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Here’s What a Thousand Zombies Attacking Tokyo Looks Like

On Halloween, around a thousand zombies descended on Tokyo Tower. That’s a lot of zombies. The zombies weren’t real zombies (sorry!), but comprised of beauty school students, people who dig dressing as zombies, and former sumo champ Akebono, who also might dig zombie make-up but isn’t a beauty school student. The event was part of…

Playing GTA V Not As A Maniac, But As A Photographer

You don’t have to drivearound killing people and scooping up dirty money in Grand Theft Auto V. The game gives you a camera. You could just walk around taking beautiful photos, like Luis Serrano here. A lover of video game photographysince the days of San Andreas, he’s been using GTA V’s camera phone to take…

Are We Ready For Shorter Video Game Experiences?

Are we ready for leaner, tighter shorter experiences? Is that something we’d like to see in our video games? Having trudged through most of this year’s AAA video games, mindlessly blasting my way from cut-scene to cut scene, I’ve started to wonder: is it time the games industry learned to edit itself more effectively? (Warning:…

Crazy Man Puts Computer Inside Arm (Without Help From Doctors)

American Tim Cannon is a “biohacker”. That unsightly bulge on his arm there is where he stuck a giant computer chip beneath his skin, which transmits his biometric data to Android devices. Which will be interesting data and all but oh God just look at those stitches The chip is kept safe because it’s sealed…

Nice Zelda Video, Nintendo. Shame You Screwed it Up.

Here’s a cute little video from Nintendo, showing some guys building a replica of Wind Waker’s Windfall Island out of sand. Such craft! Such whimsy! Except… THAT IS THE OUTSET ISLAND THEME SONG, NOT THE WINDFALL ISLAND THEME SONG.

If Only Sony Made PS4 Controllers This Nice

At least at launch, Sony is playing it safe with its DualShock 4 designs. You can get them in black, black or black. But if you want to get something a little more adventurous, there are still options. Evil Controllers, having already got hold of a batch of the new pads, have customised them and…

Giant Xbox One Opens, Zombies Come Pouring Out

Mystery surrounded the unveilingof an enormous Xbox One in Canada earlier in the week. Well, mystery solved. It opened up tonight, and out came…zombies. Part of a marketing stunt for the console and Dead Rising 3. Perhaps of more practical use is the fact that once the zombies had cleared out, inside the giant Xbox…

Rockstar’s Perfect Video Game Moment

I’ve played thousands of games over the years. And only once has a game ever given me a bonafide outbreak of goosebumps. Head-to-toe. It was during this past console generation, and it was while I was riding a horse. If you’ve played Red Dead Redemption, you already know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t,…

Nintendo Pulls 3DS Feature, Says Kids Were Sharing ‘Offensive Material’

Nintendo just turned off one of the online features of the 3DS, seemingly forever, deactivating the online support for its note-sharing SwapNote service on systems worldwide. The company did this, effective 10pm ET today, after saying SwapNote was “actively misused” to transmit “offensive material” among system users, including minors. SwapNote is a cute, free Nintendo-made…

The Best Charizard Costume Around, Hands Down

Surely there will be some costumed pets tonight, given that it’s Halloween. Many of these pets will be dressed at video game characters. But none will be as awesome as Salsa the bearded dragon here, who is dressed up as Charizard from Pokemon. Salsa is owned by piochips, a pet owner who is dressing up…

The Scariest Game You’ve Ever Played

Happy Halloween, everyone. Hopefully you are ringing in this most ghoulish holiday by dressing up, eating candy, watching scary movies and playing scary games. Speaking of scary games… I’m curious what freaks you guys out. I love horror games, even thought I hate being scared, but I get scared by things that other people don’t…

Dem Battlefield moments: talk about a close call in Battlefield 4—the player had to stop piloting and start repairing before the aircraft hit the ground. Just baaarely does. Damn! (h/t r/gaming)

Dark Souls, Now With More Guitar Riffs

The quality of fan-made video game songs can tell a lot about a game’s community. Keeping this in mind while watching Lordvessel by Tanooki Suit above—you can easily tell that Dark Souls has a pretty damn awesome community. The song might sound a bit Linkin Park-ish, but surprisingly it fits really well with all the…

Battlefield 4 Benchmarked: Is Your PC Up To The Task?

With roots that stretch back more than a decade and enough fans to justify new content every year, Battlefield is among the handful of franchises that needs no introduction around here. Even if you hate EA’s approach modern military madness, you can typically expect Battlefield’s graphics to raise the bar. This year’s release is no…

Playstation Plus In November Is Pretty Good

Whatever you think about Sony, Playstation Plus is the best value in console gaming, and the program isn’t slowing down during the Playstation 4’s launch month. Not only does the $50/year membership grant you two free Playstation 4 games including Resogun, but you’ll also be getting Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen and Soul Sacrifice, among others.…

The First LEGO Movie Trailer Blows My Blocky Socks Off

In June, we got a teasertrailer. This is a proper trailer. Three minutes long. Three minutes of LEGO movie heaven. I’m not normally the type to get excited by a trailer, indeed I’m usually wary of them, but this just…this just looks like the best. It’s everything you’d possibly want in a LEGO movie.

Big Brother is watching: check out this cool surveillance state themed media bundle curated by ex-Wikileaker Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Part of the proceeds go to a charity that has helped fight against SOPA. Pay-what-you-want!

Bowser Makes For An Incredible Halloween Costume

Behold: Halloween Costume of the Day. Via Brian Davis of Next Level Games (Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon), who says this is his co-worker, rendering programmer Randy Cavanagh’s Terrifying Paper Mâché Bowser. Do you think he can actually walk around in that? Do those arms move? Does it breathe fire?

Ubisoft Kills Online Pass Program

Ubisoft is dropping its Uplay Passport online pass program for all future games. And it will effectively remove it from the just-released Assassin’s Creed IV by providing the passes for free to all ACIV gamers, whether they get the game new or used. The online pass program had required users of ACIV to input a…

This Week In Video Game Hyper-Violence

Ever notice how violent video games are? Wonderful! Terrible! Your call, but hey, it’s a thing. So here at Kotaku, I figure, why not show just how extreme games get? Better than pretending it doesn’t exist or keeping it all hidden like we’re embarrassed, I say. Often violence in games is pretty fun. Not that…