Kotaku: hair

Hair Hath No Fury Like Bayonetta

Owen Good — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:00:00 MST

I haven't had to worry about a bad hair day in years. Bayonetta's however, can summon demons that will drag you down to hell. And since her hair is also her clothing, well, no one said it could multitask.

Why Is Klei's CEO Playing With Dolls?

Mike Fahey — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:00:00 MDT

This is what greeted me when I arrived at the Sheraton down the street from PAX to meet with Klei Entertainment CEO Jamie Cheng regarding the company's latest game, Shank.

So what do spooky dolls and an even spookier CEO have to do with a cartoonish beat-em up that could wind up being my game of the show (more on that later)? In order to understand, you have to see the invite that eventually led us to this fateful meeting.

This is how Klei Entertainment lured unwary journalists to PAX 09. The originally sent a copy of this letter to Crecente, but it seemed to have gotten lost somewhere in the shuffle, so they sent one to me.

The important thing to note here is the stratefically placed business card. Flipping it up reveals...
So, putting two and two together, along with the fact that Crecente is out of town this weekend, and we have...OMG! Klei Entertainment is run by a guy who likes dolls who kidnapped Crecente and cut off his glorious hair!

At least that's my conclusion. Yours may vary. Either way its lovely PR, even if they might have killed my boss.

Billy Mitchell Manages to Make Himself Look Like an Even Bigger Ass

Brian Crecente — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:30:00 MDT

We've covered Donkey-Kong perfectionist documentary The King of Kong in painful detail, talking about Billy Mitchell's trash talking, the making of the movie
, we've even had top-notch movie critic review The King of Kong.

But G4 managed to dig deeper, to delve into the very psychie of Mitchell, unearthing an even bigger ass than the one seen on the big screen. It's too bad they didn't get around to asking the tough questions, question like: Where did you get that tie? Does your thumb ever get tired? Do you rent out the space under the front of your hair?

Check out the full airing of Mitchell's philosophy on Friday at 9 p.m.

Mercenaries 2 Gel: Hair On

Brian Crecente — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:00:52 MDT

T-shirts and inflatables might be good enough for the E3 and Penny Arcade crowd, but in Germany if you want to make a splash with gaming swag you've got to go big... big hair.

Electronic Arts was giving out these tubes of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames HaarGel or hair gel for those non-German speakers out there. I, of course, had to take the stuff for a spin as soon as I got back to the hotel. The gel's rich texturing and high poly-count left me with the sort of three-foot high flattop perfect for open world mayhem and Brigitte Nielsen-inspired discotheque dance parties.

Xbox Live Achievement Generator

Mike Fahey — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:40:06 MST

The Xbox 360 achievement system is an excellent way to tell how good you are as a gamer. With just a click, people can tell if you completely suck or if you regularly melt faces with your awesome skills. When you are depressed, all you need is that little achievement picture popping up on your TV to reassure you that you aren't wasting your life and everyone wants to be you. If it works in gaming, why not institute it in real life? BTK from Technology-Ninja.com has a tool that might do the trick. The Achievement Unlocked Generator creates a handy image suitable for pasting over photos of important life events.
Not like anyone would ever earn that achievement, what with the armed guards and barbed-wire, but the Achievement Unlocked Generator is a place where dreams live. Michael Fahey

Achievement Unlocked Generator [Technology-Ninja - Thanks Tu Madre PWN!]

Judge in Minnesota Games Case Reviews Xbox Firsthand

egauger — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:40:31 MDT

This is fascinating detail of a case I'm otherwise tired of hearing about: Federal District Court Judge James Rosenbaum, who is presiding over the case over a pending law in which $25 fines will be issued to underaged purchasers of M-rated games, asked a court clerk to bring an Xbox and several games into the courtroom.

The article doesn't mention which games he was playing, but GamePolitics speculates light-heartedly:

There's no word on how well Federal District Court Judge James Rosenbaum did at Jade Empire or whether he preferred Full Spectrum Warrior to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3.

I would honestly be interested to know what games he played and what he thought of them, but the AP article is regrettably barren of that sort of detail, much like the vast expanse of hair-matted linoleum in the employee showers here at the Kotaku Building. I made the mistake of looking for the loofah one time. I found it cringing behind the sanitary napkin disposal canister, pewling weakly and dribbling a sort of orange mucus. Eliza gauger

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