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Metal Gear: From Reject Bin To !
In 1987, game designer Hideo Kojima turned out Metal Gear. That game, however, originally had a big “rejected” rubber stamp on it. Kojima today revealed photos of an early version of the game’s design document. Metal Gear, it seems, was originally called “Metal Gear (Intruder).” This version of the game never went into production —…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dress Like You Mean To Survive Fallout’s Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
Thank you, Kai Norman, for this incredible costume, which well and truly brings those badass Rangers of Fallout’s New California Republic to life. The armour is hand-cut out of foam, the mask is assembled out of pieces of plastic and even the coat was sewn together. Handy work. Then again, in the dark, desolate deserts…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
How To Get Hot Hardware Like The 3DS…Easy!
Japanese gamers lined up early this morning to place pre-orders for the Nintendo 3DS. I didn’t. I didn’t leave the house until after many stores were already selling out. Yet, I had no problems getting my pre-order. So what’s my trick? Photos from this morning showed long lines in Tokyo’s Akihabara and Shinjuku. According to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
That’s No Moon, It’s An Awesome Star Wars Picture!
Ansel Hsiao is both a big Star Wars fan and a talented 3D artist. Put them together and we get 3D models of Star Wars ships that are so detailed you could use them at a Corellian shipyard. He concentrates on a selection of Imperial Ships (and one lesser-known Imperial Walker), so there are no…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Classic Video Games Deserve Classy Box Art
As we’ve explored previously, video games — especially the classics — deserve better box art than they’re getting. Wonder what we want instead? This is the kind of stuff we want. These retro-inspired pieces by Boris Lechaftois are another take on 2010’s “video games as old books” thing, but in this case there’s no books…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedAll Strategy Gaming Needed Was A Little World Of Warcraft
You like fantasy, right? You like strategy gaming, right? You like questing with other humans over the internet, right? This is Dawn of Fantasy, an upcoming MMORTS by Reverie World Studios. That’s a massively-multiplayer online real-time strategy game. It’s a mouthful, but it basically means you will be able to — in theory, at least…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Do Not Sell Customized Figures Online In Japan, They Will Lock You Up
Custom action figures, like these Punch-Out!! ones or this Bayonetta one, are one-off, hand-crafted pieces that sometimes end up on online auction sites. If you live in Japan and make these figures, best keep them to yourself. Or risk getting arrested. Earlier this week, Niigata Prefecture arrested Keiichi Itoh, 35, and Jun Fujita, 36 for…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Man Is Final Fantasy Come To Life
Singer, songwriter, actor and video game character. Claiming he was a vampire, Gackt used to say he was born in the year 1540, leaving the eternal question: Is he bonkers? No, he’s not. Rather, he’s one of Japan’s most interesting (and colorful) personalities. Songwriter, fashion model, actor, novelist, restaurateur, screenwriter and psychic, Gackt’s done it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Xbox Update Stealth Kills Call Of Duty Pirates
Seems like that innocent little Xbox 360 update yesterday wasn’t just to restore the option to boot the console straight to a disc. It also contained secret pirate-fighting juice. Now that it’s been mentioned, it did seem a little strange that the update came out of nowhere. And for such a tiny fix clocked in…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Black Ops Caps Keep Your Head Dry And Your Brain Unwashed
The numbers, Mason, are 59Fifty, the fitted New Era cap style for two models of Black Ops lids, $2 from each sale goes to the Army Wounded Warriors program. They’re $45. Seen via Strictly Fitteds.
By Owen Good Published January 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Gods Must Be Crazy To Forget About This Game
Capcom’s upcoming Asura’s Wrath was one of the big surprises out of last year’s Tokyo Game Show. So surprising, in fact, the world has been shocked into forgetting all about it ever since. Yet here it is, four months later, returning in a flurry of fisticuffs and religious symbolism. It should be noted that it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedD.C. Universe Online MMO Log Part One: Making A Name For Myself — And Another
As a boy my paper route money went to comic books, stories of people coming to terms with their strange powers and their place in the world. With D.C. Universe Online, I now take that journey for myself. Kotaku’s MMO reviews are a multi-part process. Rather than deliver day one reviews based on beta gameplay,…
By Owen Good Published January 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mutant Footloose
We’re going to cut loose. Footloose, that is, during tonight’s open thread where things like Syd Mead, Kevin Bacon and Mel Gibson might come up during conversation. Speaking of Bacon, did you know he’s in the new X-Men movie as Sebastian Shaw? Yeah, that’s him on the left, probably explaining his kinetic energy based mutant…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011 -
UncategorizedPlay Fotonica, A Gorgeous Mix of Rez and Mirror’s Edge
You’ll only need to one button to play Fotonica, a first-person platform jumping game oozing with style that its creators say is created in the fashion of “ugly 3D of the 90s.” Fotonica is the work of Italian game design studio Santa Ragione—Pietro Righi Riva and Nicolò Tedeschi—who call their game a mix of “jumping,…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011
