In this week’s round-up of the best in costume play, we’ve got the star of the Halo series on the loose, a Queen (not a Princess!) from The Legend of Zelda and everyone’s favourite transgender fighting game character. There’s also someone dressed up as Lara Croft (do we go a week without someone paying tribute…
This is Russian pair Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, competing at the World Figure Skating Championships 2011 held in Moscow. They didn’t just break out the Mario Bros. theme: they won the silver medal to boot.
Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is a work of art. So too is Team Fortress 2. In a way. So it’s only natural to see the two come together like this. Especially when the combatants are wearing their best hats. “The Last Sandwich” by EvGen1us
Playing the Revolution is an upcoming documentary series by Italian outfit Junk Food, which chronicles “the Spacewar! milestone to the rise of the 16-bit era”. It’s not some cheap retrospective. This is an in-depth series, each episode an hour long, and is full of interviews with some of the most important founding fathers of the…
Artist Slaterman23 has taken an everlasting love (Star Wars) and a love that’s very much of this moment (Sword & Sworcery) and combined the two. Thanks, Slaterman23! His series of works called Star Wars Pixel Posters reimagine some characters from the classic trilogy as characters drawn in the style of the brilliant iPad/iPhone game, complete…
Firefall is an online shooter that is quietly pushing a lot of people’s buttons. Which is what happens when you pitch an online, co-op shooter that looks a lot like classic jetpack simulator Tribes This trailer for the “massive co-op” PC shooter, due at the end of the year, shows both jetpacks and co-op shooter…
Nolan North seems like a super nice guy! And does a cracking job as the voice of Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series. Problem is, he also does the voice for around a million other characters, and it can sometimes get very distracting. Not helping matters is the fact he often (though not always!) uses…
Custom toy creator Christian Hooton, whose work we’ve featured previously, has sent us some pictures of these Portal 2 figures he’s made. Warning: they are amazing Remember, these are entirely custom figures. Hooton has built them from scratch, from the bodies to the cables, and they took two solid weeks to finish. If Valve ever…
It’s a good thing Sony warned people to be vigilant about their credit cards, because as part of the company’s Tokyo press conference yesterday PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai said that up to ten million customer’s account details could have been compromised. That’s not the personal details on their PSN account – all 77 million of…
From the blanket media coverage it received, you’d have thought the entire planet sat down to watch the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton last week. Some people, though, had better things to do. By Margaret Albaugh, via Tiny Cartridge
Microsoft and video games are a bit of a running joke in Japan these days. After a decade of trying (and failing) with the Xbox, the company just can’t seem to win the Japanese public over. It wasn’t always that way, however. Indeed, in the 1980’s, Microsoft produced a surprisingly successful games platform, one that…
In the wake of the attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network, lots of people will be cancelling their credit cards. Just in case. That won’t cost Sony a cent, but boy will it cost the banks. It’s estimated that, with the little slivers of plastic costing banks $3-$5 to replace, if large numbers of PlayStation Network…
RIGHT, OFF TO WORK | A Tonberry sets off for another day of…dying horribly, I guess. By Randis FBI Cybercrimes Joins 22 States In Sweeping PlayStation Network Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigations today confirmed to Kotaku that it is looking into the security breach that brought the Playstation Network down and exposed millions of…
And it’s got nothing to do with serving the public trust, protecting the innocent or upholding the law. Tomonobu Cop by John Pading
The latest international government body to begin investigating Sony’s PlayStation Network attack is Australia’s Privacy Commissioner, on the same day an Adelaide man lost over $2000 in fraudulent credit card charges this week. Rory Spreckley, from the South Australian capital, has lost over AUD$2000 this week after “carders” booked numerous domestic flights and hotel rooms…
Putting aside the fact this was drawn for “a lot of 16 year old geeks”, it’s a cute picture. I think I like the title even better, though. Barely Regal by Bjørnar Frøyse
Marvel Universe, the upcoming massively-multiplayer role-playing game based on the comics publisher’s roster of heroes and villains, will be free-to-play. That and many more details – the first for the game! – have been provided by PC Gamer. Most important aside from the fact it’ll be free-to-play (meaning it’ll charge you for upgrades and/or perks…
In 2009, EA Sports produced the single greatest soccer game – and maybe greatest sports game of all time – in FIFA 10. That kind of act is a tough one to follow, and it seems that, two years on, we’re back to tiny little bullet-point updates. According to translations of the latest issue of…
The thing most people have been worried about following the PSN attacks, and rightly so, are things like email addresses and credit card details. On a more trivial note, though, people have also been worried about their trophy data and friends lists. Well, don’t! Sony has come out today and said that both your trophy…
There’s a fancy, custom PSP for just about every game ever released on the system. It’s a shame Nintendo doesn’t follow suit. Especially when you see this fan mock-up of a tribute to the classic shooter. No crass logos, no ridiculous colour schemes…just a nice silver 3DS with a classy Star Fox graphic on the…
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