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The Most Beautiful Sunsets in Video Games
What’s the most beautiful sunset you’ve ever seen in a game? We’ll start. This is a great sunset in Minecraft—transformed into an animated GIF by our own Chris Person, ladled out of a stunning video called “Natural World” made by RxRexhonHD (all the modding details required are in the video’s official YouTube description). Readers, show…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Internet Unites To Talk About Video Games They Grew Up With
Twitter’s trending topics—subjects or phrases that the social network is buzzing about at any given moment—are sometimes based on big news headlines. Sometimes they spring from live events or tragic catastrophes, as everyone rushes to make the first supremely clever joke about Kim Kardashian. And sometimes they’re just awful memes. But for the past couple…
By Jason Schreier Published September 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Color-Swapping Runner is Not a Tron Game, But it Should Be
Considering the overall lack of quality Tron games since the time of the first film, I’m willing to give Hope This Works Games‘ upcoming neon red and blue Android and iOS free-runner Polara a couple of identity discs and call it a day. It’s a little bit color-shifting shooter Ikaruga, with a hint of color-shifting…
By Mike Fahey Published September 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Guy Redesigns Rare NES Model For His Steampunk-Loving Nephew
Though collectors everywhere feel a pang in their sides from seeing the rare sight of a Top Loader edition NES (NES-101) so brutally redone, everyone else can lean back and enjoy this beautiful reconstruction. Reddit user Andrew5785 took his old NES, and turned it into something a little more steampunky for his nephew. Head over…
By Tina Amini Published September 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Cancels NBA Live 13
EA Sports today canceled its troubled NBA Live 13 project. It is the second time in three years that sports video gaming’s dominant publisher has pulled the plug on its NBA simulation at the last minute. Andrew Wilson, the executive vice president in charge of the label, announced the decision in a statement posted to…
By Owen Good Published September 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow You Earn 30,000 Coins In Two Minutes In New Super Mario Bros. 2
The road to one million coins in New Super Mario Bros. 2 can be daunting. Maybe you’ve given up by now. Well it’s time to get back on track, champ. Let Kotaku reader Slider show you how to earn 30,000 coins in two minutes all without leaving your couch. (Sorry about the video quality.)
By Jason Schreier Published September 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Zynga Games Lose a Couple Hundred Thousand Fans in the Facebook Fake Account Purge
Facebook has implemented countermeasures to purge fake, forged, hacked or otherwise unsavory ‘Likes’ from its pages, resulting in the sudden departure of several hundred thousand of Zynga’s several hundred million fans. The ‘Like’ is a powerful unit of measurement in today’s Facebook-connected world. For the average consumer of social media content the number of ‘Likes’…
By Mike Fahey Published September 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Determined Group Sets Out To Recreate The Legend of Zelda In Real Life
The Zelda Project is twofold: on the one hand it’s a group of cosplayers, recreating scenes from Ocarina of Time. On the other hand, the project also has a bigger goal of producing a short film to represent the game, as well. From their site: The Zelda Project is a Los Angeles, CA based group…
By Tina Amini Published September 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Next Game from the Makers of The Chronicles of Riddick Looks Like a Beautiful Fairy Tale
You know Starbreeze. They’ve made sturdy, sometimes spectacular shooters like The Darkness, the Chronicles of Riddick games and this year’s Syndicate. Usually, when the Swedish dev studio announces a new game, you usually expect highly stylized sci-fi violence and clever, satisfying gunplay. Their newest game doesn’t have any of that. And it looks wonderful. Brothers:…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedConan O’Brien Reviews Just Dance 4. Side Note: He’s Also A Terrible Dancer.
I never realized how dangerous some of these dance moves look to be until Conan took it upon himself to review Just Dance 4 with Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan. I laughed at Conan’s outside-the-box dance moves and interpretations of the dance cards, caught a glimpse of some Conan midriff, and learned about a revolutionary…
By Tina Amini Published September 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedPoop Glitches Are The Best Glitches
Borderlands 2 has a lot of outhouses—or porta potties, if you will—around every bandit camp. More than a couple of players seem to have stumbled upon overflowing ones, which you can see an example of in the video above. For all I know, knowing Gearbox, this could very well be a feature and not a…
By Tina Amini Published September 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Man Loses Xbox Account To Thief, Confronts Thief On Internet Forum
On Sunday night, Eric Graff put his son to bed. He flipped on his 360 and got ready for a session of Borderlands 2 with some friends. But when he tried to log onto his Xbox Live account, the password wouldn’t work. His account had been hacked. And then Graff did something usually reserved for…
By Jason Schreier Published September 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Developer Behind Creepy Alternate-Reality Adventure Games Now Making a Creepy Alternate-Reality Transmedia Game
Many years ago, the creepy alternate-reality adventure game Missing: Since January (called In Memoriam outside of the US) tried to blur the lines between its fiction and our world. In pursuing the trail of the fictional Jack Lorski and Karen Volker, players wind through real-world history and geography, as well as planted websites and stories.…
By Kate Cox Published September 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedGamevil Unsheathes Cartoon Wars: Blade
Where does a warrior go when the Cartoon Wars end? He grabs his sword and sails across the sea to find new stick figures to kill in Cartoon Wars: Blade Available today on iTunes, Blade is another side story in Blue GNC’s epic sketchy war franchise. While Cartoon Wars 1 & 2 were defense games,…
By Mike Fahey Published September 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedIf You Vote For This Game On Steam Greenlight, The Developers Might Add Linux Support. More Votes? Nude Patch.
The developers of Organ Trail, the zombified version of the educational classic Oregon Trail have hatched a new scheme to get their game to the top of the charts on Steam Greenlight. They’ll add more features to the game, if more people vote for it The game developers, knows as The Men Who Wear Many…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedWatch Assassin’s Creed III Throw a Boston Tea Party
There are a lot of paintings depicting the Revolutionary War in this new Assassin’s Creed III trailer, which hints that Connor plays a secret yet crucial role in the Boston Tea Party. Yet, I can name none of them. I should have paid attention in art class. Connor only appears briefly in this history lesson…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Sexy, Soapy iPhone Game That Also Teaches You To Make Drinks
Bartenders get all the good stories. People often go to bars simply to talk—we need a drink sometimes, to get away from it all, and we hope to find a bartender who will listen long enough to let us get it off our chest. The Bar Oasis series has long understood that while it’s fun…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Playing Violent Video Games Actually Makes You Feel Less Pain, Researchers Find
It seems that violent games may indeed desensitize players—but in a way that can actually be helpful. Researchers at Keele University in the UK have found that playing a violent video game can give players a higher real-world tolerance for pain. The study had 40 participants playing both a violent first-person shooter and also a…
By Kate Cox Published September 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedVector is the Beginning of One Intense Facebook Game
Free-running across rooftops while being chased relentlessly by a shadowy unknown enemy is not an experience I expected to find in a Facebook game. I also never expected to shout motherf****** at the top of my lungs at a Facebook game, so there’s that. Created by Nekki, the developer behind Shadow Fight, Vector is a…
By Mike Fahey Published September 27, 2012