Everybody has a hobby. Some people enjoy listening to records. Others collect baseball cards. If you read Kotaku, chances are that your hobby is video games. But Professor Sakai’s? Japanese blogs have recently been pointing to Sakai’s website, dubbing it “way too frightening” and “creepy”. The site shows off his collection of “realistic” love dolls.…
Some images, reportedly originating from the website of Hollywood special effects company Reel EFX (but since pulled), look like they could be our first look at the next Call of Duty game. Or at least some parts of it. For a while now, Activision has been teasing the game with shots of a gun-toting “quadcopter”,…
In professional Korean gaming, they don’t get much bigger than Lim Yo-Hwan, aka “BoxeR”. His fan club has a million members, he has big time endorsements, and he is dating famed actress Kim Ga-yeon. He’s known as the “The Terran Emperor.” But all that has come with a price: e-sports have taken their toll. Earlier…
Holy crap is Sadako scary! Coming in through you television with that mess of long hair. She’s the stuff of nightmares—also the stuff of first pitches. To promote the the upcoming Ring spin-off flick, Sadako (Samara Morgan in the America remakes) threw out the first pitch at a Nippon Ham Fighters versus Chiba Lotte Marines…
In March, Sega announced that their upcoming MMORPG, Phantasy Star Online 2 will be smart phone compatible and free to play. In a recent interview with Weekly Famitsu, Phantasy Star series producer, Satoshi Sakai, talked about Sega’s somewhat ballsy decision. Apparently, the decision to make Phantasy Star Online 2 free to play came about very…
Yohio, the 16 year-old Swedish musician, finally made his Japan debut. Yohio has dressed as a Gothic Lolita for the past few years, and his anime inspired looks earned him Japanese fans. This week Yohio has been appearing on Japan’s biggest morning shows to promote his Japanese language mini album, which is now on sale.…
Shinji Mikami, best known for creating Resident Evil, is gearing up work on a brand new survival horror game with his new studio Tango Gameworks. It’s codenamed “Zwei”. The image above is very early concept art for the title. With Zwei, Mikami is supposedly committed to making a “pure” survival horror game. “A true ‘survival…
Today, Nintendo announced its first annual operating loss in its history as a public company. Sluggish Wii sales and a strong Japanese yen hurt Nintendo—not to mention a rocky rollout for the Nintendo 3DS. The game maker chalked up a US$455.9 million operating loss for the 2011 financial year. “What went wrong was that sales…
Obviously with a ton of Tetris-inspired prints lying around the warehouse, fashion label Black Milk have added a Tetris swimsuit to its existing line of Tetris leggings While the leggings were faintly ridiculous, the swimsuit is a much more sensible affair. Relatively. Though at AUD$90 (which these days is basically USD$90), you better really like…
Capcom has updated Lost Planet 3’s website to include a range of new screenshots for the upcoming sequel that, let’s be honest, nobody really asked for. Scattered amongst them are shots we saw when the game was first unveiled, but most are new, showing a mix of killer snow aliens and a man whose beard…
Japan’s King of Games are one of the finest video game clothing merchants on the planet. Anyone who’s owned one of their shirts, or even been around one, know they ooze quality, from the fancy boxes they ship in to the durability of the prints. I’ve had a Zelda shirt of theirs around six years…
When tech guru and Linux fan Michael Larabel visited Valve yesterday, he promised more info and pics than simply saying Steam was coming to Linux. Looks like he’s come through. Larabel has posted images of Left 4 Dead 2 running natively on Linux, and says a release of Steam itself – likely in the form…
Square Enix‘s highly anticipated 10th Dragon Quest game has just gotten a release date! The new online RPG, Dragon Quest X will be hitting the shelves (in Japan) on August 2nd of this year. Much like the 11th and 14th incarnations of the Final Fantasy series, Dragon Quest X will be online only with a…
The fridge is full of energy drinks. Heads hover motionless, inches from illuminated screens. An arcade machine sits tucked in a corner. Gorgeous concept art, in various stages of completions, drapes itself on all four walls. Sanzaru feels like a place where video games are being made. The open area studio is littered with print-outs;…
Because Prototype 2 is out this week, artists involved in the game are now able to share their work. One of those is Venezuelan César Rizo, who did a lot of environment pieces for the game. Rizo has been a professional concept artist since 2005, and has worked with companies like Radical Entertainment and Relic.…
All the places he’s been since we’ve been in control of his good self, at any rate. Posted by Sony yesterday, the map contains some standard infographic stuff, but also a handy guide to just where Drake’s travels have taken him across four games. It’s…not that far, really! You should come to Australia next time,…
Harrison Krix, aka Volpin Props, is someone whose work you should be very familiar with if you’re a regular Kotaku reader. His latest piece is this incredible helmet from Skyrim, which through good design and fine craftsmanship reaches into the game, grabs a Draugr helmet off someone’s head and rips it right back into the…
Cryptic, the guys behind Star Trek Online and Champions Online, have found out this week that they’ve been hacked. User details have been stolen, and some “portion of the passwords” present in a database were even cracked. Which is bad. What’s worse is that the hack took place in December 2010 With Cryptic only finding…
If you’re sensitive to unnecessary amounts of drama in your video game advertisements, a word of caution: this contains an unnecessary amount of drama for a video game commercial. If anyone ever tells you the 1990s weren’t the golden age of video game advertising, you slap them, hard, and tell them they are wrong
The Sega CD was home to some terrible things, but it was also home to some wonderful curiosities as well. And few are as curious as Micronet’s 1993 strategy game The Third World War. Let’s start with the cover art. That amazing cover art. Sadly, it was only for the Japanese edition of the game…
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