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DJ Loses Unreleased PS Vita in LA Cab
Following a night of performing live at the Video Game Awards on Spike TV, famed DJ Deadmau5 apparently left a yet-to-be-released PS Vita sitting in a L.A. cab. Joel “Deadmau5” Zimmerman tweeted about the loss shortly before 1 a.m. pacific time. “FUCK! I left my PSP Vita in a fuckin cab, calling cab company and…
By Brian Crecente Published December 11, 2011 -
Call of Duty Maker Gets Teabagged As Charlie Sheen Watches
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 picked up the award for best shooter during Spike TV’s Video Game Awards show tonight, but not without causality. The rules of the VGA acceptance speech are: If you go past your allotted time, a cosplaying soldier teabags you on stage. When Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling blew…
By Brian Crecente Published December 10, 2011 -
Mario’s Creator Rocks Out to The Black Keys
Fresh off a week of denying reports that he’s retiring, the creator of Mario and Zelda was caught on camera rocking out to a little live music from The Black Keys during the VGAs tonight. I’m told he did a little head-banging too, but I missed that bit. That’s fine by me, this is how…
By Brian Crecente Published December 10, 2011 -
Skyrim’s Flying Louis Letrush and His Amazing Bear Flambeau
That’s the thing about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; even the game’s many bugs are spectacular. Take, for instance, this video. You think: So what, one of the game’s character’s, Louis Letrush, running on a running horse. Seen it! But have you seen the bard using his horse’s ears as a set of parallel bars,…
By Brian Crecente Published December 10, 2011 -
Minecraft’s Blocky Water Made Wondrous, Shimmering, Natural
I’m a HUGE Minecraft fan. Sure, it could use a bit more hand-holding, but in general I’m a big fan of the game and how much it coaxes creativity out of everyone who plays it. I even like the way the game looks. So when Luke detailed how to pretty up the game, I pretty…
By Brian Crecente Published December 9, 2011 -
Kotaku Meat Up
More like Meat-Up, AmIRite?? | Last night’s Kotaku reader meet-up at the Gizmodo Gallery was great. I loved seeing all of you. But what I loved most were those gi-normous crocodile-sized subs down in the basement. So glorious. I’m on Board. The PlayStation Vita is Going to Launch with a Bang. The PlayStation Vita is…
By Brian Crecente Published December 9, 2011 -
The Most Spectacular Battlefield 3 Jet Takedown You’ll See Today (Or Ever)
Technically speaking this isn’t a kill made with a jet. But it is made by a gamer who was recently in a jet. We’ve seen some amazing things in Battlefield 3, but I’ve never seen a video that shows someone jumping out of a jet in mid-dogfight, twisting in the air to shoot the aggressor…
By Brian Crecente Published December 9, 2011 -
Metro 2033, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Fallout Helped An Artist Dismantle Manchester
James Chadderton’s take on Manchester in ruins hints at the apocalypse without bothering to identify its nature. His artwork, amalgams of computer graphics, painting and photo, show the effect, but not the cause. It’s a deliberate ploy to pull viewers into the scenes of devastation and then allow their imaginations to fill in the back-story.…
By Brian Crecente Published December 9, 2011 -
How To Block Xbox 360’s Newest Feature: Dashboard Ads
Among the many tweaks and upgrades (and one downgrade) packed into the Xbox 360 dashboard update was one feature people aren’t very happy about: Interactive TV ads. Fortunately the clever gamers over on Reddit have come up with a solution for removing them. Redditer absurdlyobfuscated says there are many ways to do this, but he…
By Brian Crecente Published December 9, 2011 -
Stop, Motion!
