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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Enjoying your hump day? It’s everyone’s favorite day of the week, to be sure, after that pesky Monday we all know and love. But Kotaku is here to get you through! And hopefully, your favorite games are too. So please, feel free to take this time to talk amongst yourselves. I would like to thank…
By Matthew Buzzi Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Wizorb, Math Fighter and More Kotaku‘s Indie Picks
Every few weeks we here at Kotaku make a selection of some of the best Indie games that Xbox Live has to offer. These are our latest favorites. You’ll be able to find the list here for reference, or in the “Kotaku‘s favorites” channel in the Indie Game section of Xbox Live’s Games Marketplace. Wizorb…
By Chris Carolan Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Play Through This Music Video
Bullseye may not have a score, an objective, a plot, but it’s an application begging to be played with. A music video that’s made better by your poking, tilting and curiosity. Moonbot Studios, the folks behind the wonderful The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, created this little interactive music video for The Polyphonic…
By Brian Crecente Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Hey Cosplayer, You Can’t Walk in Shoes Like That!
Well Heeled | HONG KONG – A cosplayer takes a stroll at this summer’s Comics Festival and Game Fair in Hong Kong. (Photo: Vincent Yu | AP) You may not Survive This Dark Souls Concept Art To go with the Demon’s Souls concept art we showed you a few months back, today we’ve got a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Outrageous Bikini Cowgirl Game Dons Outrageous String Bikini
In past Onechanbara, you are a bikini-wearing, sword-swinging cowgirl out to kill zombies. In Onechanbara Z: Kagura, you do that, plus try on a new micro bikini. For the first print run of Onechanbara Z: Kagura, you can snag a “risqué swimsuit”. The dental floss is available to players via download code. Today, game company…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
You’re Doing It Wrong
Totally wrong. But bless you. The photo originally appeared in a South Korean newspaper a few years back—hence the PS2 game and DualShock 2. 超斬新なコントローラーの持ち方 [オレ的ゲーム速報] 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 #tips page.
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
It Was a Party. A Dream Party.
Outside this fall’s Tokyo Dream Party, pesky cosplayers were getting in front of crazy cars. Inside, booth companions got in front of booths. The nerve! Held in both Tokyo and Osaka, Dream Party is a bi-annual event for bishoujo (beautiful young girl) computer games. Dream Party booths offered all the bishoujo nerd heroin (heroines?) you…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 - Culture
You may not Survive This Dark Souls Concept Art
To go with the Demon’s Souls concept art we showed you a few months back, today we’ve got a collection of art from its spiritual successor Dark Souls, out this week on the Xbox 360 and PS3. For a game that is about little but darkness, pain, brutality and despair, the art certainly gets the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Classy, if Slightly Muddled, Text Adventure
The Binary is a web-driven, text-based game in which you’re being sent back in time to make sure other people sent back in time don’t mess around with things. Sort of like the recent flick Source Code, only with less Chesty Jake, more Words on a Screen. It plays out at times like an interactive…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Will There Be an Xbox 720? Hollywood Thinks So.
Real Steel, that new Hugh Jackman flick with fighting robots, is set in a near future, dominated by battling bots. More preciously, the movie is set in 2020. In one arena scene, corporate logos like Mercedes-Benz, Capital One, and, ahem, Del Taco light up a stadium. There is also a Bing logo and an Xbox…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Help Real Japanese Earthquake Orphans Through Fiction
The earthquake might have rocked Japan last March, but its effects still linger. Charity book Kizuna, a collection of short fiction by international writers, aims to help orphanages in the areas hit hardest by the quake and tsunami. [Kizuna]
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedMega-Man’s Producer Is Making a Nintendo 3DS Game
Keiji Inafune, former Mega-Man producer and Dead Rising designer, is hard at work on a new title. It’s called Kaio: King of Pirates and it’s for the Nintendo 3DS. It stars a penguin pirate. Inafune will be taking director duties. King of Pirates is a mix of pirates and Sangokushi. It’s an action role-playing game,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 - CultureTotal Recall
Enjoy This Badass 16-bit Title Screen Art
We’ve seen title art from modern games. And from NES games. Today, we’re hitting the ground somewhere in between with a collection of animated title screen art from the Genesis/Mega Drive and Super Nintendo. These images come courtesy of Title Scream, a site run by Kiwi interactive designer Cameron Askin which is looking to preserve…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Parks and Recreation, Not Parks and Buy Yourself an Xbox 360
An employee of the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department used a city credit card to purchase a little recreation for himself—namely, an Xbox 360. That’s not all the gaming recreation that the employee, Naikia Howard, indulged in: he also took a copy of Wii Sports and a Wii home from a Seattle teen center. An…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow To Be a Jet In Battlefield 3’s Beta
No jets on Operation Metro, the only map available in Battlefield 3’s beta? No problem. Make your own. [thanks Smi1ey!] 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 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedFinally! A Song about Co-Op Gaming
The Nghiems is an indie rock band fronted by David Nghiem and his brother James. The group’s single “Dum Dum Dah Dah” is about co-op gaming. The tune’s video features a slew of stop motion photography, arcade gaming, and the members of The Nghiems. Making the video took four months and used 8,000 individual photos…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Square Enix RPG’s Name Sounds Terrible, Looks Just Fine
There’s a new Square Enix game on the way for the Nintendo 3DS called Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. Even going by Square’s ridiculous standards, it’s a ridiculous name. Lucky, then, it looks so damn good. Understand that this appears to be an incredibly “traditional” Japanese role-playing game, and that I’m talking about its visuals, not…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedNi no Kuni‘s Funny Bone Has Quite the History
The Kansai area of Japan includes Osaka, Kobe, and Kyoto. It’s famous for its food, such as okonomiyaki and beef, its companies, like Panasonic and Nintendo, and its comedians, which include about half of the people on television. Japanese comedy is synonymous with Kansai. The country’s most famous comedy agency, Yoshimoto Kogyo, started in Osaka…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Get a Sneak Peek at Diablo III’s Items, Weapons and Armour
Even though most of you aren’t playing the game yet, Blizzard still wants you to get to grips with the world of Diablo III. So the developer has opened a section on the game’s site where you can check out a lot of Diablo III’s early items and weapons. These are of course just the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011