Brian Crecente

Taking Down the Lights

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: A Seven Year-Old’s Shopping Spree Looks Like This My favorite childhood toys were probably those hard little plastic action figures you could buy in Thailand in the 70s. You’d set them up and then take turns trying to knock them down, like marbles. It was great. What you missed Man…

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Was My Most Played iPhone Game of the Holidays

On sale right now for just four bucks, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the iPhone game I’m spending the most time playing these days. It’s not because of the campaign, I’ve barely scratched the surface of the 15 or so levels, it that the controls seem fairly responsive and local multiplayer is a blast. I’ve…

Hug These, Love These Adorable Left 4 Dead 2 Zombies

The zombies are here! The zombies are here! Earlier this month we pointed out that Left 4 Dead 2-styled Hunter and Tank plushies were joining the adorably-engorged Boomer in the Valve store, but that they wouldn’t start shipping until Dec. 27. Well, they’re shipping now and we’ve got our hands on them, along with some…

Reuters: 2011 Will Be a Good Year For Gaming

A new generation of games on social networks, phones and tablet computers will spur sales in 2011, Reuter apotheosizes in a story today. “Before we were figuring out how to make social games, now we are mastering the art of making social games,” said Mark Skaggs, vice president of product development at Zynga, told Reuters.…

Head Crabbed in Indie Game: The Movie

Big money, big production video games are great, but let’s never forget about the indie games, that’s where the sexy happens. Whether it’s Minecraft or Limbo, Super Meat Boy or Briad, it’s indie games that seem most willing to test the boundaries of what can be done in video games. That’s why you’re going to…

A Closer Look at the Left 4 Dead 2 Plush Zombies

The Year in Gaming With NPR’s Morning Edition and… Me!

Earlier this week I went into the local public radio station to chat with Renee Montagne of NPR’s Morning Edition about the year in gaming. That’s a lot of topic to cover in under five minutes, but we still managed to talk about Call of Duty: Black Op’s billion dollars in sales, the coming of…

CES Showing Off The Xbox 360 That Costs More Than Fahey’s Car

Origin PC is showing off their obscenely expensive liquid-cooled Xbox 360, gaming computer hybrid at CES next week. The Big O features a high performance liquid cooled overclocked gaming PC AND a liquid cooled Xbox 360 Slim inside one system. The starting configuration combines the power of an Intel Core i7 930 processor overclocked to…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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Man Hit By SUV While Playing Real-Life Frogger

A 23-year-old man was hit by a Lexus SUV Monday while trying to play a real-life version of Frogger across a South Carolina highway, police say. The man, who’s name was not released, was listed in stable condition at an area hospital, according to WYFF 4 news. Clemson police chief Jimmy Dixon told the station…

Here’s Where The Instruction Manuals Have Gone

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: The Autographs Of My Boyhood I don’t have any gaming autographs either. My childhood signatures include David Copperfield, the Harlem Globetrotters and the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. Oh! And C3PO. I was a strange child. What you missed The Consumer Electronics Show Cometh New Owner of an Xbox Phone? Play These…

The Ten Funniest Video Games Of 2010

Splitsider put together a list of the ten funniest video games of 2010 today. Among the gut-busters is Fallout: New Vegas, Super Meat Boy and Hamlet. That’s right Hamlet, a game that Splitsider says is an “ironic take on the Shakespeare play, if it were adapted by terrible game developers.” Sold. Hit up the site…

A Dozen Games That Make iPhone Gaming Worthwhile

So you got a fancy new iPhone over the holidays, or maybe you’ve had one for a bit but are looking for some games to kill time at the airport, or snowed-in apartment. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back. I’m a pretty regular gamer on the iPhone and I spent the past month or so…

Forbes Predicts the Rise of Apple and Google Gaming and Decline of Sony and Microsoft

In light of Forbes amazingly perceptive 2000 piece about the computers of 2010, Forbes’ Paul Tassi decided to take a stab at predicting what gaming will be like in a decade. Some of his ideas seem spot on, others a bit dated, but it’s still an interesting read. The most likely prediction Tassi makes is…

Risk Halo Wars Delivers A Tabletop Flood

I picked up a board game over the holidays: Risk Halo Wars. The Halo-themed version of the Parker Brothers classic turned out to be quite a bit of fun. As you can see in this video, the game features three playable factions: The Flood, the covenant and the UNSC. Each faction has regular units, units…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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The Consumer Electronics Show Cometh

One week from today team Kotaku descends on Vegas to prepare for the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show. While there are no expectations of huge news shaking loose from the annual gadget and gear show, that doesn’t mean it’s going to be a boring week. Sony often drops interesting nuggets about their gaming division during…

The Last Monday of 2010!

To: Ashcraft From: Crecente Tristan left cookies for Santa too…. and an iPhone set up to record video of anyone who ate them. 😀 What you missed last night The CityVille How To: A Guide to Building the City of Your Dreams The Year In Motion Control Video Games: The Hype, The Horror, The Happiness…

Happy Holidays Is Bayonetta in a Christmas Sweater

Look! 2011 is one pharyngeal-jaw strike away from being even merrier. We kid! We kid! Eaaaaat himmmmmmmmmmmm….

An Interactive Interpretation of WikiLeaks’ Theory of Conspiracy by Governance

Leaky World attempts to turn Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange’s essay on conspiracy into a computer game. Assange’s wacky essay “Conspiracy as Governance” seems to argue for complete transparency as a way to construct a new social order and achieve truth, love and self-realization. When these theories make the leap to interactive computer game, they become…