Hello Kotaku readership, how are you? I hope all of your lives are staying interesting, especially the gaming aspect. With all the recent and approaching game releases, there’s plenty to keep you occupied! Please sit back, relax, and take this time to talk amongst yourselves! I would like to again thank Shadoroch for today’s TAYpic,…
I’ve never been able to get Pokemon. I’ve tried, first through the cartoons, reviews and endless fan sites, and then by finally biting the bullet and playing through an entire game. Still nothing. So when I had a chance to check out the first Pokemon coming to the 3DS, it wasn’t exactly at the top…
The premise and the promise of Scribblenauts always was extraordinary: write any noun (concrete noun, no proper names) into the game and the virtual object it represents will appear. If it can be used, your hero can use it. If it has a brain, it will act—and interact with whatever else is in the world.…
Headset | TOKYO, JAPAN: Sega shows off the headset for Binary Domain (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Let These Cosplayers Bring Your JRPG Fantasies to Life Good cosplay isn’t only about good costumes. It’s about good backgrounds. Kansai-based cosplay collective Akasha-Chronik nails both. The group, lead by cosplayer Mao Inumoto, focuses largely on Dragon Quest and…
Square Enix, makers of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, is working on a next generation game engine. It’s called the Luminous Engine. During a recent press event in Tokyo attended by Game Watch Impress (via Edge), Square Enix detailed the Luminous Engine, which can simulate liquids and cloth as well as realtime reflections. It can…
You can do lots of stuff with Kinect. You can view media with it. You can play games. You can act like a doofus in your living room. Soon, you might even be able to do banking. A Lithuanian company called Etronika is developing an application that uses a Kinect interface, reports PC World. The…
Time Travelers, that mysterious 3DS game, is also headed to the PS Vita and the PSP. It will be out next year. [ゲームメモ]
Good cosplay isn’t only about good costumes. It’s about good backgrounds. Kansai-based cosplay collective Akasha-Chronik nails both. The group, lead by cosplayer Mao Inumoto, focuses largely on Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy as well as sporting picturesque backgrounds that look straight out of Square Enix’s art department. In the above gallery, Mao and Akasha-Chronik take…
ElMangosto’s special lady certainly knows the way to get him to pull his weight around the house: Dead Island and boobs. If it doesn’t look entirely familiar to you, this chores list is built like the quest screens from recent zombie paradise death simulator Dead Island Well, except for one of those payoffs. Crecente reviewed…
Microsoft has bought Twisted Pixel, the studio responsible for games like ‘Splosion Man, Comic Jumper and Gunstringer
UFO Catchera are Sega redemption games. Arcade punters operate a claw and attempt to pull out prizes that range from stuffed animals to instant noodle. Sega didn’t make this particular UFO Catcher. Toyota did. The 8-ton, 29-foot-tall and 39-foot-wide UFO Catcher appeared in Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills over the weekend as part of a promotion for…
Batman’s a comic book character, so he’s been through more redesigns than I could count. We’re about to see another one in the upcoming Arkham City, in fact. I haven’t seen many I like as much as this one, though. It’s by Australian video game artist Adam Fisher, who as part of a Comic Con…
Often, in-store erotic game display are totally crazy. This is no exception. The game is adult PC title Taisetsuna kimi no Tame ni, Boku ni Dekiru Ichiban Koto (“The Best Thing I Can Do for You”). The in-store display consists of heroines from the game with their cardboard legs wrapped in black pantyhose. The kicker?…
It is one of the most followed Twitter accounts in the gaming world, and it doesn’t belong to Miyamoto, Cliffy B, or Warren Spector. With almost 15,000 followers, Molydeux (with a D) is a parody account that draws its inspiration from the overly-ambitious ideas of veteran game developer Peter Molyneux (with an N), and while…
Aksys Games is bringing BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend to North America. The game features a new playable character, new modes, and new scenarios. It’ll hit the PS Vita, the PS3, and the Xbox 360. No word on when.
Farmville andCityville developers Zynga made their name on Facebook. But Facebook makes the rules on Facebook, and Facebook takes a cut of a company’s profits on Facebook, so Zynga is now looking to sell more of its stuff to you directly. The social gaming giant yesterday unveiled Zynga Direct, an online distribution service that sounds…
Team Fortress 2 used to be about guns. Now it’s all about hats. Fancy, ridiculous, elaborate hats. Ever wonder how those hats are made? Let Bay Raitt, formerly of WETA (he’s responsible for Gollum’s face in Lord of the Rings) but currently of Valve Software, explain. In this step-by-step guide he shows people how a…
In movies, it’s not unheard of for several famous movie directors to team up, each contributing a short film to a larger motion picture. There are several examples, like New York Stories and Four Rooms. In gaming, it’s rather uncommon. Level-5, the studio behind Professor Layton, is releasing a new 3DS title called Guild 01.…
EA’s upcoming shooter Battlefield 3 lets you destroy certain parts of the environment. Not all of it, but enough to let them compile this 57-second trailer of buildings collapsing. You’ve seen some of this footage before, but most of it looks to have been captured directly in-game, including some multiplayer madness involving man vs helicopter…
My native language is English. Yours might be. It might be another language, I don’t know. Chances are, if you are reading Kotaku, you understand English—which is why you don’t hesitate to use the #corrections tag when we seemingly don’t. Not everyone understands English, and that’s fine. Millions of Japanese people live productive and happy…
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