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UncategorizedThe New iPad’s Retina Display Can’t Stop Bullets
Apple’s new iPad has already sold 3 million units, and it hasn’t even been on sale for a week. This is important video game news, but I understand, there are a lot of people who like to pretend that isn’t the case. For them, here is video of a man shooting a new iPad. Not…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012 - Uncategorized
BioWare Takes Dragon Age Back to the Drawing Board
With Mass Effect 3 hogging the headlines for all the right (and wrong) reasons this month, BioWare feels now is the time to reveal that the Dragon Age series is in for what sounds like a serious bout of self-reflection. After the second game in the series bitterly disappointed many fans, and with it now…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallWhen French Musicians Make Love to the Video Games of the 1980s
Teaming up with French band Sna-Fu Grand Desordre Orchestre, artist Pierre Manry has made a clip for the group’s song Dream O Rama that is one enormous tip of the hat to the video games of yesteryear. If you like what you see, the band has alternate versions hosted on their site, like one as…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallAnd You Thought Mass Effect 3’s Ending Was Bad…
When people get all misty-eyed about the amazing, original Syndicate from 1993, they often overlook something. The game’s ending. Or, to be more accurate, its complete lack of one. Maybe they never finished the game, I don’t know, but I did. And it was a tough game. So getting to the end I was expecting…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
These Eyes Ain’t Just For Show
Artist’s Credit: Glenn Rankin/Smithsonian Institution Greetings, readers. Today marks the 12th Monday—and week—of the year. Yes, that’s a dozen particularly dreadful rings of the alarm clock since your bright-eyed days of resolution-making. I don’t count the weeks, mind you. It’s just that Google Calendar allows for the display of Week Numbers. Useful? Nah, just strange.…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Working on a Gaming Helmet, Glasses
Since 2010, Microsoft has been working on a gaming display system so small that it wouldn’t need to be sitting on an entertainment unit or even held in your hands. You could wear it in a pair of glasses. Or in a stupid helmet. The company sees two avenues for such technology: the glasses are…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
When Mass Effect 3 ‘News’ Goes A Little Bit Wrong
The Mass Effect 3 Datapad is a free iPad and iPhone app that lets people read about the game’s alien races and other lore while they are on the go. It also lets them raise their Galactic Readiness in their Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or PC versions of the game via a simple mini-game in…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
EA Takes Down Online Servers For Eleven Games
As has become something of a yearly tradition for Electronic Arts, the publisher is shutting down the online servers for eleven of its games. On April 13, EA will kill the online servers for FIFA 10, Bloom Blox, and MMA, among other titles in its library that it says are “no longer feasible” to keep…
By Jason Schreier Published March 19, 2012 -
UncategorizedBehold: Nintendo’s Most Pointless Peripheral In Years
I possess an official stand for my Nintendo 3DS. Hooray. That’s like bragging that you’ve got a Wii Speak for your Wii or a propellor for your telephone. The Nintendo 3DS Stand (first seen in Japan) is free with every copy of this month’s Kid Icarus: Uprising, and it theoretically makes the game more comfortable…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Twitter’s Got Those Better Mass Effect 3 Endings You’ve Been Looking For
Fan outrage over the ending of Mass Effect 3‘s been boiling over since the week that BioWare’s hotly anticpated threequel came out, with charity protests, complaints being made to the Federal Trade Commission and noises about closure from BioWare. People want to something else for their Shepards, even if they don’t know what it is.…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Free Apps Like Angry Birds Are Eating Your Phone’s Battery
Wondering why your phone keeps dying after a session or two of Angry Birds? One study says it’s because you’re too cheap to pay. According to scientists at Purdue University who examined apps on Windows and Android-based phones, free applications only require about 10-30% of the energy they actually use. On the flip side, the…
By Jason Schreier Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Banner Saga Begins Waving the Kickstarter Flag
In February, a trio of former BioWare vets announced a somewhat mysterious but gorgeously drawn new project, The Banner Saga. Today, they’ve unveiled a Kickstarter campaign for the game, which comes with some further information about their plans and designs. The initial plan for The Banner Saga is for it to be a DRM-free release…
By Kate Cox Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Let These Screenshots Tease You With the Sex and Power of Dishonored’s Alternate Reality
We already know from previous glimpses at Dishonored that Arkane Studios’ upcoming game have shown that there’s going to be swordplay and stealth. Now you can add sexy times to that list, too. The first-person adventure takes place in a weird alternate reality where the nearly submerged world is ruled by an island empire that…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Kid Icarus: Uprising Flies in the Face of Game Critics’ Expectations
It’s been 21 years since the release of the last original Kid Icarus game. That makes hero Pit old enough to drink. Let’s see if the assembled game reviewers gave him reason to start. Kid Icarus: Uprising takes the original heavenly action-platformer from the NES days and transforms it into a third-person shooter. That sentence…
By Mike Fahey Published March 19, 2012 -
UncategorizedFirst Look at Thursday’s Hunger Games Video Game In Action… Briefly
You’ll be able to play a Hunger Games video game this Thursday, if you’ve got an iOS device. The free game is based on the book and upcoming movie that depict an annual televised competition for survival between boys and girls in huge arenas in a ruined North America. The game is a prequel to…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Reader Fobwashed Is The Most Amazing Draw Something Artist I’ve Ever Seen
The Kotaku readers have spoken. Or, er, drawn? Gathered in the gallery above are your best Draw Something artworks. (Don’t forget to click expand to see the drawings in their full glory!) Two days ago I asked you guys to submit your best Draw Something drawings to compete with some of the best that developers…
By Tina Amini Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Battle: Sly Cooper Versus Yoshimitsu
When you love two things as much as fan fiction author slyfan1030 loves the Sly Cooper and SoulCalibur franchise, you can’t resist the urge to have them both at once. Like the more “romantic” version of such a conundrum, the solution is often more trouble than it’s worth. What I admire most about slyfan1030 is…
By Mike Fahey Published March 19, 2012