We’ve spoken of the Acer Predator gaming PC previously. Mostly on account of its gorgeous, Patlabor-meets-Transformers aesthetics. Today, we write about it on a more serious note. Because some Predators are melting themselves to death. Yes, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, “The insulation on the computer’s internal wiring can become bent or…
Sadly, because it’s a digital download, we don’t know exactly how many copies of Lost & Damned Microsoft and Rockstar managed to sell. We do know, however, it’s more than 323,000. Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg let slip the information in an interview with GameDaily – in which he calls the Grand Theft Auto IV expansion “the…
Sony’s Home has weathered its fair share of insults since launch. But putting arguments over the service’s usefulness aside for a moment, lets today look at some numbers. Speaking with GameDaily, Sony’s Peter Dille has revealed a few user statistics for the service. Did you know, for example, that the average user spends 55 minutes…
It’s not like we’re without precedent here. A seemingly innocent interview over on MTV has turned up the news that ageing rockers Mötley Crüe are possibly working on a dedicated version of Guitar Hero. It’s buried near the end of an article about the Crüe, some American Idol contestant and the band’s God-awful support lineup…
BioShock was easy to name. It was named BioShock. But BioShock 2 was originally known not as BioShock 2, but BioShock 2: Sea Of Dreams. Kind of naff. Which probably explains why it’s been changed. A spokesperson for BioShock publisher 2K has said “You won’t be seeing ‘Sea of Dreams’ moving forward, just ‘BioShock 2.”.…
You may have heard. There’s an economic crisis going on. Many people are panicking about this, but Mistwalker’s Hironobu Sakaguchi isn’t. He’s getting poetic. Writing on his company’s blog, the creator of the Final Fantasy series writes: These days I feel the hard economic times are a kind act for the planet to restrain human…
This ad for Samsung is trying to sell us on the benefits of an LED TV. Instead, it’s selling us on the benefits of buying a camera and lots and lots of sheep.
Nintendo just let us know that Punch-Out!, the Wii remake/re-imagining of the classic NES title, will be out in Europe on May 22. To get Europeans suitably psyched for the event, Super Punch-Out! will be released on the PAL Virtual Console on March 20. That’s a lot of punching.
The Matryoshka doll is the cake/custom action figure of 2009. Not the most obvious of pioneering creative avenues to pursue, true, but we can’t direct these artistic waves, only react to their flow. Where last week we saw the zombies of Left 4 Dead transformed into stackable little dollies, this week, it’s the inhabitants of…
Ask PC gaming snobs why they prefer playing games on a rig to a console and they’ll tell you, it’s the controls. Pads just can’t match the speed and accuracy of a mouse and keyboard. And it looks like few things on earth (at least, the earth of the present) can match the accuracy of…
While some online games have problems with real-money transactions, Swedish MMO Entropia Universe has no such issues. Indeed, it’s so responsible that publishers MindArk have been granted a proper banking license. The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority granted the license last week. What does that mean? It means the publisher “gains the protection of the Swedish…
Georgia City Councilman John Dowdy thought it would be a good idea to send an email round the office recommending a racist flash game. John Dowdy is no longer a Georgia City Councilman. The game in question is “Border Patrol” (sample its tastefulness above), a 2006 release that sees you trying to stop Mexicans from…
So you’re commenting on Kotaku. Congratulations! But did you know that aside from speaking your mind and saying mean things about us (do we not bleed?), there are other things you can do as well? Let’s take a look at them. First, you’re going to want to access your profile. You can do that by…
Indie first-person shooter Merchants of Brooklyn was released over Steam earlier in the week. Which should have been good news, except, developers Paleo Entertainment released the wrong version of the game. Yup. Instead of releasing the finished, final product, somebody at Paleo clicked on “alpha build” by mistake before hitting “upload”. Naturally, everyone buying the…
Does your PC have multiple cores? Mine does. And I just love it when a developer is able to release something that specifically takes advantage of them. So thanks, Valve! Team Fortress 2‘s latest patch – of which, you’re no doubt aware by now, there have been many – takes multicore rendering support out of…
Click to view THIS IS NOT REAL. It’s made by a guy called Peter Sjostrand. Nothing stopping you wishing it was made by Capcom, though, so please, wish away.
Forget that announcement saying it would be out on March 19. It’s not. It’s out today, and today is March 18, so if Metal Gear-themed Duck Hunt sounds appealing, get on it. It’s $8, it features characters and settings from Metal Gear Solid 4, and it clocks in at an impressive 90MB, so you’ll probably…
Sony have, for the first time in company history, “mothballed” employee wages and bonuses in an attempt to stem the company’s financial bleeding. This means there’ll be no wage increases over the next 12 months. For anyone, from the tea ladies all the way up to Sir Howard, and everyone (including the PlayStation folks) in…
Hrm. An Empire: Total War review. Where to start, where to start… It’s tough! Tough like trying to sum up War & Peace in Haiku. But let’s give it a shot! Sega and The Creative Assembly’s Empire: Total War is dense. It takes the existing Total War game model of turn-based strategy and real-time tactics,…
Zombies are suddenly hot again. Recent films, books and comic series have reignited the worlds love of the flesh-eating undead, and video games are, as always, right in on the action. So what better time to take a look at zombies, their role in video games, and how games go about implementing the concept of…
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