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This Man’s Asia Honeymoon. With a Cardboard Girl.
If you think being married to people is hard, try being married to a cardboard person. And then globetrotting around with your better half. Your better cardboard half, that is. Fabrice Requin is doing just that, trekking through Asia, making stops in Singapore, Bali, Japan, and more. Have you ever seen a man with a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Is This the Perfect Otaku Office?
My office? Nope. While it’s a mess of stuff, my desk doesn’t exactly scream otaku (though, the signed Kurt Vonnegut print above it is pretty cool!). This guy’s office, however, is otaku chic. Spotted over on DannyChoo.com, the office belongs to Dieta from Germany. Stereotypically, otaku space are packed with stuff and are dirty. This,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Report: Namco Ignored Programmer’s Mental Health. Programmer Committed Suicide.
Mr. N fell in love with Namco’s space shooter Xevious. On his job application, Mr. N wrote that from the moment he played Xevious as a junior high school student, he knew he wanted to make games. And he knew Namco was the company for him. Mr. N isn’t his real name, reported Japanese site…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Do Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo Really Care? Do We?
For Westerners, the conditions are shocking. Workers slave away for hours on end, pulling overtime, until their legs swell or they suffer from crippling disabilities. Our iPhones and game electronics are made by hand, probably because it’s cheaper to pay a worker in China to fit, solder, and polish products than it would be to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Wii U Will be Out by Christmas in the US, Europe, Japan & Australia
While there’s still scope for slight delays, Nintendo has tonight eased fears of a drastically staggered release of the Wii U by confirming the new console will be out in all four major territories by Christmas. Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has told Reuters that the Wii U would be out in the US, Europe, Japan…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012 -
UncategorizedSomeone Turned TV’s The Office Into a Counter-Strike Map
YouTube user Blitzkrieg1981 has, after spending around 55 hours pausing and examining episodes of the hit TV show The Office, gone and replicated the entire thing as a map in first-person shooter Counter-Strike Fans of the original British series, sorry. This is the American version. Counterstrike Source The Office (TV) map [YouTube, via Reddit]
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012 - Culture
One Does Not Simply Design Badass Lord of the Rings Characters
Well, actually, one does if one is Wes Burt, concept artist at Massive Black, whose recent work for Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online is well worth sharing. We’ve featured Wes’ work before here on Fine Art. If you haven’t seen it, you really should Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Adolf Hitler Cuddling Dinosaurs? These Posters are Amazing.
Dino D-Day, a multiplayer first-person shooter released on PC last year, never really caught on as a game. Its premise, though – that the forces of the Second World War were able to harness the power of dinosaurs – was great. Something plainly obvious in these incredible promotional/propaganda posters. They don’t need to make sense.…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012 -
UncategorizedCrazy Man Plays Street Fighter Against Himself
Watch, as Street Fighter player Desk grabs two arcade sticks, sits down and proceeds to kick his own ass at Street Fighter III: Third Strike Desk plays SF3 Third Strike against himself [Eventhubs]
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
What Does Your Favourite Game Say About You? As a Person?
Sadly, it seems I missed Slacktory’s excellent “What Your Favorite Video Game (Series) Says About You” feature from a few weeks back. Sure, not every one of them is entirely accurate – or even remotely accurate – but the ones it gets right, it gets right. And even the ones it gets wrong can be…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Anti-Cheat Crusaders Blame Each Other for Battlefield 3 Hacks
Over the past week, a ton of innocent Battlefield 3 gamers have been wrongly banned from the game, the result of a hack movement protesting the use of (ahem) anti-cheat software. Of interest in the wake of the bans is who, or what, is to blame for the security lapse which allowed them to take…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Deus Ex’s Sexy Pin-Up Photo Shoot (What?)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution not sexy enough for you? It was for me, (I’ve always asked for cereal boxes and cigarette smoke, Adam) but not cosplay photographer chrisfkn, apparently. WARNING: This post may be considered NSFW. I know, that sounds weird, but if you’re at home, you’ll see what I mean. He snapped this photo…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Skyrim’s Quest Markers Can Now Lead You Around the Real World
Oh God. As if my Obsessive compulsive problems with Skyrim weren’t bad enough, there’s now the distinct possibility that the game’s quest markers could start turning up on the door to my garage and crapper. Etsy seller hollygreengeekcraft has turned the game’s quest icons into pixellated, real-world items, ready to be hung or slung from…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Hey, Lucas, Hands Off the Goddam Merchandise
Hello team Kotaku, and welcome to your mid-week open thread! The open thread was telling me that it missed you the last couple nights, and that it’s so glad to be back with you. It’s been a cool week so far, both in San Francisco and at Kotaku. It rained some, which was desperately needed,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Why an Xbox With Anti-Used Game Tech Makes Perfect Sense
So, we’ve heard from a source that the next Xbox may feature some kind of anti-used games technology. When you first read that, your first instinct was probably to think it’s either bullshit or the worst idea a video game company has ever had. It is, I believe, neither. In fact, if it ends up…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Tiny Tower Rips Off a Flash Game—and SimTower
Earlier today, the makers of mobile gaming blockbuster Tiny Tower published the kind of open letter loved by video gaming’s instantly and constantly angry fuck-the-man constituency, not least because it can be disseminated by imgur. It alleged that Zynga, the popularly despised maker of Facebook McGames, stole Tiny Tower‘s idea and was reaping a dishonest…
By Owen Good Published January 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedCheck Out This Battlefield Case Mod. It Has a Freakin’ Chain Gun.
Earlier this year, Raptr ran a competition where famed case modder Brian Carter would produce a custom PC based on either Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 or Battlefield 3. He eventually went with the latter. And it’s awesome The case features an airbrushed Battlefield image on one side, a massive crosshair intake fan, a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012