Meet the Hong Kong Orchid Woman. She doesn’t fight crime. She helps the homeless. Last spring, a young woman in Hong Kong took to the streets and pass out money and food to those in need. And next year, she’ll be getting her own feature film. Inspired by Kick-Ass and 1965 Hong Kong flick Black…
Ada Rising is a fan film. An odd fan film. I don’t mean that in an pejorative way—it’s just odd. But when you say the words “Resident Evil fan film”, street racing doesn’t leap to mind. Ada Rising [YouTube]
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance plays a lot like past titles in the series, especially Re:coded and Birth by Sleep, however there have been a few major changes. The first is the “free-flow” system which allows you to perform special attacks by interacting with enemies or the environment in certain ways. These attacks are…
Does Japan’s Club Nintendo get the best stuff? Yes, yes it does. Take this wide selection of Club Nintendo shirts available for 550 Club Nintendo points. There are different monograms available, like a Fire Flower or a Triforce. You can select your size and even the color of the polo shirt. There are eight different…
Artist Kevin Derken took two of the Japanese things he loved most—Maschinen Krieger and Studio Ghibli—and mashed them together for this. He calls it the S.A.F.S. Totoro. I call it awesome. S.A.F.S. stands for “Super Armored Fighting Suit”, while Totoro is the cute character from the classic anime My Neighbor Totoro. Previously, Kotaku featured Derken’s…
Okay, it’s not a plant manager. It’s not even an assembly line employee. It’s a recruiter at the Foxconn factory gate. That being said, it’s a recruiter at a Foxconn factory gate—you know, where they make Apple products. There have been rumors swirling around the inevitable iPhone 5—namely, that Foxconn is now going on a…
One Piece is perhaps the most popular manga in Japan. While it is serialized in a magazine aimed at young males, schoolgirls are apparently big into One Piece. “If you want to talk to girls, you better read One Piece and Bleach,” a high school freshman told Japanese publication Yuukan Gadget One Piece makes for…
This spring, the hot Apple device isn’t made from metal, glass or plastic. It’s made from paper. April 4 is Tomb Sweeping Day (Qingming), a tradition that goes back thousand of years. Families visit ancestral tombs and make offers of food. Paper replicas depict items that can be used in the afterlife, such as clothing,…
We’ve had a copy of Star Wars: Kinect in our New York office for a few days now. Which means, aside from Stephen’s upcoming review, people have been dancing their asses off to pop songs. Pop songs that have been re-worked to include lyrics from the Star Wars universe. While Lando and Boba Fett dance…
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Hope you like giant instruments of destruction. Because Russian artist KaranaK specialises in giant instruments of destruction. Most of the vehicles you’ll see in these galleries are from Star Conflict and Russian game Project Genome. Others are just personal pieces. You can see more on his DeviantArt page Fine Art is a celebration of the…
I never got the anger people had towards Mass Effect 3. I can’t remember the last time a video game made me angry. Sad, though, maybe even crushingly disappointed, yes. I remember that well. I remember it like it was last month, actually, because it was when I finished Mass Effect 3. Something this wonderful…
Sony has pushed live an update for PlayStation Vita users. Don’t get too excited. – A “Notification Alert” option will be added to Settings, so you can toggle alerts on or off – “After 10 minutes” will be added to the time options under Power Save Settings – An Arrow icon will now appear when…
…they wouldn’t just be awesome, they’d be this awesome. They’re the work of artist Caldwell Tanner, and it’s making me incredibly upset that these aren’t real books that can be bought and read to children who will grow up thinking the wrong story is so damn right Video Game Childrens Books [LOLDWELL, via Super Punch]
You would not believe how many Kickstarter ideas we’ve been shown in the last few weeks. Ever since Double Fine (and then Wasteland 2) showed there was serious money to be made on the service, every man, his dog and his dog’s workmates from the IT department have been sending us their idea for the…
Keith Apicary, who in the absence of anything neater I’m just going call a video game comedian, is my new hero. We’ve featured Apicary’s work before, but this takes things to a whole new level of laugh your ass off, as he visits a backup dancer audition for a role in a Kimberly Cole music…
Brazzers, a media network that specialises in internet porn movies, wants to get into the video game scene. But not by making a game. They want to sponsor fighting game players and fighting game events. Over on the Twitter feed of Brazzer’s director of special events, Rob Steele, some fighting game fans are going bananas.…
Not the Pokémons. There’s too many of them, and just when you think you’ve got them all, Nintendo goes and creates more. Catching all (or most) of the coloured variations of the Nintendo 64 control pad, though, that’s probably easier. And more impressive. And practical! [via is it real]
Two Crude Dudes is a terrible game. Just terrible. I remember trying to play it as a kid, on a number of occasions, and every time I picked up a controller I’d be floored by how poor it was. So, uh, why did I keep picking up a controller? Because I so badly wanted it…
Hello there, Kotaku! Welcome to another week of open threading. I hope you had as relaxing a weekend as I did. Here, gathered from the corners of the internet, are some things to delight and entertain you. Seems like there were a lot of good trailers released today. The Onion has launched a gaming-centric website…
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