Hamburger scamsters out there, take note! Thirty-five year-old Akira Watanabe was recently nabbed for trying to pull a fast one—with a hamburger and a hair. The unemployed man apparently returned a burger he had order, saying it had a hair in it and that he felt sick and couldn’t eat. The hair, it seems, was…
Since the Final Fantasy games have been so incredibly influential, it’s interesting to see where FF‘s designers have looked for their own inspiration. It’s no secret that Final Fantasy has apparently been influenced by Studio Ghibli. The Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga, for example, most likely inspired Final Fantasy‘s Chocobo—those big yellow…
The Foxconn factory that assembles the iPhone 5 is back online. Riots recently broke out apparently over labor tensions.
When game designer Kenichiro Takaki thought about what he wanted to see in 3D on the Nintendo 3DS, one thing (er, two things?) came to mind. The result was Senran Kagura. Now the curvy ninja game is making its way to the PS Vita as Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus – Young Girls’ Proof This week’s…
Retro British TV lives on in Tokyo. Iconic program Thunderbirds has its own official cafe, which serves up salute and Thunderbirds fandom. The food doesn’t exactly look spectacular, but the inside of the restaurant definitely does. Inside, there are rare items from the show as well as replica Thunderbird vehicles on display. Episodes are on…
B-movie director Minoru Kawasaki, known for masterpieces like Executive Koala, directed a live action commercial to promote Earth Defense Force 3: Portable for the PS Vita. It stars pin-up model Risa Yoshiki, and you can watch it above. 地球防衛軍3 PORTABLE THE COMMERCIAL [SonyJp@YouTube] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the…
Resident Evil is wall-to-wall memorable characters. Fans haven’t only fallen in love with the female protagonists. They also adore the men of Resident Evil And why wouldn’t they? The guys are cool, decked in nice threads with rad hair. And then there’s the swank paramilitary gear, too. Fancy! Last week, Kotaku took a look at…
Norwegian retailer CDON has, as it should, a page up ready for people order Wii U games. It’s also got something most other retailers don’t: listings for games many Nintendo fans can only dream of. Among the known and incoming games like Tank!Tank!Tank! and New Super Mario Bros. U, there are listings for games that…
According to a report on Vulture, Zombieland Director Ruben Fleischer is now at the helm of the Spy Hunter movie, a project which has been on and off more times than a freakin’ light switch He’ll be directing and executive producing. Or, at least, he will be for six months before he disappears and we…
Russian artist Amales has been featured here on Kotaku before. For her ferrets. But boy, in the time since, she’s been busy Not only is she fleshing out the rest of the cast of the Mass Effect series, but she’s also featuring other animorphic transformations like Diablo III’s Monk and Dead Space’s Isaac. I know,…
In December, reader Grahame made one of the coolest Minecraft videos I’ve ever seen, recreating Star Wars’ famous “trench run”. He’s outdone himself now, though, with this animated rendition of Empire Strikes Back’s Battle of Hoth. It took him two months just to build the “set”, and six days to film it and get it…
Ask anyone who likes strategy video games and spaceships what their favourite title of all time is and, if they don’t say Homeworld, they’re either lying or are seven years old. So! For the grown-ups and truth-tellers among you, take a look at this. It’s the latest update for Complex, an ambitious Homeworld 2 mod…
I’m not going to get excited about this game. The sad faces I make every time I think of Resident Evil 5 have made sure of that. But “surprisingly enthused”? I can do that.
Ubisoft just released the specs for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed III. Note they’ve only released the minimum specs…anyone looking for recommended, you’ll just have to compare your system to these in your head and make an educated guess! Supported OS: Windows Vista (SP2) / Windows 7 (SP1) / Windows 8 Processor: 2.66 GHz…
Lorin Wood works at Gearbox. Last week, Gearbox released Borderlands 2. This is Kotaku’s concept art showcase feature. You can see where this is going. Aside from his Borderlands stuff, Wood has also worked on Colonial Marines, while outside of Gearbox, he’s worked for companies like Disney, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox. You can see…
League of Legends is one of the biggest games in the world. Which means it also attracts some of the biggest assholes in the world as well, who despite being active players of the game, have banded together to try and bring it down. Developers Riot Games have caught ” a handful of players…attacking our…
Like any other big company, there are probably good sides to working at EA, and there are probably bad sides. Here’s one of the bad sides: the publisher keeps track of former employees, and sends them threatening letters when it’s worried those former employees will start spilling company secrets. Below you’ll see correspondence sent by…
If you’ve ever wanted to see more than a thousand ping pong balls detonated by a bottle of liquid nitrogen, have I got a surprise for you! This video of Plymouth University’s professor Roy Lowry uploaded by Techietickets shows just what happens when a garbage can full of ping pong balls gets… angry. Update: Well…
I quite enjoyed Bayonetta, but then, I played it on Xbox 360. The PS3 version on the other hand had more than a few problems. So many, in fact, that creators Platinum Games say the game was the studio’s “biggest failure”. “The biggest failure for Platinum so far, the one that really sticks in my…
Surprise! Out of almost thin air, a pair of unofficial patches have been released for PC classics System Shock 2 and Thief 2 that not only allow the games to be safely played on modern hardware (and operating systems), but look great while they’re doing it. Their origins are a bit of a mystery; they…
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