Nasne, Sony’s upcoming HDD and digital tuner, gets a promotional video that, well, doesn’t quite show off the hardware. Or make sense. At all. Instead, it has kids and adults covered in lights, making hearts and stars. M’kay! 「nasne（ナスネ）™」 イメージビデオ [YouTube]
Brushing your teeth is important. Just ask Doraemon, the robot cat from the future! A Japanese dentist decided that Doraemon (and his sister Dorami) plush toys would make perfect models for teaching brushing, so the good doctor added phony teeth and a Joker smile. The result is horrifying. 歯医者にある『ドラえもん』があまりに恐すぎるネットで話題に [秒刊SUNDAY]
Oreos and milk, a snack time classic. Dunking Oreo cookies in a warm glass of milk? No problem. But dunking them in a warm glass of boob? The above ad apparently debuted this month in South Korea with the tagline “Milk’s favorite cookie” (more info here). In the print spot, a nursing baby holds an…
Remember when people got excited about cartridges? The first time I saw The Legend of Zelda‘s gold casing as a kid, I nearly lost my shit. With the advent of discs, those days are nearly gone. Still, there are the occasional instances when people to say, “Oh, now that’s nice.” The upcoming Fire Emblem: Kakusei…
The inevitable iPhone 5 might not be out in the West yet, but it’s out in China. And it’s delicious-looking. This “mango-flavored” ice cream treat boasts a “Western-style flavor” and is shaped like Apple’s iconic logo. It kind of looks like a fried egg. There also appears to be a pear-flavored version, but apparently no…
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The moody, desolate affair that is Journey isn’t an obvious choice for a hip-hop remix, but it’s got one anyway. Don’t worry. It’s been tastefully done. Raheem Jarbo, aka Mega Ran, is solely on production duties here (so no rapping), remixing four tracks from Austin Wintory’s amazing score and putting the resulting EP up for…
I’m usually loathe to post “hey mainstream tabloids are crazy” stories here, but a piece on the front page of the latest Metro, a free newspaper handed out on public transport in Britain, is too good to ignore. The headline? “Xbox paedophile predators ‘move in on prey within two minutes of contact'” There’s of course…
We first told you about this project last year, but DARPA’s new FastRunner – which bears an unsettling resemblance to something from the Metal Gear universe – has come on in leaps and bounds since then. Quite literally. In this clip, you can see the robot take off up a bunch of stairs, its muscular…
Maré Odomo’s series of Pokémon comics, called Letters To An Absent Father, are some of the best video game comics you will ever read. And it’s not because they’re funny. No, the comics – penned as trainer Ash writing letters to his father – are often equal parts innocent and brutal, dealing with the more…
Polish artist Marcin Blaszczak is one of the men to thank for bringing the world of The Witcher 2 to life. A 3D modeller, Blaszczak has worked on both games in the series. In this gallery, you’ll see some of his work from The Witcher 2, which this week gets a welcome re-release on the…
If you haven’t seen the first series of Game of Thrones, or read the first book, you may not want to go any further. If you have, well, enjoy! Poor Sean Bean. You wonder whether he just has bad luck, or simply enjoys ducking off from a shoot early to catch up with friends and…
If you think cel-shading is only something done in cartoons, or a few video games (and mostly then to stilted effect), check out what’s possible when you put a little thought into the process. The clip is sadly silent. May I be so bold as to make a recommendation More info, and a download link…
For everything right the SimCity series has done over the years, there’s one thing I will never forgive them for: water. I hate it. It’s boring, it’s a pain in the ass, and while it might be “realistic” to expect “cities” to need “water”, it was never fun laying all those pipes. This clip shows…
John Beiswenger, author of the novel Link (first published in 2003), has sued Ubisoft, claiming that the historical/sci-fi series infringes on a number of his copyrights. Basically, he alleges that because his book involved a system which could access ancestral memories, then the fact Assassin’s Creed also uses that as a cornerstone of its plot…
I’ve been waiting for years to put a link at the bottom of a Kotaku story to the fabulous What Would Tyler Durden Do. Today, I get that chance. It’s the kind of news item you don’t get emailed in the video games press business, but you certainly do in the tawdry celebrity press business:…
Valve has been keeping track of the people currently playing the beta for Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Not just who’s winning and who’s losing, but really interesting stuff, like where everyone is standing when they pull the trigger. The result of that kind of data-tracking is this glorious map (of de_train), showing exactly where players…
This new trailer for Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel, sits us down with David, an earlier model of the androids which populate later movies in the series. If you think he’s a little creepy, well, he should be! Most people remember Bishop from Aliens, the “good” robot, but man, Ash from Alien was bananas
There were 296 games released for the Nintendo 64 in North America. Which is hardly any, I know. But it’ll still seem like a lot when you sit down and watch this movie which collects footage from every single one of them. I always forget StarCraft came out on the N64. Man, those were the…
In 1980, Bally released a pinball machine called Space Invaders. It was about as shameless a rip-off as you could hope for, as despite the opportunity to lift iconic imagery from Taito’s arcade classic of the same name, it instead stole designs from Ridley Scott’s 1979 movie Alien Given that was over thirty years ago,…
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