Beautiful Classic Missile Spam in This New Macross Game

Starting a bit over two years ago, Bandai Namco began an experiment of releasing small original PS3 games along with their most popular anime titles in “hybrid packs.” The latest of these is Macross: My Boy Friend is a Pilot 2012 which shares a Blu-ray with the classic anime remaster of Macross: Do You Remember…

Okay, This Candy Commercial Is Freaky. You Should Be Freaked Out.

Earlier this year, AKB48—Japan’s biggest girl group—released a candy commercial that grossed out pretty much the entire country. This year, AKB48 is back with a new ad that won’t gross everyone out. It’ll freak them out instead. Progress! In the commercial, the members’ heads were superimposed on the bodies of six-year-old children. The concept behind…

MMORPGs Are Expensive, When You Are a Kid

Kids? They don’t have money. So thirteen bucks might not be much to working adults, but it is when you are a child—a MMORPG playing child, that is. Dragon Quest X is, for the first time in the DQ series, a subscription-based MMORPG. To enable kids the ability to play for two hours at set…

Resident Evil 6 DLC Is Hitting the Xbox 360 First

That’s according to the Xbox 360 Japan Twitter feed—which explicitly makes it seem as though the Xbox 360 will get RE6 DLC before the PS3 does. So, what, launch day then? Kidding! (Not really.) 『バイオハザード6』Xbox 360版ではダウンロード コンテンツの先行配信も予定しているとのこと。 [Twitter] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan,…

Square Enix Outs The World Ends with You as an iOS Game

Numerous Japanese sites are speculating that The World Ends with You is iOS bound. Earlier today, Square Enix revealed that the game was an iOS title on its online store page for the game’s new soundtrack . The iOS notice has since been removed from the soundtrack page, while the countdown site soldiers on. Thrilling.…

Guy Called the Cops Because His Spicy McChicken Was Too Spicy

According to reports out of China, a man in Guangzhou phoned the police because he thought the Spicy McChicken he ordered was too darn spicy. After getting his food, the man sat down and took a bite. Website The Nanfang reports that the man seemed surprised by his sandwich, so he called over a McDonald’s…

Next spring, arcade shooter DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou is headed to the Xbox 360, with a new character and new mode.

When Giant Buildings Look Silly

Okay, let’s be fair. The PS3 is not silly looking. Nor is Batman or an elephant. But buildings that resemble them? Or saltshakers? And sperm? Silly. Japanese website Heaven has a round up of buildings from across the globe that either accidentally resemble things—or totally resemble them by design. Some of the buildings Kotaku has…

Darth Malgus Will Crush Every Apple in The Galaxy

When compared to a $6000, life-sized statue of the man, a $375 statue of Old Republic’s Darth Malgus suddenly doesn’t seem as expensive, does it? The Sith Lord “Premium Format Figure” (but actually a statue) by Sideshow goes on sale in March 2013. At 20″ tall and with a real fabric cape, you can pre-order…

Art That Brings The Mass Effect Universe (And Beyond) To Life

Adding to the ranks of people who worked on the Mass Effect series that we’ve featured here on Fine Art, tonight we turn the spotlight on Finnish artist Mikko Kinnunen. Though focusing solely on his Mass Effect work, amazing as it is, would be selling him short. Having also worked for companies like Paramount Pictures…

At Least The New Army of Two Has a Decent Trailer

Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel might be the most unnecessary sequel of this console generation. Who asked for this? Did you? You? What about you? It sure as hell wasn’t me. As snooze-inducing as the game may end up being, though, at least this clip associated with it is worth a watch. It was…

Developers Can “Kick Ass” Without Corporate Overlords Messing With Everything

Not that this is a new idea – it’s where a lot of the appeal of AAA devs going indie lies – but it’s nice to remember that as annoying as the endless stream of Kickstarter projects are, and as big as the risks are for both developers and consumers, there’s an upshoot to the…

Ubisoft Has a Change of Heart, Releasing Console Game on PC After All

Let’s recap. In November 2011, Ubisoft creative director Stanislas Mettra said the following about I Am Alive, a game for the Xbox 360 and PS3: We’ve heard loud and clear that PC gamers are bitching about there being no version for them. But are these people just making noise just because there’s no version or…

Ten of the Best/Worst Examples of Retro PC Box Art

I’m not normally one to indulge in “TOP TEN THINGS OF THIS THING” lists, but when they involve badass box art from 1980s and 90s PC games, I can’t help it. Topless Robot put together their list of “10 Insanely Badass DOS Game Boxes”, and it’s good reading, mostly because they know the worth of…

How Nintendo Got The Prettiest Zelda Game of All Looking So Damn Pretty

If you’ve got the capability right now, whether on GameCube, Wii or even PC, go put Wind Waker on. And just look at it. Soak up how a video game released almost a decade ago still looks like it could have come out yesterday. Once you’re done, ask yourself “how did Nintendo do that?”. Then…

Microsoft Changes Its Logo For The First Time Since The 1980s, And I Like It

The last time Microsoft changed its company branding was in 1987. With the company on the cusp of a less dorky era, courtesy of tech like Windows 8, Windows Phones, Surface and the Xbox 360, it’s about time for a redesign! And a redesign is what we have. There’s not only a new font, but…

Uncharted: The Movie: The Curse of the Film Nobody Wants to Direct

Once upon a time, David O’Russell (Three Kings) was down to direct the Uncharted movie. Then he was off. Then back on. Then off, with Neil Burger taking over. Now Burger is gone. And writing pair Marianne and Cormac Wibberley are reworking the script. The film’s producer, Avi Arad, will wait until they’re done to…

This Lord of the Rings Rivendell Might be the Best LEGO Set I’ve Ever Seen

There’s Lord of the Rings LEGO you can buy, but that stuff is limited by the realities of commercial packaging and a hard ceiling for prices. Let’s imagine, though, that you could get hold of the perfect Lord of the Rings LEGO set. One so detailed it quite literally takes your breath away. It’d probably…

Dark Souls on PC Looks Like Complete S**t (But There’s a Fix) [Update]

I thought I was ready for it, as ready as I was to smash my keyboard into pieces within the first day’s play, but nothing could have prepared me for just how hideous the PC version of Dark Souls really is. While the game’s menu will trick you into thinking the game runs at your…

Bob Loblaw: No Habla Espanol

I’ll tell you one thing: we’re not here to talk nonsense to Bob Loblaw. No, we’re here to talk about how the new season of Arrested Development is reportedly coming out next spring. That’s not as far away as it seems! Personally, I am optimistic as heck about the new season of Arrested Development. Most…