Brian Crecente

Chicago’s Triple Lightning Strike Reminds Me Of A Game

As long as Chicago doesn’t get lightning-spewing tornadoes we’ll be fine. Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! [Vimeo, via Io9]

How To Beat Super Mario Bros 3 in 11 Minutes

Someone needs to go try this right now and report back here. How To Beat Super Mario Bros 3 In 11 Minutes [BuzzFeed]

More Airplane WiFi Could Mean More Airborne Gaming

Have you ever played an online game while flying? I haven’t, but mostly because the two times I flew on a plane with WiFi I was either sleeping or working. But The New York Times points out that planes with airborne WiFi are starting to become a norm, which makes me wonder if airborne online…

AbNo

To: Owen From: Crecente Yay Friday! It’s been a looooong two weeks. I think I’m going to do absolutely nothing. And maybe cook and drink. What you missed: Are You As Good At Gaming As This Person? Do it Yourself Counter Strike Squirt Their Orders Are To ‘Make A Better Donkey Kong Country’ The Halo:…

A Half-Dozen Glimpses of Lost in Shadow

Upcoming Wii puzzler Lost in Shadow is an amazing little game. And it’s not just a platformer with a twist. While there are some interesting elements to the gameplay that has you controlling a lost shadow traveling through the shadows of the physical world, there’s also something interesting in the story we know so little…

Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg is a Def Jam Rap Star

Words cannot describe. Fortunately we have this video, featuring HipHopGamer and Microsoft’s product manager Aaron Greenberg, which does an ample job of describing.

Confessions of A Failed Gaming Parent

I have a confession to make: My 9-year-old spent about two weeks playing Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox 360, and I had no idea he was doing it. My wife and I set up parental locks on the console and on Tristan’s Xbox Live gold account, which allows him to play online. But we…

How Xbox 360’s Live Gold Family Plan Could Be Free For You

When the Xbox Live Gold Family plan hits Xbox Live this November, you may not have to pay a penny to sign up, depending on how many existing paid accounts you have. The Family plan includes four one-year Xbox Live gold memberships for $100. Currently, one-year gold memberships run about $50 a pop. So how,…

Get Your Game Cocktails Here

We here at Kotaku do love blending booze and gaming and by we, I mean me. That’s why I was delighted to be reintroduced to Drinken Moogle, home to all things alcohol and gaming, including quite a few game-themed drinks, like the StarCraft II Creep! I wonder if The Drunken Moogle has either of the…

Are You As Good At Gaming As This Person?

Due out this Sunday, shoot-em-up Sin & Punishment: Star Successor is a bullet-filled video game that paints a tapestry of enemies and damage for you to weave your way through. Looks… easy? No, I don’t think so.

PC Has Arisen

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: About The Time The Car Got Stuck I once got a four-wheeler stuck in an enormous single-wheel pot hole. It sucked. What doesn’t suck is that my PC, down for the count all of yesterday, woke up just fine this morning when I rebooted it. Weird huh? What you missed:…

The Astral-Projection Car Swapping of DRIVER San Francisco

The big new twist in DRIVER San Francisco is that the entire game takes place inside the comatose hero’s head. What’s that mean? Car swapping! You can, instead of having to worry over the technique required for a bootleg turn or fancy 180, just swap cars on the fly by floating out of the driver’s…

Dead Space 2 Is a Dark Journey Through Hell in Space

Dead Space 2 is more of what you loved in the first game: More dismembering bodies, more freakishly frightening creatures, more zero-G. Most importantly, it looks like it will still walk a fine line between disturbing horror survival and the action of a third-person shooter. Dead Space 2 takes place in the expansive mining town…

The Cars of E3

Last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo wasn’t just about video games. There were also cars there! Sure not lots of cars, but what the show lacked in quantity it made up for in quality… and cost.

Miley Cyrus Warms Up Before Her Shows With Rock Band, Thinks It’s “Rad”

With her latest album, Can’t Be Tamed, hitting stores this week and a kick-off concert on Monday, Miley Cyrus sat down with MTV to talk about just how very rad Rock Band is now that it includes her music. “I sat in front of the TV 90 percent of the tour, just playing ‘Rock Band’,”…

Dead PC

To: Ash From: Crecente I woke up this morning to a computer frozen on the bios boot screen, which is weird since it was humming along nicely when I went to sleep last night. I’ve tried getting it to start several times today and it never gets past that start-up screen. I suspect it’s either…

These Are Kotaku’s Favorites For Best of E3

This is a first for Kotaku. While we’ve been judges for oodles of other people’s best of E3 awards, we’ve never actually done our own. And there’s a reason for that: They’re really hard work. Just ask Geoff Keighley. But we figured that it was probably a good idea for us to start. Take a…

Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Says Hi

Spotted at last week’s Bulletstorm party, Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson hangs out with former All That co-star and current Kotaku columnist Lisa Foiles.

Beware The Commenter Foreign Legion

Are you up on your commenting etiquette? I sure hope you are, because we just brought in an army of ban hammers. While I can’t guarantee all of them are wearing leather aprons, white gloves and sport waist-long beards, I can guarantee that they’re all a bunch of no-nonsense comment moderators, men and women just…

White iPhones Are a Hassle to Make

“White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected, and as a result they will not be available until the second half of July. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.” —- Apple