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There Are Changes Hiding In The Next Pokémon Game
The average person might look at this year’s Pokémon game and believe he or she is looking at last year’s Pokémon game. The series evolves at the speed of continental drift, but this time, Nintendo says, the changes are big. Pokémon Black and Pokémon White, released for the Nintendo DS in September in Japan and…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 31, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
This is the end of our January Talk Amongst Yourselves. That means two things. 1) You can continue to talk here about video games, since TAY is your official Kotaku forum. 2) We need a new TAY image. Submit your favorite public domain painting, one that would be suitable for a discussion about video games,…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 31, 2011 -
Gaming’s Top Men (And A Wookiee Posing With Gaming’s Newest Hardware)
May 15, 1996: Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto poses with the newly-revealed Nintendo 64. (AP) May 27, 1998: Sega’s Bernie Stolar poses with the Dreamcast Controller (and VMU!) (AP) November 11, 2001: Microsoft’s Seamus Blackley with the then-new Xbox (AP) May 21, 2002: Sony’s Kaz Hirai with the PlayStation 2 Network Adapter (AP) May 11, 2004: Nintendo’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 28, 2011 -
The Manly Art Of Posing With Video Game Systems
I’ve never posed with a video game system. I doubt you have either. But the top men in video games do that any time there’s new gaming hardware to show off. How cool can you look posing with plastic? In chronological order, here are some of the great achievements in hardware-posing, as photographed by the…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 28, 2011 -
Yikes, Maybe The Xbox 360 Can’t Replace The Cable Box
Five families in the Boston area agreed to ditch their cable TV connection for a week and use an XBox 360, Apple TV, or similar device instead. Stories like this usually involve relieved, money-saving people. Not this one. The idea is that a person could avoid paying a cable TV bill by using a gaming…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 28, 2011 -
How Sony Can Make Their Next Gen Portable A Must Buy
Today, Sony is on the handheld gaming campaign trail, preparing for us to vote with our dollars this fall. Should you buy an NGP — the successor to the PSP — in late 2011? It depends on whether Sony finally gets its PSP line right, if Sony’s prose matches its poetry. The Promise This past…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 28, 2011 -
Kotaku At (Nearly) 100,000 Facebook Fans, A Milestone In Our Social Lives
For months we’ve been running a Kotaku page on Facebook. Many of you have visited to chat about video game news, to call each other names, all that good stuff. Nearly 100,000 of you like us on Facebook. Thanks! There was a time in the lives of each of us who work at Kotaku when…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 -
This Isn’t Sim City, It’s A Musical Instrument
Isle of Tune looks like Sim City. You can lay down streets like it’s Sim City. But once you start planting musical trees and chime-triggering houses, you’ll realize this is actually a delightful music sequencer. Suburban sprawl as symphony? The road that you pave establishes the length of the musical sequence and how it might…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 -
This Might Be The World’s Most Dangerous Game
The instructions for the Wii-based game Akashi couldn’t sound more dangerous: “Players are blindfolded and a sword is given to them in order to play.” Good thing we have video of this one in action. Akashi is an audio-only game. You play as the blindfolded samurai, using audio cues to determine where your enemies are.…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 -
The Complete Guide To Sony’s Next, Big Portable PlayStation
Sony’s impressive successor to the PSP was revealed to the world in Tokyo. Here is everything we’ve written about it, all of our hands-on impressions, photos and more. The PSP2 Is Here: Dual Analog Sticks, Touch-Sensitive OLED, 3G Built In & So Much More The PSP2 is finally here. Sony revealed its brand new PlayStation…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 -
NGP Battery Life Will Be Comparable To The PSP’s
The sight of Sony’s new NGP gaming handheld running demos of PlayStation 3 games is both exciting and terrifying for those concerned about the so-called PSP2’s battery life. Sony tells Kotaku that we can expect a decent amount of charge. The battery life target is the same as that of the current PSP 3000 model,…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 -
Brink and Hunted Have Spring Release Dates
Brink, the first-person shooter designed to make elite team play possible for everyone will be out on May 17 in North America. Hunted, the Gears-of-War-style fantasy game arrives on June 3. Both are for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 -
This Is The Wii’s Wonderful Dead Space On The PS3
Dead Space Extraction is one of my favorite games on the Wii and it’s been re-issued as a PlayStation 3 game. I’ve tried it. It holds up. I’ve captured portions of Extraction’s first level, as it is rendered on the PlayStation 3. I got the game as part of the Dead Space 2 PS3 collector’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 26, 2011 -
What In The World Is ‘Combat Focused Movement’?
The people who made the Scribblenauts and Drawn To Life are getting a little closer to explaining how their next game — a shooter, of all things — is unique. Right now, they’re still teasing. So the word from 5th Cell, via a press release today, is that their upcoming game Xbox Live Arcade game…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 26, 2011 -
A Surprise Batman-Joker Team-Up, But Is It Official?
This is either a new, possibly leaked trailer for Batman Arkham City. Or is this just a fan mod of the first game? Either way, who needs Robin, when the Joker can help Batman beat up the bad guys? Click to view This video popped up on French gaming site Jeux Video. We’re left to…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 26, 2011 -
The Flimsy Mass Effect 2 Instruction Manual, One Year Later
The 2011 PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 2 is superior to the 2010 Xbox 360 in some ways, but not in the way of the printed instruction manual. Witness the further decline of the tree-slaughtering gaming manual and/or its digital rebirth. Personal note: I played the Xbox 360 version of Mass Effect 2 and…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 26, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves: The Video Game
Usually, our daily Talk Amongst Yourselves post is merely an official forum where you can discuss video games. Today, it is also a portal to an “exciting” new video game. Let us stand and salute reader KindaGamey for creating the first TAY video game (play it here), inspired by this month’s artwork. Bravo! Submit your…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 26, 2011
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