When Hideo Kojima isn’t making Metal Gear games, he’s taking photos of his food. And today, those two things—games and food pics—congeal into one amazing lunch box. Kojima was at Sony’s Tokyo headquarters to check out the special PlayStation 3 bento boxes. They’re actually Metal Gear and Final Fantasy “character bento” to mark both franchise’s…
Masahiro Sakurai, who helmed Kid Icarus: Uprising, recently showed off these two new Figma Kid Icarus figures of the characters Pit and Dark Pit. Pretty nice! No word on when they’ll be released. These are the latest in Figma’s line of Nintendo figures. Previously, Kotaku reviewed the Figma Link. Figma [@Sora_Sakurai] Kotaku East is your…
As the world gets increasingly tense, cosplay nerds in Taiwan have it all figured it out: there’s no better diplomacy than cosplay diplomacy. Bless them. These photos are from the recent Petit Fancy and the Comic World events, which were held near the prestigious National Taiwan University. Many of the cosplayers enjoyed dressing up as…
Two men in military garb. They bow slightly, and their hands make the universal motion for “go first”. The text reads loosely, “After you, Prime Minister.” This ad originally appeared in 1982. And now in 2012, it’s finding an audience with a new generation of Japanese, worried about the country building up its army, going…
Don’t get too excited just yet! It’s only one Versus character (Noctis). And it’s only one drawing. What’s more, it looks vaguely like character art we saw earlier this year. But, it is apparently new, and it does feature other FF characters. Keep the dream alive! This art comes via a Kotaku reader, who says…
Next June, Japanese collectible company Kotobukiya will be releasing this 12.5″ statue of Isaac Clarke, as he appears in the upcoming Dead Space 3 He looks… well, pretty amazing. Not to mention warm, all tucked up in that nice fluffy jacket. The lighting effects you see come from LEDs in his helmet, backpack and gloves,…
Forget all these DayZ blow-ins. Before there were zombies, BI’s ArmA II was a game known for its brutal adherence to military strategy, an uncompromising sandbox in which people could get close—but not too close—to actual combat conditions. Nothing shows this more elegantly than ShackTac’s 2012 Year in Review video, which compiles the year’s best…
An unnamed but clearly wealthy and eccentric man who lives in the “Pennsylvania countryside” has allowed photographers inside his house. Which looks like it should be sitting under Bag End. Designed by architect Peter Archer, who worked with a “team of craftsmen” to complete the home, it was completed in 2004, and was modelled after…
We’ve featured the art of Morgan Yon here on Kotaku not once, but twice. Today, a third time. Why? Because it’s too good not to, that’s why. This latest batch is from Yon’s work on ZombiU, Ubisoft’s Wii U launch title set in a post-apocalyptic London. In case you couldn’t tell it was post-apocalyptic London…
Sadly, it won’t make the holiday shopping season, but toy company NECA’s replica Half-Life 2 gravity gun will be available for purchase next Spring. It’s 1:1 scale, and as you can see from the prototype below, lights up as well. Since this is the same company behind the replica Portal guns, you could probably expect…
In a great piece over on Gameranx, Jenn Frank has come up with a very long list of names. Your job? Decide which ones are video games and which ones belong to pharmaceutical drugs. Sounds ridiculous, but then you start reading, and…oh god. It’s so hard. Some are obvious, but of the 42, most will…
Ah, 1996. The future, as the front cover of Toys R’ Us’ catalogue so boldly states, is here! Or…was there. And it was only really there for some of the systems involved (sorry, Sega Saturn!) I love looking at these things. Not for the general nostalgic rush, but to see the individual games highlighted. Of…
When users began pouring into Halo’s official online forums complaining that a new map pack had been inadvertently banning them from matchmaking multiplayer, it seemed to be a widespread problem. Well, according to Microsoft, it was about as widespread as those people who had gone to post on the forum. A statement provided to Kotaku…
Some people watch A Christmas Story every year. Others watch Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Not me! I watch Bad Santa The profane and offensive film also happens to be a genuine celebration of the Christmas spirit, equally hilarious and weirdly heartfelt. It’s become my favorite holiday movie, even. This great article at The Onion A.V.…
In what’s becoming a Christmas tradition, I’m sitting down today to round up what I think were the year’s best video game trailers. And by best trailers, I mean quite literally, the best trailers. I don’t give a damn how representative they were of the finished product, or how good that finished product was, I…
SimCity’s developers had a Reddit AMA. Considering the game’s DRM, that might not have been the best idea
The mad dash to blame games or to disprove that they are responsible for violent behavior continues. This time, we’ve got a study via the Washington Post that analyzes the world’s largest video game markets. Ultimately no correlation between consuming video games and gun murders was found, despite the common misconception being that the more…
‘Tis the season for giving, sure, but this is still a bit extreme. The makers of the obscene (and funny) card game Cards Against Humanity have recently shared the financial results of their pay-what-you-want holiday expansion They sold $295,828,90 worth of expansions, and after shipping and manufacturing expenses, were sitting on $70,066.27 in profit. They…
Dear god. This isn’t hunting. It’s extinction. You can gun down the entire freakin animal kingdom in Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013, it seems. I… think I’m going to go hug my dogs now. Via Ben Abraham
I noticed something curious while playing Far Cry 3, something I hadn’t really thought about before. Sometimes, my map would denote a treasure located inside a small, dark cave. I’d go into the cave, and I’d immediately start breathing harder and feeling panicky—enough that I didn’t even care what the treasure was anymore. I just…
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