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A Children’s Treasury of NBA All-Stars Shrugging
Kevin Durant wonders what the fuck is going on. What is this bullshit? Kevin Love seems to ask. Eighty-eight points in an all-star game? Are you fucking kidding LaMarcus Aldridge? To reiterate, neither Kobe Bryant nor Durant can believe this shit. I love it that this is Kobe’s signature highlight.
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Pokémon Director Teases New Game Announcement This Weekend
News of the next Pokémon game could come as soon as this Sunday. Junichi Masuda, one of the original minds behind the popular role-playing game series and the director of Pokémon Black and White, the series’ most recent entries, will appear on TV Tokyo’s Pokémon Smash Sunday morning to make “a very important announcement,” he…
By Jason Schreier Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Man Who Designed Two-Flipper Pinball Has Passed Away
Steve Kordek, best known for revolutionizing pinball by adding those bottom two flippers that you can find on just about any machine nowadays, died Sunday. He was 100. [The New York Times]
By Jason Schreier Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Five Mobile Games Combine to Form Week in Gaming Appicus
Any one of this week’s Gaming Apps of the Day could easily crush you beneath their heavy metal feet. When all five of them join together, however, they’re one giant pissed-off strategic defense robot that’s got the Empire State in its sights. Will anyone survive? Worry not, fair citizens; the only thing this week’s apps…
By Mike Fahey Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
World of Warcraft is Good for Grandparents’ Brains
For many years, researchers have conducted various studies on the effects games and play can have on the aging brain. Games specifically designed to enhance certain kinds of thinking, like Brain Age, may or may not always have the intended effect. However, a team of researchers have found that perhaps mainstream games, not expressly designed…
By Kate Cox Published February 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhat’s So BioWare About the Next Command & Conquer?
During my recent interview with BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, we talked about the obvious things like Mass Effect and Star Wars: The Old Republic We also discussed Command & Conquer Why were we discussing Command & Conquer? More specifically, as I asked both men, why should we think of the upcoming Command…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Very Tall Tree Wins Free Copy of Mass Effect 3
EA wanted the hype for Mass Effect 3 to go where no game had gone before. So they flew ten copies of the upcoming game into the stratosphere by attaching them to weather balloons. The idea was to have frenzied fans track down the games and claim them when they descended back to terra firma.…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Why You Should Care About The Final Fantasy Creator’s New Wii RPG
Hearts exploded with giddy appreciation for Nintendo this week as the gamemaker announced it would be partnering with publisher Xseed Games to bring fantasy Wii role-playing game The Last Story to U.S. shores this summer. Nintendo has traditionally treated its RPG properties like adolescent children, keeping them inside as long as it can, so this…
By Jason Schreier Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Oklahoma Kills Violent Video Game Tax With a Sick Quicktime Event That Stabs a Shard of Glass Into Its Eye Socket and Suffocates it With a Grocery Bag
The tax on violent video games proposed by Oklahoma representative William Fourkiller has been rejected by the Oklahoma House Revenue and Tax Subcommittee. Fourkiller’s proposal had been modified to focus on creating a task force looking into video games’ relationship to obesity and aggression. It was voted down 5-6. In the minutes from the subcommittee…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedYou’ll Get to Dress Up in Ninja, Wrestler and Business Bat-Clothes With the Free Gotham City Impostors DLC
Players of Monolith’s Bat-FPS can enjoy a free update today which adds to the wardrobe options for the game’s Bats and Jokerz avatars, including some that don’t have pointy ears at all. The update also adds a new rooftop map to Impostors‘ environments, a much-requested join-in-progress feature and promises to improve match-making for the online-only…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Angry Birds Creator Wants to Gobble Up Other Studios
While Rovio’s already revealed the next galactic entry in their super-successful Angry Birds franchise, there’s still room for them to grow as a business. Right now, the Finnish company’s a one-property entity and even if that property is as ubiquitous and popular as Angry Birds, they’re still at risk if bird-flinging is all they do.…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedDon’t Worry, Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition Owners Will Be Able to Play Online Against Plain Ol’ Mortal Kombat Players
Netherrealm and WBIE proudly stride into Capcom territory—y’know, trying to sell you a game you already own—with the already announced Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition. Hrm. Here, they try to calm the fears of anyone worried about the MK online community splitting into two, with the game’s developers saying that two versions of the fighting game…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Is Mass Effect 3‘s Controversial DLC Your Fault?
Games are a passion and a hobby for millions of players worldwide. As is clear from even the most cursory glance at the comments on any post here at Kotaku, gamers feel very strongly about their content and its makers. They are also a business. An exceptionally large, very valuable business. The most recent ESA…
By Kate Cox Published February 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedWTPT: BioWare Fan Throws a Fit Over Mass Effect 3 DLC
A portion of the gaming community hasn’t taken news of the day one DLC, From Ashes, for Mass Effect 3 lightly. Amongst them is Francis, who you may know from his many YouTube videos, rants and other oddities. He is not pleased with having to pay more for a complete game. IT’S 10 AMERICAN DOLLARS,…
By Tina Amini Published February 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Sure Looks Like A Real Life Version of Skyrim
This Skyrim-themed music video is shot in what appears to be a real-world version of Bethesda’s open-world role-playing game. Where instead of fighting with swords, they fight with rock. Epic harmonies brought to you by the Brigham Young University’s Men’s Chorus
By Jason Schreier Published February 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedPuzzling Choices—Both Good and Bad—Define Furmins
Having seen enough of physics puzzles scored on one-to-three star scales, Furmins was going to have to show me something enjoyably different to get a nod in my App of the Day writeup. It did, but this game, by Housemarque, brings another unnecessary problem on itself in how it gets you to pay for it…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedPrincess Peach Does One Amazing Lana Del Rey Impression
With retooled lyrics, some sweet costumes, and a heavy application of lip makeup, the magical Jenny Bede transforms Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” into a tale of video gaming’s most heartbreaking love triangle. Sorry, Miss Del Rey, but if you’re going to name a song “Video Games” this sort of thing is bound to happen.…
By Mike Fahey Published February 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedResident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Will Let You Kick Zombies in Their Undead Junk
The next spinoff of Capcom’s survival horror series puts players in a three-sided warzone with two human factions gunning for each other and zombie-fied humans and beasts out to chomp whoever they can. It’s going to be an ultraviolent affair. Watch and see for yourselves, kids.
By Evan Narcisse Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Killzone 3 Multiplayer Coming Free to a PlayStation Near You
This week, Sony announced a new experiment in free-to-play gaming coming to the Playstation Network, in their most recent Blogcast podcast Killzone 3 Multiplayer will be available on PSN next week. This edition of the shooter spins off the multiplayer part of the game as a separate entity from the single-player campaign, bringing all of…
By Kate Cox Published February 24, 2012