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Wearing A Dress, This Cosplayer Will Kick Your Butt
Yuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima likes to dress up. He also likes to pummel the crap out of people. Nagashima is a kick boxer and competes in Japanese combat sport K-1. When he enters the ring, he does it in style. Otaku style. The middleweight has been known to dress up as Reimu Hakurei, Eirin Yagokoro and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Screens (And Music), Fresh From The APB Beta
APB, a game that can best be described as a massively-multiplayer Grand Theft Auto, is currently in beta testing. One of those testers has been kind enough to pass along some proper, in-game screenshots of the experience. And I am impressed. Not by an inventory screen (above) or a low-fi screenshot (top, courtesy of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Little Girl Wanted Pet Monkeys, Got Sprung Instead
Kara Petrich, a mother in Washington State, thought she was buying DS game Petz: Monkeyz House. The box said Petz: Monkeyz House. The cartridge did, too. The game itself was another type of monkey business altogether. “You wanna rock my mountains, don’t you?” says a character on the game, Kara tells Seattle’s KOMO News. “(I…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedDSi XL Torn Apart, Just So You Can See What Its Insides Look Like
That DSi XL thinks it’s so smug, with its big screens and its enormous stylus. What it needs is to be taken down a peg or two. Have its guts ripped out, let the internet feast on its insides. Tear-down specialists iFixit have got hold of Nintendo’s latest handheld, and in typical fashion, have completely…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Secret of Mai Shiranui’s Revealing Outfit?
Mai Shiranui, from The King of Fighters series, wears a skimpy costume. She’s a video game character. She can pull it off. But how does a real lady wear Mai’s outfit? Very carefully. With plastic straps. That’s pin-up model Sayuki Matsumoto doing her best Mai. When Resident Evil 5 was released in Japan, the curvy…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
PS3 Loses Linux Support
Ever since it launched in 2006, one of the neater features of the PlayStation 3 has been its ability to run operating systems other than its own. Like Linux. Next month, however, the console will ditch that compatibility. On April 1, Sony will release the next firmware update for the PS3, bringing it to v3.21.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedXbox Live Director’s Account Hacked! (Are You Next?)
Larry Hryb, Director of Programming for Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE online gaming network, has had his Xbox LIVE profile hacked. Warning: NSFW language ahead. Known by his gamertag Major Nelson, Hryb was part of the Xbox 360 launch team and was one of the first game execs to have a regular podcast and blog. In his…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
PAX East Cosplay Gallery: Day Three
In our svelte final PAX East cosplay gallery, we bring you the few, the proud, the amazingly-tall Bayonetta, the ex-Kotaku-editor-masquerading-as-a-cosplayer and the Ghostbusters (can you guess who there are protecting us from?) Our Mike Fahey says: “Bayonetta actually attended the Kotaku party on Friday, sans costume. She was almost as tall as I am in…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Slam Bolt Scrappers Preview: An Instant Winner
I ended my tour of PAX East 2010 with two games vying for the title of Stephen’s Favorite New Game At The Show. This was one of them. Slam Bolt Scrappers is, among other things, a new take on Tetris-engineered combat. Build a tower out of the blocks you rotate and drop. Use the tower…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Shrimp Blogger
To: Taco Bell From: Owen Fuck you, Taco Bell, I’m the first to blog this Pacific Shrimp Taco thing, not your stupid-ass Bear Grylls food critic. I seriously wish there was such a thing as a shrimp blogger. I’d go troll his comments. “WTF SLOW NEWS DAY? YOU CALL YOURSELF A SHRIMPS JOURNALIST? YOUR SO…
By Owen Good Published March 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy IX Looking Likely for PSN
With Final Fantasy VII and VIII already on PlayStation Network, Final Fantasy IX shouldn’t be too far behind. Via Twitter, a Square Enix producer says the company will be considering such a release very soon. Shinji Hashimoto had been asking for followers’ opinions regarding FFIX over the past several days and then late Friday, in…
By Owen Good Published March 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Pink-Slipped Devs Take a Poke at EA in iPhone Game
Four developers laid off when Electronic Arts closed Pandemic Studios have formed “Downsized Games,” and their first offering is slam full of very thinly veiled references to their old employers. BULLETrain, coming soon for the iPhone and iPod Touch, is set in a future in which “giant mega corporations rule the universe.” One of them…
By Owen Good Published March 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Stimulus Response
Not much in the way of big releases this week. Modern Warfare 2‘s “Stimulus Package” of maps are out on Tuesday. WarioWare D.I.Y. is available today for DS, Dead or Alive Paradise is out Tuesday for the PSP. This week’s count: four for DS and 360, three Wii, two for PC and PSP and one…
By Owen Good Published March 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. ā€¢Fifteen Modders Who Changed PC Gaming [Gaming Bolt] A little out of my depth here, as a console and Mac guy, but I can certainly…
By Owen Good Published March 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Power Of The Black Mage Case Mod Compels You
Lurking deep within the darkened Bring Your Own PC room at PAX East, the pixel Black Mage case mod waits, lightning wand in hand, for the right moment to strike. Someone mentioned the Black Mage case mod to me yesterday, after catching sight of my Black Mage tattoo, and I knew I had to get…
By Mike Fahey Published March 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Eyeball-Controlled Pong Could Be Breakthrough for Disabled Gamers
Engineering students in London have developed a controller that enables eye-controlled movements in a video game, signaling the possibility someday for people with severe physical disabilities to enjoy video games for the first time. The students, from Imperial College London, constructed the controller as a pair of glasses containing an infrared light and a webcam…
By Owen Good Published March 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Bionic Commando Meets Blaster Master Meets Metroid
This is Grapple Buggy, shown here in Boston at PAX East by Nathan Fouts, the almost-solo developer behind Xbox Live Indie game Weapon of Choice. You can tell which classic Nintendo Entertainment System games he loves. The game has come a long way since we spotted it almost a year ago. It may have missed…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is $20 for the Rest of Today
Electronic Arts knocked $10 off the PC download of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – and someone else found a promo code that takes an additional $20 off – for any game – making it $19.95 until the end of the day. The offer is good over the EA Store; enter PAXEAST842 in the promo code…
By Owen Good Published March 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Penny Arcade Expo’s Real Arcade
On the third floor of the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, visitors to the Penny Arcade Expo East get to visit an actual arcade, filled with free-to-play arcade cabinets and pinball machines, just like mother used to make. Okay, technically my mother didn’t make arcade machines, but back when I was a kid she’d send…
By Mike Fahey Published March 28, 2010