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Here’s an excerpt from the magazine Computer Gaming World, reporting on E3 1997. Replace “real-time strategy” with “first-person shooters” and bump up the numbers a little bit—50-75MB!—and this could be from 2014. Some trends just don’t go away. (Facebook, via NeoGAF)
A Nintendo Minute video from last month featured cosplayer Li Kovacs, who took the hosts through the process of designing and building one of her amazing Zelda outfits.
For the last few years, nearly all of Kotaku’s cosplay coverage has been focused on a weekly roundup we called Fancy Pants. It was intended to serve as a collection of the best of the last week in cosplay (and cosplay photography). It was fun, but like all fun things, sooner or later it had…
Assassin’s Creed meets Jack Sparrow? Savvy. Cosplayer is Ace Pendragon, while Vivien Kwong took the photo.
Bree the V. is killing it as Poison, from Final Fight. Photo by DROO
Calen Brait worked on BioShock Infinite for five years as lead modeler. Amongst his other roles, he got to engage in some digital architecture and exterior design. These pieces are thus a little different from what we normally see here on Fine Art, looking more like a toy catalogue than an art collection, but that’s…
This is a new week. There are new video games coming out this week. These are those video games. TUESDAY, MARCH 11 Atelier Escha (PS3) Dark Souls 2 (Xbox 360, PS3) Titanfall (Xbox One, PC, Xbox 360) Towerfall (PS4) FRIDAY, MARCH 14 Yoshi’s New Island (3DS) Coming Soon: March 18: Final Fantasy X HD (Vita),…
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published March 4. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 3. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
QUOTE | “[Tomb Raider has] exceeded profit expectations and continues to make significant contributions to our overall financial performance.” – Square Enix’ head of studios Darrell Gallagher, explaining why the game is on its way to becoming the best-selling version in the franchise’s history. Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week ……
Alexandre “Zedig” Diboine currently works at Activision. If you think that means he draws army men all day, though, you couldn’t be further from the truth. He works at Beenox, a studio that’s mostly done Skylanders stuff. And his art is some of the cheeriest, most vibrant we’ve shown here this year. In fact, it’s…
Nothing gets a red-blooded American going in the morning like the smell of bacon on a skillet. Unfortunately, actual bacon requires a fair bit of work to get started. What if you could set your alarm clock to wake you up with the simulated smell of bacon? What if, indeed. I initially had a hard…
I eat a lot of cookies. Really, it’s kind of a financial burden. One that just got worse when I walked into the grocery store and saw four new varieties of ice cream-themed Chips Ahoy, which I immediately bought and ran home to try. Chips Ahoy! (the exclamation point is technically part of the name)…
Track: We Move Lightly | Album: Lumiere | Artist: Dustin O’Halloran Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Alastair Mclauchlan is an artist at Rockstar, where he’s worked on games like Grand Theft Auto V, Grand Theft Auto IV and its expansions. You can see more of Alastair’s work at his personal site and CGHub page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can…
How did it take humanity this long to come up with this perfect idea? “Milk and cookie shots” are the creation of Dominique Ansel—you know, the same person who came up with cronuts (a donut fused with a croissant)? According to Eater, the idea came after Ansel ate an Oreo cookie with milk for the…
Track: Torches | Album: IV | Artist: The Bronx Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Stephan Williams is a senior 3D artist at Carbine Studios, the team working on sci-fi MMO Wildstar. We recently saw some great 2D Wildstar art from Garrett Hanna; this stuff is of the 3D variety but has all the colour you’d expect from a game that’s setting out to burst people’s eyeballs. You can see…
Outside of budget lines, video game box and disc art these days is a unique and varied art. No two games’ presentation looks the same. But for a short time, right back at the beginning of their days in the home console market, Nintendo bucked this trend. And it’s a shame they never stuck with…
If you know nothing about gaming, but you’re curious, what should you play first? If you’ve played hours of Candy Crush and you’re looking for something better, what’s the next step? Here are some suggestions for the best “gateway games”. This is just a list of examples based on some games that my own non-gamer…
When Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a sandwich, he makes the Steak & Egger sandwich. Here’s the thing about the Steak & Egger sandwich: it has so much protein, it could kill probably kill a man. But as always, the food showcased in Epic Meal Time is not the sort of thing anyone should try to eat…
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