The Red Ring of Death claimed many original Xbox 360s. Some of them were fixed. Some of them were recycled. And this one ended up a saltwater aquarium with live corals, fish, crabs, snails, and shrimp. Spencer of Blue World Aquariums purchased and gutted a broken Xbox 360 for the purpose of turning it into…
Sony recently released a handful of jaw-dropping commercials that looked straight out of sci-fi. In the commercials, Sony created a real holodeck—like out of Star Trek. Today, Sony revealed how it did this. As previously posted, there was no post-production work done on the footage. All the effects were done in the room, using 3D…
As revealed over the weekend, Konami roped in Bayonetta developers Platinum Games to make Metal Gear Rising, because it couldn’t. Originally, Kojima considered bringing in a Western developer after first planning on cancelling the game in late 2010. But, since this is a ninja game, he ultimately decided a Japanese developer would be the best…
Mika is studying English, and in her pursuit of the English language, she’s been appearing in videos, explaining movies. Here, she explains The Empire Strikes Back. And she does a wonderful job. Previously, Mika explained Star Wars. Also, delightful. Mika-san Explains The Empire Strikes Back [Kirai]
Futurama meets classic RPG Chrono Trigger in this great piece by artist Tom Preston. Chrono-rama [DeviantArt, via GameOvr]
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the feature film version of action game Just Cause, Just Cause: Scorpin Rising is being re-written by scribe Bryan Edward Hill. [Latino Review]
In 2006, what were you doing? I was working at Kotaku. Derek was thinking about how he could get the greatest Link statue to ever grace this spinning blue ball we call Earth. If you ask me, he did just that. Derek commissioned artisan Emily Fiegenschuh to sculpt Link, a process that took from 2006…
The best thing about the first two Tony Hawk games, better than the games themselves, were their soundtracks. They were amazing. If you were hoping some of those standout tracks would be in the upcoming HD re-release, though, don’t get your hopes up. Activision community man Dan Amrich has posted a lengthy primer on the…
Back in March, PR firm TrashTalkFCM thought it’d be a good idea to promote upcoming shooter Homefront by releasing a ton of balloons. It wasn’t. Not only did the game stink, but when most of the balloons ended up in San Francisco Bay, it attracted the attention of Bay Area water control officials, who have…
Comic writer and artist Ed Piskor doesn’t just nail the Nintendo Entertainment System, he nails the entire 1980s in this comic for Boing-Boing Brain Rot: Nostalgic Memories of the NES [Boing Boing]
Welcome to Soundtrack, where we take a break from news and not-news to relax with some tunes and…you know what, fuck it. We’re not relaxing tonight. Not one bit We’re gonna listen to some High on Fire instead. I am not a religious man. Were I a religious man, though, I would worship the Dark…
Left 4 Dead isn’t exactly the most romantic game. It’s not romantic at all. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a wonderful place to ask for a lady’s hand in marriage. That’s exactly what one gamer did. In the above video, things start out normal enough, then the level is ripped apart, and then things…
Celebrating the year that was a little early (a lot can happen in two weeks!), Britain’s The Guardian newspaper has compiled a gallery of images showing the biggest news from 2011. Recreated as LEGO dioramas. It’s a cute, if slightly desensitising way to depict the assassination of Bin Laden, the toppling of Gaddafi and global…
Nintendo released a golden Wii Remote for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Yet, Skyward Sword isn’t only played with a Wii Remote. It’s played with a Nunchuk. And now, Japanese Club Nintendo members can finally own one to go with their matching Wii Remote and gold Wii classic controller Earlier this year, Nintendo nixed…
Publisher Square Enix has announced that, following the discovery that somebody “may have gained unauthorized access to a particular Square Enix server”, the company’s members service has been brought offline in both Japan and the United States. Thankfully, for those with Square Enix members accounts, Square said, “There is no possibility of any credit card…
A family from Belleville, Michigan came home the other night to find their living room full of smoke. The culprit? One of their Wii Remotes had quite literally exploded It’s lucky nobody had been home when it blew, because when it did pieces of the Remote flew across the room and tore holes in stuff…
Only five! There are probably many, many more, but let’s start with with five. Web research site My Navi News polled nearly seven hundred of its online readers, asking them to list the things they did not want to find in a guy’s room. Some of the results might surprise you. Some might not. Number…
Nintendo’s Amabassador Program is its way of rewarding Nintendo 3DS owners who purchased the device before its pricecut. There have already been a whole host of Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System) games released free of charge. Up next, Game Boy Advance games. But which ones? According to these photos, the following games will available for download…
The Tetris community at Hard Drop is, as you’d expect from people joining up to a community based around the game, pretty damn good at Tetris How good? Intimidatingly good. This here is a world record run in the “40 line” category from user LapSiLap, who cleared the required lines in just 21.90 seconds For…
There’s an exploit in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that allows players to put a bucket on characters’ heads and take their stuff. This video not only asks what that would be like in real life, but also, what would it be like doing that to a man in a flannel shirt? Something like this,…
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