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Too Bad All Salty Snack Ads Aren’t This Clever
There are two words that can be used to describe these ads. The first word is “funny”. The second word? “Brilliant”. A Russian marketing firm has created a series of “versus” short animated clips to promote potato chips. They are terrific. This is Mario vs. Pac-Man. Click to view Here is Contra vs. Tetris. Click…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010 -
The Bayonetta Figure That’s Not Bayonetta
There have been Bayonetta figures before. This Bayonetta figure, though, is not Bayonetta. It’s Jeanne. Not as iconic, perhaps, but she’s definitely more feathery I hate the hip joints on these Square Enxi figures. Makes them look like a discontinued line of GI Joe figures from 1986. Still, she is highly posable, and there’s some…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010 -
Resident Evil Creator: JRPGs Were Never Popular In The West
In the West, new role-playing games like Mass Effect (and its sequel) have been picking up steam. There has been concern that the popularity of Japanese role-playing games are on the slide in the West. It’s not that simple, says Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. “I think it is because Japanese RPGs were really never…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010 -
The Real World Cup Won’t Be This Funny
Slapstick indie “fighting” game Sumotori Dreams has a little brother, Sumotori Soccer, which with football fever gripping the world at the moment is definitely worth a look. It’s the same deal as Sumotori Dreams: two ragdoll models, which are almost impossible to control, stagger around an arena like they’ve just knocked back a bottle of…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010 -
Scary Drawing Lady Continues With Scary Drawings
Sure, voice actress Yu Kobayashi is beautiful. Her drawings, however, are not. When she draws, it’s like she’s channeling judgment day! Previously, she drew a character from the animated version of visual novel Umineko no Naku Koro ni. Before that, she drew the character she voiced in Wii game Arc Rise Fantasia. Nightmares followed soon…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010 -
Centaurian The Game Lives Up To Its Trailer
There were doubts whether Simon Peter’s mysterious Centaurian could live up to its debut trailer. Having now played the game, those doubts have been hacked to pieces by a giant purple dildo. Centaurian plays a bit like Canabalt. If Canabalt was a gay Viking whose two favourite things in the world were Pitfall and Iron…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010 -
Here Are Some Beatmania Figures
This September, what are you doing? Game company Konami is releasing two Beatmania IIDX figures. So there. Umegiri Iroha chocolate & Hinazuki Lilina strawberry are both getting 1/8 scale PVC figurines that are priced at ¥9,870 (US$108). These look familiar, you say? Good eye! The big difference is that these are alternative color editions. Perfect…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010 -
Microsoft: Halo 3 Outsells Uncharted, Killzone & Resistance Combined
The public relations war we sometimes call E3 has begun a few days early, it seems, with Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg taking to Twitter to fire a shot across Sony’s bow in the leadup to the big trade show. I’m sure it was intended to rally the Xbox 360 fanboys to the flag for the next…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010 -
Old Lady Complains To Google About Pac-Man
Not everyone loved the inclusion of a free version of Pac-Man on Google’s home page. In fact, one old lady was so incensed she felt the need to call Google tech support. I know old people can be frail, and a little slow with technology at times, but this is a bit much. The guy…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010 -
Curvy Onechanbara Actress Comes to New Yakuza Game
Remember the feature film version of D3’s bikini-wearing cowgirl hack-and-slash game Onechanbara? No, not the first one. The sequel, Onechanbara The Movie VORTEx. The ample star of the second Onechanbara film, Yuu Tejima, will be bring her assets to the upcoming Yakuza PSP game, Yakuza: New Chapter Black Panther See? Model Anne Nakamura will also…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010 -
Namco Bandai: Nintendo Market Has “Collapsed”
Is the bottom about to fall out of Nintendo’s software market? Namco Bandai certainly thinks so, saying the market for games on both the Wii and DS has “collapsed”. “It’s a tough market,” Namco Bandai’s Olivier Comte told MCV. “We had a lot of product, and the average quality of a game on DS and…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010 -
Snorlax Makes A Great Dress
This isn’t a cosplay per se. It is a Snorlax dress. Different! Over on website Deviant Art, ~bethanyagogo made this Snorlax pocket monster dress because her friend had a Pokémon-themed party. “I made the dress out of fabric from two XXXL t-shirts [one in dark teal and one in tan],” she writes. “I screenprinted eyes…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010 -
Rock Band 3 Teaches You To Rock With Real Guitars & Keyboards
Rock Band 3 will, as expected, let you do something you’ve never been able to do in a Rock Band (or Guitar Hero) game before: play the keyboard. Yes, the fifth wheel of the rock world makes its long-overdue debut in Harmonix’s Rock Band 3, a report on USA Today showcasing not only the new…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010 -
Final Fantasy XIII Gets Dirt Cheap For A Lucky Few
When role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII went on sale in Japan in December 2009, it was priced at ¥9,240 (US$101). Now, one retailer is offering the game for a discount. A huge one. This flier shows a new copy of the game priced at ¥500 ($5.48). That’s about what lunch at McDonalds costs! This is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010 -
How The Mortal Kombat Short Was Made (And What Happens Next?)
Did you know Kevin Tancharoen, the man behind yesterday’s amazing Mortal Kombat short, shot it in just two days? And that much of the work was done for free? You do now. Tancharoen say down for an interview with Collider earlier today, and spoke about how the short film was made, and what he hopes…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010 -
Online Video Game Lands a Rare League License — the NFL’s
Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online football game, will bring NFL teams to its MMO-style team management simulation under one of the very few licenses the league’s given to a video game of any type other than Madden The deal, made public first through Kotaku, will deliver all of the logos, color schemes, uniforms, emblems…
By Owen Good Published June 10, 2010 -
Kotaku Off Topic: Merry Wednesday
I’m so excited, I think I’ll barely sleep a wink tonight, fellow off topic contributors. Tomorrow should be like Christmas Day, what with all the Team Fortress 2 games that shall be played and the embargoes that shall expire! I’d prefer not to overhype, but do make sure to turn on your internets tomorrow evening…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 9, 2010
