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The Best of Kotaku, This Week
With Tina and crew at PAX East all weekend long, it’s my responsibility to gather together the best of everything Kotaku had to offer this week. That should explain why it’s a day late. It might also explain the rabbit picture atop this post. Before you all shout “furry!” and run for the hills, know…
By Mike Fahey Published April 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Lamborghini Bat-Shop: The Winners
Does the Batmobile have license plates? No? Does it even need them? The hell with it. A kind-hearted car enthusiast from Maryland supplied the basis for our latest ‘Shop. and we have 20 winners, plus overall winner RobotMoses! I love what you did to East Tremont! Totilo and I both had to read The Power…
By Owen Good Published April 7, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Cosplay of PAX East: Day Two
No way, Hannibal, I ain’t gettin’ on no plane with a crazy fool who don’t look at this gallery of cosplayers at Penny Arcade Expo East. This is the second day roundup of cosplayers at the year’s first big fan-attended show. We will have more tomorrow, so check back then!
By Owen Good Published April 7, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Is The Right Way To Cosplay Portal 2‘s Robot Pals
Here are two people I chased at PAX East. Their costumes aren’t perfect, but their cosplay concept is. They are the puppeteers of the two spindly robots from Portal 2 Do they have a panel loose or an eye covered the wrong way? I don’t care. They’re awesome.
By Stephen Totilo Published April 7, 2012 -
UncategorizedEarly Bastion Prototype Looked Very Different
You can see many of the ideas behind what would become indie gem Bastion in its original 2009 prototype, which developer Supergiant Games is showing off at its booth during this weekend’s PAX East. But it sure looks different. Before there were Gasfellas and Windbags, there were random bits of placeholder art from Dungeons &…
By Jason Schreier Published April 7, 2012 - Uncategorized
Aliens: Colonial Marines Multiplayer is Adrenaline-Pumpingly Good
If there’s one thing you can say to me to make a first-person shooter experience sound more exciting, it’s that it’s not a modern military shooter. In the case of Aliens: Colonial Marines—releasing this Fall for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and PC—that involves having different classes of aliens with acid-burning blood fighting against a…
By Tina Amini Published April 7, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Agonizing Death of the Greatest Perfect Game Never Pitched
T.J. Brida usually shows up 15 minutes ahead of his shift. This day, he was thinking he’d be late. He pulled on his work shirt, ran out the front door, got in his car and lit a cigarette, cursing and smacking the steering wheel all the way. T.J. Brida had just thrown 13 1/3 innings…
By Owen Good Published April 7, 2012 - Uncategorized
Far Cry 3‘s Multiplayer Mode Fails To Impress
Far Cry 3 is a game I’m very much looking forward to. But a few 10-minute multiplayer bursts from publisher Ubisoft’s upcoming open-world first-person shooter didn’t inspire the same feelings. I sat down at PAX East to play a round of Domination mode in Far Cry 3‘s multiplayer session with 15 other fellow journalists and…
By Tina Amini Published April 7, 2012 -
UncategorizedSave Your (Past) Self and Assemble a Super Time Force—Up to 500 Strong(?!)
This is Super Time Force by Capybara Games, and while retro-graphics platformers and rewind-time mechanics are not new concepts, what the studio is doing here with both looks new and cool as all hell to me. As the Capy representative explains to Stephen Totilo, when your character dies in the game, you’ll be given the…
By Owen Good Published April 7, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Original Plan For BioShock Infinite‘s Boys of Silence Sounded Awesome
The Boys of Silence are BioShock Infinite bad guys. The original plan was for them to make you pay for all your noise. The Boys were going to wait to attack the player, BioShock Infinite ‘s art director Nate Wells explained today during a panel about the game’s bad guys at the PAX East convention.…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 7, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Tour of “Rock City” with Rock Band Blitz
Rock Band Blitz is Harmonix’s next effort to revive rhythm games, a creation that uses a standard console controller rather than specialized music peripherals. At PAX East 2012, the team showed off video of the game in action and explained a little more of its genesis. Its first builds were too easy and, therefore, too…
By Owen Good Published April 7, 2012 -
UncategorizedCrimson Dragon is Basically Panzer Dragoon Minus a Letter or So
Shown off at PAX East 2012, this is Crimson Dragon and if it reminds you of a Kinect-based Panzer Dragoon, there’s good reason. Not only is Land Ho, which handled the PS2 version of that game, working on this one, Panzer Dragoon‘s creator, Yukio Futatsugi also is involved. If it’s not clear in the video,…
By Owen Good Published April 7, 2012 -
UncategorizedElaborate Transformers Cosplayer Stomps Around PAX East
Walking around the PAX East show floor, you’re bound to see some crazy cosplay inventions. From simple hats to elaborate costumes, these gamer and anime fans run the gamut. This Transformers cosplayer posed around the convention center as the lovable Bumble Bee. The real question, though, is whether he can actually transform himself into a…
By Tina Amini Published April 7, 2012 -
UncategorizedRaise Your Hand If You Prefer FemShep
They got 1200 Mass Effect fans into one room at PAX East this weekend. They—some folks from the game’s development studio BioWare—asked people to raise their hands if their favorite game was the first Mass Effect. Some raised their hands. Mass Effect 2? Most people raised their hands. Mass Effect 3? Few hands went up.…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 7, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Free Republic
There’s nothing cheaper than free, right? This weekend, there’s a free trial of Star Wars: The Old Republic. And we’re already seeing discounts on the upcoming Prototype 2 if you preorder online. Those deals, plus more than 50 others in both retail and digital sales, await in this week’s edition of The Moneysaver. Software •…
By Owen Good Published April 7, 2012 - Uncategorized
Dark Souls Hits PC in August, has “New Bosses”
There are reports circulating that the latest issue of German mag PC Action contains not only confirmation that hardcore death simulator Dark Souls is headed to the PC, but that it features “new bosses”. Everything else, though, remains the same. It’s apparently slated for an August release, and will be called the Dark Souls: Prepare…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 7, 2012 -
UncategorizedHawken’s Amazing PAX Trailer Continues My Love Affair With This Game
PAX has given us a new trailer for upcoming multiplayer shooter Hawken. Thanks, PAX. Giant mechs shooting the shit out of each other is always a lovely way to start the weekend. [via Pixel Enemy]
By Luke Plunkett Published April 7, 2012 - Uncategorized
No Total Recall Tonight
Due to the influx of things to cover from PAX East, we’ve had to put Friday’s Total Recall on hold for a week. Total Recall will be back on schedule as usual on Monday night with all kinds of cool blasts from video gaming’s past.
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 6, 2012
