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Man Carrying a Knife Storms Anime Event in Tokyo
Over the weekend, an event for Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation ended after a man allegedly stormed the theater stage, wielding a weapon and reportedly demanding to see one of the anime’s voice actresses. The event, held on Saturday in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro, premiered the first two episodes of upcoming Hyperdimension Neptunia animated program, which is based…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 24, 2013 - Kotaku East
Japanese Artist Wants To Make a Vagina Boat
Japanese artist Rokudenashiko has a dream. She wants to make a “pussy boat”, like an actual boat (well canoe). Oh, she also wants people to chill out about vaginas, too. Warning: This article has content some readers might find objectionable. Rokudenashiko creates dioramas with rather unique terrains: plastic molds of her vagina. Originally, the artist…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 24, 2013 - Uncategorized
District 9 Action Figures Are Fokkin’ Terrific
The second thing I thought after I saw District 9, right after “holy shit”, was “man, I hope they release action figures for that mech”. Sadly, we’re a few years on and that hasn’t happened, but where official merch is found wanting, custom builders can get the job done. Built to “GI Joe” scale (so…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 24, 2013 - Uncategorized
Turning A Model Into A “Clicker” From The Last Of Us
Now that the game’s out, and it’s rather good, you can bet we’ll be up to our eyeballs in cosplay paying homage to The Last of Us. Cosplay that’s going to have to work very hard to beat this effort, which transformed a model from a regular human into a “clicker”, one of the worst…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 24, 2013 - Uncategorized
Game Of Thrones LEGO Needs To Happen Right This Instant
It never will, of course. A show with that much blood and rude bits will never get LEGO’s stamp of commercial approval. But oh, with these custom-made pieces, we can dream. Builder Albert “miniBIGS” Hernadi is selling these Game of Thrones minifigs on his Etsy page, with five characters from the show’s first season/first book…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Ellen Page Says The Last Of Us’ Ellie “Ripped Off My Likeness”
There’s no getting around it. Even after a slight redesign, anyone who plays The Last Of Us will know that the character of Ellie has a lot in common with the actor Ellen Page, from her appearance to her voice. It’s not actually her, of course. Page had no involvement in The Last Of Us…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Zillion-Dollar Madden Lawsuit Survives Another Verdict
Despite all efforts to kill it, the lawsuit over who really made the Madden we all play today keeps chugging along. A jury ruled that a statute of limitations does not apply to the claim of Robin Antonick, credited on the cover of the first John Madden Football for PCs back in 1988. This would…
By Owen Good Published June 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
An Xbox 180 Drags Sports Back From the Future of Gaming
Until Wednesday there seemed to be very little selling the Xbox One to a sports video gamer. The questionable ability to rent, share or re-sell its games—fundamental to a culture built on annual releases and punching friends on the couch—was only the beginning. It’s a console that cost $100 more than its competitor, with no…
By Owen Good Published June 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Ultra-Real Assault Rifle Controller Pushes Ahead Despite Uproar
We first got wind of the “Delta Six,” a super-realistic assault-rifle controller for those who like to put the FP into their FPSes, back in October. Predictably, the gun’s purpose and look didn’t play well in mainstream coverage, so it was pulled off the market. Now it’s back, after a successful $200,000 Kickstarter. Delta Six…
By Owen Good Published June 23, 2013 - Culture
The Week in Games: Get Your Motor Running
Summer begins with some noteworthy names releasing on consoles this week—Ride to Hell: Retribution, a title first spoken five years ago, finally arrives. Deadpool shows up to lay waste to the fourth wall, as he usually does, and Hotline Miami at last hits consoles with a PS3 and Vita release. Today • Game & Wario…
By Dealzon Published June 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Police Blotter: Someone Stole an Xbox 360 from the U.S. Open
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. Xbox 360 Tent Finishes 1-Under for the Tournament ARDMORE,…
By Owen Good Published June 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Dragon Quest X Coming to PC in Japan
Dragon Quest X was conspicuously absent from E3 and its Wii U version may not make it to the west. A PC version might stand a better chance, though, and Siliconera reports Japan is getting Dragon Quest X on PC at the end of September. Currently a beta for the PC version is underway (not…
By Owen Good Published June 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Burn This Villager
The Villager’s haunting, dead-eyed look has gotten a lot of treatment since his introduction as a new Smash Bros. fighter, but he hasn’t yet gotten the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest treatment. Let’s take care of that this week. While The Villager already has a submission pending on Know Your Meme, and there’s a ton of crap…
By Owen Good Published June 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Ding! FAA May Roll Back Stupid Restrictions on Electronic Device Use
Good news for the flying, gaming public: The Federal Aviation Administration’s bullshit, insulting-to-the-intelligence rules for the use of “approved portable electronic devices” are due to be relaxed, allowing for gate-to-gate use of your iPad, 3DS, Android phone or whatever. This could come as early as September. That’s according to reports by the Wall Street Journal…
By Owen Good Published June 23, 2013 - Culture
Sunday Comics: A Pocket Full of Whoopass
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. Brawl In The Family by Matthew Taranto. Published June 21. Read more of Brawl In The Family Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
By Owen Good Published June 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Roll Out the Barrel: The Winners
Plenty of great entries for this week’s ‘Shop Contest, drawing on a dynamic trio photo-op comprising Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata, Reggie Fils-Aime, and Shigeru Miyamoto. How do you win with that exploitable? I’ll give you advice: Go to E3, screw up like I know you will, and wind up in a barrel, like dystopika! If you’re…
By Owen Good Published June 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
Mind-Controlled Pong is One Step Toward a World Cup Kickoff
Controlling games with brainwaves is a vogue research subject—Patricia Hernandez herself tested out a demo that involved tossing trucks telekinetically—but a team of researchers have applied it to a competitive game—Pong—with the goal of allowing a paralyzed person to make the ceremonial kickoff of the 2014 World Cup. Duke University showed off its work to…
By Owen Good Published June 22, 2013 -
Uncategorized‘Tactical Marketing Decision’ Means It’s Just Dragon Age: Inquisition
What was Dragon Age III: Inquisition has now got rid of the eye-eye-eye. Losing el numero three-o may seem like a minor thing, but to Electronic Arts, it was a “tactical marketing decision.” Frank Gibeau, the boss of EA Games, acknowledged to IGN that there’s a debate over whether numbers in sequels work, don’t work,…
By Owen Good Published June 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
Again, NBA Live Quietly Distances Itself From Past Failures
Reading between the lines of an open letter by NBA Live‘s new executive producer, one understands that whatever comes next in that franchise is really no continuation of last year’s effort, which, like its 2010 predecessor, was aborted a few weeks before its assumed date of release. Remember, at the time, EA Sports said it…
By Owen Good Published June 22, 2013