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$25,000 Embezzled. What Was It Spent On?

In Salinas, California, charity worker Alexander Harvey turned himself in to authorities and was arrested for embezzling US$25,000 from the Salinas Junior Chamber of Commerce. Harvey formerly served as its treasurer. What did he buy with the money he embezzled? Twenty-five grand is a fair chunk of change. So, did he blow it on booze,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011

Another Look at the Ace Attorney Flick

Takashi Miike, known for making a lot of cool movies (and some crap ones, too), is directing a big screen version of Capcom’s lawyer game series Ace Attorney Previously, what are reported to be photos of the film’s Kyoto set leaked online. Today, a spokesperson from Toho movie studio posted a low quality pic of…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011

So How’s That Non-Nintendo Pokémon Game?

As of today, Pokémon is available on non-Nintendo hardware, namely smart phones. Pokémon Say Tap? was released on the Apple App Store, and sister site Kotaku Japan checked it out. Pokémon Say Tap? is a free rhythm game for the iOS and Android. It’s free, so you get what you pay for. The point here…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011

China’s TF2 Rip-Off Also Loves Battlefield Heroes

So Final Combat, China’s seemingly shameless rip-off of Team Fortress 2, isn’t as shameless as we first thought. I mean, it’s not entirely lifting content from Valve’s shooter. It’s lifting it from EA’s Battlefield Heroes as well! This gameplay footage, sent in by reader Enrique, shows that while the game’s characters (and announcer) are straight…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011

Nintendo, Let a Skateboard Show You How To Do 3D

Nintendo is having problems putting old games in 3D. Don’t fret, Nintendo! Artist Jason D Ault is here to help. With a skateboard. Ault recreated retro title Skate or Die in 3D. On a skateboard. How awesome is that? You know what else is awesome? The Skate or Die theme songs. The theme song for…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011

Let’s Make a Deal with Awkward Nintendo Cosplay

TV game show Let’s Make a Deal recently had the honour of featuring not one, but two Nintendo cosplayers. The first, dressed as Link, had the honour of being an actual contestant. The second, dressed as Mario, did not. Link, Mario and Luigi visit Let’s Make a Deal [Go Nintendo]

By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011

Meet the Biggest-Selling Wii Game Not Made by Nintendo

A common complaint amongst third-party publishers is that the only games which sell well on Nintendo consoles are Nintendo games. Which is mostly true! Unless you’re Ubisoft. It’s been revealed that the single biggest-selling third-party game on the Wii is now (and is likely to remain, given the console’s impending replacement) Ubisoft’s Just Dance 2,…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011

What Is Sony-Microsoft.com?

According to DomainTools, Microsoft registered the domain Sony-Microsoft.com. No specifics what this entails—could be anything from software to game machines. Kotaku is following up with Microsoft. [DomainTools]

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011

It Appears This Game has Turned You Into a Spider

This is Bound, in which you play Tom, who used to be just a regular guy but who has now been turned into a spider. Bummer. Due for the PC sometime towards the end of the year, it’s a student project from Stuttgart Media University, and while the black & white visuals aren’t exactly unique,…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011

No More Heroes Cosplay Has a Heroic and Revealing Bodysuit

When she’s not cosplaying as Metal Gear Solid characters, Omi Gibson is cosplaying as No More Heroes characters. And when she’s not doing that, she’s cosplaying as other things Just as No More Heroes is getting an adults-only PS3 version, Omi’s uploaded some pics of herself dressed as NMH2‘s Cloe Walsh Omi has a new…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011

PS3 Getting In On New Black Ops Map Pack

Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack Annihilation – already out on the Xbox 360 – will be available for PS3 users come July 28. The week after that, it’ll be a double XP extravaganza. Map Hits July 28th [PlayStation]

By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011

When Nintendo Is Your Penpal

Remember life before email? Like when people wrote letters? On paper? Kotaku reader Matthew does. Because during the early 1990s, he was a little kid writing them to Nintendo. While going through his old things for a yard sale, Matthew (not pictured) found a couple letters from Nintendo of America—replies. Matthew did things like ask…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011

The Latest Castlevania Game Originally Had Simon Belmont In It

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, released last year, ended up starring Gabriel Belmont, and was let’s say…different from most other games in the franchise. Fans will be interested to see, then, that developers Mercury Steam and publishers Konami originally had other plans for the game, with series legend Simon Belmont cast in the lead role. The…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011

Can Anyone Replace Hello Kitty?

In 1975, a coin purse featuring an expressionless cat with its head turned sideways and sitting next to a fish bowl went on sale in Japan. The company was Sanrio. The designer was Yuko Yamaguchi. The cat became known as “Kitty-chan”, and outside Japan as Hello Kitty. Decades later, is the cat still cute? Hello…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2011

Red Dead Redemption Now Shoots Flaming Balls

These fireworks may not carry an official Rockstar license, but something tells me the developer would approve of something that shoots flaming balls. As seen on Reddit

By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011

The Assassin’s Creed 3DS Game is Dead (But Some Parts Live On!)

When the Nintendo 3DS was first unveiled, one of Ubisoft’s first games for the handheld was supposed to be Assassin’s Creed: Lost Legacy. It won’t be any more, because that game’s been shitcanned. Speaking with Joystiq, Ubisoft writer Darby McDevitt has said that Lost Legacy is no more. Rather than being wasted, though, he says…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2011

Sony Exec Calls PSN Hack ‘A Great Experience,’ Quickly Clarifies Himself

Losing the entire PlayStation Network service for 23 days and its online marketplace for more than a month is not many people’s idea of a good time. Nor is it Tim Schaff’s, though the Sony Network Entertainment boss called it “a great experience,” at a forum before, as the politicians say, he revised and extended…

By Owen Good Published July 14, 2011

The Thing (2011)

Greetings, Kotaku readers. Got time to join us in another off-topic thread? Good. Maybe we can talk about movies, since this post happens to be movie-centric. So, that first trailer for The Thing (linked below) is out and it looks… alright. A few too many moments of people being yanked into the darkness by some…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 14, 2011

Miyamoto’s, Where You Know Everybody’s Name

For its cover of this week’s edition (on newsstands today) the Portland Mercury commissioned this painting, an homage to Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks with Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto and three characters he introduced to America 30 years ago this week. The cover highlights a story about GameOn 2.0, a playable history of video games showing…

By Owen Good Published July 14, 2011

Call of Duty Elite Trailer is Like a Simile Wrapped in a Metaphor

Call of Duty Elite beta began a “staged launch” today and to kick it off, Activision unloaded this two minute trailer that spends one minute cracking jokes and another minute answering questions except for the biggie: How much is this damn thing going to cost? For now, it’s free; for now, it’s in beta. You…

By Owen Good Published July 14, 2011