Brian Crecente

iPhone Chart Toppers: Zombies Won’t Die

Zombies managed to hold onto the top spot this week, with only The Simpsons Arcade breaking onto the list for the first time. Here’s the full rundown. Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone game reviews. Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Call of Duty: World…

Autotune the Video Games with Kotaku

It has been a wonderful, wonderful ride, the double Os. After all, they saw the birth of Kotaku. They also saw the inception of our now annual holiday card. Two years ago Mark Wilson suggested that we should try and put together something a little special for our readers: A delightful thank you to all…

Happy Happy

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Tim Rogers Is Everyone’s Friend Today the year ends. I will spend the last moments with my wife and son watching a movie probably, eating great mounds of popcorn and drinking champagne. The eating and drinking are things I practiced daily while on vacation, but in the month I was…

New Year’s Marathoning: Video Games or TV?

The last and first day of the year for me has always meant spending way too much time in front of the TV. Be it playing video games until I pass out or watching televised marathons, I consider it a guilt-free over-indulgence. This year will be no different. I’ve got a sizable backlog of games…

Win An Autographed copy of Zelda: Spirit Tracks and More

It’s the last day of 2009 and of the Double Os as well (unless you’re pedantic), but more importantly it’s the last day you can enter to win a spectacular Zelda prize pack. How spectacular you ask? The grand prize is a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, a Spirit Tracks t-shirt, a…

Hori’s DSi Play Stand + Stylus: Why?

Hori’s Play Stand + Stylus is a well-built stand for your DSi, I’m just not sure what the point is. The stand holds your DSi horizontally or vertically and can be adjusted to whatever viewing angle best suits you, but besides using it with maybe the Nintendo Cooking Guide, I don’t see getting a lot…

Blizzard Helps Cops Track Down WoW Fan, Suspected Drug Dealer

Wanted on drug dealing charges, Alfred Hightower skipped the country after a warrant was issued for his arrest. But he didn’t stop playing World of Warcraft and that’s how police caught him. The Howard County Sheriff’s Department in Indiana discovered that Hightower, was a big fan of some “warlock and witches game”, eventually piecing together…

R.I.P.

To: Ash From: Crecente Today we put our 15-year-old Border Collie, Lucy, to sleep. It was a peaceful, emotional procedure at our house. The death hit Trish especially hard. I adopted Lucy a week or so after Trish moved from Australia to the U.S. to eventually marry me. Trish couldn’t work, didn’t know the area…

The Statistically Best Games of the Decade (Or Why Stats Sometimes Lie)

With the decade wrapping up it’s inevitable that our minds start to turn to how the past ten years went. That means thinking about which games were the best, most influential and had the deepest personal impact on us. I haven’t really had a chance to properly sift through my recollections and memories of ten…

Kotaku Talk Radio is Live: Let’s Talk With Xbox Live’s Major Nelson

Larry Hryb, Xbox Live‘s Major Nelson, is today’s guest on our live Kotaku podcast. We’re starting now. Call in. You could be live on the air with Mike McWhertor and Hryb. Want to know about Gamertag issues, top DLC or Arcade titles? Pester about the future of Xbox Live or possible CES news? Now’s the…

Burglary Delayed By Mystery Game

An Illinois woman came home Monday afternoon to discover a burglar playing a game on her DS, the Herald News reports. The 22-year-old woman told Joliet police that she was away from her house for about 30 minutes. When she returned and opened the door to her apartment a man ran out. “The victim’s Nintendo…

Talk Live With Xbox Live’s Major Nelson Today

As noted on Monday, Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, director of programming for Xbox Live, will guest-host today’s live Kotaku call-in podcast. Show time’s 11 a.m. MT, 1 p.m. ET. Call-in and listening details will be live on the site just before show time.

You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: GOOD BYE AMERICA You’re leaving the U.S. just as I’m returning. Can’t ever have two Brians on the same continent or who knows what will happen? I had planned on wrapping up my three weeks of vacation spent in Australia in this note to you, but I’m dealing with the…

A Call to Arms

One of Australia’s EB Games asks customers to visit a website to weigh in on the issue of the country’s out-dated rating system.

iPhone Chart Toppers: Zombies Versus Marines in Spaaaaaace

Despite NOVA’s popularity, and all around fun gameplay, World at War Zombies managed to topple the Halo knock-off from the top of the iPhone charts this week. I’ve been playing both quite a bit and can see the draw for either game. Here’s the full list. Which do you think should be the top game?…

It’s a Steal

As seen at a game importer in Australia, where GTA IV was released with some content removed.

Terror at 30,000 Feet: Game-Free Transcontinental Flights?

I found myself doing something strange as I prepared for a 14 hour flight back to the United States this week: Buying games. While games have long been my time-waster of choice for the frequent international flights I take, it’s usually video games I stock up on. Not so for my Sydney to San Francisco…

A Surprise Education

Where many video games have you hone your reaction time and eye-hand coordination to excel, a mastery of spelling and a deep vocabulary are key to succeeding in Jeremiah Slaczka’s DS title. But despite the seemingly obvious educational bent of Slaczka’s game, Scribblenauts’ potential to teach through fun didn’t dawn on the game makers until…

No Non-Gamers Allowed

There may not be any special handshakes or furtive high signs for it, but make no mistake: Video gamers are part of a secret society. Sure, nowadays billions of people from all walks of life enjoy the occasional video game. They play Farmville on their lunch break, Hearts while working on a term paper. Celebrities…

Team Bondi… But Nobody’s Home

Much of the LA Noire team is in LA filming, we were told, when we stopped by for a surprise visit.