“Day 15 – I wanted to play on the Wii but cooked a banana cake instead.” That’s an excerpt from a diary of a nine-year-old who gave up video games for 30 days. The UK’s Daily Mirror has published the diaries of a few children who dared to keep themselves from TV, computers and video…
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New comics in stores this week include all the big regulars. Gears of War written by the head of Epic. Street Fighter II fighters being flexible. And more Sonic excitement. Gears of War #10 Written by Mike Capps and Joshua Ortega. Drawn by Liam Sharpe. Summary Via Publisher Wildstorm Entertainment: Delta has located survivors from…
We thought we would discuss Dragon Age and League of Legends among other things in the Kotaku podcast today. But you called in about other things. Including: How to do the Prince of Persia rewinding thing in a movie. Co-hosts Brian Crecente and I take your calls every Wednesday at 11am Mountain Time, 1pm Eastern.…
Shocked that New York developers don’t open their doors to gamers, the folks at Muse Games started doing that. Tonight is their 10th monthly game night, open to all. Bonus: They just made a game and want your live feedback. The venue is the Muse Games offices at 151 Lafayette Street in Manhattan, just south…
EA and Activision have released dozens of games on the Wii, and sold a bunch. But once people get these games home, how much do they play them? I pulled the stats. Some results are pretty. Not all. The following data was pulled from the Wii’s Nintendo Channel, which has collected the playing history from…
If there’s a good Nintendo and a bad Nintendo, then the release of five linked, downloadable games on the DSi represents that latter corporate personality at its worst. 1) Take five mini-games from what must have been an underwhelming 2002 Game Boy Advance game. 2) Bank on the fact that Americans will be delighted that…
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Normally, throwing one’s controller into one’s pool is not recommended. But, if that action can be linked to success in non-gaming endeavors, maybe you should do it. It works for one successful person interviewed recently by The Oklahoman. The newspaper was profiling Kevin Durant, guard for the Oklahoma City Thunder has chucked his controller many…
One would think that the North Korean military is primarily involved with matters of combat. But, as recounted in one amazing Washington Post paragraph, they do other things: North Korea is perhaps the world’s most secretive and repressive state, but it makes no attempt to hide the ubiquitous role the military plays in the daily…
The Wii has more special features than motion-sensitive controllers, a stand that tilts the system back and a power cord. The developers of Ubisoft’s latest Wii game seem to have remembered and decided to support some more neglected Wii features. The Controller Speaker: Did you remember that your Wii Remote has a speaker and that…
As seen on the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 blog, where, I’ll guess, the redacted words include “Infinity” and “Ward.”
Here at Kotaku today, there’s a sense of emptiness due to Mike Fahey’s day off. If only there was a way to invade his privacy and, say, snoop through his Dragon Age playing history. Ah, but there is! If you have a free account to BioWare’s “social” site, you can check out Fahey’s accomplishments in…
Why do some games have multiplayer? Because the executives demand it, even if the developers don’t want it. As explained in a recent account of goings on at Midway. In the middle of last month, ex-Midway producer John Vignocchi was a guest on the Giant Bomb podcast, managing to share some wild tales about his…
Studies about video games say the darnedest things. Either it is plainly obvious that being a gamer hurts your income — because you have to spend money on these games! — or there is a mathematical revelation here. The New-Brunswick Telegraph Journal reports the findings of Economics student Ryan MacLeod, who has crunched some demographics…
We cannot stop new games from coming out, but we can at least review them. Here’s what we reviewed last week, for those who may have missed them. Click each thumbnail for a link to each review. Read! Dungeon Hunter Review: Pocketful of Diablo In which Brian Crecente attempts to justify writing the first full-sized…
Lots to discuss about these stats this month, as Call of Duty rises to fourth and Guitar Hero III begins to dip. Remember, the numbers show hours:minutes, lifetime, for these games. (Click the chart to enlarge) The Nintendo Channel is properly calculating and reporting player data again and so I can provide this month’s look…
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Usually, when a country’s gaming scene struggles, game creators take the heat. But an Edge interview with Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi suggests gamers could also be to blame. Here’s Takeuchi discussing the winter 2009 Lost Planet 2 with Edge magazine‘s interviewer. Note that Lost Planet 2 is designed to be played in co-op…
An Amazon review begins: “i got game n kil rat mutate over n over untl bad dude kil me ouch. i like game lot n rats r cool n stuff wen thety mutate n try to kill me daed ouch!” It continues: “It ok to play n shoot bad dude n i get game n…
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