…in case you were wondering if a jeans pocket could hold the DSi XL. (I’d mention that I’ve been sitting on this photo for a few weeks due to Nintendo embargo restrictions, but you’d accuse me of making a pun.)
Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace —- and so we can judge them. Today, Cogs. In A Sentence Pipe-sliding, cog-turning pulls set around the surface of a wooden block, all rendered and animated with a chunky, realistic,…
A day after informing IGN that Yakuza 3 was coming to the U.S. with content cuts, Sega offered more explanation. [UPDATED with further comment from Sega to Kotaku, describing the pros and cons the company faced.] On Sega’s official blog, a community manager for the company said that, without the cuts, the game wouldn’t have…
Eat Sleep Play’s David Jaffe joined our one-hour live podcast this week to take any and all questions and cursing when he damn well wanted to. Plus answers to God of War, Heartland and other questions from all of you. Jaffe talked about hoping he can return to the God of War series he created,…
May 23rd’s Wii exclusive Super Mario Galaxy 2 has not just a release date and a trailer, but Planet Mario, some screenshots and some bullet points worth sharing. Or is that Planet Luigi? Hard to tell. Nintendo’s fact-sheet for the game indicates that: 1) “Every level is new,” allaying concerns that Galaxy 2 would recycle…
People keep Tweeting and e-mailing… did you see this speech? Yes, I saw it. This is today’s must-watch about the future of gaming — and the future of life. Carnegie Mellon assistant professor of entertainment and technology, Jesse Schell, tore down the house at the DICE Summit last week in a half-hour presentation about where…
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The brief new downloadable episode for Resident Evil 5 isn’t very scary, but it does show how a Resident Evil 5 can be more terrifying than the original game Capcom released in 2009. Resident Evil 5: Lost In Nightmares is a flashback scenario starring Mark McGwire-bodied Resident Evil 5 hero Chris Redfield and his partner…
Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace —- and so we can judge them. Today, Vessel. In A Sentence Man uses backpack that shoots fluids to solve puzzles in a 2D game that’s nothing like waterpack genre leader…
Last week, Will Wright was talking in New York City and saying brainy things. Among them was an idea I’d never considered before, that people will play the virtual reality that is a video game before they physically play it. Specifically, Wright, while speaking about toys, was exploring the concept of model-building, in the context…
Over at the blog Dubious Quality, Bill Harris has been spotting some dots and trying to connect them. The picture he’s got is of Activision making a play for MTV-owned Rock Band studio Harmonix, something that is pure speculation. Harris notes recent comments from an MTV person saying the Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero format…
Gaming tends to take over things. We get video games molding movies, video games infesting Facebook. At Toy Fair 2010, I expected to see gaming infecting and influencing toys. I did. But I also saw so many other delightful things. See, you go to a Toy Fair in New York City’s cavernous Jacob Javits center,…
Richard Garriott, the first video game designer to ride a rocket to outer space, wanted to play a massively multiplayer video game from the International Space Station. And he wanted to bring his iPod. Neither happened. Garriott’s gaming plan was to play his then-still-active computer game Tabula Rasa from the International Space Station, logging onto…
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Richard Garriott, back from space is now back in video games. Last week, his new venture Portalarium was announced. This is an adventure that comes with a challenge to you the Kotaku reader, and a tease of Ultima-meets-FarmVille. As we reported last week, Portalarium is a new venture from Garriott, aka “Lord British,” the chief…
Attending the DICE gaming summit to promote his company’s Unreal Engine technology and celebrate the conclusion of the Make Something Unreal modding contest, Epic Games’ Mark Rein said that the next generation of Unreal game-making tech is a ways off. Rein told Kotaku that work is still underway on Unreal Engine 4, but that the…
Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace —- and so we can judge them. Today, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity. In A Sentence Part score-based sky-diving game, part re-imagining of please-the-crowd-while-you-plummet (snowboarding game) Amped 4, the…
There’s an optical illusion that sometimes appears to be an ugly hag, sometimes a beautiful lady. There’s a Rorschach blot that looks like a butterfly and a couple making love. This is the Wii equivalent. The people who run Nintendo might want me to describe Endless Ocean: Blue World to you as the Wii’s second…
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