LEGO and Warner Bros. have just announced that the Danish toy company has picked up the rights to produce playsets based on both Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings film trilogy and the pair of new Hobbit movies. For people who like hobbits and toys, this is good news. For people who like LEGO…
The Last of Us. Crysis 2. Star Wars: Old Republic. Uncharted 3. Some of the biggest games of the year, and beyond, and this man has done amazing art for the lot of them. Marek Okon is a Polish artist who primarily paints. The work you’ll know him for is of an incredibly polished state,…
The gist of many big company’s new “No Sue” clauses are that you can’t sue them, but beyond that, aarrggghh, there’s so much legal wish-wash it makes your head spin. So thank you, website EULAgony, for translating them into something we can understand. The site, whose name is a play on the term EULA (End…
Valve action figures. Based on Half-life, Team Fortress, Portal and Left 4 Dead. It was amazing news back in June, but since then, all we’ve seen is teases. Nothing final. That changes today. Figure maker NECA took the wraps off the first Left 4 Dead action figure, the Boomer, which isn’t due until well into…
CD Projekt, the developers of the Witcher series, have been sending letters to alleged German pirates demanding over US$1,000 for having illegally copied the game. Um, what? Website TorrentFreak reported that through law firms the Polish developer sent “thousands” of letters to BitTorrent users, each asking for €911.80 in compensation for the accused having obtained…
While Europe and the Americas labour to catch up, it’s already Friday night here in Australia. Time for Soundtrack. Time to kick off my shoes and feel good And few things on Earth make me feel better than sitting on the couch, pouring myself a drink and putting this on. The track is called Our…
For a little while there, owners of both a PS3 and PSP could use their console to download certain games designed for both systems, then easily copy them over. It was way better than using the PSP on its own. Now, for some reason, that feature is missing. Since updating to the latest firmware, users…
While modders have been working tirelessly since Skyrim’s release to improve things like the game’s graphics and inventory, one mod has set its sights a little higher: adding multiplayer to the decidedly singleplayer game. And it’s been done. Sort of. While it’s still early days, the Skyrim Online mod is working in a limited manner,…
Amidst some back-slapping and self-congratulation over the impressive sales of Skyrim since its release (10 million copies shipped) came one very impressive piece of information from Valve. It’s the fastest-selling game in Steam history. Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve, revealed the fact to IndustryGamers yesterday, and given how Steam is almost the…
Real men (and women) who play games (well, fighting games) don’t use control pads. Those are for children. Real men (and women) use sticks. And some of the best around are HORI’s sticks. The one we’re looking at today is the company’s Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 arcade stick, released in November. There’s a lot…
Regular readers of our Fancy Pants cosplay feature here on Kotaku will be familiar with the phenomenal work of Crystal Graziano. From Metal Gear to Valkyria Chronicles, she’s one of the most recognisable and successful video game cosplayers around. So much so that her work is now being professionally sponsored. In a sign that the…
It’s been over four years since the Great Line Rider craze of 2007. In internet terms that’s an eternity, but don’t tell the community of dedicated fans still churning out amazing levels for the simple little flash game. I’d forgotten the game even existed, but commenter schbearded hasn’t, pointing us in the direction of this…
Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us, an upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive, only made its public debut over the weekend, and already we’ve got a look at its first concept art. Most of these pieces are by Maciej Kuciara, an artist who we’ve featured before here on Kotaku and who previously spent some time at Crytek,…
Next week, Gran Turismo 5 owners will get access to a load of new vehicles, some for money, some for free. In addition to a $4 car pack that includes a 2012 GT-R and some Volkswagens, there are bonus items for players who bought the last DLC and a free car (the Toyota FT-86) for…
As part of the franchise’s 25th birthday celebrations, Nintendo has decided to release a nice big art book for The Legend of Zelda fans. Called Hyrule Historia, it’s 274 pages of concept and promotional art from throughout the series, while also including historical info on the characters and the games they’ve starred in. So far…
An article on Hungary’s MSN portal about teen sexuality uses an interesting image to illustrate its point. And by interesting I mean amazing For those who can’t instantly see the disaster zone, it’s a Holy Trinity of PhotoShop disasters. For starters, either the main is playing on a cardboard box, or the screenshot overlay was…
Google Shoot View, an amusing little distraction cooked up by a Dutch advertising agency that let you wander the streets of planet Earth shooting the place up, has been killed by Google. According to Erwin Kleinjan, from the agency that dreamt up the game, Google “pulled their right to use the Street View application protocol…
The 3G edition of the PlayStation Vita will be delayed in Canada “due to extensive planning and testing with their 3G partner”. Customers have begun receiving emails informing them of the delay, while EB Games sources have confirmed the hold-up with Kotaku, saying that internal systems now have the handheld releasing in April instead of…
Bungie and Microsoft may have led you to believe that Halo’s Master Chief is a paragon of virtue, but that’s a lie told only on storyboards and over-wrought cinematic cutscenes. A man can only be judged by his actions, and in most people’s experience, Master Chief is a dick.
I celebrate Australian Christmas with cold beer and barbecued meat. Valve, well, Valve celebrate it a little differently. In 2010 they took Team Fortress 2 all medieval, and in 2011, they’re sending it into space. Continuing a partnership began earlier this year, the first items coming as part of the festive update are from WETA’s…
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