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What If the SNES Was Modded for Minimates Fighting?
It cannot be, but what if? Filmmaker Kyle Roberts created this stop-motion short using Minimates, a SNES, and tin foil. According to Roberts, “No Minimates were harmed during the filming of this short.” Marvelous Shorts: Wolverine vs Deadpool Stop Motion [YouTube]
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2011 -
All Your Miniature Star Wars Fantasies Come True
Star Wars is epic, spawning movies, toys, and video games. That’s doesn’t mean it’s too big for the small scale. If anything, it works brilliantly These pieces were created by a group of Japanese model makers and are on display at the Kotobukiya showroom in Tokyo’s geek district, Akihabara. They serve as a reminder of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2011 -
Boy, This Is Pretty
Alfista | Xbox 360: As detailed on sister site Jalopnik, the Dec. Forza 4 DLC comes with a 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider QV. (Photo: Microsoft) Mario Kart 7: The Kotaku Review There’s a spot on the couch where Mario Kart 7 sits, a well-worn seat where the pillows and cushions have been arranged just so.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
Time To Justify Giant Breasts and Panty Shots
Some video games have exploding heads. That evokes criticism. Other games have giant breasts and panty shots. Likewise, people get upset. Skullgirls developer Reverge Labs is here to pass out the chill pills. Skullgirls is an all girl-on-girl 2D fighting game. Skullgirls roster features characters like Valentine, a nurse ninja; the demon-haired Filia; a girl…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
Screw Crazy Crotches! Persona Figures are Better with Tiny TVs.
The last Persona figure Kotaku posted had a crazy crotch. This one does not. It has a television. Japanese figure maker Good Smile Company is showing off this upcoming Persona 4 Teddie figure. There’s also a plastic television—a nice touch. If you haven’t played Persona 4 or seen the anime, Teddie is a mysterious creature…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
Your Inside Peek at Akihabara’s Most Famous Retro Game Shop
Two of my favorite Tokyo people, CheapyD of CheapAssGamer fame and Scott Popular of Scott Popular fame, provide an inside look at iconic retro game shop Super Potato. Nice cinematography and soothing tunes accompany the two gents as they make their retro gaming crawl. RETRO GAME HEAVEN SUPER POTATO [Studio Donbe]
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
Last Guardian Executive Producer Quits. Goes Elsewhere.
Is Yoshifusa Hayama the latest Last Guardian casualty? The former Sony Computer Entertainment Vice President and Last Guardian executive producer has left the company. The eagerly awaited game has been years in development. It was supposed to be finished this year, but was delayed to next year. The Last Guardian was AWOL at this year’s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
Is This Figure Really Worth $5,000?
In Japan, selling customized figures can get you arrested. It call also get you crazy amounts of money. Like this one did, for example. A customized Hatsune Miku figure (above, in a bridal gown) recently went for ¥389,000 or US$5,002. No small chump change. The customized figure combines a ¥8,980 ToHeart2 Tamaki Kousaka wedding dress…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
Chet Atkins: The Third Man Theme
Pull up a chair. It’s that time when Kotaku takes a break from it’s round the clock gaming news and how-is-this-news? and cozies up with some music. This is Soundtrack Tonight, we’ve got country music icon Chet Atkins playing “The Third Man Theme”, originally written and performed by Anton Karas for the 1949 film of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
A Tour of Final Fantasy XIII-2‘s World
Love it or hate it, Final Fantasy deals in big, stylized worlds. In this “environmental trailer”, Final Fantasy XIII-2, the sequel to FFXIII, shows it is no exception. Kotaku already posted the Final Fantasy XIII-2 battle trailer. You can watch it here Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be released Jan. 31, 2012. Environmental Trailer [YouTube]
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
Can You Walk And Look at Your Smartphone? And Not Get Hit by a Train?
Before there were smartphones, Japanese people simply carried clamshell mobile phones. They were a bit harder to walk and send email with due to a small screen. People—most infamously schoolgirls—did it. Reading emails and websites was more difficult, too. Smartphones, however, make it easier to do both. There appear to be more and more people…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
Ryu, Stop Humping the Car
In Street Fighter‘s famous bonus stage, the goal is to smash cars. That’s the same goal in Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Ver. 2012—even if it looks like the goal of SF character is something else entirely. The glitch appears to happen after Ryu unleashes a shoryuken on the car. Even when time runs…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
Game-Breaking Skyward Sword Bug Confirmed. Here’s How to Avoid It.
Nintendo has admitted that, yes, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has a game breaking bug. What is this bug and how can you avoid it? Warning: Spoilers. The bug makes it impossible for players to complete the game’s “Song of the Hero” quest. The save file becomes corrupted meaning that players either have to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
Fifty Cops Don’t Make Shoplifting $600 Worth of Video Games Easy
On Saturday, twenty-two year-old Timothy Randall Clark was supposedly spotted in a Walmart back room stuffing video games in his clothes. The Walmart staffers didn’t have to call the cops. There were already 50 of them in the store. Like many American cities, Waldorf, Maryland has a “Shop with a Cop” program in which underprivileged…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
A Final Warning to Cheaters
MMORPG EverQuest, which launched in 1999, is plagued with cheaters. Sony Online Entertainment is fed up. So you better watch out, cheaters! “Cheating has become a serious concern to our EQ player base this past year,” wrote EverQuest Community Manager Piestro on the game’s official forums. “Exploits and hacks strike at the very heart of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 6, 2011 -
Square Enix Browser Game. Yay?
Squared | TOKYO, JAPAN: Square Enix has a new browser game and roped in Japanese celebs to promote it. (Photo: 4Gamer) The Darkness II’s Multiplayer Is Co-op Only. Introduces Four New Characters The Darkness II doesn’t have traditional multiplayer. There are no multiples of Jackie Estacado using their powers over The Darkness to fight it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 6, 2011 -
Final Fantasy XIV‘s Subscription Period Gets a Start Date, Cheaper Rates
Beleaguered Final Fantasy XIV is being reborn as Final Fantasy XIV: Version 2.0. Part of that rebirth means that the PC game’s free-to-play period is coming to a close. The billing period commences next month. Staring Jan. 6, Final Fantasy XIV‘s subscription will begin. According to Square Enix, those who have not selected a subscription…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 6, 2011 -
Prototype 2‘s Protagonist Started Life as a White Dude
Sgt. James Heller from Prototype 2 is not a white guy. He’s a black guy. But he didn’t begin his life that way. “We started off with an amalgamation of Hugh Jackman and Clint Eastwood, and the resulting render looked remarkably similar to James Marsden—so we were like ‘Okay, scratch that one out,'” Ken Rosman,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 6, 2011 -
An Accidental Gay Romance
Some might call this a fluke, a twist of fate—a coincidence. Striker Andy Carroll makes his way down the pitch, tries to score a goal and ends up (accidentally?) scoring with Arsenal’s keeper. The keeper of kisses. Video games are short on men kisses. Some games, such as Bully from Rockstar, have valiantly added them.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 6, 2011 -
This Gamer Has Balls. Wants To Beat You.
Remember R.B.I. Baseball? The classic sports title for the Nintendo Entertainment System? This gamer is so confident that he can defeat anyone at it, he or she took out an ad in a local Oklahoma newspaper. “I Cannot Be Beaten at RBI BASEBALL,” the advertisement reads, with a phone number for “Contenders”. Developed by Namco,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 6, 2011
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