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The Wii U Will Let You Download Brand New Games Too [Update]
It’s not just the 3DS that’s getting full-scale digital downloads this year. Nintendo’s new Wii U console will be getting the feature as well. This means that new games released at retail on the system, at least those published by Nintendo, will also be available day-and-date to download. Interestingly, games will be downloaded through the…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
“Blurry Photo of Three Hot Chicks You’ll Never Date”
Hello there, Kotaku. I’m glad to see you’re still alive yet another day after surviving our botched planned hump day processing festivities. And here we are at the end of another day, with nothing left to do but talk amongst ourselves. Before you get to chatting, here are some things from the internet: Magazine photographer…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
New Super Mario Bros. 2 Will be Nintendo’s First Proper Downloadable Game
The freshly-announced New Super Mario Bros. 2, for the 3DS, sees Nintendo entering the digital download age for real, as the game will be available as either a packaged product at retail or as a downloadable title (which is saved to an SD card). Other titles will follow. Strangely, the downloadable option will also be…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Won’t be Revealing the Wii U’s Price at E3
Nintendo’s currently holding an investor’s meeting to discuss its recent financial results, and among all the grim financial talk there’s some news. Like the fact that, despite launching worldwide in 2012, Nintendo won’t be telling us how much the system costs at E3.[Twitter]
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
UncategorizedMorrowind Really Did Have The Best Elder Scrolls Music, Didn’t It
Aah, just listen to it. It’s a theme we’ve heard many times, in many different games. These days, when I hear it, it’s chanted by a choir of (I’m assuming here) girthy Nords in horned helmets. But there was a time, back when I had my first bona fide Elder Scrolls obsession, when the theme…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 26, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Kotaku Mixtape Vol 7: The Golden Age of Lucasarts
There was a time, years ago, when LucasArts could do no wrong. They were unstoppable. Every time I got their catalogue, The Adventurer, in the mail I would instantly pour over every page and start saving my allowance. It was a magical time to be a gamer. On Today’s Kotaku Mix Tape, we’re listening to…
By Chris Person Published April 26, 2012 -
UncategorizedMichel Camilo’s Big Band Was So Caliente It Nearly Caught Fire
Here’s one for all the fans of latin music—pianist Michel Camilo is a far cry from the mellow melodies of Antonio Carlos Jobim… but that’s okay. Sometimes music just has to kick ungodly amounts of ass. Check out the above track from his album One More Once, which features a big band that was so…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Are Sexy Musicians a Product of Evolution?
Music is one of those things that feels truly universal—it’s in every culture, and it has existed in some form or other for thousands upon thousands of years. And yet it was something that evolved, just as surely as the humans who make it did. In a very cool article at The Atlantic, scientists Geoffrey…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 26, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Melodic Mailbag: Missing Hip-Hop, Musical Promotion, and Mega Man
Last week, I asked you guys to submit your questions and suggestions to the Melodic Mailbag, and you came through in force. I got some great questions, and a ton of suggestions for music to write about and listen to. I checked out everything you guys sent in, and while I won’t have time to…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 26, 2012 -
UncategorizedBecause All Video Games Could Use A Little More Tabla
Are you done having the seizure induced by this video’s thumbnail? Cool. Sorry about that. Okay: I love the Tabla— the Indian hand-drums that involve a technique more complicated than anything I could hope to master (they have their own language, for god’s sake), but which sound utterly unlike any other kind of drum. Many…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Electronic Arts to be Bought by South Korean Company?
Interesting. According to a report on Bloomberg, originating from the South Korean media, MMO publisher Nexon is interested in a takeover of Electronic Arts. While details were thin, the Bloomberg report did mention EA’s shares jumped 6% on the news. Nexon is the publisher of games like Maple Story Neither Nexon nor EA is willing…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Baylor Bear, Fighting as a Spartan
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • In the picture above, the 2011 Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III, widely expected to be taken second when the NFL Draft kicks off in 90 minutes, enjoys a game of Halo 4 at a Microsoft-sponsored VIP event in New York yesterday. •…
By Owen Good Published April 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Two Years Out of the NBA, EA Sports Puts Its Live Back Together
By the end of October 2010, everyone knew NBA Elite 11 was doomed. Though officially “delayed” that September, one week before the game was due to release, no one really expected it ever to ship, even internally. The ambitious makeover of the NBA Live franchise simply had too many problems to be published. That last…
By Owen Good Published April 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Homemade Portal Pinball Will Teleport Into Your Heart
Action & reaction. Angles and speed. Momentum and inertia. Pinball is a game of physics. So is Portal. And that’s what makes this homemade Aperture Science pinball table so great. Reddit user iliveon built the working table with friends and says the goal is to get a pinball stuck in each portal. It’s clearly a…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012 -
UncategorizedElijah Wood Stars in Next Season of Red vs Blue. Yes, Really.
Rooster Teeth started their popular Halo-based machinima comedy series Red vs Blue all the way back in 2003. What was actor Elijah Wood up to in 2003? Oh, just carrying the lead role in a little old top-grossing fantasy movie that won 11 Oscars. But nine years later, Red vs Blue is still churning away,…
By Kate Cox Published April 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
In Hybrid, Players Wage A New World War Every Couple Weeks
“Why call it Hybrid?” When I asked Hybrid producer Caleb Arseneaux that question, his response was vague. The game has a lot of hybrid qualities, he said. It’s a hybrid of familiar 3rd person shooter mechanics and new ideas, a hybrid of MMO-style map-conquest and instanced deathmatches… That ambiguity could indicate a lack of focus…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Two Ways to Make Horror Games Better? More Build-Up, Less Combat
If you ask Frictional Games’ developers, horror games haven’t evolved much since the genre’s late 1990s/early 2000s heyday where Silent Hill and Fatal Frame showed off just how scary a video game experience could be. Sure, titles like Dead Space and Frictional’s own Amnesia capture new glory for the horror category but other former heavyweight…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012