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And the Greatest Video Game Dog of All Time Is...

MTV Multiplayer tapped a number of industry folks to judge their latest stop on the road to their naming the Greatest Animal in the History of Video Games.

In January they named the greatest horse of videogamedom, Epona, from the Legend of Zelda series. This month they selected the best dog, PaRappa the Rapper, of course.

The judges this time around were Leigh Alexander, of Gamasutra and Sexy Videogameland, Tofuburger of I Can Has Cheezburger, Evan Wells of Naughty Dog, and myself.... of here.

Hit up the site to read everyone's reasoning and their number two and three spots. I picked the dog in Duck Hunt and the zombie dogs of Resident Evil as my runners-up.

And The Award For Greatest Video Game Canine Goes To... [MTV Multiplayer]

8:00 AM on Sun Mar 9 2008
By Brian Crecente
3,086 views, 58 comments

hey kids

There's A Viva Piñata Party In Your BK Kids Meal

Fans of Viva Piñata, charbroiled beef and/or mechanically separated, reshaped chicken meat will want to hoof it on down to their local Burger King and secure themselves a BK Kids Meal. The fast food chain is giving kids their required daily amount of plastic with an octet of brightly colored toys molded in the form of the cast of Viva Piñata Party Animals, one free with each kid targeted combo. More »

5:40 PM on Mon Oct 8 2007
By Michael McWhertor
3,510 views, 39 comments

oh god no

You Got Halo In My LOLCats

What happens when you marry the worldwide Halo phenomenon with the plague of cat pictures with humorously misspelled captions? I'm pretty sure the world is supposed to explode, but until that happens there's Halolcats.com. It features many of the same cat pictures you've seen infesting forums or sent to you in emails from your co-worker who thinks they're just so darn cute, spliced with the game series you either love or despise. Pictures are sorted by categories much like the medals you achieve in multiplayer, such as 'Catting Spree' , 'Double Cat', and 'Catastrophe'. You can even submit your own pictures in case you have far more free time than I do. The creators went as far as to send out a press release announcing this unholy union, so hit the jump to see if you can figure out why the hell someone would do this. More »

9:40 AM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By Mike Fahey
4,419 views, 61 comments

Latest by offrampoffmap: @Piratedoom: Best post of the week. Good job sir. more »

xbox live

Viva Piñata: Party Animals Demo

Those wacky pinatas are back and ready to party! Have you got 971MB of hard disk space left on your Xbox 360? If so, the Viva Piñata: Party Animals demo is now available to fill both it and your heart with all the joy and rapture living paper statues filled with candy can muster. Enjoy a selection of mini-games and races that will give you just a taste of what you'll be getting once the full game hits late next month. The demo supports 1-4 players, so get together your family and friends and get them all excited to play, only to have their hearts crushed when the demo ends. If anything it's something for all you Halo 3 fans to do until Tuesday, or your eBay copies arrive.

Demo: Viva Piñata Party Animals [Major Nelson's Blog]

4:00 PM on Thu Sep 20 2007
By Mike Fahey
2,618 views, 19 comments

Latest by JakeDunn: I loved VP although the over the top childish music and voices did get to me so after 600+ points I couldn't pick up the game anymore. more »

gc07

Pink Panther To Maul Children's Minds

The Pink Panther has never struck me as a particularly educational franchise. If anything French police detective Jacques Clouseau has the potential to make children even dumber, and my memories of the cartoon character always bring to mind Owens Corning insulation, but apparently Compedia sees things differently. The edutainment game company have partnered with MGM to create a series of educational titles featuring the cartoon cat. Compedia CEO Shai Newman is confident.

With millions of CD ROMs sold in over 40 markets, we are confident that we will have good sales results with the new Pink Panther line of products. The games will allow kids in many countries to play our user friendly, high quality games and enjoy the fun of learning with the Pink Panther

The Pink Panther was once voiced by Matt Frewer of Max Headroom fame. Your child will never learn anything from something associated with Matt Frewer. Look for the first titles to be previewed at Leipzig next week. More »

9:20 AM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By Mike Fahey
1,262 views, 15 comments

Latest by joelface: you know what.. childhood cartoons should grow up with their target audience. kids these days dont know pink panther and they also dont care. but i bet if they made a darker pink panther movie or game, designed for the people who more »

a new paradigm

Party Animals Invents...Button Mashing?

In an online interview, lead designer Cameron Davis talks about the upcoming Viva Pinatas: Party Animals for Xbox 360. Having enjoyed the first Viva Pinata game, I'd been optimistic about the new title. But knowing what I know now—the groundbreaking controls in the new belching minigame—I'm ecstatic:

The core idea of it was that I wanted the player to use the controller in a new way, and hitting two random buttons as quickly as possible was just the ticket.

Other innovations are said to include a menu system, color graphics and...if we're lucky...a pause feature that freezes the game in progress. For those with callused thumbs, a demo should be hitting LIVE shortly.

PinataIsland.info interview with Cameron Davis [pinataisland]

12:40 PM on Thu Aug 2 2007
By Mark Wilson
1,477 views, 41 comments

Latest by Purple Dave: Ah, but the innovation seems to be that it doesn't matter what buttons you push, so long as you push them very fast. In other words, this guy has managed to invent the first game where skill is far less more »

clips

Viva Pinata Party Animals

Microsoft's John Porcaro upped this 13 minute gameplay video showing off Viva Pinata Party Animals from last week's big. show. Still not doing it for me.

6:00 PM on Wed Jul 18 2007
By Brian Crecente
2,473 views, 36 comments

if i could pwn with the animals

Guinea Pig Rocks The 360

Today is turning out to be a very stressful day for me for various reasons, and when I have a stressful day going on, only one thing can help calm me down. Animals playing console games. Kotakuite Taylor comes to the rescue!

I recently purchased 2 guinea pigs. One of them escaped recently and I was amazed at what she ran straight to. She then proceeded to pwn me in the Halo 3 Beta.

Well I suppose there are worse creatures(so NSFW) to be beaten in Halo by. More »

12:22 PM on Tue May 22 2007
By Mike Fahey
15,656 views, 37 comments

Latest by Anthropomancer: @cringer8: Oh dear, I've never seen someone defend cute with such vitriol! It's meant to be a gaming blog, not a cuteness blog. I have a lot of pictures of my wonderful kitty pawing my DualShock, should I send them in more »

hamster

Hamster to DS Cat: Bring It

So the DS / 360 playing cat thinks he's hot stuff, hmm? Seattle Roll's hamster, Kumanoko, thinks otherwise, and is fully prepared to put the witty kitty in its place. More »

11:22 AM on Mon Feb 12 2007
By Mike Fahey
4,987 views, 35 comments

world of warcraft

The Tauren Plushie

Via our own adorable Alice comes this equally adorable anthropomorphic bovine, lovingly crafted by a wily taqxidermist over at the Craftster forums. More »

8:40 AM on Wed Oct 18 2006
By kotaku.com
1,012 views, 9 comments

ps2

The Amazing Crochet Prince of All Cosmos

I have a rather unfortunate confession to make: my bedroom closet is stuffed with sad button-eyed stuffed animals. More »

6:00 AM on Tue Sep 12 2006
By kotaku.com
857 views, 14 comments

animals

Video Games For Animals

Playing fetch is out. Video games are in. Reachers at Emerging Art and Architecture Research Group, or RASTER, and Singapore's Mixed Reality Lab are developing a hamster video game. Make that, a video game for hamsters. More »

12:22 PM on Tue Apr 18 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
368 views, 2 comments

Kotaku

Another Mario Sonic Collaboration in the Works?

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