How romantic! Japanese computer peripheral maker I-O Data is teaming up with a confectionery maker named Maple House for a special campaign in which three lucky individuals will get chocolate that’s shaped like a memory circuit board. Because additional memory looks delicious. The boards are incredibly detailed and realistic—so much so that I-O Data is…
Sweeping landscapes. Floating ruins, trees and lava falls. February 12. Sega’s teasing something, but what? Any ideas?
Toukiden is the new PS Vita game from Tecmo Koei. Originally announced as an entirely new title from the Omega-Force development team (of Dynasty Warriors fame), the game trailer showed a female warrior hacking up and killing a giant creature in a very medieval Japan sort of setting. Well, according to information released to Weekly…
Last week, the internet went mental. Sony announced it would be holding an event later this month in New York City—an event to unveil the PlayStation 4, apparently. The hype train pulled into the station, and every Sony diehard in sight hopped on. In the wake of “Oh shit, cannot wait” and the “Is this…
As previously reported, in Soul Sacrifice, players will find themselves making a lot of different choices as they progress through the story of a sacrificial lamb fighting through an evil sorcerer’s past in the form of a living book to gain the power to fight for his/her freedom. Japan’s gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu has revealed…
After visiting a friend in Hong Kong, Swedish photographer Christian Åslund thought the streets below looked like the best video game he had never played. The result is this tribute to 2D gaming. According to website Hong Wrong, to make the landscape appear flat, Åslund shot from above, using a telephoto lens. Often while laying…
Fifty-five percent of Chinese computers are infected with malware. Yikes!
Dicks, why does it always have to be dicks? Before the Wii U’s user forum, dubbed the Miiverse, launched, I said that it would be a dick drawing inferno. Little did I know that Japanese Xbox users would launch their own Miiverse clone. But, I’ll tell you what, I sure saw the dick drawings coming.…
This morning, Japan’s Asahi News ran a story on the PS4. It included several things we’ve heard before, such as how the PS4 will allow you to share things with friends while playing (more here in a previous story) and that it will come with a DualShock 3 shaped controller—which Kotaku previously reported (Meanwhile, the…
When I rolled out of bed this morning, I never expected the world would decide to present 2009’s biggest internet sensation singing the theme song to 2011’s biggest video game in… 2013. A little late on both fronts, then, but it’s not without a certain charm. Or, it will be, once I manage to get…
Legendary British special effects wizard Stuart Freeborn, who is responsible for some of science fiction’s most memorable on-screen characters, has passed away at the age of 98. Freeborn, who made the ape-men from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, will be remembered most for his contributions in the Star Wars franchise, where his puppet-building and make-up skills led…
This incredible, miniature rendition of Winterfell—as it’s seen in the opening credits to the Game of Thrones TV show—was done by Daniel Ammann. if you’ve got access to a 3D printer, or as I like to call them “boxes of dark sorcery”, he’s made the plans for the model publicly available, so you can print…
A group of very serious fans want to make a web series based on Skyrim. So far, so modern internet, but what’s setting the pitch for Skyrim: The Shadow Cult apart is the level of professionalism that’s going into the production. Instead of just tossing robes on a few friends and letting computer effects do…
Maybe it’s because Western artists are dealing with a genre that’s so close to their own culture and history (or at least close to it), but there’s a reason the majority (though not all!) of fantasy art ends up looking the same. It tends to stick too close to the real deal. Unless it’s some…
Waaaay back in time, long before even the first Far Cry was released, Crytek were working on a game called Engalus. Envisaged as a first-person game with an emphasis on story and role-playing, it actually made a small public appearance in 2000 as a tech demo for Nvidia before disappearing from sight, never to be…
Ars Technica’s Kyle Orland recently found a security issue with Valve’s online marketplace, Steam. “Out of respect for the privacy of Steam’s more than 50 million users”, Ars didn’t immediately publish the article. Instead, they contacted Valve. Barely three hours after being notified, the exploit had been fixed. That’s fast. But what’s really interesting is…
It’s about as ubiquitous a term in science fiction—and video games—as “starship”, “lightspeed” and “datapad”, but an author at the centre of a copyright struggle claims that Games Workshop, the company behind the Warhammer 40K franchise, is trying to take legal possession of the term “space marine”. Author MCA Hogarth, who wrote the book “Spots…
You may have gotten awfully excited today when you read that not only is JJ Abrams talking to Valve about making a game, he’s also talking about making a movie with the studio. That’s OK! Perfectly understandable. He’s a talented guy, and the prospect of seeing Gordon Freeman on the silver screen is enough to…
Horse_ebooks, the automated spam Twitter account that promotes e-books by quoting random lines from them, is one of the most famous Twitter accounts out there. Much of the appeal is that despite being complete word salad, it manages to say absurd if not insightful things. But it’s not stuff that would get you a date……
Probably the best thing on the internet today is the Tumblr “things fitting perfectly into things.” Which sums up the mission goal pretty neatly. Drinks fitting into other drinks, yoghurt fitting into sinkholes, God, the mind boggles the more you scroll down the page. The infinite happy coincidences we walk past every day without realising.…
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