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UncategorizedAmoebattle Is Loaded With Smart and Challenging Touch-Screen Strategy
A touch-screen should work well with real-time strategy games, you know? RTS games require a good overhead view, the ability to quickly flick between units, and a ready batch of hotkeys and functions. The iPad in particular is uniquely suited to do all of those things; it just takes the right game. Amoebattle, a terrific…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 11, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Song Built From the Sounds of Skyrim
We’ve seen more than our fair share of covers of Skyrim‘s bombastic theme music over the past six months. Now it’s time for a little something different: an original song pieced together using sounds recorded from the Xbox 360 version of the game. Through creative use of audio layering and filters, Peter “Flash! Bang!” Sneddon…
By Mike Fahey Published April 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
StarCraft II Ladder Enters Its Seventh Season
The real-time strategy game’s official multiplayer mode is now up to season seven, Blizzard announced today. Rankings will be reset once again. So now’s your chance to prove to the world that you deserve better than Bronze. [Blizzard]
By Jason Schreier Published April 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
Peter Molyneux Explains Why He Left Lionhead and Microsoft to go Indie
Game designer Peter Molyneux surprised many when he announced his departure from Microsoft last month. Molyneux is best known for heading up the Fable franchise and for his ambitious, unusual game ideas, both the successful and the cancelled Speaking with Eurogamer, Molyneux finally explained why he chose to leave Microsoft when he did, and why…
By Kate Cox Published April 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
Aaron Rodgers, Cam Newton Headline Madden 13 Cover Finalists
Your four Madden 13 cover vote finalists are Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, San Francisco 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis, and Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson. Who do you want cursed the most? [@AdamSchefter]
By Jason Schreier Published April 11, 2012 -
UncategorizedWreckateer Is Like A Kinect Version Of Angry Birds
Here’s some video footage of Wreckateer, an upcoming Xbox Live game for Kinect that requires you to smash and destroy castles by moving around your body. I found the game at PAX East last weekend and thought it looked interesting enough to record. There’s just something about wanton destruction that tickles that section of my…
By Jason Schreier Published April 11, 2012 -
UncategorizedWitness ‘The World’s Premiere Barbecue Defense Simulator’
Part tower defense game, part Tetris, Go Home Dinosaurs is many things. Educational, it is not, despite it’s depiction of the extinction of dinosaurs. Let’s not its scientific inaccuracies against it, because it looks like a fun game. In this video that we shot last weekend at PAX East, Go Home‘s lead designer, Eitan Glinert…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Wednesday! Get rid of your limbs! 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! Feast…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 11, 2012 -
UncategorizedEx-Massive Attack Producer And Batman Composer Unite for Halo 4 Soundtrack
A composer behind movies like The Dark Knight and a former member of the triphop band Massive Attack will unite for the Halo 4 soundtrack, according to a report today. Edge reports that Neil Davidge, best known as a former producer of the experimental band Massive Attack, has signed on to compose the soundtrack for…
By Jason Schreier Published April 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Better Business Bureau Says Yes, Mass Effect 3 Was Falsely Advertised
Fans upset with the outcome of Mass Effect 3 have been crying “false advertising” since the get go, arguing that the ability to “completely shape” their experience as promised by EA and BioWare never materialized. According to the Better Business Bureau’s Majorie Stephens, they were right. In a posting on the consumer protection organization’s Consumer…
By Mike Fahey Published April 11, 2012 -
ReviewsFez: The Kotaku Review
The first thing that appealed to me about Fez, an independent puzzle platforming game developed by Polytron, was how adorable it was. If my childhood proved anything, it was that eight bits of detail can still make me squee with delight. I instantly knew that I would need a plushie version of Gomez, the main…
By Tina Amini Published April 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
All Signs (and Bows) Point to Crysis 3 [Update]
It started with a teased announcement last month, blossomed into a vaguely-hinty Swedish video game magazine cover, and coalesced into an alleged Google listing for the game on EA’s Origin. There’s no confirmation, but it’s beginning to look a lot like Crysis 3. Update: Now with confirmation! The discussion began on NeoGAF (as many do)…
By Mike Fahey Published April 11, 2012 - Kotaku East
Do Not Share Resident Evil 4 Online in Japan. The Cops Might Get You.
Heck, do not share anything online in Japan. The Hyogo Prefecture cyber police nabbed a 34 year-old man for doing just that. On Jan. 26, he uploaded an episode of anime Toaru Majutsu no Index II as well as the PC version of Resident Evil 4 via closed source Share software. The police picked up…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 11, 2012 - Kotaku East
Report: Peeping Toms Targeted Cosplayers
Cosplayers have it rough. It’s not simply coming up with the outfits and posing for all those pics. It’s also the jerkwads they have to deal with. Of course, not all cosplay photographers are bad people—many are very good people. But according to Japan’s Weekly Jitsuwa, there was apparently a “tousatsu team” (盗撮チーム) or “Peeping…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 11, 2012 - Kotaku East
She’s a Model, She’s Famous, She’s in Pokemon
Every summer there’s a new Pokemon feature film in Japan. And every Pokemon film seems to rope in a big celebrity to do voice work. In the past, Akihiro Miwa and Shoko Nakagawa lent their talents to the flicks. For the upcoming flick, popular Japanese model Rola will be voicing “Marine”, a young girl Ash…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 11, 2012 -
Kotaku EastThis 3DS Game Still Looks Bananas
Guild 01 is an upcoming 3DS game made by four different creators. It’s not really “one game” per se, but four games. The games include Kaiho Shojo, a shooting game from Goichi Suda. There’s also Rental Bukiya de Omasse—a game in which you are an arms dealer. Then there’s Air Porter, a airport baggage simulator.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 11, 2012 - Kotaku East
It’s Like My Little Pony, But with Evangelion
You are looking at some of the strangest Neon Genesis Evangelion products ever released: Evangelion branded mini toy horses. Neon Genesis Evangelion is an iconic Japanese manga and anime that launched in the mid-1990s. The Italian inflatable Rody toy is teaming up with apocalyptic anime Neon Genesis Evangelion for mini Rody horses made to look…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 11, 2012 - Kotaku East
Cop Flashed a Schoolgirl While Dressed…As a Schoolgirl
Cosplay is a fine hobby. Heck, if you are into cross-dressing, that’s fine—who am I to judge? But flashing people is not cool. Flashing schoolgirls is definitely not cool. And neither is flashing schoolgirls while dressed as a schoolgirl. According to Japanese media reports, a 37 year-old policeman was arrested for exposing his genitals to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 11, 2012