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OK, Now We’re Just Being Trolled About Fez
How long has Fez been in development? I can remember my pal Sander going all OMFG showing me this video of the thing while we were goofing off at work. That was before I worked here Fez, the perspective-switching indie platformer, has wowed gamers for more than four years with its “long postcards” showcasing it’s…
By Owen Good Published February 26, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Probably Isn’t What EA Sports Had in Mind for SSX
In my demo impressions I suggested that you lay off the stick because the physics lends itself (themselves?) to oversteer. Some dudes in Europe took that advice to the extreme and this what they got: You can finish a race without touching the controller. Racing Whitehorn Mountain in the demo that released last week they…
By Owen Good Published February 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Yah Mo Be ’Shopped
Michael McDonald’s WTF appearance on a fight stick is so off-the-wall, it’s like a ‘Shop Contest entry in real life. But can this be improved? We’re going to try. Yes, McDonald, the singer/songwriter, member of the Doobie Brothers, backup singer for Steely Dan and former session pianist for Toto, was given this custom fight stick…
By Owen Good Published February 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves, your one-stop alternative for bantering, chatting, conversing and rambling with your like-minded colleagues here on Kotaku. Our subject today is the same as every day: video games. As for today’s TAYpic, gang, Pan1da7 is sweeping up the end of the month here. Don’t wait for a new picture, get…
By Owen Good Published February 26, 2012 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Kicked on the Curb
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. ActionTrip by Borislav Grabovic and Ure Paul published Feb. 20.—Read more of ActionTrip Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Feb. 20.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!!…
By Owen Good Published February 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
Boldly Gone: The Winners
The suborbital marketing stunt experiments of Mass Effect 3 provided the palette for our smart ‘shoppers, who took the game to the reaches of the universe—and absurdity. We’ve got 20 Kotaku ‘Shop Contest finalists inside, including seivewright! Leading off, TuxedoFox (20) came in with a brilliant conclusion to this space spectacle. mentuss (14) returned from…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Pokémon Black 2, Pokémon White 2 Coming This Summer
As promised, Junichi Masuda, the director of Pokemon Black and White appeared on Japanese TV show Pokémon Sunday today to announce the next entries in the Pokémon series. They are Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2 The games are scheduled to release in June for Nintendo DS systems, in Japan. DSi and 3DS players…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Rookie Mistake Most Video Games Make
Whether they won the club championship or they’re the sixth man on their Y league team, most recreational athletes would accept that they are, by definition and by depth of skill, amateurs. It’s not a bad word. But it sure feels like it in a video game. “Amateur,” “Rookie,” “Freshman,” “Beginner.” These are all the…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Amazon France Outs 10th Anniversary Xbox 360 Bundle with Three Digital Downloads
France’s Amazon.com marketplace is listing a 10th Anniversary Bundle for the Xbox 360, commemorating (by a few months late) the 10th anniversary of the original system’s launch. It runs €280 and includes digital versions of three full games. So, don’t worry, this configuration also comes equipped with the 250 GB hard drive to store Gears…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 DLC Delayed a Week on PS Vita
After getting “a number of reports” that the day-one DLC for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 was missing from the PlayStation Vita store, Capcom did a little looking and, yes, it ain’t there because of “last-minute issues.” The problem is with making sure that a PS Vita and a PS3 with the same game and…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedHere’s a Fight Stick Modded to Work with a PS Vita
There’s some input lag, and it doesn’t really fit with the theme of the game-anywhere “the world is in play” marketing theme of the PS Vita. But then again, its sticks and buttons just don’t have that clicky-click of a fight stick, either. So this enterprising Japanese modder whipped up a solution allowing the user…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
This Gallery Contains Spoilers and It Concerns Mass Effect
Today saw the leak of a batch of screenshots pertaining to Mass Effect’s day-one DLC “From Ashes,” which caused so much of a fury when it inadvertently hit Xbox Live early, and its summary paragraph tossed out spoiler details pertaining to the story. Here’s a gallery of five Mass Effect: From Ashes screenshots, which is…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
BandFuse: Rock Legends Announced as 2008 Calls, Wants Its Game Back
Do you have a guitar? Do you like both Coldplay and Lynyrd Skynyrd? Well have we got the product for you. BandFuse: Rock Legends announced itself yesterday, promising that you’ll be able to plug in a real! guitar and play your favorite hits, assuming those hits include both “Harder to Breathe” by Maroon 5 and…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Sony Removes the Vita’s Buggy Facebook App
Sony has removed the Facebook app for the PlayStation Vita, after receiving several complaints from users that the app crashed at its startup. If you’re not seeing the Facebook app in the store, this is why. “”We are currently looking into this to restore it to normal operational status,” Sony told Game Informer in a…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2012 - Culture
This Week in the Business: ‘PS3 Skyrim is Not Nearly as Bad as It Seems’
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “PS3 Skyrim is not nearly as bad as it seems.”—Todd Howard, Bethesda Softworks Game Director, saying that Skyrim hasn’t been a problem for all that many PS3 players QUOTE | “10 years out, we’ll be talking about retail as a museum…
Steve Peterson Published February 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Let’s Go for a Ride
This coming Tuesday sees the long awaited return of SSX. Only suckers pay retail, and you can already get the game at deep discount if you don’t mind having it shipped. There are more than 50 additional details awaiting you in this week’s roundup of The Moneysaver. Let’s go! Last one to the bottom of…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2012 - CultureTotal Recall
The First Mass Effect‘s User Interface Sure Was Terrible
I still think fondly back on when I played the first Mass Effect. It had so much going for it, and I was so excited about the game—I remember tearing through the campaign, loving the story, and tolerating the somewhat janky combat and technical issues. I also remember the interface. It was something that I…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 25, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallNo Rage Quite Like Asteroids ‘Roid Rage
We’re back with a second episode of Retro Rumble, where guys compete to get high scores in olllld (really old!) video games. This time around, they’re playing Asteroids, which is a good deal more colorless than you may have thought. I know I’d have ‘roid rage if someone kept calling me “son” while I was…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 24, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallWant Some Rye?
Course ya do. This line, from 1993’s Return to Zork, gets me every time. Put a couple of beers in me and I’ll start asking it of people who have no idea what I’m talking about, but fuck ’em, because if they don’t want any rye then they’re not worth my time anyway.
By Luke Plunkett Published February 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedWatch Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert Talk About Adventure Games for 35 Minutes
Surely you all know about Tim Schafer’s incredible Double Fine kickstarter adventure, which has now raised $2.1 million. Using the money, Schafer and fellow Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert will be making a new old-school-style adventure game. In the (awesome) video above, Schafer takes on the role of interviewer, talking with Gilbert about their shared…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 24, 2012