A serene view from Just Cause 3. Of course, Rico will likely take over the chopper in the next minute or so and drop it on the heads of several panicking soldiers. All in a day’s work. The picture’s part of a batch of 21 new screenshots recently sent out by Square Enix—you can find…

Kotaku‘s 2014 Anime Gift Guide

Is one of your friends or family currently obsessed with this “anime” thing and you have no idea what gift he or she would like? Check out our recommendations for ideas on the perfect anime-related gift. I have no idea what the anime fan in my life is watching! Hmmm well, that’s a problem. Like…

Naruto Will Be Turned into… Musical Theatre 

Singing ninja, what could go wrong? Well, everything, but who knows, it might be good. You know, why not? Persona has already been turned into a play. So has BlazBlue. And Ace Attorney was made into several musicals Dubbed Live Spectacle Naruto, the stage version features actors Kodai Matsuoka as Naruto, Ryuji Sato as Sasuke,…

Adventures in Tragic Amiibo Packaging

Nintendo fans are used to a level of quality. A seal of approval, if you will. In the past, “Nintendo” has meant durable hardware and well-made video games. Nintendo means “polished” and “good presentation.” Nobody, it seems, has told this to Amiibos. Forget the differences between what we were promised and what we got. Just…

When Games PR Stunts Went Mad

Back in the early 2000s one company ruled when it came to getting attention. From pigeons trained to ruin Wimbledon to people paid to change their names to Turok, Acclaim was the king of press-baiting PR. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK It’s likely you’ve heard mention of some of Acclaim’s more famous campaigns.…

Yamato 2199‘s Movie Feels like a Second Season Pilot

On the heels of an incredibly disappointing re-cap movie, space opera epic Yamato 2199 returned to the silver screen this past weekend in Japan with Yamato 2199: Ark of the Stars—a film that is less a stand-alone story and more of a beginning for a whole new epic. [Note: This review contains spoilers for the…

The Biggest Pokémon Center in Japan Opens

Best part? It’s called Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo. Fitting, because today saw mega lines. The opening in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro saw a slew of limited edition goods, like a plush toy Pikachu dressed as Charizard. There were also little figurine versions. These were only slated to go on sale from today until Sunday, making them rare…

Report: Sony Making Super Mario Bros. Movie

Well. This is one of the weirdest things we’ve heard in a long time. If you’ve missed it, Sony Pictures – the company’s movie studio business – was recentlyhacked. The contents of what was obtained from the breach are still being sifted through, but according to a report on Buzzfeed, there’s a secret business deal…

If Only Michael Bay’s Transformers Had Looked Like This

Carlos Nuñez de Castro Torres is a Spanish concept artist and illustrator who has most recently worked on the Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow series. Would it have been that hard for the designers on Michael Bay’s Transformers movies to do something like this? This Starscream has some of the organic complexity they went for, but…