to 8am EST. For more info about Kotaku East click here. More »

More Gears of War 3 DLC Coming

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:30:00 EST

A new set of downloadable content for Gears of War 3, Forces of Nature, will be out on March 27. It includes three new character skins, three new maps, two old maps, seven weapon skins and Gears of War 2's Guardian Mode. Forces of Nature will cost 800 MSP. [GameTrailers] More »

Half-Life 2's Strider Comes to Life With This Custom Action Figure

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST

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Actually, calling it an action figure does it a bit of a disservice. The term "action figure" conjures all sorts of images, mostly of very small men. This custom Strider from the Half-Life universe is not very small at all. More »

Buy Yourself a Real Dragonborn Helmet

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:30:00 EST

You've seen Dragonborn helmets made out of yarn. You've seen Dragonborn helmets made out of bacon. Both were awesome, but hardly practical. Now, this real Dragonborn helmet, you could crack some skulls with this. More »

The Dinosaurs, Robots and BioShocks of Artist Ben Mauro

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:00:00 EST

Ben Mauro is a concept artist from New Zealand who has recently worked on The Hobbit. The new Superman movie, Man of Steel. Neill Blomkamp's Elysium. Even the upcoming Star Wars TV show, Underworld. More »

Valve's $100 Joke Ends in Half-Life Delay Gags

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:30:00 EST

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Valve's $100 Valentine's Day gag was actually taken up by a lot of people, who figured the money was well spent since it gave them a chance to broadcast a message to the entire Team Fortress 2 community. More »

Make Yourself Sick on Adorable Zelda Art

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:00:00 EST

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Artist OMOCAT takes Zelda and dials the cuteness up as far as it can go without making you puke. Even the Zelda stuff that's already cute, doesn't matter, it gets cuter. More »

KOTOR, Mass Effect & Dragon Age Writer Leaves Games Behind

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:30:00 EST

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Drew Karpyshyn, who's been a writer at BioWare for over a decade now, will be walking away from the games business to focus on his novels. More »

Why People Give a Shit About a 1988 PC Role-Playing Game

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Brian Fargo, whose credits include Bard's Tale and the original Fallout, wants to make a new Wasteland game. This is a very good idea. More »

Retro Rumble Episode 1 - Don't Pee in the Pool

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:30:00 EST

You know how outfits like Major League Gaming are full of sponsored kids playing the latest game at breakneck speeds? More »

We Asked The Red Carpet: Were Old Video Games Actually Bad? Or Good?

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:00:00 EST

I have a nearly irrational dislike for retro video games. I assume most of the old "classics" wasted my youth with their needlessly bottomless pits and/or a hunger for my quarters. More »

You Better Think!

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:30:00 EST

Hello, Kotaku! It's been a wild day—we launched our first installment of Kotaku Melodic, and I think it went really well. I hope you were out there reading. More »

Reset Glitch May Wipe Out Gotham City Impostors Data

Owen Good — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:00:00 EST

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A glitch coming when a user updates Gotham City Impostors' trial version to a full game is causing reset of some players attributes and statistics, developer Monolith has said, which is particularly troubling since some players have boosted their attributes with paid upgrades. More »

Insomniac Programmer Michael Kuehl Passes Away

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:53:00 EST

Michael Kuehl, a programmer with Resistance developers Insomniac - and who had also worked at Infinity Ward and Electronic Arts - has tragically passed away at the age of 32. More »

His Creations Come to Life

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:30:00 EST

For Reals | COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: Minecraft creator Notch witness his work made real through the magic of Lego. (Photo: Imagur)

Looks Like the Persona Fighting Game is Coming to the West

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:20:00 EST

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Earlier today, Atlus teased an announcement for it loyal fans in North America by sending an image of a giant black rectangle. A little PhotoShop work reveals that image to be a teaser for what looks like Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena. More »

Why the Chrono Cross Soundtrack is My Favorite

Leigh Alexander — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:00:00 EST

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I think I know part of the reason Chrono Cross is less acknowledged than its predecessor, Chrono Trigger. It's because it's a sequel in spirit only, keeping some conceptual commonalities and a sparse few plot ones. More »

Fallout 3's Tunnel Snakes Rule, and So Does This Amazing Classic Remix

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:45:00 EST

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Who could forget the Tunnel Snakes, the dorkiest, least menacing group of post-apocalyptic greaser wanna-be gangsters to ever grace a role-playing game? I sure couldn't. And who could forget this classic video, which though it's a few years old, still holds up remarkably well? More »

The Mind-Numbing Music of the PlayStation Vita

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:30:00 EST

Every time I boot up my Vita, I get into an elevator. This elevator takes me to all kinds of cool places—fun games, great graphics, really cool online features, and a highly functional and enjoyable PSN experience. But there's a catch: on this elevator, they're playing incredibly tedious background music. It loops over and over until I'm ready to head for the emergency hatch and take my chances climbing cables. More »

