Gotta Dance | TOKYO, JAPAN: Microsoft showed off the game this week at a Tokyo health club. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) No More Heroes Cosplay Has a Heroic and Revealing Bodysuit When she’s not cosplaying as Metal Gear Solid characters, Omi Gibson is cosplaying as No More Heroes characters. And when she’s not doing that,…
This year isn’t over. It’s more than half over. Time to look back and see which game maker is doing the best in Japan. So far. According to Famitsu, here is a list of which game companies made the most profit in the period through game sales. The period is from December 27, 2010 to…
In Salinas, California, charity worker Alexander Harvey turned himself in to authorities and was arrested for embezzling US$25,000 from the Salinas Junior Chamber of Commerce. Harvey formerly served as its treasurer. What did he buy with the money he embezzled? Twenty-five grand is a fair chunk of change. So, did he blow it on booze,…
Takashi Miike, known for making a lot of cool movies (and some crap ones, too), is directing a big screen version of Capcom’s lawyer game series Ace Attorney Previously, what are reported to be photos of the film’s Kyoto set leaked online. Today, a spokesperson from Toho movie studio posted a low quality pic of…
As of today, Pokémon is available on non-Nintendo hardware, namely smart phones. Pokémon Say Tap? was released on the Apple App Store, and sister site Kotaku Japan checked it out. Pokémon Say Tap? is a free rhythm game for the iOS and Android. It’s free, so you get what you pay for. The point here…
You know, this being video games and all, most of the concept art we feature shows men with guns, or destroyed landscapes or sometimes men with swords. Today, we’ll change that. Well. Mostly. There are still some men with swords, but today’s Fine Art has a gentler touch to it. These images are by artist…
So Final Combat, China’s seemingly shameless rip-off of Team Fortress 2, isn’t as shameless as we first thought. I mean, it’s not entirely lifting content from Valve’s shooter. It’s lifting it from EA’s Battlefield Heroes as well! This gameplay footage, sent in by reader Enrique, shows that while the game’s characters (and announcer) are straight…
Nintendo is having problems putting old games in 3D. Don’t fret, Nintendo! Artist Jason D Ault is here to help. With a skateboard. Ault recreated retro title Skate or Die in 3D. On a skateboard. How awesome is that? You know what else is awesome? The Skate or Die theme songs. The theme song for…
TV game show Let’s Make a Deal recently had the honour of featuring not one, but two Nintendo cosplayers. The first, dressed as Link, had the honour of being an actual contestant. The second, dressed as Mario, did not. Link, Mario and Luigi visit Let’s Make a Deal [Go Nintendo]
A common complaint amongst third-party publishers is that the only games which sell well on Nintendo consoles are Nintendo games. Which is mostly true! Unless you’re Ubisoft. It’s been revealed that the single biggest-selling third-party game on the Wii is now (and is likely to remain, given the console’s impending replacement) Ubisoft’s Just Dance 2,…
According to DomainTools, Microsoft registered the domain Sony-Microsoft.com. No specifics what this entails—could be anything from software to game machines. Kotaku is following up with Microsoft. [DomainTools]
This is Bound, in which you play Tom, who used to be just a regular guy but who has now been turned into a spider. Bummer. Due for the PC sometime towards the end of the year, it’s a student project from Stuttgart Media University, and while the black & white visuals aren’t exactly unique,…
When she’s not cosplaying as Metal Gear Solid characters, Omi Gibson is cosplaying as No More Heroes characters. And when she’s not doing that, she’s cosplaying as other things Just as No More Heroes is getting an adults-only PS3 version, Omi’s uploaded some pics of herself dressed as NMH2‘s Cloe Walsh Omi has a new…
Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack Annihilation – already out on the Xbox 360 – will be available for PS3 users come July 28. The week after that, it’ll be a double XP extravaganza. Map Hits July 28th [PlayStation]
Remember life before email? Like when people wrote letters? On paper? Kotaku reader Matthew does. Because during the early 1990s, he was a little kid writing them to Nintendo. While going through his old things for a yard sale, Matthew (not pictured) found a couple letters from Nintendo of America—replies. Matthew did things like ask…
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, released last year, ended up starring Gabriel Belmont, and was let’s say…different from most other games in the franchise. Fans will be interested to see, then, that developers Mercury Steam and publishers Konami originally had other plans for the game, with series legend Simon Belmont cast in the lead role. The…
In 1975, a coin purse featuring an expressionless cat with its head turned sideways and sitting next to a fish bowl went on sale in Japan. The company was Sanrio. The designer was Yuko Yamaguchi. The cat became known as “Kitty-chan”, and outside Japan as Hello Kitty. Decades later, is the cat still cute? Hello…
These fireworks may not carry an official Rockstar license, but something tells me the developer would approve of something that shoots flaming balls. As seen on Reddit
When the Nintendo 3DS was first unveiled, one of Ubisoft’s first games for the handheld was supposed to be Assassin’s Creed: Lost Legacy. It won’t be any more, because that game’s been shitcanned. Speaking with Joystiq, Ubisoft writer Darby McDevitt has said that Lost Legacy is no more. Rather than being wasted, though, he says…
July 15, 1983. If that’s your birthday, happy birthday! If it’s not, that’s cool. It’s still a very special date in history. Because it’s the day the Nintendo Famicom first went on sale in Japan. Later released in the West as the Nintendo Entertainment System (or NES), the Famicom is where things really got serious…
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