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Carmack: Working With Apple Is a Rollercoaster Ride
John Carmack has a long history working with Apple on gaming products, not all of it positive. “My relationship with Apple has been long standing, but it’s a rollercoaster ride,” he told Kotaku. “I’ll be invited up on stage for a keynote one month and then I’ll say something they don’t like and I can…
By Brian Crecente Published November 6, 2009 -
Fluuuuuu
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: College, Why The Hell Are You So Expensive? I woke up feeling pretty ick this morning. Ick turned to sick by the afternoon. I’ve been muscling through the rest of the day, trying to get stuff lined up for tomorrow in hopes of taking it easy and going to Tristan’s…
By Brian Crecente Published November 5, 2009 -
Giant Wine, Autographed Items, Vinyl, At Upcoming Charity
What you are looking at here are most of the items we plan to auction off during Kotaku’s Child’s Play Fundraiser later this month. Let’s walk through what here: Three copies of the rare Marvel Vs Capcom 2 vinyl mix tape. A Brutal Legend statue. A copy of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Fortune Hunter’s Edition…
By Brian Crecente Published November 5, 2009 -
Modern Warfare 2 Midnight Openings
More than 500 Best Buys and 4,200 GameStops nationwide will be hosting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 midnight launch events next week. The participating Best Buy stores will start selling Modern Warfare 2 at 12:01 a.m. this Tuesday. GameStop tells me that 4,250 of their 4,360 stores will also be selling at midnight and…
By Brian Crecente Published November 5, 2009 -
Carmack on iPhone Fallout, Quake Live and Elves and Orcs
What started as a lark, playing around with an operating system that would allow Doom creator John Carmack to quickly produce portables games, has become a thriving business, the famed developer tells Kotaku. “Wolfenstein Classic was my original experiment on whether a first-person shooter would be any fun on the iPhone,” he said. “It did…
By Brian Crecente Published November 5, 2009 -
A Look At Kmart’s Black Friday Game Sales
Walmart isn’t the only retailer planning to knock down prices this month for video games. We’ve gotten our hands on the flier showing of Kmart’s big Black Friday deals as well. The deals listed, which hit the day after Thanksgiving, include DSi bundles for $170 that come with five free games and a $25 Nintendo…
By Brian Crecente Published November 5, 2009 -
Mass Effect 2 Collector’s Edition Includes DVD, Book, Comic
Electronic Arts plans to ship a “limited quantity” of Mass Effect 2 Collectors’ Editions when the space role-playing game hits the PC and Xbox 360 in late January. The collector’s edition will come in a tin case and include the game, a 48-page hardcover “Art of Mass Effect 2” book, Issue 1 of the Mass…
By Brian Crecente Published November 5, 2009 -
Can’t Stop LOLing
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Micro-Bash Stood Up By Himself Today This is bad, real bad. We’re in the middle of the busy reviewing season, gift guides, review guides, year end guides, game of the year awards are all circling in and I can’t stop playing League of Legends. Up until this afternoon I had…
By Brian Crecente Published November 4, 2009 -
Reviews
League of Legends Review: Free, Addictive, Worthy
What started as a modification of Warcraft III by a group of fans has turned into an ambitious free-to-play PC strategy title packed with a surprising amount of tactics in an easy to pick-up-and-play package. In League of Legends you take on the role of a summoner, calling forth a champion that you control in…
By Brian Crecente Published November 4, 2009 -
Kotaku Talk Radio is Live: Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Age, LoL
In this week’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio we’ll be talking about all of those great games we’ve been playing through over the past month as well as the latest news. We’ll also be chatting about Halloween, Warren Spector and fundraisers. Of course don’t forget to listen to our week’s taste of music too. Most…
By Brian Crecente Published November 4, 2009 -
Tickle Real (Fake) Ivories on the DS
Due out early next year, Easy Piano lets you play piano with a 13-note, full-octave external keyboard that plugs into the Gameboy Advance slot of your DS. DSi owners need not apply. The peripheral comes with software that can teach you how to play the piano or play music by following along on-screen prompts. The…
By Brian Crecente Published November 4, 2009 -
Walmart Confirms 360 Sale, More Cuts Coming
Walmart’s official website today confirms the rumor we broke yesterday about one heck of a deal on the Xbox 360 Arcade. Listed among the one day in-store specials for this Saturday, Nov. 7, is an Xbox 360 Arcade console for $199 that comes with a $100 gift card. Other deals include discounted TVs, a Blu-ray…
By Brian Crecente Published November 4, 2009 -
PSPgo on Your TV
As with the Playstation Portable, you can connect your PSPgo to a television to watch movies, listen to music, browse the Internet and play video games. But unlike a standard PSP, you can use a PS3 controller to do all of that. Because of its unique plug, to do this you’ll have to buy a…
By Brian Crecente Published November 4, 2009 -
Never Gonna Give You Up…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: What You Call C3PO And R2-D2 When You Don’t Know Star Wars But I’m pretty sure I’ll be letting you down. I do that. It’s my thing. So I spent 16 minutes last week trying to carefully dismantle a old wooden crate that was singly Rick Astley in the face……
By Brian Crecente Published November 3, 2009 -
Watch Me Dissect Swag While Being Repeatedly Rick Rolled
The folks at Electronic Arts are putting a lot of time into developing fun, sin-themed marketing for their upcoming release of Dante’s Inferno. Watch the extended cut of me playing around with the box sent me by said marketeers as I try to avoid using the hammer they sent me as part of their wrath-themed…
By Brian Crecente Published November 3, 2009 -
A Glimpse at League of Legends’ Champions
Free-to-play, highly addictive PC game League of Legends recently went on sale and live for those wanting to play for free. We’ll have our full review up for the real-time strategy game tomorrow, but until then take a look at this trailer, which shows off some of the more than 40 playable champions in the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 3, 2009 -
Doom Classic Now on iPhone
In case you missed it, Doom Classic is now available in the App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The $7 game, designed by John Carmack, features customizable control schemes, 36 levels spread across four episodes, a bounty of weapons and multiplayer support. Here’s the full break-down of game features: Play the legendary first…
By Brian Crecente Published November 3, 2009 -
Penny Arcade Awards $10K College Scholarship
Video game design hopeful Kyla Gorman was awarded the 2009 Penny Arcade Scholarship, which she says she plans to use to pursue a degree in game design at the University of Southern California. “I’ll be forever thankful for the opportunity the PA Scholarship has given me to attend USC, one of the world’s best game…
By Brian Crecente Published November 3, 2009 -
Nintendo Love Invades West Hollywood Costume Carnaval
Every Halloween the city of West Hollywood blocks off about a mile of Santa Monica Boulevard for the West Hollywood Costume Carnaval. This year about 400,000 people from all over Southern California converged in costume to walk around and have a good time. As always, the Nintendo love was ever-present.
By Brian Crecente Published November 3, 2009 -
Free-To-Play First-Person Shooter Hits iPhone
Ngmoco’s first-person shooter Eliminate hit the iPhone and iPod Touch yesterday sporting a unique pricing system and some pretty slick multiplayer gaming. Eliminate is a pretty straight forward online first-person shooter with average graphics. You play the game with twin virtual thumbsticks, using one to aim and the other to move. We’ll have a full…
By Brian Crecente Published November 3, 2009
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