Ubisoft’s two big holiday releases don’t just share numerals and second words starting with “cr”. They also both begin, bizarrely, with almost exactly the same quote. Yes, of all the books, movies, TV shows and historical figures that are out there for developers to lift quotes from, both Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed III…
E.X. Troopers is a spin-off title to Capcom’s Lost Planet series—though it may not seem like it at first glance. Unlike the realistic graphical style of the main series of games, E.X. Troopers is presented entirely in a manga-esque style. The game’s cutscenes even come complete with panel frames and written onomatopoeic sound effects. The…
You know in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, when Lt. Price and Cpt. MacMillan wear those “ghillie suits“? The camo outfits look like they’re wearing grass and foliage. Those come in handy while sneaking about the Russian wilderness. They’re less handy when in urban jungle known as Tokyo. Or are they? Japanese site Rocket…
Remember that Microsoft Killer Instinct trademark? Seems it’s been knocked down by a TV show with the same name.
“This guy is like totally reading a dirty magazine on the train,” the high school student’s tweet read. Accompanying the tweet was a photo a man, his legs pressed close as he read a magazine. The tweet, and the visible photo of his face set off a flurry of comments online in Japan. This man…
The latest entry in Kotobukiya’s bishoujo line of cute figures is Emili “Lili” de Rochefort. She joins Julia Chang, Alisa Bosconovich, among others in the bishoujo line. The figurine will be out next April in Japan. If this is your thing, there’s more in the above gallery. TEKKEN美少女 リリ (フィギュア) [Hobby Search] Kotaku East is…
PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida is busy playing with his new Wii U. If you have any words of advice, here’s his Twitter
Female characters wearing large headphones is a trope in Japanese anime. The headphones make the characters’ heads look smaller, thus, by anime standards, appear “cuter”. Tropes aside, the headphones are often based on real products. But which ones? In the past few years, on anime sites, music sites, and anime music sites, audiophiles and casual…
In Japan, there are tons of adult movies based on video games and anime. A good way to judge the popularity of a game or a cartoon is to see if it’s inspiring blue movie adaptations. Is new anime Sword Art Online popular in Japan? Well, as porn star Hibiki Otsuki has revealed, she is…
This year has been a great year to be a Macross fan. To celebrate the franchise’s 30th Anniversary, there has been a new movie, concerts, a TV documentary, and the release of the anime classic Macross: Do You Remember Love? on Blu-ray. Yet, the best may be yet to come in the form of the…
Perhaps you don’t have a job. Or maybe you want a new challenge, but you don’t know what you want to do with your life. If you are under 45 years old, you don’t drink, you don’t smoke, you don’t use perfume, and you don’t have nasal problems, there’s a career waiting for you in…
There’s a point in every gamer’s life as they get older when they realize that with work and everything else going on in their lives, they just don’t really have time to play every game they want to anymore—no matter how good it is reported to be. And after spending over four years constantly “planning…
The magnificently-named Randis Albion takes the humble chocobo and toughens it up in this beautiful piece, which he’s hoping will get him a meeting with legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. You can see the full image below. Go Chocobo Go! [CGHub, via Super Punch]
There’s been a ton of media based on Capcom’s Street Fighter II series. Some bad movies, some good anime, some decent comics. This is none of those things. It’s a terrible comic. But terrible in a great way. Bad art, bad romance, bad fight scenes… if I’d been 13 when I read this, as I…
The proposed LA Game Space has hit its funding goal. Congrats!
Earlier this year, I killed some time with Tiny Barbarian, an adorable little platformer made by indie dev Michael Stearns. Good news for me, and hopefully Michael too: evolving from its “download for free” roots, it’s being turned into a bigger thing With a new engine, more features and just promising to be an all-around…
You play both Dead Space games at a time when the world has already gone to shit. Just about everyone’s dead, and the place is a mess. But in designing the world of Dead Space, it was handy to see what things were like before the bad stuff went down, when people were breathing and…
Free Radical co-founder Steve Ellis raised some eyebrows last week when he said that the mythical Star Wars: Battlefront III, the dead game that just will not die, was “99% done” at his studio when publishers pulled the plug. It was a weird thing to say, since surely things like quality assurance and other testing…
There’s a special Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance PS3 to mark the game’s release in Japan. Priced at ¥31,960, the bundle comes with a 250GB PlayStation 3, a special Rising DualShock 3, a download code for a customized PS3 wallpaper, a download code for a limited edition Cyborg Ninja customized in-game suit and a copy of…
Kotaku reader Geo “Tyrannicon” Paradissis is back with another of his “Great Battles of Skyrim” series of machinima videos, this time transforming the nordic fantasy landscape into… a giant samurai showdown. With dragons. Of course. Skyrim: Battle of the Samurai (Machinima Interactive Film Festival) [YouTube]
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