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Apple Engineers “Totally Wrong”, Nintendo Misjudged Excitement and Other Great Corporate Excuses
This morning iPhone owners woke to a very unusual thing: An apology letter from Apple. Everything about the letter, from its opening line of “Dear iPhone 4 Users”, to its unusual use of phrases like “totally wrong”, is cringe-inducing, but Apple isn’t the only company that doesn’t know how to come clean when they screw…
By Brian Crecente Published July 2, 2010 -
Gender Dysphoria
Tetricide – Suicidal moves during the game of Tetris that purposely cause the falling shapes to get too high for any more rows to disappear. Game ends because pieces reach the top; a “death” is self-inflicted. Soon to be seen at upcoming 8-Bit art show Tetricide, Gender Dysphoria is the work of multimedia artist Jonathan…
By Brian Crecente Published July 2, 2010 -
From Snakes to Scorpions
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Hey America! Use The Metric System! I’m not going to touch that, not with a three meter pole! I am, though, going to prepare for a weekend trip to my mom and step-dad in El Paso, where they have a lovely pool and small army of impossible-to-see scorpions calling my…
By Brian Crecente Published July 1, 2010 -
An Old Suit Case of Mafia II and A New Bag of Pac-Man
Sometimes the swag is better than the game. I’m not sure if that’s the case this time around, but this suitcase is pretty nifty and it came loaded with a very odd stack of photos, news clippings and documents.
By Brian Crecente Published July 1, 2010 -
From Paper to This Insane 4-Foot Gundam In Under Four Minutes
At four-feet tall, this Freedom Gundam is the most impressive papercraft I’ve ever seen. That’s right, this thing is made of paper. The Gundam took 175 pages of paper, 500 parts and two months to build. Now watch the entire thing come together in less than four minutes. Freedom Gundam Rules The Galaxy…of Paper [Walyou,…
By Brian Crecente Published July 1, 2010 -
Hey Ebert, Play This Game
Roger Ebert did a brave thing today, a terrible thing today: He admitted that he was wrong and said he has no plans on rectifying that. Ebert, America’s movie critic, has long held that video games are not art. This morning he gave up; not his notion that games aren’t art, but his right to…
By Brian Crecente Published July 1, 2010 -
Which Game Incites the Most Faces?
We’ve posted a couple of videos this week showing what some people look like playing video games. Someone pointed out to me that Bang The Machine, the documentary about 2002’s fighting game scene, is packed with people making faces while gaming. Which makes me wonder, what games make you most expressive? Me? Right now? Metal…
By Brian Crecente Published July 1, 2010 -
This is Not a Perfect Game
To: Ash From: Crecente I am trying to finish off a PSP game that is said to be perfect. I disagree. What you missed: Weighing Morality in Gaming Farmville, World of Warcraft Are Divorce Lawyers’ Latest Weapons in Court Who Cheers For War? Did Buying Your Gaming Console Help Fund War Atrocities in the Congo?…
By Brian Crecente Published June 30, 2010 -
Did Buying Your Gaming Console Help Fund War Atrocities in the Congo?
Do you own a video game console? Then you might have more to do with the bloody, brutal war in the Congo than you realize. While the availability of blood diamonds, those rare minerals mined in war zones and sold to build armies, has begun to dwindle under international scrutiny, a new set of conflict…
By Brian Crecente Published June 30, 2010 -
The Best Games, The Best Play of The First Half of 2010
We are almost exactly halfway through the year twenty-ten, and lest we forget, there have been quite a few spectacular games to buy and play already. One could already make a substantial list of the best games of the year. So why don’t we, together, live, on the radio. No guest during this week’s podcasts,…
By Brian Crecente Published June 30, 2010 -
Farmville, World of Warcraft Are Divorce Lawyers’ Latest Weapons in Court
Social sites and massively multiplayer online games aren’t just a great place to catch up with friends and be entertained, they’re also a great place to dig up dirt on a soon-to-be ex, according to an article in USA Today. The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers says 81% of its members have used or faced…
By Brian Crecente Published June 30, 2010 -
Snakes in a Yard!
To: Ash From: Crecente One thing that’s great about living in Colorado: Wild animals. We get coyotes, we get foxes, we get deer, all in our yard, We even get snakes, like this one that was really unhappy with my dogs. Snakes on a blogger’s yard! What you missed: Video Games Need a Billboard Top…
By Brian Crecente Published June 29, 2010 -
Kotaku’s Best of E3 2010 Award Winners
What were our favorite games of E3 this year? Let’s take a look! The biggest, the best games of the year, sometimes of next year, are shown off each summer in Los Angeles at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. This year we decided to come up with a list of the games that we here at…
By Brian Crecente Published June 29, 2010 -
Following Kotaku On Facebook? Then You Probably Know About Today’s Giveaway
Are you following Kotaku on Facebook? I hope so! We give away lots of neat things on Facebook. Things like early access to video games and cool swag. And besides getting a chance to win neat prizes, it also makes you instantly super cool and lets you pass around the best of Kotaku’s stories. ZU-PEAR…
By Brian Crecente Published June 29, 2010 -
The Game Critics’ Best of E3 Nominees Are…
The Game Critics have spoken, these are the best of E3 nominees for this year… But wait, who are the Game Critics? Good question! The Game Critic Awards are selected by an independent group of 21 leading North American media outlets that cover the video game industry. Judges come from publications like USA Today, MTV,…
By Brian Crecente Published June 29, 2010 -
The Faces We Make While Losing… And Winning
Gamer, take a close look in the mirror. Note the exulting highs, the soul-crushing lows, of someone trying to beat a very hard level in a video game. What game is this ruddy gentleman with magnificent facial hair playing? Who cares! Consider him our everyman, a titan, a king of players who preservers through 30…
By Brian Crecente Published June 29, 2010 -
Video Games Need a Billboard Top Ten
Video games need a top ten list. Movies have them, music has them, but the video game industry still hasn’t found a solid way to track the country’s most popular video games, according to Michael Gallagher, president of the Entertainment Software Association. “I do think that the movie industry has a significant advantage over other…
By Brian Crecente Published June 29, 2010 -
A Summer Of Limited Screens
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: THE IMAGES HAVE RETURNED…SORTA We’ve instituted another set of rules for Tristan starting in July. We already has a bunch of rules about screen time (tv, video games, computer) and about what he can and can’t do on the consoles. As I wrote about Friday, Tristan snuck some Modern Warfare…
By Brian Crecente Published June 28, 2010 -
Watching Super Mario Gameplay as an Android Desktop
Is it just me or does the iPhone always seem to be one step behind Android phones these days? Just last week iPhone owners were given the ability to have wallpaper images. The Android has that plus the ability to create a “live” wallpaper, like this video playthrough of a Super Mario level. Android Super…
By Brian Crecente Published June 28, 2010
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