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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 - Uncategorized
Don’t Forget About Me, Veronica
“…I could never.” Greetings Team Kotaku, and welcome to the Friday night open thread. I hope you had a fun and exciting week, and are looking forward to a restful weekend. It’s almost spring! Can you smell the springness in the air? Here, from around the internet, are some things that you might want to…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
When I travel, I usually frontload my gameplaying, trying to pack in progress in an RPG before I leave, and then kill time with handhelds in transit. But Monday, I’ll be flying to Washington. My grandfather will be buried at Arlington. Forgive me, I’m not in much of a games-playing mood right now. It’s not…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Now These Are Some Seriously Cool Video Game Posters
This is a little bit niche, but if you’d like to have some truly cool, distinctive posters for your dorm room or apartment, you could do worse than Rachel E. Morris’ awesome series of prints created on commission for the NYU Game Center’s “Practice” lecture series. You can check out all of the various posters…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mad as Hell, And They’re Going to Take It
I swear to Christ, Battlefield fans have to be the unhappiest people on earth. They hate Modern Warfare. They hate Origin. They hate Electronic Arts and, for all I can tell, they hate the game they play so much. It’s a community that seems committed to proving itself to be the most knowledgeable, least appreciated,…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2012