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This Is The Killzone Card Game
The Killzone card game is not official. A fan made it, and now you can play it. The game was created by a person who goes by the name pineapple1. He/she writes to Kotaku that “I’m a big Killzone fan. And I also was a big fan of Eye of Judgment. After Sony pulled the…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2011 -
Some People Would Rather Not Call Video Games ‘Video Games’
Susan Orlean has written wonderfully about an orchid thief and sundry other topics, but she’s avoided video games. Hadn’t played one since Pac-Man. Somehow, she got a Kinect. She likes it for what it’s not. (Hint: What it actually is.) In a December piece for the New Yorker, she describes her brave dip into video…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2011 -
The Wii Is Also For Burlesque Dancers
The Wii is for your grandma and my nephew. It’s for rugby players and talk show hosts. It’s also for burlesque dancers, according to this Wii commercial. Nothing wrong with that. Just… an unexpected angle, Nintendo. Nintendo Real Stories – Wii – Burlesque [Vimeo]
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2011 -
Minecraft Manual Gallery
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2011 -
Problem: We Don’t Shoot Green Things Enough
Exploding red barrels are a video game cliché. The people making the video game Bulletstorm wanted exploding barrels in their game, but they dreamed to make their barrels green. Then they woke up. Well, before they woke up, they put green barrels in their game. And they tested their game on real human beings. Here’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
You are looking at Kotaku’s official forum. Join in. Talk about video games all you want! If you’d like to be immortalized on the site, submit an image for Talk Amongst Yourselves at #TAYpics. Congratulations to reader DiamondSea for today’s.
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2011 -
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Already Woefully Out Of Sync With Comic Book Reality
For a while, it seemed that Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: The Fate of Two Worlds could fit into current Marvel Comics continuity. Not that that’s important, despite comics readers (including me) caring a wee bit too much about continuity sometimes. The game and the comics seemed to be lining up okay. Captain America and Magneto,…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2011 -
L.A. Noire Still Has The Best Faces
Rockstar Games still takes some of the best screenshots in video games, so even if their next game L.A. Noire isn’t great — or even if it is — their shots of it will look fantastic. The faces of Detective Phelps and his on-the-beat cronies look great in this new quartet of new screens from…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2011 -
The Excellent iPhone Game I Bought Because Of A Misunderstanding
I ask my friend to recommend me an iPhone game. He tells me that Colorbind is interesting, maybe excellent. I nod. I go to iTunes. I download Colorblind. I think it’s great. I compliment my friend’s good taste. Wait. Colorbind? Today I’m showing you the best gaming mistake I made in 2010. This is Colorblind,…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2011 -
iTunes Chart Toppers: New Year, Old Birds
Angry Birds is still the hottest game on the iPhone and iPad, at least when you look at our weekly ranking of top-grossing games on the platforms. What can knock off these birds? Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 32…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2011 -
I Finished These 52 Video Games In 2010
I finished more than 50 video games in 2010. I did not plan to. But here’s the list. As I’ve done for each of the past four years, I’ve assembled the list of games I started playing for fun during the preceding year — some 195 of them — and then bolded the ones I…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2011 -
Timelapse Video Of A New Year’s Spent Gaming Wildly
This video by Vimeo user David Ghent shows what it looks like when New Year’s (Eve?) is mixed with alcohol, Xbox 360 Kinect motion gaming and some PlayStation Move — all in a room that’s not that big. And here I was expecting an injury or two. New Years time lapse [Vimeo]
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2011 -
In 2011 One Video Game Will Add More Heroic Drunken Shooting To Our Culture
In the video game war against video game cannibals, as depicted in next month’s Bulletstorm, extreme measures are required — or at least rewarded. The straight-faced official U.S. video game ratings board describes a bunch of them. This is the description on the Entertainment Software Ratings Board’s website for the M-rated (meaning for players 17…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Happy new year. You are reading the second sentence of Kotaku’s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Now you’re reading sentence no. 3. Join in the conversation in the comments section. Talk about anything related to video games right here. And, as always, you can be responsible for the image up top. Each day, Talk Amongst…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2011 -
The Year In Motion Control Video Games: The Hype, The Horror, The Happiness
Motion control neither revitalized nor ruined video games in 2010, the year when finally everyone was doing it. You could find motion control games everywhere, joysticks and buttons be damned. It wasn’t all bad. But much of it was wild. How much arm-waving did we all do to control video games this year? How many…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 27, 2010 -
The Rocking Chair Controller, The Buckets Of Water Controller
Students at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program weren’t trying to make video games when they found ways to use a rocking chair or two buckets full of water as controllers. They didn’t make games. They made tech art that I want to play. While I scoffed at the inflatable rubber boat that I recently…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 25, 2010 -
He Kept His Faith In Music Games This Year — And In Kinect
Greg LoPiccolo didn’t have to leave his office in a brick building near Boston this year to see how two of the biggest trends in the last half-decade of video games were playing out. There were doubters outside. Inside? In the offices of Harmonix Music Systems, the place where the hit Rock Band games are…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 24, 2010 -
From Rafts To Surfboards In 24 Hours
To: Ashcraft From: Totilo Stories from the day shift you may have missed Giving your loved one a Wii this holiday season? A piece of Congo’s war zone may be inside Why The Wii Cooled Off Stacking, An Adventure Game Of Class Struggle, Doll Collecting & Fart Skills Rock Band Creators Gone From MTV, Taking…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 23, 2010
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