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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 - Uncategorized
Next Week’s Rock Band Wonders: Do You Like Huey Lewis and the News?
Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in ’83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really…
By Mike Fahey Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Why Do Text-Heavy Games Make Reading So Painful?
In today’s short-but-sweet installment of Read Up on Kotaku, commenter RevRain wonders why developers spend days filling their games with tomes of ancient lore without putting nearly as much effort into delivering a pleasant reading experience. A lot of games require you to read lots of text be it in a form of a mystic…
By Mike Fahey Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
And, lo, there came a day when Kotaku‘s official forum descended upon the world of Man. Its name came to be known as Talk Amongst Yourselves and it was found to be as lively a place for talk and sharing of video game insight as any throughout the land. Speak to us of your video…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Star Wars: The Old Republic Players Average At Least Four Hours Per Session, Love Sundays
The average player of the massively multiplayer game Star Wars: The Old Republic plays the game between four and six hours per session, according to one of the chief architects of the game. “When they play, their sessions are absurd,” Greg Zeschuk, head of BioWare Austin, the studio leading continued development of the game told…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Is the Last Vita Game I Expected to Enjoy
When the shipment of Ubisoft’s Vita launch day games arrived, Michael Jackson: The Experience was set aside, along with Asphalt: Injection and Dungeon Hunter Alliance, three unfortunate side-effects of getting my hands on Rayman and Lumines Indeed I might not have ever gotten around to playing it if not for a random bout of OCD…
By Mike Fahey Published February 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedPeter Parker Fights Marvel Comics’ Horniest Super-Villain in This Amazing Spider-Man Trailer
Superhero movies flirt with distaster when they try to throw more than one antagonist at the main character. But, superhero video games? They thrive on that formula. So, in the first of what we have to assume will be many unveilings, Activision’s rolling out a look at how old-school bad guy the Rhino will look…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
There Are 100 Keys to This Weekend’s Tera Beta Test Hidden in This Post
Who wants to see if Tera‘s promise of action-driven massively multiplayer online role-playing combat rings true this weekend? I’ve got the beta keys, but you’re going to have to work for them. Might want to stretch first. Tera‘s closed beta test two runs from Friday, February 24 at 3PM Eastern to Monday, February 27 2:59AM…
By Mike Fahey Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
When Gal Gun Is Maid to Order
Gal | TOKYO, JAPAN: Gal Gun gets an Akihabara maid cafe promotion (Photo: Mantan Web) A Beautiful Collection of Awesome Nintendo Logos I like the games and the hardware, of course, but one of my favourite things about Japanese video games from the 1980s were the logos. And some of the best ones came out…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 24, 2012