Jockey | Tokyo, Japan: Sega shows off arcade games at its private summer show. (Photo: Keystone Features | Hulton Archive) The Brutal, Beautiful Video Game Art of Bjorn HurriBjorn Hurri is an artist who has been working on video games for years now, having lent his skills in some way or another to projects like…
As previously posted, Ryan Dunn, the 34-year-old co-host, died in a car crash this week when he lost control of his Porsche 911, killing him and his passenger. According to Reuters, Dunn’s blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit. [Reuters]
This December, Final Fantasy XIII sequel Final Fantasy XIII-2 goes on sale in Japan. That’s a few months away, so to hold gamers over, Square Enix released these new screenshots. The multiplatform Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be released in the West early next year.
I’ll admit it. I’m a sucker for crazy-looking peripherals. The crazier, the better. The Avenger checks off all the peripheral lunacy boxes. Just look at it! It’s bananas. There are straps, nubs, and pokey appendages that look like spider legs. Straight out of science fiction, this is some rubberized steampunk fantasy. This isn’t just bondage…
Monolith Soft, known for the Xenosaga games, is working on a new title for the Wii U and currently taking applications for the game. What could it be? [Monolith Soft]
In PSP game Akiba’s Trip, you must strip vampires in broad daylight to expose them to the sun and kill them. PSP graphics are showing their age, which is why the illustrations in the game’s complete guide provide a better glimpse at all the game has to offer—namely different kinds of underpants. Akiba’s Trip was…
A Square Enix Final Fantasy music website went live this past January to promote the More SQ album, remixes and reworkings of iconic Final Fantasy themes. But what’s got Japanese netizens talking is the website’s splash art. Drawn by Akihiko Yoshida, Square Enix artist and character designer, the image features what looks to be the…
On July 22nd, at around 3am in the morning, a mysterious message appeared on Japanese bulletin board 2channel. It read: “Tomorrow, I will blow up Hiroshima Station.” Japanese cyber police set to work, trying to stop the would-be bomber. Good thing he made their job easier—way easier. The police traced the message to the would-be…
Last week Kotaku reported that BioWare was hacked. The company has been active on company forums and is sending out emails today to BioWare account holders. More info here. [Thanks to all who sent this in!]
Dicks. Cocks. Penes. Half the population has them, and they’ve been the object of fascination for centuries—whether that be the physical organ itself or the phallus. You know what the Washington Monument is, right? If May was National Water Safety Month (it was!), then June’s been National Trouser Snake Month. Former Congressman Anthony Weiner was…
After being pulled to get reclassified, Dead or Alive: Dimensions isn’t rated MA+15 (a rating that caused outrage in Australia), but is now rated Mature (a rating that hopefully…won’t?). Yep, the game was bumped up one rating. [Kotaku Australia]
With the earthquake, there was concern whether the Tokyo Game Show would happen. It will, and TGS will reduce energy consumption by 25 percent by doing things like switching to LED lights and limiting electricity use at the booths. [TGS]
Twenty years ago on Christmas Day, Andrzej Zamoyski and his brother Adam spent the day playing with their new toy: a Nintendo Entertainment System. Andrzej was Mario, and he let his little brother play as Luigi. “More than a decade later, we again found ourselves sat side by side, this time testing Fable at Lionhead…
Sympathy | JULY 1968: The Stones on the set of Jean-Luc Godard’s documentary. (Photo: Keystone Features | Hulton Archive) PS3 Hacker Resigned to Prison Sentence after Money Dries Up American hacker George Hotz got all the headlines for his exploits trying to bring Linux back to the PS3, but he was only one of many…
Nintendo is working on a new console. Square Enix is working on a new Dragon Quest. See where this is going? This past May, Dragon Quest composer Koichi Sugiyama seemed to indicate that DQX will be out in 2012, saying, “I’m aiming for next year and am in the middle of composing music for Dragon…
Kotaku already broke that Sony had a ¥25,000 pricetag in mind when it began work on the PS Vita and that the company almost dropped the rear-touch feature. Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida filled in more details with Famitsu, like that work began on the Vita in spring 2009 and that the current button layout was created…
They’re big! Yes, yes —we know Universal Studios and Capcom are teaming up to recreate Monster Hunter this August in the Osaka theme park. Here are some more details. According to Capcom, the collaboration will produce 1:1 scale versions of monsters like the Rathalos Rare Species, the Silver Rathalos. It will be over 20 meters…
Now that Yakuza: Of the End has moved 400,000 copies, Sega has shipped over 5 million copies of the Yakuza games worldwide since it debuted on the PS2 in 2005. [ファミ通]
This week, pop superstar Lady Gaga arrived in Japan, sporting the aqua colored hair she’s had for weeks now. She’s in the country for a Japanese earthquake charity event. She wore wrist bands that read “Pray for Japan” in English and Japanese. But as soon as she stepped off the plane, her Japanese fans wondered…
In the West, Tales of Vesperia was released on the Xbox 360. Only. In Japan, it was released on the Xbox 360, forcing Japanese people to buy Microsoft’s console. Then, a year later, it was released on the PS3. But why? “Microsoft paid for the exclusivity the same way Sony paid for having Heavy Rain…
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