On February 26, the Nintendo 3DS is going on sale in Japan. It’s hitting North America in late March. That might sound like the future. Technically, it is. But it’s hardly the future. Nintendo held a Nintendo 3DS event in Bristol over the weekend, giving UK gamers a chance to check out the upcoming handheld.…
On February 6, an anonymous message appeared on a Japanese bulletin board, predicting a random attack. Memories of the Akihabara Massacre came flooding back, and the police moved into action. “On February 11, at 9pm sharp, there will be random slashing at Shinjuku Station’s highway bus entrance,” the message read. “You might want to sit…
We’re big fans of the classy way French gaming mag Amusement handles its visuals. If you’re not, maybe you should check these out. The spread, called TRONIFIED! in honour of the recent-ish release of Tron Legacy, shows a range of everyday appliances getting, well, Tronified. Which is really just an excuse to show what it…
Alodia Gosiengfiao is more than a cosplayer. She’s a super cosplayer, an über cosplayer with added umlaut, if you will. And she’s proving that cosplay is more than putting on costumes. “I see cosplay as a form of art,” she tells Kotaku. “It’s not just dressing-up.” For the 22-year-old, cosplay incorporates craft, sewing, make-up, wig…
The medium of video games won its first ever Grammy tonight. Yeah, it’s for a song that was featured in a game that’s nearly six years old, but we’ll take it where we can get it! While the amazing musical works of games like Red Dead Redemption and Mass Effect 2 went entirely unnoticed, composer…
Get this. Zynga, the company behind social games like FarmVille and CityVille, has an estimated worth of between seven and nine BILLION DOLLARS. Or, as they would call it, CashVille.
Whether through its dominance of PC retail via Steam or its own classic franchises like Half-Life and Left 4 Dead, Valve is the king of hardcore PC gaming. Here’s some stuff you may not know about your PC’s overlords. In a new interview with Forbes, Valve boss Gabe Newell spills the beans on a number…
The long-running attempts by former college football players to earn a share of EA’s revenues from the NCAA series won’t just affect video games and “amateur” athletics. It could hit music, TV, movies and comic books, too. The legal battle, which was originally between former NCAA players and the games publisher, has grown over the…
Remember when George Hotz, aka “GeoHot”, appeared on television? He sounded so intelligent and well-composed, and Sony’s lawsuit just seemed unwarranted. Now, Hotz doesn’t nearly sound as well-composed, but rather NSFW and petulant. Well, at least he’s got flow and rhymes. George Hotz, along with the failoverflow team, cracked the PS3 open. He is currently…
Or, they do in this clip for Valve’s upcoming first-person puzzler, anyway.
Crime saga Yakuza 3 takes players to the belly of the beast, giving them a chance to view the underworld up close and personal. But more than hostesses and mahjong was cut from the game, including an English speaking class. The English conversational industry is, according to Tokyo Vice writer Jake Adelstein, “one of the…
Kotaku spent the weekend at Toy Fair 2011 in New York City to check out the newest toys around. From Transformers to Play-Doh to…Tetris the Card Game, we’ll be showcasing the toys that gamers will love or just find downright weird. This is what we saw… Tetris Tetris The Card Game? And that’s not even…
So. Many. Video. Game. Toys. At. Toy. Fair. 2011. How ’bout we put a bunch of ’em in a gallery, huh? Sound good? This is Mega Man from D-Arts. NECA’s Duke Nukem Forever statue figure, set for April release. NECA’s Claptrap (from Borderlands), scheduled for May. NECA’s Gears of War 3 NECA’s Gears of War…
By the time I saw some Mario and Luigi Halloween costumes at Toy Fair in New York City today, I was done taking pictures of Mario merchandise. There’s a lot of Mario stuff being made by a battalion of the world’s toy-makers. Perhaps you’ve seen some of it. Around many corners at Toy Fair there…
DC Comics’s sculpture division makes a lot of statues, some of them of video games characters, some of them of super-heroes, and these that were at New York City’s Toy Fair this weekend of their super-heroes as video game characters. All are from DC Universe Online, the massively multiplayer online game released for PC and…
Last year, I went to Toy Fair and saw some Halo Mega Bloks. They were pretty cool. This year’s are better. This line, which I shot at Toy Fair 2011, is slated for release throughout the year. (In case you weren’t familiar with the brand, Mega Bloks are like Legos. I’m sure they get that…
There were Tetris games at Toy Fair 2011 in New York City, but they weren’t video games. First, this is Tetris the Card Game from Fundex. It’s out this month. The other Tetris game at Toy Fair 2011 was Tetris Link, from Techno Source. It’s kind of like Connect Four. I played it, and am…
We report so many sad stories about Final Fantasy these days, that’s it is bizarre to post some possible good news. The news is just a batch of pictures, though. Please admire the newest Final Fantasy statues from Square-Enix. The first three pictures here show a new line of statues that feature the summons from…
The Plants Vs. Zombies board game is real. This is a prototype, essentially the rough draft of the game that the people at Screenlife are planning on making. I spotted it at Toy Fair 2011 where it was so new it wasn’t even in Screenlife’s printed brochure. It’ll be a 2-4 player game, with 80…
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