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Something Brutal Happens Before Watchmen on the Cover on Minutemen #3
As controversial as it’s been, DC Comics’ upcoming prequel to the Watchmen hold have also piqued the interest of comics fans everywhere. The book I’m most looking forward to is Minutemen, written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke. The lives of the first generation of costumed heroes—who were in a team called the Minutemen—in the Watchmen…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Panel Discussion Assemble!
Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this
By Evan Narcisse Published May 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedMetalocalypse and Aeon Flux Makers Team Up On This Official Diablo III Animated Short
Well before the events depicted in Blizzard’s forthcoming Diablo III, there was a great war between archangels and demons. This short film by Aeon Flux‘s Peter Chung and Metalocalypse animation house Titmouse, depicts “a fundamental moment in the battle between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells.” Basically, it shows Diablo coming face to face…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Ocean Marketing’s Christoforo Sues Former Client for Defamation of Character
Paul Christoforo, best known as the man who set off an Internet firestorm after a spat with a customer went public last December, has filed a lawsuit against the company he worked for then. He’s going after N-Control CEO David Kotkin, the man who develops a gaming accessory called the Avenger Controller. Christoforo told Kotaku…
By Jason Schreier Published May 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mojang Not ‘Boycotting’ E3, They’re Just Not Going
Yesterday, the website MCV reported that Mojang was boycotting E3 due to the ESA’s support of SOPA, the Stop Online Patriot Act In the MCV article, Mojang’s Carl Manneh is quoted saying, “The organization behind the convention support the SOPA initiative in the US. We are against it, and have no wish to support those…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
The First Official Adventure Time Video Game Talks Trash This Fall
Pendleton Ward’s quirky cartoon sensation Adventure Time makes its video game debut this fall in Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?! for the DS and 3DS. I’m so, so happy. Created by the 2D masters at Wayforward Technologies with story support by Mr. Ward himself Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d…
By Mike Fahey Published May 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Sure Looks Like an In-Game Screenshot from Beyond Good & Evil 2
We’ve already heard that Michel Ancel’s Beyond Good & Evil 2 is in development, though it sounds like it might have to wait until the next generation of consoles for release. Here is an image posted to allgamesbeta described as an in-engine screenshot of the game. It matches enough with the look of that demo…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe First Facebook Game from the Creator of NBA Jam Is… Bubble Safari
You are probably one of three people. 1) You might be a fan of NBA Jam and NFL Blitz fun, over-the-top arcade games masterminded by a guy named Mark Turmell. If you had to guess what his first game for his new bosses at FarmVille juggernaut Zynga would be about, you’d probably guess “something about…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Meet The Awesome Russian Housewife Who Conquered a Video Game Made for Men
Tatyana Zinovieva lives in Kursk, Russia. She’s 59 now, younger in the photo here. She only started playing video games three years ago, after getting treated for leukemia. She’d been depressed. TV didn’t help. Video games did. “My husband was playing King’s Bounty: The Legend then,” she said, through a translator in an e-mail I…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Tragic Mission of the Portal Space Core
You know those really cheesy songs that you’re not supposed to like, but they’re too catchy not to? Jason’s familiar with the concept. For him, it involves his obsession with “Call Me Maybe.” And he’s not even embarrassed by it Although the context is something I can totally stand by—namely, anything and everything Portal—I’m not…
By Tina Amini Published May 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedI Hate You, Ski Safari. Okay, One More Game.
Defiant Development’s Ski Safari is one of those annoying-as-hell games that doesn’t have much to it other than an infuriating knack for making your finger hit the icon reflexively every time you even so much as glance at your iPhone. I see Ski Safari being compared to iPhone classic Tiny Wings quite a bit, and…
By Mike Fahey Published May 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedHelpful Tips for Surviving the Impending Robot Apocalypse
As much as I’d like them to, zombies do not exist, but there is another relentless force that with little prompting could one day attempt to subjugate the human race: Robots. Thankfully we have men like “Robopocalypse” author Daniel H. Wilson on our side. The folks at Epipheo Studios teamed up with Wilson to create…
By Mike Fahey Published May 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedOver 30,000 Dominoes Were Harmed in the Making of this Nintendo Tribute Video
Watching a master creation of dominoes fall to their death is both exhilarating and anxiety-inducing for me. On the one hand, this is what they were made for. All that hard work and meticulous arrangement was put in for this moment. On the other hand, what about all that hard work! And look at the…
By Tina Amini Published May 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Tuesday Watch This, Play This
Watch! A Portal space core goes on an important mission. Watch! Nintendo software and hardware as designed by 30,000 dominoes. Play! Fahey is addicted to Ski Safari on his iPhone. Watch! Prepare yourself for the robot apocalypse.
By Tina Amini Published May 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedSome Things in Starhawk Just Never Get Old
Space-Western strategy-shooter Starhawk launches for the PS3 today. We’ve had glimpses of space dogfights, shooting, and careful battle tactics before. But in all the chaos of space war, some things are just cooler than others. Some really big guns just have that screen presence that makes you cackle out loud every time. Some targeted weapons…
By Kate Cox Published May 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Guy Tried to Get His Girlfriend to Play A Video Game. Here’s Why It Didn’t Work.
So you’re lucky. Your significant other wants to sit down and play a game. And not just any game, either. The title that’s piqued interest is Just Cause 2, Avalanche Studio’s stunt-tastic open-world shooter. But Reddit user rfry11 found his lady love stymied by what he says are poor design choices and bad tutorials that…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Is Dragon Age III The Game EA Just Delayed?
It’s time to solve a mystery, or at least come up with a viable theory. Yesterday, executives at mega-publisher Electronic Arts announce a bunch of financial numbers. They also say that they’ve delayed a “key game” from fiscal year 13 to fiscal year 14, which, for those who prefer to speak English, means they’ve delayed…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Hades! Um, I mean… welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! Angry Impoverished…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Can Diablo III Really Bring Back That Old Diablo Magic?
Everyone has a Diablo story. Mine is pretty straightforward. When Diablo II came out in June of 2000, I plopped down on a computer chair in the attic and camped up there for months, ganging up with Internet friends to defeat Mephisto over and over again in hopes that he’d drop something gold and that…
By Jason Schreier Published May 8, 2012