How Japan Turned the United Kingdom into a Cute Anime Girl

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…

Victoria’s Secret Features an Unexpected Anime Inspiration

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

Metal Gear Cosplay, Done Right

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…

There’s One Less BioWare Studio to Worry About

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…

When Aliens Meets Crysis, Good Things Happen

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…

Got a Giant Headcrab Problem? You’ll Need More Than a Pitchfork

“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…

Judge Who Beat His Disabled Daughter for Downloading Video Games Gets His Job Back

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…

Check Out This Elaborate, Crazy-Expensive Wii U Prototype

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…

This Should Help Show Just How Big Grand Theft Auto V’s Map Might Be

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…

Am I Really a Credit to Team? What is Team, When I do Not Know Love?

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]

Quite Possibly The World’s Tiniest Terrier

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.

Grand Theft Auto V? Ha! Here’s GTA III Played to 100% Completion in Less Than Seven Hours.

The news that GTA V will be bigger than Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas, and GTA IV combined is impressive. It makes on think back to the vast expanses of GTA III, the game that pioneered huge open-world experiences. People spent weeks on that game, trying to complete every last side quest and find every…

This is What the Wii U’s Online Store Looks Like

Here’s your first look at Nintendo’s eShop. Or at least, the Japanese version. You might think it looks a little bulky, but remember, this console has a touch-screen controller, meaning the whole thing is going to be about a million times faster to get around than Microsoft or Sony’s offerings. eShop [Nintendo]

The Biggest Change To Grand Theft Auto V May Well Be Musical

Grand Theft Auto has always been a singularly musical series. From classic rock blaring over a helicopter sunset to cool jazz simmering on a rainy city night, GTA‘s many in-game radio stations, coupled with Rockstar’s seemingly infallible song-selection, makes each game’s soundtrack as good as the last one. With the recent info-drop on Grand Theft…

Double Fine’s Superheroic Smartphone Game Has Its Own Origin Story

It’s been a little while since we last saw or heard anything about Middle Manager of Justice, Double Fine’s foray into free-to-play smartphone gaming. I gave the game a go back when Double Fine first announced it, and it looks like a fun, suitably goofy take on the whole smartphone time-management sim deal. After accidentally…

How Has Assassin’s Creed III Disappointed Me? Let Me Count The Ways.

I thought I was going to love Assassin’s Creed III. From everything I’d seen, it seemed like Ubisoft was doing everything in their not-inconsiderable power to push their flagship series into brave new territory. Except… well, they didn’t manage to pull it off. Rather than taking the Assassin’s Creed series forward in some bold new…

Don’t Get Your Hopes Up for a Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Wii U Re-Release

The well regarded Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars of 2010 was probably Capcom’s least-complained-about fighting game of the past three years, probably because the Wii was absolutely useless as a DLC-delivery device. While you may still play the game on the Wii U, which has backwards compatibility with the Wii’s controllers and games library, don’t…

7 Navy SEALS Disciplined For Sharing Secrets While Consulting On Medal of Honor: Warfighter

Throughout the lead-up to its launch, Medal of Honor: Warfighter touted its authenticity as a modern-day military shooter. Over the course of its production, it consulted heavily with real-life Navy SEALs, in order to make missions more realistic. The authenticity, unfortunately, didn’t help the game, and now it turns out its hurting the SEALs too.…