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Extra Life Raises $150,000 And Counting
Sarcastic Gamer and Texas Children’s Hospital teamed up to raise money with a 24-hour gaming marathon called Extra Life the weekend before last. They raised so much money, they’re keeping the donations line open. Extra Life’s super huge gaming marathon started at 8 AM on October 17 in participants’ local time zones. Gamers were allowed…
By AJ Glasser Published October 27, 2009 -
More Pumpkins For The Patch — Featuring Borderlands
We’ve got several entries from all types of game to go up today. And one entry that puts my Bubs disaster completely to shame. Enjoy! The Half-Life pumpkin was carved last year by Gerard “OriginalGman.” Ghostbusters comes our way from Cameron Leatham, Joe Greene and his wife contributed Strong Bad pumpkins. Sean Lefebvre handled Mario…
By AJ Glasser Published October 26, 2009 -
Buzz! Quiz World Hands On: The Further Adventures of the Comeback Kid
For the first two thirds of any parlor game like Trivial Pursuit, I’m terrible. Then – for reasons I’m still not entirely clear on – I’ll rock the last third of the game and either place second, or win. This pattern has repeated itself for most of my life, so I can be reasonably sure…
By AJ Glasser Published October 26, 2009 -
The World Ends With Batman, Brando And The Spy
Today’s Kotaku pumpkin patch includes the Godfather, Batman, the Spy from Team Fortress 2 and the World Ends With You. Cheers to Chris Wells, Lee Harris, Kevin “ShadesBot” Moore and Chae Wells! Some of you keep starting your pumpkin emails with “Mine’s terrible, but…” Seriously, guys, it doesn’t matter. You want to see how bad…
By AJ Glasser Published October 26, 2009 -
Dad Kills Son Over Missing Video Game
Houstonian Ofelio Antonio Otero, 40, allegedly shot and killed his 17-year-old son yesterday morning after arguing with him about a missing video game. Otero had been drinking heavily when he started arguing with his wife about said video game. His son, Ignacio, joined the argument and then Otero loaded his gun. According to Houston Police…
By AJ Glasser Published October 26, 2009 -
Avatar Wii Preview: Environmentalism Commando
James Cameron‘s upcoming science fiction flick looks pretty nifty, but how does it hold up on its “the video game will be just like it” promise on the Wii? Answer: It denies it ever made that promise. Unlike the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game, the Wii version of Avatar deliberately avoids…
By AJ Glasser Published October 26, 2009 -
Big Daddy Needs a Big Pumpkin
A couple more jack-o-lanterns for the weekend then we’re in the home stretch. Big Daddy comes from Kotaku user Crabcraft and Master Chief is Josh Ray’s masterpiece from last year. Five more days of pumpkin-loving left, Kotaku. Get ’em done!
By AJ Glasser Published October 23, 2009 -
Elder Scrolls Novel Potentially Confirms Elder Scrolls V
Author Greg Keyes is better known to me by his Star Wars Expanded Universe contributions, but as the writer on The Elder Scrolls: Infernal City, he’s been promoted to “potential Bethesda informant.” A book blurb on the Waterstone’s retail site reads “A novel that takes places forty-five years after the Oblivion Crisis, which is the…
By AJ Glasser Published October 23, 2009 -
Carving a Virtual Pumpkin
An enterprising indie developer pointed me toward his 3D pumpkin carving game on Xbox Live Indie Games called Pumpkin Chop. As virtual arts and crafts go, it’s a pretty satisfying experience. There’s spooky music, a lot of freedom with the carving function and a Show Off! mode that features eerie settings in which to view…
By AJ Glasser Published October 23, 2009 -
Dark Void Jack-o-Lantern Lights It Up
This nifty-keen pumpkin comes our way from Josh Neff, who also has a YouTube vid up showing off his handiwork. “I usually use a pokey thing (in this case it was a sharpened bike spoke), an X-acto knife, and screw drivers,” says Neff. “For the surface detail on this I tried something new and used…
By AJ Glasser Published October 23, 2009 -
Come Party In San Francisco, If You Can’t Make Denver
Can’t make the Child’s Play party in Denver on November 19? I know I can’t, so I’m going to Ümloud! in San Francisco on December 9 instead. Ümloud! is round two of Child’s Play‘s annual charity benefiting sick kids in hospitals across the country. It’s going down at the DNA Lounge at 375 Eleventh Street…
By AJ Glasser Published October 23, 2009 -
Army of Two: The 40th Day Multiplayer Preview: Extract Some Fun
Army of Two: The 40th Day goes out of its way to carry the cooperative experience through all of its competitive multiplayer modes, but thankfully this doesn’t mean endless team deathmatches. Rather, you get your standard multiplayer modes like Control (which is more or less capture the flag) and a special mode called Extraction. Extraction…
By AJ Glasser Published October 22, 2009 -
Army of Two: The 40th Day Introduces Extraction
Imagine Gears of War 2’s Horde Mode combined with Left 4 Dead’s escape-the-zombies gameplay and you’ll have something similar to — but not exactly like — Army of Two: The 40th Day‘s new multiplayer mode, Extraction. Extraction comes as a bonus multiplayer mode for GameStop any retailer’s pre-order customers. But don’t fret — the rest…
By AJ Glasser Published October 22, 2009 -
Anyone Want To Guess What Ignition’s New Game Is?
Ignition is teasing a game announcement on both Twitter and its Facebook page. Don’t you just love modern advertising? Time was, you’d have to wait until tomorrow for a press release. Oh wait… You’re waiting ’til tomorrow anyway. That’s why it’s a tease, not a game announcement. I’ll dutifully keep my eyes on the Twitter…
By AJ Glasser Published October 22, 2009 -
Six Days Isn’t Dead Yet, Says Developer
Atomic Games isn’t giving up on Six Days In Fallujah, says president Peter Tamte in a Marine Corps Times report. Meanwhile, his other company Destineer — those jerks who inflicted John Deere: Harvest in the Heartland on me — is putting out a shooter for the Wii called Marines: Modern Urban Combat for the Wii…
By AJ Glasser Published October 22, 2009 -
Amazing Mario Tanooki Suit Rug
It’s times like these, I wish I could crochet instead of half-assedly knit. Craftser user EnemyAirShip taught herself to knit a little while ago by watching YouTube videos. She started with granny squares and then orchestrated a the pixelated pattern that become the Mario rug, which now lives in her living room. EnemyAirShip says: I…
By AJ Glasser Published October 22, 2009 -
Will Brütal Legend Be On This List?
Half the fun of super-long video game lists is scrolling through to see if your favorite/most-hated games are on there. The other half of the fun is looking for Tim Schafer games. It’s not that Schafer’s made so many games that he has to be on every list (like the Final Fantasy games). It’s just…
By AJ Glasser Published October 21, 2009
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