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Woman Caught Stealing Video Games After Selling Them Back to Store She Stole Them From
Stealing is wrong. That’s pretty much universally understood. But going back to the store you just stole from, to sell them the goods you took? Well, that takes a certain kind of chutzpah. And it also gets you caught. Police in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, report that a woman went into a video game store (called, appropriately,…
By Kate Cox Published April 26, 2012 -
New Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Screens Show Off Father-on-Son Violence
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will be making a September debut, marking the current-gen debut of co-op martial arts brawls for Namco’s fighting game series. This new batch of screens highlights various tag moves, the new Fight Lab mode and new looks for several characters. Young Heihachi still looks little creepy to me, honestly. Tekken Tag…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! Characters from a plethora of fighting games have…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012 -
18 Things About Dishonored That You Should Know
Earlier this week, I received a wood-framed clock in the mail. It was a promotional tchotchke from the people making Dishonored, the kind of thing a big video game company sends a gaming reporter to make sure they remember their game exists—and perhaps to cultivate some favorable emotions about the game. It is, of course,…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 26, 2012 -
Talking Games Media at the East Coast Games Conference
Video game professionals and professional hopefuls attending the East Coast Games Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina this morning have a unique opportunity to watch me and several other members of the games media talk about balancing our love of games with our love of talking about journalism. The East Coast Games Conference is an annual…
By Mike Fahey Published April 26, 2012 -
Watch Adam Sessler’s Best Video Game Rants Right Here
It’s not an exaggeration to say that an era ended yesterday. G4 aired its last episode of X-Play with popular commentator Adam Sessler as co-host on Wednesday, just hours after Kotaku reported that Adam Sessler would no longer be working at the network While Sessler was best known for review and interview segments on X-Play,…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012 -
Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Squeezed Into a Hallway? Not Bad!
This June legions of Battlefield fans, quite frankly, won’t be surprised in the least with the release of Battlefield 3: Close Quarters. The DLC title says it all. And the trailer released several weeks ago reveals everything you need to know. But a lack of surprise doesn’t mean you won’t love it. (And, hey, we’ve…
Douglass C. Perry Published April 26, 2012 -
First Black Ops 2 “Screenshots” Leaked Via Special Effects Company
Some images, reportedly originating from the website of Hollywood special effects company Reel EFX (but since pulled), look like they could be our first look at the next Call of Duty game. Or at least some parts of it. For a while now, Activision has been teasing the game with shots of a gun-toting “quadcopter”,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
Nintendo Just Posted Its First Annual Loss
Today, Nintendo announced its first annual operating loss in its history as a public company. Sluggish Wii sales and a strong Japanese yen hurt Nintendo—not to mention a rocky rollout for the Nintendo 3DS. The game maker chalked up a US$455.9 million operating loss for the 2011 financial year. “What went wrong was that sales…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 26, 2012 -
A Tetris Swimsuit is Sexier Than it Sounds
Obviously with a ton of Tetris-inspired prints lying around the warehouse, fashion label Black Milk have added a Tetris swimsuit to its existing line of Tetris leggings While the leggings were faintly ridiculous, the swimsuit is a much more sensible affair. Relatively. Though at AUD$90 (which these days is basically USD$90), you better really like…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
Lost Planet 3 Screens Star Frightened Space Jesus
Capcom has updated Lost Planet 3’s website to include a range of new screenshots for the upcoming sequel that, let’s be honest, nobody really asked for. Scattered amongst them are shots we saw when the game was first unveiled, but most are new, showing a mix of killer snow aliens and a man whose beard…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
How Beautiful Video Game Shirts Are Made
Japan’s King of Games are one of the finest video game clothing merchants on the planet. Anyone who’s owned one of their shirts, or even been around one, know they ooze quality, from the fancy boxes they ship in to the durability of the prints. I’ve had a Zelda shirt of theirs around six years…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
Looks Like Left 4 Dead 2 is Running Officially on Linux
When tech guru and Linux fan Michael Larabel visited Valve yesterday, he promised more info and pics than simply saying Steam was coming to Linux. Looks like he’s come through. Larabel has posted images of Left 4 Dead 2 running natively on Linux, and says a release of Steam itself – likely in the form…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
Dragon Quest X Gets a Release Date for Japan!
Square Enix‘s highly anticipated 10th Dragon Quest game has just gotten a release date! The new online RPG, Dragon Quest X will be hitting the shelves (in Japan) on August 2nd of this year. Much like the 11th and 14th incarnations of the Final Fantasy series, Dragon Quest X will be online only with a…
By Toshi Nakamura Published April 26, 2012 -
This Map Shows All the Places Nathan Drake Has Been
All the places he’s been since we’ve been in control of his good self, at any rate. Posted by Sony yesterday, the map contains some standard infographic stuff, but also a handy guide to just where Drake’s travels have taken him across four games. It’s…not that far, really! You should come to Australia next time,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
What a Skyrim Helmet Looks Like in the Real World
Harrison Krix, aka Volpin Props, is someone whose work you should be very familiar with if you’re a regular Kotaku reader. His latest piece is this incredible helmet from Skyrim, which through good design and fine craftsmanship reaches into the game, grabs a Draugr helmet off someone’s head and rips it right back into the…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
MMO Company Hacked in 2010, Just Found out About it Now
Cryptic, the guys behind Star Trek Online and Champions Online, have found out this week that they’ve been hacked. User details have been stolen, and some “portion of the passwords” present in a database were even cracked. Which is bad. What’s worse is that the hack took place in December 2010 With Cryptic only finding…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
Bang Bang, Kiss Kiss
Oh why hello there, Kotaku. You’ve survived Hump Day I see. That wasn’t supposed to happen… we don’t have a contingency plan for this. No one was supposed to survive hump day. Hmm, well. Guess we’ll have to improvise… Let’s start with an open thread. Go ahead and dive on in, talk about whatever you…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 25, 2012