Monday, October 15, 2007
Kotaku Flowers and Burned Bones
11:40PM Brian Ashcraft | To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Crap Wanted to thank you and the other Kotaku staffers for sending a bouquet* all the way to Japan. Working in virtual Kotaku Tower means that our daily environment is probably different from most people’s office experience. I was touched that things like tangible sentiment transcend an invisible work place. Thank you and the other writers for reaching out. We really appreciate it. (And of course! This being Japan, the flower company screwed up the spelling. Doh!) More »
Mario Pumpkin
11:20PM Luke Plunkett | Ask, and ye shall receive. Reader Ben was also bored, also realised Halloween was coming up and also decided to carve himself a game-related pumpkin. You may recognise the subject matter. Ben writes: Hey all, I carved this 8-bit Mario pumpkin today and thought you all might like it… Yes, Ben, we like it. It’s wonderful! Anyone care to take a crack at a Sonny Bonds (PQ1 Sonny, of course) or Hobbes pumpkin? More »
Adult Final Fantasy, Chun-Li Cutie, Pac-Man Bra
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Hrm. Sure, that kinda looks like Yuna from Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. But that costume is “Fantasy Heroine” from costume site 3wishes, which also liberally borrows from Capcom’s Chun-Li for its “Kung Fu Cutie” outfit. Isn’t this kinda stuff copyrighted? Not surprising as this is the same retailer responsible for the naughty Princess Peach outfit as well as the Pac-Man bra. There was a Pac-Man bra? Geez, nobody tells me anything! All that after the jump. Slightly NSFW Costumes [3wishes via Dark Diamond] More »
So, PAL Users, Your Wii Is Flashing
11:00PM Luke Plunkett | Don’t get too excited. It’s just the Metroid preview channel, turning up a few months late because…well, Metroid is turning up a few months late. More »
Folklore on the Wii? Laughter!
10:40PM Brian Ashcraft | Folklore (AKA FolksSoul) is a PS3 game. But let’s imagine, for a second, just a second, that it wasn’t. Hypothetically, could the game work on the Nintendo Wii? Folklore director Takashi Shono says: We donÂ’t think so.Â… (laughs) The design of the controller is entirely different, so we donÂ’t think it could be played in the same way. So, it wouldn’t work with the waggle. What about with a regular controller (read: Xbox 360)? More »
Halo 3 Merchandise Drought Comes To An End
10:20PM Luke Plunkett | More Halo figures are on their way. And already, it’s time for lazy repaints! While McFarlane are sending five “new” figures our way early next year, three are just Master Chief repaints. Boring. The other two, though, are custom Spartans, one in CQB armour (a Wal-Mart exclusive), one in EVA armour. And are much more interesting. Least, they are if you find 6-inch Halo figures interesting. More »
Play Second Life with YOUR BRAIN
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Jack into the matrix! Professor Junichi Ushiba of the Keio University Biomedical Engineering Laboratory has created a brain-computer interface (BCI) for Second Life that lets players stroll their avatars through the SL world just by thinking about walking. How does it work? More »Like Echocrome, But Fancier
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | This is levelHead. It’s a little project being worked on by Kiwi Julian Oliver. Basic premise is that the little white guy is walking through an Escher-like world, and you help him along by tipping the cube, which in turn tips the world inside the cube. This is still very much in the prototype stage, but he’s planning on releasing it as an open-source project sometime soon. Hopefully then somebody can get Tetris, Doom and/or Super Mario World running on it, because until then, thing’s officially useless. [Gizmodo] More »
A Maid Lower Torso Built For PCs
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | If you went to a maid internet cafe, you know, to talk to maids, drink fizzy soda and play freeware PC games, you’d probably want the cafe’s computer to be housed in something suitable. Something like a maid skirt with stockings — as not to be out of place. Hey, if you can play the PS3 with maids, then why not maid PC cases. Or something. Starting October 7th, maid cafe Maid Station began housing its computers in the Mini-ITX PC Case M4125. The Maid Station website points out that these PC cases are not wearing underwear. There was something else I wanted to add, but I forgot. Oh, wait. I remembered: WTF. PC Maid [Akiba Blog] More »
