The Circle Pad Pro, a $20 add-on that adds a second analog input to the Nintendo 3DS—acting as a right analog stick—as well as two shoulder more shoulder buttons, will be sold in the U.S. exclusively through GameStop stores and the GameStop website, Nintendo revealed today. It will be compatible with Resident Evil: Revelations and…
Now that you know when you’ll be able to get the upcoming Kid Icarus game, you might want to re-acquaint yourself with how Pit’s latest adventure is going to look. This new trailer shows off aerial and ground combat, a few new weapons and a boss battle or two. And what certainly looks like the…
It finally seems like the 3DS has gotten its legs underneath it, even as the Wii’s glory days fade further into the rear view. But there’s an unspecified while yet until the Wii U hits retail shelves and Nintendo’s still got a bunch of software coming on the home console and handheld fronts. The company’s…
Teh Future | TOKYO, JAPAN: Earlier this fall, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata talked 2012. (Photo: Itsuo Inouye | AP) A Skyrim Helmet Made of Bacon. Shout “Delicious”. Taking one page out of EpicMealTime and another out of some book in Skyrim about helmets made of bacon, internet person Liktwo made a Skyrim helmet. Out of…
Hideo Kojima doesn’t only make Metal Gear games, these days, it seems like they’re all he makes. Even the diehard fans are getting sick of them. Why can’t Kojima make another Zone of the Enders mecha game? “I also want to make one,” Kojima told website GamerFitNation. “But we don’t have the staff.” If they…
During the Nintendo 3DS’s launch week, the portable sold 371,326 units in Japan. When Nintendo slashed the priced, the portable sold 214,821 units in Japan. What about when Monster Hunter 3G was released? During that week, 378,114 units were sold. This comes hot off the heels of Mario Kart 7‘s and Super Mario 3D Land‘s…
The stereotype is that Gundam is for males. That it’s only men in their forties and thirties who build Gundam models. The stereotype is wrong. Don’t believe me? The recent “Gunpla Builders World Cup 2011”, the first international competition devoted to Gunpla, or Gundam model building featured a junior division for modellers under 14 years-old,…
There are sections of EA’s blockbuster Battlefield 3 in which the player controls an American soldier fighting on the streets of Tehran. It went down pretty well in most places, but Iran isn’t most places. The state, a long-time foe of the US government, has lodged complaints with the game’s developers over the setting, and…
For years now, Japanese capsule toy makers have churned out miniature (non-working, of course!) game consoles and miniature portables. This photo from website DannyChoo.com shows that even after all these years, holding a little Super Nintendo will never get old. A Day in Tokyo [DannyChoo]
The last time we saw some concept art from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, it was from Ray Lederer, and featured loads of colour and action shots. We’ve got some more art from the game today, and this time, it’s all about the design. The clothes, the weapons, the fine details. These pieces were drawn…
Void is a game about time travel. That’s been done in games before, I know, but it’s never been done like this. A first-person PC game, Void gives you direct, immediate control over the timing of your surroundings via a variety of tools. I won’t bother trying to describe it to you; just watch the…
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a great game with a great world and great music. Some people love the music so much that they’ve decided to put their own spin on it. The results vary: from symphonic to shit. After spending time on the internet, combing through what’s out there, I’m done. I don’t…
Pepper Spray Cop will be one of the enduring images of 2011. While most tributes to the man have been simple PhotoShops, though, this piece by Pazero goes to the trouble of being an all-original illustration. Ken VS Lt John [DeviantArt, via Gamefreaks]
Kids! And not kids! It’s that time of the night. The time when we gather around those glowing portals you call screens and listen to music. Together! That’s right, it’s time for Soundtrack. Tonight, we have Lou Reed’s live rendition of “Sad Song” from the classic Berlin album. This live version appeared on Reed’s 1975…
Taking one page out of EpicMealTime and another out of some book in Skyrim about helmets made of bacon, internet person Liktwo made a Skyrim helmet. Out of bacon. It’s built using a delicate bacon weave, and once cooked looks good enough to wear. Then eat. Or both. While Liktwo says it was made from…
If you live in Japan, you’ve seen Dante Carver on television. The American-born actor plays “Onii-chan” or “brother” in a series of mobile phone commercials that star a dog as a family patriarch, actress Aya Ueto, and Shigesato Itoi’s wife And if you’ve been to the Tokyo Game Show, you’ve probably seen Carver on stage,…
Metal Gear Rising is a hack-and-slash game. It’s not a stealth game—no biggie MGS creator Hideo Kojima pointed out. It’s a spin-off game, and stealth will return to the next MGS sequel so wait for that. [@Kojima_Hideo]
Google software engineer Kenton Varda has a pretty great house. Not because it’s all clean and new and rather large, but because it’s been built specifically with LAN parties in mind. The house has twelve “fold-out computer stations”, with six each in two rooms (for team play!), and which normally just look like monitors placed…
Over the weekend, Monster Hunter 3G launched in Japan. Sister site Kotaku Japan was on hand for the festivities in Shinjuku. Members of AKB48 spin-off group NMB48 were on hand, along with Japanese comedians, a tricked out van, about 200 people, and Kotaku Japan One of the comedians, Ken Maeda, loves Monster Hunter and has…
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. It’s a name Square Enix would be proud of, but before you go thinking some Japanese guy made it up by combining “Revenge” and “Vengeance” and nobody had the sense to tell him it was a stupid name, know that it’s a word that’s been used before. Metal band Soulfly, for…
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