Some Lucky Humans Got To Sit In A Macross Cockpit

The Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum – located in Takarazuka, home to this goodness – has been running an exhibit lately that would have made my inner seven year-old’s brain explode. As part of its Macross: The Museum exhibit, there to celebrate the series’ 30th anniversary, there’s an amazing recreation of a VF-1 cockpit from the…

Most Ouya Owners Aren’t Buying A Damn Thing

When you play an Ouya, you can try a demo of every single game available, without ever having to buy a thing. Which is exactly what most owners of the tiny Android console are doing. In an interview with The Verge, CEO Julie Uhrman has said that while “Monetization on Ouya is so far better…

A Board Game About Prison Gangs (And Yes, There Are Shivs)

The Oleg Story is a board game about being in prison. You’re not trying to get out of the place. Just get by. Maybe you’ll be someone’s special friend. Maybe you’ll be a bully. Maybe you’ll bully the bullies. Maybe you’ll team up and just…I don’t know, pump iron and get tattoos. Each player controls…

Wow, There Was A Daytona USA That Was Also A Little Bit…RPG

It wasn’t made by Sega, sadly, but whatever: around 2003-04, there was an arcade version of Daytona USA going around that added RPG elements to the famous racer. Put together by modders, it was called Daytona USA : GTX 2004, and featured a range of little changes and improvements to the original like upgraded visuals. The…

Now Video Game Magazines Are Getting Hacked

People hacking video game companies, that I get. But really, messing with a video game news outlet? That’s a bit much. Last Friday, moderators on the PC Gamer forums noticed some “suspicious activity”. Turns out a script had somehow been hidden in a forum post that had been designed to steal a user’s profile information…

Cosplay That’s Kickin’ Like Bruce Lee

It’s another bumper cosplay roundup this week, as some late Comic-Con uploads are joined by shots that are just awesome, regardless of the time of year. Not to take anything away from some of the more complex builds featured this week – that Charr is mighty impressive – but my favourite might be Leon Chiro’s…

The Best Zelda Movie That Doesn’t Have A Cosplaying Link In It

See? What’s even funnier is that the guy’s actually in a pretty good doom band. Lost Woods on accordion…on a unicycle…in the woods [YouTube, via Geekologie]

The Biggest Space Fight In History Involved Over 4000 Pilots

There’s an epic battle going on in EVE Online right now, involving around 4000 people and enough space hardware to make screenshots look like bee swarms. It’s taking place in the 6VDT system, and the two sides are CFC/Goon and the TEST Alliance. UPDATE –Looks like TEST Alliance are bugging out. You can watch it…

From the Mouths of Babes …

If David Vonderhaar, design director for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, thought shining a light on the rancid Twitter spew coming from the game’s so-called fans would curb those reactions, well, think again. It’s still going strong, and someone’s curating it all. Consider this a to-block list for your own Twitter feed.

We’ve seen first-person representations of Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 before. If you’ve ever pondered what Green Hill Zone’s Act 1 from Sonic the Hedgehog would look like in first-person view, here’s a virtuoso remake of the stage, courtesy of Machinima.

A Locker-Room Talk Might Have Spared Us From Yesterday’s Fez Fiasco

The things I said were out of line and the mouth that said them would soon be out of alignment, too. That’s the polite version of a one-way conversation about 20 years ago in a far off arena, when the difference between criticism and a harangue was expressed to me in very physical terms. In…

The Week in Games: Onward to August

Interceptor Entertainment’s revival of Rise of the Triad highlights this week as video games close out a slow July and look to a hotter August. Other releases include Cloudberry Kingdom and a collector’s edition for Terraria Tuesday • Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (PC) • Terraria: Collector’s Edition (360, PS3) • Cities in Motion…

You Only Threaten the Ones You Love …

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. ‘Loud Xbox’ Creates a Domestic Disturbance SPRING HILL, Fla.—An…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Sharksassin

Shark Week returns next weekend, so to celebrate it, let’s goof on the obvious sharksploitation in the latest screenshots for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Either the image itself here offers something hilarious, or a well placed star, or well chosen still from Sharknado could help bring the funny, too. Snuffy the Seal dying a…

Dota 2 Players Add $1 Million to The International’s Prize Pool

The International, the world’s largest Dota 2 championship tournament, commences on Friday with group stage play. This year the field would be competing for a $1.6 million prize pool, but that’s been fattened by a million thanks to the sale of a virtual item to their fellow gamers, and the pot may increase. The Dota…

Sunday Comics: Extreme Makeover

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by our readership. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 22. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published July…

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DARG BLARGIT!!

This is the first time I’ve seen anything remotely resembling a curse in-game. Needless to say I think this is amazing. In unrelated news, Clay’s fishing rod kinda looks like a stump arm.

Ingenious idea: turn your museum into a hotel!

My lazy villagers always make me feel less lazy by comparison, and then I remember that they are fictional, virtual people and I am a real person with a job and stuff. Damn it!

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Comic-Con Cosplay Extravaganza: The Winners

Well, now we know what was behind the curtain of XCOM’s kiddie show, and we know it was indeed extraterrestrial. A triptych of cosplayers from San Diego Comic-Con supplied the material for this week’s ‘Shop contest, and we have two rare double-finalists inside, including overall No. 1 and repeat all-star arniejolt! Rounding out the rest…