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Chef Cooks Penis, Serves It Up for Dinner in Tokyo
Illustrator Mao Sugiyama tweeted a simple proposition: Mao’s male genitals (penis, testicles, and scrotum) as a ¥100,000 meal. The illustrator even offered to cook them. Sugiyama is not a real chef—and admitted as much—but was offering a real plate of penis. The 22 year-old Sugiyama is also not man or a woman; the illustrator is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 25, 2012 - Kotaku East
Korean Gamers Want Chinese Players Banned from Diablo III
There are reports out of China that tensions are flaring over Diablo III. Since the game hasn’t been officially released in Mainland China yet, some Chinese players are acquiring copies of the game and then logging onto Asian servers in other regions. This influx is apparently causing servers to lock up and give the infamous…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 25, 2012 -
Kotaku EastYour Tour Guides to Japanese Nerdom Wear Frilly Dresses
You need someone on the inside. Somebody who knows the score. Somebody in a maid outfit? Well, that’s exactly what you can get if you hire a Japanese maid to show you around the geekier parts of town. Between 2003 and 2004, maid cafes exploded in popularity and have since become an inseparable part of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
If Art Was An Adventure Game
You’d either click everywhere on a painting until something worked, or you’d be greeted with messages like these, done by artist Joe Alterio Jeez, rip those messages out of bright and cheery games and they’re pretty blunt. And depressing. “You can’t go any further” just makes me want to curl up in bed and not…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nobody Loves Rayman Quite Like This Guy
Yeah, he’s been in some decent platformers, but I never thought much of Rayman as a character. He’s just too 90s. So it’s a little surprising seeing him paid tribute in one of the biggest and best pieces of gaming graffiti I’ve ever seen. The piece, by estaphette, can be found in Saint-Étienne in France.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedHey Look, It’s a New Trailer For That New Panzer Dragoon Game
Look, it doesn’t carry the official name, but we all know upcoming Kinect title Crimson Dragon is basically a new Panzer Dragoon game. Especially after watching this clip. It also looks like it’s going to need a bigger-than-average seizure warning at the beginning, because there’s points here where I don’t know what the hell is…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2012 - Culture
We Can Only Hope Next-Gen Street Fighter Looks This Good
Loraine Howard III doesn’t just have the best name of any artist we’ve featured here on our concept art spotlight, he also has some of the most impressive 3D work, headlined by the incredible Balrog you see up top. If next-gen pants don’t look that good I’ll be very disappointed. Loraine has previously worked with…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedArmA III Gets Prettier Every Time I See it
DayZ might be the talk of the PC gaming town at the moment, but for all its qualities at the end of the day it’s still just a mod. It’s using the engine and effects from ArmA II, which play a big part in helping the game achieve its brooding atmosphere. Thing is, ArmA II…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Game Glitch Causes Mass Nightmares
I love Mount & Blade. Sure, it’s a little rough around the edges, and its ugly as sin, but that’s just part of the charm. What other game lets you engage in 200-man battles with muskets and/or swords? Not enough, that’s how many. Correction: I did love Mount & Blade. Now, having seen this texture…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2012 - CultureTotal Recall
How to Beat the Worst Video Game Ever Made
While that’s a subjective boast, has any other game been so terrible that copies of it were taken out into the middle of the desert and buried? No. So I’m sticking with it. ET, released in 1982, was so terrible that marketing material had to be produced helping players get through it. If what’s written…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 24, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Internet Has Never Been More Awkward Than Julia Stiles in 1994
As awful as this is, I can’t stop watching. This is Julia Stiles circa 1994, guest-starring on Ghostwriter, and introducing kids to the wonders – and perils – of the internet. Such an idealist, she was! Shame she never saw the porn, cat pictures and Facebook coming. She might have lingered a little less longingly…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Creator of The Wire Says Buffy Was The Better Show
Hello, Kotaku. Here again, an open thread with a focus: Last night was the Cos, tonight, it’s Buffy vs. Omar! David Simon, the man who created The Wire (aka The Official Best TV Show Ever Made), now has a blog. On that blog, he writes things. The other day, he wrote this: To be clear:…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Joust Creators Weigh In on Cloning Controversy
J.S. Joust developers Die Gute Fabrik have posted a statement about the recent cloning controversey that in which they’ve recently been embroiled. That statement can be read in full over at the Die Gute Fabrik blog, where they make clear both that they have never given anyone permission to clone one of their games, nor…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
There’s More Cussin’ in Teen Novels than Video Games, Swears Researcher
You might not expect a study coming out of Brigham Young University’s School of Family Life to have anything good to say about video games. And maybe this doesn’t. But it says something a lot worse about books, and I’ll take that as a win in this culture war. Sarah Coyne, a social sciences researcher…
By Owen Good Published May 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhat the Holy Hell is Zack Wearing in Dead or Alive 5?
I always figured Zack’s ridiculous clothing in Dead or Alive was due to the influence of series creator Tomonobu Itagaki. Turns out he might have been the only thing holding the rest of the team back. In Dead or Alive 5, Zack is a clown with a flower afro. Lei Fang’s in here too, but…
By Mike Fahey Published May 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Freakin’ Amazing StarCraft Statue Now Looms Outside Blizzard Office
Blizzard’s company HQ has an enormous Warcraft statue out front. It’s incredible. Making it officially a “thing”, Blizzard’s offices in Versailles, France now have one too. Only it’s from StarCraft An enormous Queen of Blades now guards the front courtyard. She was designed by renowned Hollywood effects man Steve Wang, who even got to sign…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedHere is the Worst Sports Theme of All Time, Video Game or Otherwise
It is 2006. You are 2K Sports, the newly created challenger to EA Sports. You’ve been cleaved from Sega, bought up by Take-Two, given an exclusive license to make Major League Baseball games. You’re young and ready, lean and hungry, ready to establish a new order. The title card announcing games under the new 2K…
By Owen Good Published May 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedHere Now, A Guy Playing a 4-Story Pipe Organ With Kinect
I’ve seen plenty of people playing a theremin, but never someone playing an organ with Microsoft’s Kinect motion-controller Yet that’s just what Chris Vik does, reprogramming a Kinect to control a 4-story pipe organ. Yow! Conductors already control an orchestra with only their hands, but this takes things to a new level. (Via Kinect Hacks,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 24, 2012