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Dubai Turns into Hell on Earth in This Spec Ops: The Line Trailer
Mass lynchings. Vultures feasting on unburied soldiers. Lots and lots of sand where it should not be. Things look way past effed up in the new story trailer for 2K Games’ military drama. Watch and you’ll see Captain Martin Walker lead his squad through a modern-day paradise destroyed by natural catastrophe and a moral breakdown.…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 5, 2012 -
Gabe Newell Just Made My Little Pony Fans Extremely Happy
Let’s get this out of the way first thing in the morning, before the rest of the herd tramples down Kotaku‘s tips email. During an interview with Geek a Week‘s Len Peralta, Valve head honcho and 854th richest man on the planet Gabe Newell admits that he is, as suspected, a fan of My Little…
By Mike Fahey Published April 5, 2012 -
République‘s Ambitions Are Way Greater Than Just Metal Gear Stealth
An American developer with serious Metal Gear cred. The production studio that made that MGS4‘s wild intro movies. Looking at the upcoming stealth game they’re collaborating on you could get the idea that this is just another Metal Gear Solid type game. You’d be wrong. The game follows a young girl named Hope who is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 5, 2012 -
Stupid Pigeons are No Match for a Man in a Paper Hat
If you’ve played SNK fighting game Fatal Fury, you know Terry Bogard’s Power Wave. Over the years, it has evolved—into chopsticks, apparently. Watch as Japanese comedy site Megwin has Terry Bogard takes on some pigeons with the Power Wave. 木製パワーウェイブで鳩を追い払えるか？ [Kotaku Japan]
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 5, 2012 -
Missed the New Lupin Anime Debut? Here’s a NSFW Recap.
A brand new Lupin anime is airing in Japan. Dubbed Lupin the Third: A Woman Called Fujiko Mine, It’s centered on Lupin heroine Fujiko. The show is the first televised Lupin anime series in 27 years—and the first to feature a female director. If the teaser poster, which featured a topless Fujiko, didn’t clue you…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 5, 2012 -
This Concept Art Will Kill You Dead
Goichi Suda’s next game is called Killer Is Dead. The game isn’t a sequel to his cult hit Killer7, but it does feature No More Heroes style swordplay. The concept art does make the title look quite different from his other work. It’s like salarymen plus the future plus stabby-stabby. For more about Killer Is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 5, 2012 -
If Video Game Box Art Hadn’t Changed in Thirty Years…
There was a certain charm to video game box art from the 1970s and 1980s. The graphics were so terrible that often quite abstract, quite amazing art had to be used to sell a game in its stead. These days everything is “better”. Read: more airbrushed, photoshopped, boardroom-approved. Wouldn’t it be great if instead of…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2012 -
There Won’t Be Another Skywalker if You Use Star Wars Condoms
While it can’t be that long until we see something more official along these lines, for now, artist Benedetto Papi’s ideas for Star Wars condoms are as close to Galactic contraception as we’re going to get. Not sold on the quotes, though. May I suggest (and these will be abbreviated to fit on the packaging):…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2012 -
The Nightmare Fuel of Skating Game Bugs & Glitches
Sure, laugh at some of these if you want. Others will haunt your dreams tonight, so terrifying are their deformations of the human form. It’s been a while since we shared some physics mishaps from EA’s Skate series, something that needs to be amended this evening. Here, then, are enough glitches, bugs, errors and just…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2012 -
If Nintendo Had Made Angry Birds. In the 1980s.
Swedish artist Giorgio Cantù has imagined what it would like if Nintendo had come up with the idea for Angry Birds and, instead of releasing it on a phone in the 21st century, had released it on a Game & Watch device in the 1980s. It looks way easier, even with the series’ revolutionary new…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2012 -
I Can’t Believe This is an Indie Adventure Game
I lost my shit a little while ago when I first saw Stasis, an upcoming indie sci-fi horror game on the PC. I’m losing a little more today, because there’s a new trailer for it. While it looks like an isometric Dead Space, it’s actually an adventure game. A proper, old-fashioned, point-and-click adventure game. That…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2012 -
Imagine Your Balls Are a Control Pad And You Can Beat Cancer
This poster is part of a new series of ads put together by the Liga Contra el Cancer in Peru, urging men to play with their balls more often in an effort to help stop testicular cancer. Not that many men will need the encouragement, but the “give your fingers a better use” motif is…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2012 -
Commander Shepard Hasn’t Recorded Any New Mass Effect 3 Dialogue. Yet.
So Bioware is giving us a “modified” ending to Mass Effect 3. While details are scant, the safe money is on not a changed ending, but an epilogue of sorts. Something more If you were hoping that would mean something more from a certain Commander Shepard, well, it doesn’t sound like it will. Speaking with…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2012 -
You Can Call Me Fletch
Aloha Kotaku and welcome to the mid-week open thread. It’s all downhill from here! Gathered from around the web are a bunch of things that you may or may not want to read and/or talk about. Up to you! This Samantha Brick thing has gotten firey – I liked this take on it. Whatever happened…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 4, 2012 -
Microsoft Registers Several “Halo Infinity” Domains, but haloinfinity.com Remains in the Hands of a Japanese Baldness Clinic
The domain registry watchdog Fusible reports that Microsoft’s brand protection partner snapped up the full monty of HaloInfinity-dot-whatever domain names—except for a big one—which likely tips off some kind of activity or release involving that title. Joystiq hilariously notes that haloinfinity.com, not among them, is from the looks of it a placeholder site that for…
By Owen Good Published April 4, 2012 -
Marvel Pinball Tries to Control the Raging Spirit That Dwells in World War Hulk
Revealed about three weeks ago, Avengers Chronicles is the next series of tables that Zen Studios is making for its Marvel Pinball and Pinball FX 2 downloadable games on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, respectively. Here’s the first trailer for one of those tables, World War Hulk It looks absolutely huge, which is intentional, I’m…
By Owen Good Published April 4, 2012 -
Now These Here Are Some Rockin’ Mass Effect Leggings
Chicagoan Alexandra Threw has posted the above Mass Effect-inspired N7 Leggings to Etsy, where you can buy a pair for $75. As video-game themed leggings go, these are pretty damned cool. I wonder if Threw could get an endorsement from the Commander. “I’m Commander Shepard, and these are my favorite leggings on Etsy. Wait, what’s…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 4, 2012 -
Homophobes Slam EA With Thousands of Letters Over Same-Sex Romance
The past year has seen a great deal of discussion about the existence of same-sex romance options in EA and BioWare’s Mass Effect franchise and their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic One recent, particularly irrational anti-gay “family values” campaign has kicked off a wave of thousands of letters to EA disapproving of the addition…
By Kate Cox Published April 4, 2012 -
Stealthy Divorcés and Killer Astronaut Bears: Some Peter Molydeux Game Highlights
Since writing it up on Monday, many more games have been added to the full list of playable prototypes from the goofy, high-energy Peter Molydeux game jam. I haven’t had time to play even a fraction of the nearly 300 game prototypes available for download, but I have had a chance to play some of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 4, 2012 -
Machinarium Follow-Up Botanicula Gets Release Date, Looks Adorable
Man, I want to play Botanicula. Amanita Design won me over forever with their splendid adventure game Machinarium, and I’ve been looking forward to its follow-up Botanicula ever since I first heard about it. Today, Amanita announced that Botanicula will be released for Windows, Mac and Linux on April 19th. No word on an iOS…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 4, 2012