Gabe | THE INTERNETS, AUSTRALIA: It even looks like Gabe addressed the envelope. If so, that’s nuts! (Photo: Twitter) Gamers Donate $400,000 IN ONE DAY To See Their Heroes Make a New Game Wow. Good job, internet! Despite the fact the project was announced less than 24 hours ago, Double Fine’s Kickstarter campaign for a…
According to a recent survey done by the Weekly Famitsu, for people who have purchased a PSVita, 59%* answered that they had purchased the 3G/Wi-Fi model, showing a relative popularity over the standard Wi-Fi model. However, when asked what network they used regularly, 90%** answered that they used Wi-Fi (compared to the 5% who used…
Later this morning, Apple users will deliver over 250,000 signatures to the Apple Store in NYC’s Grand Central Station, demanding that Apple end Chinese worker abuse. [Change.org and SumOfUs]
If you’ve been playing online game Final Fantasy XIV, you know there are eighteen in-game worlds. That is going to change. Soon there will be ten. “In order to improve the player experience, we will be merging Worlds on Tuesday, March 27, 2012,” stated Square Enix. “After the merge is completed, there will be a…
Uber popular anime Tiger and Bunny stars two male protagonists—Kotetsu T. Kaburagi and Barnaby Brooks Jr.—who battle as superheroes on the show’s Hero TV. The show is quite popular. In the past few years, popular anime are spawning porn parody after porn parody. Tiger & Bunny is no exception, and since it exists, there is…
Game developer, Spike, is releasing a new role playing game for the PSP this April where one of the objectives is to save the world by conceiving children. In the world of Conception, the player plays the part of Itsuki Yuge, a high school student summoned to the magic world of Granbania. There he must…
A hacker collective named SwaggSec claims to have hacked Foxconn, the world’s largest electronic components maker. Foxconn assembles hardware for Apple as well as game consoles, such as the PS3, the Xbox 360, and the Wii. According to SwaggSec’s open letter, the hack appears to be retaliation for Foxconn’s notorious working conditions. The hack looks…
You thought the Kitty-chan dentist office was cute? It is. The Hello Kitty plane, though, isn’t just cute. It’s cute that flies According to CNNGo, Taiwanese airline EVA Air is launching three Hello Kitty-themed Airbus A330-300 planes, serving Japan, South Korea, and Guam. Passengers get special baggage tags, Hello Kitty headrests and pillows, Kitty-chan soap,…
Kotaku has posted tons of cosplay over the years. Yet, I cannot remember any pieces the site did on cosplayers who cook, let alone camp. Tifa—that’s her name—does both. And with a name like Tifa, you betcha she’s dressed as the Final Fantasy VII character Tifa Lockhart So what the hell is going on here?…
Wow. Good job, internet! Despite the fact the project was announced less than 24 hours ago, Double Fine’s Kickstarter campaign for a new graphic adventure has reached its goal of $400,000. That means around 10,000 regular humans on the internet (maybe you!) donated $400,000 out of your own pockets to see some legends of an…
Spotted at an Indonesia game shop by Japanese site Game Watch Impress. All these Wii games are priced at Rp.20,000 or around US$2.30. The game shop, like so many in the region, also had binders and binders of pirated Xbox 360 games—here, XGame 360. “規制”から”支援”へ変わりつつある中国市場と [Game Impress Watch] (Top photo: Game Impress Watch)
After I posted Sole’s new video yesterday, I was inundated with emails from people saying “OH YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THIS MUSIC VIDEO THAT’S LIKE A VIDEO GAME”. Most of them were rubbish, but this one, from Polinski, was great The entire clip plays out like an old Spectrum game, down to the tape loading…
Early last year, pro gamer Linda Liao made waves when she joined Team Razer’s competitive gaming team. Lao isn’t only a pro gamer. Oh no, she’s much more. In her native Taiwan, she’s an actress and pop star, who stars in dramas like Chase or They Are Flying and movies like horror flick Twisted. She’s…
The creators of Adventure Time have long been dreaming of the perfect video game adaptation for the series. So much so they’re starting to write stuff down. And share it! These sketches are the product of a little brainstorming session between Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward and Patrick McHale, one of the show’s writers. I…
Street Fighter x Tekken is more than just the crossover of two powerhouse fighting game franchises. It’s also a fusion of the sensibilities behind the two universes. Similar plot points—lethal government agents, shadowy underworld crime syndicates, etc.—get used in various Street Fighter or Tekken games, but the latter series tends to feel more self-serious than…
This is Jason Baily, the CEO of East Side Games, with a mic in hand and some beef with Zynga, makers of Facebook games like Farmville. The world doesn’t have much of it, but it could really do with more video game stand-up comedy VIDEO: Stand-up comedy on Zynga cloning [Develop]
With the game out this week, now’s as good a time as any to look at some concept art from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning While a whole team of artists worked on the game, today we’re taking a look at the colourful contributions of Big Huge Games’ principal concept artist Sean Andrew Murray. If you…
Ever since EA binned The White Council, I’ve been dying for an open-world RPG set in the world of The Lord of the Rings. I am also far from the only one, as a team of modders has been working on building themselves just that, using Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls games as a base. The project,…
Tonight, readers are telling Kotaku that the Vita Store is live in North America, selling games and renting movies. The page itself isn’t live, but the games are supposedly available. Check it out, if you already have a Vita.
Come on, be honest. Someone, somewhere along the line would find a way to screw everything up. So these make-believe movie posters are probably as good as we’re ever going to get! These posters are the second batch we’ve seen from artist Olly Moss in this style, after the Super Mario ones we showed you…
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