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Can We All Please Ignore Roger Ebert From Now On? Thanks.
Let’s stop giving a shit what Roger Ebert says about video games, and art, OK? We’ve tried like hell to make him into a punching bag, and neither he nor the rest of America gives a crap for the fact we choose to feel so insulted every time he says something about video games. This…
By Owen Good Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Week in Evil DLC
Downloadable content. Everyone hates it—but everyone buys it. Yes, even you in the comments, smart guy. Here’s a look at the latest package of extensions and pre-order bonuses designed to crowbar the last dollar out of your wallet. Can you still respect yourself if you buy it? Street Fighter X Tekken: The Dirty Dozen Available:…
By Owen Good Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘I’d Rather Be Sodomized’
Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. This week, Backhanded Box Quotes could have given over the entire feature to the fanboy backlash against Mass Effect 3. There are many day-one complaints against the space-opera RPG below, and also…
By Owen Good Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Tables Diablo III PVP in Favor of a Timely Release
In its continuing quest to release Diablo III sometime before the rabid fanbase burns the building down, Blizzard has decided to drop the game’s player-versus-player arena combat feature for release, adding it into the game via patch at a later date. Diablo III maestro Jay Wilson made the announcement earlier today via the Diablo III…
By Mike Fahey Published March 9, 2012 -
UncategorizedThese Guys Tied Game Controllers To Their Butts, For a Good Reason
Doug Wilson makes unusual games, like this one that you have to play on all fours, with a PlayStation Move controller tethered to your rear end. It’s called Dog the Wag It’s goofy. It’s not quite his best game, though it might be his wackiest. His best game is probably the graphics-less Johann Sebastian Joust,…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Biff Tannen’s Special Tournament Edition Gives You All the Conference Champions Right Now!
Hey, are you a sports fan on the go? Who has time these days to watch the big game, or bother with messy DVR, or boring highlight shows? With Biff Tannen’s Sports Almanac, we’ll give you the weekend’s biggest matchups before they happen, thanks to these highly accurate peer-reviewed scientific simulations of sports video gaming’s…
By Owen Good Published March 9, 2012 -
ReviewsMLB 12: The Show: The Kotaku Review
When you have done so much right for so long, to the point that very little needs to be changed, the paradox of your success is that what you offer risks becoming stale. For years, MLB The Show has been one of the most universally acclaimed video games, regardless of genre, and its improvements—while observable—sometimes…
By Owen Good Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Activision Wins Small Battle in Large Call of Duty Lawsuit
Publisher Activision took home a small victory in its longstanding legal battle against Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vincent Zampella earlier this week, convincing a Los Angeles judge to drop a fraud claim against it, according to a news report. Bloomberg reports that State Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle dropped one of two…
By Jason Schreier Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
One of the Worst Features of Mass Effect 3 Is in this Week in Gaming Apps
It’s Mass Effect 3 week, and BioWare’s latest is so powerful and compelling it even made it into a Gaming App of the Day post—and a fairly negative one at that. Oh well, at least we’ve got Snake Mass Effect 3 tie-in Infiltrator did not make a good impression on Evan Narcisse, so much so…
By Mike Fahey Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Console Companies Continue to Keep Inspectors Out of Factories
We’ve written many times before about the working conditions at Foxconn and other Chinese plants at which nearly all of the electronics used for gaming are manufactured. The short version is, its not great. Factory workers manage extraordinary hours for very little pay, living in cramped conditions. Following a spate of suicides in 2010 and…
By Kate Cox Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
You may have noticed that we’ve stopped running out daily notes. And you also may have noticed last week’s “The Best of Kotaku, This Week” feature. Well, this is going to be a regular thing. Part of this thing includes nominating a Best Comment of the Week. That’s you guys. We want to highlight the…
By Tina Amini Published March 9, 2012 -
UncategorizedShepard’s War Begins In This New Mass Effect 3 Trailer
Mass Effect 3 launched three days ago, but that hasn’t stopped publisher Electronic Arts from releasing new trailers for the sci-fi action-roleplaying game. Not that I’m complaining—this one is pretty awesome. Explosions, spaceships, and dramatic proclamations round out this look at Commander Shepard’s latest adventure, which developer BioWare released Tuesday for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3,…
By Jason Schreier Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Barbara-Freaking-Gordon Proves How Clever She is in this Batgirl #7 Preview
Back in action years after being crippled by the Joker, Batgirl’s biggest problem in DC Comics’ New 52 reboot seems to be all the men in her life worried about her getting hurt again. Batwoman doesn’t have to deal with this crap. After a tense confrontation with Batman in issue #6, writer Gail Simone explores…
By Mike Fahey Published March 9, 2012 -
UncategorizedShepard Makes A Last Stand Against The Infamous Mass Effect 3 Reporter [Minor Spoilers]
If you’ve played any of BioWare’s Mass Effect titles, you might have come across Kalisah Bint Sinan Al-Jilani, a reporter that you meet on the Citadel. She’s abrasive, though masked by her cool and collected reporter skills. Of course, Shepard has his/her own way of dealing with the conflict. Kirk was hoping that the reporter…
By Tina Amini Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Which Is The Best Final Fantasy? All of Them!
When people talk Japanese roleplaying games, there’s one question that comes up quite a bit: Which is the best Final Fantasy? Plenty of JRPG fans have wasted hours debating this question, each making his or her own case for which of Square Enix’s ubiquitous roleplaying games is the cream of the crop. It’s a stale…
By Jason Schreier Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Former LulzSec Leader a Troublemaker Both Offline and Online
It’s now a well-worn adage that online, each of us can be anyone. You recognize an individual by their typed words and actions. It’s possible to get to know someone very personally indeed, and yet know virtually nothing about their daily lives. Where do they work? What city do they live in? How do they…
By Kate Cox Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Resigns After Spending Campaign Money On PlayStation
South Carolina Lt. Governor Ken Ard resigned this morning following a longrunning scandal during which he admitted he used his campaign funds to buy iPads and PlayStation 3s, news outlet TalkingPointsMemo reports. According to the report, Ard spent $3000 on a PlayStation, clothing, iPads, and his wife’s cell phone bill. He spent a total of…
By Jason Schreier Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Fez Creator Says People Have Gotten His “Japanese Games Suck” Comment All Wrong
Phil Fish doesn’t want to talk about Japanese games anymore. Like, really. The Fez creator’s been smothered by haters after his controversial remarks earlier this week. But he does want to set the record straight on some things. Fish is sick of the controversy that’s dogged him, saying that it’s blown up totally out of…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 9, 2012 -
UncategorizedWTPT: Wario and Waluigi Paint Their 8-Bit World, And Then Dance Around It
Graffiti artists Edertron Onerski and Kid NES have teamed up to present this awesome mural. But for the sake of hilarity and a little bit of fun, they danced around in Wario and Waluigi costumes while painting it. Even Gumby makes an appearance to spin tracks for the painting/dancing party. The mural was made as…
By Tina Amini Published March 9, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Latin Inspiration Behind One of Final Fantasy VII‘s Biggest Songs
You’ve heard “One Winged Angel,” the memorable dark melody that plays during Final Fantasy VII‘s Sephiroth’s most chilling moments, but did you know that much of it was inspired by the Latin cantata Carmina Burana? Kotaku video editor Chris Person has put together this video showing some of the similarities between the two pieces.
By Jason Schreier Published March 9, 2012