I Can’t Believe These $18,000 Evangelion Statues Sold Out in Minutes

Often, when Japanese companies offer ridiculously expensive, limited edition products, I kind of shrug my shoulders. “Nobody’s gonna buy this,” I think. Well, this time I was wrong. Yesterday, Kotaku reported that 7-Eleven Japan was offering twenty five limited edition Evangelion Unit-01 statues, priced at 1.836 million yen (or US$17,892). According to Sankei News, within…

Video Shows How Far Project CARS Has Come in Two Years

One racetrack, one car, one game, two years apart. From the foliage to the road textures and the overall colors, the changes are quite noticeable. The eight-minute clip comes courtesy of Adrián Bermúdez, aka ADRIANF1esp, who is also responsible for this spring’sProject CARS-to-real-life comparison video. Here, he races across the same track in two different…

Your Rival in Keiji Inafune’s Next Game is Basically Mega Man

In Azure Striker Gunvolt, you play the role of the electricity manipulating Gunvolt. If you thought that with Keiji Inafune as producer, Gunvolt would be just another enemy power-stealing Mega Man clone, worry not – That’s your rival character. Produced by Keiji Inafune and developed by Inti Creates, Azure Striker Gunvolt is an upcoming 2D…

Hearing “Ebola” After Eating Bat Meat Can’t Be Good

On August 4, one of Japan’s largest newspapers, the Asahi Shimbun, published a story on eating bat meat. You know what happened that same day? Another Japanese site warned that bat meat could be spreading Ebola. That’s unfortunate timing. The Asahi Shimbun article was titled “I Tried Eating a Whole Bat.” The writer described her…

Regarding those misconstrued Studio Ghibli comments Kotaku previously pointed out, producer Toshio Suzuki recently said he was talking about changing the the way Studio Ghibli works. What’s more, he said, “It looks like Hayao Miyazaki also wants to make something.” There’s talk of Miyazaki doing an animated short, which wouldn’t break his retirement from animated…

I Had No Idea Electric Guitars Were So Damn Dangerous

Well, they are electric. But, I guess I’d never really thought about it. But if you’ve never wondered what happens if there isn’t proper grounding, watch this. That’s Bae Chul-soo, the singer for the legendary Korean band Song Gol Meh. The clip is super old, but was recently unearthed on Japanese site Livedoor News. The…

Game Of Thrones Subway Map Is A Handy Guide To Westeros Travel

Michael Tyznik, a graphic designer, has built something that could have saved some folks – Arya and The Hound especially – a lot of time and bother. It’s a subway map for the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. I love that not only does it look great, but the lines and stations serve a kind of…

Gordon Freeman Is A (Relatively) Tiny Murder Machine

Artist Andrew McGee, who did something similarfor Shadow of the Colossus, returns with another “for scale” pic, this time for Half-Life 2. Funny how size, while looking impressive on paper, means so little in that game. I’d fight 1000 Striders before taking on a single Poison Headcrab. Half-Life 2: Freeman vs. Combine [DeviantArt]

If you want to see what marketing regret looks like, scroll down this Twitter thread, as folks respond to Nintendo’s question to “tell us what you love about” Princess Peach.

4344739’s channel modded a 3DS so they could use a Gamecube controller on it. Woah. Suddenly, portable Smash Bros actually sounds enticing! (Via Tiny Cartridge)

It Took Seven Years To Find 400 Stunts In Halo

The Ultimate Stunting Tutorial is a tremendous effort by dozens of people who came together in the name of doing awesome stuff in the original Halo. Flips. Explosions. Balancing acts. Vehicle launches. Defying physics. UST has it all. Best of all, as the name implies, the video series—which takes place entirely in Blood Gulch—teaches you…