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UncategorizedToyota Made the Largest UFO Catcher on Earth
UFO Catchera are Sega redemption games. Arcade punters operate a claw and attempt to pull out prizes that range from stuffed animals to instant noodle. Sega didn’t make this particular UFO Catcher. Toyota did. The 8-ton, 29-foot-tall and 39-foot-wide UFO Catcher appeared in Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills over the weekend as part of a promotion for…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Batman In the Mass Effect Universe? Yes, Please.
Batman’s a comic book character, so he’s been through more redesigns than I could count. We’re about to see another one in the upcoming Arkham City, in fact. I haven’t seen many I like as much as this one, though. It’s by Australian video game artist Adam Fisher, who as part of a Comic Con…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Go Ahead, Sniff the Cardboard Lady’s Pantyhose. Lick It.
Often, in-store erotic game display are totally crazy. This is no exception. The game is adult PC title Taisetsuna kimi no Tame ni, Boku ni Dekiru Ichiban Koto (“The Best Thing I Can Do for You”). The in-store display consists of heroines from the game with their cardboard legs wrapped in black pantyhose. The kicker?…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift EXTEND Extending its Release to North America
Aksys Games is bringing BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend to North America. The game features a new playable character, new modes, and new scenarios. It’ll hit the PS Vita, the PS3, and the Xbox 360. No word on when.
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Zynga Flips the Bird at Facebook, Launching own Games “Platform”
Farmville andCityville developers Zynga made their name on Facebook. But Facebook makes the rules on Facebook, and Facebook takes a cut of a company’s profits on Facebook, so Zynga is now looking to sell more of its stuff to you directly. The social gaming giant yesterday unveiled Zynga Direct, an online distribution service that sounds…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mommy, Where do Team Fortress 2 Hats Come From?
Team Fortress 2 used to be about guns. Now it’s all about hats. Fancy, ridiculous, elaborate hats. Ever wonder how those hats are made? Let Bay Raitt, formerly of WETA (he’s responsible for Gollum’s face in Lord of the Rings) but currently of Valve Software, explain. In this step-by-step guide he shows people how a…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
A New 3DS Game with Four Games in It, Made by Four Different Creators
In movies, it’s not unheard of for several famous movie directors to team up, each contributing a short film to a larger motion picture. There are several examples, like New York Stories and Four Rooms. In gaming, it’s rather uncommon. Level-5, the studio behind Professor Layton, is releasing a new 3DS title called Guild 01.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedWatch 57 Seconds of Battlefield 3 Blowin’ Shit up
EA’s upcoming shooter Battlefield 3 lets you destroy certain parts of the environment. Not all of it, but enough to let them compile this 57-second trailer of buildings collapsing. You’ve seen some of this footage before, but most of it looks to have been captured directly in-game, including some multiplayer madness involving man vs helicopter…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
When All Else Fails, Write in Fucking English
My native language is English. Yours might be. It might be another language, I don’t know. Chances are, if you are reading Kotaku, you understand English—which is why you don’t hesitate to use the #corrections tag when we seemingly don’t. Not everyone understands English, and that’s fine. Millions of Japanese people live productive and happy…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Sexy Silver Spartan Will be At the New York Comic Con
Square Enix’s classy Play Arts line of action figures will get a little longer at the New York Comic Con later this week with the release of a new piece (and re-release of two old favourites). The new figure is a very shiny, very silver Spartan Mk. V who comes packing a sniper rifle. There…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
No, There is no Rape In Portal 2 (But There Were Buddy Cops)
Yesterday during a writer’s roundtable at the Game Developers Conference Online, Valve’s Erik Wolpaw, Marc Laidlaw, and Ted Kosmatka opened up on some of the processes – and problems – they had writing Portal 2 First up, problems! Wolpaw says that, originally, the idea was to have the player and GLaDOS team up in a…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallLife in a Video Game is Tough, but in Avalon, it’s Also Awesome
The Last Starfighter is my favourite video game movie of all time. But it had to fight, almost to the death, to claim the top spot. Because at number two is Avalon, a 2001 flick that’s part-Japanese, part-Polish, all awesome. It’s a strange movie. But I love it for the same reason I love Last…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe People Who Make Pocket God Are First Out of the Gate with All-New iOS 5 Support
iOS 5, the operating system that powers Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, goes live October 12. The people who make video games for iOS are already taking advantage of the update’s newest features, including a revamped, Achievements-filled Game Center. The latest iOS 5 early adopter? The wildly popular Pocket God. Developers Firemint and Binary…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Men, Ten & Mockery
Kotaku readers… ASSEMBLE! There’s some off-topic conversation that needs to be done, so please get in this thread and do so! I’ve gotta split. No time to explain! Actually, I think I can take a few extra seconds. I’m going to visit my brother, who I usually see about once a year. So, please excuse…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Somebody’s Trying to Break Into Your PSN Account…Again
Sony has just announced that it has detected someone trying to match “a massive set of sign-in IDs and passwords against our network database”. The company suspects that somebody has got hold of a massive list of usernames and passwords from “another source and not from our Networks”, and have been caught checking to see…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Valve Boss Sees a Future In Which Apple Has Killed the Video Game Console
Gabe Newell, the man at the top of Valve Software, has had a vision of the future. At some point in Gabe’s futureworld, Apple will control the entertainment in your living room, making “the notion of a separate console platform” disappear. The Valve co-founder prognosticated Apple’s living room-dominating future at the Washington Technology Industry Association’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Your Ticket to the Starhawk Beta is Inside Uncharted 3
That copy of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception you’re probably going to buy anyway has an added incentive—one ticket for early access to the Starhawk public beta. Developer Naughty Dog writes on the official PlayStation blog that “all retail copies” of Uncharted 3 will include a voucher code for the Lightbox Interactive’s sequel-to-Warhawk‘s multiplayer beta. The…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sideway, Resistance 3‘s Survival Pack and Mark of the Assassin Are New on the PlayStation Store
PlayStation 3 owners looking for something new, original and exclusive to their system of choice may want to investigate Sideway: New York, the action platformer that leads this week’s North American PlayStation Store update. There’s a demo for Sideway: New York if you’d like to know more before you drop a tenner on it. And…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 11, 2011
