If you are talking Korean cosplay (and that’s exactly what we are doing), you can’t finish a sentence without mentioning cosplay collective Spiral Cats. The team dazzles with its outfits, its photos, and its live cosplay performances. Spearheaded by cosplayer Tasha, who Kotaku previously featured, and featuring the likes of Tomia, Ren and Miyuko, the…
Looks like things are going from bad to really bad to awful for publisher THQ, with an industry man reporting – not speculating, but straight-out reporting – that the company is about to sack over 170 employees. [Update 5:30 p.m.] A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late today said that as many as…
In years past, whenever Pokémon knock-offs appeared in other countries, Japanese netizens would post them online to laugh and point. This time, it’s not a foreign rip-off. It’s homegrown. Dubbed Pokedan Monsters (yes, really), the social game features over 1,000 monsters, monster rearing, and monster battles. Sound familiar? If the title was not enough, the…
Not yet four years has passed, but check out how the latest SoulCalibur compares to SoulCalibur IV. Can you spot the difference? Hint: it’s not just the graphics. Namco launched SoulCalibur V with an aggressively sexual advertising campaign that featured T&A If you haven’t already, be sure to read the Kotaku review. The game is…
There are 64 volumes of popular Japanese manga One Piece. Each copy is about half an inch thick and weighs 5.30 ounces. All 64 volumes stacked are over three feet high and weigh nearly 22 pounds. You’d be insane to try to steal all 64 volumes at once. But that’s exactly what one man did.…
As has been expected for a while now, Sir Howard Stringer’s replacement as President and CEO of Sony Corporation when he steps down in June will be Kaz Hirai, a long-time champion of the company’s PlayStation brand. Sony officially announced the move tonight, with Hirai’s promotion to come in April (Stringer will remain as executive…
Olly Moss does it again with these great posters for a very different, though still very Japanese take on the Mushroom Kingdom. If you’re wondering what the text says, it’s “Super Mario”. スーパーマリオ [Olly Moss]
Remember Pokémon: Type Wild, the fan-made fighting game that took Pocket Monsters and made a 2D fighter for them? Here’s some more gameplay footage. This looks…well, it looks amazing. I would not expect an actual Nintendo product to look this slick. The game isn’t quite finished, but it is playable, so if you want to…
Which is good news, because $15 for three slices would be a rip-off if they were new GameStop selling used… WHAT? [Reddit]
a) Enhanced with bonus features b) Remastered from the ground up to take advantage of the platform’s strengths c) Delayed until July 24 —- ANSWER: C
You may not know this, but Conan O’Brien’s sidekick Andy Richter played several characters in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Here they are in action.
Red 5’s Firefall is an upcoming shooter whose development is being led by Mark Kern, former Team Lead on World of Warcraft. All we’ve seen lately about the game is some cosplay, so let’s get back to basic with gameplay footage. Two hours of it. [thanks Tony!]
Or is it a protest for Half-Life 3? Whatever. The point being, This weekend over 30,000 members of a Steam group will sit down and play Half-Life 2. Calling themselves “A Call for Communication”, the group says “we have decided to gain Valve’s attention by delivering a basic message: Your oldest and longest running fanbase…
Boring. Bland. Linear. Those are three of the kinder things that can be said of Final Fantasy XIII, a game so poor it needed a direct sequel just to salvage some brand integrity. They’re also disarmingly simple, and don’t really get to the heart of just why the game was so disappointing to so many.…
Greetings, Kotaku friends. Welcome, one and all, to our evening open thread. It’s Tuesday, the last day of January. We’re already “into” 2012. How did that happen? I guess time went forward, and took us with it. Before you chat, here are some fun things from around the internet that you may enjoy: I trust…
Not the toys. And not the Michael Bay horror films. I mean the 1986 animated feature. At the time, Transformers: The Movie was notable for two things. One was the fact it killed everybody, traumatising an entire generation of young, impressionable movie-goers. The second, and more lasting, was the movie’s casting. It was a mess.…
Master LEGO builder Luke Hutchinson has constructed this wonderful homage toSkyrim out of little plastic bricks, turning what in the game would be a leisurely side-quest slaughtering a few dozen Stormcloaks into a real-world work of art. Be sure to check out the finer details…there’s even loot! Regaining the Pale: Skyrim in Lego [Brothers Brick]
A pretty shitty week for THQ has gotten worse, with the beleaguered publisher threatened with expulsion from the Nasdaq stock exchange because its shares are worth so little. [MCV]
Black Mesa is an independent remake of the original Half-Life that’s been in development since the end of the First World War. It hasn’t been seen for years. Most people now assume the remake, like Half-Life 3 itself, is an apparition. A mirage. But…maybe not. After such a long blackout, the webmaster of the project’s…
I really like the Ace Attorney games – I like the characters, the situations, and I like the games’ uncommon good humor. I like solving crimes, I like the silly judge, and I like seeking justice. I like how Maya likes hamburgers. I’ve played every game in the series except Apollo Justice (bleh), so as…
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