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Pictures of the Xbox Factory Jumpers
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2012 -
This Guy Wants $5 Million For the “Next Great Game”. From You. Um, Right.
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2012 -
North Korea’s Dictator Is So Dragonball
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2012 -
Sorry America, No BlazBlue Underboob for You
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2012 -
Would You Pay $275 for This Little Isaac Clarke?
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,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2012 -
I Used To Like Skyrim Memes Just Like You Until…
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2012 -
Kid Icarus: Uprising Will Be Bundled with a Stupid Stand!
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2012 -
Go-Bots? Knight Rider? What. Is. This.
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2012 -
Please, Play This 80’s Tribute Game, Right Now (It’s Free!)
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]
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2012 -
Microsoft Shelves Fancy TV Service for the Xbox 360
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2012 -
League of Legends Wants to Destroy SOPA
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2012 -
STALKER 2 is Alive, May Actually be Released
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2012 -
The PlayStation Vita is Locked to AT&T
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2012 -
“Skyrim Mom” is the Only Twitter Account You Need to Read Today
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]
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2012 -
BioWare Gives Mass Effect Statue a Breast Reduction
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2012 -
Warp Turns a House Party Into a Cute Adventure Puzzler
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…
James Pikover Published January 11, 2012 -
Microsoft’s Explanation For What Caused Xbox 360 Factory Suicide Threats
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…
Luke Plunkett & Brian Ashcraft Published January 11, 2012 -
Woah, I Didn’t Know Kindergarten Cop Took Place in Silent Hill
I always thought of Schwarzenegger’s 1990 film Kindergarten Cop as a feel-good family movie. Little did I know that the film was also a horror prequel, set in the same terrifying school as a section of the seminal 1999 horror video game Silent Hill It’s easy to look at the first of these images (in…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 11, 2012