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There’s a Long Weekend Coming Up. What Are You Gonna Play?
Hey there, Kotaku. I don’t know if you’re as excited about the long weekend as I am, but if you are, you must be really excited The weather should be lovely, the days have gotten long; and as much as I’d like to joke about how great it’ll be to spend this time playing video…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Get Out of Our Real World, Video Game Characters, You Look Too Good
Artist Jamie Sneddon’s 8-bitscapes is a collection of prints showing video game characters let loose in the real world, taking over locations like Cologne, Hong Kong and Manhattan. Some are here to destroy us. Others just want to hang out. All of them look great. You can check out the full range at the link…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Even If No One Listens, Let the Review Bombs Fall
It’s easy to sit back and scoff at “review bombing,” as we saw last week when Blizzard released a broken Diablo III. Flooding Amazon to give zero stars to something others have called a perfect 10, sure, that’s not a legitimate review. And people staging a sit-in aren’t there to legitimately patronize a public accommodation,…
By Owen Good Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Touch-Screen Graffiti Controls Come With Jet Set Radio PS Vita Release
Jet Set Radio is also returning on the PlayStation Vita, Sega said today, bringing touch-screen controls and camera integration to to the beloved Dreamcast hit that’s also releasing for the PS3, 360 and the PC. The Vita version of Jet Set Radio will launch at the same time as it does the other platforms. The…
By Owen Good Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
It’s Almost Time to Preorder This Amazing $400 Mass Effect 3 M-3 Predator Pistol Replica
Triforce, the creators of many fine video game replica weapons, are getting ready to arm 600 lucky customers with scale replicas of the M-3 Predator Pistol from Mass Effect 3 600 pieces at $400? Surely this is one you can save up for, right? I don’t know, Triforce’s replica M-8 Avenger Assault Rifle was $650,…
By Mike Fahey Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Celebrates Diablo III‘s Success With An Insane Amount of Champagne
Less than two weeks from its launch, Blizzard’s Diablo III is already a financial success (despite the fact that they might not be totally clear on how to measure it). Today, Blizzard had a celebratory champagne toast to honor the game’s successful launch. The above picture was tweeted by Blizzard’s Cory Stockton, and… good god,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
If He Doesn’t Win Re-Election, President Obama Can Always Coach the Dallas Mavericks
Or the Chicago Bulls. Or Golden State Warriors. Or any team in NBA 2K12’s Association or My Player modes, as Reddit user soadfan09 discovered today. This has actually been known for some time, but it’s still cool to see POTUS now as HCOTDM. He’ll show up on the sidelines about three seasons into your team’s…
By Owen Good Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Assembling the LEGO Avengers
With the phenomenal success of the Avengers still vibrating in the world’s collective consciousness, the folks at LEGO sent a set of Avengers-themed LEGO Marvel Super Heroes bricks my way. So I spent several hours putting together a stop-motion video of the assembly of Earth’s mightiest minifigs. Is it me, or does the Black Widow…
By Mike Fahey Published May 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedGet a Whole Bunch of Classics for Cheap in the Big Honkin’ Mother of All Indie Game Sales
Indie game developers get it: people don’t have a lot of money these days. And while they’d love to sell their creations at full price, it’s given that a lower-priced offering will get people to try games like Canabalt or World of Goo out and come back to try out even more titles. That’s why…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedWho Knew That a Halo Beatdown Could Be So Danceable?
“Video game remixes” are becoming quite the thing these days—not to be confused with video game soundtrack remixes, video game remixes are when a musician takes the sound effects of a game and combines them into something musical. This Halo one is particularly neat—created by FlashBangMusic, it uses some of the most iconic Halo sound…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedFor One Night Only, a Game You Need to Get Drunk to Play
Video games took over New York University last week and a whole bunch of people got drunk to celebrate. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. NYU’s Game Center held its third annual No Quarter exhibition last week, a yearly event where they showcase work that they commission from inventive game designers. This year, one of those…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Gears, Gods, And Giant Robots: A Look Back At One Of The Best RPGs Ever
The other day on Twitter, fellow Kotaku writer Kate Cox mentioned she had just finished Xenogears, Square’s classic PlayStation role-playing game. Since Xenogears is one of my favorite games, a classic up there with the best RPGs ever, I bugged her roughly 19283493849284924 times to come chat about her experiences for Random Encounters. Eventually she…
By Jason Schreier Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Taking Comment of the Week Submissions
Well I bet you weren’t expecting this one, were you? Last week I made a bold attempt at simplifying the comment of the week submissions for Best of Kotaku. It was a great idea, spurred by you guys. Unfortunately, I can’t make that system—involving what is a broken tag page—work for us. So we’re going…
By Tina Amini Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
GameStop Says They Won’t Mess With Your Game Informer Subscription After All [UPDATE 3]
Earlier this week a person claiming to work for mega gaming chain GameStop posted a warning on Reddit to all prospective shoppers: if you sign up for a Game Informer subscription while you’re at the shop, you will be signed up for a digital subscription, not for the print magazine—unless you ask. Worse, the person…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Demon’s Souls Servers Will Stay Alive Indefinitely
It looked like next week was going to be the last hurrah for the online component of Demon’s Souls. But publisher Atlus has announced that they’re going to be keeping the servers online for their hit PS3 hit for as long as they can
By Evan Narcisse Published May 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
My PC Dropped Dead, but at Least I Rescued My Mass Effect Saves
I love my desktop PC. I’m a PC gamer through and through, and my current computer, which is the machine I also use every day for work, is one I built for myself in 2010. I dust it out regularly, am careful with my file management, and have mastered the art of putting the mouse…
By Kate Cox Published May 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedPlant Fruits, Vegetables, and Rows of the Undead on Your Zombie Farm
By sheer chance, one of my best friends and I were booked for the same flight from DC to Boston just before PAX East. We met up in the airport and had a while to relax over coffee before boarding. She couldn’t stop playing with her iPad. “What are you doing?” I finally asked. Her…
By Kate Cox Published May 25, 2012