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The Throne of Games
Fantasy RPG Game of Thrones and fantasy MMO TERA Online already are seeing modest discounts. The upcoming RPG from Capcom, Dragon’s Dogma likewise is getting about $10 off from one retailer. These and another 50 discounts, credits and savings can be found in this week’s Moneysaver below! Software • Game of Thrones (360, PS3) is…
By Owen Good Published May 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Best Of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, as seen this week. First up is the image above, which is an awesome rendition of Max Payne himself, mid shoot-leaping. I swear, he’s gonna shoot his foot off one of those Bullet Times. Image is by deviantART user PatrickBrown Moving on to our Best Of content this week,…
By Tina Amini Published May 19, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallHere’s How To Make The Professor Layton Soundtrack Much Better
The Professor Layton games have long demanded a soundtrack a bit more sophisticated than the one they have—the plinky, “ooh boy, we have a mystery!” music is fine at first, but eventually I’ve found that it begins to grate. This is especially true of the first game that I played in the series, 2008’s Professor…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 19, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallIt Takes A Lot Of Focus To Play Pong… WITH YOUR MIND
Psychic/possessed children are creepy. They do creeeepy things, like stare blankly at you and speak in a monotone and maybe set your hair on fire with their minds. But sometimes, they do something even creepier. They play video games… without using the controllers This scene, from the apparently terrible 1981 horror film Kiss Daddy Goodbye,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Weird Art of the Video Game Massacre
We’ve all done it. Anyone who’s played an open-world game, from Grand Theft Auto III to Fallout 3 to Red Dead Redemption, has gone on a murderous rampage. Those civilians. They’re all just… sitting there. You know what else is sitting there? Your dark, murderous id. Time to go to town. The number of video…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Cop Who Can’t Be Stopped
What a long, wild week it’s been. Hello, Kotaku and welcome to your Friday night open thread. How are you? How was your week? Did you get some good video gaming in? I know I did, and I plan to do a bunch more this weekend. So many good games are out or about to…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
So I complained about moving cords through the back of my entertainment center in this post. Then I talked about playing a terrible seven-year-old game on the Xbox in this post. Now tying all of that together is this post, where we all turn out our pockets and tell everyone what we’re playing this weekend.…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Is Giving You One Final Chance To Change Your Ironic My Little Pony BattleTag
It’s a tricky thing, choosing an online handle. You’ve gotta stick with it forever, so the dumb inside joke or ironically stupid insult you choose will be your name forevermore. As a general rule, Blizzard gives users a one-time-only chance to change their mind on their “BattleTag.” But, given that a good number of people…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Games that Got Me Through the Worst Year of My Life: Playboy: The Mansion
My worst year on earth may well have been 2005. I had gone from a blood-and-guts newspaper writer to headcount hire sitting in a cubicle with nothing to do for weeks on end. I’d once been the coolest guy at the cocktail party, now I was just another stiff with a badge around his neck…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2012 -
UncategorizedHitler Recaps the Week in Video Games: Special Diablo III Edition
Godwin’s Law states that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” As basically all video game discussion takes place online, let’s just cut to the chase and give der fuehrer’s take on recent topics of interest to gamers. I wanted to rage about Blizzard’s indefensibly…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
I Despise You, Xbox 360 Eject Button
Today I had to move my Xbox 360 console out of the way while I fooled with cables going through the back of my entertainment center. This happens frequently because of how I have to do video capture. As I grabbed the 360 and shifted it, I guess my thumb got within 5 millimeters of…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow a Pro Athlete’s Video Game Studio Came To Owe Rhode Island Millions
In a week filled with video-game related drama, one of the main stages has starred 38 Studios. The developer, based in Providence, Rhode Island, is evidently out of money, and can’t repay their loans. Worse, the loan in question was from the state of Rhode Island, potentially leaving taxpayers footing the bill for incomplete MMO…
By Kate Cox Published May 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Missing Mario Link for Game of Thrones’ Littlest Lannister
Game of Thrones‘ Tyrion Lannister may be a small man, but he’s got a big heart, huge ambition, and is surprisingly good at killing people, all things considered. He’s also got something in common with Mario, if this goofy image floating around the internet is to be believed—one bite of a magic Mario mushroom and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 -
UncategorizedLike Any Good Army Training Film, This One for Sniper Elite Features Grotesque Damage to the Testicles
The series “13 Ways to Die” just took up the subject of Sniper Elite v2 and, though we’ve seen exploding testicles and other grisly slow-motion demises already, they weren’t presented in the form of a propaganda film from dubya-dubya-eye-eye, with a jaunty ragtime accompaniment. It’s a cracking good morale booster for our boys over there.…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhen a Briton Announces the NBA, the Result is Comedy Genius
When I run my mouth about international soccer, I sound like a complete and total imbecile. When a Brit does the same thing about basketball, it is 100 percent comedy gold. Riffing on the American tendency to force catch phrases into sports commentary, CPU vs. CPU comes up with a bathtub full of lines that…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2012 -
UncategorizedNHL‘s Gameplay Upgrades Sound Rather Similar to FIFA‘s
Going on about five years now, EA Sports’ FIFA and NHL series have been reliably acclaimed, strong-selling titles, a remarkable run for a video game genre and publisher so henpecked by hardcore gamer criticism. Both games have smart, motivated, multinational communities that greatly value evangelizing for their sport in North America and appreciate what these…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
Now This Is Some Serious Borderlands 2 Loot
No, it’s not the result of a customizable weapon. It’s just 2K community manager Elizabeth Tobey‘s dachshund, Pancake. Isn’t Pancake just adorable? The real Borderlands 2 collector’s edition won’t come with a dachshund to sit pretty in your loot chest, but it does come with a bunch of other goodies. Pancake is famous [dahanese via…
By Tina Amini Published May 18, 2012