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Remembering PAX East, in Splashes of Black and White
PAX is always a good time. You run into old friends, and meet new ones. You check out games before release, attend concerts featuring your favorite chiptunes bands, feast your eyes on impressive cosplayers, and play games and tournaments with strangers that share your passion. We saw a ton of this and more, but it’s…
By Tina Amini Published April 13, 2012 -
UncategorizedYou Can’t Help But Smile As Pinkie Pie Mercilessly Slaughters Her Enemies in Skyrim
Sometimes the Skyrim mods are so beautiful it’s almost painful. Take on My Little Pony mod, video copious amounts of slaughter, add a happy song and you’ve got a recipe for… cupcakes? To recreate this wonderous thing on your PC, just grab the Pony Weapons and Armor mod at Skyrim Nexus, or grab the weapons…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Star Wars: The Old Republic Expands Free Month Offer to Include Less Valuable Players
Yesterday BioWare made a substantial portion of Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s player base angry by offering a free month of play to its “most valued” players—those that had reached level 50 in the game. Today the developer continues to surprise and delight players by expanding the promotion as to not alienate people. While the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘A Dance Central Rip-Off’
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. Not much to tackle this week, but in video games, there is always something to complain about. Let’s look at a couple of games, one not everyone loved, and another just about…
By Owen Good Published April 13, 2012 -
UncategorizedHitler Recaps the Week in Video Gaming
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. Hitler Is Informed That The Godfather 2…
By Owen Good Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Trademarking a Dragon Shout May Be a Good Thing
There I stood, before the Greybeards, ready to learn the truth of my existence as a Dragonborn. Einarth stared down at the floor, and thus spake “Ro.” Strange runes glowed upon the stones at my feet. The last one looked like ™. If ZeniMax Media is going to trademark a thu’um—in this case, the most…
By Owen Good Published April 13, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Splatters is Outlandish, Physics-Based Fun
If I asked you the question: “Do you want to see a bunch of different-colored blobs being tossed around and liquified?” you probably wouldn’t know how to answer. It would be hard to envision such a crazy and admittedly poorly-described image. What if I said I was describing a video game that was part Peggle…
By Nick Vannucci Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
EA Says Warhammer-Looking Tanks Won’t Show Up in Command & Conquer After All
The above concept art from Command and Conquer Tiberium Alliances, which appears to be ripped directly from Warhammer 40k, will not appear in the upcoming social game, publisher EA has told Kotaku The image, which depicts Command and Conquer tanks that look just like Warhammer tanks, has been floating around Reddit and other forums for…
By Jason Schreier Published April 13, 2012 -
UncategorizedThree Video Games Helped This Guy Recover From a Stroke
People fortunate to survive a stroke face a hard road to recovering their full mental and physical capabilities. Canoeist Sam Chick found himself facing that journey after a stroke rendered the left side of his body immobile 12 years ago. But Chick’s been getting a more enjoyable kind of physical therapy thanks to special games…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Biff Tannen Predicts (Another) Riot in Vancouver
Hey, are you a sports fan on the go? Who has time these days to watch the big game, or bother with messy DVR, or boring highlight shows? With Biff Tannen’s Sports Almanac, we’ll give you the weekend’s biggest matchups before they happen, thanks to these highly accurate peer-reviewed scientific simulations of sports video gaming’s…
By Owen Good Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Xbox 360 Controllers Pay the Ultimate Price for Missed Perfection
Now two weeks into Major League Baseball 2K12‘s $1,000,000 Perfect Game Challenge, nearly 275 verified perfect games have been thrown, out of more than 400,000 attempted, according to 2K Sports. Which means, potentially, hundreds of thousands of controllers, discs and maybe even consoles have been hurled, too. That’s a far less dignified response than T.J.…
By Owen Good Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Max Payne Ruins the Week in Gaming Apps for Everybody Else
Here I was, having a great week (in gaming apps), and Rockstar’s Max Payne Mobile has to wander in and make things all noir and edgy—in bullet time no less! How can a game in which you snipe at stick people stand in the way of the smirking face that would one day become Marky…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
These Portal Rings Are Great. Now Someone Make Them Out Of Silver.
All things geek website Geekologie found an array of cute Portal rings from a 3D printing company, shapeways Although the company prints designs that you supply them with, and you’ll therefore have to fill in the details with painting skills of your own, the results can be quite nice looking. It’s little more than cheap…
By Tina Amini Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Registers “Super Mario 4” Domain Name, Hinting at Future Game
Nintendo has just managed to throw massive fuel onto the fire of rumor and speculation with a simple domain name registration. On April 3, Nintendo of America registered the website “supermario4.com,” as recently spotted by an IGN reader. Currently, navigating to the site only results in a redirect to Nintendo’s main page. Mario, Luigi, Peach,…
By Kate Cox Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Good Advice For Combating Video Game Addiction
While it’s easy to find mainstream media attacking video games for no reason, it’s also undeniable that video games can be an addictive hobby, especially for young children. So it’s nice to find the website iCyberSafe.com giving out solid advice for parents who are afraid that their kids might succumb to video game’s more negative…
By Jason Schreier Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Time To Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
Happy Friday, Kotaku! It’s that time of week again where you get to pass actual solicited judgment on your fellow community members. Who will this week’s winner of the The Best Comment From The Community be? It’s up to you but, as always, please reserve self-nominations for our self-nomination post. Which happens never. So, never.…
By Tina Amini Published April 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Did Tim Cook and Gabe Newell Meet Today?
Apple’s arguably the most important company in mobile gaming. Valve not only makes great games like Portal 2 but they also run Steam, the heavyweight champion of video game digital distribution. What would happen if they teamed up? We don’t know. But we think that the leaders from each company might have met. A report…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 13, 2012