While at GDC, we noticed that the new PlayStation Move controller has a little lag. Want to see how much lag? The technical gurus at Digital Foundry took a 60 frames-per-second camera to GDC, went and used the Move for a bit, and took this footage. It doesn’t take the 20% speed to see that…
While the NPD Group has ceased providing weekly sales charts for the boxed-copy PC market in the US, it still hands out its monthly – and often hilarious – lists. Let’s look at February’s. As you’d expect, they look a little different to those found on Steam or Direct2Drive. While those are often quite contemporary,…
Ever wonder what is inside Darth Vader’s helmet? Well, besides actors Sebastian Shaw and David Prowse. Japanese corner stores are selling this “Darth Vader Gum Pot”. It includes the Vader helmet “gum pot” as well as shinny black mint-flavored chewing gum. Yours for a ¥760 (US$8.40) a pop, er pot. Whatever. Darth Vader Mint Chewing…
Firearms enthusiasts. Hardcore video gamers. They sound like two completely different groups of people, but both have one thing in common: everyone else thinks they’re crazy. That’s one of the key take-aways from a great piece over on the Escapist, written by a man who is both a gamer and a gun lover, a games…
Scandalized golfer and serial cheater Tiger Woods is returning to golf. Game company EA Sports is thrilled. “We’re looking forward to seeing Tiger back on the golf course,” blogs EA Sports exec Peter Moore. “All eyes will be on Augusta in a few weeks.” And then after that, people will slowly forget that Woods had…
The world can be a tough place for left-handers. Which is why there are things you can buy to make things easier for everyday actions, like opening cans, playing golf, playing video games on your PC… …wait a minute. People play video games on their PC left-handed? Enough to warrant this, the Razer DeathAdder Left…
Love simulator Love Plus is quite popular in Japan. There’s an upcoming manga, a Love Plus inspired massage parlor and t-shirts for brave souls. Heck, it’s even in Nintendo DSi XL TV ads. What’s next? Characters Nene Anegasaki, Rinko Kobayakawa and Manaka Takane are all getting their own figurines. DO NOT BE SURPRISED. The figures…
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is known for two things: Final Fantasy, and his moustache. So imagine the horror when he posted this on his Twitter account. Say it ain’t so, Gooch! Not the mo! Thankfully, it was all for laughs, Sakaguchi later revealing that he’d been messing around with Moustache Removing Software, otherwise known…
To depict the true meaning of game over, artist Kordian Lewandowski called on Mario, Princess Peach and, well, Jesus. Carved by a 24-year-old Michelangelo, La Pietá shows Mary cradling Jesus in her lap after he has been crucified. The statue was vandalized in the early 1970s when an Australian geologist took a hammer to the…
With gaming’s favorite shirtless Greek, Kratos, now beating up and killing baddies in God of War III, it is time to look at some of the best shirtless guy films. Because when you’re done playing a shirtless guy, you want to watch shirtless guys. Here is a list of five of the best classical-style epic…
These pictures apparently show the guts of a new model of the Xbox 360. The important bits? The fact that for the first time the console combines the CPU and the GPU in a single chip. Oh, and it’s small The pic above shows the board in question, with the chip part of a rumoured…
For the most part, Heavy Rain is an entertaining exercise in story-telling. For the most part. The parts where you’re yelling at small children, not so much. Anyone who’s played the game, and got as far as the clown scene at the mall, will know how awful the part that happens next is. Really, Quantic…
Today’s census questions are all about pirates. Yaaarrrrrrrr! It’s a touchy subject in the video game business. Despite having been around since the dawn of time, when young men swapped 3.5 inch floppies on the school playground (ooo eerrr), piracy is increasingly being cited as a serious problem by video game publishers and retailers, who…
What do you think happened after some of Japan’s most famous manga creators showed opposition to a Tokyo proposal that sets out to ban provocative “visual depictions” of characters who appear to be 18 years-old and younger? The Asahi Shimbun reports that the bill has been put on hold. Manga artists Go Nagai, Tetsuya Chiba…
Few trailers in recent memory have polarised gamers as much as EA’s Dante’s Inferno clip for the Super Bowl. Would you have liked it more if, say, Dante was not Dante, but Mario? I like it more. Well, except for the Bill Withers. Even in this parody version, it still doesn’t sit right. If you…
The Steam version of EA’s Battlefield Bad Company 2 is about to get a new patch, and amidst the little tweaks and fixes is some welcome news: the game’s SecuROM DRM software will also be uninstalled. SecuROM has been a pain in the ass of every PC gamer since it first turned up a few…
Hey, Kotaku readers, how about a little off topic conversation to wrap up the day? Did you see anything cool on the internet or in real life that you’d like to wax off topically about? If you do, would you mind dropping in some of your favorite uncommon vocabulary selections? See, mine has seemed to…
The newest trailer for Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, the charming co-op adventure from the folks who made Genji and Folklore, might be the boost you need to start caring about this game. Sure, it may have a terrible name, whether you want to call it Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, as it’s known in…
Or should that be batwagon? Regardless, Eidos has set dates for the re-release version of Rocksteady Studios’ surprisingly good comic book hit Batman: Arkham Asylum, confirming that we’ll be battling the asylum’s inmates in a new way this spring. Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year edition tosses in a pair of 3D glasses for…
Reader ryandesu used paper cutouts to dress up a poster he got with God of War III today. “Since this may be Kratos’ last game, he’s gotta get a real job, but can’t go to interviews in his normal attire.”
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