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Report: Student Used His DSi Camera for Underwear Photos. Dick Pics, Too.
In 2004, when Nintendo originally launched the Nintendo DS with its PictoChat feature, it wasn’t uncommon for people to doodle dicks. Then Nintendo put a camera on the DSi, and the inevitable happened: penis photos. According to Japanese site ZakZak, which is running a story from Spa!, a tabloid, about teachers’ stories “unbelievable things” Japanese…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedWatch Megaupload’s Creator Embarrass Himself in a Hong Kong Arcade
Kim Dotcom, the imprisoned mastermind behind busted file-sharing site Megaupload, didn’t just spend his millions on fast jets and yachts. He also liked to visit Hong Kong arcades and make an ass of himself. Reader Des was kind enough to upload and send along these old videos of Dotcom on a trip to Hong Kong,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedGodspeed You! Black Gordon Freeman
Reader Michael has spent over 100 hours putting together this music video, in which the narration from Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s The Dead Flag Blues is played over visuals from Half-Life 2 Impressive stuff.
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Kids Shoot LEGO Figure Into Space
Two Canadian kids have sent a LEGO minifig boldly where few LEGO minifigs have gone before: into space. While they’re not the first to accomplish the feat, it’s the way they accomplished it that’s awesome. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, aged only 17, built a weather balloon from scratch, even sewing the parachutes that brought…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedSee Mecha Pac-Man and Fat Mega Man Beat Ass Galore in Street Fighter X Tekken
We’ve known for a while that Kuro and Toro, the Sony cat mascots, would find their way into Street Fighter X Tekken. Also, Cole McGrath from inFamous. The inclusion of classic (i.e. shitty) box art Mega Man and Pac-Man also weren’t much of a mystery, but their appearance is confirmed in this video, along with…
By Owen Good Published January 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Is Releasing a “Totally New” 3DS Mario Sidescroller
In the last few months, Nintendo put out a couple of Mario games—namely, Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7. But Nintendo isn’t finished. There’s another Mario title on the horizon; it wasn’t publically known until today. At a recent analyst meeting, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata explained that Nintendo is working on many titles…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
How the Wii U Could Change the Way You Shop. Forever.
The Nintendo Network is the Kyoto-based game maker’s upcoming service that envisions digital game distribution and, most likely, downloadable content. Nintendo is outfitting the Wii U controller with tech that could radically change the way gamers shop. “A big feature regarding the Wii U’s controller is that we decided to embed it with NFC functionality,”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Selling World of Warcraft Server Blades, for a Good Cause
More than 350 retired server blades—the physical manifestations of World of Warcraft‘s virtual realms—are being auctioned off by Blizzard, which will donate the proceeds to the renowned St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Having taken the servers offline, Blizzard is giving them an honorable discharge and offering their parts to collectors and/or those whose characters may…
By Owen Good Published January 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Meeting My Daughter For The First Time (In The Sims)
Republished from Kotaku Australia “I’m not sure if I want to have children. “Maybe we won’t have enough money for a new house, or that extension you were talking about. What if I want a TV? “Didn’t you want to buy all that furniture?” My wife and I are playing The Sims – The Sims…
Mark Serrels Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Death to Betty Draper!
Hello friendly Kotaku readers, and welcome to Thursday’s open thread. I hope you’ve been having a good week! It’s been a fun one here at Kotaku, and nice to see so many people in the gaming world making humorous typos. Here, gathered for your reading enjoyment, are some things from the internet. This Fox News/They…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Network Announced; Digital Distribution of Games Envisioned
Hinted at in the boxshot of a 3DS game last week, the Nintendo Network was formally announced by the Japanese games maker today in a meeting with investors. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says the service will offer features different from the Wi-Fi Connection supporting its current Wii and DS hardware, and is seen as a…
By Owen Good Published January 26, 2012 -
Uncategorized8-Bit Muse Cover? Sword & Sworcery Tribute? You Decide.
Despite what you may think after watching this trailer, this is not actually an ad for an upcoming iPad game. No, it’s a student project by Jherin Miller, who has brought this trailer for a fictitious game alive via Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. Fans of Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP may be disappointed to…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Other Brothers Aren’t Called Mario, But They Still Look Pretty Great
The Other Brothers is an upcoming game, aimed initially at the iPhone, that’s “a pixelated family fun adventure” featuring stuff like “running, jumping, collecting, racing against the clock…” All of which sounds familiar, but the developers – which include the talents of artist Bjorn Hurri, who we’ve featured on Kotaku previously – promise there’s a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Got an Indie Game Idea You Want to Pitch? Get on the Bus
If your typical San Francisco convention-goer is cruising for anything when he’s in town, he’s probably up in the Tenderloin scouting hookers. Not Fork Parker. The CEO spokesmascot for Devolver Digital (publishers of Serious Sam) will be trawling SoMa outside the Moscone Center in that there bus, listening to new pitches for the next great…
By Owen Good Published January 26, 2012 -
UncategorizedThree (Okay, Four) Ways Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Will Differ From Ghost Recon Online
The bulk of my time with Ubisoft’s upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was spent with single-player, but near the end of the session, I had a chance to talk adversarial multiplayer with the game’s developers. The burning question I had was: Now that Future Soldier is coming to PC, how will it be different from…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Capcom Apologizes to Victims of Resident Evil‘s Misspelled Box Art
Yes, yes, Capcom is aware of the typographical error on the spine of Resident Evil: Revelaitons Revelations and has vowed to fix the packaging of a Nintendo-platform game for the second time in four years. Here’s a statement from Capcom USA to Kotaku: “It has come to our attention that there was a misspelling on…
By Owen Good Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Check Out The Witcher 2‘s Kickass New Opening Cinematic
At yesterday’s for the upcoming Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (my thoughts here), the folks at CD Projekt also showed us a brand-new intro cinematic that they had created for the game. It is… pretty damned sweet. It shows Letho, the gravely-voiced kingslaying Witcher antagonist from the game, using some…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
I’ve Got a ‘Revelaiton’ For You, Buddy
D’oh! | Looks like Capcom’s copy-editing department was too busy enjoying their excellent game to catch this typo. (Image via Bitmob’s Dan Hsu.) Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Puts You in the Brain of a Highly Trained Military Killer There has been a longstanding tradition of military fantasy in video games-you’re a part of an elite…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 26, 2012