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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Hello world, and welcome to Kotaku’s official forum. This is the place for all your game-gabbing needs. Thanks to reader Cleesox for today’s rather sorrowful, Zelda-inspired Photoshop job. Please submit your own pics to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Drew Cohen Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Japan’s Most Beloved Characters. Together At Last.
CATCH ‘EM ALL | OSAKA, JAPAN: Astro Boy, Doraemon, Hello Kitty And Pikachu stamps – with a One Piece cameo. (Photo by Brian Ashcraft) How To Make Old Games Look Better On New TV Sets Confusing headline, I know, because this is going to take some explaining. This is the SLG 3000, and it apparently…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
One Hundred GameCubes Or Somebody’s Trash?
When the GameCube went on sale back in 2001, Nintendo priced the console at ¥25,000 and at US$199 for the US. So if you were to purchase a hundred GameCubes back then, you’d spend a pretty penny. But what about in 2011? An online Yahoo! auction offered the chance to purchase one hundred of the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Capcom Is Getting Serious About Casual Gaming
After revealing a social networking spin on Resident Evil, Osaka-based game maker Capcom says its creating a new brand called Beeline Interactive to focus on smartphone games. You could say Capcom is making a beeline for smartphone games.
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2011 -
UncategorizediPokédex Is A Happy Hunting Guide For Pokémon
If you’re going to venture out into the wilds of Nintendo’s Pokémon series, hoping to catch, imprison and then enslave some adorable little creatures, then you should probably bring the iPokédex with you. It’s a handy little guide for the game which includes (almost) every single Pokémon from every Pokémon game, as well as their…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
One Of The Worst Keyboards Ever. Reborn!
The Atari 400’s keyboard sucked. It wasn’t so much the brown and orange color scheme, but those pressure sensitive keys. Japan’s Niyari ditched the pressure sensitive nonsense and is releasing an Atari 400-style computer keyboard, complete with low-profile keyboard keys. It’s not for old Atari machines, but for those hoping to give their desktop a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Why The Xbox 360 Doesn’t Have An Exclusive Mortal Kombat Fighter
“Unfortunately, the circumstances didn’t allow us to make a 360 exclusive,” Mortal Kombat boss Ed Boon told website Eurogamer. “I’m not allowed to talk too much about it, but I can tell you we certainly wanted to do an exclusive for 360, but that’s all I can say. It was not a decision we made…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
When Street Fighter Meets Jersey Shore
No, this isn’t an ad for tanning cream. This is an actual screenshot for the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken. The developers are either big fans of Jersey Shore or Yakuza bossman Toshihiro Nagoshi. Or both!
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
How To Look Just Like A Mortal Kombat Character (Glowing Eyes Not Included)
Balaclava company Ballys is coming out with a line of Mortal Kombat-inspired winter weather gear for your noggin, letting you beat the cold and look like Scorpion (or Sub Zero) while you’re doing it. While being “100% unofficial”, yeah, you can tell who they are. They’re $20, and you can get them from Ballys’ online…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Penny Arcade Has A Third Show (And We’re Not Invited)
Popular webcomic Penny Arcade, which already holds two gamer-focused shows throughout the year, is about to kick off a third: PAX Dev, which is an industry-only event “where digital and pen/paper game developers alike can focus on their craft”. To ensure this “intimate setting”, no business types (like retailers) will be invited. No press, either.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Nice To See We Can Still Make Butt Jokes About Portals
Portal’s brand of humour has always been decidedly high-brow. Short on slapstick, high on menacing computers. So it’s a relief to see Mega 64 can find a way to work butt jokes into the universe while still making it feel…Portal-ish.
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2011 -
UncategorizedXbox Japan Confuses Game’s PS3 Version With Xbox 360
On the latest installment of Xbox Japan’s Inside Xbox, a bunch of games for this April were introduced. Some of the games are Xbox exclusives, some of them, like WRC: FIA World Rally Championship, are not. Out this month in Japan, WRC: FIA World Rally Championship is a rally racing title based on the actual…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is The PSPgo Out Of Production? [Update]
According to what’s supposedly a Sony Store employee blog, no more PSPgo shipments are planned and the portable is apparently out of production. Over on the official Japanese Sony Style page, it is not in stock and shipments are TBA. When asked about this, Sony replied, “It is a very exciting time for PlayStation portable…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow To Make Old Games Look Better On New TV Sets
Confusing headline, I know, because this is going to take some explaining. This is the SLG 3000, and it apparently can make old games played on a new TV look as good as they were originally designed. How does it do this? The SLG 3000 is a circuit board that you plug your console into,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Don’t Watch This For T&A, Watch It For Button Mashing
Playboy’s Jo Garcia is a big gamer. Ultimate Fighting Championship octagon girl Brittney Palmer is a big button masher. Together, they go boob-to-boob knuckle-to-knuckle in Mortal Kombat. It’s kinda hard to tell what’s going on, between the shiny pastels, the bizarro controller exercises (PowerGlove, really?) and the whole schtick. Shouldn’t be any surprises for what…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2011 -
ReviewsPortal 2 Is The Better Portal, But You Better Bring A Friend
You probably won’t read much of this review. If you know what Portal 2 is you probably just want to know if the new game is great like the old one (it is) and if it is long enough to pay full price (depends on how much money you earn each week). If you don’t…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 19, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Guy Can Actually Do Mortal Kombat Moves
This is martial artist Pek Pongpaet, who along with his friends Don, Taylor and Yusuf performed the motion-capture for the latest Mortal Kombat trailer. So if you thought that was all just computers and make-believe characters, nunh unh. In the clip above, you can see just how good this guy is. Fun fact: Pongpaet’s favourite…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Mortal Kombat: Legacy Episode Wants You To Fuck Protocol
Picking up where the first episode left off, the second episode of the new Mortal Kombat web series once again has Jeri Ryan as Sonya Blade and Michael Jai White as Jax hot on the heels of 300’s Darren Shahlavi as Kano. Mortal Kombat: Legacy is a series of nine live-action shorts that explore the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2011
