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3d realms

Your Quarterly Reminder That Duke Nukem Forever Exists

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.

"We both confidently agree that after seeing this demonstration, Duke Nukem Forever is looking great, and will easily stand apart from the crowd in both visual and gameplay styles," writes Shacknews' Steve Gibson. Not going to be stamped on a box in a big, bright, all-caps pull quote, but better than nothing. Maybe?

Shacknews Views Duke Nukem Forever [Shacknews]

3:40 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Michael McWhertor
6,262 views, 82 comments

rumor

LOL Not LOL-ing In Stores?

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.
LOL Page [Agetec via Cosmos Gaming via Siliconera]

10:00 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
2,895 views, 44 comments

Latest by Chef: It actually does sound really neat, but sounds too barebones to sell(which is why it got pulled I bet), like some kind of polished homebrew app, except not free and not WiFi. more »

game announce

Agetec Makes DS Owners LOL

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 »

7:00 PM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Mike Fahey
2,722 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: Wait what so now "LOL" is copyright agetec? Man they deserve it once I was like "shit Agetec I'd like to order this game" and they were all "nobody's home" and I was like "oh really" and they were so "oh more »

guitar hero iii

The Super Bowl Halftime Show We Want To See

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*

Petty to just play Guitar Hero III for Super Bowl halftime [Serious Sports News Network]

10:20 AM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By Mike Fahey
5,869 views, 64 comments

Latest by WalletMan: Damn... I forgot to ever reply to this. Now nobody will see anything I have to say in response. Peh. The people who called me pathetic are obviously those exact mainstream people I'm talking about. You didn't get more »

lol

New York Times Doesn't Know From Video Games

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.

The NYT makes mention of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 both being powered by the Cell processor, with the latter listing for as low as $299. Furthermore, the paper refers to Gran Turismo 5 as "a hyper-realistic, high-speed journey, is one of the [PlayStation 3's] best sellers." At least they know that Halo 3 is the third episode in the series, a game that Dan Strack, a trader for a Wall Street bank, is quoted as calling the "latest and greatest game that people are walking on water over."

While this edition of the New York Times may be forgiven, as it may have come from the future, we can't excuse Strack's sloppy metaphor. Halo 3 doesn't make you Jesus.

Some Essential Hardware (Even Away From the Street) [New York Times - thanks, Aaron]

6:40 PM on Fri Nov 30 2007
By Michael McWhertor
3,561 views, 68 comments

lol

Halo Car Red Rings, Wii Car Takes Second in Race

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.

Exactly 306 laps into the 440 lap race Stremme's number 40 car blew its engine and sidelined the racer. No, I'm not making that up: The Halo car got a red ring of death.

Meanwhile Biffle's Wii mobile landed a respectable second place. Ouch.

Dover 440

7:30 PM on Sun Sep 23 2007
By Brian Crecente
10,876 views, 109 comments

Latest by n/a: That is pretty funny. But seriously Greg Biffle is a better driver than David Stremme. If they would have swapped cars, Biffle would have still finished before Stremme. more »

microsoft

Microsoft's $100,000 Xbox Live TV Contest

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 »

2:23 PM on Mon Apr 16 2007
By Mike Fahey
2,114 views, 9 comments

ps3

PS3 After Market Nosedives

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 »

12:10 PM on Sun Nov 19 2006
By Brian Crecente
1,362 views, 42 comments

ftw

The Captain Has Turned Off the FTW Sign

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

3:20 PM on Fri Aug 25 2006
By egauger
449 views, 23 comments

lol

You Keep Using That Word

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

clips

Out of Bounds in the Saint's Row Demo

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 »

8:20 PM on Wed Aug 2 2006
By egauger
422 views, 7 comments

chibi-robo

DS LOL

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 »

9:19 AM on Thu Apr 27 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
134 views, 2 comments

esa

Game Retailers, ESRB Not Down With Bad Grade

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 »

8:00 AM on Wed Nov 30 2005
By Brian Crecente
154 views, 1 comment

Kotaku

EA's Steve Schnur Explains The Hype Behind The Madden Soundtrack

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