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Actually, This is German for ‘The Wanna Wanga’
Me Chaade Su Goodie | The person who got this tattoo is definitely not a weak-minded fool. (Fuck Yeah, Tattoos) Leaked Assassin’s Creed III Pics Reveal British Ambush In these new screenshots from Assassin’s Creed III, leaked today by the website All Games Beta, the main character appears to be ambushing a group of British…
By Owen Good Published March 2, 2012 - Uncategorized
Hybrid to Hold a Beta; Signups Begin After GDC
Hybrid, the third-person online shooter set to release on Xbox Live Arcade this year, will have a public beta with signups beginning shortly after the end of GDC, which is next week. “Gamers will finally get to experience our innovative ‘combat focused movement’ for themselves,” Developer 5th Cell said in a statement.
By Owen Good Published March 2, 2012 - Uncategorized
Xbox 360 Mass Effect 3 Can’t Import Your Saved Game From the Cloud
EA has warned Xbox 360 gamers that their Mass Effect 3 saved games won’t import if they’re stored in the 360’s data cloud. They’ll have to be located on or transferred from the console on which they were created.
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 2, 2012 -
UncategorizedTecmo Super Bowl‘s World Championships are Tomorrow, and NFL Films Will Be There
• The world’s largest Tecmo Super Bowl tournament is tomorrow in Madison, Wis., featuring a field of 178 players. TecmoBowl.org also tells Kotaku that NFL Films will be present, apparently for a feature sometime later about video gaming and football. The event will be livestreamed and liveblogged from TecmoBowl.org’s official tournament page. The action begins…
By Owen Good Published March 2, 2012 -
UncategorizedBiff Tannen Delivers the Stone Cold Sure Things in Sports
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 2, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Video Game That Survived a Flood
Jake Kazdal did not go to work on Thursday expecting a water main to break over his head—or whatever it was that sent water cascading into his offices while his team was working on their video game. Video game development and floods don’t mix. Not very well. But lucky for Jake Kazdal, he and his…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 2, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Box Full of Pizza-Flavored Gaming Apps, With Frogs on the Side
Including a game called Pizza Vs. Skeletons in this week’s lineup of featured Gaming Apps of the Day seemed like a good idea, until Friday afternoon rolled around. Now I’m so hungry I could eat a deep-fried frog. Hold the unhealthy flies; I’m watching my vitality. Seriously though, I’m going to have to have a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 2, 2012 - Uncategorized
Research Finds That Winning Makes You Mean
Apparently, being a gracious victor in a competitive situation really is hard to do. Everyone can remember an elementary school teacher cautioning kids against being either sore losers or bad winners. A new study out of Ohio State University finds that perhaps there are reasons being a bad winner is so common. Researchers found that…
By Kate Cox Published March 2, 2012 - Uncategorized
Hell Yes, 100-Hour Video Games Are Worthwhile
You wanna know a really good way to piss people off? You could try telling them that 100-hour video games are a waste of time. If you do that, expect what you might call an editorial beat-down from one Jason Killingsworth. The Edge Magazine features editor has ripped into journalist Michael Thomsen for the latter’s…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 2, 2012 - Uncategorized
Top Colleges for Game Design in North America
For the third year in a row, among its other rankings of colleges and universities in the North America, the Princeton Review has ranked the top game design programs. Video games in all their forms and genres continue to become ever more mainstream, and the business and industry making them continues to grow along with.…
By Kate Cox Published March 2, 2012 - Uncategorized
Tales of the RPG I Just Couldn’t Care About
Once upon a time there was a role-playing game. It had cool graphics and a fast-paced battle system. It was filled with mysteries and plot twists. Things were good. One day, the role-playing game started to feel kinda sluggish. Its characters weren’t all that appealing. Its battles felt less like exciting, strategic brawls and more…
By Jason Schreier Published March 2, 2012 -
UncategorizedFinally, Some Real Footage of Sleeping Dogs
Undercover cop and protagonist Wei Shen of Sleeping Dogs—previously known as True Crime: Hong Kong—is on assignment in Hong Kong as an undercover cop. Fronting as a deported man come at long last back to Hong Kong, Wei Shen is on a mission to take down the local triad organization by the name of Sun…
By Tina Amini Published March 2, 2012 -
Uncategorized“Lydia NO!” Brings Skyrim‘s Most Beloved Glitch to Life
It’s bad enough when one of Skyrim‘s giants sends your character flying high into the air, doomed to a fate as the centerpiece for a fresh new crater. When it happens to Skyrim’s most famous AI companion — actually that’s quite all right. Adobe After Effects master and creator of the messiest Falcon Punch ever,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 2, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nintendo 3-0 This Year Against Patent Trolls
A company like Nintendo faces lawsuits with some regularity. The complexities of the U.S. patent system leave plenty of room for legitimate inventors and patent trolls alike to file infringement suits against whomever they wish. In 2010, IA Labs LLC, a company based in Potomac, Maryland, filed suit against Nintendo over the Wii Fit Balance…
By Kate Cox Published March 2, 2012 -
UncategorizedHoly @!#?@! Man Spends 68.5 Hours Playing Single Game of Q*Bert
When most of us think of a long session spent playing a single game, we think of spending a day or maybe a weekend immersed in story or competition. Eight or ten hours, maybe more, spent on the sofa or at a PC while the player loses track of time. One man, this morning, just…
By Kate Cox Published March 2, 2012 -
UncategorizedWTPT: Adventure Time Intro Sequence Just Made My Heart Stop and Start Again
I’m a huge geek for Adventure Time. And like any true, dedicated geek, I want to see one of my favorite shows plastered everywhere. Even my iPhone background is of Jake. Feel free to steal it, because it is awesome. Reddit user ungivenglory is also a big fan of Adventure Time, and he also wants…
By Tina Amini Published March 2, 2012 -
UncategorizedBowser Is Evil In The First Few Minutes Of Mario Party 9
We’ve recorded the intro scene of Mario Party 9, the ninth installment in Nintendo’s popular multiplayer series that will be out on March 11 for Wii. Lots of Bowser’s minions make an appearance, including a Shy Guy, a Lakitu, and even an adorable little Wiggler. Check it out.
By Jason Schreier Published March 2, 2012 -
UncategorizedThey Need To Be Fed to the Monster at the End
They Need to be Fed is, aside from being a mouthful to remember and say, a gravity-based puzzle platformer. Only in this case, gravity doesn’t necessarily apply in the way you feel that it should. Rather, each little center of mass — the blocks from which the player’s avatar needs to leap — seems to…
By Kate Cox Published March 2, 2012 -
UncategorizedMass Effect 3‘s Launch Trailer Launches, Before the Game’s Launch
Mass Effect 3 will be out next week, but launch trailers don’t wait for games to launch. Here’s the game’s launch trailer today. Enjoy. We’ll have plenty more about the game, including a review, next week.
By Stephen Totilo Published March 2, 2012
