Stephen Totilo

Talk Amongst Yourselves

At 8:20 Kotaku Time on 8/20/2010, there was a Talk Amongst Yourselves post posted right here. And you read it. And you commented on it. Your comments was about video games. Thanks to reader GrimeyRyder for this “Valve Anonymous” image today. Submit your image for TAY at #TAYpics

Portal Song Slowed Down 800%, Bieber-Style

We now know how to make a Justin Bieber song sound good: slow it down 800%. But what happens when Portal’s Still Alive, that great video game song from Jonathan Coulton, gets the same treatment? Listen. ‘Still Alive’ from Portal, slowed down 800%. [Soundcloud.com]

I Don’t Speak Swedish, But This Seems Bad

Kotaku tipster says the image here, which tops a Swedish story about a Wii charger gone ablaze, mistakenly thinks Nintendo makes bum recharge stations. Not so, but that’s no consolation for this lady. Louises laddare började brinna [Aftonbladet. Thanks, Forcen!]

Brink Is The Breakthrough That Makes 2011 Feel So Far Away

The game I most wish I was playing right now is Brink. I played it a week ago. It delivered on an unusual promise. Brink is a first-person team shooter set on an advanced seaborne city of the future. You can play it solo or with up to eight players against either others. It’s one…

How Multiplayer Kinect Dancing Works

Dance Central, the body-controlled dancing game from the makers of Rock Band, has multiplayer. It’s no Kinect Adventures multiplayer where you’d be standing side-by-side, in a gesture vs. gesture frenzy. No. It does dance battles. You take turns. I chickened out of participating in a two-player Dance Central dance battle last week at MTV’s offices,…

Okamiden And Ghost Trick, In Action Again

New video game convention = new trailers of two of the most promising upcoming DS games, 2010’s Ghost Trick and 2011’s Okamiden, both from Capcom.

If People Make It To Mars, Give The Wii Some Credit

There are six men currently living in cramped isolation in Moscow, enjoying and suffering 520 days of isolation as the Russian Space Federation simulates the loneliness of a manned flight to Mars. Good thing these guys have a Wii. Can they make it through 520 days? And what will happen to them in the process?…

Video Game Tracks How Long You Stare At Playboy Centerfolds

There are video games that track the calories you burn while playing them. There are games that count the number of virtual miles you race in them. Mafia II tallies how long you “read” its in-game Playboy centerfolds. I played a press demo of Mafia II several weeks ago and poked around in the game’s…

Working PlayStation 3 Modchip Is ‘Not A Hoax,’ Australian Retailer Says

An Australian seller of Wii, PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 modchips has posted video showing the famously impregnable PlayStation 3 running “back-up” copies of disc games saved in the hacked console. It’s the real deal, they tell Kotaku. OzModChips.com has posted three videos to YouTube showing the alleged hack, marketed as PS Jailbreak, which purportedly…

Gamescom 2010: Day Two Round-Up

Wednesday was press day at the massive Gamescom event in Cologne, Germany. That means our guys out there were working hard playing games, interviewing and all that good stuff. Here’s ALL of Kotaku’s second day worth of Gamescom-related excitement. News No Console Version Of Diablo III Planned Gran Turismo 5 Adds Course Creation, Kart Racing…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

There is a time to talk about video games. That’s now. There is a place to talk about video games. That’s here. Go for it… Thanks to reader arionfrost for this “Valve Anonymous” image today. Submit your image for TAY at #TAYpics

Street Fighter Creator Shows Off His Worst Best Idea, Hasselhoff Vs. Hasselhoff

Could the star of Knight Rider pummel the star of Baywatch? Just imagine, David Hasselhoff vs. himself, Hoff vs. Hoff. As shown by Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono at today’s Street Fighter X Tekken event in Germany (He was kidding — hopefully!).

Dead Rising 2 With Another Strong Showing In The Best-Screenshots Sweepstakes

Dead Rising 2, Capcom’s September anti-zombie game is not supposed to be taken seriously. Here is more high-quality screenshot proof of that, as shown by Capcom for this week’s big Gamescom show in Germany. The screens here show co-op as well as day and night solo gameplay in this Las Vegas-inspired sequel.

In This Nightmare, Bad Activision People Make Limbo II

Newgrounds user Tenacious T imagines a bleak future when Activision’s worst people create Limbo II: The Bar’s Been Lowered, the sequel to the beloved indie hit Limbo. It has celebrities! Predator missiles! And … color. I’m torn. Who would want this game made, really? We can be happy it’s just a joke. But then again……

Star Wars Mod Gallery

Xbox Kinect Gets Its Fight Club

You love to punch your arms through the air, like you’re beating up ghosts. You wish you could be part of a Fight Club. You have an Xbox 360 and may have a Kinect. There is a game for you. The game is called Fighters Uncaged, and it appears to be publisher Ubisoft’s answer to…

From Dust Is For Those Of You Who Like Playing God

Eric Chahi made the acclaimed game Out of This World, then Heart of Darkness, then took a break from game-making, during which time he fell in love with volcanoes. Now he’s making this. Debuting in Germany at GDC Europe and Gamescom this week is a tech demo video of Chachi’s From Dust. Chahi’s game, which…

The Best Empire Strikes Back Furniture $10 Can Buy

Sorry, PlayStation Home fans, but news about furniture in Sony’s PlayStation 3 virtual world seldom excites me…except when we’re looking at an AT-AT table or a chair based on the Millennium Falcon escaping a space worm. Starting tomorrow, $10 for this set in Home.

How To Explain StarCraft To FarmVille People

Until that unreal StarCraft FarmVille mod becomes a reality, FarmVille’s millions of fans can use this helpful image to understand what in the world this StarCraft II thing is all about. [Via Rafardeon’s Soup]

Podcast Time: Ask Us About Gamescom, QuakeCon And Anything Else

We are podcasting live right now. And by “we” I mean me and intern Aulistar Mark. What happens when an intern gets a live mic? In this by-the-seat-of-our-pants edition I will regale you with stories of outer space (true ones) but we will mostly talk about all the big game news from the big shows…