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If a Woman was the Lead Character in Grand Theft Auto…
Women in Grand Theft Auto games have had many roles. Mom. Girlfriend. Nightclub manager. Criminal. Lots of roles. Just never the main one. On the eve of the release of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, and with no inside knowledge about who will be the star of this new game, I find…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedKerrigan Shrute, StarCraft‘s Drag-Queen of Blades
I thought I was the most hideous Queen of Blades in StarCraft history during my session with Blizzard DOTA at BlizCon 2011 last weekend. Last night Dwight from The Office proved me wrong. I feel Dwight makes a valid argument in the second half of this clip from last night’s Halloween episode of NBC’s The…
By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedMicrosoft Shows How Windows Phone Will Play Nice with Xbox 360
One of the big selling points for Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 7 OS has been the interconnectivity between smartphones running the platform and their Xbox 360 game console. Word of the dedicated Xbox Companion app—which essentially turns your handset into a remote for the 360—came down the pike recently but Microsoft recently shot video of…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Bayonetta Teaches Our Children a Dirty Lesson
In today’s very special episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Aikage warns of a very dangerous message lurking in the otherwise pure and innocent Bayonetta. What are we teaching our children? Oh my goodness I can hardly believe it! As I’m a monogamous gamer, I will only play or make comments on one game,…
By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
‘Free+’ Does Seem A Little More Honest Than Free-to-Play
People who are fans of words that mean what they’re supposed to mean are probably not fans of the rhetorical loophole exploited by the term “free-to-play”. Many of the most popular games on PCs, cell phones and tablets are “free-to-play”, or “free 2 play”, as the phrase is often spelled in order to free it…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedBattlefield 3 Tanks Invade London’s Rush Hour
A line of commuter-transporting, 16-ton tranks took to the streets of London earlier today to carry commuters to work and celebrate the release of Battlefield 3 in the UK. The “tanksis” didn’t charge any fares for navigating the packed streets around Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, and Buckingham Palace. “Tanksis have been brought to the…
By Brian Crecente Published October 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Happy Friday! Another weekend is ahead of us, and I’m optimistic that it will be a good one! Do you have any interesting plans to share with everyone? What will you be playing on these much-needed days of rest? I’m going to finally sink my teeth into Battlefield 3 for a significant chunk of time.…
By Matthew Buzzi Published October 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Every Day is a Struggle to Survive with Zombie Tools
Nuclear apocalypse? Zombie apocalypse? Whichever you think is more likely, the makers of August’s PipClock have you covered with a new suite of iPhone tools sure to come in handy when society completely disintegrates, yet again. Zombie Tools, for all iOS devices, is like its PipClock sibling, an alternate reality game that allowed me to…
By Owen Good Published October 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Adding Playable Demos, eShop Web Interface and Sleep Mode Downloads to 3DS
We live in an era of demos and freemium games now and one thing that’s probably hampered the fortunes of the 3DS game library is that users can’t try anything before they buy it. There’s no ability to sample and see if a title might be worth your ducats. After apparently getting requests from Nintendo’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Lost Vikings Slug It Out
Pixel artist João Victor G. Costa reimagines Blizzard’s classic platformer, giving it a more modern touch. Should You Buy PixelJunk SideScroller? Yes PixelJunk SideScroller is the latest PS3 title from Q-Games. The Kyoto-based game studio continues to churn out high quality digital games for the PS3 under its PixelJunk banner. More » Looks Like Somebody has…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Best Catherine Cosplay Just Got Better
Last March, Kotaku posted cosplaying superstar Omi Gibson’s take on Catherine, noting that it was a “masterclass”. But now it’s better. Cosplayer Shin’ is Vincent and does a fantastic job of bringing the neurotic character to life. Vincent is as commitment-phobic, indecisive as ever. This cosplay even has sheep horns, and how often can you…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dead Rats Reborn as Pokémon
Tokyo has a rat problem. Shibuya is crawling with “super rats”. They’re called “super”, because the rodents seem highly resistant to rat poison. One thing these rodents aren’t impervious to? Artists. A few years back, Japanese art collective Chim Pom caught rats in Shibuya with nets and rat traps. According to the Huffington Post, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedStarCraft Fans Make Their Own Kick-Ass Cinematic Short
In 2010, a bunch of keen and talented StarCraft fans decided to make their own cinematic short based on Blizzard’s blockbuster strategy franchise. It went down OK, so they’ve made another one. It’s called StarCraft: Final Metamorphosis, and instead of being a corny live-action clip or cheesy 2D animation, it copies the style of Blizzard’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Xenogears Lives On In This Awesome Painting
Artist Jake Murray pays tribute to classic RPG series Xenogears in the best way possible: with heroic fan art of star Elly Van Houten. Isn’t it great? It’s like something you’d see on the cover of a sci-fi novel in the late 80’s, all giant robots and strong women and hair For reference, this isn’t…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2011 - Reviews
Hori’s TAC3 Brings a Mouse and (Tiny) Keyboard to the PS3
Play a first-person shooter on a PC and you get the precision of a mouse. Play a first-person shooter on a console and you get the precision of a small plastic thumbstick, which is nowhere near as precise as a mouse. For years hardware manufacturers have tried to bridge this gap, coming up with all…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Let Team Fortress 2 Tell you a Ghost Story
Team Fortress 2 is getting some updates for Halloween: Objects, items, hats, you know the deal. It’s also, though, got something a little more exciting: a new Team Fortress 2 comic. One that tells the tale of how the Demo lost his eye. And how cute a Saxton Hale costume looks on a little fat…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedMicrosoft’s Vision of the Future Includes Talking Glasses and Virtual Cake Recipes
This promotional video, released by Microsoft earlier this week, is simply called “Productivity Future Vision 2011”. It’s the latest in a long-running series the company comes up with on an annual basis, imagining what the world of tomorrow will look like based on advances from the world of today. God I love this stuff. Real,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedLet’s Play Peekaboo with Guns
Here, in this Rage clip, wonky A.I. leads to deadly child’s play. Peekaboo? More like peekabang. Rage was released on Oct. 4. Read Kotaku‘s review here このＡＩは誰得？『RAGE』に登場する最強のチラチラ戦士 [へちま via Atomic Gamer] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Wii U at E3 2012 Will be the Finished Product
Even though Nintendo’s new Wii U was playable at this year’s E3, the console wasn’t exactly looking its best. Control pads were tethered, and most demo units were hollow cases, the games actually being played on dev kits. There’s even the possibility that the design we saw at the show won’t be what the Wii…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2011