gif: KOMAZAWA ISOLATION / Kotaku Life emulates art, and nowhere is this more evident than in these YouTube videos of a man walking the streets of Tokyo, Japan as if he were a character from Japan Grand Theft Auto 3. While the movement is strange to a human, it will look familiar to anyone who ...
From 2005 to 2008 the French studio Arkane – which we know today as the team behind it dishonored and death loop– worked on a half-life Game. We knew thatand even saw the game before, but today we got one real well check it out Back in 2020, the documentary series no clip contained an ...
picture: Bandai Namco Last year, Japanese publisher Bandai Namco announced that it was ditching its logo, which it had used since the two formerly separate companies merged in 2006. “Our current logo expresses the merger of Bandai and Namco that resulted from the integration of the two companies,” it said in a statement back in ...
picture: Nintendo / Kotaku That Metroid Prime Logo looks so perfect and appropriate for the game that you probably never really noticed or thought about it. It’s just one of those things that looks like it always existed or came into this universe fully formed. But the designer behind the iconic logo is here to ...
screenshot: Square Enix Do you know what no one could have ever predicted? That a market based on imaginary ownership of infinitely duplicable JPEG images may not be the end of the game and sustainable in the long term. When The Wall Street Journal reports, the NFT market is “flattening out” and is down 92 ...
screenshot: Ubisoft Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is an absolute classic, and while the original, which was first released in 2003, is still very entertaining, the modern remake currently in development will hopefully be an improvement. Assuming that thing ever finds a way out of development hell. When we reported on it last ...
photo: Luke Plunkett You’ll have seen a lot of Reggie Fils-Aime news lately. The man has a book out that tells stories about the notoriously secretive video game industry, so that’s to be expected. Much of it is instructive, some of it emotionallysometimes even a little puzzling. However, one section simply has me upset. It’s ...
picture: Nintendo The people of the Mushroom Kingdom don’t like to make speeches. You will write at length Letters, sure, but when it comes to speaking out loud, most of them limit themselves to the odd soundbyte or solemn joke. Except for Wario. Nowadays you only hear him saying “WARIO” or “WAAAAA” around the release ...
Star Wars: Forces of Darkness cover artpicture: Lucasfilm/Disney Tomorrow is May 4th, aka war of stars Day. You know, May 4th kind of sounds like “May the force be,” which is part of the franchise’s famous “May the force be with you” phrase. Yes, it’s a bit silly, but as it’s somewhat of an annual ...
