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This Is John Carmack’s Next Rocket
Doom co-creator John Carmack also helps create rockets. At QuakeCon 2010 in Dallas, Carmack was displaying his latest, which he hopes to launch this month. It’s designed to go up 100,000 feet and then come straight back down. Theoretically. During a Thursday night “rocket talk” at the con, Carmack talked about the history of his…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 14, 2010 -
The Old Pouring-Liquid-Nitrogen-Into-The-Computer Thing
Here at PC-centric QuakeCon 2010 in Dallas you don’t just see peculiar computers, you see people at the ASUS Republic of Gamers booth over-clocking their computers, making them run faster than intended, while super-cooling them with… liquid nitrogen, of course.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 14, 2010 -
My First 30 Minutes With Fallout: New Vegas
The start of Fallout: New Vegas is a good surprise, so stop reading if you don’t want even a hint. Not that the first scene of Fallout: New Vegas makes sense (or hasn’t been alluded to before). The confusion it elicits is intentional. The game begins, as I recently experienced first hand, in first-person perspective,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 13, 2010 -
Any QuakeCon Photo Gallery Must Include Crazy Computers
You cannot walk through QuakeCon out here in Dallas without spotting a large computer. People drag them in wagons or saunter through the halls of the host hotel with their arms in a personal-computer embrace. Let’s start with this beast: This was the largest rig I saw in the Bring Your Own Computer section of…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 13, 2010 -
The Next Tony Hawk Game Is For Kids
Recently in New York it was Gabe who showed me the next Tony Hawk video game, Tony Hawk Shred. Gabe did a great job, especially for someone who would be happy to be paid in toys. Gabe is seven. The next Tony Hawk game is for kids, kids like Gabe. It is called Tony Hawk…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 13, 2010 -
BioShock Infinite Goes Beyond The Sea & Into The Skies
The trailer teased a return to the underwater failed Utopia of Rapture, first seen in 2007’s BioShock. But last night, we saw BioShock Infinite in action, a live demo. This next big thing from Ken Levine’s Irrational Games is something different. This is the BioShock of a floating city, of America in 1912, of a…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2010 -
QuakeCon Begins, Keynote Later Today
Today is day one of QuakeCon in Dallas, Texas. The main event should be the show’s keynote address, which kicks off at 2:00pm in Dallas, which is 1pm Kotaku Time (aka MT). We’ll be liveblogging it. Last year’s keynote featured news about Quake Live, Xbox Live Arcade and iPhone releases from id software, more news…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2010 -
Podcast Time: Let’s Talk Madden, Duke Nukem Or Owen Good
There is only one time of the week when you can call me toll-free to get Doom tips. That’s right now, because Kotaku Talk Radio is recording. Also on today’s show will be Kotaku’s Owen Good and Madden’s Phil Frazier. Got Madden NFL 11 and want to talk to one of the guys who made…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 11, 2010 -
More Double Fine In Early 2011, But The Next Game’s A Mystery
The house of Brutal Legend and Pyschonauts has Costume Quest next. And then? “A third-person adventure digital game scheduled to be released in early 2011,” according from publisher THQ’s press release today. What should it be? All we know is that the game will be downloadable and that Double Fine boss Tim Schafer had this…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 11, 2010 -
At Last, A Different Kind Of Retro Game, An Intelligently Childish One
Costume Quest, a game with a dull name and a colorful pedigree is not just a trick-or-treating role-playing game coming to the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 this fall. I saw it in action. It has modern smarts. The game comes from the creators of Brutal Legend, chiefly from a Double Fine Productions team led…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 11, 2010 -
Fewer Major Games For PSP This Fall, A Sign Of Decline
Fall is usually the busy season for video games, when most games — and many of the year’s biggest — are released for each gaming console. But the fall of 2010 may leave American PSP fans feeling like they’re getting the short shrift. There will be no Need For Speed for PSP this fall, no…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 11, 2010 -
Quakecon Cometh
To: Ashcraft From: Totilo Re: Weepy Toy Story 3 (An Answer For Ron Gilbert) Wacky day tomorrow, Ash. We’ve got the Madden podcast. I have an evening obligation that’s work-related. And then, I get to take an early-morning flight on Thursday to Dallas for QuakeCon… somewhere in there I’ve got to write up some new…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2010 -
‘Hot Piece of Ass’ Busts Boss For FarmVille Obsession? [UPDATE: Probably Fake]
Young woman has job. Boss calls young woman “hot piece of ass.” Young woman quits, uses dry erase board to fire back. Boss, it seems, loved playing FarmVille during work hours too much. [UPDATE: Skeptics vindicated. Appears to be fake.] This is a story told in photos. A sampling, picking up at the point where…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2010 -
As Wii Hits 30 Million In U.S., Nintendo Reveals Weird Zelda Fact [UPDATE]
Nintendo boasts today that the company has sold 30 million Wiis in the U.S., making it, they say, the fastest-selling home console in gaming history. This proud news was bundled with a curiosity. Hint: Name the best-selling Wii Zelda game. You will find the answer in the 10th spot of a list Nintendo included with…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2010 -
Yakuza Review Yakuza 3
There’s a terrific feature over at BoingBoing in which writer Jake Adelstein plays Sega game Yakuza 3 with three real-life members of the Yakuza. I have selected two wonderful excerpts. The set-up of the article is that Adelstein lets three guys from the real-life Yakuza in Japan try the game. They certainly don’t play through…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2010 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Time to talk about video games. And time to submit more of your tweaked images for this here official Kotaku forum. Thanks to reader Roth for the Metal Gear submission. Submit your TAY pic to #TAYpics Want to know more about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2010 -
They Held A Parade For A Video Game
There was a parade for a video game in New Orleans yesterday. For Madden NFL 11. That makes it a parade that’s also a marketing stunt. Still, we are surely in the early days of video game parades. Baby steps. Official caption for the second pic: Former NFL players Ricky Jackson, Deuce McAllister and Mike…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2010
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