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Calader’s Art Takes Star Wars to the Brink
Based in the UK, Georgi “Calader” Simeonov works at Splash Damage, meaning he had a hand in the lovely “nothing but blue skies” art design of multiplayer shooter Brink So we’ll be showing you some of that, but also some of his other stuff on titles like Sony’s MMO Star Wars Galaxies, along with something…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Crafty Man Builds Mass Effect Sniper Rifle
Prop builder Zander Brandt figured the world was short on replica M-29 Incisor rifles from Mass Effect 2. So he went and made one. The Incisor is one of the sniper rifles available in the game, and for most of it was my go-to weapon; it’s the one that fires three shots at once. Most…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedOh Man, Somebody is Making a Zelda: Total War Game
A team over at the Total War Center is making a mod for PC strategy classic Medieval 2: Total War that replaces the knights and pikemen of the vanilla game with the units and races from the universe of The Legend of Zelda It’s called Hyrule: Total War and brings twenty factions to the battlefield,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Tekken’s Yoshimitsu is Cutting Heads and Taking Names
Yoshimitsu may be one of the stars of Tekken (and Soulcalibur!), but he’s not exactly a household name. Which should make Kotobukiya’s decision to make a big, expensive statue of him seem silly. That is, until you see it. Wearing his Tekken Tag Tournament 2 outfit, the detail in the figure and “gore” on the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
One of Japan’s Weirdest Games Cosplayed Before Your Eyes
PlayStation 2 title Super Galdelic Hour is nuts. It features females dressed as animals on a game show playing whack-a-mole with giant suckers and throwing pies in each others’ faces. You cannot take enough acid to reproduce a game like this, let alone the color palette. Cosplayer Omi Gibson, of Metal Gear cosplay fame, dons…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
There’s a new Shadowrun Game!
Cliffhanger Productions, the team currently working on Jagged Alliance Online, are also working on a new Shadowrun game. Yes, a new Shadowrun game. And it’s not a shooter. Phew. The popular old role-playing franchise, which had great adaptations on the Genesis and SNES and a terrible one on the Xbox 360 and PC, will be…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Game of Battleship Will get you Hammered
Battleship? It’s for cowards. And small children. Grown ups play Battleshots, which substitutes plastic pegs for boats full of booze. Sure, it takes a bit longer to set up, and costs a lot more than the venerable old board game, but it looks a lot more fun. Dangerous too, but there’s fun in danger You…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Let’s Look *Inside* PlayStation Vita Game Cases
With the PS Vita due out Dec. 17, Japanese retail is starting to get mock-ups of PS Vita game cases. Mock-ups like this. The retail who uploaded the pics also stuffed in a memory card to show you what it would look like with a PS Vita cartridge in it, as well as wrapping a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
David Hasselhoff Wants To Develop a Video Game (No, Really)
David Hasselhoff, probably for no reason other than the fact he is David Hasselhoff, figures a lifetime spent acting and singing at Germans has adequately prepared him for the role of video game designer. Speaking with Reuters about Burnout Crash, the EA game which he’s recently been helping market, the 59 year-old said, “I’ve wanted…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
These Battlefield 3 Case Mods Look Explosively Hideous
Console case company Calibur11, who you may be familiar with, have teamed up with EA to release a pair of cases for upcoming shooter Battlefield 3, one each for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Calibur11 calls them “vaults”, and these feature a large Battlefield 3 logo, headphone rack, half a grenade and what looks like…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedMeet the Queen of Akihabara. She Loves Nerds Like You.
Know what makes Halko Momoi so damn cool? It’s not only that she changed her first name’s spelling because of 2001‘s HAL 9000 and the Nintendo game maker, Hal. It’s not only that she does voice acting for a bunch of games and anime or that she records saccharine music. No, Halko Momoi is so…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Air Force Cyber Attack Caused by…Mafia Wars Malware?
Earlier this month, it became known that the US Air Force’s aerial drones had been infected with malware. It didn’t blow them up or anything, but it was embarrassing for the Air Force nonetheless. It’s even more embarrassing now. According to an “anonymous defense official” speaking with the Associated Press, via Wired, the type of…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
The PlayStation Vita has a 3G Download Cap in the US, too
Just like Japan, in the US there’ll be a 20MB download limit attached to the 3G version of the PlayStation Vita, Sony announced yesterday. The limit of course only applies to data being downloaded over a 3G network; if you’re downloading via wi-fi, on either the 3G or wi-fi-only models of the Vita, you can…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dead Space, Meet Daft Punk
Because Lord only knows Isaac Clarke could do with some more colour and music from time to time. Daft Space 2? [DeviantArt, via Super Punch] You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Greatest Arcade Cabinet That Never Was
Around the turn of the millennium, Namco showed off an arcade game that looked like it had fallen out of the 22nd century. Housed in a giant cabinet called O.R.B.S., it was a sequel to old-school shooter Star Blade, and could have been just the kind of thing the dying arcade scene was in need…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedA More Challenging Mari0 Mod Makes the Portal Gun a Plumber’s Friend
At the end of August, we brought you Mari0, which showed everyone how our favorite plumber would navigate the standard World 1-1 with aid of Portal gun. It was pretty friggin’ easy. Now the mod’s developers are back to show us Mari0 as an actually challenging video game, applying Portal‘s unique puzzle dynamic to the…
By Owen Good Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Walk of Fame
Hola, Kotaku readers. Can we put this hump day behind us with a little off-topic conversation? Tonight’s glamorous open thread is just the place to do it. I found myself in Hollywood today, during an unusually warm and sunny mid-October day in Los Angeles. I was there to play a video game that I’ll be…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
NBA’s 2011 Alternate Uniforms — If They’re Ever Worn — Are Leaked by NBA 2K12
Hooray for PC versions of sports games! Some enterprising hackers have picked apart the code for NBA 2K12 and found the secret alternate jerseys that should be revealed this year if, you know, the NBA and its players get their act together and solve this lockout mess. That right there (at right in the above…
By Owen Good Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
This is What the Official Transformers MMO Will Look Like (Sort of)
We’re getting a massively multiplayer Transformers game next year—a free one—and now we finally have a hint of what it’ll look like. After eating some free sushi and looking at some tiny Star Wars figurines at a fancy hotel in midtown New York tonight, I was told that the developers of Transformers Universe were finally…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Week In Dangerous Games: He’s Worn Banana Hammocks, Ya Know
Each week, we take a look at the new and creative ways that video games are offending us. Well, not us. We’ve developed a thick skin to alcohol references, partial nudity and comic mischief. Other people, however, may be disgusted by what video games are doing. Without further ado, let’s look at the most dangerous…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 12, 2011