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Yes, You Can Use a Stylus with the Wii U Controller
Although it’s certainly not necessary to use a stylus all the time with the Nintendo Wii U’s touchscreen controller, as this picture shows there may be games that work better with the 3DS-like stylus. (That also implies that it’s a resistive touchscreen, not a capacitive one like the iPhone and iPad.)
By Joel Johnson Published June 7, 2011 -
E3 2011 Microsoft Press Conference Live Blog
It’s the first press conference of E3 2011, but will it be the biggest? Microsoft is almost certainly showing off new Kinect games as well as Halo 4. Join us as we soak it in for play-by-play and analysis from Kotaku
By Joel Johnson Published June 6, 2011 -
Kotaku and Spike/GameTrailers Team Up At E3
I’m excited to announce that starting Noon ET, 9AM PT Monday, Kotaku editors will appear during Spike and GameTrailers‘s 20-plus hours of live coverage of E3 2011. Stephen Totilo, Brian Crecente, Michael McWhertor, and Joel Johnson will all be appearing live on Spike and GameTrailers.com to provide expert analysis and share breaking news with Geoff…
By Joel Johnson Published June 3, 2011 -
Xbox 360 Still Selling Strong, Says Press Release That Guarantees No Xbox 3 at E3
From a Microsoft press release: Microsoft has now sold 55 million Xbox 360 consoles across 38 countries and sales are accelerating. Xbox 360 maintains its lead in the U.S. as the top selling console in 2011, and ten of the past eleven months. In the first four months of 2011, Xbox 360 has seen a…
By Joel Johnson Published June 3, 2011 -
Is Cory Arcangel an Asshole?
The artist known as Cory Arcangel first made his name with the installation “Super Mario Clouds v2k3” at the 2004 Whitney Biennial, in which the 8-bit clouds of the original Nintendo Entertainment System classic were projected across a wide open space. The art world ate it up, but did it actually mean anything? Perhaps damning…
By Joel Johnson Published May 26, 2011 -
Kotaku Looking for Eager Interns in NYC
Aspiring writers: Kotaku is bringing in another round of editorial interns! Do you… • Live in the New York City metro area? • Are you over 18? • Want to learn how to work in the games press? • Have a laptop and a better-than-average command of English? (Better than us, I’m saying?) • Maybe,…
By Joel Johnson Published May 24, 2011 -
Game Dev Searches for Developer Girlfriend Online in Adorable, Probably Illegal Personal Ad
There’s a game developer on the internet looking for love. And he’s got the job to woo you. Going as “single_white_dev”, his profile post starts innocuously enough, but it takes a slightly hairy turn in the second paragraph: I’m a Sr. Game Designer at a TOTALLY RAD studio working on an MMO (you know, like…
By Joel Johnson Published May 20, 2011 -
It’s Our Last Day on Earth. What are you going to play?
Tomorrow is the Rapture, according on one Harold Camping, a minister who sounds like Vincent Price and looks like a pickle in a deep fryer. All the Christians will be spirited to heaven, while the rest of us will be left to suffer the tribulations of the coming apocalypse. Babylon Surf City, let’s go! But…
By Joel Johnson Published May 20, 2011 -
Welcome to Games Reviewing, Carolyn Petit. You’re Doing Just Fine.
“I have no problem with the reviewer personally, but I dont want to see what is obviously a man, trying to look like a woman, its just too weird and I find it offensive, I dont want to be bombarded with gay/lesbian/transgender stuff on a gaming website, just have a regular guy or woman reviewing…
By Joel Johnson Published May 19, 2011 -
If You Took Drugs and Played Minecraft It Would Look Like This
The unpoetically named “GLSL Shader Mod” doesn’t sound like the sort of thing that would create such lysergic effects, but watching the Minecraft world bend and warp back so that the horizon touches its own toes is enough to make my spine crawl with sympathetic memory. [via Rock Blotter Shotgun]
By Joel Johnson Published May 19, 2011 -
There you are, LEGO Portal Turret!
Here’s a lovely little Instructable that shows how to make a Portal turret out of our favorite plastic building bricks suitable for desk or headboard. Now you’re thinking with elements. LEGO Portal Turret Instructions [Instructables.com (Thanks, Kyle!)]
By Joel Johnson Published May 19, 2011 -
7th-Graders Make a Paper-Mache Video Game You Can’t Play
Elisabeth Willis is my kind of art teacher. She’s encouraging her students to create their own video game characters in real life. Her 7th grade class assignment was so popular this spring that she’s already been asked to put together a panel for the National Art Educators Association—and she’s not even a full-time teacher yet.…
By Joel Johnson Published May 18, 2011 -
Some College Kids Get to Play Portal for Class Credit
“Enduring Questions” is a mandatory class for freshmen at Wabash College. The syllabus? Gilgamesh, Aristotle, Goffman, Donne…and Portal. That’s because it’s taught by Michael “Brainy Gamer” Abbot, profiled in this piece by Patrick Klepek that’s certainly worth reading on Giant Bomb When it came time to talk about the experience, there were surprising responses. Who…
By Joel Johnson Published May 18, 2011 -
Report: Sony PlayStation Network Password Reset Page Exploited, Customer Accounts Potentially Compromised
According to reports on Nyleveia.com, Eurogamer, and NeoGAF, Sony’s PlayStation Network password reset system-the one just put in place after the PSN hack-has been compromised, allowing hackers to change a PSN password if they know your email and date of birth. Exactly the sort of information that was released in the original hack. Sony has…
By Joel Johnson Published May 18, 2011
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