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UncategorizedIs This Quantum Levitation Powered Real World WipeOut Track Too Good to Be True?
Reeking of amateurish CG and released by the seemingly nonexistent Japan Institute of Science and Technology, this video depicting a pair of miniature hover cars ripped straight out of Sony’s WipeOut series sure gets me hungry for some futuristic racing. While quantum levitation is a very real phenomenon, the likelihood of the demonstration above being…
By Mike Fahey Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Go Ahead, Read the Skyward Sword Manga in English
Over at website GlitterBerri, they’ve scanned and translated the first ten pages of the The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Japanese manga. The site plans on scanning and translating the rest, so be sure to check back. Read the first ten pages in the link below. Link, geddit? Skyward Sword Manga [GlitterBerri]
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedStar Wars: The Old Republic MMO Log Part Three: Force-Feeding Myself Evil
It’s too bad there’s no option to just settle down and retire in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. After hours of questing amidst the tranquil sands of Tatooine, I’m ready for a lengthy break. Having played massively multiplayer online games for more than a decade, I’ve developed an extremely low tolerance for boredom, and…
By Mike Fahey Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Persona Developer Will Reveal the Game “Everyone’s Waiting For”
This year, famed Persona role-playing game maker Atlus is going to apparently announce a new game. It’s more than that, though. Atlus is going to reveal a game that everybody’s waiting for “soon”. The Tokyo-based game company supposedly said as much in its New Year’s card, leading to online speculation that the eagerly awaited Persona…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedTossed Salad Sex and My Little Pony Meet-ups Combine in Weirdo CGI News Report on The Sims Creator’s Next Game
We know that the next game from Will Wright wants to create a unique gaming experience powered by data about how you live your life. Apparently, gamers, your lives include roughage in the bedroom and lots of booze-filled brony love. Now, the world’s seen neither hide nor hair of Hivemind yet but that’s not stopping…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Brutally Cute Skyrim Mod Shouldn’t Have a Sword
Ask any fan of virtual idol Miku Hatsune. It should have a leek. The character, who always carries a leek, is huge in Japan, and Toyota is even using Miku to sell cars in the West. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is getting a whole host of character mods for its PC version. Previously, Kotaku…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 3, 2012 -
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America’s PremierPokémon-Playing Family Enter the Guinness Book of Arbitrary Gaming Records
Meet the Arnold family of Frankfort, Illinois, a five-person powerhouse of pure Pokémon battling power. This championship winning team stars in the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2012 as the Largest Competitive Pokémon Video Game Family. I should really say re-meet the Arnold’s, as the family was the subject of a feature I wrote after…
By Mike Fahey Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Zelda: Skyward Sword‘s Alphabet Cracked
Leave it to Zelda fans to fix the Zelda timeline. And leave it to Zelda fans to undertake yet another laborious task: translating the in-game lingo. In the Zelda games, you see Hylian, the language written throughout the Zelda games. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the most recent Zelda title, features a new type…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
How Do You Feel About These Comiket Costumes?
The winter Comiket, née Comic Market, is finished. The event’s cosplay will live on thanks to posts like this. Hooray, internet! First held in 1975, the bi-annual Comiket is the world’s biggest self-published comic book fair. A half a million people show up to Comic Market, ready to buy rare comics and soak in the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Hello, I’m Kotaku‘s New Editor-in-Chief
I’ve been trying for a long time to get people to stop thinking that creating Hulk Hogan’s reality show is the coolest item on my resume. I think I’ve found a way. Early last month, I accepted an offer from Nick Denton, head of our parent company, Gawker Media, to become Kotaku‘s editor-in-chief. That kicks…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Adieu
After writing 11,296 stories for Kotaku I find myself at a loss for words as I write this, my last for the site. I leave both Kotaku and Gawker Media today after more than seven years of features and news, silliness and personal tragedy, contests, parties, reviews and redesigns. I leave the site in good…
By Brian Crecente Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
It Only Takes 30 Games and 80 Movies to Get the Full Kingdom Hearts Experience
Does playing every game in the Kingdom Hearts series qualify you as a true fan? Commenter zombie711 thinks it might be a little more involved than that in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I love the Kingdom Hearts series. It remains today to be my favorite series of all time. What I don’t like is…
By Mike Fahey Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Check Out The First Pages of Detective Comics #5
Gruesome things have been happening in the recently rebooted Detective Comics. How gruesome, you ask? [Spoilers if you haven’t been reading.] The Joker’s had his his face removed. Hapless citizens of Gotham have gotten cut to pieces and sewn back together, courtesy of a new villain called The Dollmaker. It’s been a grotesquely violent run…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s January. It’s a new year. And we need a new lead image for Talk Amongst Yourselves. Please submit your favorite old, public domain painting to our #TAYpics thread. I’ll pick a winner, which will then be the image all of you can Photoshop to your heart’s content for the rest of the month. The…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Shenmue Game Nobody Wanted Is Dead
Shenmue III, the unfulfilled third entry in the Shenmue saga, is the game fans really want. Fans did not get that game. Instead, they got Shenmue Town. Nobody wanted Shenmue Town. And now, it’s dead. Shenmue Town was a social networking take on the Shenmue adventure games. It was released in winter 2010 for Yahoo!…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
New Mario Party and Pokemon Games Hitting the *ahem* 4 Million-Selling Nintendo 3DS [Update]
Nintendo tipped the world off to its coming software line-up last month, but it seems like they left a few aces up their sleeves as far as what’s coming to the 3DS. In an announcement crowing about the 4 million 3DS units the company’s sold in the United States since launch, Nintendo also declared that…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Town Life
Town Life | It’s worn a little thin by 2012, but boy, wasn’t Animal Crossing something? By トキワラ Forcing Old Atari Game Boxes to Tell the Truth Rarely was there ever a greater discrepancy between actual graphics and box art design than during the Atari era. You’d get these amazingly evocative, painted box arts for…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Xbox Live Couldn’t Handle a UFC Match
The Xbox 360 getting UFC matches seemed like a good idea at the time. Pity Xbox Live couldn’t actually cope with all the people trying to watch one. Last Friday, UFC 141 was slated to appear on Xbox Live’s fancy TV service. It was such a big deal that Microsoft gave away 30,000 coupons so…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedKinect and the Wii Help This Robot Pet a Cat
It’s…it’s like the entire internet, rolled up into a single story. A software engineer by the name of Taylor Veltrop has managed to work out a way to get a Nao robot to react to his movements via both Kinect and a Wii Remote. His setup also includes a treadmill and a head-mounted display: the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Zelda Timeline Has Now Been Fixed
Nintendo recently released an official timeline for The Legend of Zelda series, and despite providing closure for some, it provided problems for others. For the latter, here is a much more plausible fix. It may not carry the official, canonical seal Nintendo’s version does, but Zac Gorman’s interpretation will probably sound a lot more believable…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2012