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Is Nausicaä Using an iPad? Wonders Japanese Site

Years before the Apple iPad tablet ever hit stores, similar style devices popped up in sci-fi movies, manga, and anime. The latest rediscovery of a similar device was recently spotted in the 1982 manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. In a post titled “Is Nausicaä Using an iPad?”, Japanese blog Kojima Piypiyo points…

Ubisoft just registered a whole bunch of domains for “Assassin’s Creed Initiate” and “Assassin’s Creed Initiates”.

This Isn’t Kawaii. It’s Disturbing.

There’s this notion that “kawaii” (可愛い) or “cute” rules Japan. That’s not entirely true. Everything isn’t simply cute—and kawaii isn’t the only game in town. There’s also gurokawaii (グロカワイイ). This is the world of the grotesque and sadistic filtered through kawaii. This is the world of Momoka Kinoshita. The concept of gurokawaii has been increasingly…

Super Mario Bros., on The…Atari? Huh?

While the Mario Brothers did make an official appearance on an Atari console, that was the original Mario Bros. arcade game, not a Super Mario Bros. platformer. So this footage you see up top, as good as it looks, isn’t from a real game. It’s a demo made by Atari Age forum member Sprybug, showing…

Build Robots, Race Robots, Fight Robots, Mourn Robots

Indie developer Alex Rozgo is working on Rawbots, a game that’s all about designing and building robots then having them…do stuff. Drawing on inspiration from stuff like LEGO and Spore, the idea is that you design, program and build your own robot then mess around with it in a virtual sandbox. So you can shoot…

These Guys Went to the Real DayZ Island, Dressed Up And Took Pictures

Zombie survival mod DayZ takes place in the nation of Chernarus, which sounds entirely made-up, but it’s only mostly made up. The geography of the map is actually lifted from a real-world location, around Povrly, in the north of the Czech Republic. Sure, there’s no ocean in the Czech Republic (only ArmA/DayZ devs Bohemia Interactive),…

Sagat Won’t Just Tiger Uppercut Your Face, He’ll Get Your Wallet, Too

Pop Culture will next year be releasing this Sagat statue, which stands an enormous 21″ tall and will set you back $365. For a statue that damn big, believe it or not $365 is a decent price! Painted by hand, and with real fabric not just for his shorts but his arm guard…wrap…things, you can…

Why 1990s SNES Games Were so Damn Expensive

It’s easy to forget now, but back in the 1990s, many video games had the same price on the sticker they do today, which when you account for inflation reminds you that they were super expensive But just why did games cost so much? This infographic from a 1995 issue of British magazine Super Play…

Old Game Company Intro Screens Were The Best

“Saaaayyyyy-gggaaahhhhh” and Lucasarts’ efforts might be the most memorable, but a ton of console games of the 1990’s had great little intro screens, not for the games themselves, but for the publishers releasing them. Sometimes they were clever, sometimes they were funny and sometimes, in the case of EA, they’ve barely changed at all. Console…

A Hypnotic Video Showing All 151 Original Pokémon Being Stitched Together

The Bayeux Tapestry might be a big deal for the French and English, but come on. It’s old, the people look rubbish and it’s not even a real tapestry! It’s embroidery, just like this epic image of all 151 original Pokémon, and if I had to choose between which one I’d hang on my wall,…

The Triumphant Return of Half-Life 2 LEGO

We featured the work of LEGO builder ORRANGE back in 2009, with his brilliant take on Half-Life, but a recent playthrough of the game has got him returning to the universe to take more pictures. So thanks, Half-Life 2. And thanks ORRANGE, for reminding us all that a world in which these sets and minifigs…

How to Kill a Dragon (Hint: Stab it in the Head)

Chinese concept artist Yun Ling works at Volta, the same design studio that employs Ruan Jia, an artist we featured here last week Having previously worked for Electronic Arts, he’s got a great eye for both fantasy and sci-fi pieces, as you’ll see in the gallery below. You can see more of Ling’s work at…

I Had No Idea Scott Pilgrim’s Ramona Flowers Was a Real Person

I thought she was just a comic book character. Or, at best, there was that one lady who played her in a movie. But no, here, before my eyes, is Ramona Flowers, in the flesh, taking her hammer out for a walk, perhaps to buy some milk, or the morning paper. Ramona Flowers [Perspective is…

Final Fantasy Dimensions, a formerly Japan-only mobile entry in the series, will be out on iOS on August 31

You Don’t Have to Wait for NBA 2K13 to See Which Dream Team Would Win

If you want to face off the 1992 USA “Dream Team” of basketball versus the 2012 edition, without waiting for NBA 2K13, NLSC has the file you need, provided you’re playing NBA 2K12 on a PC. [via Operation Sports]

Oh Terrific, They’re Still Remaking Videodrome

Man, when will the pillaging end? When will they stop remaking movies that seriously, really and 100% truly do not need remakes? So now comes the news that not only is the a remake of David Cronenberg’s 1983 freakout film Videodrome is still happening, but ad-making talent Adam Berg, who has done some nifty ads…

Watch This Artist Draw the Insides of a Portal 2 Turret

Anyone who’s played a Portal game knows that Aperture Science’s charmingly neurotic turrets are full of bullets. And CEO Cave Johnson showed off their design in this teaser video last year But artist Andrew Gabbott has gone above and beyond in his turret love, rendering by hand an incredibly detailed breakaway view of the Portal…

Sleeping Dogs‘ New Add-Ons Are The Wrong Sort Of Downloadable Content

Like many of my Kotaku brethren and sistren, I really dig United Front’s Sleeping Dogs. I’m taking my time playing it, doing a lot of the sidequests, and I can tell that when I do finish, I’ll gladly pay for add-on content to expand the game. And look at that, I’m in luck! The first…

Another Look Inside ‘Copernicus,’ the Game You’ll Never Play

It was meant to be the “first triple-A, hundred-million-dollar-plus, free-to-play, micro-transaction-based MMO,” according to the studio’s celebrity boss, Major League Baseball all-star pitcher Curt Schilling. But plans for “Project Copernicus” vaporized when Schilling’s studio—makers of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning went under back in May. Since then, screenshots and even this trailer concept have leaked out,…