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The Panel Discussion Dozen: 12 Comics That Will Probe Your Mind This Week
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Crossover: Find What Comics Inspired the Writer of Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
Part of Panel Discussion’s mission is to look at the ways and places where comics and video games intersect and here in Crossover, we’ll be talking to game creators about the comics stories and creators who’ve shaped their sensibilities. In our first installment, we hear from Remedy Entertainment’s Mikki Rautalahti, who—along with the dev studio’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 -
UncategorizedJustice League: Doom Delivers a Master Storyteller’s Final Achievement
It’s oddly fitting that a movie focused on the fracturing and rebuilding of the Justice League will be the last of Dwayne McDuffie’s work to make it onto the screen. Long a proponent of diversity in the comics medium, McDuffie frequently wrote stories that showed how people from different racial, psychological and philosophical backgrounds can…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Panel Discussion Starts Now
Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
EA Update Adding Security Protection to FIFA Accounts
Reports began to surface last year from players whose Xbox Live accounts were hacked after they played FIFA 11 and FIFA 12. Players’ accounts were being activated on Xbox 360 consoles that were not their own, at which point their credit cards were charged for large amounts of Microsoft Points, then used on FIFA downloadable…
By Kate Cox Published March 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Ask a Video Game Developer Anything … Call for Questions
Starting next week, game developer Jeremiah Slaczka will answer your questions here on Kotaku He just needs your questions, which you should ask him in comments section below. Here is his official bio, so you know who you’re talking to: “Best known for his multi-million unit selling franchises, Scribblenauts and Drawn to Life, Jeremiah focuses…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 13, 2012 -
UncategorizedThese Guys Hope to Solve the Problem of First-Person Melee Combat
First-person melee combat ain’t an easy thing to pull off in a video game. Anyone who’s played an Elder Scrolls game—from Arena to Skyrim—knows what I’m talking about. In Skyrim, the less you see, the better things look. It’s one of the reasons I suggested playing with a shield—the combat feels punchier if you can’t…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 13, 2012 -
UncategorizedMaybe Video Game Reviewers Are Con Men. Maybe.
He starts with a statement that is as true or false as you want it to be: “Nobody is seriously accusing any website or writer of accepting money from publishers in direct exchange for positive reviews.” He ends with quotes from Metal Gear Solid And, in between, in a post tagged with such words as…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Why Is There No Donkey Kong In Super Mario Galaxy 2? Because Miyamoto Said So.
After a game is finished and released, it’s always interesting to get a glimpse into what might have been, had not someone in the development process spoken up at just the right moment. Early in development, Super Mario Galaxy 2 contained a number of ideas that didn’t make the final cut. One such idea was…
By Kate Cox Published March 13, 2012 -
UncategorizedWTPT: The Nintendo 3DS is More Versatile Than You Think
The Nintendo 3DS makes all sorts of cute sounds, but have you ever heard them meshed together in a remix? No? Your day is incomplete, then. Fortunately YouTube user Jeesh123 (fun fact: “jeesh” means “pee” in Farsi) has uploaded a compilation of those sounds mixed into one glorious track. He uses everything from the Nintendo…
By Tina Amini Published March 13, 2012 -
UncategorizedDon’t Make Pokémon Angry. You Won’t Like Them When They’re Angry.
Well, you won’t like some of them when they’re angry. Check out this silly video created by animation group RedMinus to see what happens when you spend too much time teasing the goldfish Pokémon Goldeen. Goldeen Loves Guitar (Pokemon) [YouTube]
By Jason Schreier Published March 13, 2012 -
UncategorizedIncoboto is the Best Place to Be When the Sun Goes Out
The Corporation killed the entire galaxy. One-by-one the suns flickered and died, and without light or heat, so did every living thing in the galaxy, except for one small boy. And one small sun. Developed by one-man army Dene Carter of Fluttermind, Incoboto is a charming game about corporate greed killing everyone and everything we’ve…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mario Is A Hero To Some, And A Douchebag to Others
As far as Nintendo leads us to believe, Mario is a hero. He risks his life to save Peach time and time again. But if you look closely at his actions and compare them to Bowser’s, there may be some important details left out. This video that appeared on Cracked for their “After Hours” web…
By Tina Amini Published March 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Former PlayStation Exec Taking Over Microsoft Studios Europe
The man who helped usher in the PS3 for Sony will now be the Xbox 360’s chief evangelist in Europe. Microsoft’s announced that Phil Harrison—formerly president of Worldwide Studios for Sony’s PlayStation division—has joined the tech giant’s leadership team. Harrison assumes some of the duties left open by the exit of respected game designer Peter…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Says It Has Fixed Mysterious Xbox Gamerscore Disappearances [UPDATE]
Many gamers panicked this morning when their Gamerscores—records of everything they’ve done on their Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles—zeroed out. Microsoft says not to worry. They’ve resolved the issue. “For those experiencing Gamerscore issues, please sign out and then back into your profile to resolve,” the company said on its @XboxSupport account. The account has…
By Jason Schreier Published March 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Do You Prefer Your Heroes Pretty, or Pretty Ugly?
With last week’s release of Mass Effect 3 birthing a new generation of Commander Shepards, commenter TheForgetfulBrain wonders how ugly custom-made characters can get. Show him your ugly side in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I scoured the internet yesterday for some truly hideous player-made characters. To my surprise, it was a bit harder than…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Best 26-Minute Argument that Game Consoles Are Dying
Ben Cousins, who works for a company called ngmoco that makes video games mostly for cell phones and tablets, has a vested interest in telling you that PlayStations, Xboxes and Nintendo Whatevers are a few pistons away from horse-and-buggy obsolescence. It would be so easy to dismiss him, because game consoles are such impressive and…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 13, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Tuesday, the day when we battle to the death! Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves, where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Today’s TAYpic is another stellar contribution from TAY maestro pan1da7, as he turns the Hunters into martial arts warriors…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012