Make Any Anime or Game Character Totally Uncool

In Japan, there’s an inexpensive clothing chain called Shimamura (しまむら). Online, people tend to make fun of Shimamura and say it’s “not cool.” But can it make anything seem dorky? One meme tried to find out. Below is an actual Shimamura. Above the shop’s logo, it reads, “Fashion Center” in Japanese. Thing is, many in…

This Taiwanese 3DS Seems Rare

In Taiwan, Nintendo is localizing Doraemon: Nobita’s Number Adventure, which, of course, features the iconic blue robotic cat Doraemon. To mark the game’s release, Nintendo is holding a contest in which five lucky people can win the above 3DS. As Siliconera points out, that makes this one rare—and incredibly collectible—3DS handheld. This Doraemon 3DS Will…

Why There Won’t Be Akira 2

Katsuhiro Otomo created the now classic Akira manga. He brought that to the screen as a groundbreaking anime. And Otomo is not interested in making a sequel. In a Japanese TV interview earlier this summer, Otomo talked about his latest effort, the anime Short Peace. Otomo also talked about why he continued to produce varied…

Telltale’s Fables Game Looks Like A Living Comic Book

The art for Telltale’s upcoming The Wolf Among Us, based on Bill Willingham’s Fables comics, looked great from the start. Thankfully, turns out the game looks just as good in action. IGN‘s got an exclusive first trailer for The Wolf Among Us, which shows some bits of Bigby Wolf’s adventure in action—the confidence of Telltale’s…

NFL’s Sunday Ticket Pulled from PlayStation 3

DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket, the service delivering all over-the-air NFL games broadcast on Sunday afternoons during the league’s regular season, will no longer be offered on the PlayStation 3. IGN reports that Sony has confirmed the end of the arrangement. For the past two years, Sunday Ticket had been offered over PlayStation Network through an…

So…there’s a fanfic about Spider-Man recruiting Anita Sarkeesian to stop Randy Pitchford and the Green Goblin from resurrecting Duke Nukem. Uh, yeah, just, y’know. Read it. It’s kind of hilarious.

Dragon’s Dogma’s Loopy Backstory, Summed Up In Record Time

Ah, Dragon’s Dogma. The massive RPG that I’ve never had a chance to play, that proved so divisive among readers and critics, and that really does have a loopy enough narrative setup to get me intrigued. I tell myself that one day, I’ll go play it. But I don’t know. There are too many games,…

Your Handy Dandy (Satirical) Guide To Becoming YouTube Famous

If you’ve ever watched a YouTube video, chances are you’ve come across the tactics JelloApocalypse makes fun of here—methods which people use to try to get YOUTUBE FAMOUS. Heck, if you’ve ever made YouTube videos, you might even be guilty of some of this stuff! I for one find it hilarious when people mash their…

Between Patricia’s review and this nifty launch trailer, I sure do find myself wanting to play Payday 2. Even if the game itself isn’t in super-slow-mo.

Running with Madden’s ‘Anti-Turbo’ Button is an Imprecise Task

Everyone sits on the turbo button in a sports video game. Its use was so ubiquitous, Madden‘s makers even removed turbo, before bringing it back. If the Madden NFL 25 demo is any indication, players will now clamp on two triggers: good old turbo, or a “precision modifier” that didn’t exactly win me over when…

There were tons of personnel changes at Zynga, announced today by ex-Xbox boss and new Zynga boss Don Mattrick. The CTO, COO and Chief People Officer are out. Read through the changes and your head may spin. Big changes continue at the house of FarmVille

Now You Can Paint Your Chivalry Character Pretty, Pretty Colors

When I hear the phrase “Medieval Warfare,” I mostly think of dark colors, grey armor, and black blood spraying upon ramparts. I don’t really think of pretty colors. But to celebrate their game’s runaway success (it sold a not-too-shabby 1.2 million copies since its launch 9 months ago), the people who make Chivalry: Medieval Warfare…

Kickstarter’s got some great words of caution about stretch goals, and the takeaway for gamers is clear: think before you donate to a project with too many of them.

The Cast of Final Fantasy VII, 3D-Printed. It’s Fantastic.

We’vefeatured the work of Joaquin Baldwin before, but now he’s back with a full set of Final Fantasy VII low-poly figures—and they’re up for sale, too. Recognize everyone? Here are a couple more shots to help you out: If the figurines are of interest, you can purchase them here.Otherwise, kind of amazing how well the…

The Unceasing Beauty Of Portal 2

Aperture Science, man. The only abandoned, robot-infested lab I’d ever want to visit more than once. This video is part of “Other Places,” a series from Ultrabrilliant detailing the unattended motion and stillness of unattended video game backdrops. It’s super cool. As it happens, I’ve been returning to Portal 2 a bit lately, and remain…

Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches: The Kotaku Review

Dunwall is a hard city full of hard people—a plague-rotted concrete prison inhabited by exhausted souls who regularly seem shocked that they’re still alive. It’s easy to forget, while stalking rooftops and slashing your way through Dishonored‘s starring city, that Dunwall only exists when you’re in it. No people reside here; there are no homes…

There’s A Lot To Like In This Assassin’s Creed IV Stealth Demo

Stealth. Long has it been the bugbear of the Assassin’s Creed series. The more swashbuckling, pirate-ship helm-ing and tree-climbing Ubisoft adds, the less they seem to mind that the stealth in their stealth game just isn’t that fun. Might that change this time around? Maybe? Hmm. IGN has posted a new walkthrough video in which…

A Novel About the Time All the Space Invaders Machines Went Away

If you remember the heyday of giant arcade halls filled with stand-up coin-op machines, then you’ll also remember that one day they seemingly all disappeared. What was it like to live through that bygone era? The Final Day at Westfield Arcade—a new novel by Andy Hunt—explores what it felt like to have a digital childhood…

Spartan Assault May Be Different, But It Tastes Like Halo To Me

Running across alien terrain in sexy armor, firing machine guns, tossing sticky grenades, mounting turrets, jacking vehicles and slaughtering grunts and elites by the dozens? This is Halo, only now we’re up above it instead of down in it. Halo: Spartan Assaultis a twin-stick shooter crafted by Microsoft’s 343 Studios and Vanguard Entertainment, the developers…

This Is How You Cosplay Metal Gear Rising Characters

Baltimore hosted the 20th Otakon convention last weekend, full of pop culture celebration and cosplayers. One particular group of four people—Pro Voltage—did a hell of a job showing off their Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance cosplay, dressing up as Raiden, Monsoon, Mistral and—in this case, transforming to—Bladewolf. Check the gallery below for more Bladewolf (that thing…