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Dead Space’s Navigation System is Now a Reality
If Dead Space is to be remembered for one thing, it should be its navigation system, where pressing a button triggers an illuminated “path” in the game world showing you your destination. I don’t know if it was the first game to do this, but it was certainly the first to do it so prominently/so…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
A Twenty-Minute Documentary About the Gender of Final Fight’s Poison
Reader Andrew points us towards this documentary. Which goes for twenty minutes. And which is entirely about the seemingly endless debate over the gender of Final Fight’s Poison. While it gets a little “high school paper” in parts, and is something we’ve pondered over once or twice ourselves, it’s still a fairly interesting watch, if…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
Justin Bieber is Being Sued Over an iPhone Game Called “Joustin Beaver”
Video game developers RC3 have a harmless little game called Joustin Beaver for sale on the App Store. It’s $0.99, and it’s turned the teen heartthrob into a beaver. Something Justin Bieber’s attorneys aren’t very happy about. Representatives of the Canadian pop star sent a cease-and-desist letter to RC3 over the title a few weeks…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
Mr. Shepard and Little Miss Shepard Will Save the Galaxy With Sweetness
Roger Hargreaves’ classic children’s book series head into the future, where no doubt some anonymous commenter on the future internet will make a joke about them being their favourite pieces of children’s literature on the citadel. howtocarveroastunicorn [howtocarveroastunicorn, via Gamefreaks]
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
Journey, Flower Developers Looking Beyond the PlayStation 3
Sony has done a great job with its exclusive PlayStation Network titles of promoting the kind of games you wouldn’t expect to see promoted on a modern video game console. Games like Flower, and Journey Sadly, at least for Sony – and this will be heartening to anyone who doesn’t own a PS3 – the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
Buying all of Mass Effect 3’s DLC Will Cost You $870
Downloadable content is serious business. Well, with the amount of time and money developers spend on it (and ask for it), you’d think it was. Stuff like Mass Effect 3’s DLC, though, is more of a joke. With various weapons and skins spread across pre-orders, toys and PC accessories, if you wanted to own every…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallPrepare for a Good…Sponking? Spanking? Oh Sega.
Going by the old adage “it’s not racist if it’s France”, this Dreamcast commercial plays on one of Europe’s oldest rivalries in an attempt to sell the Brits on the console’s pioneering online play. And if the French can’t rouse them? Germans stuffing their faces with sausages should do the trick Total Recall is a…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
CultureTotal Recall
Chris Rock Could Have Been in Jak and Daxter
It is the year 2000. Comedian and actor Chris Rock is nearing the height of his powers. Sony’s stable of video games, on the other hand, was not. Sure, the PlayStation had been a breakthrough, but the world-devouring juggernaut that was the PlayStation 2 was in its infancy. So you can maybe understand why, when…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012 -
The PlayStation Network is About to go Down for a Day
The PlayStation Network undergoes maintenance all the time. Usually, though, it only lasts for 2-4 hours. On Thursday, the network is undergoing some serious maintenance, because it’ll be down for most of the American day. Starting at 8am Pacific and running until an estimated 10pm Pacific, almost everything PlayStation-related that uses the internet will be…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012 -
Hawken Team Given $10 Million Because Hawken Looks Awesome
Indie multiplayer shooter Hawken, which stole my heart, stuffed it in a mech then begged me to come get it back, has always attracted attention for how good it looked despite it being the product of a small studio, Adhesive Games. Note I say small and not poor, because the guys who are working on…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012 -
Brazilians Shake Their Asses to Mario
Brazil’s Carnival parades are some of the biggest, and certainly the danciest shindigs on Earth. Especially when they draft the Mushroom Kingdom in to help out. Reader Marcelo sends us these clips taken over the weekend in the Rio suburb of Santa Teresa, as a Mario-themed posse shakes their way down the streets. I’ve seen…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012 -
The Very Best In Cosplay: Beethy
Our running focus on the very best in cosplay is not, as some may have noticed, just looking at models/costume builders. We’ve also been looking at the people behind the camera, like LJinto and Eric Ng Or, in today’s case, Australian photographer Benjamin “Beethy” Koelewijn. Beethy has most recently been taking snaps of the new,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012 -
Minecraft, now With 100% Added Salt
Bashir Sultani, who in all seriousness I am about to label a salt artist, likes to draw things using salt. Like Minecraft creepers. We saw him last year going all Modern Warfare on us, but I think I like this better. It’s quainter. Which fits, since the dude is drawing pictures with salt. Which is…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012 -
The Anatomy of Amazing LEGO Pokémon
LEGO builder Mike Nieves has put together these two awesome Pokémon models, one showing Gyarados ready to bite someone’s face off, the other a Magikarp stripped bare to the bones. Literally. So if you’ve ever fancied yourself as a Pokémon osteologist, a rare but dignified branch of Pokémonology, take notes. retinence’s photostream [Flickr, via Brothers…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012 -
Please do not get Excited Over This Sonic 4: Episode 2 Footage
So Sonic 4: Episode 1 was a bit of a disappointment. Which should have surprised nobody, but hey, you can’t rely on Sonic fans (which, really most of us are, deep down) for rational expectations of upcoming products So it’s with trepidation, and not excitement, that we take a look at this gameplay footage from…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 26, 2012 -
Reviews
FIFA Football Vita: The Kotaku Review
I’m still a little shocked. I mean, I love my football and I generally love my FIFA, but if you’d told me two months ago that the single best game available at the Vita’s launch would be this, a handheld port of a game that’s just in time for the end of the European season,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 26, 2012 -
Mass Effect 3’s Live-Action Trailer is the End of the World as we Know it
This is a new live-action trailer for Mass Effect 3. Because an expensive pre-rendered one last week wasn’t enough! Kind of wish it had stopped at the collapsing roof. The “end of the world” stuff from the perspective from Joe on the Street is a neat angle to show a bombastic sci-fi game from, so…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 26, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallWant Some Rye?
Course ya do. This line, from 1993’s Return to Zork, gets me every time. Put a couple of beers in me and I’ll start asking it of people who have no idea what I’m talking about, but fuck ’em, because if they don’t want any rye then they’re not worth my time anyway.
By Luke Plunkett Published February 24, 2012 -
Let This Street Fighter II Song be Your Gateway to Shirtless Keyboard Fun
As Sonaje starts playing the Street Fighter II intro on guitar, you might think this is just another boring video of some guy playing the Zelda theme on violin, or the Mario theme on a tamborine, or whatever. It’s not. Stick with it. There are keyboards. Sonaje is a delight. And watching this video let…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 24, 2012 -
The Death Star Arrives in Earth Orbit, They’re Here for our Toys
In this neat ad for Toys ‘R Us in Denmark, the Death Star pops into Earth orbit and Imperial shuttles start landing. In Denmark. Which seems pretty believable. That’s where all the LEGO is. If I came from outer space for something, it’d probably be LEGO.
By Luke Plunkett Published February 24, 2012
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