At today’s EA press conference, the latest entry in the Need for Speed series, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit was unveiled. The game is classic cops vs. robbers chases and features, what Kotaku’s own Michael Fahey calls, “slow-motion crashes like in Burnout”. The game features solo play or online play via an all new online…
Meet Ayako Imoto. The 24-year-old actress appears on variety programs. And this Nintendo DS drawing of her is not entirely accurate. Slightly better. By “better”, I don’t mean better There we go! Imoto typically plays a young, kid sister type character in a Japanese schoolgirl sailor suit. Her eyebrows are for comic effect! She also…
Earlier this week, a mysterious viral clip appeared online. It was followed by another equally mysterious clip. Sony denied the clips were theirs. So, alright then, who made them? Meet Han West. He’s a 24-year-old half-Chinese, half-American filmmaker, working on his Master of Fine Arts in Singapore at New York University’s Tisch School of the…
Who is ready to talk? Are you? What about you? And you? This is Tell Us Dammit. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person.…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: It’s Oh So Quiet My sons, Mini-Bash and Micro-Bash, really really really like this song and this lady. When this came on the television, they literally stopped in their tracks to stare at the flickering images rolling through on the TV. This tune is currently top of the charts in…
Not Linden Ashby, who played Johnny Cage in the 1995 Mortal Kombat film. No, the guy in the viral Mortal Kombat film that recently popped up online. The actor who was Johnny Cage in the viral clip is Matt Mullins. He’s not only an actor, but an accomplished martial artist. He’s a black belt in…
Let’s list the Metal Gear Solid games in which voice actor David Hayter has voiced Snake. Let’s! Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Metal Gear Solid IV: Guns of the Patriots and Metal Gear…
Letters, we get letters. We get lots and lots of letters. Letters! It’s time to take a peek into the Kotaku mailbag. This time we’ve got a letter from a banned reader: Dear Kotaku, After having a good week or two to think about my perma ban I want to say thank you. Thank you…
As seen in a Deus Ex: Human Revolution concept art by オレ的ゲーム情報
It is, dare I say, viewtiful. Artist Taras Lesko dazzles with this creation — he’s even been kind enough to post a free PDF of Viewtiful Joe’s helmet. It’s rather complex, but that’s okay. 3.5ft tall Viewtiful Joe papercraft by Taras… [Tiny Cartridge]
The E3 gaming expo is next week. And the Federal Communication Commission has revealed that there are new PlayStation 3 models. But should we expect another redesign like the slimmed down PS3? Two new PS3 models (CECH-2501A and CECH-2501B) have been tested by the FCC and certified for both 802.11b/g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. What’s…
The upcoming Medal of Honor reboot and Battlefield Bad Company 2 might very well have the best gun noises gaming has ever seen. Err, heard. According to EA DICE audio director Stefan Strandberg, the studio and fellow studio EALA used almost one hundred microphones over the course of two days. “For two days we had…
First veteran stunt coordinate Simon Crane was going to direct Kane & Lynch. Now, he’s not. Then, Running Scared director Wayne Kramer was in discussions to helm the picture. Now, he’s not F. Gary Gray is currently in talks to direct the movie. Gray has directed Friday (NSFW), The Negotiator and The Italian Job Kane…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Fly Fly Away I am, I reckon! So excited that tomorrow morning I am going to be an expresso maker. What you missed last night Old Lady Complains To Google About Pac-Man Rock Band 3 Teaches You To Rock With Real Guitars & Keyboards How The Mortal Kombat Short Was…
An enterprising individual in Japan spent hours after school for a little over three weeks to do something very important: bring you this clip. Using stop motion animation, Super Mario Bros. was recreated on the walls of this Japanese school. The total budget for this production? The equivalent of US$55. Money well spent. Mario jumps…
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…
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…
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…
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