Two words: fan service. Queen’s Blade not only features some of the most famous females from fighting games, it features them in revealing poses. So you can imagine what Queen’s Blade cosplay looks like. Queen’s Blade was originally a Lost Worlds style “combat picture book game” and has been published in Japan for the last…
Grand Theft Auto V is official. And while it’s not set in Liberty City, what better way to honor the game’s announcement than by pounding the iconic digital city’s virtual pavement. YouTube user GermanScientistTV and pal Scotty decided to tour Grand Theft Auto IV‘s Liberty City on foot. The ensuing result (and footage) is hypnotic,…
Last March, Kotaku posted cosplaying superstar Omi Gibson’s take on Catherine, noting that it was a “masterclass”. But now it’s better. Cosplayer Shin’ is Vincent and does a fantastic job of bringing the neurotic character to life. Vincent is as commitment-phobic, indecisive as ever. This cosplay even has sheep horns, and how often can you…
Tokyo has a rat problem. Shibuya is crawling with “super rats”. They’re called “super”, because the rodents seem highly resistant to rat poison. One thing these rodents aren’t impervious to? Artists. A few years back, Japanese art collective Chim Pom caught rats in Shibuya with nets and rat traps. According to the Huffington Post, the…
Here, in this Rage clip, wonky A.I. leads to deadly child’s play. Peekaboo? More like peekabang. Rage was released on Oct. 4. Read Kotaku‘s review here このＡＩは誰得？『RAGE』に登場する最強のチラチラ戦士 [へちま via Atomic Gamer] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our…
PixelJunk SideScroller is the latest PS3 title from Q-Games. The Kyoto-based game studio continues to churn out high quality digital games for the PS3 under its PixelJunk banner. SideScroller is a vector-infused side-scrolling shooter. You shoot at enemies with one of three weapons you have, which you can upgrade through power-ups. The game scrolls as…
It was a promise. British-born game designer Andrzej Zamoyski and his brother Adam made it as soon as they heard the news. Both were up late, camped out on Adam’s comfy sofa with their mom and Adam’s wife, sipping tea and eating biscuits as this year’s Nintendo E3 press conference streamed from the computer to…
No Rain | HONG KONG: Cosplayers gathered at the 2005 Hong Kong Comics Festival. (Photo: Kin Cheung | AP) Capcom Wouldn’t be Capcom Without Akiman’s Amazing Art Japanese artist Akira Yasuda, better known by his pen name Akiman, is a legend in the video game art world, being responsible for more classic images, posters, box…
Artist João Victor G. Costa took Warcraft and added old-school color graphics. The result is beautiful minimalism. According to Costa, “I know the black ’emptiness’ suck, but it’s for the sake of the gameplay, really.” Introduced in 1981, the Color Graphics Adapter was IBM’s first graphics card. Decades later, graphics cards have advanced, producing more…
Perhaps! That’s exactly what one Japanese netizen tried to do: Create Dante from Devil May Cry using Dark Souls‘ avatar editor. The result doesn’t look like a walking Dante clone, but it sure as heck looks better than that emo guy in DmC: Devil May Cry デビルメイクライのダンテを作ってみた[はちま] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of…
In Japanese, it’s called “endaka” (円高), or “high-valued yen”. And it’s wreaking havoc on so much of the country. If you are living in Japan, getting paid in yen and then converting that into another currency, or if you are importing goods from outside the country, the strong yen is gravy. If you, like me…
Japan is making an Ace Attorney movie. Takashi Miike is directing, and actor Hiroki Narimiya is starring as Phoenix Wright. This is what he looks like as Phoenix Wright. The movie was filmed near Kyoto and is slated for an early 2012 release in Japan. This isn’t the first adaptation of Phoenix Wright. The all-female…
You might think those posters of big-eyed little anime girls are cute as a button. But according to FujiTV, nearly 80 percent of Japanese women polled give a big no thanks to dudes who cover their room with stuff like that. On the FujiTV segment, women were interviewed about whether it was okay for men…
Sometimes I get stupid email from readers. Sometimes I get nice email. And sometimes, I get email from people with questions. Reader Joel sent me one of those: A question. This is a Puckman cabinet. Before Pac-Man was called Pac-Man, it was Puckman. “Paku paku” (パクパク) is the sound in Japanese for people opening and…
Say hello to Mike Fass. You might be familiar with this guy if you watched Street Fighter: The Later Years or if you attended the Mr. Stonewall Bear Competition earlier this year. The Mr. Stonewall Bear Competition was to pick the top “bear”—or manly, hairy gay dude. Fass has worked as a rock drummer, an…
Like a Rat | JAPAN: In this clip, the Blue Hearts perform “Linda Linda”. (Video: AMIRAALIBEER | YouTube) Arkham City Cosplay Turns Normal Man Into Dark Knight A team of props builders from forum The FX lab have wanted to build a Batman suit for a long, long time. With the success of first Arkham…
Capcom legend Kinu Nishimura is working on upcoming 3DS side-scrolling brawler Code of Princess Nishimura—who might not be a household name, but should be— is responsible for so much kick-ass game art The concept art and sketches for Code of Princess do not disappoint and show Nishimura in true form, creating magic with line and…
It’s the one I have. Cosplay superstar and Kotaku favorite Omi Gibson does her best leap of Faith. Her cosplay does a fine job of portraying the Mirror’s Edge heroine, and, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this is the first Western game cosplay she’s done. Omi specializes in Metal Gear cosplay as…
According to the latest issue of Famitsu, it’s not even possible to even start games that require memory cards if you don’t have one. Famitsu called memory cards indispensable. [■■速報＠保管庫(Alt)■■
This year isn’t over. There are still months to go. But according to Famitsu publisher, Nintendo didn’t own the first six months of this year. Other years, sure, but not this one. In a recently released report, Nintendo tumbled to the number two spot for Japanese software sales, dropping from ¥21.5 billion (US$283 million) to…
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