What a wretched, wonderful fictional construct the Star Wars universe has become. While many people hate how George Lucas’s fiddling continues to dilute the memories of the folks who love it most, the Skywalker saga remains a rich playground for all kinds of comedy or tragedy. Three years ago, the crew at Illusive Entertainment created…
Hello people of Kotaku! We’re halfway through the week, I hope you’re having a good one. Gaming is keeping me busy, as well as watching my beloved sports teams. I’ve been playing Minecraft, FIFA 12, and some of the F2P MMO Vindictus. How about you? If you’re curious, I’m a huge ice hockey and soccer/football…
Virgin Media was told it can no longer run broadband ads claiming that their UK internet service is the best for online gaming. The Advertising Standards Authority said in their censure that the Virgin ads were likely going to lead gamers to think that Virgin’s broadband service was better than other UK internet services for…
In 1985 Jordan Mechner was a student at Yale riding high on a mix of euphoria over the surprise success of his first video game, Karateka, and trepidation over the idea of turning that success into a career. Trading the east coast for the west landed him in the thick of a game industry beginning…
Mega | TOKYO, JAPAN: Dead Rising creator Keiji Inafune attended a Dead Rising event in Tokyo. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Here’s Harrison Ford. Playing Uncharted. [Updated] National treasure Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones, Star Wars, your childhood) has popped up in an unlikely place: A Japanese television commercial for Uncharted 3. More » The Spies, Soldiers and…
Remember Toirettsu? It’s a toilet, outfitted with mini-games. As Sega Toys pointed out, “You’re able to game with pee!” Finally! The contraption is outfitted with mini-games, and there is a sensor that can apparently measure the speed of one’s urine stream. Some of the mini-games include erasing graffiti with a hose (with your pee), causing…
Sure you do! At the recent All Japan Plamodel Hobby Show held outside Tokyo, a whole bunch of figures were on display. There were the standard bishoujo (“beautiful girl”) statues, along with mecha and robot figures. Let’s focus on those. The gallery is Gundam heavy, but there are appearances by Zone of the Enders and…
In preparation for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 launch, the beta for Call of Duty: Elite, Activision’s new social network and stat-tracking service, is going offline later today. According to an official release, Activision and Beachhead Studio are shutting down the Elite beta at 3:00pm EST. Before MW3 and Elite‘s launch, the following sections…
It’s been a while since we saw how the fan-made MMO built on the bones of StarCraft II is looking. So let’s take a look! Yup. Looking great. Admittedly, as a man who finds the prospect of playing a traditional MMO as exciting as watching paint…just sit there, on the wall, I love what’s being…
Those without an Xbox 360 (or looking to get a new one) for the holiday season, Microsoft has you covered with two games-and-hardware bundles, one with Kinect and one without
The next Xbox hasn’t been announced. There have been hints and rumors, but nothing official. Regardless, it is coming, and game designers, like the rest of us, have a laundry list of things they want. Gears of War Cliff Bleszinski is no different. Bleszinski told OXM, “I’m sorry, do you think graphics are good enough?…
Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Conviction lived two very public lives. The first had Sam Fisher looking like the sexiest homeless man on the planet. That version was binned. The second version, the one that was actually released, was more “traditional”. This art, from Ubisoft’s Bruno Gauthier Leblanc, is of this second Sam Fisher. And loads of…
EA says that 5 million people use Origin every day. Note that this isn’t a measure of popularity; like Steam, it’s hard to avoid a service when you practically have to use it to play certain games.
It’s a wonderful world we live in when rappers can release singles from albums devoted entirely to Final Fantasy VII Nerd rap superstar Mega Ran, who we’ve featured before, has with Jon Louden put together this video for the track Absolute, which can be found on his Black Materia album If you like what you…
Right before this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo suddenly revealed it was having a press conference. It was a total bust. Today, Nintendo suddenly announced it was holding another press conference. Will it be a disappointment, too? Dubbed “Nintendo 3DS New Information: Internet Presentation”, the event will be carried over Japanese video site NicoNico Douga…
Oh, if only that were the case. This fan art from poopbird, dropping the Muppets in as Call of Duty characters, certainly has me wishing. Though, when you think about it, it’s not that crazy an idea. It’s not that far a leap to go from soldier dudes to zombies to Muppets. Is it? Especially…
Cosplayer Omi Gibson, perhaps best known for her Metal Gear work, is no one trick pony. Her repertoire includes obscure characters like Super Galdelic Hour‘s Toko and Thrill Kill‘s Belladonna, along with a willingness to cover herself in fake blood. Here, she cosplays as baseball-bat-wielding Bad Girl, a cosplay she’s donned before. This time, she…
Throughout its public relations cycle, DICE’s Battlefield 3 was shown only on PC and, later, PlayStation 3. The Xbox 360 version was kept under the stairs, beaten weekly and fed fish heads and stale water. That led many to assume it was a hideous thing, but if these screenshots from the Korean version of the…
SimCity 4’s world creation suite is a wonderful thing, allowing players fine control over the hills, valleys and rivers of their virtual building plot. It’s so fine, in fact, people can try and recreate entire countries. In this case, Taiwan. OK, so it’s a small country, but at 3,902 square miles and with a population…
In the West, you know them as movie stars. They’re larger than life. Even appearing on television often seems beneath them. But in Japan, they’re more than happy to sell you crap. For years, Hollywood movie stars have made no bones about appearing in Japanese commercials. Back home, they’d never dream of compromising their images…
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