Give your 2002 copy of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind a fresh, modern day coat of paint with the Morrowind 2011 Graphical Project, a graphical once-over that may make you love the look of Bethesda’s massive role-playing game. The Morrowind 2011 Graphical Project is basically a long, long list of Morrowind mods (4 gigabytes worth!)…
Call of Duty publisher Activision has been talking about new ways to make even more money from its shoot ’em up cashcow for years. A new report makes it sound like a new way to play Call of Duty online is imminent. The analysts at Wedbush Securities believe that Activision is set to reveal a…
You may have already seen the Nintendo Famicom-inspired Scion xB in stills, but you’ll be missing out if you don’t see the other sights and sounds this customized ride has to offer. Giant Robot magazine publisher Eric Nakamura walks us through the non-standard options of this retro-styled Toyota, which features a NES cart for a…
Pac-Man and The Simpsons make for a great combination in Aled Lewis‘ new series of mash ups. Check out his Bonnie & Clyde and Inky illustrations. Related Rampages: How They Died | Daywalker Blinky by Aled Lewis / fatheed (Flickr) (Behance) (Twitter) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to…
What may be most surprising about this video in which a younger brother is thoroughly griefed by his elder brothers, but that he’s such a good sport about not being able to play Kinect in peace. It may also be the first recording of a Kinect griefing via Shake Weight, pirate sword and glass of…
Computer hardware manufacturer ASUS has teamed up with the makers of Kinect‘s camera technology, PrimeSense, to bring controller-free, gesture-based gaming to your PC this year, a product it will show off at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show. It is, essentially, the Xbox 360’s Kinect controller, but with a less graceful name: the WAVI Xtion. The…
If you’ve ever wanted to dig into the guts of Flash game and iPhone hit Canabalt, its creators are giving you that chance, making the indie game open source as part of a charity celebration. Canabalt—and Eliss and Drop 7 and Solipskier and Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor and Osmos—were just responsible for a…
Did you find the first Dissidia: Final Fantasy lacking in the jiggling cleavage you demand of your fighting games? Good news: the sequel to Square Enix’s Final Fantasy all-star fighter has fleshy fan service in spades! The official ESRB rating for the PSP game, Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy, warns of more “suggestive themes” than the…
The PlayStation Portable represented well in Japan’s Christmastime hardware contest thanks to the continued sales rampage of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd and idol worship game AKB1/48: Idol to Koishitara… and maybe even The 3rd Birthday The latest Monster Hunter game for the PSP has racked up more than 3.5 million sales in Japan, something the…
Learn to walk, learn to run all over again with QWOP, the iPhone port of the highly entertaining and/or maddening track and field Flash game of 2008. Using a touchscreen to independently control calves and thighs sounds fun, right? Well, QWOP may not be fun in the traditional sense. It’s wacky. It’s challenging. But one…
That’s right. Bejeweled 3. PopCap Games’ match-three puzzle game has sunk its casual claws into my mind and now I can’t stop playing this thing. I should have never doubted Stephen’s review of this great timesink. My weekend will likely be full of primary colors, for I also intend to dig into the Super Mario…
One of your resolutions for 2011 should probably be “play more Rock Band 3.” Harmonix is encouraging that kind of behavior with a long list of new additions to its full band music game, including an injection of Johnny Cash. The Man In Black will lead off Rock Band 3’s list of downloadable songs with…
The rebirth of Lara Croft, simply known as Tomb Raider, may be the prettiest entry yet—even if Lara herself looks like she’s gone through hell. If you haven’t already seen what the new Tomb Raider looks like in the pages of Game Informer magazine, the outlet has published a big gallery of screen shots, concept…
Sony’s six-year-old PSP may feel in need of an update, but the portable PlayStation managed to still be the bestselling platform in Japan this year, where Monster Hunter (and its clones) made 2010 great for the PSP. That’s according to a report from ASCII Media Works, publisher of Dengeki game magazines, which pegs the PSP…
Check out the Amazeing Sunset / Pac-Man artwork by Phil Jones! This shirt design will be up for vote at Threadless very soon. Enjoy the view until then. Amazeing Sunset by Phil Jones (Tumblr) (Flickr) (Twitter) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get…
For a game that’s not even officially out yet, LittleBigPlanet 2 has already impressed us with its game-making capabilities. User ingenuity, as seen in this “Windows LBP” creation, is just as impressive. This Windows XP homage, built in the LittleBigPlanet 2 beta, won’t run a copy of Excel or PowerPoint, but it does do a…
Can we still be surprised by video games in an industry rife with rumors, leaks and publishers who prefer safe bets to bold risks? Looking back at the turn of events that was 2010, a year sometimes rocky, sometimes thrilling, it seems we can. We should have seen some of the biggest surprises of 2010…
Kotaku readers, if you’re not too pre-occupied with typing things into the search textfield or refreshing the #speakup page, waiting for it to work, how about joining us for some off-topic conversation tonight? As Mr. Crecente mentioned earlier, we’re heading to CES next week, which means a return to the desert of Las Vegas. Having…
Not only is Call of Duty: Black Ops one of the fastest selling video games of all time, racking up more than a billion dollars in sales in 2010, it’s also impressively enough one of the most illegally downloaded. According to a report from BitTorrent news site TorrentFreak, the PC version of Black Ops has…
We’ve made it an important milestone in the increasingly long list of hacks that transform Microsoft’s Kinect from Xbox 360 motion controller into something grander. World of Warcraft is now playable with Kinect hand-waving action. The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California demonstrates its Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST)…
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