Alright, I’ve just received the Kotaku office Vita, and I’m posting in between charging this bad boy up. The PlayStation Vita comes out in Australia today — anyone here planning on getting one? More »
It doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get a beta key, but it’s got to be worth a try, right? According to the official blog, a total of 9000 keys have already been sent out to players of Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter Strike Source players, and members of various communities — but now the survey is being opened up to everyone. Fill it out and you have a chance of receiving an invite to the beta. More »
This is where Kotaku readers go to talk about the stuff we’re not already posting about. Think of it as the official unofficial Kotaku community forum.
You’ve seen his classic Final Fantasy-inspired PC cases. Now Richard “8-Bit Builder” Clinton upgrades to 16-bit with his amazing PC case rendition of Link from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. How does he do it? Watch the video and find out. More »
I know. You’re sceptical. “Another Pokémon rap? This is going to be terrible,” you’re thinking.
But this video, released yesterday by game TV channel The Game Station, is surprisingly awesome. (Except for that last line about masturbation. That part is super-awkward.)
It's worth watching, if only so you can go up to people and say things like, "Your boy so fly, ground moves don't affect me."
Chengdu, one of China’s most livable cities, recently held a fan-made comic convention called Chengdu ComicParty01. And where there are comics, there are cosplayers. Japanese website Asagawo Blog has photos of the cosplayers and itasha (cars covered with anime-style stickers). More »
Since around 2005 or 2006, “boob” mousepads have enjoyed a degree of popularity with male gamers. But not all gamers are dudes, and not all dudes like boobs. Hence, this. More »
On the subject of gamification – turning things/activities that aren’t games into games – Greg Costikyan gets it 100% right. More »
Opus Artz is a concept studio in London which specialises in production art for the video game industry. Among its artists are guys like Bjorn Hurri and Theo Stylianides, so yeah, we’re about to see some good stuff. More »
Putting aside the recent LEGO licensed platformers, nobody has ever really got a LEGO game right. Even Traveller’s Tales’ games don’t really get it; they’re great because they’re simple and funny, not because they use LEGO in a particularly exciting or satisfying way. More »
