Kotaku: Guns

Real Bullets To Kill Real Zombies, Get 'Em Before It's Too Late

Brian Crecente — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:20:00 EST

You might think you're ready for a zombie uprising, but I bet you're wrong. More »

Generations Plumbs the Darkest Corners of Sonic's History

Mike Fahey — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:20:00 EDT

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The problem with mining the rich and varied history of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise for Sonic Generations is that history includes this red and black jerk-off right here. For some, Shadow is a welcome addition to Generations. For others, he still signifies the looming death of a beloved series. More »

Robbed GameStop Store Employee Threatened with Blasting

Mike Fahey — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:20:00 EDT

You're in the GameStop, you've got your gun at the ready, you've cleared the cash register area of children, and now you're ready to make your demand. "Give me the money!" Good! Now follow it up with a threat! "...or I'll blast you!" Wait, what? More »

What's America's Fetish This Week? Guns

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:00:00 EDT

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In approximately 90 days, walk into any bar in the State of Ohio. If there aren't any signs stating otherwise, feel free to carry your concealed weapon in that watering hole. But don't order a round. You can't legally drink if you are packing heat. More »

An FPS-Style Ammo Counter, In Real Life

Owen Good — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:00:00 EST

Playing shooters, I've often wondered if the persistent knowledge of exactly how many rounds you have left delivers a tactical advantage you can't have in real life. This invention delivers a video-game advantage to the battlefield. More »

Running Backwards While Shooting A Shotgun Is A Bad Idea In Real Life

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:00:00 EDT

One brave or foolish gamer claims he took out his shotgun, went somewhere remote, and tried a common video game first-person shooter maneuver. The results were painful. More »

A Kid With a Gun! A Teddy Bear With a Gun! A Party With Lots of Guns!!!

Brian Crecente — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:00:00 EDT

How did nobody get pistol-whipped at Capcom's Dead Rising 2 Los Angeles party? More »

The Minds And Guns Behind Brink

Mike Fahey — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:00:00 EDT

The latest developer diary for Splash Damage's Brink gives us a peek into the minds behind the game, and what happens when those minds get their hands on high-powered sniper rifles. More »

"That's Not The Way You Play the Game"

Brian Crecente — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:00:00 EDT

Long before there were video games about people shooting one another in war, there were wars with people shooting one another. More »

Welcome To Gun Week

Stephen Totilo — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:40:00 EDT

Gamers and the people who make games are crazy about guns. More »

Just Cause 2 DLC Brings Inventive New Ways To Cause Explosions

Mike Fahey — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:20:39 EDT

Want some parachute thrusters? How about a half-shotgun, half rocket launcher? All this and more is coming in two sets of Black Market downloadable content for Just Cause 2. More »

When Gun Nuts Meet Video Games

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:30:00 EDT

Firearms enthusiasts. Hardcore video gamers. They sound like two completely different groups of people, but both have one thing in common: everyone else thinks they're crazy. More »

Three-Year-Old Kills Herself With Game Controller-Shaped Gun

Mike Fahey — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:20:00 EST

A three-year-old in Wilson County, Tennessee died Sunday evening after accidentally shooting herself in the abdomen with a weapon she may have mistaken for a plastic Wii facsimile. More »

Games, Guns, and Movies

Maggie Greene — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Tom Endo has an interesting musing up over at the Escapist on the subject of guns, games, and game design — the issue at stake is what guns really mean in video games (his answer is 'not much, especially not compared to movies'). Dirty Harry may be a love letter to the .44 Magnum, but it's a more nuanced picture than we get in, say, Grand Theft Auto. Endo says we are not producing 'images of consequence,' and an overemphasis on pure mechanics has meant a stunted approach to violence: More »

Game Guns Are Fun Guns, Not Real Guns

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:30:00 EDT

You use a lot of real guns in games today. Heck, I spent nearly all weekend playing Call of Duty 4, and am now convinced I can work the assault rifle arsenals of both the American and Russian armed forces. I really can't though, and Popular Mechanics are here to remind me that despite looking and sounding real, most in-game guns don't behave like they're real. Take Rainbow Six Vegas 2, for example. Developer Philippe Theiren:

"I take these weapons, and look at what defines them, or what people think defines them. For an Uzi, people think it fires lots of bullets, and it's really inaccurate." That, he knows, has nothing to do with reality—if anything, Uzis are considered some of the most reliable and accurate submachine guns around. But the 80s (and Miami Vice in particular) offered us the Uzi as a low-life villain's weapon, spit-fire and out-of-control. "So I make it fire faster than it should. It's about taking the personality of a weapon, and making it shine in the game,"

Slightly disappointing, if only from a "what if Red Dawn happened to me" point of view, but interesting nonetheless. More »

The Weapons Of Rainbow Six Vegas 2

Mike Fahey — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:00:22 EST

This trailer features the various new ways to put metal through people's bodies at high speed in Ubisoft's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. It plays a lot like marketing materials for gun runners. Two different sniper rifles to choose from? Great at long range? Penetrates armor? You've just made yourself a sale, Ubisoft! *heads off to Wal-Mart to get arrested* More »

Child Demands Pokemon At Gunpoint

Mike Fahey — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:20:35 EST

Okay, I know that Pokemans are the source of everything good in the world, but this is going a bit too far. A 10-year-old boy in Redwood City, California wanted a fellow student's Pokemon cards so badly that he brought an Airsoft gun to Roosevelt Elementary School, held it to the 6-year-old's forehead and demanded he hand them over. What the hell was going through this stupid child's head? You don't bring a gun - fake or otherwise - into a school because you want to steal Pokemon cards. YuGiOh cards sure, but not Pokemon cards. It's 2008 already, get with the program. The underage gunman has been suspended from school pending possible expulsion, and I am betting whoever it was at his house that owns an Airsoft gun wasn't the type of person to let such behavior go without a good whack on the ass with a belt. Yes yes, disciplining your children is wrong, what was I thinking? More »

Man Shoots Son Over Xbox 360 Argument

fdemarco — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:00:00 EST

As tragic as this sounds, the real story has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. A young man (17) in Pennsylvania wanted his father to look at his Xbox 360 for some unknown reason and the father refused. An argument ensued resulting in the kid handing a rifle to his father and telling him to just go ahead and shoot him. So the father did. Now the kid is sedated in the hospital with a bullet lodged in his skull and the father is in jail. When asked about the situation, the boy's mother (and the man's ex-wife) said: More »

Stranglehold's Gun Porn

Brian Crecente — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:00:48 EDT

Clip: Haloid - Fan Service Evolved

Mike Fahey — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:20:22 EDT

Okay, all you folks can shut up now, we're posting the Halo and Metroid fan movie, Haloid. More »

Nintendo Pre-1980: The Lame Toy Years

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:29:37 EDT

I really sympathize with those kids who had to make do with the lame Nintendo. The light gun shootin', hanafuda card playin' era that didn't so effectively shut off the brain like a rousing session of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat can. More »

BFG 4 Sale...Cheep!

egauger — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:40:36 EDT

Just kidding, it's actually about eighty bucks! More »

Dad Tries To Kill Computer Screen

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:31:03 EDT

Over in Florida, a father fired shot at his son's computer, missing the monitor, nearly killing his son and hitting the wall. Forty-four-year-old Joseph Langenderfer said he and his 22-year-old son were arguing. Instead of doing the laundry, his son was spending all his free time playing computer games. Officers arrested the father Monday afternoon. According to Tampa Bay's 10 News, "Langenderfer is in the Pinellas County jail charged with one count of attempted murder, (accused of trying to kill his son, not the computer.)" Zing! More »