Okay, it’s not a plant manager. It’s not even an assembly line employee. It’s a recruiter at the Foxconn factory gate. That being said, it’s a recruiter at a Foxconn factory gate—you know, where they make Apple products. There have been rumors swirling around the inevitable iPhone 5—namely, that Foxconn is now going on a…
One Piece is perhaps the most popular manga in Japan. While it is serialized in a magazine aimed at young males, schoolgirls are apparently big into One Piece. “If you want to talk to girls, you better read One Piece and Bleach,” a high school freshman told Japanese publication Yuukan Gadget One Piece makes for…
This spring, the hot Apple device isn’t made from metal, glass or plastic. It’s made from paper. April 4 is Tomb Sweeping Day (Qingming), a tradition that goes back thousand of years. Families visit ancestral tombs and make offers of food. Paper replicas depict items that can be used in the afterlife, such as clothing,…
We’ve had a copy of Star Wars: Kinect in our New York office for a few days now. Which means, aside from Stephen’s upcoming review, people have been dancing their asses off to pop songs. Pop songs that have been re-worked to include lyrics from the Star Wars universe. While Lando and Boba Fett dance…
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Hope you like giant instruments of destruction. Because Russian artist KaranaK specialises in giant instruments of destruction. Most of the vehicles you’ll see in these galleries are from Star Conflict and Russian game Project Genome. Others are just personal pieces. You can see more on his DeviantArt page Fine Art is a celebration of the…
I never got the anger people had towards Mass Effect 3. I can’t remember the last time a video game made me angry. Sad, though, maybe even crushingly disappointed, yes. I remember that well. I remember it like it was last month, actually, because it was when I finished Mass Effect 3. Something this wonderful…
Sony has pushed live an update for PlayStation Vita users. Don’t get too excited. – A “Notification Alert” option will be added to Settings, so you can toggle alerts on or off – “After 10 minutes” will be added to the time options under Power Save Settings – An Arrow icon will now appear when…
…they wouldn’t just be awesome, they’d be this awesome. They’re the work of artist Caldwell Tanner, and it’s making me incredibly upset that these aren’t real books that can be bought and read to children who will grow up thinking the wrong story is so damn right Video Game Childrens Books [LOLDWELL, via Super Punch]
You would not believe how many Kickstarter ideas we’ve been shown in the last few weeks. Ever since Double Fine (and then Wasteland 2) showed there was serious money to be made on the service, every man, his dog and his dog’s workmates from the IT department have been sending us their idea for the…
Keith Apicary, who in the absence of anything neater I’m just going call a video game comedian, is my new hero. We’ve featured Apicary’s work before, but this takes things to a whole new level of laugh your ass off, as he visits a backup dancer audition for a role in a Kimberly Cole music…
Brazzers, a media network that specialises in internet porn movies, wants to get into the video game scene. But not by making a game. They want to sponsor fighting game players and fighting game events. Over on the Twitter feed of Brazzer’s director of special events, Rob Steele, some fighting game fans are going bananas.…
Not the Pokémons. There’s too many of them, and just when you think you’ve got them all, Nintendo goes and creates more. Catching all (or most) of the coloured variations of the Nintendo 64 control pad, though, that’s probably easier. And more impressive. And practical! [via is it real]
Two Crude Dudes is a terrible game. Just terrible. I remember trying to play it as a kid, on a number of occasions, and every time I picked up a controller I’d be floored by how poor it was. So, uh, why did I keep picking up a controller? Because I so badly wanted it…
Hello there, Kotaku! Welcome to another week of open threading. I hope you had as relaxing a weekend as I did. Here, gathered from the corners of the internet, are some things to delight and entertain you. Seems like there were a lot of good trailers released today. The Onion has launched a gaming-centric website…
Good news, everyone! Confirming earlier rumours, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, one of the best games out there on the iPad and iPhone, is officially coming to the PC and Mac via Steam. It’ll be out on April 16 (on PC, the Mac is coming a little later), and for the most part will be…
Machine Guns Vegas, a company in…Las Vegas which lets you shoot…machine guns, likes to entice customers with themed package deals. One of those is called the “COD”, and lets fans of Activision’s Call of Duty series squeeze off rounds from some of the series’ most prominent firearms. For $170 per person, you get 25 rounds…
I’ve been having a lot of fun with Skyrim mods lately, from subtle graphical enhancements to complete texture and gameplay overhauls. But as much as, say, the “Warzones” mod changes the shape of the game, the upcoming “Ultimate Tower Defense Mod” looks like an even more radical overhaul. In it, players will be tasked with…
When all is said and done, I’d say that Mass Effect 2 wound up being my favorite of the three Mass Effect games. It wasn’t so much the story, the characters, or the gameplay that put it over the top—it was the TV show-like structure. More than the games that preceded and followed it, Mass…
Richard Garriott, shown above brushing his teeth in zero gravity, helped birth the world-conquering MMO genre. The success of his early Ultima games make him enough money to essentially rent a rocket to go into outer space. But, smart and rich as he is, the man known as Lord British can still get oodles of…
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