Microsoft’s upcoming “Avatar Kinect” was pitched as a glorified chatroom. It didn’t sound that exciting. This real-time demonstration, though, at least makes it look remotely interesting. Sure, it’s still a glorified chatroom, but there’s some neat technology on display, not the least of which is the impressive almost-real-time lip-syncing your avatar is capable of when…
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play, the device we used to call the PlayStation Phone, isn’t the prettiest thing on the planet. Swap the drab silver out for a creamy white, though, and things are looking up. This white version of the handheld will be offered by British telco O2 when the Play goes on sale in…
Mechanical engineering student and gamer Terry Garrett can play just about the perfect game of Abe’s Exoddus. Which is pretty awesome, considering Garrett is totally blind Having lost one eye at the age of 5 and the other at age 10, Garrett is limited in what he can play because, unable to see what’s happening…
2 Player Productions, the world’s finest purveyors of video game documentaries, are in a bind. Having filmed a short documentary on Minecraft, they now want to make a much longer one. But they need your help. Making professional films isn’t cheap or easy, and the team need money to get the project off the ground.…
Japanese artist ag+ has commemorated the 25th anniversary of the release of the original Legend of Zelda in the best possible way: with one of the most amazing pieces of fan art you will ever see. If Nintendo had a chapel and (bear with me) that chapel had an ornately-painted ceiling, this would surely be…
Nearly every single Legend of Zelda video game is revered, if not as an all-time classic, then at least as a pretty good/good/great game. The franchise’s one major departure onto TV screens? It was not good. Not at all While Mario was turned into a big Hollywood movie and Metroid was long rumoured to be…
Twenty-five years ago today, an ambitious title was released in Japan that would, in time, become one of the biggest and most important franchises in video game history. That game was The Legend of Zelda. While it may look crude now, it’s easy to forget that, at the time of the game’s release, it was…
Isaac Clarke, hero of the Dead Space series of horror shooters from Electronic Arts, isn’t the first man you’d turn to for fashion advice. I mean, he spends his days in an engineer suit. Covered in blood. The supremely talented Indonesian artist machine56 sees something in Clarke’s look, though, because he’s drawn up this design…
Assassin’s Creed is a pretty serious franchise! It’s nothing but killing, war, politics, religion and prostitutes. It’s about time it lightened up. Maybe with an animated series? DeviantArt user doubleleaf has drawn this entirely fantastical series of images depicting what the characters of Ubisoft’s stealth/action franchise (in particular the latest game, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood) would…
Fans of arcade gaming in the United States might be on the receiving end of a one-two punch, with both New York’s Chinatown Fair and California’s Arcade Infinity in danger of closure by the end of the month. For different reasons, both were seen as two of the finest arcades left in North America; Chinatown…
Caught by a gamer at the recent NBA All-Star game, here’s Miami Heat superstar LeBron James talking about which games he plays (and why he doesn’t play online). The fact he plays Call of Duty, Madden, NBA2K, etc shouldn’t break your heart. The guy isn’t going to say, “Well, on road trips me and the…
This is not a photoshop. This is cosplayer Jenn, dressed as the adventurous Lara Croft, hanging from a rope underneath a waterfall in Victoria, Australia. Click through to see just how far she’s hanging. She’s just stepped off a 165-foot waterfall, making this if not the most authentic piece of cosplay we’ve seen this week,…
Tippecanoe Valley High School’s sports & entertainment marketing class just started a new program where they chat via webcam with important business folks. To kick things off, these kids got to spend over forty minutes with Valve boss Gabe Newell. What’s great is not just the fact he spared the time to chat with the…
St. Louis instrumental hip-hop duo Safety Words have combined two of my favourite things in the world: Nintendo music and the Wu-Tang Clan. Check it out here, and check them out here
One hundred days ago, Kotaku reader Steven set out on a voyage. He was going to wake up every morning, buy a new Xbox Live Indie game, play it, then review it. Now, 100 days later, he’s still going Inspired by the mini-revolt staged by some Indie devs last year against Microsoft’s treatment of their…
Comic fans got some good (or at least promising) news yesterday, with word that two of the best series in recent years — The Walking Dead and Fables — will be turned into video games. They’re a…start. I guess. But they’re not enough! While Hollywood seems hell-bent on turning every obscure graphic novel it can…
When you release a game of the scope of Gran Turismo 5, there are bound to be hiccups. And GT5 had some hiccups. A massive patch issued overnight will hopefully remedy many of those! Taking the game to version 1.06, it adds a ton of fixes and new features to the game. Most important is…
Part of the whole point of indie PC hit Minecraft is that it’s a word-of-mouth kind of deal. So a commercial, even one that may be “fan-made”, seems to be missing the point a little. I say “fan-made” and not fan-made because, while it’s unclear whether this clip is actually a paid production of the…
You’ve seen the female version of Diablo III’s Demon Hunter class. Now check out the male. It’s only fair.
We don’t normally post advertisements for the sake of it here, but these ones – in which Uncharted star Nathan Drake shills Toyota 4WDs — were just too bizarre to pass up. These were actually first shown over a year ago, to co-incide with the Uncharted motion comics released on the PSN, but since nobody…
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