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Good Luck Finding Our Newest Xbox Live Indie Favorites
Every few weeks we here at Kotaku make a selection of some of the best Indie games that Xbox Live has to offer. These are our latest favorites. [Note from Stephen: But wait. Before we get to this… some apologies are in order. We at Kotaku apologize for having to skip giving recommendations in January,…
By Nick Vannucci Published February 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedBattlefield 3 Is Much More Interesting When Giants Join the Fight
YouTube user LiquidMyPhone found a very large soldier on the battlefield of Battlefield 3. We have no idea how to replicate this, but we would if we could. Battlefield 3: WTF big guy glitch [YouTube]
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Sweet Naiveté Triumphs Over “Normal” Mass Effect PC Controls
Just because we’ve conditioned ourselves to play PC games a certain way doesn’t mean everybody else has to follow suit. In today’s charming Speak Up on Kotaku commenter Confirm4Crit tells the inspiring story of what happened when he handed his non-gamer girlfriend his laptop running a copy of the original Mass Effect. I am very,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Is More Than 200 Hours of Kingdoms of Amalur Too Much Reckoning?
Perhaps proving that you can have too much of a good thing, a recent total completion playthrough of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning clocked in at more than 200 hours, which has the lead designer wondering if maybe they might have overdone it a little. One would think more than 200 hours of content would be…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Come along, boys and girls. It’s time to let yourselves out of your shells and spend some time discussing video games in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Yankton, America’s Sweetheartmade my day with a wonderfully stacked TAYpic. Wonderfully done! Join the party and create your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
These 3DS Girls Are Freaky
The Nintendo 3DS is not a new platform. It does have a bunch of games, but even then, I can safely say this is the most screwed up character design the handheld has seen. These faces belong to characters in upcoming 3Ds game Hime Gal Paradise, which like the manga it’s based on features girls…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
With a Wink, One Epic Game Shrewdly Delivers Less Than It Promises
Having reviewed the likes of Matt Hazzard: Blood, Bath and Beyond, I was prepared to dislike One Epic Game, a platformer set in, let’s see here, yes, “an alien invasion right in the middle of a zombie outbreak in a fantasy kingdom somewhere in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.” That’s from a cutscene. “With World War II…
By Owen Good Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Gamer Dies in Taipei Internet Cafe, Nine Hours Later Someone Notices
Chen Rong-yu of Taiwan checked into an internet cafe in the city of New Taipei on Tuesday evening to play popular multiplayer PC game League of Legends. Wednesday evening a waitress found the 23-year-old sitting rigidly in his chair, hands outstretched towards the computer. He had been dead for up to nine hours. Intense levels…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow to get Lightsabers in Skyrim
There’s a lot of talking here at the beginning. A lot of boring crafting stuff. Stick with it. Eventually, you’ll see that you really can get lightsabers in Skyrim. And canon be damned, they are awesome The mod has actually been available since late last year. If you don’t have it installed, get on it!…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Ultraman Is a Fancy Dresser
Ultra Cool | TOKYO, JAPAN: Ultraman (men?) pose in 2006 at the opening of an Ultraman movie. (Photo: Shizuo Kambayashi | AP) IKEA, and the Logic of Video Game Design A visit to IKEA usually means house moving, renovating, and too much fun spent with LEGO for grown-ups. But is there an element of videogame…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Man Lights Fireworks. Man Blows Up Manhole.
A man in a blue jacket crouched, lighting a firecracker on a manhole. The children stuck their fingers in their ears. What happened next was caught on a security camera. It can only be described as unbelievable. Gas in the drainage system unexpectedly caught fire, causing an explosion that sent the 44-pound manhole several stories…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Perverts Running Amok with NSFW SoulCalibur V Character Creation!
If you allow people the freedom to create things, you can count on this: sex. Just look at all the dick faces people made with Nintendo Miis. Nintendo Miis! They’re the most innocuous things imaginable, and bam, cocks So, when you have a game like SoulCalibur V, which has been baiting hyper sexuality, you’re going…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Let This Gothic Lolita Shoot Up Your Shelves
DeathSmiles is a horizontal shmup from bullet hell developer Cave. It’s not my favorite Cave title by any stretch, but it does have a sizeable following due to its Christmas-in-Hell asethetic. Plus, the game stars Gothic Lolitas, like batgirl Casper. People seem to like those. This figure was first released back in 2009, but the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Leave It to this Italian To Bring a South Korean MMORPG to Life
Way before cosplay was mainstream, Italy’s Giorgia was doing her thing, dressing up as game and anime characters. She’s been cosplaying since 1997, which, in internet time, must be a century. Giorgia’s photos are extremely well done—ditto for the outfits. No wonder she won Best Individual Cosplayer at the 2005 World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Japan’s PlayStation Store Is Buggy and Needs A-Fixin’
According to Sony, the PlayStation Store’s search function is buggy and not working. The Tokyo-based electronics company is investigating and working on a fix. Sit tight. [PlayStation Japan]
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Marvel at Sony’s Amazing Gravity Rush Whiteboard Drawings
Sony invited a group of Japanese press to its offices to check out upcoming PS Vita game Gravity Rush. These types of tours can start to blur into each other, with game developers giving the press the hard sell. But this tour had something I’d never seen before: whiteboard drawings! The game creators created these…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Horror of Plastic Figures
You might think this statue of Nene Anegasaki from Konami’s love sim Love Plus looks pretty nice. You might think it’s well sculpted and well put together. But wait until you see it in pieces. The horror! Obviously, this is the kit deconstructed form, but man, that’s some scary sauce. Orders are being taken now,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Hello Dentist. Tokyo Gets the Pinkest and Cutest Clinic on Earth.
Hello Kitty is an icon. You don’t only find the cat in video games, on toilet paper, and even an infamous vibrator. And now, Hello Kitty has a dentist office. Last month, the Heart Dental Clinic opened in Tokyo’s Koto-ku. It’s wall-to-wall Kitty-chan, Sanrio approved, and pink. Really, really pink. Inside, it’s a Hello Kitty…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
In the Grim Future There Might not be a Warhammer 40K MMO
A few weeks back, the future of THQ’s Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium MMO was very much up in the air. Comments early yesterday had seemed to ease fears over the project, but comments later yesterday brought the fears right back. It seems beleaguered publisher THQ doesn’t have the stomach or coin to fully back the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Report: Video Gaming Interrupted by Sadistic Sisters. Cruelty Ensues.
It started out as any other fall afternoon. High school student “Joseph” was in his room playing video games when he got a call from Amanda Johnson, 17, to come over to her house. Joseph’s last name is being withheld to protect his privacy, because as Wisconsin’s St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office stated, what happened…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012