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UncategorizedGDC Notebook: Day 3: The Death of Consoles And/Or Their Rebirth
By Wednesday, the Game Developers Conference is really happening. It ramps up slowly every year. You get your mobile games panels and your social gaming talks on Monday and Tuesday. Indie developers dream and inspire for crowds of their peers. Then comes Wednesday and things get smashingly busy. Big-name game developers start pulling in crowds.…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Your Nit-Picky, Paranoid Playstyle Teaches Civilization‘s Creator How to Make Games
For as long as there’ve been video games, there’ve been attempts to classify the various types of people who play them. It’s a bit of a parlor game that reveals bits of human behavior. What do you call the person who tries to parse a game’s inner workings? Legendary designer Sid Meier’s coined his own…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Video Games Are a Harsh Mistress to Players with OCD
Presented with a vast array of collectibles and achievements, most gamers have no problem skipping the items and accolades and moving on. Gamers with obsessive-compulsive disorder, on the other hand… I’ll just let commenter Daemon_Gildas explain in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. God, I fucking hate being a gamer with OCD. I just finished Super…
By Mike Fahey Published March 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedFirst Angry Birds Space Gameplay Footage Debuts from Orbit
The newest entry into the Angry Birds franchise really, really means it about being in space. The launch announcement for Angry Birds Space came today from the International Space Station, in orbit above Earth. In the video above, NASA astronaut Don Petit explains some of the physics of how angry birds can launch an assault…
By Kate Cox Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
When the last enemy gives his life for whatever pointless cause he was defending, we’ll push the bodies aside to make room for a little video game discussion in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Snufkin seems to think that his mashup of this month’s TAY art and Skyrim was a bad idea. I don’t…
By Mike Fahey Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Fighting, Revenge, and a Double Dose of Fun!? It’s Nintendo Download Time
Two fighting games, a PopCap puzzler, and a minigolf game that’s trying way too hard to catch your attention? There’s only one place such a diverse lineup could thrive. No WiiWare this week? What am I to do? I already own The King of Fighters ’97 in various forms, so the Virtual Console version holds…
By Mike Fahey Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Ultima Online, EverQuest and World of Warcraft Earn Their Place in the MMO Hall of Fame
The MMO Hall of Fame was created to recognize massively multiplayer online games from 1996 on up for bringing “years of excitement to millions of fans”. Which games made it into the inaugural class of 2012? Those first three come as absolutely no surprise to anyone. Ultima Online put MMOs on the map. EverQuest took…
By Mike Fahey Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
From Skyrim to Lollipop Chainsaw, This Lady Does It All
Earlier this week, Kotaku attended an event for upcoming zombie game Lollipop Chainsaw. At the event, the game’s heroine, Juliet, was there in the flesh. You might know her better as cosplayer Jessica Nigri. The 21 year-old Nigri has a been cosplaying since the 2009 Comic Con. Whether it be Skyrim, Gears of War, or…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedEvil Robot George Washington Is One of BioShock Infinite‘s Big Villains
Meet the Motorized Patriot. This creepy, Washington-faced automaton will try to mow you down with his gatling gun in the first-person shooter BioShock Infinite, which will be out October 16 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. He’s one of the Heavy Hitters, a group of enemies that the team says will “provide a unique…
By Jason Schreier Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Cracking the Vita: A Hacker Speaks
Among hackers and modders, Sony’s PSP is a favorite for its hack-ability. Depending on one’s knowledge, the portable console can be altered to play custom games and programs (homebrews) as well as pirated games. Taking all it’s learned from the weaknesses of the PSP, Sony developed the PS Vita with safeguards against such hacks and…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Goodbye Winter Food! It’s Been…Delicious
It really feels like spring here in Osaka—finally! Flowers starting to bud, bees buzzing, and birds chirping. But that also means, no more winter food. Many dishes in Japan are seasonal. I grew up in Texas, and yes, we ate seasonal food (I think). Japanese food is even more seasonal than what I had as…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Japan’s Newest RPG Hero Is Unemployed
A strong innocent youth with a thirst for adventure, a soldier with a sense of duty and honor, an outcast warrior… The heroes of the fantasy RPGs of yesteryear have always been people of strong moral fiber and a will to stand up and fight. Now, game developer e-smile in their new game Ore-ni Hatarakette…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Lollipop Chainsaw Reveals Skimpy Outfits
Upcoming action game Lollipop Chainsaw features a slew of special outfits. Let’s have a look. Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 Japanese “Premium Editions” come with an array of special features—most notably outfits. The PS3 version gets “Cutie Waitress” and “Multi-Boarder Bikini” outfits. The Xbox 360 gets pink a “Sexy Rider Suit” and a “Shell…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Man Bought Fake iPhone. Man Got Angry. Man Killed Two People.
In China, fake electronics are everywhere. The whole place is packed with them. But increasingly, folks in China don’t want to own fakes. They want to own the real deal. Chinese news is reporting that a man in Henan Province desperately wanted an iPhone; he found what he thought was a real one at a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
What Japanese Game Companies Have Done for Japan Since the Quake
March 11th this year will mark the one-year anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. Since that time, a great deal of time effort and money has been offered for the rebuilding of the North-Eastern area of Japan from all parts of the world. Including the gaming world. Weekly Famitsu has gathered reports from numerous major…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Game Console Destruction Led to Insane Car Chase
“A man destroyed a game console and escaped by car,” the caller told cops. What started as a routine police call turned into much more, with the suspect evading thirty patrol cars. All over a broken game machine! Thirty-five year old Yoshihiro Kubota, who works as a car salesman, apparently took off after smashing a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Lupin the Third Is Ready to Steal Your Television
Anime Lupin the Third, one of the greatest things ever, is returning to television with a new series. It’s the first new Lupin anime series on TV in 27 years. Dubbed Lupin the Third: A Woman Called Fujiko Mine, the anime follows the exploits of Fujiko Mine, the anime’s iconic female character. This new episodes…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
How Drugs Could Kill the Japanese Internet
There are Japanese websites. There are Japanese blogs. But at the heart of the country’s internet and internet culture, one destination stands alone: 2channel. In Japan, the vast majority of game related culture and news first appears on 2channel, the country’s largest bulletin board, and then disseminates to other Japanese sites and blogs. And it’s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012
