Never mind what’s at the bottom of this barrel, here’s a list of 29 Wii games from Nintendo and the amount of hours people play them, per gamer. (The following stats are pulled from the usage data shared by more than two million Wii users through the system’s Nintendo Channel. For more information about how…
Happy (uh, early) Independence Day, my fellow Americans. Happy Friday, everyone else. It’s time to talk about video games like you’ve never talked about them before. 3…2…1… start. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
The Wii version of the next Astro Boy game showed up in New York a couple of weeks ago. As of July, we can cover it. Click the thumbnails. Look at the screens. Read my notes. All at once. (Really, click to expand. I’m trying something new here by doing a preview as a series…
Unmarked package arrived today, continuing the BioShock 2 marketing campaign. Too bad my brother’s record players are inaccessible to me until the weekend. First they sent children’s drawings close to Father’s Day. Then they sent a record right before Independence Day. I assume 2K’s next BioShock 2 mailing will arrive, unmarked on…. Labor Day?
Warner Brothers‘ bid to purchase much of game publisher Midway won court approval yesterday. The company updated Kotaku and clarified the status of some studios and licenses. The sale to Warner Brothers is expected to close in the next 10 days, according to Midway spokesperson Geoffrey Mogilner. That will put the Mortal Kombat license, the…
Two new lists today: the hours logged by Wii users in each Wii Sonic game. And another showing play times for Rock Bands, Guitar Heroes and the like. (The following stats are pulled from the usage data shared by more than two million Wii users through the system’s Nintendo Channel. For more information about how…
Swimming is something you and I can probably do — and will do more this summer. But swimming has long been an ability less common to video game characters than running, jumping or shooting shotguns. I asked top developers why. Mario can swim. Sonic would not. A jump in the water used to kill the…
Tough bosses are indeed an aggravation (no, Crecente, I don’t mean you!). Vent about other video game annoyances or whatever else gaming-related you want to comment about. Now. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
Here’s a rundown of the new video game-based comics going on sale in comics shops in the U.S. this week, including the next Gears of War. Click the thumbnails for more details. Unbound Saga One-Shot… Written by Mike Kennedy; Art by Cliff Richards, Al Rio Via publisher Dark Horse Comics: Rick Ajax ain’t got time…
Microsoft’s picture-based 3D game programing tool was launched yesterday. Tell the world what you’re making. During the Game Developers Conference, I had a chance to try Kodu, a programming tool created by Microsoft to help give children the experience of writing programming code and seeing that code make things happen. I was impressed with the…
In March, a revolutionary-sounding streaming video game technology called OnLive was announced. Swiftly, game designer Dave Perry said he had something just like it. Today, he told Kotaku what’s the same and what’s not. The promise of OnLive, which has been shown to work in hands-on demo sessions experienced by Kotaku editors, is that it…
Back after a two month absence, here is your list of the 10 Wii games that get the most play per user (disclaimers and explanation below). Wii Sports and Tales of Symphonia are knocked out of the top 10. Make way for Rune Factory Frontier and Rock Band 2 in our (theoretically) monthly study of…
The diner-goers of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks welcome a new month of TAY. Please greet these classy folks and continue to chat here about video games. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
Let us not forget the following games six months from now (and prove that button wrong)… Today marks the halfway point of 2009, a year that brought Grand Theft Auto to the DS, our eyes to the bottom of an Avatar’s shoe and some other guy to my old MTV desk. We and the rest…
The last time we unearthed a big new Nintendo patent, we found hints of a video game paradigm shift. This time, Nintendo may have locked up a multiplayer mode from a 2004 GameCube game. On June 23, the United States granted Nintendo patent number 7,5489,923 a more than 11,000-word patent invented by WarioWare director Goro…
A graphical showpiece and a boxing game just a tad more authentic than the ones featuring King Hippo, Fight Night Round 4 apologizes for its sport and chases that unlikeliest of pugilistic goals: subtlety. MMA is hot and WWE never quite fades away. Boxing eternally hangs from a cliff. Since the 1970s, each decade of…
We said goodbye to the Greeks at the end of May. At this end of June we say so long to these fine folk. Wish them well as you chat here about video games. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
Gaming’s most-quoted financial analyst shared some unconventional wisdom about used games today. In a 210-page annual report about the state of the gaming industry that begins with him thanking Kotaku and other websites for “keeping us on our toes and always asking us to think about the industry in real-time,” Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael…
Add Mortal Kombat to the video games Michael Jackson was into. The recollections of the recently-deceased pop star continue to make the rounds in the media. And video games have gotten another mention, even though we weren’t asking this time. Author Paul Theroux recalls in today’s U.K. Telegraph a phone call the writer had with…
An eight-year-old boy’s parents are concerned about the violent games enjoyed by their son’s friend, who often invites their son over. They don’t want to nix the friendship, ban gaming during visits or question the other parents. What to do? The Chicago Tribune’s advice columnist had the following advice on Sunday: Sooner or later, raising…
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