Saturday, June 7, 2008

What Game Genre Leaves You Cold, Oh So Very Cold?

3:45PM Brian Ashcraft | Time to run at the mouth! It’s Friday. So prop up your feet and open your mouth as we close this week with another round of TELL US DAMMIT. How it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interesting in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know fucktons about us — more than you even want to, we’re sure. But, hey, we’d like to know about you. That way you won’t be some faceless blob — and we might feel a tinge of guilt when we ban your arse. Or not, because really we’re incapable of human emotion. Whatever! Earlier we did a post on why first person and third person shooters are not popular in Japan. Many folks don’t seem to get the appeal! Fair enough. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Question: What game genre leaves you cold? More »

Buy MGS4, Get This MGS4…Shopping Bag?

3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Your first thoughts may be that the Metal Gear Solid 4 marketing juggernaut maaaay have gone a step too far this time. The offer? Buy a gunmetal or regular MGS4 bundle in Japan and (while stocks last!) you get this…bag. It’s one of those cotton, canvas-y type bags that you all should be using to throw your groceries in instead of plastic bags. Which may sound boring, but seeing as it’s big enough to hold a PS3 box in, it’s also mighty practical! After all, most gaming trinkets are just junk to clutter your shelves with. It’s nice seeing one you can not only use on a day-to-day basis, but is environmentally conscious to boot! ＫＯＮＡＭＩ、「MGS4」いよいよ来週発売!最新トレーラーを公開 [Game Watch] More »

Soul Calibur IV Vader’s Apprentice Trailer

3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Here, we go! Have a gander at Darth Vader’s secret apprentice in action in this new Star Wars game trailer. Though, we’re slightly confused why there are all those characters from Soul Calibur in it. What gives? More »

A Week In Comments

2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Does Brain Age Actually Work? No, Apparently. Comment by Kuraudo Nominated by geekgrrl This is why there’s no class division in high school between the intelligent and the sporty. The Cake Goes to Portal’s Commentary Comment by BolognaFire Nominated by sethmad Imagine: BABIES – Commentary “A big issue we had with starting off development was deciding who our target audience would be.”

Wii Remote Graf Mod Looks Truly Exciting

1:30PM Luke Plunkett | And no, not because it raises the prospect of a Wii port of Mark Ecko’s Getting up. It’s because, when I look at this excellent, home-made modification – crafted by German uni student Martin Lihs – that sees a can of spray paint turned into a fully-functioning Wii Remote, I think of a Wii version of Jet Set Radio (with 1:1 tagging), then I get a little giddy, then I get a little dizzy, then I need to go sit down for a bit. Wiispray turns Wii Remote into virtual graffiti spray can [Engadget] More »

Snake ‘Stache Start!

1:00PM Brian Ashcraft | And the Snake ‘Stache entries are rolling in! Here’s an Old Snake tissue lip from reader Cheese — complete with salute! Now, we didn’t say you needed a Kotaku sign for this contest, but if you add one, we’ll be happy. (However, you do need one for the Dragon Ball Z contest.) Contestants must create and wear moustaches made out of anything BUT hair. Got that? Entries must be of a non-hair moustache, and it must be on the contestant’s face. Finalists will be announced on June 12th. That’s soon! The winner with get an exclusive limited edition Metal Gear Solid 2 Raiden figure. More details here. Send your entry to kotakutcontestATgmailDOTcom. May the best ’stache win! Hit the jump for two more moustaches. Two more awesome moustaches, that is. More »

Oh, New Halo Wars Info!

12:30PM Luke Plunkett | Courtesy of this month’s GamePro, which is as you read this working its way to subscriber’s mailboxes. While the cover feature promises news on all future Halo titles, it only dishes out hard information (and gorgeous new screens) on Halo Wars. But that’s OK. We’ll take it. Because a console RTS is a new experience for Ensemble, they’ve stripped back their traditional playstyle in favour of something a little more Halo-esque. Which means only one economic unit – “supplies” – and fast, fast, fast battles, with the team promising you can be fighting “within ten seconds” of hitting the battlefield. Also revealed is at least a partial list of the units that’ll be available. More »

MGS4 2006 v MGS4 2008

11:30AM Luke Plunkett |

Team Fortress 2 Unlocks Its Feminine Side

10:00AM Michael McWhertor | Team Fortress 2 classes decked out with doe eyes and D-cups? Inevitable. We’re surprised it took this long to come to our attention, but artist “ghostfire” has launched a thousand shameful clean up sessions with her—not a typo!—rendition of the Red Team in cute outfits that are wildly inappropriate for battle. Yes, prints are available! Select A Class… by ghostfire [deviantArt - thanks, Marc!] More »