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UncategorizedDark, Somber iOS Platformer Jumps to PC With a Fresh Coat of Paint
We already showed you Nihilumbra once before. Now, Beautifun Games’ Limbo– and Portal 2-esque platformer is coming to PC (specifically, Steam) bearing gifts. The PC version boasts quite a few improvements, which you can see in action in the video above. In addition to a graphical update, the game’s getting a remastered soundtrack, controls and…
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Zillion-Dollar Madden Lawsuit Survives Another Verdict
Despite all efforts to kill it, the lawsuit over who really made the Madden we all play today keeps chugging along. A jury ruled that a statute of limitations does not apply to the claim of Robin Antonick, credited on the cover of the first John Madden Football for PCs back in 1988. This would…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
An Xbox 180 Drags Sports Back From the Future of Gaming
Until Wednesday there seemed to be very little selling the Xbox One to a sports video gamer. The questionable ability to rent, share or re-sell its games—fundamental to a culture built on annual releases and punching friends on the couch—was only the beginning. It’s a console that cost $100 more than its competitor, with no…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Ultra-Real Assault Rifle Controller Pushes Ahead Despite Uproar
We first got wind of the “Delta Six,” a super-realistic assault-rifle controller for those who like to put the FP into their FPSes, back in October. Predictably, the gun’s purpose and look didn’t play well in mainstream coverage, so it was pulled off the market. Now it’s back, after a successful $200,000 Kickstarter. Delta Six…
By Owen Good - Culture
The Week in Games: Get Your Motor Running
Summer begins with some noteworthy names releasing on consoles this week—Ride to Hell: Retribution, a title first spoken five years ago, finally arrives. Deadpool shows up to lay waste to the fourth wall, as he usually does, and Hotline Miami at last hits consoles with a PS3 and Vita release. Today • Game & Wario…
By Dealzon - Uncategorized
Police Blotter: Someone Stole an Xbox 360 from the U.S. Open
Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. Xbox 360 Tent Finishes 1-Under for the Tournament ARDMORE,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Dragon Quest X Coming to PC in Japan
Dragon Quest X was conspicuously absent from E3 and its Wii U version may not make it to the west. A PC version might stand a better chance, though, and Siliconera reports Japan is getting Dragon Quest X on PC at the end of September. Currently a beta for the PC version is underway (not…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Burn This Villager
The Villager’s haunting, dead-eyed look has gotten a lot of treatment since his introduction as a new Smash Bros. fighter, but he hasn’t yet gotten the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest treatment. Let’s take care of that this week. While The Villager already has a submission pending on Know Your Meme, and there’s a ton of crap…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Ding! FAA May Roll Back Stupid Restrictions on Electronic Device Use
Good news for the flying, gaming public: The Federal Aviation Administration’s bullshit, insulting-to-the-intelligence rules for the use of “approved portable electronic devices” are due to be relaxed, allowing for gate-to-gate use of your iPad, 3DS, Android phone or whatever. This could come as early as September. That’s according to reports by the Wall Street Journal…
By Owen Good - Culture
Sunday Comics: A Pocket Full of Whoopass
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by our readership. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner. Brawl In The Family by Matthew Taranto. Published June 21. Read more of Brawl In The Family Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Roll Out the Barrel: The Winners
Plenty of great entries for this week’s ‘Shop Contest, drawing on a dynamic trio photo-op comprising Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata, Reggie Fils-Aime, and Shigeru Miyamoto. How do you win with that exploitable? I’ll give you advice: Go to E3, screw up like I know you will, and wind up in a barrel, like dystopika! If you’re…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Mind-Controlled Pong is One Step Toward a World Cup Kickoff
Controlling games with brainwaves is a vogue research subject—Patricia Hernandez herself tested out a demo that involved tossing trucks telekinetically—but a team of researchers have applied it to a competitive game—Pong—with the goal of allowing a paralyzed person to make the ceremonial kickoff of the 2014 World Cup. Duke University showed off its work to…
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Uncategorized‘Tactical Marketing Decision’ Means It’s Just Dragon Age: Inquisition
What was Dragon Age III: Inquisition has now got rid of the eye-eye-eye. Losing el numero three-o may seem like a minor thing, but to Electronic Arts, it was a “tactical marketing decision.” Frank Gibeau, the boss of EA Games, acknowledged to IGN that there’s a debate over whether numbers in sequels work, don’t work,…
By Owen Good