In South Korea, the Shutdown Law was created to prevent gamers under sixteen from gaming during a six hour block at night. The law already impacted online gaming services, such as the PlayStation Network. It’s going to impact it some more. According to Sony, the PSN Store is going offline for all players starting on…
You’ve been there: You have a beer, but no beer opener. Some folks in China decided to see what happened with they used Chinese smartphone Meizu MX and an iPhone 4S to open some brewskies. What happened? Well, they damaged the iPhone—something I’m sure you didn’t need a video to tell you. The Meizu, however,…
We are no longer getting a standalone $30 expansion to the insane open-world crime game Saint’s Row: The Third this year, as publisher THQ, emboldened by a change in leadership has nixed the project in order to expand it into a full-sized new Saint’s Row next year. Here’s new THQ president Jason Rubin on what…
Oh, GLaDOS. Cruel, cruel GLaDOS. Here, the villain from the Portal games comes to life, in costume and utterly free of cake. Mean, witty, and slightly crazy, GLaDOS is one of the most memorable gaming characters in recent memory—no wonder she’s a fan fav. And no wonder all these folks decided to dress up as…
Yep, it’s super sentai inspired pop group Momoiro Clover Z singing Mite Mite☆Kotchitchi, the ending track for the new Pokémon animePocket Monsters: Best Wishes! . ポケモン着ぐるみで踊る姿が可愛すぎる！ ももいろクローバーZ『みてみて☆こっちっち』のふりつけ動画が公開 [Kotaku Japan]
You might’ve seen those Google Chrome ads that feature Lady Gaga or Justin Beiber. Virtual idol Hatsune Miku also got a Chrome commercial, which Kotaku posted before. That commercial recently won Bronze Lion Award in the Direct Lions category of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. That festival is in the same city that…
Terry Gou, the dude who runs Foxconn’s parent company, has gotten in trouble for shooting off his mouth in the past. Once, he compared to managing the Foxconn workers as simply managing “animals” and lamented how those animals give him a headache. This time, Gou’s apparently catching heat for remarks he made about Koreans. While…
Upcoming PS3 exclusive The Last Guardian gets a dubstep remix for shits and giggles, courtesy of Mike McWhertor of Meat Bun (and more recently, Polygon) fame. If this year’s E3 gaming convention taught us anything, you can never have too much dubstep. No, actually, you can. So knock it off, world. You know what else…
For years, Japanese voice actress Rie Tanaka hasn’t been afraid of fan service: she’s cosplayed characters, she’s released hug pillows, and she even had her own trading cards Those days, it seems, are long over. Rie Tanaka just got married. Earlier this week, 33 year-old Tanaka revealed on her official blog that she tied the…
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There are few things more heart-breaking in this world than a cloned video game. A game that takes something someone else has done and, with little effort, shamelessly copies it in the hopes of riding some coattails to a cash register. This industry is full of them, across all genres, from first-person shooters to strategy…
This gorgeous video was put together using some new maps for multiplayer shooter Battlefield 3. They’re part of a pack called “Close Quarters”, which will emphasise combat in…close quarters. So your face will be close enough to appreciate all that debris and damage that’s going to be flying around those rooms once the bullets and…
It’s the lowest point in Darth Vader’s career, and possibly the lowest point in any of the six Star Wars movies. But we don’t need to be so sad, for unintended reasons, when the Sith Lord screams out in anguish. There’s still room for a laugh. These shirts show that such cries are actually pretty…
Ilya Nazarov works as an artist and illustrator at Bethesda. Before that, he’s worked at places like Warner Bros. and Nintendo, and has provided art for series like Metroid Prime, Donkey Kong, Tribes and, as you may have guessed by that headline, Lord of the Rings (in this case, War in the North). Ilya’s fantasy…
You think Rockstar Games, you think about mean things. Angry men, drugs, dingy bars, fast cars, explosive firearms. Which is totally understandable, since the company’s most recent games are about a drug-addled hitman, a vengeful cowboy and a Puerto Rican who shoots up half of New York. But that murderous veneer hides a secret. Co-founder…
Indie developers Wolfire built this shooter, Receiver, in seven days. But that’s not the cool part. Or parts Instead, Receiver is interesting for two things. One, it focuses on a single weapon, the Colt 1911 A1, and takes it very seriously, using “high detail gun mechanics”, which means you can “manipulate each part of the…
Every year, representatives of the world’s biggest video game websites (this one included) get together and nominate which games they thought were the best ones they played at E3 (or in the week before E3, at special judge’s events). Note that condition: according to the awards’ rules, in order to be nominated for a major…
Activision may be heralded/hated as one of the world’s biggest video game companies today, but in 1981, it was a much smaller company. A very different company, in a very different time. Which is the only reason I can think of to explain this bizarrely wonderful promo video the company put together in 1981, which…
Hey, RoboCop, you’ve got mechanical arms and a gun in your leg. Why’d you have to go and smash a perfectly good arcade game? And it was pretty good. If you couldn’t make it out beneath all the broken glass and criminal hair, it’s Sly Spy, Data East’s 1989 side-scroller that took more than a…
Greetings, Kotaku, and welcome to the Tuesday open thread. You may have heard that HBO is selling a real, life-sized replica of the Iron Throne for #30,000. What you may not have heard is that the characters from the show have begun to leave user reviews of the Throne. I saw that today on The…
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