Wowsers. This is some good stuff. Good props. Good costumes. And good people. Taken at the Comic Fiesta, Malaysia’s largest anime event, the photos feature a solid range of character costumes. Just as impressive as the costumes and props are the fantastic photos taken by Shane at Unlimited Otaku Works. His whole website is a…
Whoever ripped this poor man’s arms off, please return them asap. Wait What [Namilos via fuck yeah dementia!!1! Thanks, Richard!]
This week, a report surfaced that a group of 300 Xbox 360 factory workers threatened to commit suicide en masse over a labor dispute. The group took the rooftops, but was finally talked down. Here are the photos. The workers were employees of Foxconn, a company that manufacturers electronics for Sony, Nintendo, Apple, and many…
Sites like Kickstarter can be a great way for up-and-coming developers to get the cash needed to make something playable. They can also be a great place for laughs. Entrepreneur glazedmcguffin has started up an Indie GoGo site (basically Kickstarter in all but name) with the goal of creating “the next great game, a Modern…
Kim Jong-il passed away last month, leaving his manga-reading gamer son Kim Jong-un as successor. Not much is known about Kim Jong-un, which means the developers of Homefront had to insert his likeness later. One thing that North Korea’s neighbor China knows is that Dear Successor totally looks like a Dragonball bad guy. The above…
Fighting game BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend, the second revision of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, is already out in Japan. It’s coming to North America this Feb. But Continuum Shift Extend isn’t bringing the game’s Japanese box art with it. BlazBlue character Mu-12 covers up for the game’s U.S. release, resulting in something slightly more…Victorian. The game…
Sideshow is bringing out a limited edition statue of Dead Space hero Isaac Clarke, dressed in his workman’s duds from the first game, not his space policeman outfit from the sequel. There will be two versions available, one with interchangeable hands, the other without. Oh, and his rig lights up. Both will cost the same,…
The The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim arrow in the knee meme is so 2011. It’s now 2012. The future. Time for new a meme. Or at least, time to rehash last year’s. This above quip was apparently spotted in Star Wars: The Old Republic by reader Katniss Everdeen @ Rubat Crystal server. No, that’s not…
Who’s excited about Kid Icarus? I sure am. But this ridiculous stand that’s packaged with it? Nothankyou. According to Kid Icarus: Uprising designer Masahiro Sakurai, the game will come with this “Nintendo 3DS Stand”. The point, Sakurai tweeted, is to keep the 3DS steady during touch-pen play. But isn’t that what hands are for? Of…
The nature of Chinese manufacturing can sometimes be an awful thing, but at times, it can be wonderful as well. Like this…thing, which looks like it used to be a Go-Bot, before it emerged from a cocoon into something amazing The original toy it’s based off looks like Zeemon, a badass Go-Bot. Yet he is…
Abobo’s Big Adventure takes the Double Dragon villain and sends him on an epic, if a little tough, quest through a whole bunch of other video game characters’ worlds. It’s funny, it’s free, and it plays in a browser, so you can play it right now. Abobo’s Big Adventure [Play]
There was a lot of buzz last year that Microsoft would be introducing a new TV subscription service for the Xbox 360, one that would bring all kinds of live TV shows to the platform and let them work with motion and voice control. Nothing ultimately became of it because, well, nothing ultimately became of…
The latest video game company to join the ranks of those opposed to the Stop Online Piracy Act is Riot Games, developers of the insanely-popular League of Legends In addition to citing the usual reasons for taking a stand against it (death of streaming, heavy-handed threats, etc), Riot spell out just what it means specifically…
It looked for a while there like it was end of the line for the STALKER franchise, as developers GSC Game World were on the brink of going out of business That was 2011, though! In 2012, the studio’s Facebook page has just let the world know that “we are continuing work on Stalker 2…
When Sony announced that they were teaming up with AT&T for the PlayStation Vita’s 3G service, it was the only time I can remember at a major press conference when there were actual, audible boos. And this shit is exactly why. Turns out that the Vita is locked to AT&T sim cards, with The Verge…
Bethesda community manager Nick Breckon has asked his 65 year-old mother to sit down and play Skyrim And while she does so, he’s tweeting what she’s saying. Maybe not every word, but at least the good parts. Sounds inane, but really, it’s wonderful Skyrim Mom [Twitter]
On January 24, Killzone – the original PS2 entry in the series – will be released on the PlayStation Network. It’ll cost $10. [Game Informer]
There’s a headline I never thought I’d be writing. In a rare/strange/welcome move, Mass Effect creators BioWare have responded to fan feedback from the initial design for a statue based on the series’ Liara and given the piece a breast reduction. As you can see in the initial shots of the statue here, she was…
Puzzle games over the past few years have focused around physics, and around playing with those physics to accomplish goals. Warp features a cute little alien who dies from one bullet and teleports a couple feet at a time. Yes, this is a video game, not an upcoming kids cartoon. Warp is a simple puzzle…
Earlier this week, Kotaku told you about how a large number of employees at a Foxconn factory in China had threatened mass suicide having been “denied compensation they were promised”. Microsoft assured us at the time that it would look into the matter, and has informed Kotaku that it has now completed “an independent investigation…
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