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Poison Undermines A Week Of Classy Cosplay

Come on, Poison! We were keeping things heroic, and dignified, and then you had to go and do that thing you do (But seriously, if you’re going to cosplay as Capcom’s brawler, that’s the best way to do it). BIOSHOCK INFINITE | Cosplayer: ver1sa| Photographer: EnvytheOne METAL GEAR RISING | Cosplayer: keruuu| Photographer: vaxzone FINAL…

Remember, The DayZ Game Is Still Coming

The actual standalone game DayZ, not the ArmA II mod DayZ, was supposed to be out by now. It’s not, of course, and won’t be for a little while, but if you’d like an update on how it’s going, creator Dean Hall has posted this ten-minute video. A note: this is “raw, unedited…pre-alpha footage, so…

Battlefield 4 Servers Attacked

The PC version of Battlefield 4 has been either broken or down for many people all weekend long, after the game’s servers came under a denial-of-service attack A notice on Battlelog’s main page (since replaced by a PS4 server warning) read “We are currently experiencing attacks on our infrastructure that is impacting online gameplay on…

The ESRB Provides the Latest Preview of South Park: The Stick of Truth

It should be no surprise that South Park: The Stick of Truth is chock full o’ filth-flarn-flarn-filth-flarn and hellbent for an M-for-Mature rating. It’s still fun to hear the ESRB reading the dialogue aloud from its fainting couch. The game includes several instances of mature humor and sexual material: one extended sequence depicts characters getting…

The PS4 Makes Madden, FIFA and NBA 2K Better, But Not Essential

Heading into this console transition my opinion was that, of all the genres that could possibly sell a new Xbox or PlayStation, sports would come in last. Despite the richer visuals and refined experiences I’ve seen so far, that opinion still stands. My PlayStation 4 arrived late Friday, and since then I’ve spent time with…

Uncharted Craftsman Seeks More Help in Battle Against Cancer

David Vigil, a master leathersmith, is well known for his replicas of props appearing in the Uncharted series (and other games made by Naughty Dog.) The 25-year-old craftsman is also fighting stage 2 pancreatic cancer, and trying to raise money to pay for his treatment. Vigil’s second fund raiser (he held one last year) is…

Pokémon X and Y Community Solves Shiny Hatching—and Crowdsources It

For those who can’t get their hands on the magic machine that auto-finds shiny Pokémon for you, there’s the next best thing—a crowd sourced database that will pair trainers in Pokémon X and Y to eggs guaranteed to hatch a shiny. It will depend upon the good will and cooperation of the Pokémon community, particularly…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Mister First [Update]

Unlike yesterday with NWBZPWNER Jarod, I don’t think we can get Andrew House (left) and Mic-Droppin’ Jack Tretton (right) to judge this week’s contest. Maybe Joey Chiu, the first guy to buy a PlayStation 4 at the launch event on Thursday, can get in touch with us. [Update: He just did!] Luke lifted this still…

One million PlayStation 4s were sold to customers in the first 24 hours the console was available, Sony said in a news release this morning. The PS4’s Nov. 15 launch was in the U.S. and Canada only. Sony has said it expects to sell 3 million by year’s end. The PS4 launches in Europe and…

PS4 ‘Blue Light of Death’ Has No Clear Fix Yet

A number of PlayStation 4 owners appear to have non-functional units that all suffer the same problem, a so-called blue light—or blue pulse—of death. We can’t tell how many and assume it’s a small but noteworthy minority. The problem is being cited in scathing Amazon reviews, a trickle of Twitter complaintsand a stack of videos…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Make ‘Shop, Not Warcraft: The Winners

As mentioned an hour ago, this week’s ‘Shop Contest is being judged by none other than the subject himself: Jarod, who cosplayed South Park’s “NWBZPWNER” at Blizzcon a week ago. He has a critique for five of you, but gives his overall No. 1 to adrianssons! Remarks of the Judge: 1st Place: adrianssons “This man…

Meet NWBZPWNER. He Has Come to Judge You.

A week ago we featured this guy, who cosplayed NWBZPWNER, the loathsome griefer from South Park‘s seminal “Make Love Not Warcraft“ episode of 2006. Then we used him for this week’s ‘Shop Contest. Then we got in touch. His name is Jarod, and he’ll be grading your entries. Jarod, 33, lives in Southern California, only…

Happy Birthday, Shigeru Miyamoto. The creator of Mario, Zelda, Pikmin and many more games we love turned 61 today.

The PlayStation 4 Makes Skylanders: Swap Force Look So Much Better

In August I got an early chance to play the latest installment of Skylanders on a PlayStation 4. I thought it was just the prettiest thing ever. After reviewing the game on the PS3, I thought I might have just been seeing things. Nope. So much better. The difference, which might not show up quite…

For Sale: A Rare Pac-Man Bootleg from Arcade Gaming’s Golden Age

This Craigslist advertisement for a Pac-Man arcade cabinet tells a sweet and sentimental story about its life with its owner, and its role as a favored sleeping perch for his cat. But it may overlook its real value to collectors: It’s a rare, illegal clone of the game, known as “Hangly-Man.” The seller, a “Pac-Man…

Reach Through the TV with MIT’s Amazing Kinect-Controlled Project

This is called a Dynamic Shape Display. MIT built it, and it uses a Kinect sensor. In one of its applications, instead of a user in real life manipulating something on a TV, it puts the user on a TV, manipulating something in real life. See for yourself. inFORM, the name of the display, has…

All 24 Of The PS4’s Launch Games, Reviewed

On day one of Sony’s console launch, there are 24 games you can pick up to play on it. We’ve either reviewed or spent time with all of them. So here are our thoughts, in micro-review form. Angry Birds Star Wars What, you don’t have a phone? Angry Birds Star Wars is brilliant, combining the…

One California City is the Scene of the First Two PS4 Robberies

The PlayStation 4 officially launched at midnight Thursday, U.S. Eastern time. Three hours later, it was officially robbed for the first time. Ladies and gentlemen, it is the dawn of a new era in console crime! Not only that, happy PS4 customers were robbed on launch night twice in the same city: Bakersfield, Calif. the…

How Long Can a PS4 Last in a Microwave Before Bursting Into Flames?

Here we go again. Kenny Irwin is a self-styled “professional microwaver,” who has melted down, let’s see, a Nintendo 2DS, a Wii U, a 3DS, and an Xbox 360. Think he’ll take on the PlayStation 4? Of course he will. For art! He’s very careful to say this is a “non working” PlayStation 4 but…

When do we call the current console generation the last generation, and the next generation the current generation? Day one of the first console? Once all consoles have launched? After all games of their launch window? A year? Let’s talk this over.