This Is What Happens When I Don’t Play A Game For A While
Poor Lara Croft. She didn’t deserve this.
What’s it like when a video game totally flops, selling less than 150 total copies? Read this interesting Gamasutra blog by Airscape designer Daniel West if you want a glimpse at how tough it is to get games noticed these days. “It’s no longer enough to make a good game.”
Losing In MOBAs Should Be More Fun
I’ve had a bad losing streak going in League of Legends the past few nights, which made me realize a fundamental truth about the game and others like it: they’re a lot less fun when you’re not on the winning team. Uniquely so, I mean.
Unsuccessful Nintendo Counterfeiter Gets Almost Three Years in the Slammer
A counterfeiter who made about £600,000 selling cartridges and discs loaded with pirated Nintendo games will do at least a year of hard time in the U.K. after being sentenced last Friday.
This Nintendo Bootlegger's Middle Name Is Success. Really.
Justin Success Brooks—yes, success is his middle name—made about £600,000 selling cartridges and discs loaded with pirated Nintendo games from 2009 to 2011. He's now headed for the slammer, or whatever they call it in the U.K., following a guilty plea last week.
Why Gamers Love to Fail
We play games to win. To complete challenges, to finish stories, to overcome obstacles. Games are goals and we need to meet them... right?
The LEGO Universe Ends on January 31
Despite a strong brand name, positive early buzz, and the implementation of a new free-to-play model back in August, the massively multiplayer LEGO Universe will be closing its doors on January 31, 2012, the day imagination died.
How Can Nintendo's Next Console Possibly Compete?
In today's gloomy and doomy Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter MtlAngelus wonders how Nintendo's next console can possibly stay competitive in today's gaming market.
The Duck Hunt Dog Finally Goes Too Far
It's bad enough when a pixellated hound dog is overly critical towards your duck hunting skills, but when he starts in on your job situation and your sexual performance, things have gone too far.
Street Fighter IV Box Art: Which Is Worse?
Oh, come on Capcom - you can do better than this, surely? This dodgy diptych of box art features a slightly too muscular Chun Li (c'mon she may be a strong lass, but as drawn here she could throw shot at the Moscow Olympics) a Ryu who looks like he is trying to do long division in his head and typography that looks…
