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Your Web Window into Japan’s Wild, Sexy, and Scary Side
Another night. Mahni Aino (above) fired up her computer and flipped on her camera. The sexy posing would come later, but now she was just talking about what food she liked cooking. Comments streamed across the screen, like “You’re so cute” and, even, “Do you use a Dell PC?” Then, she started doing yoga on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Things That Should Exist: Minecraft Legos
People love building real-world things in Minecraft. Buildings, works of art, board games, starships. (Okay, those aren’t real. Yet.) However, there’s a distressing lack of ways to build Minecraft things in the real world. One brilliant solution gets floated here and it’s such a patently obvious idea that you’ll howl at the fact that such…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Dozen Reasons To Hate Call of Duty Games
Call of Duty is reviled among a vocal group of gamers. When they read that the latest iteration of the series is selling well, or is well reviewed, or is being played by a lot of people, they seem to take it personally. That’s always baffled me. So on Twitter today I asked the 13,500…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nearly a Quarter of A Million People Are Playing Skyrim on Steam Right Now
The nifty Steam Game Stat tracker shows that about 210,000 people are currently playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. That’s compared to the distant second place Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which hit a peak at 78,000 or so players today. [Thanks Kent]
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
Uncategorized30 Seconds of Skyward Sword: One Amazing Boat
I showed four moments from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword this week. Those four moments that might not be the mostly obviously spectacular moments in the new Wii Zelda, but each of them shows off one of its strengths: the combat twists, the music, the art direction, the atmosphere… and today, I’m going to…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
One Million Players Join DC Universe Online One Week After It Goes Free-to-Play
We already know that over 120,000 PC users joined DC Universe Online in 24 hours after the Sony Online Entertainment title went free-to-play, but now the publisher’s revealing more about how big the shift has been for them. In the week since DCUO became FTP, one million new would-be metahumans have joined the game’s ranks.…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Intimidation Played No Part in These Saints Row: The Third Review Scores
Here comes Saints Row the Third, walking down the street without a care in the world, waving its giant purple schlong about for the whole wide world to see. Why is it in such a good mood? Perhaps the assembled game reviewers have the answer. Okay folks, it’s getting old now. As Kotaku‘s resident Frankenreview…
By Mike Fahey Published November 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Retro Skyrim Trailer Hilariously Invokes Zelda, Duck Hunt and Duke Nukem
Your Dovahkiin may be all sorts of bad-ass, but this video features the cutest Dragonborn of all. Thrill to this imaginary game’s pixilated vistas! Gasp at the exciting downhill skiing sequences! Wish that someone makes this into something actually playable! Skyrim Trailer – Retro Edition [YouTube] You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Continued Popularity of Call of Duty’s Two, Three and Four Year Old Games
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s record-breaking, first-day sales are impressive, but almost more impressive is the life these Call of Duty games seem to have online. This morning I hopped online to see how the past four year’s worth of Call of Duty games were doing online. Yes, people still do play the original…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedFrom One End of Skyrim to the Other in Under Nine Minutes
Who needs fast travel when you’ve got sprinting, speed shouts, and the miracle of digital video speed manipulation to take you across the province of Skyrim in speedy style? Watch my Dragonborn run a cross-country marathon in The Elder Scrolls V This video captures the entire trip from the extreme northwest to the southeastern border…
By Mike Fahey Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Bethesda Working on Skyrim Graphics Problems on Xbox, Advises Not Installing Yet
If you want to get the best graphics out of your Xbox 360 play-through of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim you may want to hold off on installing it to your console’s hard drive. At least for now, developer Bethesda says. Early reports of graphic issues with the almost universally beloved role-playing game led the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedUnlocking Galactus in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Is Easy, If You Played Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Hey, fighting game fans, hope you didn’t delete your save files from the pre-Ultimate version of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Because playing as the big bad from MvC3 in UMvC3 is significantly easier if you’ve still got that data on your console’s hard drives. According to a post over on Capcom Unity, all you need…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
THQ Maintains It Knows Exactly Where All Its Dildos Are
THQ denies reports that they have mislaid 25 four-foot purple dildos destined for the Netherlands and France as part of a promotion for their open world, tongue-in-cheek video game Saints Row: The Third. Inside Gamer PC , citing several sources, first reported on rumors of a pallet of the three-pound sex toys, each affixed to…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Pierces Game Critics’ Hearts
Has Nintendo finally release a console installment of The Legend of Zelda series that critics don’t immediately fall in love with? Look at that chart. Does that look like hate to you? No sir and / or ma’am, that’s love right there. One could almost feel the bulging hordes of game reviewers pressing against Nintendo’s…
By Mike Fahey Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Jimmy Fallon Gets Some Sweet Zelda Swag from Reggie Fils-Aime in This Skyward Sword TV Appearance
What can you glean watching Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime on last night’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon? You can you learn that, apparently, all-star developers Koji Kondo and Eiji Aonuma are jealous of Reggie’s appearances on the after-dark talk show. Viewers will also see Fallon get called a ‘natural swordsman’ and get gifted…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Stoya’s Big Japan Sex Adventure a “Highly Entertaining Failure” [NSFW]
Stoya, a winsome, altogether charming young lady who makes pornography for a living, guest edited our sister site Fleshbot this week, including a intriguing set of diaries from a recent jaunt to Japan. She takes in the usual sex tourism sight: the porn shops, maid cafés, and the love hotels. While I expected her sexual…
By Joel Johnson Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Should You Buy Saints Row: The Third? Yes.
Next week, Volition will release the third game in the Saints Row series, appropriately titled Saints Row: The Third. What started as a Grand Theft Auto knockoff that merely tided players over while they awaited a true HD GTA morphed into something entirely different: the psychotic, chaos-addicted Mr. Hyde to GTA‘s increasingly grounded Dr. Jeckyll.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedSee How Sonic Started as Sega’s Answer to Mickey Mouse
One thing we need to own up to with all these video game icons coming up on 15, 20 and 25 year anniversaries is that we’re getting older, too. Just yesterday, Crecente was talking about all the trouble he has peeing lately. Poor guy. With that aging comes memory loss, so you might need a…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
You’d Think the World Would Have Had Enough of Silly Video Game Love Stories
In today’s romantic episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Aikage isn’t feeling the love and wants you all to share yours instead. We’re guessing they mean love with another person, but who can be sure? Feeling kind of cynical about relationships today. Spruce things up with some video game love stories! Have at them.…
By Mike Fahey Published November 11, 2011