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Super Mario Bros. As a Hole in a Miniature Golf Course
From afar, I thought I was seeing a Minecraft-inspired hole of miniature golf. Closer, I thought the inspiration may have been 3D Dot Game Heroes. No, the mini-golf hole made by a gentleman named Aaron Williamson was based on Super Mario Bros. The hole is part of an arcade-themed mini-golf course on New York City’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 13, 2012 -
The Best Super Mario Surprise Ever Made
Some of the most beautiful things in video games, as my colleague Patricia Hernandez noted on Friday, are the mistakes, the glitches. Some of the best surprises, however, are the ones game developers intentionally hid for us somewhere in the forests of the games we play. These delights are planted along the path to please…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 13, 2012 -
I Think I Unlocked Nintendo’s Worst Achievement
I earned this commendation yesterday after playing the Nintendo 3DS’ built-in role-playing game, Find Mii. Let’s unpack this a bit, shall we? Nintendo, which isn’t big on Xbox-like Achievements, does have an Achievement-like system built into the 3DS. The 3DS’ achievements primarily reward users for networking their system to others’. You get commendations when your…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2012 -
Is Valve Teasing a Third, Gray Faction For Team Fortress 2?
There’s a blood-stain on the logo atop the Team Fortress 2 website. A reader at the message board NeoGAF noticed today that it links to a letter. And in that letter is a story, a story that reads like a tease, a tease that seems to be pointing to something new for Team Fortress… a…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2012 -
Without Peeking, Can You Name These Five Minecraft-ized Xbox Heroes?
The next batch of skins for the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft include the five shown above. They are all Minecraft versions of characters from games that appeared on the Xbox 360 (though they weren’t all in Xbox-exclusive games). Can you name them? Without peeking? The answers are at the link below. There is no…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2012 -
Ask One of the People Who Made Sleeping Dogs Some Questions. He’s Answering, Right Here. [Interview’s Over]
Sleeping Dogs is coming out next week. It’s an open-world game set in Hong Kong. You’re an undercover cop. You can use martial arts. You can play it a little like an RPG. And you can even hit people with fish. Really! Perhaps that doesn’t answer all the questions you might have about this PS3,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2012 -
Hey, IGN‘s Greg Miller, go kick cancer’s ass. We’re pulling for you.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 9, 2012 -
Blizzard Network Breached; Change Your Battle.Net Passwords
The company behind World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo said that hackers breached their network. The breach was detected this week and while Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime says there are no signs that financial data was stolen, he is recommending that people change their passwords. Full statement from Blizzard’s wesbite (key lines bolded by Kotaku):…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 9, 2012 -
Hybrid‘s Creative Director is Answering Your Questions Right Here, Right Now [Interview Over]
The unusual multiplayer shooter Hybrid continues the Xbox 360’s Summer of Arcade this week and the guy who thought up the game, 5TH Cell creative director Jeremiah Slaczka is here to answer your questions about it and, well, about anything else you want to ask a game developer. A server problem may have kept you…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 9, 2012 -
The Case For Video Games as an Olympic Sport
If archery is an Olympic sport and shotput is an Olympic sport, consider the Olympic prospects of pulling back a virtual slingshot with one’s fingertip, mentally calculating the best trajectory and then letting an Angry Bird fly and smash into some green pigs. Video games, perhaps, should have had a place in the ongoing London…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 8, 2012 -
Chik-Fil-A Flap Added to 2012 Campaign Game, Iran Attack De-Emphasized
The Political Machine, the PC game that lets you play out the Obama-Romney race for yourself has been updated to keep up with current events (and tweak some gameplay). Now you can make your candidate be for or against Chik-Fi-Let, which presumably means being for or against the fast food chain’s opposition to gay marriage…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 7, 2012 -
First Look at Call of Duty: Black Ops II‘s Multiplayer
This is your first look at multiplayer in this November’s presumed mega-hit, Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Call of Duty fans, this is why you play, no? The battles appear to be taking place in the game’s near-future of 2025. We’ve got some most unusual knife and tomahawk kills. Some sort of microwave transmitter…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 7, 2012 -
Today’s Best Trailer For A Tweedpunk Video Game
Kotaku friend and Rock Paper Shotgun co-czar Jim Rossignol is moonlighting as a video game developer at a studio called Big Robot. Occasionally he updates us about the progress of his team’s PC/Mac/Linux game, Sir, You Are Being Hunted. Happily, this is never awkward, because our friend’s procedurally-generated open-world game continues to look fantastic. Sir,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 7, 2012 -
Uncharted 3‘s Multiplayer Will Soon Look Very Different, If You Like to Experiment
Most of the changes in the big new patch for Uncharted 3 include the things you’d expect: new items, new taunts, balance tweaks, etc. A lot of it is goofy. But this… this shot here is a look at the new “block mesh maps” that will be added, post-patch, to the game’s Lab, the experimental…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 7, 2012
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