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To: Crecente From: Crecente I know Frank Frazetta died on Monday, but his passing didn’t really hit home until I saw the collection of tribute art created by video game artists for Kotaku It reminded me of the first time I laid eyes on Frazetta’s rich artwork on the cover of an illicit copy of…
This wonderful bit of interactive game art was created for the iPhone by Niklas Åkerblad and Erik Svedäng. Kometen has you controlling a cyclops comet as it jets through the universe looking for orbital oddities to consume. It looks and plays like a painting come to life. For just $3 you really should check it…
… Gordiant Approved! As seen on jinkwell’s twitter
Tea-Bagging! Salty language! Racism! There seems to be plenty of reasons why you shouldn’t let your child go online to game until they’re ready to drive.. or vote… or drink. But what about the benefits? Gaming has a lot to teach, both overtly and covertly. One of the best lessons you can take away from…
Video game addiction, Internet addiction, Blackberry addiction: The more mainstream a bit of technology becomes the more people pop up who can’t seem to handle it appropriately. During last night’s episode of The Marriage Ref, viewers were introduced to a teacher who is so addicted to her Blackberry that she texts during sex. Let’s hope…
Stormtroopers 365 isn’t just a year-long photo project that wrapped up last month, it’s also proof that like you and I, Stormtroopers love to get their game on. Found among the 365 posed shots of mini Stormtroopers in the rain, guarding cameras and running from giant Darth Vader, are these shots of the tiny white…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: I Have Slightly High Blood Pressure And Am Concerned One word: Kendo! Today Tristan decided to take the plunge into online gaming, spending some of his 9th birthday money to purchase a year’s gold account on Xbox Live. I had nothing to do with this decision, I’m pretty sure it…
Akira the Don, rapper, producer, hip-hop musician and gamer, dropped nearly an hours worth of amazing Street Fighter-themed music on his site this week. The 51-minute Street Fighter Mixtape may start out a bit slow, but once it gets rolling you’re not going to want to stop listening. Akira says the album, A Tribute to…
The result of leaving a Macbook Air on Media Molecule artist Rex Crowle’s desk. As seen on Media Molecule’s blog
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Today? I Looked at BATS Our house is a mess right now, utter confusion. We have four dogs running around, we’re getting all of this work done and we’re in the midst of packing up everything but our essentials to prepare for putting the place on the market. So last…
Lost Planet squared. That’s what Capcom want us to call their latest dip into the universe of E.D.N. III, snow pirates and giant bugs. Taking place ten years after the original third-person action shooter Lost Planet, the frozen planet of E.D.N. III has thawed. Warring factions are fighting each other and the supersized Akrid bugs…
If anyone can make cowboy shooters sexy Rockstar Games can. I hope. Don’t believe me? Stop by Kotaku Talk Radio right now to talk to two of the developers on the game. In studio right now we have Jeronimo Barrera, Rockstar Games’ vice president of development, and Rob Nelson, Red Dead Redemption art director. And…
It appears that Best Buy, and perhaps others, will be giving out these fancy Red Dead Redemption playing cards during the midnight launch of the PS3 and Xbox 360 Western by Rockstar Games. I love the work on those face cards. Thanks Best Buy tipster!
Five lucky Australians were allowed to play Alan Wake before it went on sale. The catch? To play they had to be blind-folded, driven to one Australia’s most haunted sites and strapped to heart rate monitors. Sure, it’s all a bit of marketing by Microsoft for the upcoming Xbox 360 thriller, but that doesn’t make…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Hello, Teacher tomorrow we ban. It will be epic and you will hear the lamentations of the trolls and the cries of the people wasting my time with comments like “How is this news” or “I saw this last week.” What you missed: Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition Cashes In…
Last week I reviewed the first simultaneous four-player competitive arcade game to hit the iPad: Gurlz Vs Robots But the written word doesn’t quite capture the nature of trying to play a game with four people crowded around a single iPad, this video does.
As seen in Capcom’s Fiscal Year 2009 Presentation of Financial Results.
Mentally defective sadist? With that smile? Yes, very much yes. [From some dark corner of 4chan, as seen on Imgur via Reddit]
Caught in an apparent pissing match with Facebook, Farmville creators Zynga seems to be losing. Two weeks ago Zynga lost 3.1 million monthly active users. Last week they lost 4.2 million of them. SecondShares reports that every one of Zynga’s major games but Treasure Isle lost users last week. The losses hit after Facebook revamped…
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