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Sex Game Pulled From Steam Greenlight. You Can Guess Why. [UPDATE]
In theory, Steam Greenlight will let any aspiring game developer get their game onto PC gaming’s hottest online marketplace as long as enough gamers vote for it. But that promise doesn’t appear to apply to the makers of the erotic game Seduce Me. The game’s listing was pulled from Steam’s new Greenlight service last Thursday,…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 4, 2012 -
The Next Game From the Makers Of Angry Birds Stars The Pigs
You like the pigs in Angry Birds? Do you feel bad for the pigs? Well, good news: the pigs are the stars in the next game from Rovio, the creators of Angry Birds. The game is called Bad Piggies and, Rovio hypes, there’s “not a slingshot in sight.” So what kind of game is it?…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 4, 2012 -
Hardest Video Controls Ever?
Take QWOP, the notoriously difficult running video game, and swap in a horse. You get CLOP Take CLOP and try to control it with four PlayStation Move motion controllers. You get the video above, featuring the ever-enterprising creator of top unlicensed Move game Johann Sebastian Joust, Doug Wilson. RoboCLOP [YouTube, via Twitter]
By Stephen Totilo Published September 3, 2012 -
Reminder to Arkham City Players: Talk to Calendar Man Today… For the Last Time!!
Today is Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas New Year’s Day Valentine’s Day St. Patrick’s Day April Fools’ Day Mother’s Day Father’s Day The 4th of July something called The Feast of St. Roch Labor Day. So if you’re playing Batman: Arkham City and you don’t believe in cheating by changing your system’s internal clock, go talk to…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 3, 2012 -
Not In Seattle? Watch PAX’s Best Panels Right Here, Right Now
Are you somewhere other than PAX this year? Then let PAX come to you. The folks at Twitch TV are livestreaming soooo much of the show. Check out a lot of PAX without getting out of your chair, via the livestreams below: PAX 1 This stream is for the events in the Main Theater. Highlights…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 1, 2012 -
The Best of Kotaku, This Week
This week ends the summer for most people in school and for those who follow the rules regarding wearing white pants. But it’s not really over for gamers, since PAX is in full swing over in Seattle and the terrific rush of games for the fall hasn’t begun yet. As ever, it was a week…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 1, 2012 -
Here Are a Bunch of New Top Screens for Castlevania 3DS. No Bottom Screens.
How are we feeling about the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Mirror of Fate these days? The game played well when I tried it last spring. I think a side-scrolling Castlevania on the 3DS XL with the 3D slider pushing the backgrounds beyond the system, should be good. . . . . . UPDATE: And here…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 31, 2012 -
Torchlight II Comes to PC on September 20
Torchlight II hits PC and Mac on September 20. Have a trailer! [UPDATE] The game will ship on Mac later. And, a Runic developer wants to squash a rumor and confirms to Kotaku that all of the game’s dungeons and the overworld will be randomized.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 31, 2012 -
Hi. Kotaku Editor-In-Chief Here. I’ll Answer Your Questions Right Now.
Hey, Kotaku readers, every so often I like to check in with all of you and find out how you think we’re doing. This time, I thought we’d use our nifty, new Live Q&A system to answer your best questions about what’s going on with Kotaku, why we’re doing this or that, what we can…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 31, 2012 -
It Looks Like People In Poland Are Playing Resident Evil 6 Very, Very Early
It’s August 31, not October 2, but somehow, some way, gamers in Poland have gotten their hands on some retail copies of Resident Evil 6—or are extremely awesome at PhotoShop. A writer on the Polish gaming site NeoGeo reports that they were able to purchase copies of the October-scheduled game now. Google translate sorta clarifies…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 31, 2012 -
Hi There, Ridiculously Enormous Two-Person Mario Bros. Controller
More weird riffs on classic video games from the New York City gaming collective Babycastles and Katamari Damacy dreamer Keita Takahashi. We showed you their unusual takes on Ms. Pac-Man and an old-school shmup. Here’s Mario Bros.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 30, 2012 -
Coming This Fall: A New Generation of Wacky Wii Peripherals
Without the Wii, human beings would not have invented the Wii bowling ball, the Wii steering wheel and other debatably useful pieces of plastic. With the Wii U comes mankind’s next great leap in this sort of thing, as proven by the new products revealed today by peripheral-maker Atomic Accessories. Surely, it can’t get more…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 30, 2012 -
Super Skyrim Bros. is a Mod That, Well, You Get It, Right?
Skyrim is a very different place when there are Goombas running around it. You can see that for yourself in some clips of Super Skyrim Bros., a wacky mod that’s been quietly in development by a gamer named “clintmich” for the last few months. The first video here went live in early May. Sorry we…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 30, 2012 -
We Love The World’s First Post-Apocalyptic Competitive Eating Card Game
“The game is about eating and spewing and chewing and swallowing,” game designer Zach Gage says in this beginning of this 25-minute video that features me and Evan Narcisse playing Gage’s new card game Guts of Glory. With that, Gage led me and Evan through one of the most fun half-hours of gaming I’ve had…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 30, 2012 -
Gold Vs. Plus: How Sony Is Making a Mockery Of Xbox Live
You can pick your preference between PlayStation and Xbox. You can argue that Halo is better than KillZone or that Uncharted tops Gears of War But it is becoming increasingly hard to argue that the Xbox 360’s online subscription service is superior to the PlayStation 3’s. This is what competition does, and, today, the long-running…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 30, 2012 -
In 1970, It Was Time To Buy Your Son a Shotgun
We can learn a lot about who we used to be by looking at old ads. We can learn a lot about who we, as a society, aspired to be—and who it was ok to be. Take the average Sport-magazine-reading man of 1970. The back covers of those magazines told that man that it was…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 29, 2012
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