Check Out the Wicked-Grooving New iOS Game Beat Sneak Bandit

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:20:00 EST

Today, Simogo's rhythm-puzzle game Beat Sneak Bandit arrived on the Apple App Store. Our own Evan Narcisse already wrote it up for us, but I've been playing it too and it is terrific. I highly recommend checking it out. More »

A Lovely Video Game Ballad To Invigorate Our Jaded, Shrunken Hearts

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:15:00 EST

Last year's To The Moon was an emotional game, a throwback storybook that really wore its heart on its sleeve. I liked it a lot. More »

Gameplay and Story Are Exactly Like Music and Lyrics

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST

Look, okay. Let's press "pause" on the debate. You know the debate I'm talking about, right? That endless disagreement in the video game world about gameplay versus story. More »

Avishai Cohen, One of the Great Composers of our Time

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:45:00 EST

Who says that all the music we listen to during Kotaku Melodic has to be video game music? No one, that's who. For this "listen here," I want to highlight one of my all-time favorite musicians, the Israeli bassist, pianist, and composer Avishai Cohen. More »

What do Robocop, Washing Machines, Dilbert & Lil B have in Common?

Chris Person — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:30:00 EST

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The answer? A song. More »

This Noble Theme Will Get You in the Mood for Psychic Heroism

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:15:00 EST

Look, no one really knows what's going on with this whole Notch-Tim-Schafer-Psychonauts 2 thing. But that doesn't mean we can't sit back and listen to what might be my single favorite piece of music from the original Psychonauts! More »

From Far Cry 3 to It's a Wonderful Life, Dubstep Makes Everything Better

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:00:00 EST

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Far Cry fans the world over have gotten a fresh taste of Ubisoft's coming open-world shooter via a trailer that was released yesterday. More »

Kotaku Melodic Starts Here

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:59:00 EST

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And welcome to Kotaku Melodic, your Thursday night spot for all things musical and video gamey. We're going to get to listen to a lot of good stuff, so plug in your stereo or headphones. More »

UFC Undisputed 3: The Kotaku Review

Owen Good — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:01:00 EST

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UFC Undisputed tried to come back too soon. Following a breakout season in 2009, it returned with a good-but-not-great sequel in 2010. Publisher THQ recognized the franchise didn't deliver enough and shifted it to two-year production cycle. So is UFC Undisputed 3 the game mixed martial arts fans should have gotten last May? Or is it a title that can last them another two years? More »

Futurama, Street Fighter and Last Airbender Leap onto SoulCalibur V's Stage of History

Tina Amini — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:30:00 EST

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We already knew that SoulCalibur V's character creator is powerful enough to allow you to create all sorts of messes, but this ups the ante one notch more. More »

Penny Arcade’s Game Ratings PSAs Make Learning Fun

Evan Narcisse — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:45:00 EST

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You come to Kotaku every day, right? So it stands to reason that you know all about the E through M ratings that grace the boxes of video games in America. But if you're not a regular reader of this fine site—say, one who buys video games for a younger lifeform—you may not even know that the content ratings exist. More »

Why a Former Nintendo Developer Loves the Vita

Kate Cox — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:30:00 EST

One of the most interesting parts of reaching one's thirties is seeing how impermanent, flexible, and downright unexpected someone's career path can end up being. Such is the case with Motoi Okamoto. More »

Activision Boss Bobby Kotick Has a Coca-Cola Board of Directors Position and a Smile

Mike Fahey — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:15:00 EST

President and CEO of Activision Bobby Kotick joins the board of directors of The Coca-Cola Company today, applying his business talents to the makers of the most popular carbonated beverage in the world. Can flavor-based DLC be far behind? [Coca-Cola - Thanks, Tal!] More »

This Teaser Probably Means That a New MechAssault Game’s on the Way

Evan Narcisse — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:00:00 EST

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Day 1 Studio's currently running a 30-second clip on their site with a giant robot foot stomping into the ground. More »

Sazh, Card Games, and Bikinis All To Be Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC

Kate Cox — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:30:00 EST

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Square Enix is continuing to keep the ball rolling on Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC. Their previous entry brought Lightning and Master Sergeant Amodar to the game; the next will bring Sazh. More »

Mortal Kombat Vita Trailer Has Me Craving Augmented Fatalities

Mike Fahey — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:15:00 EST

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In an attempt to demonstrate how Mortal Kombat on the PS Vita can be played anywhere, anytime, Warner Bros. and NetherRealm Studios get augmented reality fans all excited for nothing. More »

Some of the Features in Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus Are... Touching

Chris Person — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:00:00 EST

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We've been spending some time with Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus, the Vita port of the PlayStation 3 action game that bears the same name. More »