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This Guy’s Art Is Bananas. Literally.
By day, Keisuke Yamada is an electrician. By night, he’s a master banana artist, peeling, sculpting, and, yes, eating. While Yamada’s art might not be the most beautiful you’ll see, it is the most delicious. Earlier this year, Yamada’s banana art, which he uploaded to Japanese art site Pixiv, became an internet sensation. It was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 25, 2011 -
Let the PlayStation Vita Put a Face on Any Damn Thing
The PlayStation Vita has a range of onboard apps. Some of them teach you how to use the Vita. Others are simply good. The Hello Face falls in the cool camp. It does creep me out somewhat, though, but it’s still cool. In Hello Face, you try to find things in the word around you,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 25, 2011 -
Minecraft’s Creator is a God
This piece of fan art showed up on the Facebook page of Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson overnight. It is blocky. And strangely erotic. I know the painting it’s based on, Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, is not erotic in the slightest. It’s about God giving life to man. Which is what this picture is…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2011 -
Time to Get Up Close and Personal with Sony’s PlayStation Display
This November, Sony is releasing a PlayStation-branded 3D display. The Tokyo-based electronics giant recently showed off the display, along with new 3D glasses. Websites Game Impress Watch and 4Gamer were on hand to check out the hardware and take photos of the display, the glasses, and knees. The 3D Display is priced at ¥44,980, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 25, 2011 -
This Guy Cheated to get an Achievement (But He Did It in Style)
There’s an achievement you can get in Gears of War 3 that can be earned by playing a piano 2000 times. That’s a lot of button pressing, so LEGO builder Guy Himber set to work on a less strenuous solution. He built this LEGO rig that would both hold his 360 controller and press the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2011 -
PC Gamers, You Should Update Your Graphics Card Drivers This Week
It’s been a big month for PC games, and things are about to get even bigger, so if you’ve been lazy and forgotten to update your graphics card drivers, you’re going to want to fix that. Between big games having issues (RAGE) and even bigger games just being…big (Battlefield 3), both AMD and Nvidia have…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2011 -
Much Ado About Lamprey Pie (And Russian Unicorns)
Hello and welcome to another week at Kotaku! We’re off to a rip-roaring start, with a bunch of big pending game releases and other holiday-related news. I bet that a bunch of you already finished Arkham City (though if you actually survive the New Game+, my hat is off to you), and maybe you’re sitting…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2011 -
The Week in Dangerous Games: Layton’s Wino Tendencies, Romantic Rectal Exams, and The Humpty Dance
After a week of downtime, I’m picking up our friend Mike McWhertor’s stewardship of our weekly look at the new ways that games are offending the world’s sensibilities. Or at least, offending the sensibilities of the fine folks at the Electronic Software Rating Board, aka the ESRB This week was a bit thin, given that…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2011 -
Still No Word From Netflix on Video Game Rentals
No word yet in Netflix’s ongoing quest to change things up and, possibly, add video game rentals to their offered services. First the company announced that it was splitting in two, moving its disc-based rental service to a new company called Qwikster before reversing course and killing the whole idea This may or may not…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2011 -
Is Harley Quinn Arkham City‘s Most Subversive Character?
Plenty of folks have been talking about how Batman: Arkham City handled (or mishandled) the character of Catwoman, but fewer have addressed the character of Harley Quinn. In a thoughtful post on his personal blog, Girl Parts author John M. Cusick looks at her character, identity, and the possible reasons she acts the way she…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2011 -
Why I Talked About Chickens to a Room Full of Game Developers
A couple of weeks ago, I attended GDC Online in Austin. I was covering the event, but I was also there as a speaker, giving a microtalk as part of a six-critic panel on great game storytelling. Joining me were N’Gai Croal (Hit Detection), Leigh Alexander (Gamasutra), John Davidson (CBS Interactive/Gamespot), and Ben Fritz (the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2011 -
Samsung’s New SSD Will Come With A Free Copy of Batman: Arkham City
Two versions of Samsung’s new 830 series solid state drives will come with a free copy of Batman: Arkham City, the company’s vice president said during a press conference tonight. Reid Sullivan, senior vice president of mobile entertainment at Samsung Electronics America, announced the giveaway at a press conference in Manhattan tonight by bringing the…
By Brian Crecente Published October 24, 2011 -
Ubisoft’s Post-It War Gets Video Documentation
Over the summer, Kotaku did a fair amount of war correspondence. This particular war wasn’t happening in Iraq or Afganistan, but rather in Paris. It was an ongoing Post-It War between game developer Ubisoft and its neighbors, the French bank BNP. It started with small characters in office windows, then quickly spiraled out of control,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2011 -
Are You Ready For Some Battlefield?
Battlefield 3 –Our copies of tomorrow’s big game arrived this morning. The Queen of Blades is No Match for the New and Improved Blizzard DOTA Kerrigan. The Queen of Blades. The most feared woman in the known universe, destroyer of worlds, and murderer of millions. The greatest leader the Zerg has ever known. Kerrigan is…
By Brian Crecente Published October 24, 2011 -
These Shank 2 Co-Op Screens are a Bloody Good Time
Klei Entertainment’s upcoming Shank 2 brings a new brand of extreme slice-em-up to the stage with its co-op gameplay. We’ve already seen some of it in action off-screen, and it certainly looks like a lot of team-stabbin’. Klei sent along a grip of new screenshots from both the single-player and teh co-op. I thought I’d…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2011 -
Dr. Robotnik Just Didn’t Think Things Through
What do you do after you’ve turned every animal in the world into a robot? Don’t ask Dr. Robotnik; he’s got no freaking clue. If I were Dr. Robotnik I’d totally dress them up in little outfits. Click to view You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2011 -
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Isn’t Fooling Game Reviewers
On November 1, Nathan Drake ventures into the hidden depths of the Earth to capture the most elusive treasure he’s ever sought — the heart of game reviewers everywhere. Some think they’re just a myth. Personally I don’t think such a thing even exists, but if they do, than Nathan Drake and Uncharted 3: Drake’s…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2011 -
Won’t World of Warcraft‘s First Neutral Race Cause Player Vs. Player Pandemonium?
With Pandaren players able to choose either Horde or Alliance in the Mists of Pandaria expansion pack, World of Warcraft‘s arenas and battlegrounds will soon see an outbreak of panda-on-panda violence. I asked the game’s senior game producer Ray Cobo how players will tell Pandaren apart once the fur starts flying. As new Pandaren players…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2011 -
Batman: Arkham City‘s Mockery of Lost is Funny
I first realized that Batman: Arkham City had Lost jokes in it when I overheard one of the game’s thugs complaining about how the show explained the famous TV show’s mysterious island. A reader pointed me to a better joke, one Tweeted about by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof, who noted: “Crud. Now I’ve gone and…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 24, 2011