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Kotaku EastSee the Vita’s Free-to-Play Dungeon Crawler in Action
Earlier this year the Vita got its first free-to-play MMO title in the form of Samurai and Dragons. While the game had a rocky launch that required it to be taken offline for the better part of a month, it is now online and running strong. Samurai and Dragons presents a strange mix of gameplay.…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 24, 2012 -
Kotaku EastYou Cannot Escape Internet Infamy. Not Even in Japan.
Andy Warhol once said that in the future, everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes. Little did Warhol know we’d spend five minutes discussing if these empheral celebs actually look like their online pics and another five talking about all the stupid crap they said online before they got famous. Over the years, Dakota Rose…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
It Looks Like the PS Vita, But It Has an Xbox Name and an Android Logo
This is the Droid X360. It’s an Android powered PS Vita-looking device with a touch screen and nine different emulators for Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear. Phew! It also has HDMI-out, a micro SD slot, mini USB port, 8GB of onboard storage, a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 24, 2012 - Kotaku East
In the Persona Fighting Game, You Cannot Battle This Old Lady
Retailer Sofmap’s online site contained the below image for its Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena listing. Notice anything, internet detectives? That’s right, Miss Marple. So does that mean amateur sleuth Miss Marple is joining Atlus’ Persona 4 fighting game, to show those young, fancy JRPG characters the true meaning of an Agatha Christie…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 24, 2012 - Kotaku East
The Hello Kitty Dolls of Your Dreams
One of the ways Hello Kitty stays relevant is to turn itself into a feline billboard to promote other things. Recently, that’s meant the birth of an array of interesting Kitty-chan collaborations—like a Hello Kitty X Ringu tie-up that was used to promote the horror series’ latest spin-off. Artist Joseph Senior goes one step further—and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Buy Your Own Zelda Staircase, Stick it in Your House
Sorry if you thought I meant some kind of elaborate staircase from Wind Waker or Twilight Princess. That’d just be silly. No, these are the stairs from the original Zelda on the NES, now available as a decal should your home have the right kind of wooden or tiled surface. Made of vinyl, they’ll apparently…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
That’s a Pretty Badass Tattoo For Some Pokémon
Issa, an artist at French tattoo studio Tin-Tin Tatouages, is to thank for this mind-blowing Pokémon sleeve, which covers this dude’s entire arm with basic critters like Pikachu, Psyduck and…Bearwithguitaremon. Good to see the guy loves Pokémon so much he went to such drastic steps! Let’s hope he loves it just as much in 2032.…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Conan Plays Minecraft, Trolls Graphics
Only Conan O’Brien could play Minecraft and say it’s like being a Welshman in the 19th century, spending your waking hours digging in a coal mine. Not that he’s wrong. For many players that’s probably a fairly accurate analogy. Only maybe with less singing.
By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Man Builds a Real Mass Effect Gun, it’s Used by the Real Samara
Master props builder Zander Brandt specialises in taking weapons normally found only in video games and bringing them kicking and screaming into the real world. We’ve featured his work here a few times before, with Team Fortress 2 and Mass Effect weapons, and it’s the latter series he’s returned to with this awesome M-25 Hornet…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2012 - CultureTotal Recall
Hey Link, It’s Also Dangerous to do Business With Men Who Look Like Toothless Hobos
Link really is the hero of time, because here he is, in the 1980s, with a take on the Resident Evil 4 merchant meme years before Resident Evil 1 was even a twinkle in Shinji Mikami’s eye. [via VG Junk]
By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Square Enix Confirms the Existence of Final Fantasy Versus XIII
The rumor, it seems, was wrong! Today, Square Enix head Yoichi Wada confirmed that he just came out of a Final Fantasy Versus XIII meeting. According to Wada’s tweet, “There’s someone making a false rumor that Versus was cancelled. Haha…Just a minute ago, the regular Versus meeting ended. If you saw the presentation of the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 24, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallStar Wars Used to be Uncool. Pinball Helped Bring it Back.
This Star Wars pinball machine wasn’t released in the 70s, or 80s. It was released in 1992, which makes it very special, because that makes it part of the great Star Wars renaissance. After the hype over the original trilogy died down after the mid-80s, as weird as it is to imagine now, Star Wars…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedVirtual Reality Makes a Comeback Using Modern Tech (and a Dreamcast Game)
Some students from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and the Viterbi School of Engineering want you to stop controlling a video game world and start playing in a video game world. Sounds like the early 90s all over again, I know, but where these kids go right is in using test footage from Skies of…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2012 - Culture
The Futuristic Landscapes of Concept Artist Josh Kao
Josh Kao is a concept artist and illustrator who over the years has worked with studios like EA, Irrational (BioShock Infinite) and Microsoft (Halo 4). He’s also contributed to Firefall, God of War: Ascension, Playstation All Stars Battle Royale and Black Ops II so, yeah, he’s very good at what he does. In addition to…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Ichiro Suzuki Thanks Nintendo
After 11 seasons with the Nintendo-owned Seattle Mariners, Ichiro Suzuki was traded today to the New York Yankees. During his Japanese language press conference, Suzuki expressed his gratitude to fans and to the video game maker. Suzuki specifically thanked former Nintendo honcho Hiroshi Yamauchi and current Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata as well as the CEO…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Now This is One Hell of a Collector’s Edition, Square Enix
Square Enix’s upcoming 3DS RPG, Bravely Default, looks gorgeous. As does its collector’s edition, which includes what for most would games would constitute the entirety of their merchandise offerings. You get the game, an art book, soundtracks, a little diorama and even a giant custom box to keep it all in. The collector’s edition is…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Mass Effect Movie’s Script Sounds Done, But, Well…
It’s been, oh, around a year since we last heard anything about the Hollywood adaptation of Mass Effect. While it’s easy to joke that’s because the team have had to go back and write a new ending, it seems the end (and beginning, and middle) have already been written, and quietly handed into teacher. A…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Two Bros Hanging Out Being Hilarious On Twitter
Ask anyone: Twitter can be a vile, negative place that turns your friends into jerks. Saying the wrong thing on Twitter can get you kicked out of shows, or worse. But it’s not all negativity on Twitter. In fact, there are some delightful tweeters out there. And of all the delightful Twitter accounts I follow,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Child’s Sketchbook From the 1980s, Preserved For the 21st Century
From 2012, let’s take a trip back to the 1980s, and what it was like to be a kid drawing the stuff you were into. Some of the images you’re about to see are ostensibly part of “schoolwork”, others drawings scribbled in the rear pages of a book where there was supposed to be stuff…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Moving Tribute To The Last Man Alive In Minecraft
What happened to the world? Where have all the Steves gone? And will this Steve ever find happiness again? Via the wide world of Reddit comes this majestic (no, really!) video from YouTuber Kiwix86. Good stuff. I would play this game.
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 23, 2012