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Mass Effect Just Got Way Too Cute
Alien vigilante Garrus is not pretty. He wasn’t pretty before his face got shot up, and now, he’s even less pretty. Lucky for the kids, then, that this plush based on the Mass Effect gunslinger is so adorable. Sadly, this isn’t an official piece of merchandise from developers BioWare. It’s instead a hand-crafted piece, so…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Your Uncharted Movie Nightmares Might Not Happen
The Uncharted movie sure sounds rotten. David O. Russell directing Mark Wahlberg and a family of archaeologists? Stupid! Good thing the game’s developer is saying the Hollywood actor’s claims just aren’t true. Well, sorta. “First of all, all that stuff was denied by David O. Russell,” Uncharted 3 director Justin Richmond tells Joystiq. “He actually…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedMake Your Own Minecraft Alarm Clock
Minecraft players sick of emerging from the rocky depths into the dangerous, deadly night, you should maybe be doing a little less mining. That or build yourself what’s essentially a Minecraft alarm clock. This “timer project” servers as a real-world representation of Minecraft’s sun, allowing players to keep track of the time of day without…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Sequel Promise Before Death
This man and his slightly awesome hair created the role-playing series Romancing SaGa. The last Romancing SaGa was originally on the Super Famicom (SNES) in 1995. Now Akitoshi Kawazu promises another one before he dies. It’s his obligation. “There are many fans who especially want Romancing SaGa 4,” the 48 year-old Kawazu tells 4Gamer.net. “Before…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Game Looked Better On Paper
It’s a common complaint that too many games these days are brown. Or grey. Or a brownish shade of grey. So it’s nice sometimes to spend a little time with the rest of the colour wheel. Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom was a game released earlier this year. It was…forgettable, which isn’t meant as a…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 -
Uncategorized2010: A Symphony Of Cosplay
With Comiket just starting (and thus, Comiket cosplay), now is as good a time as any to take stock of 2010 in well-dressed cosplay form. These photos don’t include Winter Comiket cosplay (nor do they include Western events) and come courtesy of Moeyo.com. The music? That’s Beethoven. コミケ79も始まったし2010年のコスプレイヤーさんを集めてみたよ！ [Moeyo.com]
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedAn Arcade Game To Fall In Love With
Love Plus, the love simulator from Konami, is coming to Japanese arcades, so get ready to fall in love all over again. This latest trailer shows some of the date events like playing darts, as well as the dress up sequence, which could prove embarrassing for some players. The cabinets do have privacy dividers on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedWhen A Game About English Words Is Released In Japanese
Scribblenauts is a title that is synonymous with the English language. Or, at least, the Roman alphabet. So how does the game look when it gets translated into Japanese? It’s fascinating seeing the game running like this. To make things easier, the Japanese version has a fancier notepad, on which players can write characters in…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedSee Kingdom Hearts Running On A PSPgo
The fact you can’t buy Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep on the PSPgo highlights one of the bigger problems with Sony’s struggling handheld. It also helps explain why piracy is so rampant on the portable device. This clip, from a device that is able to run copied games on the handheld, shows what PSPgo and/or…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Who Was That Masked Model?
In Japan, there are idols for everything, whether it be trains, personal computers or, of course, video games. They have one thing in common: they’re all smiley and cute. But what about an idol that never showed her face? Last summer, a blog went live featuring a young model named Imao with a doe-eyed anime…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedIt’s Worms For The 21st Century
Watch, as a fight between a painter and a guy who is rubbish at basketball enters the video game realm, and only escalates from there. This is what the Worms of the future should look like. Or Smash Bros., depending on how you interpret the battle!
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Year In Video Game Trailers
Movie trailers suck. They lie, and they spoil. Game trailers, on the other hand, are an artform. Once derided as a smoke and mirrors show, being barely representative of the titles they were trying to sell, many game trailers have since moved beyond this trapping and become something more: short bursts of creativity and innovation,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Will The PSP2 Look Like This?
Note these images are not from Sony. They’re mock-ups. But since they’re mock-ups of an image that claims to be of a real PSP2, they’re still worth looking at! These pics, commissioned by PSM3 and put together by this guy, formed part of a recent news article in the magazine, speculating on both the PSP2…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Year In Surprises: Highs And Lows From 2010
Can we still be surprised by video games in an industry rife with rumors, leaks and publishers who prefer safe bets to bold risks? Looking back at the turn of events that was 2010, a year sometimes rocky, sometimes thrilling, it seems we can. We should have seen some of the biggest surprises of 2010…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Welcome Back, Search Bar
Kotaku readers, if you’re not too pre-occupied with typing things into the search textfield or refreshing the #speakup page, waiting for it to work, how about joining us for some off-topic conversation tonight? As Mr. Crecente mentioned earlier, we’re heading to CES next week, which means a return to the desert of Las Vegas. Having…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Call of Duty: Black Ops Nabs ‘Most Pirated Game of 2010’ Distinction
Not only is Call of Duty: Black Ops one of the fastest selling video games of all time, racking up more than a billion dollars in sales in 2010, it’s also impressively enough one of the most illegally downloaded. According to a report from BitTorrent news site TorrentFreak, the PC version of Black Ops has…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 28, 2010 -
UncategorizedKinect Hacked To Play World of Warcraft
We’ve made it an important milestone in the increasingly long list of hacks that transform Microsoft’s Kinect from Xbox 360 motion controller into something grander. World of Warcraft is now playable with Kinect hand-waving action. The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California demonstrates its Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST)…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 28, 2010 -
UncategorizedHere’s Where The Instruction Manuals Have Gone
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: The Autographs Of My Boyhood I don’t have any gaming autographs either. My childhood signatures include David Copperfield, the Harlem Globetrotters and the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. Oh! And C3PO. I was a strange child. What you missed The Consumer Electronics Show Cometh New Owner of an Xbox Phone? Play These…
By Brian Crecente Published December 28, 2010