The portable cassette player may be long gone, but Sony’s Walkman brand lives on, in both phones and MP3 players. Like this one, the “W252”, which should really have been called “The Metal Gear Solid One”. Released in conjunction with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for the PSP, the W252 is a wrap-around MP3 player…
A California man has been sentenced to five years prison after robbing a number of women of their credit cards, which he then promptly used to buy PlayStation 3 games. In January 2008 the man, Rodelio Cataroja, Jr., stole four women’s purses over the course of two weeks, and in four separate transactions at a…
Those guesses at what these new Pokémon look like? Wrong! The latest issue of kids’ mag CoroCoro shows what the three new Pokémon for the upcoming Pocket Monsters: Black and White look like. The magazine does note that as with previous generation of Pocket Monsters the “type” is important. According to website PokéBeach, the game’s…
Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is not a fan of today’s 3D, stating it is no different from the technology available in the 1950s. While Coppola does concede that digital filmmaking is suited for 3D and that 3D has improved, he points out that the necessity of 3D glasses…
The Nintendo 3DS is an enigma. We don’t know if that will be its final name, don’t know what it looks like, don’t know how powerful it is. We hope, though, its logo looks a little something like this. This was whipped up by reader TestZero, in response to our post on Nintendo’s console code…
Yakuza. Shocking, we know. Actually, it is called “Ryu Ga Gotoku”, but that’s what all the Yakuza games are called in Japan. So, yeah, it’s still “Yakuza” for English speakers. The game has had a working title of “Project K”, but that has since been scrapped in favor of “Ryu Ga Gotoku Shinshou Kurohyou” or…
It seems we may have been a little premature in declaring the death of the printed manual, with one of the world’s biggest publishers going on record saying that there’s life left in the printed word yet. Nintendo has told Eurogamer that it has “no plans to move away from including [paper] instruction manuals with…
The world has seen enormous life-sized Gundam statues. You know what it is missing? An enormous 1/1 scale Evangelion bust. Evas are the huge biomechanical beings piloted in the hugely successful franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion. On July 23, Fuji-Q HighLand amusement park in Japan will open a new attraction: “Evangelion: World – Life-Size EVA-01 Construction…
One million Wii owners have tried out Netflix. It’s a healthy number, but given the size of the console’s install base, Netflix probably wants more. Cue the expensive commercials targeted specifically at Wii users! It’s like a well-dressed Lord of the Rings meets…Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood. Actually, considering they then show a Notting Hill box…
You’d think that the guy who created Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Wii Music wouldn’t have any regrets. Oh wait. “As soon as we’ve finished a project, I always have regrets about what we could or should’ve done,” said Nintendo’s Shigeru Miaymoto in a recent interview with Edge magazine. “But then there…
Companies rarely, if ever, release sales figures for digital game sales. Makes compiling charts, and applauding records, difficult! We do know one thing, however: EA’s Battlefield 1943 is apparently the most popular console downloadable title ever made. As part of it’s fiscal year report released earlier today, publisher Electronic Arts says that the downloadable shooter…
This year’s E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles has two of the biggest game companies go literally head-to-head in…waggle. Nintendo has had Wii Remote motion control since the console went on sale back in fall 2006. Sony, however, is adding a motion controller called to the Move to the PS3 later this year. While Sony…
Seeing as much of what we associate with a famous game character is related to their gender, how would you feel if, say, Lara Croft was a dude? Or Luigi a plumbette? You can face that bizarro scenario in these pics by David Stonecipher, the same guy who brought us the “game characters with beards”…
Chest this, chest that. Prince of Persia star Jake Gyllenhaal is more than a chest. He is also wonderful hair. And good hygiene. “It took six months to grow my hair, and shampooing and conditioning it on a daily basis helps to develop a really really chiseled physique in the arms, you be surprised!” says…
We got a little bummed yesterday that people were pirating a games bundle released for charity. Let’s put that behind us today, and instead focus on the positive aspects of said bundle. Like the fact it’s made over $1 million. Yes, since its release last week, Wolfire’s Humble Indie Bundle has been bought by 118,810…
Toad is in a whole bunch of Mario games. But that’s not all, oh no, that’s not all. Spotted at Toys R Us is this “Look Out” Tech Team bike. A Kotaku found it and then laid it out on the linoleum for all of you people to gaze at. There’s something game related on…
EA’s modern-day shooter Battlefield Bad Company 2 may not have been able to stand toe-to-toe with competitor Modern Warfare 2, but it’s accounted for itself regardless, selling an impressive five million copies. A feat FIFA 10 was able to double. EA revealed the sales figures in a press release earlier today, saying that Bad Company…
EA COO John Schappert said today that the publisher will be showing off a few new, unannounced games at E3, all of them making use of some of gaming’s most promising – and potentially gimmicky – technology. Speaking during his company’s fiscal results conference call, Schappert said “we will also unveil games that make use…
Attention! This is Privates, a new game from the developers of Time Gentlemen, Please! coming to the PC and Xbox 360, one that will give many hardcore video gamers a second chance to encounter a vagina. Zombie Cow Studios, the developer behind the vaginal and anal action of Privates, explains the downloadable title as a…
Consider tonight’s edition of Kotaku Off Topic a great place to practice not getting banned tomorrow. Come for the conversation, stay for the helpful Kotaku commenters who know how to comment well. If you missed today’s Day Note warning, it’s worth noting. The Kotaku comments are in need of some scrubbing—fewer throwaway two word comments,…
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