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You’d Be Surprised How Fun A Text-Based Multiplayer Shooter Can Be
When I think of fast-paced multiplayer shooters, I think of first-person games like Halo and Call of Duty. I don’t generally think of text-based games. Little did I know that a text-based multiplayer shooter, specifically Eigen Lenk’s Text-Based Multiplayer Shooter, could be so much fun. (Jason tells me that Aliens vs. Predator: MUD was similar,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
Obama Crushes Romney in Ohio (Among Players of Maple Story)
President Barack Obama basically annihilated Mitt Romney in a new poll in the key swing state of Ohio. Too bad for Obama that the vote only involved players of the online game Maple Story It’s not going to be that easy, Obama. Nexon, the creators of Maple Story ran the third of three polls of…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
Seven Comics That Will Sharpen Your Skills This Week
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Horny Superman and Charles Burns’ Trippy Riff on Tintin Show Up for Panel Discussion This Week
These might be the most important words in comics: “Hey, have you read that?” The medium’s lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is “So, what’d you think?” We’re going to kick off a recurring feature here in Kotaku‘s slice of…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
Fox News Says Halo 4 May Keep Gamers From Voting
Never one to back away from humorously uninformed hogwash, Fox News has run a new article suggesting that young voters might skip the polls to spend time playing the newly released Xbox 360 game Halo 4 How have they arrived at this provocative conclusion? Because they talked to some people! Um, experts! A PR guy!…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedNew Move-Enabled Portal 2 DLC Now Available on PlayStation Network
The fancy “In Motion” DLC for the PlayStation 3 version of Portal 2 is available today We last saw “In Motion” at E3 this summer, where a Sony representative demonstrated how the Move works with the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. The DLC adds new kinds of controls to the game, including, notably, the ability…
By Kate Cox Published November 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
Some Halo 4 Players Facing Launch Day Server Woes
It’s November 6, and the long-anticipated, well-received Halo 4 is here. For some players, though, it seems the wait to get their shooting on will be a little longer. Players at Halo Waypoint are reporting a variety of server issues. The studio has acknowledged the server issues on twitter and their forums, saying, “We hear…
By Kate Cox Published November 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
FarmVille Mistletoe Lane Chapter 1 Goals: Everything You Need to Know
As part of Zynga‘s incredibly early Christmas celebration in FarmVille, players that are willing to shell out the 35 Farm Cash for early access to Mistletoe Lane are greeted with weeks of exclusive content that won’t be available to those that wait for free access to release later this month. For instance, as soon as…
by Brandy Shaul | Games.com Published November 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedRobot Chicken’s Team Fortress 2 Skit Gives Me Mixed Emotions
On the one hand, I’m extremely excited to see an Adult Swim/Valve mix that doesn’t just involve a sign-up sheet and a hat. The claymation is also a nice touch. But this feels more like Adult Swim saying, “Hey, here’s a thing that sorta looks like a thing that you play online sometimes,” rather than…
By Tina Amini Published November 6, 2012 -
ReviewsPaper Mario: Sticker Star: The Kotaku Review
Have you ever played a video game that you had trouble describing as either “good” or “bad”? Have you ever played something so simultaneously delightful yet frustrating that for every smile it put on your face, it made you want to ram a fist through the wall? Have you ever thought “holy crap, this is…
By Jason Schreier Published November 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Rollercoaster Ride of a Physics Game Could Use a Better Name
Last week Ubisoft’s RedLynx studio released a fun and challenging rollercoaster-based psychics puzzler for iOS. You might have missed it, as the app icon is a cartoon cat and the game is called Nutty Fluffies I initially passed over the game myself. I couldn’t imagine a world in which a game with that moniker would…
By Mike Fahey Published November 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedSir, You Are Being Hunted’s Fancy-Pants Robots Will Hunt You Down in Extremely Creepy Fashion
It’s the way that they move. Sure, the background music filled with tense strings creates some anxiety in the first gameplay glimpse of Big Robot’s Sir, You Are Being Hunted. And the low visibility in tall grass adds to the tension, too. But something about the movement of the game’s automaton antagonists chills me to…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Grinns Tale Launches, Charming the Pants Off of Everybody
Nexon’s free-to-play social RPG The Grinns Tale, which I crowed about a few weeks back, officially launches today. Here’s the opening movie. Yes, a social game with an elaborate opening movie. It’s also got some interesting stats. What stats, you ask? These stats, direct from Nexon: Here Are Some Fun Stats From the Beta Times…
By Mike Fahey Published November 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedAssassin’s Creed III Recreates Another Key Moment of American History: Ben Franklin Doling Out Sex Advice.
In 1745, all-time-great American Ben Franklin wrote a letter to his friend advising him that if his friend was still going to “persist in thinking of a commerce with the sex inevitable” after getting married, this friend should get a mistress—an old mistress. It’s a hell of a letter And, for some reason, Franklin’s “wisdom”…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Is The Best New Feature In Halo 4‘s Multiplayer
Ok, perhaps it’s more accurate to say it’s the most “juvenile” new feature in Halo 4, the first-person shooter developed (for the first time in the franchise) by 343 Industries. We already knew that the infamous “victory crouch” would return in the latest Halo title, but perhaps we didn’t expect it to be quite like…
By Tina Amini Published November 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
Grand Gaming Experiment Curiosity Launches, Players Tap Out Dirty Words
Curiosity, the first experimental game from Peter Molyneux’s 22 Cans, is an iOS app that invites the entire world to tap away at a gigantic multilayered cube, revealing its secrets pixel-by-pixel. A “life-changing” secret awaits the single player that makes it to the center. Right now it says “Fuckers” on the side of it. No…
By Mike Fahey Published November 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Assassin’s Creed Anthology Collects Altair, Ezio and Connor’s Games All in One Big Package
Amazon France has outed a mega-bundle that offers every console game made for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed fanchise. According to Polygon and Eurogamer, the Assassin’s Creed Anthology will include last week’s Assassin’s Creed III along with Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed 2, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations The listing touts a piece of € 150,…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedFreeSkate Xtreme Uses Your iPhone Camera to Keep Track of Your Head
If the location of your head is something you’re never quite certain of, then you’ll probably want to spend $.99 on VisionHacker Studios’ FreeSkate Xtreme for the iPhone and iPad later this week. It uses the Apple camera to find your skull, and then uses it to skate. It’s nice to see developers starting to…
By Mike Fahey Published November 6, 2012