Owen Good, Author at Kotaku

Mass Effect‘s Normandy Crashing Into Skyrim Might Be The Least Weird Thing In This Picture

This appeared today in Reddit’s Skyrim community. It’s the mod “Normandy,” which adds a crash site of the Mass Effect ship into the game. It’s located outside of Whiterun, so really, you can probably fast travel to this thing no matter where you are in your character’s progression. Still, what the hell else did this…

By Owen Good Published August 23, 2012

At long last, Psychonauts is coming to the PlayStation Network’s PS2 Classics channel. It’ll be available on Tuesday.

By Owen Good Published August 23, 2012

You Don’t Have to Wait for NBA 2K13 to See Which Dream Team Would Win

If you want to face off the 1992 USA “Dream Team” of basketball versus the 2012 edition, without waiting for NBA 2K13, NLSC has the file you need, provided you’re playing NBA 2K12 on a PC. [via Operation Sports]

By Owen Good Published August 22, 2012

Another Look Inside ‘Copernicus,’ the Game You’ll Never Play

It was meant to be the “first triple-A, hundred-million-dollar-plus, free-to-play, micro-transaction-based MMO,” according to the studio’s celebrity boss, Major League Baseball all-star pitcher Curt Schilling. But plans for “Project Copernicus” vaporized when Schilling’s studio—makers of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning went under back in May. Since then, screenshots and even this trailer concept have leaked out,…

By Owen Good Published August 22, 2012

If Not This Year, Women’s Soccer Will Be In Video Games Soon, Says FIFA Producer

It’s inevitable that women will appear as playable athletes in a football title, the executive producer of the FIFA video game series told a petition organizer. But it’s far too late for that to happen in FIFA 13, and he couldn’t commit to any future year in which it might for his series. Still, whatever…

By Owen Good Published August 22, 2012

It Lives! Here’s 10 Minutes of Gameplay from NBA Live 13 [Update]

After more than two months of nearly total radio silence from EA Sports and the NBA Live team, skeptical sports gamers figured the series’ return was either in trouble, delayed, or even secretly canceled. This video spotted by Operation Sports, which shows 11 minutes of the game from boot-up to the first quarter horn, suggests…

By Owen Good Published August 21, 2012

For the Longtime Sports Gamer, What’s Not in the Game Counts More

He wasn’t some chicken-feed performer. His jersey number was retired and he’s in the hall of fame, and he was also named one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players. Sure, he played for a small college, and to the general public his name is always mentioned alongside an even greater teammate’s. Yet nothing can take…