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I Finished These 28 Video Games In 2011
For the sixth year in a row, I have tallied the number of video games I played in the last year. For the sixth year in a row, it’s an absurd amount. But this year, my numbers have plunged. I played some 161 games but finished a mere 28 of them, down from 52 in…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 6, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome back to Kotaku‘s official forum, the place for you to chat about video games. Let’s also stand and applaud today’s superb TAYpic, submitted by reader Benevolence. Bravo! Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share your own riffs on our January image to our #TAYpics thread.…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2012 -
This is the Non-Boring Version of Bejeweled That I Can’t Stop Playing
Bejeweled is an eye-roller. It’s The Da Vinci Code of video games or the Lady Gaga or whatever your favorite example is of something that far too many people are into. To like Bejeweled is to be common. To play it is to be as daring in taste as a person who drinks tap water.…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2012 -
The Creators of Gears of War Don’t Like Pirates or SOPA
Epic Games, the people who make Gears of War, Bulletstorm and the Unreal graphics engine has weighed in on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act. A spokesperson writes: “Epic Games supports efforts that would stop overseas websites profiting from pirating our games, but we have to do that in a way that’s compatible with freedom…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2012 -
You Are the Float
The Rose Bowl’s Kinect float | As seen in Pasadena, California on Jan. 2 (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images) The 2012 Year in Games… a Preview That Has My Jaw on the Floor Finish playing the best games of 2011. Then tape this to your refrigerator. This is a preview, of some of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2012 -
The 2012 Year in Games… a Preview That Has My Jaw on the Floor
Finish playing the best games of 2011. Then tape this to your refrigerator. This is a preview, of some of the biggest and/or most interesting games coming out in 2012 (with a heavy bias toward big-company consoles and handheld releases, since that’s what gets announced earliest). January brings us Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PS3, Xbox 360,…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome, belatedly, to January. You may talk here about video games all you want. We’ve got a new lead image for this month. It’s George Stubbs’ Cheetah with Two Indian Attendants and a Stag, submitted by TAY all-star Pan1da7 What do you do with a new TAYpic? This: Please do your best—or your worst—and submit…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2012 -
The Rebirth of Microsoft Flight Simulator Will be ‘Free’ on PCs this Spring [UPDATE]
Microsoft’s rebirth of their hallowed Flight Simulator series, Microsoft Flight is finally coming out, over a year since we started seeing videos of it. It looks quite nice, it’s on PC and it’s free… kinda sorta. The official word is: After downloading “Microsoft Flight” for free, players can jump into hours of exciting gameplay on…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2012 -
Did Something Happen Today?
Joel, Stephen and Brian | As seen on GTTV, from the roof of Kotaku‘s NYC HQ. Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO Log Part Three: Force-Feeding Myself Evil It’s too bad there’s no option to just settle down and retire in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. After hours of questing amidst the tranquil sands…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2012 -
The Video Game Industry’s Lobbyists Support SOPA, But They Understand Why You Might Not
The Entertainment Software Association, the video game trade group that puts on the huge E3 show each year and successfully defended video games’ status as protected speech in the United States Supreme Court, supports the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act. Today, they explained why. “As an industry of innovators and…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2012 -
Hello, I’m Kotaku‘s New Editor-in-Chief
I’ve been trying for a long time to get people to stop thinking that creating Hulk Hogan’s reality show is the coolest item on my resume. I think I’ve found a way. Early last month, I accepted an offer from Nick Denton, head of our parent company, Gawker Media, to become Kotaku‘s editor-in-chief. That kicks…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s January. It’s a new year. And we need a new lead image for Talk Amongst Yourselves. Please submit your favorite old, public domain painting to our #TAYpics thread. I’ll pick a winner, which will then be the image all of you can Photoshop to your heart’s content for the rest of the month. The…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2012 -
‘Ocean Stratagy’ Guy is ‘Sorry’; Penny Arcade Deems him a ‘Bully’
An update to the ongoing drama (part 1, part 2) of an ex-controller marketing guy, an angry customer, and Penny Arcade. The guy’s “sorry.” Penny Arcade thinks he’s a “bully” who’s sorry he got caught. Part 3’s on Penny Arcade
By Stephen Totilo Published December 27, 2011 -
Who Will Win Kotaku‘s Game of the Year 2011 Debate?
What was the best game of the year, according to those of us here at Kotaku? We don’t know. We don’t know… yet. Throughout the week of December 26, we will present five Game of the Year arguments. Five Kotaku writers will present their case for GOTY. Others on the team will respond. Long time…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 26, 2011 -
Of the Hundreds of 99-Cent Comics You Can Download Today, Buy These…
Merry Christmas. You should download some comic books. To celebrate the holiday, major digital comics apps are selling several hundred comic books for 99 cents. Most of them are on sale in ComiXology, the digital storefront that you can access from iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, Kindle Fire and any web browser. Dark Horse Comics’…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 25, 2011 -
32 Nintendo Fans made these 8 Short Movies in 24 Hours
If Nintendo gave you 24 hours to make a short film about one of their games, what kind of YouTube classic would you create? The company behind Link, Samus and Waluigi gave 32 Los Angeles-based “Nintendo Brand Ambassadors” (fans!) the opportunity to make movies about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Super Mario…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 23, 2011 -
Why 2011 was a ‘Historic’ Year for Video Games
Some of us think that 2011 was a good year for video games because Arkham City, Skyrim and the new Zelda weren’t half-bad. Michael Gallagher has other reasons to think 2011 was neat. He is the head of the Entertainment Software Association, the game-publisher-funded group in Washington that puts on E3 every year, lobbies the…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 23, 2011 -
The First Things I Did with My PlayStation Vita
The PlayStation Vita won’t officially be out in the United States until mid-February, but I got one today. It’s from Sony. It’s not a Japanese unit. I guess it’s an American one? They say it’s not necessarily final. They haven’t set it up to connect online, for example. Its services are not up and running.…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 22, 2011 -
You Can Now Pretend that Nintendo Sent You a Christmas Card
Nintendo’s corporate affairs team just sent me a holiday card. Very official! Actually, their card arrived in the form of a web link to a neat Mario animation. Go ahead, click on it, and pretend that Nintendo’s corporate affairs team sent it to you. They love you. (For other game company holiday cards that involved…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 22, 2011 -
Goodbye, My PSP
I left my PSP for dead several times. The best thing I can say about it is that I did that more than once. My PlayStation Portable always had a way of rising from whatever grave I lost it in. For six years, it’s been coming back. At last, it seems, it’s finally done. This…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 22, 2011
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