Famed (infamous?) Japanese voice actress Aya Hirano (Haruhi Suzumiya, Final Fantasy: Dissidia) took to Twitter to complain about something bothering her: A lewd photo. On Twitter, Hirano asked people to stop sending her links. “I’m too afraid to open then,” she wrote. Her Twitter was spammed with a URL that when opened, revealed a penis.…
Apple said today they sold more than 4 million iPhone 4S in the three days since its launch on Oct. 14. They also report that more than 25 million customers are now using iOS 5, which upgrades, but still doesn’t even come close to fixing the iPhone’s Gamecenter.
The classic Halo: Combat Evolved multiplayer map Hang Em’ High is getting a stunning remake when it returns to players in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Renamed High Noon, this map and five other remakes will all also be available for Halo Reach players as a download pack, Microsoft told me over the weekend. In this…
Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima posted this drawing of Metal Gear Solid character Raiden. It’s not clear if this is just a drawing or whether it’s in relation to the upcoming title Metal Gear Solid: Rising, which stars Raiden. 雷電です。 [@Kojima_Hideo via VG247] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected].…
Double Fine’s Iron Brigade is getting a new campaign and horde-mode styled game mode, the game makers tell Kotaku The yet to be priced or dated downloadable content for Iron Brigade, the game formerly known as Trenched, is called Rise of the Martian Bear. Iron Brigade recently had to change its name due to a…
The latest entry in the Nathan Drake saga, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception won’t be out until Nov. 1 in North America. Television ads, like this, are airing, featuring Drake, his mentor Sully, a whole lotta sand and a whole lotta explosions. You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can…
Dark Souls is a difficult game. It takes time—days, weeks, sleepless nights. That is, unless you’re player twilightRTA. Then you can apparently finish the game in under ninety minutes. The game’s spiritual predecessor, Demon’s Souls, was also subject to incredible speedruns. One dude beat it in about an hour In the Dark Souls speedrun, twilightRTA…
On Dec. 2, the free update will hit Japanese arcades first, and then it will be available for home console download on Dec. 13. The patch rebalances SSFIV:AE and adds a “Ver.2012” below the title screen’s logo. [Capcom]
We’ve seen glimpses of its potential, but here’s an idea for a Wii game that takes the unique controller’s augmented reality capabilities and just runs with them. Note that it’s not a real game. It’s not a teaser from Metal Slug creators SNK, and it’s not a trailer for an actual product. It’s just an…
Sure, there’s been some great cosplay to be seen over the weekend at the New York Comic-Con, but New York isn’t Planet Earth. There’s been plenty of great cosplay happening everywhere else over the past seven days too! Some of which you’re about to see, in a lineup that includes cosplay of No More Heroes,…
Akira Yasuda, better known as “Akiman” is about as big as they come among Japanese game designers and illustrators. Besides designing and planning titles like Forgotten Worlds, Final Fight, and Street Fighter II, he’s created some of gaming’s most iconic characters and art, such as for, again, Street Fighter II For a guy with credits…
Here’s a batch of new images from EA’s upcoming shooter Battlefield 3. Half of them are useful, beautiful shots of the game’s multiplayer maps The other half? Well, it’s nice they look like the cover art and all, but yeah. Not as useful. As hard as it is to believe, Battlefield 3 will be out…
Guild 01 is not your typical 3DS game. It features four games from four different game creators. Here is some gameplay footage. In order of appearance, the above clip shows Goichi Suda’s Kaihou Shoujo, American Zarigani’s Rental Bukiya de Omasse, Yoot Saito’s Air Porter, and Yasumi Matsuno’s Crimson Shroud Guild 01 isn’t merely a game,…
Look, if you want to invert flight controls on your own game, fine. You’re a freak, but it’s your game, so whatever. Just know that you should never, ever do it when other people are around. Or it could lead to disaster. Death, ruin and disaster. So remember: while it’s OK to laugh at this…
Meet Yuko Oshima. She’s 23. She’s famous. And she’s testing Final Fantasy XIII-2 Make that “famous”, if you follow Japanese pop music. Oshima is a member of idol group AKB48. And “testing”, if you mean appearing in promotional clips. Testing video games is hard, gruelling and time-consuming work! Not that being an idol is a…
Dark Horse’s merchandise wing have put together two welcome, if unexpected pieces of Mass Effect and Dragon Age merchandise: decks of playing cards. The decks feature character art from both series, and at the moment are going for the decidedly affordable price of $4. What I need to know before buying, though, is whether the…
And it is a beautiful thing to watch. The game in question is Ghost Squad, a 2004 light gun shooter from Sega. The action’s taking place in a Thai arcade. And note that, in addition to the theatrics, he’s also awesome at the game, playing through the whole thing with a single credit. If the…
They don’t just sneak around, they sleep around. And if they’re already in a relationship, they’re called cheaters. In Japan, tech has helped them get away scott free for years. That’s changed. With new smartphones and GPS tracking, it’s now possible to find phones—and presumably their owners. But what about privacy? And the law? Ha!…
We know that console games help sell consoles, but it’s easy to forget that PC games can sometimes do the same. And when it happens on PC, it happens on an enormous scale. That’s because when a big PC game comes along that’s considered a generational leap, PC owners can, en masse, feel the need…
This is the launch trailer for Batman: Arkham City, out this week on 360 and PS3. It shows most of the people you fight with, and against, in the game. I actually finished the game yesterday. The reason I bring this up is that I didn’t see some of the content in this trailer, meaning…
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