Aya Hirano, who pissed off Japanese nerds with the admission of her social life, is coming to upcoming Final Fantasy game Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. Hirano will be lending her vocal talents to the game, voicing the character Prishe. Hirano started out as a voice actress, but is crossing into the mainstream in a way…
If Nintendo’s monster-catching craze was not a game, but a social network. As seen on +5 Mace
When the Nintendo 3DS was first introduced, there was a trailer showing Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto shaking a dog’s paw that popped out of the 3DS, and Nintendo of America honcho Reggie Fils-Aime getting his faced burned off. Easy to understand! Since then, Nintendo’s enlisted the likes of popular boy band Arashi to make o-faces…
Super Mario Bros. was first released in 1985. Back then, games weren’t designed on computers, using fancy 3D models. They were designed on paper, by men who ate nails for breakfast and wrestled bears after supper. Nintendo has published a new interview on its website with the creative forces behind the classic NES game. To…
Kotaku reader vidhagans had a problem. Her Nintendo DS, it was cold. Naked. Needed shelter. So she made these two cases, sporting Zelda themes, and now the thing is warm. And we are impressed One is based on Link getting his hands on the Triforce, the other on the scenery of SNES classic A Link…
While spit-screen gaming is the ideal means for two people to truly share a multiplayer experience, it’s not without its problems. Like cheating. A problem these two industrious souls have managed to overcome. Above, witness exhibit A, which we’ll call the “ghetto method”. It involves some tape and a blanket. And the second player, who…
This isn’t the first time this pre-schooler’s been exposed to StarCraft. The 4-year-old commentated on a StarCraft 2 match with “shooties” a few month back. But, now, she’s playing In the latest video, “Stargirl” plays Protoss on easy A.I. She needs to make more guys and wants to click on big buildings. She likes to…
Be sure to check out the Super Bowl trailer for the upcoming flick “Rio” to get a secret Angry Birds code. The secret code can be found in a single frame in the ad, so get out those pause buttons!
For years, glimpses up skirts were used to titillate Japanese gamers. A new game’s done away with that entirely. It is moving beyond, to new realms of I-don’t-know-what. Many of the earliest computer games were adult titles, once again proving that pornography is often the killer app for early adaptors. In Japan particularly, upskirts, or…
There will, inevitably, be a LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean game. Here is its debut trailer
Interstellar Marines is a video game unlike your standard sci-fi shooter. Instead of being backed by a publisher, its developers are instead taking money from fans now, who will get the game when it’s done. Zero Point Software, the indie developers behind the game, believe it’s the best way to go about getting a quality,…
There are people who have got Pokémon tattoos who may regret that decision in ten years time. And then there’s this guy, who will have many more regrets than that, and a whole lot sooner. He’s had his arm modified. Cut open at the elbow and small lumps inserted beneath the skin in what those…
Josh Olin, Community Manager at Call of Duty: Black Ops developers Treyarch, thinks that “pundits” and “angry entitled fans” are ruining creativity in video games. They’re not. In an interview with NowGamer, Olin – who admittedly must wade knee-deep through stupid questions from assholes as part of his job – says the following: Personally, as…
BioWare will apparently release a demo version of Dragon Age II—at the very least for PC players—only February 23, according to an e-mail sent to GameStop employees. Those lucky retail warriors will get access to said demo even earlier. One of the perks of working at GameStop is early access to the Dragon Age II…
You know what Kotaku’s semi-nightly open thread needs? Or could possibly benefit from? Themed Tuesdays. Yeah, let’s guide this off-topic conversation toward the new world of music. Yes, that can include video game music! How about, let’s say, once a month we share our current playlists so that we can turn each other on to…
The folks behind Resistance and Ratchet & Clank may be best known for their inventive, sometimes kooky weapons, but Insomniac Games are also developing new ways of turning bodies into lifeless piles of meat. The latest Resistance 3 trailer not only features the glorious return of the weapon wheel—missed you, weapon wheel!—but introduces the Chimeran…
Since its launch in November, Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has racked up more than 5 billion headshots, downed more than a billion aircraft and killed virtual soldiers to the tune of nine times the world’s population. That’s about 62 billion and change, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s world population clock Activision hit…
The 3rd Birthday, the PSP action-RPG entry in Square Enix’s Parasite Eve series, comes to North America on March 29, 2011. Yvonne Strahovski (Mass Effect 2’s Miranda) will voice series heroine Aya Brea.
Charlotte‘s custom Fallout 3 character Jinx Jones wiped Megaton straight off the Wasteland map! Also, check out her Fallout: New Vegas art piece HERE Related Rampage: Red Dead Redemption – Marston Tenpenny Babe by Charlotte / hel999 Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and…
Meat Bun is my favorite game-themed t-shirt company, and it’s not just because Mike owns it. It’s because they make some amazingly subtle video game shirts. Take this one of my favorite one-eyed Marvel-filched Robert E. Howard creation: Shuma-Gorath. What you missed Black Ops’ Newest Four Maps in Action, Plus Zombies! A Cursed Catwoman and…
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