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CultureTotal RecallA Moment To Re-Experience The Amazing Intro To Full Throttle
Has it been a while since you last played Full Throttle? I’m guessing it has. Sit back, relax, and watch the intro movie from the game. I remember the gravel-voiced intro, the long shots of the road… but more than anything I remember that song that kicks in when Ben ramps his bike over that…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 12, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallBecause Nothing Says “Exciting World War II Airplane Action” Like A Flying Baby
Most everyone has some memory or another of 1943, the top-down airplane bullet-hell shooter to which we all lost a good deal of quarters. When I think of 1943, I think of things like “Difficulty” and “Insane Difficulty.” I do not, however, think of a flying baby. But in the Japanese ad campaign for the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 11, 2012 - CultureTotal Recall
A Red Dead Redemption Ghost Story to Chill Your Bones
They say Red Dead Redemption is haunted, you know. They’ve said it for years now—ghosts exist in the system, devils and spooks and specters and maybe even a class-5 full-roaming vapor or two. I’ve never encountered any ghosts in the game myself, but I’ve heard and read enough accounts that I’m willing to believe something…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
You Snow Nothing, Jon Know
Hello, Kotaku. It’s week’s end, and so here we are, ready to go out, be social, see people… and clear the decks before the spring video game rush arrives next week. Are you planning on getting Diablo III? Max Payne 3? Holding out for Future Soldier or considering Game of Thrones? Or maybe you’re just…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
You have any idea how hard it is to get off a phone call discussing options to install a heat pump, or fire insurance discounts, or school district taxes, and then pick up Prototype 2 and pretend you’re still an adult? Sorry, I’m going through house-buying crap right now. That’s right, I’m gonna be a…
By Owen Good Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
Welcome to Kotaku’s Toy Box
Kotaku is a video game website, sure, but we’re also really into toys. Action figures, LEGO, expensive statues, custom pieces, you name it, if you can play with it – or just put it on a shelf and regret how much money you spent on it – we’re all over it. To your right, you’ll…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
Robot Unicorn Attack Evolves into Something Even More Glorious
The single greatest thing to come out of Adult Swim since Adult Swim just got even greater. How could Robot Unicorn Attack get any better? Panda, Wolf, Gorilla, and Dragon. Yes. The sequel to the award-winning (probably) Flash, Facebook, and iOS game doesn’t screw with a good thing. It still features a Robot Unicorn, gracefully…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘A Steaming Pile of Mundanity’
Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. This week’s review of measured disappointment and constructive criticism includes condemnation for a widely admired brand in independent games development, and sympathy for Hitler. Minecraft Xbox 350 Released: May 9 Critic: ChodeyMitchell…
By Owen Good Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
There’s No Appealing to the Court of Public Opinion
If the folks behind Kane & Lynch 2 should be sued, they should be sued for something other than the “vicious vilifying” of the Chinese people. And they should be sued for a lot more than $1,585 dollars U.S. That figure would represent no more than 27 copies of the title sold at full retail…
By Owen Good Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
If Biker Show Sons of Anarchy Gets a Video Game, It Won’t be ‘Some Slapcrap Browser Thing’
Back in February, word passed that Sons of Anarchy, the biker-gang television series broadcast on FX in the United States, was exploring a video-game deal. It quickly followed that the talks might concern something less than the full retail release hardcore video gamers expected. Like a bullshit free-to-play browser game that no one can respect.…
By Owen Good Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
Atari Kills the Ignition on Test Drive‘s Studios
Eden Games, makers of the Test Drive series, staged a symbolic one-day walkout last year when Atari moved forward on plans to lay off more than half the studio. Now it’s moving toward washing its hands of all of it. Financial filings by Atari say the French maker of racing games is now considered a…
By Owen Good Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
Wal-Mart’s Hilarious Diablo III Product Description Reads Like a Sixth-Grade Book Report
We’re all looking forward to next Tuesday’s launch of Blizzard’s long-time-coming action RPG Diablo III. Every store has some sort of preorder going on, and megachain Wal-Mart is no different. The prices are about the same everywhere (though Wal-Mart does knock $0.03 off the $59.99 standard), so the key to get people to buy it…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
I Can’t Stop Looking At This Twisted Take On Super Smash Bros.
Witness Reddit user BansheeIndian’s take on Nintendo’s brawler Super Smash Bros. It’s terrifying. And awesome. Full image below (click to expand): A Smash Bros. Drawing I just finished [Reddit]
By Jason Schreier Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
Like the Playoffs, the NHL Cover Vote Drags On
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Nearly every title at EA Sports is being put to a cover vote. We’ve had contests now for Tiger Woods PGA Tour, NFL Blitz, Madden and NCAA Football. We haven’t heard what NBA Live will be doing, but it’s a good bet whatever…
By Owen Good Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
There’s a New Way to Pitch in NCAA Football
I’ve often felt that the recruiting simulation in NCAA Football could be a salesmanship trainer at some kind of corporate retreat. Unlike the free agency or trading periods in other sports video games, you’re not sending contract terms back and forth with the CPU. Money doesn’t talk here, you do. You have to understand a…
By Owen Good Published May 11, 2012 -
UncategorizedWatch Your Eve Online Character Float To Space And Back
EVE Online developer CCP bundled their players’ names into a pod earlier this week and shot it into the stratosphere, as near to space as they could get it. The weather balloon to which the pod was attached also had a camera on board. Earlier, we had amazing stills of the view far above Iceland,…
By Kate Cox Published May 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
Blizzard and Valve Stop Fighting, Make Peace over DoTA Dispute
Two of gaming’s best and most beloved video game studios are no longer squabbling about the word DoTA. The makers of World of Warcraft and the creators of Half-Life jointly announced in a blast to the press today that they have reached “a mutual agreement regarding concerns over names of upcoming products.” Peace in our…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 11, 2012