The upcoming, and very lovely-looking Dragon’s Crown, has two websites, one for Japan, one for the US. Both are almost identical in design except for one thing: character art. On the Japanese site, you can see nice, big pieces of art for each of the game’s playable characters. On the US site, though, two of…
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, video game publishers and their cohorts in the marketing world thought it would be a good idea to use rap in their commercials. It was not. This clip takes us on a tour of some of the worst, and while some are stretching the definition of hip-hop, others are entirely…
Almost a year ago to the day, I wrote a piece on Sony’s Net Yaroze, a kit which allowed PS1 users to make their own video games. Well, anyone who was interested in the subject, please check out this enormous feature over on Gamasutra, which even has in-depth interviews from the men behind it. [Gamasutra]
After I posted those amazing old Zelda images from Nintendo Power the other day, I got an email from reader Yannick, who just so happens to run a blog that collects all kinds of awesome old Nintendo Power artwork by Katsuya Terada. Double Dragon, Contra, there’s all kinds of old NES games Terada has brought…
It’s not just the 3DS that’s getting full-scale digital downloads this year. Nintendo’s new Wii U console will be getting the feature as well. This means that new games released at retail on the system, at least those published by Nintendo, will also be available day-and-date to download. Interestingly, games will be downloaded through the…
The freshly-announced New Super Mario Bros. 2, for the 3DS, sees Nintendo entering the digital download age for real, as the game will be available as either a packaged product at retail or as a downloadable title (which is saved to an SD card). Other titles will follow. Strangely, the downloadable option will also be…
Nintendo’s currently holding an investor’s meeting to discuss its recent financial results, and among all the grim financial talk there’s some news. Like the fact that, despite launching worldwide in 2012, Nintendo won’t be telling us how much the system costs at E3.[Twitter]
Interesting. According to a report on Bloomberg, originating from the South Korean media, MMO publisher Nexon is interested in a takeover of Electronic Arts. While details were thin, the Bloomberg report did mention EA’s shares jumped 6% on the news. Nexon is the publisher of games like Maple Story Neither Nexon nor EA is willing…
Some images, reportedly originating from the website of Hollywood special effects company Reel EFX (but since pulled), look like they could be our first look at the next Call of Duty game. Or at least some parts of it. For a while now, Activision has been teasing the game with shots of a gun-toting “quadcopter”,…
Obviously with a ton of Tetris-inspired prints lying around the warehouse, fashion label Black Milk have added a Tetris swimsuit to its existing line of Tetris leggings While the leggings were faintly ridiculous, the swimsuit is a much more sensible affair. Relatively. Though at AUD$90 (which these days is basically USD$90), you better really like…
Capcom has updated Lost Planet 3’s website to include a range of new screenshots for the upcoming sequel that, let’s be honest, nobody really asked for. Scattered amongst them are shots we saw when the game was first unveiled, but most are new, showing a mix of killer snow aliens and a man whose beard…
Japan’s King of Games are one of the finest video game clothing merchants on the planet. Anyone who’s owned one of their shirts, or even been around one, know they ooze quality, from the fancy boxes they ship in to the durability of the prints. I’ve had a Zelda shirt of theirs around six years…
When tech guru and Linux fan Michael Larabel visited Valve yesterday, he promised more info and pics than simply saying Steam was coming to Linux. Looks like he’s come through. Larabel has posted images of Left 4 Dead 2 running natively on Linux, and says a release of Steam itself – likely in the form…
Because Prototype 2 is out this week, artists involved in the game are now able to share their work. One of those is Venezuelan César Rizo, who did a lot of environment pieces for the game. Rizo has been a professional concept artist since 2005, and has worked with companies like Radical Entertainment and Relic.…
All the places he’s been since we’ve been in control of his good self, at any rate. Posted by Sony yesterday, the map contains some standard infographic stuff, but also a handy guide to just where Drake’s travels have taken him across four games. It’s…not that far, really! You should come to Australia next time,…
Harrison Krix, aka Volpin Props, is someone whose work you should be very familiar with if you’re a regular Kotaku reader. His latest piece is this incredible helmet from Skyrim, which through good design and fine craftsmanship reaches into the game, grabs a Draugr helmet off someone’s head and rips it right back into the…
Cryptic, the guys behind Star Trek Online and Champions Online, have found out this week that they’ve been hacked. User details have been stolen, and some “portion of the passwords” present in a database were even cracked. Which is bad. What’s worse is that the hack took place in December 2010 With Cryptic only finding…
If you’re sensitive to unnecessary amounts of drama in your video game advertisements, a word of caution: this contains an unnecessary amount of drama for a video game commercial. If anyone ever tells you the 1990s weren’t the golden age of video game advertising, you slap them, hard, and tell them they are wrong
The Sega CD was home to some terrible things, but it was also home to some wonderful curiosities as well. And few are as curious as Micronet’s 1993 strategy game The Third World War. Let’s start with the cover art. That amazing cover art. Sadly, it was only for the Japanese edition of the game…
According to Russian reports, STALKER creator and GSC boss Sergei Grigorovich has issued a statement revealing that the reason a new development team couldn’t get the rights to the STALKER series in order to make a sequel – as only briefly alluded to earlier today – was because those rights have been sold to Bethesda.…
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