Reggie Fils-Aime, everybody’s favorite pizza man turned game exec, is a terror on the road. The Nintendo of America president thinks it’s okay to drive like Mario Kart in real life. You know, burning rubber and throwing heat-seeking turtle shells. “I played the little game on the Mario Kart fan page and it said that…
Mass Effect 2 was meant to feature more Citadel missions than it ultimately wound up with. Rather than see good missions go to waste, developers BioWare will be bringing at least one of them to completion in the upcoming Mass Effect 3 The game’s lead writer Mac Walters told OXM, “There was a Mass Effect…
Sister site Kotaku Japan directed our (my?) attention to a new Android app. It’s a puzzle game, and a hard one at that, judging by the reviewer’s repeated matching missteps. Oppai Choice, or “Boob Choice”, offers over fifty different oppai for players to select from. Or maybe, that should read a hundred? 女の子と胸をマッチングさせる『おっぱいCHOICE ちょっと』 [Tabroid…
François Baranger is an artist who works not just on video games, but on some of the biggest Hollywood franchises in recent years, like Harry Potter and GI Joe This being a look at gaming art, though, today we’ll be taking a gander at his work on games like the upcoming Black Death and the…
You can never be over-encumbered by a friend who’s got your back. A lovely piece of fan art done for commission by Dan Jones You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
Portal’s Aperture Science got its start in 1953 producing shower curtains for the US Army. So it’s poignant that in 2011 the company goes back to its roots, and produces shower curtains for…your bathroom. These curtains don’t talk, don’t sing and don’t flash lights. They’re just curtains. Good, honest curtains. The kind of curtains Cave…
That’s right, Dragon Age is going multiplayer. The role-playing franchise is, according to an insider, going beyond singleplayer for the first time, and warriors won’t simply face off against each other in combat. Apparently, dragons will also be playable in Dragon Age multiplayer, giving players the chance to go head-to-head with foes in fire-breathing, swooping-through-the-air…
Marcin Iwinski, CEO of Witcher developers CD Projekt, utters a little common sense as a palette cleanser to Ubisoft’s increasingly farcical stance on PC gaming. Rather than punish legitimate consumers, like much of today’s DRM does, Iwinski instead sees added value as a means of combating piracy, luring customers in with things like collector’s editions…
Monster Hunter conquered Japan on the PSP. Monster Hunter 3G is coming to the 3DS. For a brief second, the game totally forgot that. In one portion of the game’s online instruction manual for the Nintendo demo, instead of referring to the 3DS’s buttons, it refers to the triangle button, the circle button, and the…
It’s no Neverwinter Nights, but the upcoming Neverwinter online game is still Dungeons & Dragons and it’s still Neverwinter. So a first decent look at the game’s engine since E3 (albeit via a rather cinematic trailer) is still in order. There are few things on Earth more agonising than Americans failing to pull off a…
With 2008 survival horror third-person shooter Dead Space, EA created a hit title. Dead Space went on to spawn a sequel, a rail-shooter spin-off and a puzzle game, animated films, comic books, and a novel. But according to one insider, EA is just getting started. EA is looking at new ways to expand Dead Space,…
Cosplayer Necoco, who Kotaku has featured before, checks out Studio Gossip with cosplay blog Asagawo. Located in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, the studio features several different themed rooms, providing backdrops for cosplay snaps. In the last year or two, cosplay studios have become increasingly popular, giving photographers and models a more controlled—as well as a more photogenic—photography…
Zombie paradise action game Dead Island may have been out since early September, but it’s only now that the Germans at the wonderfully-named Federal Department of Media Harmful to Young Persons have got around to banning it. “This isn’t unexpected,” Techland, the developers of the game, told Eurogamer. “Germany has its unique regulations regarding video…
Some things sound better in Japanese. Take the Disney ride Star Tours. It sounds better in Japanese. The Pirates of the Caribbean ride, however, does not. What about Skyrim? The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is getting released in Japan, where the game is receiving rave reviews. This is the game’s Japanese language trailer. スカイリムの世界 日本語吹き替え…
Later this week, the PS3 will update to a nice, clean, round number: v4.0. Those hoping for something drastic will be disappointed, but there’s still some important work being done under the hood. When it’s pushed live, the PS3 will be able to communicate with the PlayStation Vita, a mildly necessary function since the new…
This must be weird. Nerd starlet Felicia Day, who stars in not just a Dragon Age web series but some Dragon Age II DLC, sits down here to play…Dragon Age II. As herself. Nice to see she has about as much trouble keeping a straight face over the premise as I did. Also nice to…
Forget the woeful American cover for a minute, and instead let’s focus on the Japanese and European box art for PS2 classic Ico. It’s as memorable for many as the game itself, with its bold art style and rich colours. So I thought for today’s Total Recall we’d look back at the artist, and one…
Greetings, fellow travelers. Welcome to another night of smooth sounds and smoother conversation. That’s right, it’s the evening Kotaku open thread. Some possible conversation-starters for you this fine evening: This guy gave his cheating girlfriend a crappy tattoo – literally! See what I did there? Wow actually, this would really suck. Teddy the (talking) porcupine…
Oh, man. This video, called “Unnecessary Censorship – Skyrim” from YouTube user NormalDifficulty (who also gave L.A. Noire the same humorous treatment) is a triumph. In it, they’ve added censoring bleeps to a bunch of the dialogue in Bethesda’s game, making it much saltier than the at times staid, often weird line readings really are.…
After last week’s big fall sale, this week’s PlayStation Store update is a bit more chilled out. A full-game download of Sly Cooper Collection is now available for $29.99, or you can download any of the three Sly Cooper games included in the collection for $9.99 each. Gonna have to play one of those, finally.…
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