Live | TOKYO, JAPAN: At the 2002 Tokyo Game Show, Xbox Japan rolled out Xbox Live pods. (Photo: Katsumi Kasahara | AP) First Look at the Blue Nintendo Wii To mark the Nov. release of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Nintendo of Europe is releasing a blue Wii. To date, Nintendo…
Doesn’t matter if Microsoft hasn’t made it official. The company is working on something that will succeed the Xbox 360. Employees at tech giants like Microsoft are always working on designing the future. Whether their work sees the light of day is another matter entirely, but several LinkedIn profiles, discovered by Twitter user @supererogatory, show…
RayStorm, the classic 1990s shooting game, always felt like it got somewhat overlooked compared to the spate of shooters released that decade. Here’s a chance to once again give RayStorm the attention it so rightly deserves with a Kotobukiya model of in-game ship, R-Gray1. Like other Kotobukiya models, this is top notch stuff. The 1/144…
After every Metal Gear game he makes, Hideo Kojima usually says he’s done with the series. Sometimes Kojima even asks Kotaku readers to tell his boss that he doesn’t have to make Metal Gear games anymore. This time, it’s different. At a recent presentation at USC, Kojima said, “First of all, I just want to…
As Claudia Wolf, Carrie-Anne Moss is very much playing an evil character in the upcoming Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. It’s the big screen adaptation of the Konami game Silent Hill 3 Moss, who won over geeks everywhere with her portrayal of Trinity in the Matrix, didn’t spend endless hours playing SH3 to find the character.…
To mark the Nov. release of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Nintendo of Europe is releasing a blue Wii. To date, Nintendo has released Wii consoles in white, black, red, and now, blue. Previously, Nintendo released a blue Wii Remote in Japan to promote Wii Sports Resort. It is releasing a…
Remember that scene in Mission Impossible when Tom Cruise lowers himself down through a laser maze? Minus the lasers and the wire acerbatics, an unemployed 21-year-old named Yuuki Saitou tried a stealth entry of his own to swipe used games and consoles. At around 2:15am in the morning on Sept. 8 in Miyazaki Prefecture, Saitou…
Loud. Gaudy. The box art for the Monster Hunter 3 (-tri) G 3DS Expansion Slide Pad bundle was madness. Nintendo’s take on the 3DS Expansion Slide Pad’s stand alone packaging is not. It’s restrained, standard—the simplicity you’d expect from Nintendo these days. The 3DS Expansion Slide Pad will be available separately on Dec. 10 for…
Noel Vermillion, star of fighting game BlazBlue, is getting immortalized in PVC for the very first time. Do you remember the first time? You do, you know. The Queen’s Gate version of Vermillion is priced at ¥7,980 (US$104). Orders are being taken later this month through November. The figure will be released next spring. 初のフィギュア化…
Minecraft, congratulations! You’ve officially arrived. Religious nuts are railing against you. For years now, Pokémon‘s been a favorite target of those outside the religious mainstream. Dorothy Spaulding from Watchmen Broadcasting, a local Christian broadcast network in Georgia, discussed the perils of Pokeémon with guest Henry Lewis. Apparently, Pokémon are “Oriental demons”, and the names of…
Aki Toyosaki is 24 years-old. A big Grand Theft Auto fan, she works as a voice actress, voicing Yui Hirasawa in K-On as well as Cinque in the upcoming Final Fantasy Type-0. She’s an adult, and she’d be free to live her life as an adult. That is, if she wasn’t a voice actress in…
The Wii U debuted at the E3 gaming expo this past June. Since then, there hasn’t been much info about the upcoming Nintendo console. Fret not! EA’s Peter Moore is here to tell you everything is a-okay. “There are no indications that there’s anything that feels like it’s off target,” Moore told Reuters According to…
Here’s the beauty of competition. Earlier this week, Epic Games showed off the Unreal Engine 3 supporting Adobe’s Flash. Meanwhile, rival game engine maker Crytek is seeing what flash magic it can unleash. “It is an interesting approach we’ve been investigating as well,” Crytek’s Carl Jones told Edge. “We’re developing a unifying technology to create…
Not A Lie | TOKYO, JAPAN: A Slime cake at an event for the iconic role-playing game series (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Under the Pale Blue Sky of Faron Woods, Inside the Mushroom-Lit Skyview Temple of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, as Totilo will explain a bit later…
On either July 6 or 7 of this year, 21-year-old Koichi Akashi spent time at a Kobe City video game arcade. Akashi, who’s unemployed, was apparently waiting for someone. When the man he was waiting for, a 19-year-old college student, showed up at the arcade, Akashi told him, “I’ve spent ¥200,000 waiting for you. One…
This is Pipeworks, an Oregon-based game studio headed up by Robert Daly. Apparently, Daly’s been saying he was in the Special Forces. But at least one Special Forces website, that’s not exactly true. Updated with response from Pipeworks disputing the accusations. If you’ve seen Spike TV, you’ve probably seen Daly on Deadliest Warrior. His studio…
PC owners, you probably already know this. Valve boss Gabe Newell sure does and lets everyone know for the umpteenth time that PCs matter. Why? Because certain people think they don’t. In the latest issue of PC Gamer UK (via website CVG), Newell said that PCs are “great value for money”. “People like their PCs,”…
Just in time for everyone who has stopped playing FarmVille, Hollywood is working on a cinematic version of FarmVille In a recent interview with IGN, Toy Story writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen hinted that they are working on a FarmVille flick. From the interview: We’re in conversations with Zynga to do something with one…
Blackwater, a competent Kinect title with unsavory mercenary connections, is an on-rails shooter that also supports traditional gamepad controls. As previously mentioned, Blackwater, renamed to Xe Services llc, was contracted by the U.S. government to provide training and diplomatic security, most notably in the Middle East, for much of the last decade. Its presence alongside…
Last summer, legendary Japanese figure maker Kaiyodo released a Revoltech figure of Woody from Toy Story. Soon after it was released, people started noticing that, yes, something was off with the figure. In the West, figure collectors noticed that Woody looked psychotic and juxtaposed him with, for example, Gears of War‘s brutality. In Japan, figure…
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