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China Rips Off Pokemon, Naruto And Digimon
The country’s state-run television channel China Central Television is airing an anime that appears to be ripping off Japan’s Pokémon, Naruto and Digimon franchises. This is not the first time Japanese anime has been copied by Chinese broadcasts, reports website Record China. Both Crayon Shin-chan and animated film 5 Centimeters Per Second has been reworked…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 14, 2009 -
Super Mario Fingernails
As seen on Boing Boing.
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 14, 2009 -
Valve Wants To Sell Mods On 360, Pay Creators
Valve are known for giving away DLC on PC. Microsoft are known for charging money for avatar t-shirts. Doesn’t seem like there’s a good way to bring the two together, but Valve may have an idea. “One of the things I’m thinking about is how we work within that [Xbox Live] system,” Valve’s Yasser Mailaka…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2009 -
This Final Fantasy XIII Lady Looks Familiar…
The new Final Fantasy XIII trailer features Serah, the younger sister of heroine Lightning and girlfriend of bandana-wearing character Snow. According to some, Serah’s character design isn’t new. Her hair style, clothes and even stockings look remarkably similar to Kurumi Imari, a character in high-school witch-coven sex-and-horror erotic game Bible Black. The title was released…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 14, 2009 -
Six Years Too Late, Star Wars Galaxies Gets Interesting
It’s safe to say that Star Wars Galaxies has been a disappointment. It’s boring. If only they’d introduced zombie stormtrooper hordes a little sooner! For a tie-in with Joe Schreiber’s upcoming book of the same name – which is about zombies in the Star War universe – Star Wars Galaxies will in October drop an…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2009 -
Pokemon Gold/Silver Remakes Are Selling Well, It Seems
Over the weekend, Nintendo released Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver. The games were packaged with pedomters call Poké Walker. Sales were brisk in Tokyo’s Akihabara, and the game sold out at area retailers Yodobashi Camera, Sofmap and Messe Sanoh. This weekend’s release was much akin to the Fire Red and Leaf Green Gameboy Advance remakes of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 14, 2009 -
Zune HD: Welcome To The Gaming Business
This alleged promo video for Microsoft’s new music player, the Zune HD, shows that while Microsoft aren’t exactly making a big deal out of it, the thing can definitely play games of some sort. You’ll see a glimpse of a racing game if you head to about 30 seconds in. And below, you’ll see that…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2009 -
No, Prince of Persia Movie Is Not In 3D
Imagine sitting in a dark theater, reaching out, trying to touch a wet and hairy Jake Gyllenhaal. Worth the price of admission, no? At Disney’s D23 Expo, website Latino Review spotted a poster showing Disney Digital’s 3D roster. Included in that roster is Prince of Persia. The film was not originally intended to be shown…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 14, 2009 -
SafeSearch is OFF
To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Weekends are Made For The dirty secret here is we’re all mindful of our traffic. Why not? The running total is right there beside every story, and I refer to it when I write this note to tell you what the big stories were the past two days. Assigning…
By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009 -
A Post-Apocalyptic Marriage Proposal
This is the most touching marriage proposal involving the word “motherfucker” – and a spiked baseball bat – I’ve ever seen. A woman enlisted the help of Fallout’s modding community to build a level in which she popped the question. The video is of the entire level, eight minutes long, but to summarize – the…
By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009 -
Here’s 90 Seconds of the Force, Unleashed on Hoth
I’ll acknowledge Star Wars:STFU The Force Unleashed did not live up to the hype. I think one reason I lost momentum is that I really didn’t care about the worlds in which I was playing. This might be a reskin of the game, but going back to Hoth, one of the trilogy’s most iconic settings,…
By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009 -
Game Crazy Exec: Used Games Drive 20 Percent of New Sales
Speaking to IGN, Game Crazy‘s director of used games, Marc Mondhaschen, said the company did a study for “a very large vendor” and found that credit from trade-ins covered 20 percent of their sales over four weeks. “So you got 20 points of their sales that wouldn’t happen unless we had a trade business going,”…
By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009 -
Rick Astley vs. the Hydra: Let the Scribblenauts Mayhem Begin
“The real reason people will waste their time on this game is too see sharks devour drowning tax collectors,” writes Idoliside at Hellforge. So he set up a number of gratifying encounters to preview who would win. Butcher vs. Pig? Easy, the pig turned into a yummy ham. Satan vs. a Priest in a Tank?…
By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009 -
A Final Look Inside GRIN’s “Fortress”
An anonymous tipster attended GRIN’s going-out-of-business sale at the closed studio’s offices in Stockholm and snapped several pictures that seem to be of its work on, among other things, the Final Fantasy game it was rumored to be making for Square Enix. UPDATE – While some of this art is from the Final Fantasy game,…
By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009 -
Week in Games: Super Tuesday
This coming week is the first classically huge week of the Fall to Holiday sales cycles. Scribblenauts, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Wet and Need for Speed: Shift would all command top billing with a week all to themselves. Here they battle it out in a huge scrum that also includes the releases of NHL 10…
By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009 -
Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. No, you’re not seeing things. We moved the Top 5 of Top 10s to this day and time to free up some space on Saturday,…
By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009 -
Castlevania Rebirth Rated, Coming to WiiWare
Konami has another ReBirth title in the pipeline: Castlevania the Adventure. The title just picked up a Teen rating from the ESRB and should arrive on WiiWare, the same as its Contra and Gradius siblings. Here is the ESRB listing: Castlevania the Adventure ReBirth Platform: Wii Rating: Teen Content descriptors: Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence Rating…
By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009 -
‘Dawwwww’ is Not in Scribblenauts, but ‘Plush’ Is
Crafts-maker Rosemary Travale hadn’t done video-game related work in about three years, and this week’s release of Scribblenauts inspired her to bring main character Maxwell to plush life. Look, he even has a little-bitty notebook and pencil! Materials: “His gloves are made of plastic vinyl, his clothes cotton, his body is canvas and linen, his…
By Owen Good Published September 13, 2009