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Report: GameStop’s Black Friday Xbox 360 Bundle Seems Too Good to be True
There will be Black Friday specials everywhere, but for many of you, GameStop’s will likely be the most important. So here, courtesy of discount specialists CheapAssGamer, are what’s reported to be the specialist retailer’s deals. The standout deal is obviously the pair of home console bundles offered on Friday, in particular a 250GB Xbox 360…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012 -
Fan Makes His Own Stylish Grand Theft Auto V Trailer
Rockstar sure knows how to make a good clip—loads of gameplay footage sure helps—but for those after something a little more stylish, check out Russian artist Ilya V. Boykov’s custom trailer for Grand Theft Auto V Slicing together and animating GTAV’s official artwork, it doesn’t do the greatest job of selling the actual game, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012 -
Culture
The Haunting, Beautiful Art of Peter La
Canadian Peter La is a former user interface specialist who’s recently shifted over to concept art. He’s done work for mobile games like Sushi Smash and the gorgeous puzzle game Nuculus, but really, saying he’s just a casual games artist is really selling his talents short. Those more ethereal sci-fi pieces below are some of…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012 -
Spin the Bottle for the Wii U Makes You Get Close. Sexy Close.
Now this looks neat. Spin the Bottle is a Wii U title from KnapNok Games and Redgrim that looks like the perfect way to show the new system off to friends… if you’re at a party and have had a couple of drinks. It’s a multiplayer game designed to be played with the TV off.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012 -
Metal Gear’s Stealth is Creepy, Annoying in the Real World
It’s entirely acceptable behaviour in desolate military installations and remote jungles, but busting out Snake’s repertoire of stealth moves in public places is a little less advisable. Metal Gear Solid in Real Life (Public Trolling) FINAL CUT [YouTube]
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012 -
User Uncovers Dodgy Russian Trading Scheme… in Team Fortress 2
Steamrep forum user base64, having noticed a strange spike in transactions for a rare in-game item, decided to do a little private investigating. And uncovered some very strange happenings. Picking up on a weird increase in trades for “earbuds”, a rare item in the game, his investigations led him to discover a closed Steam group…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Rumor: 2013’s Call of Duty is Another Modern Warfare Game
According to a report on Siliconera, next year’s Call of Duty game will take place in the same universe as Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare titles. The site’s source, related to the game’s voice acting, is the same one who accurately leaked a ton of Sleeping Dogs info over a year before that game’s release, so…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Lucasfilm Wants to Make “Two or Three” Movies a Year. That’s a Lot of Star Wars.
The next Star Wars movie, Episode VII, is just the tip of a money-coloured iceberg Disney plans to harvest in the wake of its takeover of the franchise from George Lucas. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Lucas’ anointed successor, Kathleen Kennedy, says that the company wants to produce “two or three films a year”, which aside…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
EA says it has “no reason to believe there has been any intrusion into our Origin database.”
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Equip These Kotaku Shirts For +7 Style
Friends of Kotaku Meat Bun have dropped four new shirt designs this week, and we’re particularly fond of two of them because, well, they’re Kotaku shirts. One is the follow-up to 2010’s Kotaku-tan, only this time things have taken a turn for the Frazetta, our heroine re-rolling as a Barbarian and dropping the hammer on…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
They Might be Gathering Dust, But They’re Still Your Most Cherished Memories
OMOCAT’s piece called “Old Toybox” is about as perfect a remembrance for the ghosts of Nintendo’s late 90’s (and early 2000’s) you could hope for. Originally done for the Fangamer vs Attract Mode Art Show at this year’s PAX Prime, it’s now available as an 18″ x 24″ print from Fangamer. Old Toybox [Fangamer]
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Culture
Yes, Master Chief, I Know You’re Part Robot, But I Want You To Get In This Bigger Robot
My sincerest apologies if you’ve had your fill of Halo 4 concept art over the past week because, well, I have not. As is common, now that the game is on shelves the artists involved can begin sharing more of their work. One of those artists is Chris Durso, whose stuff you’ll be seeing today.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Remember: This is How Call of Duty Games Are Made Now
A reminder (this pic is from May) that when you fire up Black Ops II and about an hour in are greeted by horses, Activision’s billions do not get you hand-animated horses. They get you this It’s like Andy Serkis lay down and dreamed of Vladimir Putin… Black Ops 2 preview [PC Gamer]
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Wait, This Might be the Laziest Wii Port Ever
EA’s FIFA 13 on Wii was a middle finger to sports fans on the console, as it was quite literally a full-priced roster update. If you thought competing franchise Pro Evo would do any better, though, you are sadly mistaken. As you can see in these images, once again provided by Nintendo Gamer, this year’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Nintendo Power Officially Closed Its Doors Today
The news dropped in August, but today Nintendo Power magazine, which has run since 1988, officially closed its doors. The last issue is in the books, and one of the world’s longest-running games mags is no more. It’s a sad day for lovers of print mags, especially as word hit that two British magazines—Xbox World…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Sony Says Hacked PS3s Will Be “Terminated Permanently”
There’s been a new PlayStation 3 hack doing the rounds over the last few weeks, one which some in the scene felt was a major victory in their running battle against Sony’s copy protection. It’s a hack that Sony has now officially responded to, directly warning users against applying it and threatening all those suspected…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2012 -
Black Ops II’s Weapons, Broken Down Into Tiny Statistics
If you’re about to settle in for 11 months of Black Ops II multiplayer, you’d do well to take this chart with you, as it shows just about everything you need to know about all the game’s weapons. Having spent four days doing nothing but shooting and recording data, pwnsweet and his brother can now…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2012 -
If Everything’s a Call of Duty Clone, Why Can’t Anyone Outdo Call of Duty?
Whenever a military-themed shooter comes out, the first thing many people say is “oh great, here comes another Call of Duty clone”. It’s a term used as a slur against a game, saying that it’s not just copying another game, it’s copying another game that for many has long run out of ideas. Why, then,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2012
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