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A Touching Tribute To The King Of Space Pop
This is some Space Channel 5 cosplay from Comiket, and for once, Ulala isn’t the centre of attention. No, the focus of this piece is the amazing Space Michael, which following on from months of teary-eyed celebrities and dirty cash-in movies is probably the sweetest tribute to the fallen pop idol as we’ve seen. ［コミケ77］ゲームキャラのコスプレギャラリー＜その1＞…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
OnLive Boss Gives Live (And Long) OnLive Presentation
OnLive, an ambitious service which plans to allow gamers to stream games over the internet to their TV – removing the need for a console – has its doubters. Steve Perlman, boss of OnLive, is not one of them. Here he is giving a 48-minute presentation on the service, covering almost every single aspect of…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Historians Rebuilding Old Atari Chips
The Atari Museum is reconstructing several of the original company’s proprietary chips – including those from the 2600/VCS, 5200, and the 8-bit personal computer line – using data recovered from the reel-to-reel tapes used in their original manufacture. The Museum’s Curt Vendel says the project has a practical application beyond the living history factor. “What…
By Owen Good Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gears Of War Buffs Up Games On Demand
Epic Games‘ huge dude shooter Gears of War has been added to the list of Xbox 360 games available “on demand,” in the unlikely event that you don’t already have the seminal third-person chainsaw and shoot ’em up. The damage is $19.99 USD, more or less in your currency, and takes an impressive 6 GB…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Meet Lost Planet 2’s Defolma
Defolma may not be a massive boss monster, but with squid-like arms, a mouth on the top of its head, and a penchant for tight spaces, the latest addition to Lost Planet 2‘s akrid population is nothing to scoff at. Oh fine, go ahead and scoff. It’s a squid with a mouth on its head.…
By Mike Fahey Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Picross 3D Finally Dated! For Europe!
Good news! While the Japanese have been enjoying three-dimensional nonogram bliss for the better part of the year with Rittai Picross, the localized, announced, but not dated Picross 3D has been pegged for a February 2010 release date! In Europe! That’s according to a report on the Nintendo DS follow up to Picross DS from…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Unreal Tournament 3 Players, Download DM Spectrum Now
The previously featured DM_Spectrum, the lovely looking, brightly color coded mod for Unreal Tournament 3 that lets you make a killing on the dance floor, is now available for download, developer Matt Bradley tells us today. Now we’re telling you. In the unfortunate case that you missed the original post on DM_Spectrum, Bradley describes the…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: GOOD BYE AMERICA You’re leaving the U.S. just as I’m returning. Can’t ever have two Brians on the same continent or who knows what will happen? I had planned on wrapping up my three weeks of vacation spent in Australia in this note to you, but I’m dealing with the…
By Brian Crecente Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Sports MMA Adds Two More Fighters Big In Japan
The EA Sports MMA roster has grown by two, officially, as of today. Electronic Arts announced a press conference in Tokyo earlier today that Hidehiko Yoshida and Shinya Aoki will virtually beat the shit out of each other in 2010. If the names Yoshida and Aoki aren’t what you’d consider household names, the former is…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
9 Reasons to Own 9
1) Cuteness. 2) You can’t get to MoMA. 3) Crispin Glover needs a royalty check. 4) 9 new friends on demand. 5) You are “budding techno and fantasy geeks [who] are likely to be intrigued and enthralled” (thanks, NYT). 6) It releases today on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download, so you will be first to…
By Chrissie Lamond Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Listen to Zelda Reorchestrated
Russ Frushtick at MTV Multiplayer was following the progress of a musical group that wanted to remake the music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time with a real orchestra. Today, he reports, they’ve finally finished their work. The Zelda Reorchestrated project (a.k.a. ZREO) first got started six years ago when a 14-year-old had…
By AJ Glasser Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
CES 2010: A Special Programming Note
You may think that we’ve entered the annual Slow News Day season, but you’d be wrong. Because next week, CES 2010 convenes in lovely Las Vegas, Nevada and Kotaku will be there, pounding the carpet and gawking at fancy electronics. And expect twice the coverage of next year’s show, as we’ll be double teaming the…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Paradox Interactive’s Holiday Greeting Is Certainly Majestic
Paradox Interactive, the developers behind Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, tend to do things on a more epic scale. For instance, their holiday card came with its own dragon. I wasn’t expecting any packages today, so Paradox Interactive‘s holiday greeting took me by surprise. In fact, at first I didn’t even see the card,…
By Mike Fahey Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Finally, Slime Curling Comes To Dragon Quest
Someone at Square Enix must have been hit hard by an early infection of (Winter) Olympic Fever, as clearly evidence by the addition of Slime Curling mini-gaming to the Dragon Quest VI remake for the Nintendo DS. Yes, Dragon Quest VI is now on every winter sports enthusiast’s radar, also adding what appears to be…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rock Band Guitar Cited As Instrument Of Domestic Violence
The daughter of 43-year-old Blackstreet singer Teddy Riley has been granted a temporary restraining order against her dad after he allegedly abused his two daughters with a Rock Band guitar. See, Rock Band is all about bringing people together, not tearing families apart. According to documents filed in LA County Superior Court and reported by…
By Mike Fahey Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Painkiller Developers Predicting A Bulletstorm
People Can Fly, most famous for its work on the Painkiller franchise, is working on an all-new intellectual property with Epic Games, a game that may be known as Bulletstorm when ultimately revealed. Or so a newly filed trademark implies. The Warsaw-based developer filed that trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week,…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tuper Tario Tros. Puts A Little Tetris In Your Mushroom Kingdom
A mash-up of Super Mario Bros. and Tetris should—or at least could—be the best video game of all time, given how strong each title is independently. But is that marriage of gameplay styles enjoyable in practice? It certainly doesn’t make for a good name, but Tuper Tario Tros.—seriously!—at least makes for an interesting concept. The…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2009