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These Aren’t Just Cosplay Photos. They’re Portraits.
Photographer Mike Kowalek loves taking pictures, whether that be birds, bridges, you name it. But it’s his cosplay photos that got him on Kotaku He doesn’t just take photos, but proper portraits of folks who don costumes, who deserve way more than simple convention snaps. The originals are viewable on Mike’s site. Check ’em out!…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 31, 2011 -
Metal Slug Gets Real (Really Real!)
Reader Andrew McMurry sends us this short little video he made, in which he jumps head-first into a Metal Slug level and proceeds to shoot, slash and explode his way through legions of bad guys. All in the name of your entertainment. While these “real man shoots like he’s in a video game” clips are…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 31, 2011 -
Time To Check Out Ten Free NES Games
Today, Nintendo’s ambassador program kicked off early in Japan, giving early 3DS adopters like me the chance to snag free NES games. In this video, I give some of the games a spin. It’s hard to give things a spin when you’re holding an iPhone with one hand and tugging on a joystick with another.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 31, 2011 -
There Is, No Shit, an Uncharted 3 Reality TV Show
There’s a reality TV special to be broadcast on Spike later this year that’ll be all about Uncharted 3. Think Survivor, only it’s a single episode. Or, more aptly, The Tester with half-tucks. It’s called Uncharted 3: Race to the Ring To be filmed over the course of a week in October in Los Angeles,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 31, 2011 -
Look Ma! Free NES Games Go Live Early in Japan [Update]
Today, the 3DS’ “ambassador program” kicked off in Japan—you know the program that gives early birds twenty free games. Previously, Kotaku let you how to get your free games with words. And now we’re doing it with words and moving pictures. The future, people, the future! As readers (and my wife) pointed out, these free…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 31, 2011 -
Sega Forms New Studio Just to Make Gangster Games
Sega’s Toshihiro “Brown Man” Nagoshi, the creator of the Monkey Ball series, has revealed today that he’s formed a new studio at Sega which will deal exclusively with games for the Ryu ga Gotoku (Yakuza) series. That studio’s name is Ryu ga Gotoku Studio (catchy!), and is currently working on two new titles. The first…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 31, 2011 -
This New Hawken Trailer is All About Giant Mechs Exploding
Two trailers for Hawken in one week? It’s like Christmas. In August. While the last one was all moody and only featured a little gameplay, this is mostly in-cockpit shots of rockets firing and guns chattering and big mechs crumpling and exploding all over some of the most beautiful maps we’ve ever seen in a…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 31, 2011 -
Jeremy Clarkson Talks About…a Halo Warthog
If you’ve ever wanted to hear the Top Gear star drawl “light plasma cannons”, you should watch this clip of Jeremy Clarkson giving the rundown on the Warthog that’ll feature in Halo 4 It comes across as a bizarre piece of marketing, until you remember the Warthog will be in the upcoming Forza 4 (albeit…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 31, 2011 -
‘Special’ Edition
Greetings, Kotaku readers. I thought I recognized your foul stench. Wait, I didn’t mean it like that. Sorry, I might be a touch grumpy in tonight’s open thread—where you’re free to talk about whatevs—because my Star Wars stubbornness is flaring up again. What can I say? I’m a little bummed out that it appears that…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 30, 2011 -
Naughty Schoolgirl Shooter Gal Gun is Coming to PS3
Gal Gun, the upskirt-action-packed shooter released in Japan for Xbox 360 earlier this year, is also coming to PS3 this winter—with PlayStation Move support. Expect a new character, a new “Doki Doki Carnival” mode and improved graphics. [Andriasang]
By Michael McWhertor Published August 30, 2011 -
AirMech Looks Amazing, Like the Sequel to Proto-RTS Masterpiece Herzog Zwei We’ve Always Wanted
Tucked away at this weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo was indie game AirMech, a real-time strategy title that looks a hell of a lot like a spiritual sequel to Herzog Zwei. Don’t know it? It’s not only of the earliest real-time strategy games, it’s one of the best multiplayer experiences on the Sega Genesis. So, yeah,…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 30, 2011 -
Now That’s How You Make a Game of Super Smash Bros. Melee Interesting
What may be the greatest variation on the log flume photo gag—you know, the one in which log riders are engaged in the most casual or precise of activities, like playing Jenga or Monopoly during an intense drop—manages to work in a Smash Bros. reference. Log fluming while playing a one-on-one game of Super Smash…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 30, 2011 -
EA Finds It ‘Hard to Conceive What You Would Do On a PlayStation 4’
Electronic Arts, like Sony and Microsoft, seem perfectly content to ride out the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 for as long as possible, downplaying the need for a next generation of consoles any time soon. “Why would you even need one?,” wonders EA’s Frank Gibeau. Gibeau tells CVG that “It’s hard for me to conceive…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 30, 2011 -
There’s A Persona 4 for PlayStation Vita… and a Persona Fighting Game Too?!
Atlus is giving future PlayStation Vita owners something to get excited about: a portable port of the PlayStation 2 game Persona 4, reportedly due for release in Japan in 2012 and packing lots of enhancements. Japanese retailer blog Sinobi reports that Persona 4: The Golden, as it’s supposedly called, adds new animation, at least one…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 30, 2011 -
TinTin
BRUSSELS – This larger-than-life panel from a TinTin comic adorns the main train station in Brussels. Almost made the layover there worth it. Almost. Deus Ex: Human Revolution Is This Generation’s Crysis For those unfamiliar with the Deus Ex franchise, it goes back to the year 2000 when highly hyped developer Ion Storm went on…
By Brian Crecente Published August 30, 2011 -
Here’s How You Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors Can Download Your Free NES Games [Update]
This week, starting September 1, early Nintendo 3DS adopters will be to download classic NES games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda for free—as long as they hopped on the Nintendo eShop in time and achieved “Nintendo 3DS Ambassador” status. Turns out, downloading those games might be just a little bit… tricky.…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 30, 2011 -
This Is the Mantra of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
While its big, burly characters make it look like it wants to be Gears of War, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine‘s core tenant is distinctly un-Gears-like: Cover is for the weak. This image arrived at my home in poster form late last week, following my gameplay impressions of the recently released demo for Relic Entertainment’s Warhammer…
By Mike Fahey Published August 30, 2011 -
Prize Winning ‘Something Unreal’ Mod The Haunted Snapped Up By THQ
Grisly Unreal mod The Haunted, winner of the 2010 “Make Something Unreal” contest, has been snapped up by THQ and will be released as an honest-to-goodness commercial game featuring gore-splattering hellspawn later this year. Meet The Haunted: Hells Reach The “third-person survival horror shooter” hits the PC in October, with releases for the PlayStation Network…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 30, 2011 -
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Mortal Kombat Ninja Dancers
Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Smoke, and Reptile were made for loving you, baby, and you were made for loving them. The PAX ninja quartet takes their friendship to the next logical level: a steaming hot Just Dance 3 demo. They win, fatality. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
By Mike Fahey Published August 30, 2011 -
Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection and The Baconing Are New on PSN
It’s a big week for the North American PlayStation Store, with an impressive collection of new downloadable games for PlayStation 3 and PSP owners. Not only is Deathspank sequel The Baconing here, so is a three-way Mortal Kombat combo. Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection already has my money, but you may be more interested in downloading…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 30, 2011