As one of the most imaginative video game developers in the business, it’s a pleasure today to highlight the work of one of the artists at Double Fine, the studio behind games like Brutal Legend, Psychonauts and Trenched These images and paintings are the work of Lee Petty, who after serving on projects like 2005…
Wii RPG Xenoblade Chronicles, originally not due out in Europe until September, is having its release slid up not by a few days, but by a few weeks. It’ll now be out on August 19. Developed by Monolith, Xenoblade Chronicles was released in Japan last year. There are currently no plans for a North American…
Natassia Malthe starred in BloodRayne II: Deliverance, BloodRayne 3: the Third Reich, and In the Name of the King 2. That’s three films from infamous filmmaker Uwe Boll! Does Malthe have any regrets? Yes, but not about working with Boll. Malthe told Fangoria that Boll is “totally misunderstood”. According to her, “People are jealous of…
Brazilian artist Leonardo Sang has started up a project called VRP, or “Virtual Reality Photography”. The aim is to use “video games as platforms for everyday photography”. Using Grand Theft Auto IV as his foundation, Sang has taken a number of screenshots from the game and composed them so they look more like actual photographs.…
In 2009, a life-sized Gundam statue (pictured) was erected. At the time, people said, if only there was a life-sized Zaku. Turns out, there might be. A volunteer team in Mibu, Japan is setting out to erect a life-sized, 59-foot Zaku. In Gundam, Zaku is piloted by Char Aznable, one of the main Gundam antagonists.…
Artist Stefan Petit has spent the last six months working on a pet project: recreate all the posters featured on the walls of Rapture, the decaying city-state featured in 2007 shooter BioShock. He’s now done! There are dozens of images, which he’s actually done in massive, print-quality sizes, though sadly (for fear of litigation) all…
Despite appearing on stage at E3 to talk up the Wii U, BioShock designer Ken Levine has now told IGN this about the console: “Just to be clear, there are no plans. I’m not saying it can’t happen, but we have no plans to do any games for that platform.” Oh. [IGN]
According to a report on Business Insider, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer revealed plans yesterday for a new service called Xbox Music. Business Insider has since issues a correction for their original story. I’ve pasted it in its entirely below. With the Zune brand on death’s doorstep, this is shaping up to be a replacement for…
Remember that free Thor game that was pretty great? Well, there’s one for Captain America. It’s also got old-school 2D platforming and some totally cute sprite art. From what I’ve played so far, it also seems pretty great! So do check it out in the link below. Captain America: Shield of Justice [Marvel]
My TV has a remote. Ditto my surround sound. My Xbox 360 can be turned on remotely with my control pad. And yet, when I want to change the disc, I have to get up. On my feet. Which is never where I want to be. To help overthrow the tyranny of distance, master console…
In Japan, South Korea is now cool. Speaking and singing the local lingo, Korean popstars like Girls’ Generation rule the charts and appear on Japanese variety shows and in commercials. It wasn’t always that way. Japan and South Korea have a long, shared, and bloody history, with Japan recently colonizing the country. At the turn…
Perhaps realising it wasn’t exactly popular with gamers as a standalone marketplace, Microsoft recently decided to shift Games for Windows over to Xbox.com. That move has now taken place, and…it’s gone about as well as you’d expect from Microsoft and PC gaming. The image above is where you’ll find now find PC gaming on Xbox.com.…
Forget everything you know about Star Wars games. The ones that used control pads, mice or keyboards. Because Fleet Commander, a student project, might just blow them all out the airlock. It’s been developed by Arthur Nishimoto, a student at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Initially designed in 2009…
Despite the fact they only appeared in one game (Sim City 2000), arcologies remain an iconic symbol of the Sim City series. But just what the hell are they? While appearing in the game as projects from the future, arcologies are very much real, the name deriving from “architecture” and “ecology”. An arcology is, in…
Kotaku readers, after a day of video game news and discussion, let’s insert a little combo breaker, tonight’s open thread where you can discuss whatever you want to, video game related or not. If you haven’t already seen it, the most exciting nerd development of the day is the reveal of The Dark Knight Rises…
Go ahead. If you haven’t already done so today, go to ModernWarfare3.com. You’ll see that you’re directed to the official Battlefield 3 web site. That’s some good trolling, no? But who’s sticking it to Activision by redirecting visitors from what appears to be an official looking Call of Duty site to one of its chief…
The makers of ViviTouch want to bring tactile feedback to your iPhone and iPod touch, technology that will offer the sensation of something touching back when you tap your touchscreen. Artificial Muscle boasts that its ViviTouch tech, an add-on for the iPhone platform, will let users “feel the difference between hundreds of sensations, not just…
“Meet the Medic,” the eighth and penultimate video in Valve’s “Meet the Team” shorts was a long time a-comin’. Why the long wait between “Meet the Spy” and the video introducing Team Fortress 2‘s Medic class? Well, Valve scrapped (at least) two previous attempts at “Meet the Medic,” one that involved the doctor coming back…
Dudes who play video games in their thirties and beyond? What’s up with that?! That’s the question posed to the leathery co-hosts of the fourth hour of Today, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, who explain that, well, that’s just weird! Gifford, Kotb and advertising exec/dude advice giver Donny Deutsch—author of The Big Idea: How…
The purple one, Rain, is the latest addition to Mortal Kombat‘s cast of characters. The god of inclement weather joins the excessively bloody Skarlet and blind swordsman Kenshi as the third downloadable add-on for NetherRealm’s ultra gory fighter. You can see the super soaker, who made his first appearance as one of the many palette-swapped…
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