Good evening or morning, Kotaku readership. Let’s wind this Wednesday at Kotaku down with a little off-topic conversation, shall we? Yes, let’s. Because Kotaku is desperately seeking words over the next 24 hours. Mr. Totilo will be out, I will be performing my civic duties by trying to get out of jury service (I kid!)…
Blizzard’s ill-fated console spin-off, StarCraft: Ghost, has been “indefinitely postponed” since 2006, thought not technically canceled. And while I was never personally a big fan of the way StarCraft: Ghost played—I played it at two E3s long ago—this fan-made concept art makes me want it. This is the student work of artist Paul Hyun Woo…
While the straitjacketed brute pictured above certainly doesn’t look like a very inviting resident of this tropical getaway, new screens of the now highly anticipated Dead Island are welcome, regardless of whatever mutant zombie happens to be photobombing these shots. We’ve seen before that Dead Island is potentially as attractive as the promise of its…
Jude Buffum‘s excellent piece for Giant Robot‘s “Water Works” exhibition in Los Angeles, CA from March 19th to April 13th. This will be a benefit for UNICEF and child victims of the earthquake in Japan. All profits will be donated. Related Rampages: Toadstool Terrarium | Battle Bones Minus World by Jude Buffum (Flickr) (Facebook) (Twitter)…
You know what World War II games need more of? Dinosaurs. Specifically, Nazi dinosaurs, the kind one can send into multiplayer battles, huge cannons strapped to their cold-blooded endothermic backs! We’ll do so with Dino D-Day, the long in the making multiplayer mod for Valve’s Source engine. Dino D-Day will officially release on April 8…
Honestly, I wasn’t sure if we’d even get fresh sales figures from Japan this week, but we did and it appears that video game sales overseas are still rather strong, with the latest Dynasty Warriors game debuting with a quarter million copies sold. Dynasty Warriors 6 (or Shin Sangoku Musou 6, if you have trouble…
The forthcoming remake of Red Dawn, the 1984 film in which American teenagers band together to fight invading Soviet forces, will feature a North Korean invasion of the United States, not a Russian one, similar to just-released shooter Homefront. Why is that so interesting? Because they already shot the film as a Chinese invasion of…
Pixel artiste Jude Buffum’s interactive art installation “Painting with Pixels” slowly rendered over the course of five days at this year’s Game Developers Conference, a project that you can now watch be constructed pixel-by-pixel in just two minutes, fourteen seconds worth of time-lapse photography, thanks to I Am 8-bit.
Tonight’s open thread falls on a Tuesday. And Tuesdays now carry revolving themes. In tonight’s off topic discussion, let’s talk about what we’ve been watching, whether on TV, at the local cineplex, happening outside our windows or on stage at your local playhouse. I’ve been subjecting myself to things great and terrible, from Steven Soderbergh’s…
Your facial hair, your glasses and your bangs may interfere with the Nintendo 3DS‘s ability to recognize your face, potentially bad news for the scruffy hipsters and the long-haired four-eyed nerds among us. That’s just one of the (relatively minor) warnings included in English language 3DS instruction manual. While not as entertaining or Photoshoppable as…
The people behind the wildly popular Doodle Jump—which has seen 10 million paid downloads across the iPhone and Android platforms—are hoping this Doodle Jump thing will catch on elsewhere, namely with the Xbox 360 crowd. Lima Sky, the “creative force” behind the 99 cent download Doodle Jump, boasted of that 10 million milestone today, while…
Please, take your time making your way to the PlayStation Store, my North American brethren. I have downloads of the Mortal Kombat demo and Slam Bolt Scrappers that need completing. What else might the PlayStation 3 or PSP owner be interested in this week? How about the PSN release of Contra spin-off Hard Corps: Uprising…
Those little Murloc rascals from World of Warcraft get a Starcraft marine upgrade in Jorge Jacinto‘s most recent fan art mash up. Related Rampage: Assasith’s Creed Murlocs of the Stars by Jorge Jacinto / Blinck (CGHUB) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get…
The gang at Corridor Digital, creators of great video game inspired shorts like Video Game Cheats In Real Life and The Last Minecart, continue their dazzling Modern Warfare fan-film “Frozen Crossing” with a muzzle flash-filled frozen moment. Bullets and blood fly in this latest homage to the modern day Call of Duty, a video tribute…
I’d love to tell you that Pyramid Head is confirmed to return in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, but the people making the next horror movie based on Konami’s Silent Hill series haven’t confirmed his return. Instead, three characters from the original film will join Heather Mason on her stereoscopic 3D trip to Silent Hill. The…
PlayStation 3 platformer LittleBigPlanet 2 is expert at doing many things—imitating other video games, imitating classic movies, imitating operating systems—but can it actually be a good learning tool? Sony thinks so and plans to release downloadable content for the game that’s designed to aid schoolteachers. PlayStation Europe VP Ray Maguire tells MCV that LittleBigPlanet dev…
We’ve seen the impressive Batman: Arkham City in motion, thanks to an extended demo that shows off the caped crusader’s new dive bombing, wall-punching tricks. Now it’s your chance to (maybe) be impressed by Arkham City’s gameplay. And maybe you’ll find the trailer’s soundtrack, The Heavy’s “Short Change Hero,” an interesting selection. It certainly wasn’t…
Our latest look at the upcoming Brink gets a touch of class, detailing the four playable classes in Splash Damage’s long-in-the-making team-based first-person shooter. How does a soldier differ from a medic? What makes an operative more appealing than an engineer? Watch Brink’s latest character-focused trailer for the answer to those questions, plus a peek…
EA Sports is teasing an impending reveal of its next college football game, NCAA Football 12. What’s new? ESPN’s Jon Robinson spies new Nike Pro Combat uniforms, better looking grass (really!) and even more realistic dreadlock rendering. More details due tomorrow. [ESPN]
Happy pi day. Well, “happy” might be a stretch, because the fallout from Japan’s earthquake(s) and tsunami are leaving us all pretty down here at Kotaku Towers. Fortunately, there’s some good news today to help offset some of the bad. I’ll leave you with a few links to start off the conversation. They start off…
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