RGM | Retro Game Master fridge magnets. (Photo by Brian Crecente) Great Ads, If Not Great Games, Coming to the Xbox 360 Kinect Soon Xbox 360 gamers will be able to get some use out of their Kinect: Interacting with a new suite of multimedia advertising set to hit the console and its $150 peripheral…
Rise of Nightmares is shaping up to be, if nothing else, the most adult video game coming to the Xbox 360’s motion-sensing Kinect peripheral. In the game, you air-chainsaw, air-ax, air-rusty pole zombies to death all while trying to get your Kinect to notice that you’re trying to move forward in the game. Great concept…
The U.S. premiere of Retro Game Master, the Japanese TV series that forces “middle management” comedian Shinya Arino to play Japan’s most popular and difficult video games often in a single marathon session, hits Kotaku this week. The weekly series kicks off with an airing of a classic hour-long episode from season four of the…
Soon Xbox 360 gamers will be able to get some use out of their Kinect: Interacting with a new suite of multimedia advertising set to hit the console and its $150 peripheral next spring. The new ads will enable gamers to send Tweets and emails about their favorite ads to their friends and family just…
SERIOUS GAMING | The Games for Change Festival kicked off this week in New York City. (Photo by Brian Crecente) Resident Evil’s Dip Into Action Is More Experiment Than Evolution I haven’t had a good scare since 2005, at least not at the hands of Resident Evil. While it may not be another six years…
I’m a bit of a physics hobbyist. That doesn’t mean that I understand or can even converse in the language of motion, but I love reading about it. So you can imagine my delight when ElectricPig wrote up something about a physics professor using Angry Birds to teach students about physics. Turns out he’s not…
Ryan Dunn, Jackass daredevil and co-host of G4’s Proving Ground, died in a Pennsylvania car crash this morning. He was 34. Dunn’s latest show, which co-stars IGN’s Jessica Chobot and had the two testing memorable moments in video games, comics, TV and movies, premiered less than a week ago. Dunn was driving his 2007 Porsche…
Former vice president Al Gore addresses the Games for Change summit today, kicking off three days of discussion about making games for social impact. Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management and co-founder and chairman of Current TV. He also did that whole Vice President of the United States thing. While it isn’t…
I haven’t had a good scare since 2005, at least not at the hands of Resident Evil While it may not be another six years until the lurching infected, man or dog, scare the pants off me, Capcom does seem hesitant to make any short-term promises about the series once famous for making people jump.…
LOS ANGELES | Adam Ghiggio from Australia poses next to mutant manequins which are lined up to be used as displays for the video game ‘Rage’ at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 5, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Riptide GP Rips Android Gamers a Console Quality Racer I…
Twisted Metal developer David Jaffe took a bit of time during last week’s E3 to talk about the finer points of his car wars reboot. There’s a lot of interesting details in this nearly 9-minute-long video including Jaffe’s explanation of why the game has a mech, why he doesn’t think Kratos would be a good…
Ghost Recon Online for the Wii U is a third-person shooter for Nintendo’s next big thing packed with tons of cool bells and whistles. It also demonstrates some of the big hurdles the new console will face when trying to satisfy hardcore gamers. I’m a long-time shooter fan, so I was very excited for a…
Who’s your daddy… or what’s your daddy? Activision sent out these digital Father’s Day cards just in time for the big event this Sunday. Are you prepped for the weekend. I know as a father I expect to be carried around and fanned at all times.
This is Mannix. He’s so convincing a Link that we’re told Nintendo has approached him about cosplaying the character at conventions officially. But for now we see the child in a photo shoot by the talented Sid Ceasar in some dark and forlorn wood. He’s an altogether different sort of cute Link, than the one…
Mirror’s Edge meets Need for Speed: That’s what I was expecting, hoping for as I stood in line last week to see Electronic Art’s new racing game. The brief glimpse I caught of Need For Speed: The Run prior to my meeting showed a racing game that let you get out of the car and…
LOS ANGELES | A show attendee wears a box on his head as he walks the Los Angeles Convention floor during the Electronic Entertainment Expo on June 7, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Tomb Raider Hopes to Recreate a Gaming Icon Don’t think of Tomb Raider as an origin story,…
Starting Friday the denizens of grocery stores, Walmarts and gas stations nationwide can quickly rent video games from kiosks at $2 a day. Ignoring for a second the option to rent by mail through Gamefly, that means a month’s rental will end up running you about the same amount you’d spend on buying the game.…
We were all surprised to discover early this morning a smiling Robert Kotick, Activision Blizzard president, apparently landing his first acting gig opposite Brad Pitt in upcoming sports drama Moneyball It’s not a clever video edit. It’s not a lookalike. Activision confirmed with Kotaku that yes it really is Kotick telling Pitt he can’t have…
Here’s our first look at the next map pack coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops. In the video we get a quick walk-through of Annihilation’s four maps: Hangar 18, Drive-In, Silo and Hazard. Hanger 18 takes place in Area 51 and is packed with conspiracy-theory Easter Eggs. There’s a nice mix of close quarter…
Next Media Animation’s army of computer graphic animators churned out a story today neatly encapsulating the week’s escalating hacker wars. LulzSec, depicted as the bad guys in this video, are responsible for attacks against a number of sites including Sony, The Escapist, Minecraft and Eve Online. Out of the swamp that is 4 chan, two…
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