Skype is available on the PlayStation Portable, but with Microsoft’s Skype acquisition, the future of Skype seemed to be up in the air. Skype on the PS Vita was apparently revealed at a recent PS Vita event in Brazil. Kotaku followed up with Sony for clarification. A Sony Computer Entertainment spokesperson told Kotaku that there…
Duke Nukem Forever begins in a casino bearing the Duke’s name. While slowly making your way through this marble-clad tribute to a hero of decades past (I hesitate to use the word “fighting”), you’ll pause to sign autographs. You’ll get a blowjob. You’ll control a remote control car. Twice. You’ll complete a “puzzle”, you’ll do…
Star Fox 3D, which is out in Japan next month, will be released in the West in September. It’ll be out on the 9th in Europe, while Americans will get their hands on it on September 11. [Eurogamer]
Today, Professor Layton studio Level-5 is teaming with Japanese phone game company DeNA to make a new social game called Professor Layton Royal. [Kotaku Japan]
Indie Game: The Movie is an upcoming documentary focusing on the trials, tribulations and processes behind some of the luminaries of the independent gaming scene, including Phil Fish (Fez) and Jonathan Blow (Braid). Also helping out on music duties is Jim Guthrie, best known around these parts for the incredible Swords & Sworcery soundtrack It’s…
Sir Mix-A-Lot tried tricking Kotaku Editorial Director Joel Johnson to sign a nondisclosure agreement with whiskey for his new Facebook game Mix-n-Match. It didn’t work. Still, I’m pretty sure Joel, who’s on vacation his week, is drunk. Screw NDAs, Sir Mix-A-Lot! Next time, make Joel sign a big butt
Mario and Metal Slug. They’re two of 2D gaming’s most wonderful franchises, and for these three shining moments, they become one. Mr.ラビット [pixiv, via Tiny Cartridge]
Former Vice-President, current Current TV mogul Al Gore addressed the Games for Change summit yesterday. Read Kotaku‘s liveblog here (Top photo: Ethan Miller | Getty)
In between projects, and given the lackluster critical reception afforded to the last game in the series, creative agency Basic figured they’d take a swing at pitching a new Medal of Honor game. After all, it couldn’t do much worse than the last one! No doubt inspired by the likes of Modern Warfare and Ghost…
Nintendo’s 3D television service “Itsu no Ma ni Terebi” went live today in Japan. The service is light on actual 3D programs, and it might disappoint some. Others, it will make uncomfortable, but not for the reason you’d think. It’s no secret, 3D gaming and the 3DS and me do not mix. That’s fine. Nintendo…
Mario hasn’t always been known as Mario. Back in the day, one of his earlier names was Jumpman. The story of how the change came about is informative, if also a little sad, especially for poor Pauline. [via neatorama]
Protests don’t get any more polite than this. Late last week, a banner appeared on a Studio Ghibli building outside Tokyo’s city center. The banner read: “Studio Ghibli wants to make movies with electricity that’s not from nuclear power plants.” The banner has cute sunflowers drawn on it. Studio Ghibli is well within its right…
If you were wondering how the PlayStation Vita’s gimmicky (though optional) motion controls would affect the handheld’s upcoming Uncharted game, Golden Abyss, wonder no more.
While casting calls and web domain registrations have already seemingly peeled back the curtain on the next proper Grand Theft Auto game, a report on GameSpot says that title is a lot further along than you’d think. According to “sources close to the Take-Two Interactive subsidiary” (that subsidiary being developers Rockstar), development on Grand Theft…
Time for another “before they were famous” here on Total Recall. Last time we looked at Bungie, creators of the Halo franchise. This time? We’re looking at id Software, the team behind Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake I’m going to preface this entire thing by saying that if you’re at all interested in the history of…
If you thought Duke Nukem Forever was the last gasp for the ’90s video game icon, well, what the hell were you thinking? Publisher Take-Two certainly isn’t done with Duke, regardless of the reaction to his latest game. Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick tells Forbes that “you will see future Duke IP coming from this company.”…
Good evening, Kotaku readers. Is it really Monday already? (*sound of heavy sighing*) Good news! We got an open thread right here where we can share in the pain together! There’s a ton of good links just below, so please, take a look and talk amongst yourselves. This *is* an open thread, so please, go…
Konami is releasing a special edition version of Gradius-meets-boobs shoot ’em up Otomedius Excellent. It features a bonus rarity for North American retail releases, a two-side pillowcase with busty cartoon girls printed on it, girls that won’t protest being drooled upon by you. For the record, this is what it looks like. The special edition…
Valve’s forever updated Team Fortress 2 is rolling out “the biggest, most ambitious update” in the history of the game later this week, the Über Update. Despite its name, it’s not solely focusing on TF2‘s Medic class. The first part of the Über Update, detailed on the game’s official site, is Mafia-related, detailing three new…
In this excerpt from his book The Erotic Engine, Patchen Barss talks about one part of the future of pornography and sex on the internet: video games. Not all virtual environments take the approach of Second Life, which is to rely on emergent sex as an engine of change and creativity. Some virtual sex comes…
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