Japan does not have a shortage of video game inspired porn parodies. In the past few years, dirty moviemaker TMA has specialized in skin flick takes on popular games, anime, and manga. One parody, however, will vanish from its line-up. Layers;Gate is a blue movie version of Steins;Gate, a visual novel originally created for the…
Good news, Japanese game fans! Persona 4 Golden is getting an official Western release. It will be out this fall in North America. Persona 4: The Golden is a PS Vita version of the PlayStation 2 role-playing game, Persona 4. It adds new animation, at least one new character and new voice acting to the…
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Yang Qi is a concept artist working in the video game industry. Currently based in Shenzen, he’s most recently worked on Asura Online, a Chinese game. Note in some of these that, in addition to his character artwork, Qi has even dropped in mock screenshots or dioramas featuring the characters or places in question. Neat…
Long-time fans of the game series probably already know this, but bleak open-world shooter STALKER isn’t an entirely original concept, as it’s based loosely on the premise of a 1979 art film called Stalker There’s not too much in common other than the name, but in a great piece on the New York Review of…
Artist and toy customiser Donald “KodyKoala” Kennedy, whose work we’ve featured a few times here before, returns with a Sonic the Hedgehog piece that sheds new light on the term “Metal Sonic”. What’s cool is that not only is the pilot a regular Sonic figure, but the big mech itself is also a figure, being…
Man, there’s been a lot of Call of Duty news tonight. Perhaps, if you don’t like the series, too much. If that’s you, here’s a palette cleanser, in the form of a PSN game that’s about swans, and paint, and pretty music. The Unfinished Swan is based off an old tech demo that’s been around…
Blink and you’ll miss it. The Guy Fawkes mask flashes on the screen only for a brief instant, but it’s there. Twice. The iconic mug first entered pop culture in the graphic novel V for Vendetta, but has since been re-appropriated by internet collective Anonymous as well as Occupy Wall Street protesters. That iconic mask,…
As much as this sounds like a Red Dead Redemption marketing stunt, it’s a real thing. Police in Texas are on the lookout for a man believed to be on a GameStop-robbing spree, hitting as many as five stores in the state. Having robbed a store in Haltom City at gunpoint, they believe he’s also…
The Halo 4 live action web series announced earlier this week is already filming, on the campus of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Reader xxxblank just so happens to attend Simon Fraser University, and says the film crew has been transforming various parts of the grounds into something a little more futuristic. The university’s…
In case you haven’t seen it already, Oliver North is now selling video games. And fear. It’s a step down from illegally selling weapons, true, but it’s still raising eyebrows. Go on, take a look at these clips. They’re part of a “documentary” released by publishers Activision to coincide with the reveal of the latest…
We’ve seen the amazing new Call of Duty, and we can’t wait to play it on November 13. Today, we’re telling you all about it… PLUS: How many Call of Dutys is this? | The fake debut trailer that made us laugh | The leaked poster that started it all | Review: The First Call…
So, how about that Black Ops II trailer? Pretty explosive stuff. Now that you know more about the game itself, I thought it might be fun to go through some image-grabs from the trailer, just to tell you what I’m seeing there and how it lines up with that I saw of the game last…
Every past Call of Duty game has featured a rigidly linear single-player campaign. They’ve gotten shorter and shorter as the years have gone by, too—the last few games have featured campaigns that have lasted merely 4-6 hours. Treyarch is aiming to change that with Black Ops II with the inclusion of “Strike Force,” a new,…
Last week, I headed down to visit with Treyarch in Santa Monica to get an extended look at Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Our visit was entirely hands-off, and consisted mostly of a series of in-game demos of missions from the single-player campaign, as well as a new open-ended single-player mode called “Strike Force.”…
During the 1980s, Oliver North rocketed into the national spotlight with the Iran-Contra controversy. Decades later, North is still in the national spotlight, but this time it’s not for selling arms for U.S. hostages. It’s for selling a video game. In the clips, North explained why black ops needs high-tech devices and how new tech…
We’ve looked at Sega’s pioneering role in the world of 3D gaming before here on Total Recall, but only briefly stopped on Time Traveler, one of the company’s two and only attempts at holographic, 3D arcade gaming. This antique video, from Time Traveler’s 1991 debut, gives only a few hints as to how unsuccessful these…
Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Activision and Treyarch will spend the next six months telling you this game is a sequel, but the fact the game’s name starts with “Call of Duty” reminds us we’re way past the point of using the number “II” when it comes to these shooters. Unless it’s XII. Or,…
Greetings, Kotaku! Welcome to the Tuesday open-thread. It’s been a busy day ’round Kotaku way, and I’ve been unable to amass the requisite amount of off-topic links for you to read and gab about. So instead, I thought I’d improvise and share my favorite poem from a movie maybe ever. I’m referring, of course, to…
Gearbox, the guys making Aliens Colonial Marines, have been working on the game since, oh, before you were born. In that time, they’ve racked up a ton of reference material from James Cameron’s sci-fi classic, none as badass as this replica pulse rifle from the 1986 movie. This isn’t some toy, some commercial thing made…
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