Hideo Kojima, creator of stealth series Metal Gear, and his team are approving a series of figurines based on Metal Gear Solid characters. Serious questions around the office being asked about this Meryl figure include: “Are her boobs like this? Are they big?” This is the latest prototype, and according to Kojima, the figure needs…
Some of gaming’s most cunning foes have been computers. Think GlaDOS from Portal, or Shodan from System Shock 2. At least part of what makes them so memorable is that their artificial intelligence is brought to life by a cold, calculating, female voice. Friendly artificial intelligence usually skews female as well. Anyone who’s played Deus…
Sony gave sister site Kotaku Japan a list of games that require memory cards for saves and a list of games that do not. So who decides which games need memory cards and which ones don’t? According to Sony Computer Entertainment, the game companies do. Kotaku Japan is reporting that it is up to the…
British artist Andrew “Bones” Jones is a man after my own heart. In his works paying tribute to the video games of yesteryear, you won’t find much Mario or Mega Man. You’ll find Wing Commander, Zombies Ate My Neighbours and old Amiga games. In the gallery above you’ll see some amazing digital paintings by Jones,…
There’s still some life left in the old PlayStation Portable, Sony announcing yesterday that a new bundle including a PSP-3000, 2GB memory stick, Cars 2 and FIFA 12 for $160.
By day, Keisuke Yamada is an electrician. By night, he’s a master banana artist, peeling, sculpting, and, yes, eating. While Yamada’s art might not be the most beautiful you’ll see, it is the most delicious. Earlier this year, Yamada’s banana art, which he uploaded to Japanese art site Pixiv, became an internet sensation. It was…
The PlayStation Vita has a range of onboard apps. Some of them teach you how to use the Vita. Others are simply good. The Hello Face falls in the cool camp. It does creep me out somewhat, though, but it’s still cool. In Hello Face, you try to find things in the word around you,…
This piece of fan art showed up on the Facebook page of Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson overnight. It is blocky. And strangely erotic. I know the painting it’s based on, Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, is not erotic in the slightest. It’s about God giving life to man. Which is what this picture is…
This November, Sony is releasing a PlayStation-branded 3D display. The Tokyo-based electronics giant recently showed off the display, along with new 3D glasses. Websites Game Impress Watch and 4Gamer were on hand to check out the hardware and take photos of the display, the glasses, and knees. The 3D Display is priced at ¥44,980, the…
There’s an achievement you can get in Gears of War 3 that can be earned by playing a piano 2000 times. That’s a lot of button pressing, so LEGO builder Guy Himber set to work on a less strenuous solution. He built this LEGO rig that would both hold his 360 controller and press the…
It’s been a big month for PC games, and things are about to get even bigger, so if you’ve been lazy and forgotten to update your graphics card drivers, you’re going to want to fix that. Between big games having issues (RAGE) and even bigger games just being…big (Battlefield 3), both AMD and Nvidia have…
The first Battlefield game, Battlefield 1942, was released in 2002. Nearly ten years ago! Yet while it was the first game to bear the branding that lives on to this day with Battlefield 3, depending on how you look at it, it’s not really the first game in the series. That honour goes to a…
Hello and welcome to another week at Kotaku! We’re off to a rip-roaring start, with a bunch of big pending game releases and other holiday-related news. I bet that a bunch of you already finished Arkham City (though if you actually survive the New Game+, my hat is off to you), and maybe you’re sitting…
After a week of downtime, I’m picking up our friend Mike McWhertor’s stewardship of our weekly look at the new ways that games are offending the world’s sensibilities. Or at least, offending the sensibilities of the fine folks at the Electronic Software Rating Board, aka the ESRB This week was a bit thin, given that…
No word yet in Netflix’s ongoing quest to change things up and, possibly, add video game rentals to their offered services. First the company announced that it was splitting in two, moving its disc-based rental service to a new company called Qwikster before reversing course and killing the whole idea This may or may not…
Plenty of folks have been talking about how Batman: Arkham City handled (or mishandled) the character of Catwoman, but fewer have addressed the character of Harley Quinn. In a thoughtful post on his personal blog, Girl Parts author John M. Cusick looks at her character, identity, and the possible reasons she acts the way she…
A couple of weeks ago, I attended GDC Online in Austin. I was covering the event, but I was also there as a speaker, giving a microtalk as part of a six-critic panel on great game storytelling. Joining me were N’Gai Croal (Hit Detection), Leigh Alexander (Gamasutra), John Davidson (CBS Interactive/Gamespot), and Ben Fritz (the…
Two versions of Samsung’s new 830 series solid state drives will come with a free copy of Batman: Arkham City, the company’s vice president said during a press conference tonight. Reid Sullivan, senior vice president of mobile entertainment at Samsung Electronics America, announced the giveaway at a press conference in Manhattan tonight by bringing the…
Over the summer, Kotaku did a fair amount of war correspondence. This particular war wasn’t happening in Iraq or Afganistan, but rather in Paris. It was an ongoing Post-It War between game developer Ubisoft and its neighbors, the French bank BNP. It started with small characters in office windows, then quickly spiraled out of control,…
Battlefield 3 –Our copies of tomorrow’s big game arrived this morning. The Queen of Blades is No Match for the New and Improved Blizzard DOTA Kerrigan. The Queen of Blades. The most feared woman in the known universe, destroyer of worlds, and murderer of millions. The greatest leader the Zerg has ever known. Kerrigan is…
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