“Tiny Bubbles”, this ain’t. YouTube people Johnny Streets and Mike Martinez played the Duke Nukem theme on ukuleles. The result is fantastic. “Yes, the only reason I did this was for the pun,” wrote Johnny. That, and the lulz. The sweet sounding lulz. Pretty good for somebody who learned the ukulele a day before this…
With a hair body suit and pistol heels, Bayonetta was one of the most interesting games of 2010. Wouldn’t it be great if Platinum Games made another? Sure it would. When asked on Twitter about Bayonetta 2, Hideki Kamiya replied, “In this weeks game magazine…” The game magazine he’s apparently referring to is Famitsu, and…
Watching a supposed mobile camera capture from the ruins of the ousted Gaddafi regime in Libya, Dutch site InsideGamer spotted something strange. Seems Colonel Gaddafi’s fifth son, Moatassem-Billah Gaddafi, might be the world’s biggest Prince of Persia fan. Skip to around 1:35 in the video above and you’ll see Mutassim – the country’s national security…
Mobile publisher Gameloft gets a lot of bad press for the way its games borrow visual and design cues from popular console titles. Its popular NOVA series, for example, is really HALO in all but name. Or so it is by the time it hits your phone’s screen. At the concept art stage, things are…
Battlefield games take place in urban environments, and even in the most war-torn regions on earth, those places are still usually full of people. Ever wonder why none of them are around while you’re capturing command points? It’s not a technological limitation. It’s a design decision based, and I think this is the right call,…
In the Star Wars universe, nobody ever really wins anything. When good “wins” evil remains, and when evil remains, good goes into hiding to repeat the cycle. That won’t be the case when MMO Star Wars Galaxies ends, though. When it ends, it’ll end. With the game being shut down on December 15, the developers…
Onechanbara. You know, those hack-and-slash games with bikini cowboy hat lady. According to the latest issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu, the latest Onechanbara, Onechanbara Z Kagura, will be released this winter in Japan on the Xbox 360. [ゲーム情報！ゲームのはなし]
A former tester at Visual Concepts, the developers behind 2K’s NBA and MLB games, is trying to take the pair’s parent company Take-Two Interactive to court, accusing them of a number of workplace violations. The suit is being put together by former “temporary employee” Aaron Martinez and his legal team, alleging that Quality Assurance (QA,…
Photographer Mike Kowalek loves taking pictures, whether that be birds, bridges, you name it. But it’s his cosplay photos that got him on Kotaku He doesn’t just take photos, but proper portraits of folks who don costumes, who deserve way more than simple convention snaps. The originals are viewable on Mike’s site. Check ’em out!…
Reader Andrew McMurry sends us this short little video he made, in which he jumps head-first into a Metal Slug level and proceeds to shoot, slash and explode his way through legions of bad guys. All in the name of your entertainment. While these “real man shoots like he’s in a video game” clips are…
Today, Nintendo’s ambassador program kicked off early in Japan, giving early 3DS adopters like me the chance to snag free NES games. In this video, I give some of the games a spin. It’s hard to give things a spin when you’re holding an iPhone with one hand and tugging on a joystick with another.…
There’s a reality TV special to be broadcast on Spike later this year that’ll be all about Uncharted 3. Think Survivor, only it’s a single episode. Or, more aptly, The Tester with half-tucks. It’s called Uncharted 3: Race to the Ring To be filmed over the course of a week in October in Los Angeles,…
Today, the 3DS’ “ambassador program” kicked off in Japan—you know the program that gives early birds twenty free games. Previously, Kotaku let you how to get your free games with words. And now we’re doing it with words and moving pictures. The future, people, the future! As readers (and my wife) pointed out, these free…
Sega’s Toshihiro “Brown Man” Nagoshi, the creator of the Monkey Ball series, has revealed today that he’s formed a new studio at Sega which will deal exclusively with games for the Ryu ga Gotoku (Yakuza) series. That studio’s name is Ryu ga Gotoku Studio (catchy!), and is currently working on two new titles. The first…
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Two trailers for Hawken in one week? It’s like Christmas. In August. While the last one was all moody and only featured a little gameplay, this is mostly in-cockpit shots of rockets firing and guns chattering and big mechs crumpling and exploding all over some of the most beautiful maps we’ve ever seen in a…
If you’ve ever wanted to hear the Top Gear star drawl “light plasma cannons”, you should watch this clip of Jeremy Clarkson giving the rundown on the Warthog that’ll feature in Halo 4 It comes across as a bizarre piece of marketing, until you remember the Warthog will be in the upcoming Forza 4 (albeit…
I don’t tend to truly miss many video game studios. Businesses come and go, their developers move on, make new stuff, the world keeps spinning. But on a weekly basis I find myself missing Microprose, who gave us Civilization. And X-Com. And Master of Orion. And Railroad Tycoon. And Master of Magic. And Falcon 4.0.…
Greetings, Kotaku readers. I thought I recognized your foul stench. Wait, I didn’t mean it like that. Sorry, I might be a touch grumpy in tonight’s open thread—where you’re free to talk about whatevs—because my Star Wars stubbornness is flaring up again. What can I say? I’m a little bummed out that it appears that…
Gal Gun, the upskirt-action-packed shooter released in Japan for Xbox 360 earlier this year, is also coming to PS3 this winter—with PlayStation Move support. Expect a new character, a new “Doki Doki Carnival” mode and improved graphics. [Andriasang]
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