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Super Monkey Ball Uses One Of The 3DS’ Odder Features
The new Super Monkey Ball game for the Nintendo 3DS will let you unlock a character in the game if you walk around a lot with the 3DS. The price is 20 3DS Play Coins, the currency Nintendo said would be earned by any 3DS owner for the steps they take each day. The 3DS…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 24, 2011 -
Your Neighbors Are About To Invite You To Wii Sex Parties
You’ve bowled. You’ve gotten fit. And now you can use your Nintendo Wii console to throw a swinger’s party. Nintendo’s amazing machine is getting a new game called We Dare, a game for those in need of more action. We Dare enlists a group of merely good friends to become a group of friends who…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 24, 2011 -
Bizarre Mega Man Glitches That Help No One
There are glitches that make games easier. There are glitches that look cool. And then there are these two Mega Man glitches that look as annoying to pull off as they are unhelpful in enabling Mega Man to save the world. Both glitches, from Mega Man 1 and Mega Man 2 are new to me…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 24, 2011 -
She Played Online Games With The Nervous, Horny Guys At GameCrush
We’ve written about GameCrush, the online gaming site that lets people pay to play simple video games with some stranger they might fancy. But we felt neither bold nor beautiful enough to be that attractive stranger. GamingAngels’ Tiffany Nevin did. She decided to become a “PlayDate,” a person who makes 36 cents an hour a…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 24, 2011 -
From 2nd U.S. President To Major Video Game Villain, An American Journey
I wasn’t sure I heard David Pellas correctly. We were standing in a noisy room. He was playing a video game called The Conduit 2 that he helped make. He was fulfilling my request by showing me what he considered to be one of the most impressive things in the game. And he said: “I…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 24, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
This is the place for you to talk about games and for me to admire one wonderful new reader-submitted image each day. Great image, GeshGav! Readers, submit your image to #TAYpics. You only have a couple of days left before we switch to new March art. (Read this thread for directions on how to do…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 24, 2011 -
The First, Spectacular Gameplay Trailer For The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
In December we found out that there would be a new Elder Scrolls in 2011, a sequel to the massive 2006 role-playing game Oblivion. Today, we’ve got our first look at the game in action. They said it would have a new engine. They promised it would look better than the last one. They told…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 24, 2011 -
To-Do In San Francisco: Stare At Cool Video-Game-Inspired Art
The big Game Developers Conference happens next week in San Francisco. Then it ends and people who care about video games will have nothing to do but discuss all their great new ideas for video games and attend an art show in the area. The show, called Game Over IV, will display video-game-inspired artwork by…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 23, 2011 -
Bulletstorm Has A Red Ring of Death (Joke)
The people over at Team Lag were playing Bulletstorm and found a red ring of death. Remember that? It was the notorious signal that your Xbox 360 was one towel-wrap away from complete failure. I don’t have the PlayStation 3 version of the game. Anyone know if the RROD is in that game too? Or…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 23, 2011 -
Lewis and Clark and Halo
My weekly comics round-up returns, though the list of promising new releases is short this time. A fitting disappointment, perhaps, in a week marred by the sad news of the sudden passing of superb comics writer Dwayne McDuffie, whose Milestone books were among my favorite comics reads of the 90s. Here are some picks for…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 23, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome one and all to the page on Kotaku where you can talk about video games. Make each comment your best comment yet, if you can. Thank you! Also, thanks to reader FiveSpeed for today’s terrific image. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Stephen Totilo Published February 23, 2011 -
New Gears of War 3 Release Date Makes Room For Halo?
Gears of War 3 will be released on September 20, according an Associated Press report. The game used to be scheduled for spring but had been bumped back to fall late last year. At the time, Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games tweeted about a Gears delay to September, but quickly deleted the tweet…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 23, 2011 -
Mario Kart Games, Ranked In Order Of Difficulty
Game designer Eitan Glinert (Slam Bolt Scrappers) told me over dinner last week that he’s really good at Mario Kart games, good enough that, a year ago believed he and his colleagues at Fire Hose Games could gold-medal all the races in all the console Mario Karts for charity in a 36-hour stretch. Unfortunately, Glinert…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 22, 2011 -
For The First Time, The Mario Bros. Will Miss A New Nintendo’s Birth
Forget its glasses-free 3D, the Nintendo 3DS is unlike any Nintendo video game before it because it will debut without Mario or Luigi. The previous nine major gaming machines from Nintendo — all of the big ones, from NES to Wii — had these guys. The Mario-shaped hole emerged today when Nintendo released its 3DS…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 22, 2011 -
The Real Enemy To Fight In Homefront Is The Decline Of America
Route 66 is full of potholes and Wal-Mart is out of asthma medication. A high school football field is being used for mass graves. These are facts from a video game world, facts designed to make a gamer angry They’re the truths of Homefront, a March video game that somehow merges an unfathomable near-future event…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 22, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Tuesday, another day made for talking about video games. Chat about them here. With any luck, Mothra will show up. Thanks to Hisilarn for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Stephen Totilo Published February 22, 2011 -
Historic New York Arcade Closure Is ‘Rumor Started By A Moron’, Though It’s Kinda True
The phone has been ringing repeatedly today at New York’s Chinatown Fair, a beloved arcade in downtown New York, thanks to word on Facebook that the place was shutting down. Not true, not really, well … probably not really. “That was a rumor started by a moron,” Chinatown Fair manager Valentino Ventura told Kotaku on…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 21, 2011 -
Final Fantasy X Was Less Complex Than It Seemed
I played Final Fantasy X all the way up to the end boss and loved upgrading my characters by activating nodes in the game’s massive, complicated sphere grid. Little did I know that the sphere grid was really a group of primarily straight lines that masquerade as something more convoluted. FFX is an attractive game…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 21, 2011 -
Control A Video Game By Kissing Passionately
We sit here stunned, amazed and just a little bit skeptical that artist Hye Yeon Nam has found a way for people to control a bowling video game by French kissing. Kissing and playing video games were just never fun enough on their own, now were they? Even watching a video of the Kiss Controller…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 21, 2011
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