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Is This The New Face Of PlayStation Home?

With PlayStation Home gearing up for a transformation from virtual world to viable gaming platform, concept art images depicting the new look for Sony’s PlayStation 3 service have surfaced. Let’s take a look! The images, apparently sent to 4Player Co-Op via an anonymous user that discovered them in a marketing survey, depict a PlayStation Home…

Cognitive Reverse Engineering Explains The Incredible Allure Of Angry Birds

With more than 50 million copies of Rovio’s bird-slinging casual game downloaded, Angry Birds is one of the most popular games of all time, but why? Usability engineering consultant Charles Mauro tears down the surprising secrets to Angry Birds’ success. A certified human factors engineering professional and president of usability engineering and user interface design…

PlayStation Plus Subscribers Score Online Games Saves Tomorrow

Sony gives PlayStation Plus subscribers the ability to store game saves online via the PlayStation Network with tomorrow’s 3.60 system software update, allowing up to 1,000 data files to be stored on 150MB of space as long as the money keeps coming in. Check out the PlayStation Blog for more details.

The Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Arcade FightStick: Tournament Edition Is Another K.O.

As sure as winter is followed by spring, the release of a new Capcom console fighting game is followed by a new Tournament Edition Arcade FightStick from Mad Catz. Let’s put the Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 model through its paces. The Basics The Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Arcade FightStick: Tournament Edition takes the top-of-the-line controls…

How To Score Unlimited Money And Experience In Dragon Age II

Want to gain fame, fortune, and power in Dragon Age II without trudging through all of those tedious quests? GameFront has unearthed a glitch that grants a player unlimited wealth and experience with the press of a button. Wanna see? Before you watch the video, ask yourself if you really want to cheat your way…

Lag Is Even More Frustrating In Real Life

Artist Guy Collins tackles the concept of online latency issues leaking into the real world in Lag, the animated movie. Hopefully it’ll load okay for you folks. Just be thankful that the painful time displacement effects of high latency are confined to our online worlds. As Guy Collins demonstrates here, rubber-banding in Modern Warfare or…

Serious Sam Delivers Three New Games With An Indie Twist

While Croteam occupies itself crafting the third entry in the Serious Sam franchise, indie developers Mommy’s Best Games, Be-Rad Entertainment, and Vlambeer take Sam places he’s never been before in three new indie games. Serious Sam is no stranger to the indie scene. The humorous first-person shooter franchise is the child of Croteam, a proud…

Is The PC Key To Preserving Our Console Gaming History?

In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Pixiebutt salutes Sega for making its classic console titles available on Steam, and dreams of a day when other present and former gaming hardware companies follow suit. So I woke up this morning and took a look at the front page of Steam, and to my surprise I saw…

Even Legendary Guild Wars 2 Heroes Have To Craft Stuff

When the Guardians, Thieves, and Elementalists of Guild Wars 2 aren’t busy building their legend, they’ll be building guns, gadgets, and gears via the game’s comprehensive crafting system. ArenaNet details how the game’s eight crafting professions get the job done. Crafting is an integral part of any massively-multiplayer online game, driving the player economy in…

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Tiger Blood Energy Potion Brings Out The Raving Lunatic Actor In You

Watching a celebrity dissolve before your very eyes is entertaining, but Charlie Sheen’s reign as everybody’s favorite frothing-at-the-mouth WINNER can only last so long. Luckily for Blood Energy Potion creators Harcos Laboratories, printing out stickers doesn’t take long at all. Perhaps I’m only jealous because I’m not winning, but that could all change once I…

We’ll Show You Our Dragon Age II Character If You Show Us Yours

Dragon Age II is here, finally giving players the chance to cobble together their own version of the game’s answer to Mass Effect’s Commander Shepard. Watch me craft my version of Hawke, and then show us yours. The character creation function was locked for the Dragon Age II demo, leaving us stuck playing the male…

Can Video Games Keep Your Children Physically Fit?

Can exergaming really take the place of going for a brisk walk or doing a few laps in the pool? A study out of Brigham Young University finds that certain video games do count as legitimate exercise for kids. Regular exercise is wonderful, but it tends to tear us away from the television set, forcing…

Nyko Doubles The Battery Life Of The 3DS

Disappointed with the three to eight hour battery life of the Nintendo 3DS? Accessory manufacturer Nyko will be ready at launch with the Power Pak+, an add-on device that promises to double the interval between 3DS battery chargings. What you’re seeing here is actually two products Nyko has lined up to support 3DS gamers when…

The Girl At The Video Game Store Might Be There To Rob It

Just because she’s a female shopping by herself in at a major video game retailer doesn’t mean she’s shopping for her boyfriend. This is the 21st century. She might also be there to rob the place. A lone woman entered a GameStop in San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday evening, looking like any normal video game…

Why The Best Games Are Made By The Smallest Development Teams

Commenter Crusader1025 ponders why some of the best games are created by development teams that barely qualify as teams in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. Half Life was made by 2 people. Minecraft was made by 1. While the best sellers are those who spend billions of dollars on publicity, the games themselves tend to be…

The Best Mass Effect 2 Cosplay Meets The Best Dragon Age II Cosplay

Which is tougher, the female version of Mass Effect 2’s Commander Shepard, or the female version of Dragon Age II’s Hawke? When costumer extraordinaire Holly Conrad and crew take on both BioWare sequels, everybody wins. You may remember Holly Conrad and her team from the best Mass Effect 2 cosplay every created. Her group created…

Game Consoles Transformed Into Hot Women Should Be More Exciting Than Hyperdimension Neptunia

In the future, all wars will be fought by Japanese anime women wearing revealing battle suits. For the console wars the future in now, thanks to Hyperdimension Neptunia. The goddesses of the lands of Planeptune, Laststation, Lowii, and Leanbox have been locked in battle for ages. When one goddess falls from grace, she and her…

These Are 2010’s Best PlayStation Network Games

Last month Sony asked PlayStation 3 owners to vote for the best PlayStation Network Games of 2010 across four different categories. Only two of the winners directly involved zombies. Though I suppose God of War: Ghost of Sparta does have the name of an undead creature in the title, making for a near clean-sweep in…