Over the last week as I have spent more and more time with Bravely Default: Flying Fairy—a Final Fantasy in all but name—I have found myself thinking about the classic Final Fantasies and how they compare with the most modern non-MMO iteration, Final Fantasy XIII. When I first played FFXIII, many months before it came…
HRP-4C Miim is a humanoid robot, kind of like Asimo, but cuter. Japanese researchers toiled away for years in order to bring her to life, enabling her to walk and bow. And soon, she’ll be immortalized as a collectible. According to Tomopop, next February, Miim is getting a snap together figure that is posable. It…
I vividly remember watching the Nintendo press conference right before the Tokyo Game Show in 2011 where they announced Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. I remember because I could not stop laughing for a good ten minutes after I saw the nonsensical title pop across my screen. I dismissed the game based on its name alone…
In 2007, Silicon Knights sued Epic over issues with the Unreal Engine (that it was unfinished and, thus, sabotaged Silicon Knights’ work). Epic won the legal tussle earlier this year and was awarded US$4.45 million. The headaches for Silicon Knights don’t end there. NeoGAF member Xenon noticed that page 41 of the court documents give…
As I’ve said before, I was a fan of the Valkyria Chronicles series from the moment I first saw its debut trailer. Not only was it beautiful but also it got me, a man who never liked strategy games growing up, to spend countless hours on them. I love the series (though VC2 has more…
Jigoku (地獄) is the Japanese word for hell. Jigoku is Japanese Buddhist hell, where brutal and bloody penitence is doled out. It’s also the subject of a picture book for children. The book is called A Picture Book of Jigoku, and it is a best seller—a best seller that makes some children very scared. Adults,…
Japan’s CyberGadget is rolling out a “3DS dedicated” AR card holder. Sure, it only costs ¥500, and it can hold 120 AR cards, but I’m honestly thinking of one good reason why this product needed to be made. I’m also trying to think of the last time I used AR cards with my 3DS. CYBER・ARカードホルダー（3DS用)…
Italy looks like a boot. Romania looks kind of like a fish. And the United Kingdom? The country certainly has a distinctive shape—a shape that Japan turned into an anime girl. As website Japan Sugoi pointed out this week, a thread popped up on bulletin board 2ch online in Japan last fall. In it, the…
When you think Victoria’s Secret, you probably think lingerie. Makes sense! Because that’s exactly what the company makes and sells. You, however, do not think Japanese animation. Right now, though, you will. That’s because the famed underwear maker showed an unlikely inspiration at its recent fashion show. On November 7, Victoria’s Secret had its models…
North Americans, you can get the PC version of BioShock for free. Right here
The Metal Gear series is a pretty popular one with cosplayers, both because it’s a famous franchise but also because a lot of the costumes are pretty easy to make! Not this one. This Grayfox costume looks like it took some serious work, not just to construct, but also to actually wear, since it can’t…
Once was a time the name “BioWare” meant something. That you were going to get a game, most likely an RPG, with a rich world and expansive story-telling. It would also probably be awesome. But ever since EA bought the company, BioWare has become more of a brand, used not only for “traditional” projects like…
Gearbox will be trying next year, but for around a decade now, it’s been almost impossible to make a better Aliens game than Rebellion’s classic series on the PC. So if new games can’t beat the old ones for design and atmosphere, you may as well just copy them. Modder oldschool.Dave has posted progress work…
“Regent”, a painting by artist Sergey Kolesov, was a winner at this year’s Into the Pixel, an annual competition which “brings together experts from the traditional fine art world and the interactive entertainment industry to display and discuss the art of the video game”. It’s from Dishonored, and we’ve featured it here before as part…
It was almost a year ago to the day that Texas court-at-law judge William Adams was caught on film beating his disabled daughter Hillary after he had caught her illegally downloading video games. While the incident in question had actually taken place all the way back in 2004, the fact it was made public in…
It’s rare we get a look at the very ground level of console hardware design, but that’s what we got this week with an Iwata Asks segment on Nintendo’s website, which shows an adorable little cardboard mock-up of a Wii U controller, used to quickly test out various possible uses for the giant pad. I…
Rockstar dropped a bit of a surprise earlier today when it revealed Grand Theft Auto V wasn’t going to be a big game, it was going to be freaking huge. Like, bigger than GTAIV, San Andreas and Red Dead combined. But just how big is freaking huge? Maybe the above image can help. It shows…
Team Fortress 2’s new Mann vs Machine mode gets surprisingly thoughtful in this series of pieces done by artist biggreenpepper tf2 Heavy MVM [DeviantArt, via Dotcore]
It’s been a long day here in my corner of Kotaku, so let’s wind things down with this video of Meysi, a teeny tiny polish terrier that may well be the world’s smallest dog. If Tina gets to post her cat videos, I get to post my dogs from time to time. Man, I would…
Aspyr is bringing Borderlands 2 to the Mac on Nov. 20. It’s delivering the same drop-in/out co-op action as the PC.
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