Even though I left the Rocky Mountain News to run Kotaku fulltime awhile back, I still write for the newspaper. Mostly because I like the idea of being able to expose a very mainstream audience to gaming. The paper has kicked off the past three years with an annual Game of the Year feature, that…
OK, so the Golden Raspberry Award winners haven’t really been announced yet and even if Uwe Boll swept the infamous bad film awards, I doubt even he would have an acceptance speech. But, he does seem awfully proud of the potential dishonors. Emailing BollBashers.com, Boll says points out that he’s sharing the nominee list with…
Put on your tinfoil hats boys and girls, it’s time for another study that proves something about video games and the people who play them. A new study shows that regular gamers are more likely to drink alcohol or use drugs than others, and that gaming deteriorates relationships and that the people who play them…
In this video Danny, Victor and Mark S. from Media Molecule’s design team walk us through how to create our own survival challenge mini-games. I’m always blown away by what you can do in this game if you think it through. Have you run across any interesting player-created survival levels in LBP?
Yesterday it was Microsoft, Sony, EA Canada and Intel taking hits from the economy. Last night, apparently, it was Eidos, which closed its Rockpool Games Studio in Manchester. The news first leaked out when Bill Harbison, an artist at the Manchester studio, twittered that it was closing. Videogaming 247 than confirmed the news with Eidos.…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Small Car Or Big Car, That Is The Question Wow, today was a dark day in the industry, what with Sony, Microsoft and EA’s employment news. I heard earlier that a bulk of the 1,400 people let go at Microsoft today came from the Devices and Entertainment Division (aka Zune…
Earlier today we broke the news that Electronic Arts Canada laid off more than half of the staff from Black Box, the day after the studio launched their latest game: Skate 2. EA spokespeople decline to confirm the layoffs to Kotaku, but they have confirmed them to Joystiq. We did receive, from unofficial channels, what…
The Independent Games Festival today announce the ten winners finalists for their annual Student Showcase awards. As usual, the finalists include some interesting titles like City Rain, a blend of Tetris and SimCity, and Zeit Squared, a shoot-em-up that allows you to go back in time to assist yourself through the game. All ten finalists…
If you’re going to sing a song about a game, reviewing it while you do so, I think it would be a good idea to take the Adam Sandler approach and not the Jewel one. Hotel Dusk Review [Game People]
Electronic Arts today laid off as many as 150 to 200 people today as part of the company’s ongoing cut backs announced back in December, sources tell Kotaku. These latest rumors come on the heels of word that there was a company-wide meeting today held at EA Canada to discuss the current state of the…
The Obama campaign, fresh off an inauguration, just ran face first into federally-mandated technological obsolescence and what better way to express their frustrations than with a video game analogy? “It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of his new digs. Can you imagine how blown…
Ubisoft plans to release seven franchise titles, three new brands and four movie licensed games in their 2009/2010 fiscal year, which starts in April, the company said today. Among the games will be Assassin’s Creed 2, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon and Anno. The company also plans to release three new…
Electronic Arts is holding a Town Hall meeting today at EA Canada to discuss the industry and perhaps detail more layoff news at the publisher’s studio there, according to memos obtained by Kotaku. The meeting, which we’re told will start at 10 a.m., will be headed by John Riccitiello and available to all Electronic Arts…
Microsoft is cutting 1,400 jobs today and another 3,600 over the next 18 months in the wake of today’s news of a 11 percent drop in fiscal second-quarter net income, the company announced today. The cuts will be in R&D, marketing, sales, finance, legal, HR, and IT. These reduction will reduce the company’s annual operating…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Wash Your Hands? Gargle? I think maybe, people don’t understand the sheer volume of emails we receive in a given day. And how incredibly different they can be. A bulk of the emails I receive are either tips, people contacting me from a company or bloggers/writers asking for advice. But…
What’s this then about a new Rock Band game? The reference comes from, of all places, Vic Mignogna, best known as the voice of Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist and his work in quite a few Dragon Ball Z games. About 6 minutes into part five of a six part recording taken from the Winter…
A 10-year-old girl left paralyzed by a virus four years ago is learning to walk again thanks to her doctors and a copy of Wii Fit, Ireland’s Herald.ie writes. The girl took her first steps in four years at a New York hospital late last year. Now, back in her home town of Wexford, Ireland,…
Reader Mike sends us word that he was the lucky winner of the Grand Theft Auto IV Elite Sweepstakes Console nine months or so ago. And his prize just arrived. The ebony black Xbox 360 Elite sports a slick GTA IV logo, which at first glance may look like a sticker but is actually embossed…
We first wrote about newsgame Airport Security back in 2006, today Ian Bogost reports that an iPhone version of the game is now available in the App Store. Jetset is still about the absurdity of security at airports, but now it comes with a bunch of extra airplane-safe bells and whistles. In the game you…
Sequel Kingdom Under Fire II is said to feature battles will thousands of units on screen at the same time, now we’ve got the screenshots to prove that. Blueside sent along this fresh batch of screens as well as an art shot of albino dark-elf Isabella, one of the game’s 18 heroes. We’re told that…
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