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This Is What It Looks Like When The Readers Take Over Kotaku
Today at PAX East, Kotaku hosted a panel where we allowed readers to “take over” the site. Here are some photos of how it went down. Taken by Chris Person Taken by Chris Person Taken By Chris Person Taken by Chris Person Taken by Chris Person Taken by Chris Person Taken by JP Speir Taken…
By Nick Vannucci Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
Biff Tannen Promises a Perfect Week This Time. Really, Trust Him.
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 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
36 Perfect Games Already Have Been Pitched in MLB 2K12
In a little more than two days since the contest began, three dozen perfect games already have been verified in the MLB 2K12 $1,000,000 Challenge, the game’s social media manager said about three hours ago. There’s a leaderboard up showing who the early contenders are to make an eight-man tournament where the grand prize will…
By Owen Good Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
How Old Can a Guy Be Before MLB The Show Finally Throws Him Out?
Jamie Moyer, at 49, is scheduled to start tomorrow for the Colorado Rockies. Only 11 other pitchers have appeared in an MLB game at age 46 or older. I was curious, how does a simulation like MLB 12 The Show, which prides itself on authenticity, handle age in its Road to the Show career mode,…
By Owen Good Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
Five Gaming Apps Enter, Five Gaming Apps Leave. It’s Your Anti-Climactic Week in Gaming Apps
Cliff Diving, cartoon references, futuristic racing, twisted puzzles and Activision making more money. Yep, just another Week in Gaming Apps. This week saw the release of Skylanders Cloud Patrol, giving fans of Activision’s toys-meets-games series something else to plug their colorful plastic people into, while giving Activision another revenue stream on top of angry parents…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Hygiene Products PAX Desperately Needs
What would happen if the readers took over Kotaku? We decided to find out. At our panel at the Penny Arcade Expo in Boston, we allowed anyone and everyone to “Take Over Kotaku” and pitch us stories on whatever they wanted to write about. These stories are the ones we accepted. In this one, reader…
Anthony Guzzardo Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
Hello everyone! Happy Friday! While I’m out and about on the Boston convention floor at PAX, you are reading this article, prepared to bring judgment down on the metaphorical heads of Kotaku readers. Or something like that. So if you want your favorite commenter (who is not you, or your alter-ego, or your other personality…
By Tina Amini Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Great PAX East Kotaku Reader Takeover Experiment
For the next hour we’ll be handing control of Kotaku over to our PAX East readers. They’ll be writing stories, suggesting images, moderating comments, and who knows, maybe one of us will get fired! Follow all the action from the PAX East Takeover Kotaku panel right here. Warning: we’re letting reader liveblog as well. This…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
This PAX East Billboard Blows Everyone’s Sick-Day Cover Story
Most of Boston’s PAX convention happens over a weekend, making it easier for working stiffs to attend. But it starts on a Friday, which can be a bit tricky for anyone with a day job. Most years, it’s probably easy enough to just call in sick and hope your boss doesn’t follow gaming that closely.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Crap-Ton of Movies Were Made Into Games in 2006
How many movie-based video games come out each year? Ask most people who play games and you’ll get the same response: Too many. Because most movie-based video games suck, get it? That’s true and all, but the intersection of Hollywood and… whatever the video game version of Hollywood is is interesting. How many film-based games…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Official Model for Mass Effect‘s Samara, Dressed Up As Samara
Today at PAX East, Stephen Totilo ran into a familiar face—Rana McAnear, the actress who provides the official model for Mass Effect‘s Asari Justicar Samara and her unhinged sex-killer daughter Morinth. He took a moment to shoot this quick video of her in her awesome Samara outfit. There’s cosplay, and then there’s the actual person…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
You Might Just Be Seeing Photorealistic Graphics Like These in Tomorrow’s Video Games
These aren’t photographs. They’re screenshots created via Brigade, a realtime CPU/GPU path tracer created by Jacco Bikker. Posted on the blog of Sam Lapere—who works for cloud computing company OTOY—the details and depth-of-field effects look amazing. Lapere claims that these results rival what’s possible on today’s higher-end PCs. If we’re lucky, the PCs and, fingers…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Free Mass Effect 3 Resurgence Pack Mixes Up Multiplayer Next Week
Bummed that the extended Mass Effect 3 ending DLC won’t contain any new playable content? All the new playable content you could ever want is right around the corner; you just have to believe in multiplayer. The Resurgence Pack brings a ton of new playable characters and two fresh new maps (thank goodness) to the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedIon Racer Stays Fun Without the Need For Speed
Though racers are a natural for a device with an accelerometer and no physical controls. Their drawback is how they handle speed. Tilting the device forward fundamentally alters your viewing angle, making fast-twitch reactions difficult for newcomers. Ion Racer (99 cents, iOS devices) a futruristic race game taking cues from WipEout, shrewdly avoids this problem…
By Owen Good Published April 6, 2012