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Last year featured Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tony Hawk and Stephen Spielberg. This year there will be Cirque du Soleil and perhaps others. Each year in the days leading up to E3’s international gathering of video game makers and publishers in Los Angeles, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo host press briefings to lay out the year’s…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Mini-Bash has been sick the past few days. Today, I made lunch, and as I made lunch, the realization that I was making a horrible, horrible lunch set in. I panicked! The noodle dish that was in my mind was the noodle that was being produced in the fry pan before…
When Osaka-based Capcom isn’t making popular video games, it is doing something else entirely: ragging on the Japanese game industry. Last September at the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom exec and Mega-Man designer Keiji Inafune declared the country’s game industry “finished”. Now it’s Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi’s turn. “If the Japanese games industry doesn’t…
Don’t get bummed out, Starcraft fans! We’re not going to let the morning pass without some good news. Well, not news. It’s more a clip, of what Starcraft would look like on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Smartly, the isometric viewpoint has been dropped in favour of the NES’ speciality, side-scrolling, which though messy in parts,…
Released last year, this is the official concept promotional image of Microsoft’s upcoming motion control system Project Natal. It is black. Update: Microsoft comments, clarifies nothing. “Project Natal” is the code name for Microsoft’s controller-free motion controls that, as the promotional clip states, makes the players the controller. But even when the device was on…
Border Break is the latest in a long line of Sega arcade games featuring mechs beating the crap out of each other. Here’s an action figure base don one of them, so you can bring the battle to your desktop/bathtub. This is the Shrike Type I, by Kotobukiya. Scheduled for release in Japan in July,…
Along with a younger version of the protagonist, role-playing game Nier (read our review!) is getting new downloadable outfits. One of which sure is saucy! Kotaku already posted this costume’s concept art. However, concept art doesn’t show how something looks in-game on character Kainé. It only shows the concept And in concept this, probably shouldn’t…
“Hard” in gaming is relative. What I might think is easy, you might think is not. What you might consider a piece of cake, I may find impossible. Website shortlist.com has compiled a list of the “Top 10 Hardest Games”. Agree, disagree, but first, read the list: 10. Jet Set Willy (1984, Software Projects /…
An FCC filing submitted by Nintendo and Mitsumi, an electronics manufacturer, seems to be for the new Nintendo 3DS handheld. There’s not much to it, but what there is should give hope to fans of widescreen gaming on the go. That pic above there is most likely a testbed for the Nintendo 3DS. Since the…
We can all agree that video games are a form of entertainment, but just what about them entertains you? What are you looking for, or getting out of them, when you sit down with a controller in hand? I bring this up because over the weekend I was talking with a friend about Modern Warfare…
While Nintendo possibly isn’t showing the Nintendo 3DS until the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, today in Tokyo, Nintendo provided vague hints about what is to come. Several insiders tell Kotaku that Nintendo Chief Financial Officer Yoshihiro Mori played things close to his vest, unwilling to divulge too much about the upcoming Nintendo 3DS.…
The first images of the recently-revealed Batman: Arkham Asylum action figures have dropped from a gargoyle and landed online, and if they’re one thing, they’re faithful to the source material. And if they’re two things, they’re faithful to the source material and a poor quality black & white photo. Sorry! But that’s what you get…
It’s 2010. Hopefully by now you have beaten 1985’s Super Mario Bros. If not, please get off my lawn and go away. If you have, continue onward to spoilers! In 1986, a special, limited-edition version of Super Mario Bros. was given away by Japanese radio program All Night Nippon. The game is a hybrid of…
The scandal enveloping Korea’s professional Starcraft scene appears to be worse than first believed, with eleven gamers under investigation amid allegations that gambling organisations have been running a “training institute” to lure players into illegal match-fixing. As we reported last month, an investigation has uncovered widespread corruption in the upper echelons of Korea’s pro gaming…
The female trainer for the totally new forthcoming Pokémon: Black & White is wearing, as website Tiny Cartridge points out, Daisy Dukes. But what are Daisy Dukes? Jean shorts, a shorter and literally cooler version of blue jeans, were worn in the 1950s and 1960s as cut-offs. And it was in the late 1960s and…
Most, if not all of you, will at some stage of your life been read to from a Golden Book. They’re a childhood staple. But what if there were Golden Books that, uh, weren’t exactly suitable for the little ones? They’d look like these! Josh Cooley, an artist at Pixar, has been whipping these up…
In 1998, Stanford University’s Henry Lowood began preserving video games and video game artifacts. Lowood, along with a four member committee, has announced a game canon, for the Library of Congress. Japan begs to differ. According to the New York Times, the canon is: Spacewar! (1962), Star Raiders (1979), Zork (1980), Tetris (1985), SimCity (1989),…
To: Totilo From: Crecente Tristan and I were walking through a park this weekend talking about stuff when we somehow came to the topic of music videos. “What are those,” he asked. What! I tried to explain it to him, baffled that something that shaped my high school years had somehow gone unnoticed by my…
At least three Swedish retailers are listing a price for upcoming Xbox 360 motion controller Project Natal, and it’s not good. While UK sources were telling MCV that the motion controller would run $80, perhaps less, the three Swedish retail sites are all listing the device for 1,499 SEK, which works out to just under…
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