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UncategorizedLet the Blue Hearts Rock Your Face Off
Like a Rat | JAPAN: In this clip, the Blue Hearts perform “Linda Linda”. (Video: AMIRAALIBEER | YouTube) Arkham City Cosplay Turns Normal Man Into Dark Knight A team of props builders from forum The FX lab have wanted to build a Batman suit for a long, long time. With the success of first Arkham…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Concept Art Fit for Giant Swords and Silly Cleavage
Capcom legend Kinu Nishimura is working on upcoming 3DS side-scrolling brawler Code of Princess Nishimura—who might not be a household name, but should be— is responsible for so much kick-ass game art The concept art and sketches for Code of Princess do not disappoint and show Nishimura in true form, creating magic with line and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is This the Mirror’s Edge Cosplay You’ve Been Waiting For?
It’s the one I have. Cosplay superstar and Kotaku favorite Omi Gibson does her best leap of Faith. Her cosplay does a fine job of portraying the Mirror’s Edge heroine, and, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this is the first Western game cosplay she’s done. Omi specializes in Metal Gear cosplay as…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Yeah, You’ll Really Need a Memory Card for the Vita
According to the latest issue of Famitsu, it’s not even possible to even start games that require memory cards if you don’t have one. Famitsu called memory cards indispensable. [■■速報＠保管庫(Alt)■■
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedTony Hawk’s Looks Way Better Without a Skateboard
After a few years of games that just got progressively worse, Activision has wisely rested the once-mighty Tony Hawk’s skateboarding franchise. Maybe they should bring it back without any skateboards? This great video shows some parkour experts spinning, flipping and sliding to the visuals and even soundtrack of the classic Tony Hawk’s 2, even down…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Defeated. Japan Crowns a New Game Sales King.
This year isn’t over. There are still months to go. But according to Famitsu publisher, Nintendo didn’t own the first six months of this year. Other years, sure, but not this one. In a recently released report, Nintendo tumbled to the number two spot for Japanese software sales, dropping from ¥21.5 billion (US$283 million) to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2011 - Culture
The Pretty Ladies, Mutants & Busted Old Cars of RAGE’s Wasteland
Today’s Fine Art features two men who worked on RAGE, id’s recently-released desert shooter. One helped design (and build) the game’s cars. The other, the game’s mutants. Both somehow found the time to draw pictures of pretty ladies as well. Which, given the amount of tiny shorts on display in this post-apocalyptic wasteland, shouldn’t be…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Arkham City Cosplay Turns Normal Man Into Dark Knight
A team of props builders from forum The FX lab have wanted to build a Batman suit for a long, long time. With the success of first Arkham Asylum and now its sequel, Arkham City, they finally found the inspiration/motivation. So they built a Batsuit based on that found in the games. And it’s…well, I’m…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhere Tokyo Meets Blade Runner
Phew. All this video game stuff, especially Battlefield 3 stuff, is wearing me out. Time to take a few minutes to chill, relax, watch a soothing movie where footage of modern-day Tokyo is played to the accompaniment of the Blade Runner soundtrack. The footage, shot by Samuel Cockedey, is mostly of the Shinjuku area in…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Report: Nintendo Bleeding Cash
Remember the days of Nintendo printing money? Those days are over, apparently. According to Japan’s Nikkei, the Kyoto-based game maker is poised to post huge losses tomorrow. Profits are supposedly down a staggering ¥100 billion ($1.3 billion), which is twice what Nintendo forecast. The two major culprits are struggling hardware sales and the stubbornly strong…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedWatch This lady Explain Just how Crazy Uwe Boll is
German filmmaker and all around special guy Uwe Boll has a bit of a bad rep with gamers. Mostly due to his parade of terrible movies based on video games. But you’re all missing the point! The point isn’t to judge him solely on his movies. The point is to admire that a man such…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
An Insane Price. A Glittery Crotch. A Good Cause.
Fist of the North Star started life as a badass manga. A badass manga needs a badass figure. A big badass figure. But does it need Swarovski crystal? You bet it does. Fist of the North Star follows the adventures of Kenshiro as he punches the shit out of people and utters hard-nosed likes like,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Time Steve Jobs Got “the Kissing Disease” (He Wasn’t Making Out!)
It’s a scourge of junior high school students everywhere: Mononucleosis. The highly infectious disease is colloquially dubbed the “kissing disease”. But that’s not how Steve Jobs got it. He got it making a video game. In an interview on The Last Word, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recalled when he made a Pong game for himself.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s “Circle Pad” Peripheral Gets a (Slightly) Different Name In the West
In Japan, the new second-thumbstick add-on for the Nintendo 3DS is simply called the “Circle Pad Expansion”. Not very exciting, but it at least gets the point across. In the West, though, it looks like it’ll have a different name. A trademark filing from Nintendo in Japan has revealed that the peripheral’s name in places…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Best Blizzard Fan Art of 2011
Blizzcon wasn’t only about Blizzard games. It was also about Blizzard fans. There were contests, such as the amazing costume competition. But they weren’t the only fan creations that dazzled. The Blizzcon 2011 Fan Art Contest celebrated the stunning illustrations and paintings Blizzard fans drew, inked, and sketched, whether that be with pencils or tablets.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow the World’s Most Amazing (and Painful) Video Game Setup was Built
Last week, we showed you an amazing PC gaming setup that involved five HD projectors, an omni-directional treadmill, wireless gun peripheral, ambient lighting and paintball gun. Some people cried “it’s a marketing stunt!”. Others cried “it’s not real!”. Those claiming the former, well, the prominent Battlefield 3 placement makes that a 50/50 call. Those claiming…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Grand Theft Auto V’s Logo Has Some Real History
And I don’t mean the iconic “Price is Right” font. I mean the way the latest game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V, has a rather interesting employment of antique US currency. As spotted by a Reddit user, the “FIVE” at the end of the game’s logo is lifted almost directly from an old…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallSee how 1993’s NBA Jam was Made (and Sold to the NBA)
We rarely get to see the process by which a video game is pitched to a publisher, even today in an age of developer diaries and all-access marketing. It’s even rarer we get to see how a game was pitched all the way back in the early 90s. Yet that’s what we’re getting a look…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Time to Dress Your Baby Up as Mr. T
So here we are, at the start of another evening’s open thread. How was your day? Good, I hope. Mine was nice, it was gorgeous in San Francisco and I typed a lot of words. Speaking of typing words, your own words are welcome here in off-topic town. Here are a few conversation starters, and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 25, 2011
