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For the Next Few Months, Nintendo’s Schedule Looks Kinda Like This
Get out those calendars! Today, Nintendo provided a list of upcoming titles it will release the rest of this month—and beyond. This isn’t a full list by any means, and many of these games (and release windows) are already known. But here they are all together in one place. •Japan 3DS Nintendo 3DS XL –…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedMeet the Guys Who Kidnap, Then Mess With, Other Humans in DayZ
So, that nutty DayZ video from the other day, when a guy gets on a bus thinking he’s going to be saved only to end up exceedingly unsafe? It was seen from the perspective of the poor guy on the receiving end. Here, remarkably, is the other side: a recording made by one of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhat a Celebrity Game of Team Fortress 2 Looks Like
That’s a relative term, of course, as these are video game celebrities, but still. If you’ve ever wanted to see Minecraft creator Marcus Persson, Valve’s Robin Walker and internet superstar Freddie Wong go at it over Team Fortress 2, here’s your chance. To cut out the fluff, the actual game – which also includes other…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 25, 2012 - Reviews
Captain America Has a Great Butt (Shame About His Face)
Hong Kong collectible company Hot Toys has been on Kotaku a lot lately, mostly for its wonderful work on big, expensive figures based on the Chris Nolan’s third and final Batman movie, Dark Knight Rises. Today, though, we’re turning back to that other comic book blockbuster of the year, The Avengers. Actually, we’re turning back…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 25, 2012 - CultureTotal Recall
Let’s All Read This Terrific 1992 Star Fox Comic
If you think everything Nintendo did in the early 1990s outside actual video games sucked, well, no! Sure, there were some awful TV shows, but not everything was bad. This Star Fox comic, for example, was great. It ran in Nintendo Power magazine in 1992, and had – considering the scale of the project –…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 25, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallGamers “Really Loved Killing” Lara Croft, Because She Was a “Strong” Character
There’s an interesting interview with Toby Gard, the creator of Tomb Raider, over on Critical Path’s site. And it reminds us that, for all the platitudes heaped on the series for portraying a strong female character, the fact is a lot of men enjoyed playing as just such a woman for the wrong reasons. Eerily,…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Ran a “Mario School” to Teach People How to Make a Mario Game
During the development of New Super Mario Bros. 2, Nintendo did something it had never done before: it invited employees from other areas of the company, who don’t normally make Mario games for a living, to come and learn how to make Mario games for a living. It was informally dubbed the “Mario Cram School”,…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Giant Halo Figures Might be the Best Video Game Toys Ever Made
These enormous, insanely-detailed Halo figures (which we caught a glimpse of a few months ago) from ThreeA don’t have an asking price. They’re like a luxury car, or a designer watch. If you need to ask how much, you probably can’t afford it. If you could, though, boy. If these aren’t the best video game…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Whoah, Someone Actually Got a Tattoo Like Mass Effect’s Jack
For tonight’s “I can’t believe someone actually did this but it’s kinda great that they did” item, witness this lady, who covered her back in a tattoo normally only found on Jack, a tattoo-covered star of Mass Effects 2 & 3. While it’s not a replica of Jack’s own back in the game – this…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Who Knew Shakespearian Theatre Would Make For Such Great TV?
I’m just saying, I wouldn’t have thought that the trials and tribulations of a Shakespearian acting troupe could make for an entertaining modern TV show. That is, until I saw Slings and Arrows, an amazing 2003 Canadian TV show that I mainlined last weekend. Co-written and -created by Kids in the Hall‘s Mark McKinney, Sings…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 - Culture
How The First Death Star Was Built
You see the Death Star being built in Revenge of the Sith, but only from a distance. You see the second Death Star under construction during Return of the Jedi, but you don’t actually see it being constructed. There’s no extended footage of imperial workers swinging space hammers, popping galactic rivets or doubling their efforts.…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Little Vector-Based Console That Couldn’t is Reborn on the iPad
In 1982 Smith Engineering released the Vectrex, a self-contained video game console that delivered cutting-edge vector based games to the masses. It was the first game console with a 3D peripheral. It was brilliant. It was also released right before the video game crash of 1983, so the system that hit the market at $199.99…
By Mike Fahey Published July 24, 2012 - Reviews
Review: The Astro A50 Wireless Gaming Headset
Finding a good gaming headset really shouldn’t be as hard as it is. And yet for the longest time, I couldn’t find a decent set of gaming headphones. Until Astro came along, that is. It seemed simple enough: I like playing video games with headphones. I was starting to play more games online, and liked…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
PS Vita Defect Isn’t To Blame for Overheating Incidents, Says Sony
Since going on sale in Japan last December, there have been 31 incidents in which the PS Vita overheated, rendering the machines inoperable. As of early June, 23 of those incidents were in Japan, while 8 of them were abroad. Thankfully, no one has been injured. In these incidents, the PS Vita has overheated while…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedNow Mad Catz is Making a Massively Multiplayer Combat Flight Simulator
Not content to merely dabble in the more pedestrian flying video game market, the once peripheral-centric Mad Catz lifts its ambitious eyes to the MMO skies with Combat Pilot, a title that combines realistic flight simulation with multiplayer military aviation. It’s actually more exciting than it sounds. Most pure flight sims are single-player experiences or,…
By Mike Fahey Published July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
If Radiohead Had Performed The Limbo Soundtrack
I usually don’t like listening to outside music while I play games, and certainly not while I play atmospheric games like Limbo. And yet if I had to choose an alternate soundtrack for Playdead’s dark little game, I could think of worse albums than Radiohead’s Amnesiac The Gameological Society has combined the two, creating this…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedBattlefield 3 Gets The A-Team Treatment
I don’t know about you, but I think Battlefield 3 would be a lot more fun if it had some more Mr. T. No, not Mr. Totilo! Mr. T! Like the A-Team! YouTuber GDarleyy agrees, recreating the A-Team’s now-famous introduction in Battlefield 3 Man. Gotta love that theme song.
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow To Kill Civilians In A War Game
Civilian casualties are rare in video games. Every real-life war results in a terrible loss of innocent life; collateral damage is a grim reality of battle. Yet most war video games play out across perfectly crafted arenas in which each “team” is clearly marked and civilians are nowhere to be found. Spec Ops: The Line…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012
