Check Out Blake Griffin’s Best Dunks as If They Happened in the Original NBA Jam

News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • SB Nation put together that delightful compilation of chiptunes and pixelated highlights to give us Blake Griffin’s theoretical NBA Jam highlight reel from the 1993 classic. Enjoy. [SB Nation] • NHL 13‘s cover vote is down to its final four. Claude Giroux and…

Curt Schilling’s Role-Playing Game Supposedly Needed to Sell 3 Million Copies to Not Fail

Yesterday, Curt Schilling bragged that Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning beat EA’s sales expectations. Today, Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee told reporters that Amalur needed to sell more than double that number just to break even. Governor Chafee spoke to reporters today during a press conference about the game studio run by Curt Schilling that has…

If We Won’t Have MLB 2K to Kick Around Next Year, Here’s What The Show Must Do

Baseball fans have started to come to terms with the idea that MLB 13 The Show will be their only video game option next year. MLB 13 The Show needs to come to terms with that, too. Consistently well reviewed, The Show‘s dirty secret is that there are areas of its product that are growing…

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Here’s Me Shooting a Bow and Swinging a Sword From Horseback in Skyrim. It’s Pretty Sweet.

Bethesda announced today that along with the 1.6 update for Skyrim, players will finally have the ability to use their weapons while on horseback. I think I speak for all Skyrim diehards when I say: Finally! I went ahead and opted in for the patch on Steam so that I could try it out, and…

Microsoft Could Totally Pull Off Its Own Super Smash Bros. Clone

With Sony doing it’s own Super Smash Bros. type game with PlayStation All-Stars, Xbox-loving commenter rbranyan3to wonders if it wouldn’t be impossible for Microsoft to do the same. How would it work? Let’s brainstorm in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I was reading online about the Playstation All-Stars game and in the comments people were…

People Thought Hideo Kojima Was “Crazy” When He Said He Wanted to Make Video Games

When Hideo Kojima started out in the games industry, he met a lot of people like himself, would-be creators like him who had set other life goals for themselves. The famed game designer wanted to make movies but never found a path to that aspiration and he worked with many others who got into games…

One Man’s Quest to Draw Something Becomes Draw Everything

Unlike me, Bora can actually draw. And also unlike me, and unlike several million other players, Bora has stuck with Draw Something He’s on a mission to draw every single word in the Draw Something dictionary, a quest that can end only in madness. Words repeat, and many can be quite dull. Still, as his…

Mounted Combat Arrives in Skyrim

Your Skyrim horse is now good for something other than getting accidentally killed in the heat of battle. Update 1.6, available today on PC, adds the ability for players to charge into battle on their faithful steed. By opting into the latest Steam Beta Update, players can check out the new mounted combat feature in…

Ponder the Endless Cycle of Grabbing Loot in Diablo III with the Game Club Right Now!

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Game Club! We’re about to start our second discussion about Diablo III. It’s been over a week now, so I imagine that many of you have gone to hell and back and lived to tell the tale. If you’ve been waiting for a place to tell your tale, you’ve…

Call of Duty Creators Say Oliver North Helped Make Their Game More Authentic

Lt. Col. Oliver North is a polarizing figure in American history and, we found out, earlier this month, an advisor on the next huge Call of Duty game, Black Ops II North isn’t your average video game consultant. He was one of the main actors in the Iran-Contra scandal that wracked America in the ‘80s.…

38 Studios and Big Huge Games Shutting Down [UPDATE]

Reports are circulating that Kingdoms of Amalur creators 38 Studios has shut down Big Huge Games, the developers who helped build the hit action RPG that came out earlier this year. If this is true, the shuttering of an entire studio would be the biggest bit of fallout yet from the 38 Studios/Rhode Island financial…

Konami Appears to be Teasing Something Castlevania-Related

Over on their official Facebook page, Konami links out to a teaser site that sure seems to hint at something Dracula-related. The site bears the words “The Dragon Returns,” which refers to the linguistic roots of the evil count’s name. Dracul—as in Vlad Dracul—means dragon in Romanian. The site could be hinting at a sequel…

The World Is Under Tetromino Attack In Tetris: The Movie

Hey, if a game as old-school as Battleship can get its own feature film, why not Tetris? That’s the question asked by youtubers Warialasky. Since they couldn’t really come up with a reason why not, they’ve posted this hilarious (fake) trailer that mixes the familiar “alien shadows of doom” beats of Independence Day and Battle:…

Blizzard: Number of Players Claiming Hacked Diablo III Accounts ‘Extremely Small’

In addition to launch-time connectivity woes, Diablo III has also been hit with claims of hacked accounts and missing items, adding a layer of confusion and worry to an already confusing, worrisome launch. Over on the official Diablo III forums, Blizzard has posted a round-up of information that the company has been releasing over the…

So Why Are There Dinosaurs on Pre-Earth Cybertron? Blame Shockwave

In the original Transformers cartoon, Grimlock and the Dinobots are created by Wheeljack and Ratchet after volcanic activity unearthed prehistoric fossils near the Autobot base. High Moon Studios’ explanation for the Dinobots appearance in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron makes a whole lot more sense. The Dinobots’ Fall of Cybertron origin borrows elements from several different…

In Defense of Perfect Scores

You will see, occasionally, the complaint that a video game has been given a perfect score. 10/10. 5/5. All five stars. The complaint tends to be that there are too many of these perfect numbers. These scores must come, the thinking goes, from easily-impressed reviewers who are as full of bias as they are breathless.…

Mass Effect 3‘s Free Rebellion Pack Drops Next Week

Outed earlier this month via Sony Hong Kong, Mass Effect 3‘s free Rebellion Pack adds two new maps and a slew of new characters to the game’s multiplayer experience on May 29 for PC, Xbox 360 and North American PlayStation 3s, with the Euro PS3 version following a day after. The Rebellion Pack extends the…

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I Made Some E3 Predictions, Because That’s What You Do on Talk Shows

Spike TV’s All Access Weekly airs tonight at midnight, but you can watch it right here. Why would you? Because your Kotaku editor-in-chief is on it, chatting with host Katie Linendoll about next month’s E3. We’re talking winners, losers and, uh, we’re doing some guessing. We shot this a couple of weeks back, giving Spike…