I wasn’t very interested in the Xbox 360’s 1 Vs. 100 until it was almost dead. The online console game used real players signed in to the Xbox 360’s Live network to replicate a television game show on a video game console. But the first time I saw it, it seemed just like any other…
Subnormality‘s Winston Rowntree explores The Good, The Bad and The Awful of Video Games in his latest comic for Cracked. Stop everything. Go read it now. [Cracked]
Pro StarCraft II gamer Destiny kicked off a thread over on Reddit to answer your questions about everything StarCraft 2 and getting paid to play it. Check it out over on Reddit
The window into a world where I am a submarine commander, a street fighter, a pilot, a Jedi, pops outs at me in stunning 3D. The diminutive animated submarine seems to float in front of the colorful screen of the Nintendo 3DS as I play Steel Diver. In LEGO Star Wars III, pieces of toy…
Playing through a healthy chunk of LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars on Nintendo’s 3DS left me impressed. It also left me with a question: Should Nintendo require 3D on all 3DS games? I don’t really know the answer to that, but this LEGO game leaves me hoping they won’t. Don’t get me wrong.…
A Final Snow | Colorado treated us to a beautiful morning snow today. It’s probably the last I’ll see here before moving to New York at the end of the month. (Photo: Brian Crecente) Silent Auction, Live DJ Added to Japan Earthquake Relief Fundraiser With less than a week till kick off, the Kotaku Japan…
KartRider is a web-game phenomenon, played by more than 200 million players, including a third of South Korea. So how is it on the iPhone? Pretty great. KartRider Rush, like the web-version of the game, is a free-to-play kart racer that features cartoonish graphics, fun maps and a collection of items you can use to…
Almost lost amidst the insanity of a weekend packed with both Penny Arcade Expo East and South by Southwest was this amazing Angry Birds 3D spectacular. Nokia teams up with Rovio to create a massive 3D projection on a 150-foot tall Austin building during their opening party. Sure, it turned out to be an ad…
Games like Bejeweled, Bookworm, Chuzzle, Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies are getting a price drop for 48 hours to raise funds for earthquake-stricken Japan. Partnering with the Red Cross, PopCap will donate all of its revenues from the sale, which begins Saturday March 19 at 12:01 a.m. PDT and ends midnight PDT on Sunday March…
Someone broken into Peter Molyneux’s car and stole his laptop, iPad and passport Thursday night. If you’d like to help out the creator of Fable, Black & White and more than a few game design whoppers you’ll land a £1000 reward. Personally, I’d just as him to help wrap up the rumored Syndicate sequel as…
A California judge ruled this week that Activision Blizzard Inc. has enough evidence to proceed with their $400 million lawsuit against Electronic Arts over the loss of developers Jason West and Vince Zampella. The Modern Warfare suite kicked off a flurry or suits and counter-suits, each one more fanciful and surreal then the last
With less than a week till kick off, the Kotaku Japan Earthquake Relief fundraiser continues to grow. Hosted at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom in downtown Denver, the event will now also include a silent auction and live DJ set by DJ LiciousD. That’s on top of the on stage Rock Band and DJ Hero gameplay and…
Rations | Gods Eater Burst showed up on my doorstep today complete with a burnt-edges scroll and this emergency survival kit. (Photo: Brian Crecente) The 3DS’s Submarine Side-Scroller Teases Us With A Pseudo-Submarine Advance Wars The 3DS launch game Steel Diver was first shown last June, back when it seemed like a simple, solid submarine…
SOCOM has always been a great shooter. It has also always had wonderful ways to humiliate the people to take down with headshots, shotgun blasts and pew, pew, pewing. Here’s a look at three of the victory dances (The Chicken, The Robot, The Crane) built into the upcoming PS3 exclusive SOCOM 4. Beta for Playstation…
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day The Time Warp Zone has kicked off the first in a new series of videos dedicated to drinking and gaming. My two favorite pastimes!!! The first is a look at Mario Kart Drunk Driving, a fun combination of one of my favorite Nintendo games and one of my favorite drinks.…
This latest Crysis 2 video gives another look at the gunplay and suit-enhanced choreography of the upcoming computer and console shooter. Better still, this was capped off of a computer and gives us sense of how smooth the game will play on PC. Crysis 2 releases March 22nd for the PlayStation 3, PC, and Xbox…
Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition is one of the must-have launch games for the 3DS. It’s packed with a lot of neat extras like online multiplayer, 35 playable characters, figurine mode, spectator mode and one option that will completely change your perspective on Street Fighter games… literally. It makes sense that a game coming…
Meet Sony’s Vice President of freaky deer and tight pants. Now get to chatting. Thanks to reader ak-blanc – peace! for today’s pic. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
CUTE | The Domo Starter Kit for the DSi arrived with a handwritten message from Hori noting that the kit is “unique and holds a special place in our hearts.” Ours too Hori, ours too. (Photo by me) Battlefield 3 Hits Snipers Right Where It Hurts You’ve been here before – pinned down by a…
There will be sixteen games available on the Nintendo 3DS when it goes on sale on March 27, but its best games may be the ones built right into the machine. And video doesn’t show the half of it. It’s these silly little experiences that you’ll be making your friends watch—and that they’ll be making…
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