Artist: Begin | Track: Shimanchu nu Takara | Album: Begin no Shima Uta: Omoto Takeo 2 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
There are Pokémon playing cards, so really, why shouldn’t there be Pokémon credit cards? Today, a Pokémon Visa credit card was announced in Japan, along with two pre-paid Visa cards. One of the prepaid cards is limited edition and features Pikachu along with Hoopa from Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages. Since…
Track: Rage Against The Machine | Artist: Your Old Droog | Album: Kinison Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Earlier this month, those helping test the upcoming World of Warships were offered a sweet deal: pay a few bucks for a Humble Bundle and they’d get some swag for the game, including one of its better ships. Loads of fans jumped on the chance. Ten days later, though, the deal has been altered. UPDATE:…
Simon Liu built this impressive LEGO Claptrap, which stands 2.5-feet tall. That’s pretty much 1:1 scale for the little guy! To get a real good look at it from all angles, here’s a video Beyond the Brick shot at Brickworld Chicago 2015. You can see more of Simon’s LEGO work here
Guillaume Menuel is a concept artist at Ubisoft Montreal. Guillaume Menuel’s art is fucking amazing The clean, comic book lines on those He-Man and WW1 images are just…making me feel real good. In his time at Ubisoft he’s worked on series like Assassin’s Creed and Rayman, and right now is helping out on For Honour…
Portal Stories: Mel was not made by Valve, but it’s probably the closest thing we’ll get to Portal 3 for a while. The long-in-development Portal 2 mod just launched on Steam, and it looks damn impressive. Boasting a 6-10 hour standalone storyline and puzzles every so slightly more challenging than Portal 2’s, it aims to…
Laura Sindall, a fabricator and sfx artist in the movie business, is also one heck of a Lord of the Rings cosplayer. Here’s her Tauriel cosplay, with pics taken in the Black Forest near Pinewood Studios in England.
I…just…wow. Joker cosplay by Jesse Oliva, photo by York in a Box
I wasn’t sure just how much Nintendo game designer Yugo Hayashi was joking when he recently told me that he thinks he got the gig directing the new Star Fox because of how close he sat to his company’s top game designer. Well, the man himself, Shigeru Miyamoto, was right there, so I asked him.…
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Artist: The Dear Hunter | Track: A Night On The Town | Album: Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
If you’re a PlayStation owner in Europe, you may have experienced some ridiculously slow downloads speeds the last few days. Can you imagine waiting 48 hours to download a game?! That’s a reality for some folks right now. When a reader alerted me to the fact that PlayStation Network downloads were sluggish lately, I figured…
Well I’ll be. The scheme to get Fallout 4 using only bottlecaps actually worked! For those of you that haven’t been following this: last week, a Redditor shared pictures of a shipment that was being sent to Bethesda by a friend. It included a letter, and a package containing about 2,240 bottlecaps. Real ones. From…
Prevailing wisdom says that if you delay the PC version of a major game, PC gamers get mad. Really mad. Funny thing about prevailing wisdom, though: it’s often wrong. Or, to be more precise, it’s rarely unanimously right. I can understand why Warner and Rocksteady might’ve felt like they needed to have Batman: Arkham Knight…
Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the column also known as the Oncoming Storm, the Bringer of Darkness, and… right, supposed to be answering your dating questions, aren’t I. This week, we’re taking on a couple of thorny relationship questions – how do you handle relationships when they seem to bring out the worst…
Picture this: you’re running through a maze, unsure of where the exit is. There’s a madman with a machete chasing you. Your heart starts racing…and the more you freak, the more the rooms around you seem to twist and turn. This is the sort of terrifying experience Hyde hopes to create. Hyde is an upcoming…
There’s been a lot of drama surrounding the Confederate Flag of late, some of it even game-related. Now there’s a game from designer/academic Paolo Pedercini that lets you boo the controversial pennant until it burns. You can find it here. Contact the author at [email protected]
The new Batman is a cop. The new Robins are pretty much a gang. So, yes, the new Batman is probably going to have to arrest the new Robins. And Batgirl, too. This week sees the release of We Are Robin #1, a new series that introduces a whole squad of teenagers who’ve taken up…
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