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Pumpkins!
Beenox’s pumpkin carving contest included this wonderful Starcraft creation. An Angry bird and &)@!ing pig pumking from reader Tom P. Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime created by Kotaku reader and Pumpkin-carver Justin Torres. (See more here) Sega Saturn spokesman Segata Sanshiro created by Kotaku reader and Pumpkin-carver Justin Torres. (See more here) Hadouken created by Kotaku reader…
By Brian Crecente Published October 29, 2010 -
Capcom Explains How They Will Carry on Without Mega Man Creator
Capcom spent the week and a half following Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune’s resignation from the Japanese developer reassigning producers to his games and reorganizing the company, Capcom told Kotaku today. While the loss of the character designer of Mega Man and producer of Onimusha and Dead Rising must come as a blow to the…
By Brian Crecente Published October 29, 2010 -
MSI GE600 Visual Guide
There’s a slight golden hue to the laptop. Plenty of room here for stickers. Look how big this thing is. That keyboard is massive though. I was shocked at how thing the laptop was when I first opened it up. Here are two of your three speakers. Surprise, a subwoofer is found on the bottom…
By Brian Crecente Published October 29, 2010 -
Were You One of Our Lucky Dragon Age 2 Signature Edition Winners?
This week we asked you to tell us about your love of Dragon Age: Origins for a chance to win one of five North American copies of Dragon Age 2 Signature Edition, for the platform of the winner’s choice. I’ve randomly selected the five winners, among the approved and unapproved commenters, and here they are:…
By Brian Crecente Published October 29, 2010 -
Win A Signed Copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige Edition
We’ve got two copies of the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige Edition signed by Treyarch and we’d like to give them away to you. We’ll be drawing the two lucky winners on Monday, November 1. To enter you just need to sign up for our newsletter. Sure, you can unsign…
By Brian Crecente Published October 29, 2010 -
A Visual Guide to Power Gig: Rise of the Six String
Tristan has been playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band since he was old enough to hold a plastic guitar. He also plays real classical guitar. I dropped Power Gig’s electric guitar controller in his lap to have him test out Crossroads and tell us what he thinks of the game. Power Gig has five difficulty…
By Brian Crecente Published October 29, 2010 -
Win a Copy of Dragon Age 2 Signature Edition
It has been a month of freebies here on Kotaku. We’ve given away a Left 4 Dead 2 Zune, copies of Goldeneye, Halo: Reach, DJ Hero 2 and other games. And now we’ve got copies of Dragon Age 2 to hand out. This time around five lucky readers will be getting North American copies of…
By Brian Crecente Published October 28, 2010 -
A Deep Look At Need For Speed Hot Pursuit’s Demo
Check out this explainer video for the Need for Speed Hot Pursuit demo that hit earlier this week. The video walks you through the objectives of the race and curves of the track. I’m actually getting excited for this racing game. I even requested the review. I can’t remember the last time I was looking…
By Brian Crecente Published October 28, 2010 -
How To Be a Left 4 Dead Zombie This Halloween
If you’re a big fan of Left 4 Dead and haven’t figured out your costume for this Halloween yet, this video might be just what you’re looking for. Over the course of more than 16 minutes Petrilude walks us through how to create a zombie look inspired by his favorite zombies games, Left 4 Dead…
By Brian Crecente Published October 28, 2010 -
A Look At Free-To-Play Star Trek – Infinite Space in Action
Star Trek – Infinite Space gets its first trailer today, giving us a glimpse of what the free-to-play game hopes to deliver. The Galaxy at War trailer launched along side the preview site for the upcoming game, which is set in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine time line. Gameforge promises to update the site…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 -
A Glimpse of The Call of Duty: Black Ops Multiplayer Maps
Here’s a glimpse at the multiplayer map select and killstreak screens of upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops. While McWhertor detailed the killstreaks for Black Ops back in September, I think this is the first time we’ve seen what our source tells us is the full multiplayer map list.
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 -
A Winner Is You
To: Ash From: Crecente I love being able to give away cool prizes to our readers, especially during tough economic times like these. I know it’s not a job or mortgage payment, but I’d like to think it brightens the winners day just a bit. As much fun as the contests may be though, I…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 -
Geek Is…
Geek. This word is power, Chris Metzen, Blizzard’s senior vice president of creative development tells us. This word is identity. This is our word. And for one weekend it was also BlizzCon’s word. After watching this video that is all things us, all things Blizzard, take a minute to read the rest of our coverage…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 -
Show Us Your Gaming Rig
No, this isn’t my current gaming rig. It’s a postmortem picture of the last computer I built myself which died by heat and electrical shorts. These days I run a Voodoo with an AMD 64 FX-60 2.5 GHz dual core processor, 2 gigs of memory and an ATI Radeon X1900 graphics card. It’s in need…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 -
Court Bans Accused PAX Code Thief From Xbox Live, Takes His PC
Accused Penny Arcade Expo code thief Justin D. May was placed on a pre-trial probation this week which includes conditions that he stay in school, forfeit his computer and stay off Xbox Live, court officials tell Kotaku. May, 21, was arrested on Sunday, March 28, after representatives from developer Atomic Games say they caught him…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 -
A Look at Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II’s Most Yoda, Least Worthwhile Level
I was harsh, you might think too harsh, about the Dagobah level in my review of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. I said it added nothing, that there was no gameplay, no significant plot points, nothing but a slick looking cut-scene wrapped in two minutes of walking. That can’t be true, right? See for…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010
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