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In Bomberman: The Movie, Only a Cop on the Edge Can Save a City in Danger

Owen Good — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:30:00 EDT

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The Country Club and The Game Station, filmmakers with a flair for dressing up video-game classics in action-film tropes, have struck again with this Bomberman trailer, and it is outstanding. [h/t OMGWTFOTL] More »

You'll Never Want to Turn Off this Street Fighter HDTV

Owen Good — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:30:00 EDT

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Now, I love Street Fighter, and I love big ass TVs, but when my friend calls and is all "LOL, turn on Judge Mathis!" I don't want to wait eight seconds while the screen shows me a picture of Ryu. More »

At Last, A Keyboard With A LOL Button

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:40:37 EST

The Fast Finger keyboard was made for people, mainly children, who are not yet comfortable with the QWERTY layout of most keyboards. It's also made for people who'd love to use just one button to type TTYL, L8R or BRB. More »

Your Quarterly Reminder That Duke Nukem Forever Exists

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:40:31 EDT

3D Realms is still plugging away at Duke Nukem Forever, with a playable version being shown off to the crew from Shacknews that serves as a helpful reminder that Duke Nukem Forever exists. After witnessing "a good half hour" of gameplay and environments from the perennially late first-person shooter, the response was measure and largely free from overhype. More »

LOL Not LOL-ing In Stores?

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:05 EDT

Doesn't look like multiplayer chat DS game LOL is getting a bricks and mortar retail U.S. release. Known as Archime DS in Japan, the game is party game that has players think up challenges while the other players battle it out in a sexied-up Pictochat. The game goes good with booze. According to the game's US distributor Agetec, the game is "available only online." Not sure what that means exactly, but it sounds like it won't get a traditional retail release.
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Agetec Makes DS Owners LOL

Mike Fahey — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:00:42 EDT

Are you ready to LOL? Agetec is bringing a new game to the Nintendo DS this May that is exclusively local mutiplayer! LOLing yet? Yes, the name of the game is LOL, and here's how it plays. One of the players in the room writes up a crazy challenge on their DS, sets a time limit, and then the other players in the room use words and pictures to answer the challenge, with the whole group voting on the winner who then goes on to the next challenge. It sounds like it could be a ton of fun...granted you have a bunch of friends who each own a DS and regularly get together all at once. Sounds like it could be fun to play at parties, but then again you could just do the same thing with scraps of paper and a timer and you wouldn't have to spend money on anything other than pens. I just cannot see a local multiplayer exclusive working over here. Remember Ping Pals? Yeah. Me neither. More »

The Super Bowl Halftime Show We Want To See

Mike Fahey — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:20:47 EST

The Serious Sports News Network has just revealed that rock superstar Tom Petty will avoid the normal, overproduced Super Bowl stage show, instead opting to take on "Through the Fire and Flames" on his Nintendo Wii.

"I just figured, why waste all that time? Why make everyone sit through an insufferable halftime show again?" said Petty, who is very excited about the game between the Giants and Patriots. "Instead, I'm just going to bitch DragonForce on 'expert,' which should be enough show for everyone."

Of course this isn't real news, but for just a brief, shining moment our collective hearts soared, our minds reeling with the heady possibilities. I actually dropped this link on several of the Kotaku staff, who were absolutely crushed when I told them it was fake. Wilson was almost in tears as he said, "Thanks for shattering our lifelong dreams that we just realized we had." *sniffle* More »

New York Times Doesn't Know From Video Games

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:40:41 EST

It's nice to feel smug and superior when comparing one's knowledge to that of New York Times reporters. Unfortunately, it's only for the geekiest of reasons, as we're feeling quite high and mighty taking comfort in the knowledge that our understanding of video games and console technology far outweighs that of the Times. More »

Halo Car Red Rings, Wii Car Takes Second in Race

Brian Crecente — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:30:25 EDT

With the release of Halo 3 just days away the ultimate faceoff went down over the weekend at the Dover Speedway: Halo 3 took on the Wii in the form of a NASCAR racing pitting Greg Biffle versus David Stremme. More »

Microsoft's $100,000 Xbox Live TV Contest

Mike Fahey — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:23:45 EDT

Are you tired of the comedy offerings available via Xbox Live? Think you can do better? Then Microsoft and the New York Television Festival want to hear from you. They've announced the Xbox Live Originals contest, which give aspiring television producers a chance at having their original comedy pilot made into a 6 episode series for Xbox Live, complete with a $100,000 budget, which in real television just about covers drugs and snacks for one episode. More »

PS3 After Market Nosedives

Brian Crecente — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:10:58 EST

Before the Playstation 3 hit, the console was selling for $2,000 to $3,000 a pop. The day the console hit, the average price of a Playstation 3 on eBay was $2,900. More »

The Captain Has Turned Off the FTW Sign

egauger — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:20:15 EDT

Please feel free to move about the cabin, and come up with new acronyms. Joystiq is live at the scene of the crime: More »

You Keep Using That Word

egauger — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:40:42 EDT

I do not think it means what you think it means. More »

Out of Bounds in the Saint's Row Demo

egauger — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:20:04 EDT

1up reports on this clip from GameVideos, in which player RCT Oregon shows us that it's more than possible to get outside of the faint red boundaries in the Saint's Row demo. More »

DS LOL

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:19:12 EDT

Chibi Robo producer Kenishi Nishi blogged his next project: LOL DS. The title apparently refers to "laughing out loud" and his Dreamcast game L.O.L. (Lack of Love), a Japan-only release in which players controlled a crustacean-like creature. More »

Game Retailers, ESRB Not Down With Bad Grade

Brian Crecente — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:00:19 EST

The Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association and ESRB is none too pleased with the National Institute of Media and the Family s report card grade the game rating system received. (Was that enough acronyms for you?) More »