British communications regulator Ofcom is investigating how a UK documentary examining possible connections between Muammar Gaddafi and the IRA confused video game play for actual IRA footage of a helicopter being shot down. Ofcom received dozens of complaints about the misstep and they are investigating to see whether the incident should be considered a breach…
Live | TOKYO, JAPAN: At the 2002 Tokyo Game Show, Xbox Japan rolled out Xbox Live pods. (Photo: Katsumi Kasahara | AP) First Look at the Blue Nintendo Wii To mark the Nov. release of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Nintendo of Europe is releasing a blue Wii. To date, Nintendo…
After a long teaser campaign earlier this year, Square Enix and Eidos finally revealed that everyone’s favorite bald, barcoded assassin would be making his debut on in a game built on this generation of consoles in Hitman: Absolution. Now, we’ve got a first glimpse at series hero Agent 47 in action, as he infiltrates and…
In the face of raging fans and looming confusion, Netflix today said they are killing off their DVD mailing spin-off Qwikster “This means no change: one website, one account, one password… in other words, no Qwikster,” according to a post on Netflix’s official blog by founder Reed Hastings. “Consumers value the simplicity Netflix has always…
Doesn’t matter if Microsoft hasn’t made it official. The company is working on something that will succeed the Xbox 360. Employees at tech giants like Microsoft are always working on designing the future. Whether their work sees the light of day is another matter entirely, but several LinkedIn profiles, discovered by Twitter user @supererogatory, show…
RayStorm, the classic 1990s shooting game, always felt like it got somewhat overlooked compared to the spate of shooters released that decade. Here’s a chance to once again give RayStorm the attention it so rightly deserves with a Kotobukiya model of in-game ship, R-Gray1. Like other Kotobukiya models, this is top notch stuff. The 1/144…
After every Metal Gear game he makes, Hideo Kojima usually says he’s done with the series. Sometimes Kojima even asks Kotaku readers to tell his boss that he doesn’t have to make Metal Gear games anymore. This time, it’s different. At a recent presentation at USC, Kojima said, “First of all, I just want to…
As Claudia Wolf, Carrie-Anne Moss is very much playing an evil character in the upcoming Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. It’s the big screen adaptation of the Konami game Silent Hill 3 Moss, who won over geeks everywhere with her portrayal of Trinity in the Matrix, didn’t spend endless hours playing SH3 to find the character.…
To mark the Nov. release of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Nintendo of Europe is releasing a blue Wii. To date, Nintendo has released Wii consoles in white, black, red, and now, blue. Previously, Nintendo released a blue Wii Remote in Japan to promote Wii Sports Resort. It is releasing a…
You know, it’s tough work settling on which cosplay images from the past week I’m actually going to feature in this main, first picture. Especially when there’s almost a dozen that easily deserve the spotlight. I mean, aside from those three, we’ve got some old-school Resident Evil cosplay. With rocket launchers. Catherine cosplay. With hair…
NECA, specialists in action figures and props based on video games, will be bringing out lines of figures based on Valve properties in 2012. While we haven’t yet seen the finished versions of these toys, we do today have some work-in-progress shots of Team Fortress 2’s Demoman. What’s more interesting than the pictures themselves is…
Remember that scene in Mission Impossible when Tom Cruise lowers himself down through a laser maze? Minus the lasers and the wire acerbatics, an unemployed 21-year-old named Yuuki Saitou tried a stealth entry of his own to swipe used games and consoles. At around 2:15am in the morning on Sept. 8 in Miyazaki Prefecture, Saitou…
This is a commercial currently airing on Australian TV. I won’t spoil the bizarre ending by telling you what it’s for, but that’s not the point. The point is how great the voxel effects look. Voxels, which had a trendy little run in the video game business in the 1990s with titles like Outcast and…
Loud. Gaudy. The box art for the Monster Hunter 3 (-tri) G 3DS Expansion Slide Pad bundle was madness. Nintendo’s take on the 3DS Expansion Slide Pad’s stand alone packaging is not. It’s restrained, standard—the simplicity you’d expect from Nintendo these days. The 3DS Expansion Slide Pad will be available separately on Dec. 10 for…
Australian magazine PC Powerplay is showing off the cover for its next issue on the publication’s official site, and it says as clear as you can get that the game features multiplayer. In big writing, cross the middle of the front page, it says: MULTIPLAYER COMES TO MASS EFFECT 3: FIGHT ALONGSIDE YOUR FRIENDS AS…
Noel Vermillion, star of fighting game BlazBlue, is getting immortalized in PVC for the very first time. Do you remember the first time? You do, you know. The Queen’s Gate version of Vermillion is priced at ¥7,980 (US$104). Orders are being taken later this month through November. The figure will be released next spring. 初のフィギュア化…
Among amateur rocket-launching circles, there’s a bounty called “The Carmack Prize“. It’s named for id boss, Doom co-creator and budding rocket scientist John Carmack, and will reward anyone who can get a home-made rocket 100,000 feet into space and capture some GPS data from it. The first people to claim the prize will pick up…
Minecraft, congratulations! You’ve officially arrived. Religious nuts are railing against you. For years now, Pokémon‘s been a favorite target of those outside the religious mainstream. Dorothy Spaulding from Watchmen Broadcasting, a local Christian broadcast network in Georgia, discussed the perils of Pokeémon with guest Henry Lewis. Apparently, Pokémon are “Oriental demons”, and the names of…
You see your fair share of ladies cosplaying as the hero of the Legend of Zelda series. Not as much fan art. Let’s change that. This piece is called, well, Female Link, and is by Albanian artist Edli Akolli. It’s just one his many amazing fantasy-inspired works, more of which you can check out at…
Aki Toyosaki is 24 years-old. A big Grand Theft Auto fan, she works as a voice actress, voicing Yui Hirasawa in K-On as well as Cinque in the upcoming Final Fantasy Type-0. She’s an adult, and she’d be free to live her life as an adult. That is, if she wasn’t a voice actress in…
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