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The Sequel No One Wanted: 2QWOP
QWOP, the notorious, accursed, and “most realistic simulation” of the 100-meter dash ever made, has a sequel. 2QWOP now delivers two-player split-screen multiplayer, good for settling stupid bets and drunken taunts among friends. In 2QWOP, the top player uses QWER to move his athletes thigh and calf muscles, while the second player uses UIOP. That…
By Owen Good Published February 19, 2012 -
UncategorizedFar Cry 3 Looks Like a First-Person Action Flick
A five-minute promotional reel of gameplay from Far Cry 3 hit YouTube late Friday, and appears to be cut to show you all the game’s set pieces as much as the game’s luxurious visuals. There’s some swearing in these clips so, headphones if you’re somewhere where hearing that is inappropriate, like church. All I recognize…
By Owen Good Published February 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Boldly Gone [UPDATE]
Ground control to major commenters. Ground control to major commenters. Take your funny pills, and turn your photoshop on. The sheer silliness of Electronic Arts’ Mass Effect 3 marketing stunt simply cannot go to waste this week, even if the base image faces, well, some challenges. For starters, there’s not much in it to look…
By Owen Good Published February 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
What manner of man is this who can summon up Talk Amongst Yourselves without flint or tinder … Some call me … Owen … Great big thanks to Jimmy_Jazz for today’s #TAYpic, interrupting what looks like an Orlando-L.A. Lakers game with some skywalking and cherubic trash-talking. Want to be featured atop Talk Amongst Yourselves? Grab…
By Owen Good Published February 19, 2012 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Waiting is the Hardest Part
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. Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Feb. 15.—Read more of Penny Arcade Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Feb. 13.—Read more of Awkward Zombie…
By Owen Good Published February 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Gotham City ‘Shoppers: The Winners
A motley crew of Gotham City impostors sauntering over a pedestrian bridge to work gave us this week’s ‘Shop Contest inspiration. We’ve got 20 hilarious impostors-of-impostors in your evening commute, plus a big hand for pan1da7! Leading off, yes, a lot of people tried the Strutting Leo meme. While Guilherme_B (6) didn’t do it first,…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2012 -
ReviewsArmy Corps of Hell: The Kotaku Review
Into the midst of the PlayStation Vita’s launch lineup drops a fiery comet, crashing through the Earth’s crust and plunging into the mythical underworld below to amass a massive force of evil with infernal domination in mind. The Army Corps of Hell is recruiting. Should you join up? The King of Hell is back in…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
Should a Video Game Have Predicted the Rise of Jeremy Lin?
Ordinarily, NBA 2K12 updates its rosters once a week. This week, it got not one, but three revisions in the span of four days. Jeremy Lin had a hand in all three. The first update came Wednesday, well after the 38-point coming-out party Lin and the New York Knicks staged on Feb. 10 against Kobe…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
Oblivion, Fallout Get Combined Release in April—but Not on PS3
For those whose first foray into Tamriel came this year with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the series’ maker will offer the preceding entry, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion combined with another outstanding role-playing game, Fallout 3. The combo will be $29.99 on Xbox 360, $19.99 on PC in March. What about PS3? Bethesda Game…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2012 -
UncategorizedAnd Now, Here’s the Most Evil DLC—DLC the Game
The implied social contract of paid, planned and premium downloadable content is, “don’t want it? Don’t buy it.” OK, well, what if the game itself is buying planned premium downloadable content? Mega64’s latest satire gets a 5/5 on the evil scale from me.
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
Creator Says If FortressCraft is a Ripoff, So is Minecraft
The creator of FortressCraft resents the allegation he simply copied Minecraft when his game released over the Xbox Live Indie Games channel about a year ago. “There’s nothing that FortressCraft shares with Minecraft that it does not also share with Infiniminer,” Adam Sawkins, FortressCraft‘s creator, told Eurogamer, “which pre-dates Minecraft.” What the hell is Infiniminer?…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
Sony’s U.S. Chief Says a PS4 Reveal Would be “a Distraction” in 2012
Further solidifying the stance that we’re not gonna hear anything about Sony’s next console, Jack Tretton, the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment America, told IGN that we can rule out any PS4 reveal in 2012. “I, quite frankly, would be very distracted if I had to be talking about next generation hardware this year,” Tretton…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
Reporter: Activision Blacklisted Us Because I Refused to Pull Call of Duty Sequel Story [UPDATE]
Yesterday, reports that a sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops would hit this year circulated all over the internet, sourced to a product page that went live on Amazon. Gameblog.fr reported on this apparent slip-up, as did other French websites, but they refused to pull the story when asked by Call of Duty publisher…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 18, 2012 - Culture
This Week in the Business: ‘Xbox Live is Going to Lose Out’
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Xbox Live is going to lose out.”—Tim Schafer, CEO of Double Fine, talking about what Microsoft should do to stem the migration of developers away from Xbox Live QUOTE | “You belong in a subset of human beings in a circle…
Steve Peterson Published February 18, 2012 -
UncategorizedFirst Mojam Game Gets a Name: Catacomb Snatch [UPDATE]
Mojang, the makers of Minecraft, invited over some friends this weekend to build video games from scratch and raise a ton of cash for charity. Mojang, Oxeye Game Studios and Wolfire Games have already raised more than $200,000. But don’t forget, you can play the end product of their build-a-thon, when it ends in about…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
Let’s Punch Up Some Deals
A $20 discount on Skyrim‘s collectors edition joins modest savings and bonus credits on Tuesday’s new releases to highlight our latest edition of The Moneysaver. We’ve got more than 50 deals, values and savings in hardware, software and digital downloads inside! Software • Feb. 21 release Asura’s Wrath (360, PS3) is $56.99, free shipping from…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallHalf-Life 2‘s Most Magical Moment
Well, if we’re going to be doing more recent games for Total Recall, we’d better talk about Half-Life 2 sooner rather than later. As is true for so many people, HL2 is one of my favorite games of all time, an evergreen gem that I replay about once a year. It’s hard to put my…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 18, 2012 - CultureTotal Recall
Grim Death Never Looked So Lovely
Over at the International House of Mojo, they’ve put together a terrific retrospective on the equally terrific adventure game Grim Fandango. It’s a fun, comprehensive retrospective, but what really grabbed me was the illustration that Colin Panetta did for it, of a skeleton that’s recently been “planted.” Death-by-flowers has long been one of my favorite…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 17, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallMy Addiction to the Original Saints Row
Programming note: Check the arrow for more on “Recent Recall.” These days, Saints Row is very much a household name in gaming. It’s a critically successful franchise, a game that has become notorious through its marketing and gimmickry, but also by being a whole lot of fun. The Saints Row concept really came into its…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 17, 2012 - Uncategorized
Total Recall Starts Here
Welcome to the Friday Night Total Recall, a night that hasn’t traditionally had Total Recall. We’re gonna have a slight twist, though—I’m gonna be rocking the posts tonight, and rather than try to keep up with history master Plunkett, I’m going to do something that’s a bit more “Recent Recall,” writing about games from the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 17, 2012