Michael McWhertor

New Samus Cosplay International Champion Crowned

Who’s winning the Metroid cosplay wars? The Swedes looked to have had it locked down, thanks to Samus cosplayer Jenni Källberg. But Brazil has fired a shot across Sweden’s bow, one named Thaís. 26-year-old Thaís Jussim is the one responsible for the beautifully crafted Samus Aran space suit seen above, one the Brazilian Metroid Prime…

The Nintendo DS Has Seven 10 Million Sellers

Nintendo boasted this morning that it has moved over 100 million Nintendo DSs to dual-screen hungry consumers, an impressive sales feat that few portable game devices can claim. It’s also sold some software. While Nintendo didn’t brag about the total number of Nintendo DS games that have been sold for its current handheld, it did…

ESRB Explains Nintendo’s Mystery Rock N’ Roll Climber

Nintendo hasn’t officially announced Rock N’ Roll Climber for the Wii yet. Australia’s government ratings board did. Today, thanks to the ESRB, we now have a good idea of what the game is. Unsurprisingly, Rock N’ Roll Climber is a rock climbing game. The ESRB description reads: “This is a rock climbing game in which…

Worlds.com Targets World of Warcraft, Second Life For Patent Suit

Virtual world patent holder Worlds.com filed suit against NCSoft in December, claiming its games, including City of Heroes and Guild Wars, were violating its patent for multiplayer virtual environments. And it won’t stop there. Worlds.com CEO Thom Kidrin says that the company “absolutely” has intentions of going after other big virtual world creators, including Blizzard…

Katamari Damacy Gets Ported To Nike Dunks

The Kotaku readership may not be aware of the Nike Dunk customizing subculture that makes up a small portion of sneakerheads. But they will after seeing these expert level Katamari Damacy-styled Dunks. Kotaku reader Steve has noticed that we don’t shy away from posting pictures of video game-themed shoes. Or cakes. Or any internet flotsam…

Alpha Protocol, Fallout 3 & Ghostbusters Exclusives On Next GTTV

This week’s episode of GameTrailers TV continues the show’s streak of exclusives, including first gameplay footage of Sega and Obsidian’s Alpha Protocol in action. But that’s not all! Obviously. You can’t fill twenty-two minutes worth of programming with just Alpha Protocol footage and Geoff Keighley charisma. Also making their television debuts will be the expansion…

The GameCube Made Shigeru Miyamoto “Very Sad”

Nintendo’s Senior Managing Director Shigeru Miyamoto was not a happy man during the GameCube era. The creator of Link and Mario describes Nintendo’s fourth-generation console entry as a time of “dilemma.” Miyamoto says in a new Famitsu interview, by way of 1UP, that during the Nintendo 64 and GameCube lifespans, Nintendo was following in the…

AMD Gettin’ Rich Off The Wii Too

Nintendo isn’t the only one stuffing its coffers with cash, thanks to the Wii’s continued success. Chip maker AMD is also pleased as punch to be selling gobs of chips—50 million of ’em! AMD calls the “Hollywood” graphics chip, the central Smile Processing Unit that outputs those eye-blistering Wii visuals, “the most successful AMD game…

This Left 4 Dead Birthday Cake Looks Infected

I’m torn. On the one hand, I love Left 4 Dead. On the other, I love cake. A lot. Surprisingly, bringing the two hands together results in total revulsion. This horrifying looking frosted concoction, custom made for a Left 4 Dead fan’s 22nd birthday, was lovingly crafted by master undead baker Charra Jarosz. I think…

First Peek At EA’s Grand Slam Tennis For Wii

Electronic Arts has been pretty coy with deep details on its tennis effort for the Wii, giving us glimpses of character designs only. Today we get a good look at EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis. The Wii tennis game, which is slated to use Wii MotionPlus for more serious racket control, goes for a nice…

No More Heroes Slumming It With Red Steel For New Wii Bundle

Say, Wii owner. Did you pass on No More Heroes? Well, shame on you! But if you have no taste, maybe you’d like to pick up Red Steel while you’re remedying that, thanks to Ubisoft. The French publisher is bundling both Wii titles in one package, a practice we’ve not seen much of this generation,…

Another Pretty Vic Viper For The Space Fleet

You can never be too thin, too rich or have too many Vic Viper spaceships from the Gradius series. That’s why it’s so easy to recommend the latest, a special Gradius II edition. Wait. Didn’t we already have a Gradius II Vic Viper? My video game space ship spreadsheet is almost never wrong! In fact,…

PlayStation Store Gets A Booster Shot From NBC Universal

Sony’s PlayStation Store got a massive passive entertainment shot in the arm today, thanks to addition of NBC Universal goodies and the drying of contractual ink. Wanna watch Milk tonight? Warm up the PlayStation 3! The official PlayStation blog drops word today that NBCU has delivered movie and television programming to the PlayStation Network as…

What Is Nintendo’s Rock N’ Roll Climber?

Australia’s game rating board has announced the arrival of Nintendo’s Rock N’ Roll Climber, maybe a bit earlier than the publisher was probably expecting. Sadly, details are slim, even for a governmental video game rating. Development duties on Rock N’ Roll Climber are credited to Vitei Inc. They’re a relatively young development studio based out…

Grand Theft Auto IV Moves 13 Million Copies, Take-Two Sees Loss

Take-Two Interactive has shipped over 13 million copies of Grand Theft Auto IV, the company announced today, revealing sales of more than $256 million for its holiday 2008 quarter and a $50 million loss. GTA IV figures were dated to January 31st, prior to the release of the first downloadable episode The Lost And Damned.…

J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Video Game Coming In May

Star Trek D·A·C will be coming to a video game platform near you this May, timed with the release of the JJ Abrams’ film, according to Paramount Pictures. While the movie studio hasn’t officially announced the game, the promotional insert tucked inside the Blu-ray release of Star Trek Season One has. Trek Movie got its…

Media Watchdog Group Slams Nintendo Over MadWorld

The National Institute on Media and the Family is giving Nintendo what for today over the release of the ultra-violent MadWorld, saying the Wii game has “shed its ‘family friendly’ reputation with MadWorld’s release.” Seems NIMF missed the release of Manhunt 2, No More Heroes, and The House of the Dead: Overkill, as Dr. David…

Ninja Blade Demo, Giant Spiders Hit Xbox Live

From Software‘s Ninja Blade is coming April 7th. Today, you can decide whether that’s the day you’re buying Ninja Blade or not, as the North American demo hits Xbox Live today. It’s an expanded version of the demo we played at Tokyo Game Show this past October. While the trial version has certainly been improved…

Microsoft Sued For $90 Million Over Halo Patent Infringement Claim

New York based PalTalk Holdings filed suit against Microsoft over two years ago, claiming that the company violated two patents with its Xbox Live service, singling out the multiplayer infrastructure of its Halo games. PalTalk wants $90 million from Microsoft, a case which went to trial in Texas this week, according to a report from…

What Factor 5’s Superman Once Looked Like…

Lair and Rogue Squadron developer Factor 5 was hard at work on a Superman video game before it contracted a near-fatal case of Brash Entertainment Publishing Agreement Syndrome. This is what that game looked like. Unseen 64, where games goes when they die, has concept screen shots and a brief video of the planned PlayStation…