Can’t afford the big, beautiful God of War III art book? Make do with these free internet pictures of the game, showing the concept art skills of Jung Park. For a game about anger and frowns and snarls and blood, he sure does manage to make everything look if not pretty, then at least beautiful.…
Looks like Capcom might be in big trouble with Apple over the number of complaints the App Store has received over Smurf’s Village
China is now officially the second largest economy on the planet. And video game consoles are technically illegal. One day, that might change. “Consoles have been banned in China since the year 2000,” Lisa Hanson from market researcher Niko Partners previously told Kotaku. The government thought that was the best way to protect Chinese youth…
You’ll want to skip to around five minutes into this video, but once you do, you’ll get some tips on how to play games that sound incredibly patronising and basic…until you realise you never actually use them. This is Sean “Day[9]” Plott, a star in the world of StarCraft II who last week devoted one…
Glimpsed by Stephen T at the Toy Fair in New York over the weekend, Square Enix’s Play Arts line is about to include three more Final Fantasy figures, all of them crowd favourites. Selling for around USD$50, and going on sale in Japan in June, the three figures are all in their Dissidia forms, being…
There’s a long-standing — and incorrect, I think — view amongst publishers that a game pirated is a game stolen It’s not (who says they’d ever have bought a copy anyway?), and in a great piece over on GameSetWatch, Irish designer Tadhg Kelly (formerly of Lionhead) argues an even better reason why this isn’t the…
It’s not, but if it were, it might look something like this. As seen on The Daily Blink
Den-Den Town, Osaka’s “denkigai” or “electric town”, is known for its used game retailers like Super Potato and figure shops like Osaka Gundams. There are also the maid cafes, where folks can get a coffee and talk to a maid. Some, however, are serving way more than coffee. “Struggling arcades and video game shops are…
As we saw when the product was first unveiled, Sony’s upcoming NGP won’t be using the company’s trademark “XMB” user interface. It’ll be using something new. Why is that, Sony? According to Sony Computer Entertainment worldwide studios boss Shuhei Yoshida, it’s partly because of “social networking”. “[A] fundamental point was our desire to make this…
Wolverine. Ryu. Scorpion. Terry Bogard. Never before have these giants of the fighting game genre met in the one title before, but in Pixel Force: Head 2 Head, come together they shall. To kick ass Head 2 Head is the latest project from Eric Ruth, the guy behind the 8-bit renditions of Halo and Left…
While these days it’s not that hard finding violent, mature titles on Nintendo consoles, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, that wasn’t the case. And when you did find them, well, some “changes” had been made. As anyone around in and gaming during the time can probably remember, it was a strange era for…
Welcome to tonight’s themed open thread, Kotaku readers. While your free to make conversation on any topic, video game related or otherwise, readers of novels, comic books and other forms of printed material are invited to share. Me? In addition to reading the Internet, I’m finally getting around to reading Darwyn Cooke’s adaptation of Richard…
Sega is once again putting music to vinyl, following up on the bright blue Sega Genesis Collection soundtrack on LP with one for the Dreamcast fans out there. And by “there,” I regretfully mean “Australia.” Yes, like the last Sega vinyl record, this bonus item is strictly for our friends down under and only available…
This week’s North American PlayStation Store update has arrived, bringing with it new games, old games and games based on old things from the future. Highlights include the PSP remake of Tactics Ogre: Lets Us Cling Together, the debut of Telltale’s Back to the Future on PlayStation Network and Acceleration of SUGURI X-Edition. And for…
There’s still a chance we’ll get to play the highly anticipated third Diablo game in 2011. Whenever we do get Blizzard’s next big action role-playing game, it will look like a very different beast from the canned 2005 version. The Diablo III we’ll eventually play on our PCs will be much more colorful—too vibrant for…
Nintendo is cutting off your supply of the Wii version of Super Mario All-Stars, the limited edition collection of four NES era Super Mario Bros. games with a 16-bit makeover. But it’s also giving you one last chance to buy it. Nintendo of America said today it’s producing its “final run” of the Super Mario…
So I got more candy yesterday after I shot the first batch. Crazy! I Know!! Get Ready To Play Dress-Up With Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Now that Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds is on store shelves, Capcom can start doling out the downloadable costume packs. Check out upcoming costume changes for Captain…
Are you ready to have a Neo Geo make sweet love to your eyeballs? Thanks to photographer Aaron Nanto and his perfectly preserved, beautifully shot SNK hardware, your retinas are about to be thoroughly and lovingly sexed. This is “Neo Geo: Bigger Badder Better,” a “cinematic tribute to SNK’s 24-bit arcade powerhouse” and the most…
If Killzone 3 will be the game that finally convinces you to become a PlayStation 3 owner, this is the package for you. Included is a 160GB PS3 system and one copy of Killzone 3—or “the ultimate PlayStation Move and 3D game,” according to this cardboard box. If you’re already a PlayStation 3 owner, you…
Philadelphia teenager Kendall Anderson confessed in court to murdering his sleeping mother after she confiscated his PlayStation. And if you don’t like crime-related video games stories with terrible, sickening endings, don’t go any further. This one is perhaps the worst. Anderson’s confession, read in court by Philadelphia police homicide detective Thorsten Lucke, admits to attacking…
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