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Dying Boy Gets His Own Personal Virtual Wonderland Built by a Game Community in Just Four Days
Long-time Everquest II player Carri Hoover has a son not quite as old as the game is. Sadly, however, six-year-old John Hoover is terminally ill, with doctors estimating he has only weeks left to live. Last Tuesday, March 6, she posted a request to the “Norrathian Homeshow” board on the official forums, a place where…
By Kate Cox Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Obsidian’s Cancelled Project Was For The Next Xbox, Published By Microsoft
Obsidian’s ill-fated ‘North Carolina‘ game was slated for the next Xbox and published by Microsoft, according to sources familiar with the project who spoke to Kotaku today. Yesterday, after almost seven months of development, Microsoft cancelled the project, our sources said. Obsidian consequently had to let go of 30 people, as reported by several outlets…
By Jason Schreier Published March 14, 2012 -
ReviewsNaruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations: The Kotaku Review
It’s been nearly ten years since Naruto made its animated debut in Japan. Over the past decade Studio Pierrot has told countless stories of the young ninja and his friends, introducing dozens of characters into the ever-expanding sage. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations attempts to cram all of that into a single fighting game.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Battlefield 3‘s Biggest Map Is Guaranteed, A Great Multiplayer Tutorial Is Not
On an evening in San Francisco when the people behind Battlefield 3 showed off the June expansion to their big war shooter, I asked them about the future beyond that future.. and about a missing element from their past. After June’s Close Quarters indoor-infantry-combat-centric pack comes the fall’s Armored Kill expansion. The latter is all…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Baldur’s Gate Teaser Website Conjures a Countdown
It will be less than 24 hours before we hear more about the mysterious Baldur’s Gate project from developer / digital distribution platform Beamdog. You can stare the timer down to eerie music here at the teaser website
By Pierre Bienaimé Published March 14, 2012 -
UncategorizedTiger Woods PGA Tour Resurrects Shaq (Doing Kung) Fu
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Golf is probably the one thing people wouldn’t look silly playing when they play Kinect. Well, EA Sports will fix that, bringing back Shaq Fu (no, really) in this humorous YouTube promotion for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 featuring Woods and Shaquille O’Neal.…
By Owen Good Published March 14, 2012 -
UncategorizedIs It a Dead Ball Situation When MLB 2K12‘s ‘Zombie Player’ Walks on the Field?
If this is the end of MLB 2K12, I suppose we couldn’t say goodbye to the series without one final, terribly embarrassing glitch. Everyone, say hello to the zombie player, thanks to this video by YouTube user bobtrain. Zombie player walks to his position in the middle of play when you pull a double switch,…
By Owen Good Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Biff Tannen Gives You All of March Madness’ Winners—and Biggest Losers
What’s up buttheads. Need some help picking your bracket? Stop agonizing over useless statistics and half-assed talking head analysis. I have every single winner in the NCAA Tournament right here, so just do what I say and you can start spending that money right now. Note: Information presented for entertainment purposes only. If you consult…
By Owen Good Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Video Game Box Typos Are Now Officially a Fad
This is the back of the box for Konami’s latest survival horror game, Silent Hill: Downpour, which came out yesterday for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Spanish translation reads: “¿quien puede parar la luvia?” This means: “Who can stop the rain?” Except it’s not “luvia.” It’s lluvia. Two Ls. Like Capcom before it, Konami…
By Jason Schreier Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Notch Says He Doesn’t Just Change Minecraft Because He Feels Like It
Markus Persson thinks of himself as more of a programmer than a game designer. “I don’t spend a lot of time on mechanics,” the creator of the hit sandbox/adventure hybrid says. ” I play [Minecraft] more than I write it, because I want to make sure the things you can do in the game can…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect Portrait Art Is As Menacing As It Is Beautiful
Website Unreality Magazine has uncovered some beautiful portrait drawings of some of our favorite Mass Effect characters. The artist behind the series of portrait drawings—deviantART user Arkis—appears to have a strong taste for the popular BioWare sci-fi franchise, as one look at the gallery will tell you. I’m not saying that these portraits are perfect…
By Tina Amini Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Christian Allen Wants Your Money To Make A Great, Old-School Shooter That Publishers Don’t Think You Want
Christian Allen has a video game Kickstarter, too. And he hopes he isn’t doing it wrong. Tim Schafer did it right. That guy just raised a few million for an old-school adventure game on Kickstarter. But Christian Allen knows he is no Tim Schafer, no big-name game developer with legions of fans who love him.…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 14, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Hip Hop Gamer Raps About Prototype 2 For Prototype 2 [UPDATE]
If you were a video game reporter in New York, you’d know who the Hip Hop Gamer is. He’s the guy who walks around with a WWE Championship belt—except, he makes his interviewees wear the belt while he’s talking to them. (Hey, I’ve done it! I’ve just declined his offers to rap with him!) The…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 14, 2012 -
ReviewsA 14-Button Motion-Sensing Steering Wheel Only a PC Gamer Could Love (Or Use)
For any PC racing enthusiast that’s ever craved a high-end steering wheel setup but lacked the money / motivation / room to set one up, SteelSeries’ Simraceway SRW-S1 Steering Wheel is the answer to all of your problems, and the cause of a couple new ones. Traditional PC steering wheel setups require, at the very…
By Mike Fahey Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Show Me Your Gaming Rig and I’ll Show You Mine
Every week Kotaku‘s PC Gaming Lives block shows off some of the finest custom-made enclosures in our Case Mod of the Week segment. But not all computers are pretty. There’s mine, for instance. Now show us yours. Don’t let the small size fool you, my Maingear X-Cube is a powerful little machine for what little…
By Mike Fahey Published March 14, 2012 -
UncategorizedTera‘s Reign of MMO-FO Terror Reaches America’s LAN Centers
After a brief pause to terrorize a poor actor in his kitchen set, Tera spokes-maniac Bas Rutten takes the message of action MMO combat on the road. What surprises me most about this latest entry in the MMO-FO series of viral advertisements for En Masse Entertainment’s upcoming MMO release? I didn’t realize people in North…
By Mike Fahey Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
World of Warcraft Monopoly Puts a Fresh Face on Fake Currency
Monopoly gets a World of Warcraft makeover this spring, and when the biggest name in board games meets the biggest name in massively multiplayer PC games, no simple reskinning will suffice. Blizzard has worked closely with Hasbro’s USAopoly artists to create a true Azerothian real estate adventure, and it shows in the colorful numbered pieces…
By Mike Fahey Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
$10,000 Worth of Wasteland 2 is Brought to You by Razer
Peripheral (and recently PC) maker Razer’s CEO, Min-Liang Tan, is passionate about gaming. So are we, but we don’t have $10,000 to donate to the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter project. He does, and he did. Razer PR pointed me towards a post on Min-Liang Tan’s personal Facebook page, where he talked about becoming one of five…
By Mike Fahey Published March 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
One Gorgeous Built-In Desk PC, Courtesy of Ikea
Ikea is known for its low-cost, low-quality, do-it-yourself furniture. That, and its meatballs. Since meatballs make lousy computer enclosures, Overclock.net community member Kaxtos went with a Galant unit for the basis of his gorgeous desk-built PC. I’d say it was a wise choice. Nothing quite this beautiful has ever seen the inside of an Ikea.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 14, 2012