Androids Need Love Too | This short stop-motion video was created using a 3DS, YouTube is absolutely littered with sub-30 second test runs. But there are very few fleshed out shorts in there yet. The Day Mario’s Creator Didn’t Retire (And What It Says About His Future) The internet was rocked. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator…
By Brian Crecente Published December 8, 2011 -
The Video Game That Made Alec Baldwin Quit Twitter
Ultimately it was an iPhone game, not political grousing, hackers or public tweets of affection that led actor and Twitteratti Alec Baldwin to quit the social networking service. Baldwin’s sometimes humorous, often off-kilter, sometimes political tweets have been a guilty pleasure of mine for nearly a year. I sort dig reading Baldwin chatting with fans,…
By Brian Crecente Published December 8, 2011 -
Dust 514’s Weapons Are So Lethal You Could Die Firing Them
There are so many things I love about Eve Online, but almost all of it can be traced back to the game’s mystique. I guess that’s what I love most about Eve Online; I haven’t played it. I anxiously anticipate Dust 514, the Playstation 3 shooter coming from the Eve developers, in the same way.…
By Brian Crecente Published December 8, 2011 -
Skyrim’s (Free) Interactive iPhone Map Is Out Now
Interactive Skyrim map and future tool for in-game bragging Dragon Shout is out and free for iOS devices now. You can read a bit more about it here. But it’s essentially a Skyrim map that lets you mark and track your in-game moments.
By Brian Crecente Published December 8, 2011 -
Red Cross Won’t Go After You For Playing War Games
Virtual war crimes won’t lead to real world prosecution, the International Committee of the Red Cross clarified today. While the international humanitarian group has discussed whether the Geneva and Hague conventions should be applied to the fictional recreation of war in video games it isn’t doing so to potentially prosecute gamers. Rather, they say, they…
By Brian Crecente Published December 8, 2011 -
Is There Such a Thing As Killing for the Greater Good?
Could you kill one person to save five? The famous “trolley problem” thought experiment in ethics got a high-tech makeover recently when researchers recreated the scene, the choices, and the violent, bloody, loud repercussions using a computer simulation, joystick and a head-mounted 3D display. Researchers at Michigan State University equipped 147 volunteers with the headset,…
By Brian Crecente Published December 8, 2011 -
Batman’s Return to Arkham City is Triumphant, But Short
Batman Arkham City: Lockdown is an entertaining, graphically lush chance to beat your way through four of Arkham’s most notorious villains and their henchmen on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It’s a visually rich, combat intense brawler that has you swiping and poking your way through hand-to-hand combat with Two-Face, Deathstroke, Solomon Grundy, the…
By Brian Crecente Published December 8, 2011 -
Creator of Mario, Zelda Says “I’m Retiring”, Will Make Smaller Games [Update]
The man behind Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda says he plans to retire from his current position at Nintendo so he can spend time working on smaller projects and with younger developers or on his own, Wired reported tonight. UPDATE – Nintendo has since issued a statement saying “He has no intention…
By Brian Crecente Published December 7, 2011 -
My Xbox Live on My Apple iPhone
Xbox iPhone | The three main screens for the new, official iPhone Xbox Live app. Next up? Dogs and cats living together. How to Make 3D Videos, Stop Motion Movies With Your 3DS Nintendo’s 3DS is quickly, finally becoming a must-have gaming handheld. Games like Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 are easily…
By Brian Crecente Published December 7, 2011 -
Open the Door, Get on the Floor, Even Assassins Walk That Dinosaur
Decked out in a homemade Ezio costume with nothing to do, SoundRes made the only sensible decision he could: He went to the mall to “Walk the Dinosaur.” I don’t know which I love more, that someone decided that this was the best use of a pretty amazing homemade Assassin’s Creed costume or that anyone…
By Brian Crecente Published December 7, 2011 -
Steam Gaming Service Gets Coupons
Steam, Valve’s online gaming hub and store, seems to now support coupon codes, Blue’sNews reports A Steam Support article walks users through the details of the discounts. Here’s the full Q&A: How many coupons can I use on an item? You can use one coupon per item. Can I use coupons on already discounted items?…
By Brian Crecente Published December 7, 2011
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