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Who Is The Greatest Video Game Character Of All Time?
Totally subjective question, of course, but movie mag Empire decided to try and answer anyway, its writers nutting out who they thought were the greatest video game characters of all time. The winner? It wasn’t Mario. It wasn’t Lara Croft, either. Or Master Chief. Or Link, or Snake, or even Mai Shiranui. No, the winner…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sony Investigating Factory Suicides
Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, a spate of suicides at its Shenzhen complex attracting worldwide media attention. It’s also attracted the attention of Sony, for whom Foxconn manufacture consoles. Like Nintendo, Sony has launched its own instigation into work practices at Foxconn’s factories, issuing a…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Apple Sells Two Million iPads
On launch day, Apple sold 300,000 iPads. It’s now sold a whole lot more. Kicked along by the tablet’s international launch last week, which saw the device become available in Europe, Japan, Australia & Canada, Apple declared today that over two million iPads have been sold in less than two months. For a piece of…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Girl, Immortalized In Xenoblade CG
Mayu Watanabe is a member of uber popular Japanese idol troupe AKB48. The sixteen year-old is also in a commercial for upcoming Wii game Xenoblade. But something is different Yeah. And yeah. A double yeah. Another… yeah. Perhaps the actual ad isn’t so Uncanny Valley! Published by Nintendo, Xenoblade is the latest entry in the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect’s Citadel Is Made From LEGO
The Citadel, home of the Council and the single largest structure in the Mass Effect universe, is impressive enough when you see it in-game. Seeing it recreated in LEGO form just brings a smile to your face. Catsy has recreated the Prothean space station with nothing but standard LEGO bricks and some fancy lighting. Sure,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
How Mario Celebrates Memorial Day
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By Brian Crecente Published May 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
When Role-Playing Gets Real
LARP stands for Live Action Role Playing. It’s when someone literally plays the role of a fictional character while gaming. Still confused? Here’s a handy guide to the practice, which depending on the player can be either awesome or creepy While LARPing is usually the domain of people who hook up in the real world…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Guillermo Del Toro Not Directing The Hobbit
Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Cronos) was slated to direct two feature films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. He was already to go! And now, he’s not. Late last week, the director told website /Film that movie studio MGM was holding up the project: “We have been caught in a very tangled negotiationā€¦Now I…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 31, 2010 -
UncategorizedTron’s NES Certainly Looks The Part
The chop shop team at Thretris have come up with another great way to make an old Nintendo console better: make it look like something out of Tron. The Glowing Tron NES is pretty much what it says it is: it’s a working Nintendo Entertainment System, complete with improved stereo sound, done up to look…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
K Monthly – May 2010
Welcome to the May 2010 edition of K Monthly, a look back at some of the best original coverage, including reviews, previews, features, weekly columns and more from Kotaku. It was a month of big changes, with Resistance developer Insomniac Games moving on to greener, multi-platform pastures and key Xbox execs making their own moves.…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Frankenreview: Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time
The power to rewind time will not save video game movie adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time from the likes of Roger Ebert and the assembled movie critics in this rare but highly warranted movie Frankenreview. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time might never live up to star Jake Gyllenhaal’s most famous…
By Mike Fahey Published May 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Backbreaker Expects to See Large Penises in Your End Zone
Backbreaker‘s creators included a design customization engine so deep, a producer says you can recreate Da Vinci’s The Last Supper in your team’s end zone. He knows what most folks will try first though: “People, yeah, they’re gonna create dicks.” “Let’s face it, the first two days of the game being out, all we’re going…
By Owen Good Published May 31, 2010 -
UncategorizedHidden Xbox Games You Need To Know About
I play a lot of games, but I need to play more. Thankfully, Kotaku reader Kobun is covering one of my blind spots, Xbox Indie Games. Thanks to Kobun, I know about a milking game and the possible $1 RPGOTY. Kobun starts a review of Ninja Chop with this: I suspect Microsoft would have prevented…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Your Friends Are Already Following Kotaku On Facebook, Why Aren’t You
Your friends are probably already following Kotaku on Facebook why aren’t you!?! And besides being super cool, they’ve already had a chance to win neat prizes and are passing around the best of Kotaku’s stories. THE BEST!!! Check out who’s already hooked up and then join them and bask in the sunny glow of being…
By Brian Crecente Published May 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy VII Writer Sees End of The Nintendo Era
Since the release of the Game Boy, Nintendo has ruled portable gaming. That era is over, says Masato Kato, the writer of FFVII, Xenogears and Chrono Trigger. But why? “With the iPad going on sale, the epoch of Nintendo is finished,” Kato tweeted. “But with the DS and the Wii, it’s been digging its own…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 31, 2010
