Classic explosion simulator Bangai-O is getting a HD re-release on Xbox Live Arcade this Spring. While the graphics have been improved since the N64/Dreamcast original, the batshit crazy obsession with missiles remains.
It’s been, can you believe, eight years since the last true SimCity game was released. Yet time hasn’t stopped people from doing amazing things with the venerable old PC game. This is Al Aauim, a city that’s been built in the game that’s frightening in its realism and attention to detail. Using real Asian cities…
Zachariah Perry Cruse, you have made perhaps the greatest thing ever. I want one in my kitchen. Keep my bread in it. So when I make toast, it feels like I’m receiving a GREAT TREASURE.
On the evening of April 5, two parents were gaming at a Sapporo arcade. They took their eyes off their kid. It was then that their two year old daughter went missing. A 28 year-old man supposedly took the girl by the hand and took her from the arcade. According to reports, he apparently intended…
Sure, you may be hard-pressed seeing the branding at all, but official Gran Turismo clothing was never going to be of the tacky-slogan-on-a-t-shirt variety. This line of clothing, now available for the first time to those in the USA, keeps its Gran Turismo roots very close to its chest, opting for subtle badges and inconspicuous…
Artist Joe Guinto will be auctioning off this great Shadow of the Colossus piece at the Kawaii Kon, April 29 in Hawaii. All proceeds will go to the Gamers Heart Japan charity. Shadow of the Colossus by Joe Guinto
They are stupid. But for those readers who enjoy watching water boil and paint dry, this one’s for you. The website is titled “DD”, which stands for… [via DD]
We’ve seen the specs for Sony’s PlayStation phone, the Xperia Play. We’ve seen it in action. But we haven’t seen what happens when you get a phone call while gaming. This happens. The game cuts out, and the Xperia goes into phone mode. After dealing with the phone call, a window pops up on the…
Yuuri Morishita got her start as a booth companion back in 2003, appearing at events like the Tokyo Game Show. But by 2007, she was appearing as an on-stage guest to promote games. And now, she’s releasing an x-ray video. Not x-rated, x-ray. Like many pin-up hopefuls, Morishita paid her dues, passing out fliers and…
Blind Mind Studios, the developers of indie space strategy game Star Ruler, is withdrawing the title from sale on the Impulse digital shopfront following its sale to multinational retailer GameStop “Due to a rather large list of things we detest about GameStop”, a Blind Mind rep writes on the company’s website, “Star Ruler will no…
Some games are suited towards multiplayer components. Others are not. So why do so many games waste time and money trying to be the former when they’re clearly the latter? It’s something Randy Pitchford, boss of Gearbox Studios (Borderlands, Brothers in Arms), has on his mind. “…the reason [publishers demand multiplayer components] is because they…
Nintendo has Mario. Microsoft has Master Chief. And Sega, well, for a long time Sega has had Sonic the Hedgehog as its mascot. Thing is, Sonic is an usurper Before the blue, spiky hero with the red shoes burst onto the scene in 1991, Sega already had a mascot: Alex Kidd. A character we have…
As of last Friday, April 1, Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve has been dropping cryptic clues in its own games (Team Fortress 2, Portal 2) and games made by others (Super Meat Boy, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, AudioSurf). The common thread? Potatoes What appears to be a complex alternate reality game, or ARG,…
Hola, Kotaku. Let’s put this Tuesday to bed with a question, as we tend to do on Tuesdays. As a consumer of goods and services myself, I’m wondering, what have you been buying lately? Surely you’ve picked up some comic books, some video games, some action figures, a car or house or two. Maybe you’d…
Earlier this year, Nintendo of Japan unveiled Pandora’s Tower, a new Wii game slated for an overseas release this spring. We didn’t know much about the title beyond its use of classical piano music and large upper back tattoos. But now we have video of this high-speed action game. Pandora’s Tower appears to be a…
The makers of Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and the upcoming L.A. Noire haven’t hopped on the “transmedia” bandwagon yet, meaning they haven’t tapped their best known franchises for movies, television shows or comic books. Why not? Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser tells the Hollywood Reporter, bluntly, that “Virtually all movies made from games are…
The most memorable moment from Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game novel is easily the zero gravity training that the child genius must endure. But how in the hell will the movie version include this? We asked producer Roberto Orci. In Card’s novel, the young prodigies learn about the art of war in giant zero gravity…
The all-girl brawler Skullgirls will fight for lag-free online battles with the implementation of latency-hiding tech GGPO, which enables the play of classic, old-school fighting games over the internet. Developer Reverge Labs officially announced that Skullgirls would be the first commercial fighting game to use GGPO today.
The super hefty plumber Mario leaps into action thanks to Mike Mitchell’s cleaned up illustration from back in the day. Related Rampages: I Am Not a Sith | Sasquatch | NOFATCHX (More) Fat Mario by Mike Mitchell (deviantART) (Store) (Tumblr) (Twitter) Via: sirmitchell Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over…
Activision’s massively successful Call of Duty: Black Ops appears set to expand in May with the “Escalation” Content Pack for Xbox 360, according to a retailer listing from the Australian arm of GAME. What’s in Escalation? According to that purported listing, spotted by VG247, Escalation looks to feature four multiplayer maps and one new level…
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