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This Week in the Business: ‘$299 is the Magic Price Point for PS4’
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “$299 is the magic price point for PS4.”—Analyst Billy Pidgeon talking about what sort of pricing Sony needs for the PS4 in order to maximize sales while avoiding huge losses QUOTE | “Whatever launches in 2013 or 2014 or 2015, will…
Steve Peterson Published February 23, 2013 - Uncategorized
The Best Of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. Just remember, Mario was the first. The above image is courtesy of The Coolsumist. I’m officially on vacation for about a week and a half! Woo! I’ll see you guys on the other end of next week. Now let’s…
By Tina Amini Published February 23, 2013 -
UncategorizedFirst Game Of Thrones’ Season 3 Trailer Hits: Dragons, Wildlings & Flaming Swords
God it just looks so so so good. Just when you think you can’t get any more excited for the show to return from its too-long season break, you realise the budgets keep getting bigger and the drama keeps getting, well… if you don’t know what’s coming this season, look out.
By Luke Plunkett Published February 23, 2013 -
UncategorizedThese Pranksters Make Smashing Gallons Of Milk Look Fun
The video by theCHAIZYchannel is nearly a week old, but boy did the jerk-like antics give me a laugh—so it seemed perfect for the daily off-topic thread here at Kotaku The prank works best when they don’t even try to make the fall believable. Also, when the granny tries to help the guy out. Priceless.…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
There’s A Sly Inside Joke On The Cover Of Fire Emblem: Awakening
I’m not sure how many times I’ve seen the cover of the recent 3DS strategy game Fire Emblem: Awakening. Dozens, at least. And yet I never noticed that there’s a great little inside-joke hidden in plain sight. Fortunately, Bill Mudron caught it. If you look at the cover, you’ll notice that only one character’s face…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 22, 2013 -
UncategorizedThis Sunday’s Episode Of Girls Presents An Existential Video-Game Dilemma
What do you do when you’re writing about the aimless, lost generation? You make a connection to video games, that’s what. Though to Girls‘ credit—the edgy HBO show created by Lena Dunham—the topic of video games comes up because someone’s clearly not sane. The connection to video games isn’t made because the character is aimless,…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
He Took Refuge In Skyrim After His Sister’s Death. Bethesda Reached Out And Sent Him This.
Video games can be wonderful when you need someplace to decompress, when you need to tune the world out. That’s exactly what Redditor lb-Cyber needed during a tough spot in his life. “On February 21st, 2012, my sister passed away after a nine-year battle with cancer,” lb-Cyber wrote in a Reddit thread. Dealing with the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 22, 2013 -
UncategorizedCan the Razer Gaming Tablet Handle Crysis 3? See For Yourself.
The Razer Edge is a gaming PC stuffed into a tablet, but how much of a gaming PC? Enough to play Crysis 3, which seems like plenty. This video, shared via Razer’s official Twitter, shows “the intern” playing Crysis 3 with his handlebars. His handlebars. His handlebars. He can play Crysis 3 with his handlebars.…
By Mike Fahey Published February 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
Now The Entire Staff Of Bungie Doesn’t Know What To Do With Their Hands
One of the funniest things to come out of this week’s PlayStation 4 event was the four Bungie guys, standing stock-still with their arms at their sides, looking… uncomfortable. Also, a bit like a Boy Band The odd appearance was best encapsulated by this image, which has become something of a meme over the past…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 22, 2013 -
UncategorizedNintendo’s Commercial For Luigi’s Mansion 2 Is Straight-Up 90s
Grab your Gushers, kids. This new commercial for the second Luigi’s Mansion—out March 24 for 3DS—feels straight out of 1995. That’s not a bad thing, of course. Nothing like some good old 90s nostalgia to brighten up your Friday afternoon.
By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
A Vicious Man-Eating Worm Chases You Through This Week in Gaming Apps
Any discussion of the games I’ve played over the past week is not complete without a reference to the humongous worm with sharp teeth that chased with such persistence I never even got around to writing it up. But this isn’t the place to praise Worm Run for the excellent sense of tension it generates.…
By Mike Fahey Published February 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
BioShock Infinite‘s Pre-Order Scheme Is A Bold Step In Consumer Manipulation
Each week it feels like the video game industry is coming up with new ways to get you to pre-order games. Packaged bonuses, collectors’ edition cases, limited edition figures, in-game items, early access to betas, and more. Today, Irrational Games announced new Steam pre-order incentives for their hotly anticipated action game BioShock Infinite. The rewards…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
The Thing I’m The Most Excited About On The PS4 Isn’t The Game Lineup Or Hardware
There was one feature—should Sony actually deliver on their lofty promises with the PS4—that left me feeling rather excited. It wasn’t the games, or the hardware. To Sony’s credit, that stuff seems cool—I’m digging the new triggers on the controllers and Watch Dogs touches on great subjects—but not as cool as a feature that is…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
These City Skylines Prove Just How Far Video Game Graphics Have Come
Wednesday’s PlayStation 4 event showed us what next-gen graphics are capable of, so if you had any doubts that game environments could grow even better looking and more detailed, they’re probably now gone. Cities and city skylines in general were always a perfect way to show how beautiful a game is, so we collected some…
By Gergo Vas Published February 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
ChefVille ‘This Calls for Cake’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know
Observant chefs probably noticed the addition of Cake Batter as an option within the ChefVille Mixers. But we’ve just learned what the addition was for. Ever since ChefVille first launched, players have been longing to cook desserts, and it’s finally that time via the release of the Cake Oven, Cake Display Case, and more. There…
by Brandy Shaul | Games.com Published February 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
The Lack Of Women Presenters At The PS4 Event Is Bigger Than Sony
The consensus on Wednesday’s post about the lack of women presenters at Sony’s PS4 event was rather uniform: there were no women at the PlayStation 4 reveal, because obviously there aren’t women in high positions and the project leads just happen to be male. “The reason there were no women on-stage is because the presidents…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
If You Like JRPGs, It’s Time To Start Speaking Up
I spent my Wednesday night sitting in Kotaku‘s office, gulping down coffee and furiously typing as I watched Sony announce their new PlayStation, a revolutionary device that will let you play games where you shoot people with guns. And as they banged out one announcement after the other, my mind kept roaming to a single…
By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
The Incredible Rise and Fall of a Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Next Xbox and PlayStation—And Maybe More
The first thing that ever puzzled me about the man I used to know as SuperDaE was that he didn’t sound Australian. I couldn’t detect an accent. SuperDaE told me back then, during our first long-distance call from New York to wherever he was Down Under, that he got that a lot. He swore to…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 22, 2013 - Reviews
Digital Storm Bolt – Titan Edition: The Kotaku Review
This week Nvidia released its latest high-tech graphics card, the GeForce GTX Titan. The announcement was accompanied by the usual flurry of press releases from boutique PC makers, eager to get their name associated with the next big thing. Normally these me-too systems don’t garner more than a passing mention, but Digital Storm’s offering is…
By Mike Fahey Published February 22, 2013