It Was A Trap, By The Cops!

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft So, I went into Osaka City yesterday (fashionable Minami-Horie to be precise!) to pick up a baby present for a friend. I drove, thinking I could pick up the present and hop back into my car. Easy. I pulled into a side-street and turned into another street that sat catty-corner to…

A Closer Look at the Gritty Batman: Arkham City

Developed by Rocksteady Studios, Batman: Arkham City takes players into the new maximum security prison for Gotham City’s worst criminals. The sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum is set to hit the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 next fall.

This Poor, Poor Lancia Stratos

The Lancia Stratos was arguably the most beautiful rally car ever. In its rally heyday, it was covered with Alitalia and Castrol stickers. Its heyday is over. Perfect for some otaku to cover it with stickers of visual novel developer Nitroplus. There were only a couple hundred Lancia Stratos cars ever produced. And when this…

New Shenmue Is Not A Sega Game [Update]

A new Shenmue has been revealed. The game is headed to a Yahoo! Japan gaming site. Sega is not involved. But Shenmue’s creator is. This winter, Shenmue Town will be released in Japan for a popular social networking site. According to Shenmue composer Osamu Murata, the game is “not” a Sega title. Instead, Shenmue designer…

A Baby Deer Does Not Have 9999 Health

Finally. A Japanese role-playing game where you slaughter defenceless little animals. This is Mark Leung: Revenge of the Bitch, a parody RPG for the PC that, while in most parts a little too crass for our tastes, brought chuckles with this highlight reel called simply “Animals Getting PUNISHED”. Take that, stupid monkey.

The Kinect You Never Knew

In late 2006/early 2007, then-Xbox boss Peter Moore wanted a “Wii Killer” to be the centrepiece of Microsoft’s next E3 press conference. So he had two teams compete to try and make him one. Having seen the immediate success of the Nintendo Wii following it’s launch in late 2006, Kotaku has been told that Moore…

Duke Nukem Devs Were More Worried About Borderlands

Borderlands is a fresh take on the first-person shooter. Even then, there was concern at developer Gearbox Software about the game standing out in the crowded FPS genre. There seems to be less of that concern for upcoming (and forever-in-development) Duke Nukem Forever. “You know I think it was more of a concern for Borderlands…

British PS3 Owners Get Movie Streaming

Since Netflix isn’t available in the UK, British PS3 owners will get the next best thing, with movie streaming and subscription service Lovefilm coming to the console

Modern Warfare 2: That’s No “Ghost”!

Ghost don’t eat brains. Though this one shows they can come back from the dead. By DoomCMYK

Let’s Sell Kirby’s Epic Yarn With A Cross-Dressing Comedian

Japanese comedy duo “Hannya” are appearing in a series of TV ads for Kirby’s Epic Yarn. That’s comedian Satoshi Kanada dressed as the “girlfriend”. In the ad, Kanda gets mad because her boyfriend says things like that the in-game flowers are pretty. And in the second ad, Kanada is a Japanese salaryman, while his comedic…

Who Needs Flower When You’ve Got LittleBigPlanet 2

The first LittleBigPlanet was home to crude recreations of various old-school games. LittleBigPlanet 2 can do a whole lot more. Like recreate Flower, a PlayStation Network game that was released not in 1989, but in 2009, and which was not a simple side-scrolling title but a 3D game that didn’t even feature a main character.…

Gears Of War Composer On Life Support

On October 6, Gears of War composer Kevin Riepl tweeted that he thought someone “roofied” him while out drinking. He’d blacked out. “Somethings effed up,” he added. “Like literally. Something knocked me out.” Within days, Riepl was on life support. By the following day, Riepl was in the hospital from where he uploaded this photo.…

Take A Look At Minecraft’s Inferno

Minecraft’s Halloween update will bring not just Jack-O-Lanterns and fish, but also these hellish depths. This new “realm” for the game is a fast-travel option of sorts, as time and space don’t quite work down there the way they do down…Minecraft’s other deep places. Take a handful of steps in “hell” and when you swtich…

Report: Why Does The Nintendo Famicom Have The Color Red?

When Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System in the West, the console was gray and black. Its Japanese originator, the Famicom, was not. The Famicom’s colors (white, gold and red) have become iconic in Japan. The red isn’t a simply a dark red, but an azuki red. According to a report on IT Media, former…

Europe Gets Red Wii Bundle

It’s not just the Super Mario Bros. 25th anniversary game Europe is getting; the Old World may be in line to receive the new Red Wii as well, albeit with some changes made to the bundle. This box art surfaced over the weekend, and shows what looks to be the official packaging for a European…

Survival Of The Fittest Erotic Game Company

In the past eight years, so much has changed. So much hasn’t. The sun still rises, for example. That’s the same. But erotic game brand-wise, much has changed. Fueled by the success of Osaka-based developers Leaf and Key, a large number of new eroge companies debuted in the early 21st century. As website Canned Dogs…

Salman Rushdie’s New Book Takes A Cue From Video Games

Controversial author Salman Rushdie has just released a new children’s book, and interestingly, it’s got a strong foundation in video games. Luka and the Fire, a sequel of sorts to a children’s book Rushdie penned in 1990, seems a classic adventurer’s tale of magic, gods, talking animals and a heroic quest. Its primary influence isn’t…

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Evangelion Plug Suit? No, Wetsuit

A Neon Genesis Evangelion plug suit wetsuit as modeled by nerd princess Shoko Nakagawa and seen on Speed Nator (NSFW).

Bac-Pac

To: Luke From: Owen Re: Review Review My best friend Richard and his wife have a new home – it’s the house where he grew up, back in our hometown. They’re in the process of moving, cleaning, rearranging, sorting out what goes where and all that. Down in the basement Richard stumbled across that –…