It’s a new month for Talk Amongst Yourselves, which brings us new art. Here’s Der Spaziergang by Marc Chagall, as recommended by reader Diesel. I see top TAY potential. Go ahead and comment here about video games, will you? Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
This New Japan Pro-Wrestling video shows off the Street-Fighter inspired moves of Canadian wrestler Kenny Omega. Among his arsenal is a hadouken and an ultimate atomic buster. Enjoy? [Thanks Jamie]
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This year you can watch Nintendo’s E3 press conference, and all of those glorious charts, live on a special website the company is setting up. The presentation kicks off at 9 a.m. Pacific on June 15 and we’ll be there liveblogging to analyze and comment as well.
It’s easy for us, as jaded gamers, to dismiss 4mm Games’ Def Jam: Rapstar as a Johnny Come Lately. Thing is, the game isn’t for us. And 4mm’s CEO Nick Perrett does a good reminding everybody of that in an interview with MCV. Rock Band, Guitar Hero and SingStar may all be on the decline,…
BlazBlue is a fighting game. It’s not exactly cute per se. It’s more cool. This little figurine, it’s cute as a button. This is a “Nendoroid Petit” figure of BlazBlue character Noel Vermillion that will be bundled with the BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Limited Box for the Xbox 360 and PS3. The bundle will be released…
In this day and age, logos are a fickle thing, companies going through them like clean underwear in the constant search for “reinvention”. This week, one of the oldest developers in the industry has broken down and joined in. Rare Software, known for GoldenEye, Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Perfect Dark and the Xbox 360’s…
Another Foxconn employee has died. However, it was not by suicide. A 28-year-old man, who married his wife (pictured) three months ago, died from exhaustion in Shenzhen in his rental house after working a 34-hour shift his family claims. No official statement has been issued regarding the man’s death. Yan Li was apparently suffering from…
Daisuke Yamashita, 33 years-old, has been arrested for two counterfeit stickers in an online auction for ¥3,160 (US$36). That’s right two He was also charged with possession of 13 more stickers that depict art from Studio Ghibli anime films, like My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Police seized approximately…
Sony’s DC Universe Online, a massively-multiplayer take on the world of DC Comics, will be out this November
Being locked in a room to play Starcraft all day might sound like fun, but for those interned in South Korea’s gaming “Chicken Coops”, it’s far from it. Starcraft expert Kim Jeong-geon spoke last week of these “coops”, which are used by the Starcraft industry to create a conveyor belt of sorts for the nation’s…
Not with video games. Not with the World Cup. But with that long standing killer app: pornography. This summer Sony is bringing 3D games to the PlayStation 3, and Nintendo is introducing its “glasses-free” portable gaming device. But as the Japanese 3D television market begins to heat up, the country’s porn industry is hoping to…
If you’ve ever wondered how much crap it takes to fill a game development studio, wonder no more, as LittleBigPlanet developers Media Molecule are more than happy to show you. Because the team just moved to a new office – conveniently down the street from their old office – everything had to be packed up,…
Love Plus+ plus Nintendo’s DSi XL plus schoolgirls. Keyword: plus Going on sale June 24 and priced ¥24,000 (US$264), the bundle comes in three different designs, each of the three Love Plus girls: Manaka, Rinko and Nene. Love Plus is a popular dating sim in Japan.
Nintendo’s next big game Wii Party will be out on July 8 in Japan, Nintendo has revealed. Ready to party?
Sideshow has gone mad for Prince of Persia, revealing a statue based on the movie that’s not $100. Not $200. It’s $300 worth of plastic Chesty Jake. He goes on sale on Sideshow’s website on June 3, and that $300 will get you a statue that stands around 18″ tall and has interchangeable arms, so…
The Metal Gear Solid movie isn’t happening. Solid Snake voice actor and Hollywood screenwriter David Hayter dishes what he’s heard went down. “A couple of years ago, a producer friend of mine asked me if I would be interested in doing the adaptation,” Hayter, who wrote the big screen version of X-Men, tells MTV. “I…
Photographer Jason Travis has a neat idea: grab people off the streets of Atlanta and take photos of whatever’s inside their handbags or backpacks. Items found include pens, keys, wallets and…Nintendo handhelds, as evidenced by these two ladies, one rocking the same stylish shade of Pink DS as our own Michael Fahey, the other a…
Nintendo started out as a card maker, making hanafuda playing cards. Nintendo still makes playing cards. Video games, too. This July, the company will be releasing three sets of Mario branded playing cards. These are “premium” cards, and are priced at ¥1,050 (US$11) each set. I like the “dot” cards the most. They’re classy. Mario…
This is a charming short film about everyday people and their World of Warcraft avatars, interviewing a few players while their characters stroll around in the real world. It’s only four minutes long, but in that four minutes you get to meet a number of Irish players who give honest, enjoyable stories of just why…
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