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UncategorizedRetro City Rampage Now Coming to Vita, Steam and PS3, Still Looks Rad
I’ve had my eye on Vblank Entertainment’s Retro City Rampage for a good while now—it’s hard not to be interested in a game that merges elements of the original Grand Theft Auto with all manner of other retro games, wrapped up in a vintage style and what sounds like a kickass soundtrack. This new trailer…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 20, 2012 - Uncategorized
You Know You Play Too Much EverQuest When These Jokes are Still Funny Ten Years Later
These days you can tell you play too much of Sony Online Entertainment’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game EverQuest by the simple fact that you play it at all. Ten years ago, when hundreds of thousands of people played the game on a regular basis, there were different standards of measurement. Ten years ago we…
By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Dorkly Weekly: The Horrible Fate of the Leftover Pokémon
The folks at Dorkly pride themselves on the ability to solve gaming’s great unsolved mysteries. For example, if Ash chooses Charmander and Gary chooses Squirtle, what happens to Bulbasaur? Oh. Oh. That happens to Bulbasaur. I always suspected, but I guess I didn’t really want to know. At least it’s not animal cruelty; Bulbasaur is…
By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012 - Uncategorized
Bogus Pokémon Yellow Game Is Now Number Two on the Apple App Store
Early this morning, we wrote about the surprise appearance of a Pokémon game on Apple’s iOS storefront. Y’know, the one that’s apparently a broken scam? Despite that, developer QEAB’s Pokemon Yellow is sitting at #2 on the App Store’s Paid Apps chart, right behind the fully-functional and actually-pretty-good Grand Theft Auto III When downloaded on…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012 -
UncategorizedGreat Moments in Gaming Humor: He’s Good in the Dark
Dialog-heavy Japanese role-playing games don’t often make the journey westward with their wit intact. Tri-Ace’s challenging role-playing shooter Resonance of Fate proves itself one of the rare exceptions, nailing both the text and the timing of this hilariously steamy scene. I’d give equal credit to the localization team and the voice actors on this one.…
By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Very Last Face I’d Expect to See on an Arcade Stick
I’ve seen many a custom arcade joystick in my days, but none moved me quite as much as the world’s first and only Michael McDonald Arcade Fighting Joystick, now available on eBay. Not possessing a joystick featuring former Doobie Brothers front man and five-time Grammy award-winning singer / songwriter Michael McDonald might be the one…
By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Guild Wars 2 Charr Character Intro, Unintentional Commentary Edition
Once I finished recording the voice over character creation video for my Guild Wars 2 beta article that ran this morning, I turned off my microphone to capture the story the game generated based on the decisions I made while building my Charr thief. Or I thought I turned off my microphone. I stopped the…
By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012 - Uncategorized
Why I’m Not Okay With Sony Ditching PSP Discs
Last summer, I bought a copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable for the PSP. I’d heard nothing but fantastic things about Atlus’s role-playing game slash high school simulator, and I figured it’d be a good opportunity to bolster my RPG street cred. A few months later, when I finally opened the game, it…
By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2012 - Uncategorized
Capcom Teases Intra-Company Crossover With Asura vs. Ryu Image
You’ve got to hand it to Capcom: they’re not above crossing the streams to see what happens when their franchise characters meet up with other brawlers. Whether it’s the Marvel vs. Capcom series, X-Men vs. Street Fighter or Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, the powers-that-be at the Oska-based publisher will pit Ryu and crew against anybody if…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012 -
ReviewsAlan Wake’s American Nightmare: The Kotaku Review
Going into Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, I’d worried that I hadn’t played the DLC that followed the 2010 game that introduced Remedy’s literary action hero. I loved the long-brewing Xbox 360 exclusive but, after months of never being able to slot in The Signal and The Writer add-ons, I’d decided to skip them after repeatedly…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012 - Uncategorized
Alan Wake‘s PC Version Pays For Itself in 48 Hours
The PC version of the 2010 Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake has broken even in just two days, said a Remedy producer on the game’s official forums. “We are very happy with the sales and hitting #1 on Steam at launch was nothing short of amazing,” wrote Remedy’s Aki Järvilehto. “We recouped our development and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 20, 2012 -
ReviewsLumines Electronic Symphony: The Kotaku Review
Every time I fire up a Lumines game and am not instantly greeted by the mellow beats of Mondo Grosso’s “Shinin” from the franchise’s 2004 PSP debut, I can’t help but feel a little disappointed. That song will forever be linked with the magical feeling of the first game, when Q Entertainment’s simple and sublime…
By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012 - Uncategorized
WTPT: Try Not To Spend Your Monday Replicating This Epic Battlefield 3 Jet Swap
Are we seriously nearing the end of February already? Where does the time go? It’s not like I spent the entire weekend playing Syndicate (except, oh wait, I did). We may as well spend a little more time trying to get through today quickly, because no one likes Mondays anyway. WATCH: In today’s “holy crap,…
By Tina Amini Published February 20, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow To Turn A Bunch Of Beige Blocks Into The Legend of Zelda‘s Link
This time-lapsed video of YouTube user thorkon’s Zelda-themed building blocks is truly awesome, the type of intricate creation that must have taken many, many hours to put together. But now we can add Link to the ever-growing list of game-themed computer cases that thorkon, aka 8-Bit Builder, has been modding and constructing for a while…
By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2012 - Uncategorized
I’ve got a Ticket to Ride, and I Care, Very Much
If you’ve never played the board game Ticket to Ride, boy, are you missing out. It’s almost the perfect game. There are enough cards and rules to keep serious board gamers thinking, but the basic gist is simple enough you can be up and playing in only a few minutes. As with many other great…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 20, 2012 -
UncategorizedCan You Catch All the Puns in This Adorable Pokémon Love Song?
“I wrote a love song using only Pokémon puns,” reads the Reddit entry for YouTube user HelloIamDanica’s pocket monster-stuffed ukulele ballad. There are several words in that sentence I would normally avoid, but her music has moved me, and I think it could move Mewtwo. Oh god, it’s infectious! Sure it’s incredibly corny, but there’s…
By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012