When Tekken Lets Its (Plastic) Hair Down

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…

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What Headphones Anime Characters Are Wearing

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…

Sword Art Online Exists, So They’re Making an Adult Video of It

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…

Macross 30 Looks to Be The Macross Game We’ve Been Waiting For

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…

Maybe You, Too, Can Get a Job Smelling Farts

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…

I Watched the Persona 4 Anime Without Ever Playing The Game

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…

Now That’s How You Ride a Chocobo

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]

Let’s Share The Horror of a Bizarre 1993 Street Fighter II Comic

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!

Because Conan The Tiny Barbarian Just Wouldn’t Have The Same Ring To It

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…

Boy, Dead Space Sure Looks Different

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…

Star Wars: Battlefront III “Mediocre”, Snipes Former Lucasarts Developer

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…

Metal Gear Rising Slices Out Its Own PlayStation 3

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…

Someone Turned Skyrim Into a Samurai Battle Movie

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]

Man Finds Old Game Boy Camera, The Spirit of 1998 Trapped Within

When Reddit user 80sArcade found his old Game Boy the other day, it had a Game Boy Camera still attached. Within, 14 photos from 1998. You don’t often get that kind of gaming time capsule from so long ago, mostly because the Game Boy was about the only system outside the PC to have a…

Wait, There’s a Company of Heroes Movie? And Tom Sizemore’s in it?

Nobody tells me anything any more. Seems back in March a Company of Heroes movie was quietly announced by Sony. That movie, a direct-to-DVD thing that is actually tied to the famous PC strategy title (somehow), will be out on March 19. It’s got Tom Sizemore in it. And Neal “I was in Band of…

What Happens When You Put The Binding of Isaac in Team Fortress 2? Utter Madness.

Glorious, glorious madness. You just gotta love mash ups that put two insane games like these together. This mod recreates the dungeon layout of The Binding of Isaac in a TF2 map, including locked rooms and even some horrifying bosses. My favorite part has to be how the players go deeper into the “basement” in…

Let’s Rank The Grand Theft Auto Games, Best to “Worst”

We did it with Halo, so let’s do it with another of the world’s biggest game series, Grand Theft Auto. And by “it”, I mean rank the games from “best” to “bottom of the list”. Why? You might be new to the series. Or diving back into it. These games take a long time to…

Can Games Be Art? BORING. Let’s Ask The Harder Question: Can Art Be Games?

I thought we put the stupid “can games be art” thing to rest when games critic Jimmy Brindle revealed that games can never be art so long as games fail to embrace flaccid penises. Real Art, unlike video games, is defined by flaccid penises. But now that the issue of ‘can games be art’ has…