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Nintendo, Let a Skateboard Show You How To Do 3D
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedLet’s Make a Deal with Awkward Nintendo Cosplay
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]
By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedMeet the Biggest-Selling Wii Game Not Made by 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,…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedIt Appears This Game has Turned You Into a Spider
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,…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
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, 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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
PS3 Getting In On New Black Ops Map Pack
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]
By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
When Nintendo Is Your Penpal
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Latest Castlevania Game Originally Had Simon Belmont In It
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Can Anyone Replace Hello Kitty?
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Assassin’s Creed 3DS Game is Dead (But Some Parts Live On!)
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallLet’s Watch Old Japanese Nintendo Commercials
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sony Exec Calls PSN Hack ‘A Great Experience,’ Quickly Clarifies Himself
Losing the entire PlayStation Network service for 23 days and its online marketplace for more than a month is not many people’s idea of a good time. Nor is it Tim Schaff’s, though the Sony Network Entertainment boss called it “a great experience,” at a forum before, as the politicians say, he revised and extended…
By Owen Good Published July 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Thing (2011)
Greetings, Kotaku readers. Got time to join us in another off-topic thread? Good. Maybe we can talk about movies, since this post happens to be movie-centric. So, that first trailer for The Thing (linked below) is out and it looks… alright. A few too many moments of people being yanked into the darkness by some…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Miyamoto’s, Where You Know Everybody’s Name
For its cover of this week’s edition (on newsstands today) the Portland Mercury commissioned this painting, an homage to Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks with Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto and three characters he introduced to America 30 years ago this week. The cover highlights a story about GameOn 2.0, a playable history of video games showing…
By Owen Good Published July 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedCall of Duty Elite Trailer is Like a Simile Wrapped in a Metaphor
Call of Duty Elite beta began a “staged launch” today and to kick it off, Activision unloaded this two minute trailer that spends one minute cracking jokes and another minute answering questions except for the biggie: How much is this damn thing going to cost? For now, it’s free; for now, it’s in beta. You…
By Owen Good Published July 14, 2011 - Culture
The Concept Art of Matt Codd, the Artist in Charge at Respawn Entertainment
Respawn Entertainment, the studio birthed by the fired founders of Infinity Ward, have a new art director with a very impressive resume. Matt Codd, Respawn’s new art director, has contributed to films Saving Private Ryan, Serenity, Chronicles of Riddick, Transformers 3, and many, many… many more. The official Respawn web site has a new interview…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Survey Says You’ll Spend About Two Years Playing Video Games
A promotional survey taken by a video game price comparison site turns up an interesting stat: The average gamer will spend just under two years of his or her life, in combined time, playing video games. That’s based on a couple of assumptions, largely that the survey population of 1,452 begins gaming around age 9…
By Owen Good Published July 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedIn Bomberman: The Movie, Only a Cop on the Edge Can Save a City in Danger
The Country Club and The Game Station, filmmakers with a flair for dressing up video-game classics in action-film tropes, have struck again with this Bomberman trailer, and it is outstanding. [h/t OMGWTFOTL]
By Owen Good Published July 14, 2011