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Do Not Sell Customized Figures Online In Japan, They Will Lock You Up
Custom action figures, like these Punch-Out!! ones or this Bayonetta one, are one-off, hand-crafted pieces that sometimes end up on online auction sites. If you live in Japan and make these figures, best keep them to yourself. Or risk getting arrested. Earlier this week, Niigata Prefecture arrested Keiichi Itoh, 35, and Jun Fujita, 36 for…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2011 -
This Man Is Final Fantasy Come To Life
Singer, songwriter, actor and video game character. Claiming he was a vampire, Gackt used to say he was born in the year 1540, leaving the eternal question: Is he bonkers? No, he’s not. Rather, he’s one of Japan’s most interesting (and colorful) personalities. Songwriter, fashion model, actor, novelist, restaurateur, screenwriter and psychic, Gackt’s done it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2011 -
Xbox Update Stealth Kills Call Of Duty Pirates
Seems like that innocent little Xbox 360 update yesterday wasn’t just to restore the option to boot the console straight to a disc. It also contained secret pirate-fighting juice. Now that it’s been mentioned, it did seem a little strange that the update came out of nowhere. And for such a tiny fix clocked in…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2011 -
The Gods Must Be Crazy To Forget About This Game
Capcom’s upcoming Asura’s Wrath was one of the big surprises out of last year’s Tokyo Game Show. So surprising, in fact, the world has been shocked into forgetting all about it ever since. Yet here it is, four months later, returning in a flurry of fisticuffs and religious symbolism. It should be noted that it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2011 -
D.C. Universe Online MMO Log Part One: Making A Name For Myself — And Another
As a boy my paper route money went to comic books, stories of people coming to terms with their strange powers and their place in the world. With D.C. Universe Online, I now take that journey for myself. Kotaku’s MMO reviews are a multi-part process. Rather than deliver day one reviews based on beta gameplay,…
By Owen Good Published January 19, 2011 -
Mutant Footloose
We’re going to cut loose. Footloose, that is, during tonight’s open thread where things like Syd Mead, Kevin Bacon and Mel Gibson might come up during conversation. Speaking of Bacon, did you know he’s in the new X-Men movie as Sebastian Shaw? Yeah, that’s him on the left, probably explaining his kinetic energy based mutant…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011 -
Play Fotonica, A Gorgeous Mix of Rez and Mirror’s Edge
You’ll only need to one button to play Fotonica, a first-person platform jumping game oozing with style that its creators say is created in the fashion of “ugly 3D of the 90s.” Fotonica is the work of Italian game design studio Santa Ragione—Pietro Righi Riva and Nicolò Tedeschi—who call their game a mix of “jumping,…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011 -
Potential spoilers ahead, so read with caution: I appreciate your passion for the experience that Black Ops delivered, but I ultimately must disagree with your defense of it. Firstly, I do think that the Game of the Year requires some degree of innovation. Graphics are not a requirement, but I would say that gameplay is.…
By Vegaobscura Published January 19, 2011 -
Namco Bandai 3DS
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2011 -
Video’s Takedown Jolts “World of Starcraft” Makers
YouTube’s takedown of a video showing “World of Starcraft” sent tremors through the mod community that Starcraft’s publisher was out to shut down the fan-made MMO. Activision Blizzard has yet to comment officially, leaving the project in an uncomfortable limbo. Stirring the pot further is the fact that the MMO was developed with Starcraft II’s…
By Owen Good Published January 19, 2011 -
Now You Have One More Reason To Buy Killzone 3
Perhaps you want to get more use out of that 3D television or your PlayStation Move controller. Perhaps you simply just like the Killzone series. Or perhaps you want to play SOCOM 4 before it’s released. Adding to the list of reasons one would want Killzone 3, the game will serve as a PlayStation 3…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011 -
Throw Hadoukens In Your Living Room With Street Fighter On Kinect
The Kinect genie refuses to return to the bottle. Here an enterprising modder rigs up his PC to play Street Fighter IV with Kinect, including shoryukens and hadoukens (and Ken). The video features actual gameplay versus the CPU. Modder demize2010 wrote the scripts to work with FAAST, the open-source Kinect driver, and another to enable…
By Owen Good Published January 19, 2011 -
Double Fine Sets Up Stacking For February
Double Fine’s Stacking, the gorgeous, funny, inventive adventure based on Russian matryoshka dolls arrives February 8 for PlayStation Network, a day later for Xbox Live Arcade. Playing with dolls will cost $14.99 or 1200 Microsoft Points, depending on your platform.
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011 -
Hands-On With Dead Or Alive: Dimensions And Its Unusual Controls
How do you do a fighting game on the 3DS? You do it the Super Street Fighter IV way or this Dead or Alive way. Pretty similar. Touch-screen is optional but helpful for those who are fighting-game-challenged (like me). Note that Dead or Alive Dimensions, a “launch window” game for the Nintendo 3DS, will also…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 19, 2011 -
Wii Games Are Explained Best By Japanese Comedians
Most things are. Here a troupe of Japanese comedians bring an in-game power from Wii role-playing game The Last Story to life. The power is “gathering” and to illustrate the point, there are comedians like the duo Oriental Radio, Ryo from the comedy group London Boots and what looks to be Kazuko Kurosawa from comedy…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 19, 2011