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UncategorizedA Message From Princess Leia Is Hidden In Every R2D2-Looking Xbox 360
The special edition Star Wars version of the Xbox 360, which our pals at Gizmodo ogled last summer, looks like R2D2. Fittingly, it packs a secret message from Princess Leia, as you can see from this video that we shot of the unit. We haven’t found any other surprises. And we’re sure there are no…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Sony Confirms It has Shut Down SOCOM and MAG‘s Studio
As first reported last week by Kotaku, Zipper Interactive, the studio behind PS3-exclusive shooters like MAG and the SOCOM series, has been closed. Sony confirmed the closure in a statement this afternoon to Game Informer In the statement, Sony added that “Zipper has completed all work associated with its most recent project, Unit 13 for…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2012 -
UncategorizedMLB 2K Winner May Be an ‘Ugly Duckling,’ but He’s Still a Millionaire
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • The New York Post profiled Wade McGilberry and Brian Kingrey, the two previous winners of the Million-Dollar Perfect Game challenge in the MLB 2K series. McGilberry and his wife, Katy, have an 8-month-old son now, named Braxton. The couple chose to start a…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2012 -
UncategorizedBiff Tannen: The Undertaker Will Lose at Wrestlemania XXVIII
Listen up, buttheads. We’ve got a special edition of Biff Tannen’s Sports Almanac to deal with this weekend’s biggest event—and it’s not March Madness. Note: Information presented for entertainment purposes only. If you consult video games for sports betting advice, seek help. If you bet on professional wrestling, you are a complete imbecile and beyond…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Free Space Needle Level Coming To Angry Birds Space
Here’s a look at one of the new free levels coming to Angry Birds Space. It was Tweeted by the game’s creators. We should have seen this coming, given their obvious love for Seattle’s Space Needle.
By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
We’re Deadly Serious About This Week in Gaming Apps
Seriously, we’re not kidding. Were today two days from now you might have cause to question our daily selection of spotlight-worth mobile games, but I specifically set up the Gregorian calendar to make sure that never happened. If today were Sunday… well, then all bets would be off. I’d have a round-up of five popular…
By Mike Fahey Published March 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Hand Painted Sonic Shoes Have Impressive Details On Them
Reddit user lumpyheadedbunny drew these awesome Sonic 2-inspired kicks with graffiti pens. My first thought was that it must have taken her awhile, because you can see how much detail went into the drawing. They’re expensive ($350+), but LHB puts a lot of time and effort into her creations. Each pair takes roughly 45-65 hours…
By Tina Amini Published March 30, 2012 -
UncategorizedSimCity‘s Muddled Environmental Activism
A few weeks ago, EA pulled a bait-and-switch at a press event in San Francisco. My fellow reporters and I were there to see the reveal of SimCity, but after the brief game announcement, the event organizers cued up a series of sit-down talks by prestigious activists including Davis Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Truth…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Three New JRPGs Are Hitting The PS3, Courtesy NIS America
NIS America will bring three new anime-filled Japanese role-playing games to the PlayStation 3 this year, it said today. Legasista: A dungeon-crawler that will be out on the PlayStation Network this August The Witch and the Hundred Knights: An action-RPG slated for this winter in which you control a “100-man team” to combat an evil…
By Jason Schreier Published March 30, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Trampoline: The Newest, Bounciest Game Controller of All
We’ve been combining video games and physical activity for years now. We’ve had the Wii and its Balance Board, Microsoft’s Kinect, and the PlayStation Move. There are mobile apps to make your morning jog into playtime, and systems like Fitocracy to make your workout a friendly competition. But none of these is as fun as…
By Kate Cox Published March 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Investigating Claim That Used Xbox 360s Contain Credit Card Info
Microsoft has addressed yesterday’s Kotaku report that hackers could access credit card information in used and refurbished Xbox 360 units In a statement to Kotaku today, Microsoft’s Jim Alkove, General Manager of Security of Interactive Entertainment Business, said they are investigating the Drexel University study: We are conducting a thorough investigation into the researchers’ claims.…
By Jason Schreier Published March 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Reasons So Many Japanese RPGs Never Make It To The United States
Feeling screwed? If you’re an American fan of Japanese games, you certainly should be. Publishers in the East have not treated us very well over the past few decades. They’ve given us rushed and incomplete localizations. Often they don’t send us North American ports at all. Sometimes, it feels like Japanese game makers just don’t…
By Jason Schreier Published March 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Why SoulCalibur V Only Had One-Fourth of a Full Story Mode
Seeing where the plotlines for your favorite characters go. The shiny CGI ending sequences. These have traditionally been the reasons a person slogs through the cheap-ass boss fights in the story mode of a 3D fighting game. SoulCalibur V gave you neither and many fans of Namo’s fighting franchise—including me—were pissed at their absence. What…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 30, 2012 -
UncategorizedLong Lost Emulation Easter Egg Discovered in GoldenEye
GoldenEye, for the Nintendo 64, is one of the all-time classics of gaming. Recently, a fan uncovered an Easter egg Rare had buried in GoldenEye‘s code: a fully functional emlulator for the ZX Spectrum system, complete with ten games. Rare, the developer behind GoldenEye, developed a number of games in the early 1980s for the…
By Kate Cox Published March 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
Hello everyone, and happy Friday. Before we reveal this week’s best content, we’d like to enlist in the community to see whose comment deserves a gold star and top placement in tomorrow’s The Best Of Kotaku Last week’s Best Of winner was invadingduck with a suggestion for a positive end of the world scenario Post…
By Tina Amini Published March 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Maxim Has a Weird ‘Gamer Girl’ Fetish
This week, Maxim launched a contest to find its very own Maxim Gamer Girl. Like a pig hunting truffles in the wild, Maxim will scour the streets of America for the perfect “video game vixen.” Wear your “hottest outfit,” the magazine commands. “First come, first serve.” Clearly the magazine doesn’t realize that this is 2012.…
By Jason Schreier Published March 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Obsidian Will Help Develop Wasteland 2 If It Raises Enough Money
If Brian Fargo’s Kickstarter-funded project reaches $2.1 million, it will be co-developed by Chris Avellone and the team behind games like Fallout: New Vegas and Alpha Protocol. [Rock Paper Shotgun]
By Jason Schreier Published March 30, 2012 -
UncategorizedUse the Power of Physics to Bounce Through the House in Fibble
Developer Crytek, best known for the system-punishing Crysis PC games, surprised many when they announced their mobile project, Fibble Fibble, which became available for iOS devices yesterday, is a bouncy, cartoonish, colorful casual game. My immediate impression, on playing through the first few levels, was that this is what happens when Angry Birds meets mini…
By Kate Cox Published March 30, 2012