Sent with a review copy of ModNation Racers for the PlayStation 3, because, you know, this game is about modding cars and figures.
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Bagge and Clowes. Each have released new books this month. Do you realize how big a deal that is? When I was first discovering, at some early part of the 1990s, that there were comic books worth reading that didn’t contain super-heroes, I started noticing the names Peter Bagge and Dan Clowes. They were the…
Why no disc-shaped star controller for the Wii? A new book, Nintendo Magic, explains that Nintendo bigwig Shigeru Miyamoto believed the 2004 prototype would be bad for Marios and Zeldas. Mystery Of The Nintendo Star Controller Solved [Press The Buttons]
This week’s decision by the United States Supreme Court to hear arguments both for and against the State of California’s attempt to make the sale of very violent games to kids illegal raises a question: Which games would be affected? The California bill, authored by State Senator Leland Yee, does not name any specific games,…
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Why did Telltale Games send me erasers and an iPod Touch today? I’m sure one of the reasons was to tease their next game. The 8GB iPod Touch (which Kotaku will be giving away to charity) contains some images and video, all meant to tease Scoggins Erasers, which appears to be the next project from…
Kotaku Talk Radio will be recording live from CBS Radio on Wednesday. 11am Kotaku Time. 1pm ET. 10am PT. Hosts: Crecente and me. Guests: Top guys making Crackdown 2. Call-in and live-streaming details will be on Kotaku at showtime.
Gamers have needs. They have requests for the games that they play, some of these demands surprisingly specific. Today, let us consider the case by one gamer for the ability to shoot from a prone position and some accompanying news. A writer and apparent member of the U.S. Coast Guard who writes by the name…
The iPhone and iPod Touch game Doodle Jump may be one of the hottest paid video games on the planet. One month after passing the three million mark worldwide, the game has now sold more than four million ($.99) copies. “Those are all paid downloads as there never was a ‘lite’ free version and Doodle…
Picross 3D, the puzzle sequel set for release from Nintendo next week, will have a lot of content, content that keeps coming out. This is becoming something of a Nintendo — and game industry — trend. A Nintendo rep showing Kotaku the Picross 3D game yesterday said that the cartridge for the game will contain…
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The Supreme Court’s decision today to hear a case about the potential criminalizing of the sale of violent video games to children sparked divided reactions from the parties in the case and a call to gamers to get informed. “I think gamers have a lot at stake,” Mike Gallagher, head of the Entertainment Software Association…
In just a few months you will be able to play Crackdown 2. In just two days, you will be able to call in to Kotaku Talk Radio and ask the creators all about it (or just listen in). Crackdown 2 producer James Cope and creative director Billy Thomson will be our special guests during…
The Prince of Persia move trailer gets the Lego remix treatment. Compare Lego to live-action with a couple of clicks of your mouse. Here’s the Lego version, staged and shot by the MTV News movies team: Here’s the live-action original: Click both to see which Prince you prefer: Jake Gyllenhaal or the one with the…
An estimated 350,000 people played last year’s Madden NFL 10 once online and never played it online again, series creative director Ian Cummings recently told Kotaku. He and publisher EA are mum on online multiplayer details for this summer’s Madden NFL 11, but that’s a number the creators of one of gaming’s biggest franchises clearly…
With their next Mario game, it once again appears that Nintendo is trying to have it both ways. I’m not complaining. Super Mario Galaxy 2 appears to be harder than its predecessor, while offering several ways to make the game quite easy. Plus some fat has been trimmed to make room for an apparent abundance…
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If you’d like to play video game football but you stink at it, don’t worry. The next Madden will put a voice in your ear, telling you how to excel. Kotaku recently had the opportunity to try the “Gameflow” feature of this summer’s Madden NFL 11. It is the latest tool concocted by the Madden…
Pro rugby player Gareth Raynor recently plead guilty to 14 charges of counterfeiting and fraud after having been caught selling bogus printer cartridges through an eBay storefront called Genuine Ink. He also appears to have been a game pirate. The Yorkshire Evening Post reports that Raynor will be sentenced next month. But what might catch…
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