For models, posing is important. It can really sell the clothes—make them look cool. But bad posing can have the opposite effect and make the threads look anything but cool. In Japan, Capcom is rolling out a Premium Edition for survival horror game Resident Evil 6 that comes with, along other items, a leather jacket…
While Diablo III might be a big hit in South Korea, the country’s Fair Trade Commission is looking into allegations that Blizzard refused to refund Koreans who purchased the game and were frustrated with overloaded game servers. Unable to play, these unhappy gamers demanded refunds, which Blizzard apparently refused. In South Korea, the servers have…
If you’ve been on the internet in the past five years, you’ve seen a trio of Japanese ladies doing aerobics, while chanting, “I have a bad case of diarrhea.” The clip, and the other Zuiikin’ English footage, are infamous. Those three ladies have earned their place in internet meme history. Two of them seem to…
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These images “leaked” by All Games Beta supposedly give us our first proper look at the upcoming Dead Space 3, ahead of a more official outing over the coming days. They depict a pair (I’d say one of them is Isaac Clarke but his face is so everyman I can’t be sure) engaging in some…
Just in case you weren’t put off by the lack of any kind of mention of Valve Software, advance warning of the game’s arrival or the complaints demanding their money back, if you see a game called Counter Strike on the App Store, don’t spend $2 on it. Unless you enjoy being ripped off by…
Yesterday I had the most incredible day. Yesterday I visited the studio of Good Game: Spawn Point, at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Good Game: Spawn Point is a TV show about video games, and its target audience are young gamers – under 10s – kids who spend their days playing Minecraft, Smash Bros., and Mario…
Japanese collectible company Kotobukiya will soon be releasing this small, 6″ version of Ikaruga’s Hitekki Genkei fighter. It’s a model kit in the truest sense of the word: while it comes pre-painted, it also comes entirely disassembled, meaning you not only have to put its 200 pieces together by hand, but glue most of them…
Given the fact most big games are made by Westerners for Westerners, we don’t often get the chance to assume the role of a serious, proper Islamic (or even Middle Eastern!) character. And no, Ubisoft, a fairy-tale, clichéd ideal of a Persian Prince doesn’t count. So it’s awesome seeing Paradox give Crusader Kings II players…
Tonight, we’re checking out the portfolio of Chinese artist Ming zhu Yang, who works for Gameloft’s pre-production studio Redsteam. Specialising mostly in character art, you can see more of her stuff at her personal site. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or so you can save them as wallpaper), right-click on them…
One of the things that makes zombie survival sim DayZ so difficult is that players start the game without a map. Even later on, getting hold of one can be tough. Without a map, you can’t see where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, you have trouble finding other survivors. Sure,…
Well, it was made by a 3D printer, but I refuse to call them “machines”. If you can put materials into something, press a button and out the other end comes entire things, that to me is magic. Dark magic. This Halo figure is being shown off on the webpage of the Objet Connex500, a…
Mommy, where do video games come from? They come from factories, dear, factories like these, from the 1980s. This awesome video shows the factory floor at companies such as Midway, Atari and Taito, where vintage arcade classics like Pac-Man were put together, while also giving us a glimpse behind the scenes of Nintendo circa 1988.…
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sony “considered but ultimately rejected” plans to make its next home console – code-named Orbis – a download-only device. The fact it even thought about such a move shows not only how far digital delivery has come in the six years since the PS3 first launched, but also shows…
It’s perhaps not as famous as other hatchet jobs on the English language perpetrated by Japanese developers in the 1980s, but it’s one of my favourites nonetheless. This is from the MSX version of Salamander, which you may know as Life Force, a shmup first released in 1986. He just…he just doesn’t look that happy…
Hello, Kotaku! Can it really be Wednesday already? I guess it can be. Taking Monday off will really make your week fly by, as will crazy E3 preparations. Hope you guys are as excited as we are. Here now, some things for you to read in your open thread: The analytics behind Star Trek’s ‘Redshirt’…
The San Diego Comic-Con is fast approaching, and among the many collectibles that’ll be available there as “exclusives” will be this fancy threeA x Valve piece, based on Portal It’s a variation on the companion cube first shown off in March, only this one looks a little worse for wear. Poor little thing. Best get…
In the far and distant future, we can hope that an Elder Scrolls game actually looks this good. Less like a fantasy world in a snowglobe, more like a place you’d actually enjoy a morning spent hanging out in the nice warm sun. Perhaps not the next generation of hardware. Maybe the one after. These…
Getting my family to sit down and have a meal? Hah, forget it. Too many conflicting schedules. Trying to have a conversation when we could actually sit down? Also impossible, and this is that Twitter didn’t even exist when I was a teenager. I can’t imagine having an entire family sit down and actually converse…
Yesterday, I listed 5 things that Rockstar should carry over from Max Payne 3 into Grand Theft Auto V. Today, I’ll list 5 things that I hope they leave behind forever. Some of these things are new to Max Payne 3, some are bad habits that have developed over time. A couple are story-related, a…
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