STALKER TV Show Pilot Looks As Bleak As The Game

Cult favourite PC shooter series STALKER is trying to earn itself a TV series deal, with the game’s developers paying for the production of a pilot episode. The show has been put together by a media outfit called Transvision, and as you’ll see in the clip below, is doing a pretty good job of capturing…

Darkstalkers Cosplay Has Never Been Classier

What is this, a high fashion editorial? An ad trying to sell me an expensive bottle of cologne? Nope. It’s some exquisite cosplay featuring Morrigan, star of Capcom’s fighting game series Darkstalkers If you recognise the model (well, the Morrigan one) that’s because it’s Filipino model Alodia Gosiengfiao, the “queen of cosplay” Helping things look…

Vampire Nazis, A Fat Lady, Uwe Boll, Oh My!

It’s World War II, but with fangs, a large woman and controversial director Uwe Boll. Following up on 2007’s BloodRayne II: Deliverance, BloodRayne: The Third Reich, which was originally titled BloodRayne: Warhammer, pits Rayne (Natassia Malthe) against Nazis out to make Hitler immortal. The trailer below might be NSFW. The first BloodRayne film was released…

Someone Spent $335,000 On Virtual Real Estate

In 2009, Jon Jacobs set a world record for the biggest ever sale of an online item. It was a space station in online sci-fi game Entropia Universe. This month, in the same game, he’s broken that record. In a single transaction with another player, John Foma Kalun, Jacobs offloaded a mall, a stadium, a…

UK Prisoners Snuggle Up With Game Consoles

Thirty hour games? Forty, fifty, seventy hour games? No bother, some of the UK’s biggest gamers have all the time in the world. According to junior Justice Minister Crispin Blunt, a third of prisoners in England and Wales are able to own game consoles via an inmate good behavior program. That means that over 36,000…

Kinect’s Star Wars Game Will Have You Force-Waving Your Arms In 2011

The Star Wars Kinect game, which so enthralled us before so quickly disappointing us when first revealed earlier this year, has around twelve months to get things right, with a release pencilled in for late 2011. “We have a Kinect Star Wars game coming out for next holiday”, Kinect’s creative director, Kudo Tsunoda, told the…

All The Kinect Accidents You Can Handle

With Kinect, Microsoft is getting gamers up off the sofa and getting them injured. Cue the highlight reel! As when the Wii launched, there are reports of accidents caused while playing. Some might be real, some might be faked, but most look painful. “Kinect Fail” appears to be the go to title on YouTube for…

Black Ops And The History Of Violence

The Call of Duty series’ military advisor may spend most of his time informing developers on how to best portray acts of violence, but that doesn’t mean he always agrees with what ends up in the games. Compared to the developers we’re used to interviewing, Hank Keirsey is a little different. He’s wiry and athletic…

A Week In Comments

New Member Of Kong Family Will Help Donkey Kong And Struggling Wii Gamers Comment by: NoelVeiga Nominated by: diedan I’m having this conversation all over the place, recently, but… why am I the only one who remembers that games used punishing difficulty only to mask repetition and lack of content? Being a kid of the…

What If Star Wars Was A…Classic PC Adventure Game

We’ve seen what Star Wars would look like as a classic Lucasarts adventure game, but artist Andy Rash’s glorious pixel art looks so much like a classic Sierra adventure game that it’s tough not to wonder what could have been. Imagine, instead of reliving the original Star Wars trilogy through fast-paced action games like X-Wing,…

A Visual Guide To Kinect Fail

How To Turn A Great Cartoon Into A Video Game

Adventure Time is the best new cartoon I’ve seen in years. So it’s nice to see that the first person putting down sketches on how a game adaptation would work is Pendleton Ward, the man who created the show. Don’t know what Adventure Time is? Come on, grab your friends. It’s not an official project,…

Gran Turismo 5’s Fake Prototype Is Now A Gutless Reality

The whole point of Gran Turismo 5’s Red Bull Racing X1 Prototype was that it was a car that was so fast it couldn’t actually exist. So what do we do with it now that one actually exists? We relax, that’s what, as this version of the prototype car won’t be setting any land speed…

Nerd Dating Event Becomes (Surprise!) A Sausage Fest

At the end of this month, a match-making event is being held just outside Tokyo. But this get-together is a little different. It’s for otaku. And not just otaku, but otaku looking to settle down with a wife and their plastic figures. In Japan, female otaku are often referred to as “fujoshi” or “rotten girl”.…

Black Ops On PC Suffering From Mysterious “Lag” [UPDATE]

I’m playing Black Ops on PC, and have been having some problems. Random performance issues, even stuttering during cutscenes. Turns out I’m far from the only one. Many PC players are reporting issues with the game related to poor performance that has nothing to do with their own hardware. For example, Black Ops will slow…

LEGO Universe MMO Log Two: Excitement Builds?

Having exhausted a majority of the questing content during my first week playing LEGO Universe, I dedicated my second week to that most basic of LEGO activities: Building. Kotaku’s MMO reviews are a multi-part process. Rather than deliver day one reviews based on beta gameplay, we play the game for four weeks before issuing our…

Review: Cut The Rope Is A Quick Slice Of Fun

My green monster is hungry for candy. He’s telling me so, gesturing. I need to cut the rope with a finger swipe, sending the sugary treat into his mouth. But how do I clear the spikes? Ah… the whoopee cushion! Cut The Rope is a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod touch that tasks…

Microsoft Suing Motorola Over Xbox 360 Tech

Not everything inside the Xbox 360 was designed by Microsoft; the console’s wi-fi capabilities (hold the jokes) and some its video codecs are licensed from Motorola. And are now the subject of a court battle between the two companies. A suit has been filed in a Federal Court in Seattle by Microsoft, alleging Motorola “broke…

Digitized Hammer Time

Folks, let’s turn off this Tuesday with a little off-topic conversation that could be about the new copy of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World you bought on DVD and/or Blu-ray today. Hint! HINT! While I’m still waiting for my copy from Amazon to arrive—like I’m going to leave the house, c’mon!—maybe you can whet the…

GoldenEye 007 Then Vs. Now: How Far Bond Has Come

GoldenEye 007 for the Wii may feature a new James Bond and all-new graphics, but as this comparison video shows, Activision’s remake of the 1997 Nintendo 64 game stays impressively true to its source material. RewindReplay TV’s side-by-side comparison clip of the new and old GoldenEye 007 games is also a great illustration of just…