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The Occupy Movement Needs an Arcade Cabinet. Help It Get One.
The Oakland branch of the Occupy movement is moving off the streets and into an abandoned building later this week. In doing so, they get facilities like kitchens, meeting rooms, etc. All that’s missing is an arcade machine. So Anna Anthropy wants to build them one. It’ll run on batteries, move on wheels and should…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2012 -
Cube World is Quietly Becoming My Most Anticipated PC Game of 2012
The last time we say indie PC game Cube World, it looked interesting. Fast forward six months and a lot has changed. For the better. The voxel-based 3D adventure game, which is procedurally-generated yet each time includes a proper game, now looks gorgeous. So much so the team was very nearly bought out by Minecraft…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2012 -
Creep Out Your Nintendo Console With Giant Stickers of Cats. Or Horses. Or Seals.
I’ve been meaning to post about these for years now, but they keep slipping my mind. Or does my mind sweep them out to preserve its own sanity? Probably the latter. Shitty peripheral company Kamikaze Gear offers these decals for the Wii and DS that are so awful they flip right back around again and…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
BioWare Bans Old Republic Player For Using Internet Meme
“I’m 12 and what is this”. If you don’t know what that means, here. Everybody back on the same page? OK, so we can all have a laugh at this poor guy’s expense when he was banned from Star Wars: Old Republic for using the line. Posting “I’m 12 and what is this” in a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
Hacked PS3 Lets You Play Battlefield 3, Red Dead Redemption on the Vita
Enterprising hackers, who have cracked open the PS3’s v3.55 firmware, now have a pretty neat feature running on Sony’s new handheld: the ability to remotely play games like Battlefield 3 on a PlayStation Vita. While remote play itself is nothing new, having been enabled between the PS3 and PSP (and already some Vita games), it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
Way More Universal Microtransactions are Coming to the PS3
Upcoming shooter Dust 514 won’t just be the first PS3 game to link to an MMO on the PC. It’ll also be the first to support a framework for the purchase of microtransactions on the PlayStation Network using a virtual currency. Asked by Develop whether developers CCP would be using their own form of in-game…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
Rumor: Microsoft Killing Microsoft Points, Will Use Real Money Instead
Good news, haters of arbitrary online currencies! The end for Microsoft’s confusing “Points” system may be near, if a report on Inside Mobile Apps is to be believed. The mobile site claims that Microsoft’s Points will be “phased out” by the end of 2012, with transactions to be listed in a user’s local currency instead.…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
Arrested Megaupload Boss Cheated His Way To Video Game Glory, Opponents Say
Kim Dotcom, the imprisoned mastermind behind busted file-sharing site Megaupload and, bizarrely, also the top-scoring killer on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, wasn’t always a showboating millionaire. He also ran a competitive video game league in the late-90s. And was by all accounts a rather sore loser. How sore? Like, banning from his league…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
Warner Bros. Wants to Make Movies Out of a Book Based on a Giant Video Game
I got excited in 2008 when news hit somebody was making a game based on Tad Williams’ Otherland series of books. That game never turned up. Since it was an MMO, I am already over it, and now excited all over again because Otherland is being turned into very expensive motion pictures instead. The books,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
The War Against Piracy is as Much About Politics as it’s About Piracy
This has long been a bit of an elephant in the room when it comes to “giant publishers talking about piracy”, so naturally it’s taken a representative from a small publisher to bring it up. Asked by GameSpy why companies like Ubisoft insist on hideous forms of DRM, Paradox Interactive CEO Fred Wester replies with…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
The Very Best In Cosplay: Crystal Graziano
Continuing our series highlighting the very best cosplayers on planet Earth, this morning we’re looking at Crystal Graziano, who unlike most other people in the field gets to put “professional cosplayer” on her tax return. Having recently got Firefall developers Red 5 to fit the bill for her cosplaying efforts throughout 2012, Graziano should be…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
The Muppets Look Great In LittleBigPlanet 2 [Update]
This Wednesday, LittleBigPlanet 2 gets its most interesting update in months, when The Muppets come to Media Molecule’s PS3 exclusive. For USD$6/€6/£4.80.UD$9.95 you’ll get all kinds of stuff like stickers, new levels, etc, but strangely the official description lists only a Rowlf costume for Sackboy, and not the others seen starring in the video. Media…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
Ocarina of Time, Recreated Entirely As a Minecraft Map
The goal behind Hyrulecraft was a simple one. Recreate the entire game world of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, at a scale of 1:1, within Minecraft. Something the team behind the project have now accomplished. It’s (mostly) all there. Just about everything from the 1998 Nintendo 64 classic, including all of the overworld,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
What is Cosplay?
Almost every time we make a cosplay post here on Kotaku, the questions come out. Why are these grown men and women playing dress-ups? Why are these women (and sometimes men) walking around showing so much skin? Those people are missing the point of why people get into cosplay. A point this video explains quite…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 22, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallThey Don’t Make Games Like Strike Commander Any More
Before Chris Roberts went crazy and started making terrible movies, he was the genius behind some of the greatest PC games ever made. Some, like Wing Commander, are still remembered fondly today. Others, like Strike Commander, sadly are not. So successful was Roberts’ Wing Commander series, and/or so intent was the man on telling story-driven…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 22, 2012 -
HBO Wants to Turn Indie Game Movie Into TV Series
Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary about getting an indie game made, had a pretty successful debut at Sundance over the weekend. So successful, in fact, it’s already been picked up by HBO so it can be turned into a TV series. The network, renowned for its strong original content, has optioned the rights to…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 22, 2012 -
Well Excuse This Adorable, Tiny Princess Zelda
Zelda-loving parents with a decent amount of disposable income, why not spend some of it on this hand-knitted Princess Zelda costume, designed to fit children too young to know what a Zelda even is. From the product description on Etsy: Pictured is my Matilda wearing it at 9 months of age, so it will definitely…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2012 -
PC Overclockers, You Can Now Insure Your CPU
If you’ve ever fried an expensive CPU trying to overclock the thing, you should check this out. Intel is introducing something called the Performance Tuning Plan, which in plain English means overclocking insurance. Yes, for $20-$35 your Core i-whatever processor can be covered against you screwing up an overclock, with a one-time condition that your…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2012 -
Old Tony Hawk’s Levels, New Tony Hawk’s Graphics
Here’s six new screenshots for the upcoming Tony Hawk’s HD. Sorry there’s no music to go along with screenshots. Play this as you click through, it’ll do the trick. And here’s the original, just in case you really need to get the track out of your system.
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2012
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