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Nazi Germany Toys Look Less Dangerous (But More Creepy) Than the Real Thing
We cover a lot of pop culture stuff in our toy coverage here on Kotaku, so today, let’s look at something a little different. Action figures based on historical figures. Repulsive, dangerous, bloodthirsty historical figures. Let’s begin with a toy company called 3Reich. A company whose sole products are large action figures based on the…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 11, 2012 -
Smash Bros. Creator’s Studio Closes Down, Smash Bros. Sequel Apparently Unaffected
Project Sora, the studio headed up by Smash Bros. Masahiro Sakurai, has been dissolved. Project Sora, a spin-off studio of Sora Ltd. (both run by Sakurai), last worked on Kid Icarus: Uprising. Sora Ltd. was established in 2005 as freelance gaming agency for Sakurai to work on games, and Project Sora was established in 2009…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 10, 2012 -
This Guy Could Film An Entire Game Of Thrones Episode By Himself
YouTube user Weave613 has an interesting skill of Game of Thrones impersonations. He couldn’t really handle an entire episode, what with the lack of the many female characters, but I’d say he could do some funny low budget sketches at the least. Particularly because he excluded Joffrey, since we all know Joffrey is the absolute…
By Tina Amini Published July 10, 2012 -
Hey, the God of War Movie Might Actually Get Made
Kotaku covered the announcement of a God of War movie. We covered it in 2005. Seven years later and there’s still no God of War movie. Today, though, progress! Having languished in development hell for years, Universal Studios today revealed that Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan (Del Toro’s Pacific Rim) will be rewriting the movie’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 10, 2012 -
Fine, I’ll Buy Your Damn Transformers Prime Game
But only because Arcee looks halfway decent in the screens for the game, coming to 3DS, DS and Wii this October. I know I gave you guys shit earlier, but you have found my weakness. I’m in the middle of reading through IDW’s excellent run of Transformers comic books, which might account for my soft…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2012 -
The 5 Best ‘Game Fails’ of June, Possibly Out of Order
Here are Game Fails’ top five video game fails of June 2012. Why does it take them this long to pick them? I don’t know. I do know that first two here are so-so. Then they get to the Skyrim one. The rest are excellent, but I think that Skyrim one should have gotten the…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 10, 2012 -
I Need a Shiny New Phone So I Can Make It Look Like a 25-Year-Old Controller
The wonderfully named Killer Duck Decals sells, well, decals. Stickers for your phone or smallish electronics. But not just any stickers. These NES controller iPhone decals kind of make me wish I had an iPhone, not going to lie. (The store does stock some Android decals! But not, sadly, for my phone.) On the other…
By Kate Cox Published July 10, 2012 -
Take a Look at Mass Effect 3’s Next DLC
To go with the mere announcement of new Mass Effect DLC from earlier today, a leak has turned up what looks like details – and images – of the new weapons and classes available. The “Earth” DLC seems to contain five new N7 classes, three new weapons and a new game mode, Platinum. (Adept) N7…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 10, 2012 -
How The World Got Centipede: “It Didn’t Seem That Bad To Shoot A Bug.”
Centipede was an arcade classic, famous still to this day. It debuted in 1981, with a home version for the Atari 2600 showing up in 1982. In honor of Atari’s recent 40th anniversary, the Associated Press caught up with programming pioneer Dona Bailey, the mind behind Centipede and one of only the barest tiny handful…
By Kate Cox Published July 10, 2012 -
That Neat-Looking Strategy-RPG Hits PS3 Today
I’m excited to check out Rainbow Moon, a strategy-RPG that comes out today for PlayStation 3. Launch trailer is above. Early reviews are looking decent so far Also out today on PS3: the delightful Quantum Conundrum PlayStation Store Update [PlayStation Blog]
By Jason Schreier Published July 10, 2012 -
Halo 4 Will Work, Somehow, With Microsoft’s Fancy New Tablet
Microsoft’s Don Mattrick has quietly announced today that Halo 4 will, in some way, work with the company’s upcoming Surface tablets How, exactly? No idea, he wouldn’t elaborate. But it’s the first time Microsoft has really bothered to talk games in any way when it comes to Surface, so at least that’s interesting. In the…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 10, 2012 -
The Secret To A Successful Game Trailer: Endings With Roars
It’s an ancient Mazatec secret passed down verbally from video editor to video editor: If you want your game to be a smash hit, end your trailer with something roaring. It can be an alien, a dragon, a balrog, a T-Rex, whatever; as long as it’s roaring, you’ll move a minimum of 20 million units,…
By Chris Person Published July 10, 2012 -
You Can Now Sell Gems, Dyes, And Crafting Materials For Real Money In Diablo III
Commodities are now available in the Diablo III real-money auction house. In an e-mail to Kotaku (and on their official blog), Blizzard said as part of a patch released today, Diablo III‘s auction house will now let you buy and sell gems, dyes, crafting materials, blacksmithing plans and jeweler designs, and training pages. The patch…
By Jason Schreier Published July 10, 2012 -
Angry Birds Trilogy Coming Soon to Xbox 360, PS3, and 3DS
Sure, you can play Angry Birds on your Android phone, your iPhone, your iPod and iPad, on Facebook, on PC, and in your browser, but what if that’s just not enough? What if, instead of flinging irritated avians across the screen on the go, you want to do it from the comfort of your own…
By Kate Cox Published July 10, 2012 -
What Ever Happened to Starhawk?
In today’s lost in space edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Golwar is concerned about the fate of Starhawk, the PlayStation 3 exclusive online shooter that showed so much promise up until it became a real product. I’m wondering, what happened with Starhawk? During the beta this game had been a hot topic around…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2012 -
$99 Ouya Console Just Hit Its $950,000 Kickstarter Goal After Only Eight Hours
It looks like people really do want a $99 Android-based hackable console. A Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for the console that went live at 9am ET today has already hits its $950,000 goal. The Ouya console and controller are slated for a March 2013 release and, should they really be made and released, would comprise the…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 10, 2012 -
This Year’s San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives Are Gonna Break Me
Now that my wallet has finally recovered from Comic-Con 2009, it’s time to venture forth once more into the land of must-buy exclusive toys and shame. Rather than surprise my bank account this year, I’ve compiled a shopping list containing the logical, illogical and not-embarrassing-at-all items I’ll be bringing home this weekend. And then I…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2012 -
Portal 2‘s Silent Hero Can Talk… She Just Doesn’t Want To
Chell, hero of the puzzle-packed Portal series, doesn’t have a whole lot to say. Like many classic video game protagonists, she’s intentionally silent: a personality-free avatar designed for you to inhabit and control however you’d like. But she can talk, says Portal 2 writer Erik Wolpaw in an excellent interview published today by the Gameological…
By Jason Schreier Published July 10, 2012 -
The Graphic Novels and Other Stuff I Will Happily Spend Hundreds of Dollars On This Week at Comic-Con 2012
I’ve been writing about comics, games and other assorted nerditry for years. But, this week, I’ll be attending my first-ever San Diego Comic-Con. Not only that, this Thursday is my birthday. That means I’m liable to get myself a present or two. Or five. Many of the publishers, toy companies and other geek purveyors who’ll…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 10, 2012
