By “video game movie”, I do not mean movies that were adapted from video games. Oh, no. Instead, I mean movies that have video games as a plot element. In light of the upcoming French thriller Black Heaven, now is as good a time as any to take a look back at some of the…
Bungie, the studio that created the Halo franchise, will be partnering with Activision for an “exclusive, worldwide partnership” the developer revealed this morning. The partnership will encompass one upcoming franchise and will last for the next ten years. Bungie was founded in 1991 and was purchased by software giant Microsoft in 2000, but parted with…
In case you just joined us, Kotaku has only been around this century. And yes, it’s always been based on a formula of baby-sick green and Amsterdam-hooker pink. But what if we’d been blogging in the last century? It’d look a little something like this. Except substitute the headlines for ones involving the Sega Saturn,…
Kingdom Hearts fans, who we know like things cute, will surely snap up these new figures from Square Enix, which are not only based on Kingdom hearts characters, but are incredibly, impossibly cute. There are five available – Sora, Cloud, Tifa, Axel and Riku – with the catch being you need to buy them as…
The mysterious Rei Ayanami from the Neon Genesis Evangelion juggernaut gets immortalized in polyvinyl chloride. Again. Famed illustrator Shunya Yamashita, who also created the characters for Final Fantasy X, designed this particular version of Rei, which was sculpted by Mitsumasa Yoshizawa. This is the second version of this particular statue. Rei Ayanami has long been…
Giant robots aren’t just for fighting! They can also be used for…construction work! And…complex song & dance routines! A group of Armored Core: For Answer players have sat down and recorded an insane 18 hours worth of footage, in which the game’s giant robots do little but tap toes, swirl around and generally make like…
It’s not. This is a pirated game manual. A really, really funny one. Reader Andrew noticed this Avatar for the Nintendo DS manual at the game retailer where he works. The non-legit pirated game was inadvertently accepted as a trade-in — and whoever pirated this title went as far as turning the 20-something-page instruction manual…
Oh God, it’s so terrifying Meet the Padded Puppet Pouch! It’s a…padded puppet pouch for the DS, that pulls two jobs as both a puppet and a pouch for your DS. Just like the name says! It’s by CTA Digital, and while we’ve chuckled at most of the company’s previous efforts in the gaming peripheral…
You can customize your in-game avatar, so why not your better half? Upcoming Japanese Xbox 360 title My Wife ~ A Bride For You Only ~ lets players customize their wife’s appearance, personality, voice, name and more. There are also downloadable voice packs that include well-known voice actresses like Kana Hanazawa and Emiri Kato. Various…
I love Sid Meier. Not just because he’s a great game designer, but because he’s a generally smart guy, as evidenced in this interview with IndustryGamers in which he talks “social” gaming in terms you should all understand. “I think it’s a new frontier”, he says. “I don’t think it replaces any other forms of…
With a large bus. Adult computer game Shin Koi Hime Musou ~The Legend of the Moé Commander~ goes on sale on July 23 in The Land of the Rising Sun. To whip players up into a frenzy, this large Shin Koi Hime Musou bus was spotted cruising the streets of Tokyo’s geek mecca Akihabara. A…
Tecmo Bowl Throwback parties like it’s 1987
First things first, this lab makes repeat appearances. There are allusions to somebody being “revived”, and a look at that clock reveals what may well be a 2010 date (albeit in the Japanese back-to-front style). Here’s a missile launch. Hard to tell what exactly is going on, but it looks like it’s at the coast,…
Certainly tamer than Russian strippers grinding on Counter Strike players. At this South Korean “Tekken Crash” tournament, model Kim Ha Yui stood next to a Tekken 6 cabinet as players tried to concentrate on their match. She, on the other hand, concentrated on trying to look cute for the camera. They’ve got excellent concentration! So…
There are few better ways to end your Wednesday (or start your Thursday!) than with a game you’d previously never even heard of, but now can’t wait to actually play. Today’s case in point: ilomilo. It’s a puzzle game by Southend Interactive. You know, the Swedish team behind Tecmo Bowl Throwback and R-Type Dimensions on…
Last summer erotic game developer Minori, developer of adult PC titles like Bittersweet Fools and Angel Type, blocked foreign access to its website in the wake of the Rapelay controversy. The developer later explained in English: “Some foreigners seem to be having an antipathy against EROGE. Therefore, We prohibited the access from foreign countries, to…
Chinese World of Warcraft players, bummed at the challenges they face trying to play expansion Burning Crusade on a PC, could always lower their already-low graphical expectations and play the game on a…Famicom That’s it, up top. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, for the Famicom. This version, created not by Blizzard but by pirates,…
As seen by reader ZackFair at Pasir Ris Park, Singapore.
God of War is a unique series, in that three different men lead the development team for each of the three games. How, then, would David Jaffe – original creator of the series – have ended things? I’m not going to spoil the actual ending, but I can tell you that Jaffe’s vision for how…
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