It is fitting that we ran a post-mortem item on The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom in 2008, but now in 2009 are ready to run a preview for it. The game warps perception and might hurt your brain. What Is It? The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom is an Xbox Live Arcade puzzle game originally created…
Kotaku reader Matt Shafeek spotted something in downtown Seattle that reminds him of Batman: Arkham Asylum but resisted adding it to his inventory screen.
The Kotaku visit to Bungie headquarters last week wasn’t all about lobby tours and police imbroglios. It was an opportunity to finally play Halo 3: ODST’s campaign. Skip the money arguments for a moment. This one feels different. ODST is the dark Halo. Even though it puts players in the boots of a cast of…
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Madden out for the iPhone today, at a special discount price. I played it last week at a restaurant in Seattle and discovered the value of slow-motion football. EA is promoting the iPhone/iTouch Madden as a full-fledged football game. It’s 3D, with a full playbook, 2000 players, free agents and commentary from a trio of…
It wasn’t until I saw the napkin dispensers at Microsoft HQ that I realized how proud I was to work at Kotaku. And by that I mean: I was perturbed that (maybe) only my old blog was featured on them. Happily, I then saw something else. How’s a man to take the news in front…
Last week, Kotaku Talk Radio listener Ben Galley heroically freed fellow reader Jon Q. from a jam and gave him a free PAX ticket. John asked me if he could report on his PAX adventure and 23 swag T-shirts. From John Q (and, no, I did not ask him to call me “Mr.”): Thanks to…
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We’ve got a guy. A dog. An art style I’ve never seen on an Xbox 360. A point-and-click adventure. And side-scrolling driving. What Is It? At the Penny Arcade Expo, about halfway between where you could buy nachos or watch a comics artist sketch on his DS, there was a kiosk running two forthcoming Xbox…
Not being a font expert, but having a memory that stretches back to the 80s, I saw something on this very site today that made me think of the font you can see in the image on the left. In the midst of Brian Ashcraft’s superb coverage of all things Final Fantasy XIII, I saw…
Is your Peter Jackson Halo project not coming together on schedule? Got a year to make something else Halo-ish? Then construct a creative plan B, spelled ODST. During my visit to Bungie last week I got a chance to learn more about the origins of Halo 3: ODST a game that has all the makings…
Here is the Xbox “Playmaker Award”/Lamp as seen by Koaku at the Microsoft Xbox offices in Redmond, Washington. You can’t buy this. It’ll be passed around to exceptional employees. There were other oddities that I saw during my quick tour of the offices. The lamp was one of my favorites. The Playmaker Award is kind…
Forgive me if I get some skateboarding terminology wrong in this post. I’ll do my best to relate what happened when I turned my board sideways and hit the Vert ramp in Tony Hawk: Ride last week. I’m the kind of person who has to double-check what “Vert ramp” means before I type it, to…
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Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, better known as Gabe and Tycho, the characters in their Penny Arcade just finished hosting a massive expo they like. But making video games? They have mixed feelings. Holkins and Krahulik took time out of their hosting duties at the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo to talk to Kotaku this weekend.…
Kotaku captured this scene during a visit to part of the Microsoft Xbox offices in Washington state last week. This hall leads to the offices of the third-party gaming team. Can you see what’s at the end? How about a closer look? And just a little bit closer… Why, yes, it’s a baseball-loving Big Daddy!
The makers of The Maw and Splosion Man announced their next game at PAX 2009: Comic Jumper, The Adventures of Captain Smiley. Watch the trailer and try not to laugh. Twisted Pixel people aren’t saying much about the game other than 1) It’s so early in pre-production that there is no release date and 2)…
The build-up for BioWare’s Mass Effect 2, still not planned for release until next year, has been one of gaming’s more mysterious. Hints of Commander Shepard’s possible death in trailers and demos confuse ever more. What’s going on? Kotaku asked. “We have been saying it’s the dark middle act, so the tone is definitely darker,”…
In the five years I have been covering video games professionally there’s one thing a video game company had never asked me to do until Activision did last week: Play their new game in four-player split screen. We might as well have been back in 1997 playing GoldenEye or something at Activision’s PAX-week event in…
Pokemon experts may snicker. They may laugh at me the way they laugh at a pale blogger caught next to a flexible cos-player. But can they deny that Pokemon games are confusing to newcomers? And that simplicity might help? I’ve always been able to remember that water Pokemon are good against Fire, but I’m not…
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