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Your First Good Look at Halo 4’s Master Chief Comes From…an Action Figure
Halo 4 will be the first game in the main series to have not been developed by Bungie. If you think that means the new studio at the helm would want to tinker with the design of the game’s hero, you are dead right. McFarlane toys have released the first images of their Halo 4…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
One of the Idiots From Jersey Shore is Bringing his Fake Tan to Video Games
Mike Sorrentino, aka The Situation from MTV’s Jersey Shore, doesn’t just fancy himself as a man who struts about a reality show doing…stuff. He also fancies himself as, of all things, a video game developer. Or at least a consultant. While it’d be great if he and his family/company (which is mentioned an awful lot…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
There’s a Link From Zelda Action Figure Coming, and it Looks Surprisingly Great
While there have been a few lines of gashapon pieces coming out of Japan, there hasn’t been a proper action figure from the Legend of Zelda series for years. Until now! Unveiled over the weekend at the Winter Wonder Festival in Japan, this Figma from Max Factory is based on Link’s Skyward Sword appearance, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
Valve Toys, Half-Life Toys, TF2 Toys, Get a Look at Them Right Here
Kotaku was at the New York Toy Fair this weekend in full effect, snapping photos, taking footage and just generally gawking at all the awesome new video game toys that’ll be lining up for your disposable incomes in 2012. The highlight for me? NECA’s Valve gear. Including the Gordon Freeman action figure to end all…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
Duke Nukem‘s on a Roll
Duke Nukem‘s on a Roll | A games store employee applying price tags supplies this zinger. Not sure I’d pick that up used. (via Reddit.) Bruticus Leads Transformers: Fall of Cybertron‘s Toy Store Invasion Only four of the sexy robot designs from Transformers: War for Cybertron ever made it toy store shelves, a tragic missed…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
Star Wars: The Old Republic Has Invaded Lego Land
We saw a lot of Lego sets at the New York Toy Fair on Sunday. Sadly, Minecraft Legos did not make an appearance, but we did get to play around with figures from Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Lord of the Rings, and a whole bunch of superhero franchises. Two Lego sets based on…
By Jason Schreier Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
These Chibi Final Fantasy Figures Are Absolutely Adorable
Don’t mind the detached plastic faces in front of them. These action figures, seen today at the New York Toy Fair, are totally precious From left to right, you can see Final Fantasy X‘s Yuna, Final Fantasy VII‘s Cloud, and Final Fantasy VIII‘s Squall. Not pictured: the souls of Square Enix executives that had to…
By Jason Schreier Published February 12, 2012 - Culture
Let’s Twist Again
The reboot of the car combat standard-bearer Twisted Metal arrives on Valentine’s Day for PS3. Also, though you can’t play them until Feb. 22, many of the launch titles for the PlayStation Vita become available in North America this week. UFC Undisputed 3 for Xbox 360 and PS3 also arrives Tuesday. Monday • Rhythm Heaven…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
Don’t Know Much About Physics
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 10 Hilarious Physics Fails in Skyrim [GamingBolt] Aggregating glitches in Skyrim is kind of like discharging a firearm upon aquarian lifeforms packed inside a…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
Power Outage Knocked Out Valve, Steam; All Services Being Restored [UPDATE]
[Update 3:58 p.m. EST] On the Steam forums and via Twitter, Valve has said that a power failure in their data center’s uninterruptible power supplies was responsible. “The power is back on now and we’re working to get service restored as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.” [Update 3:06…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
Unreal’s Next Engine Will Need a Console At Least Ten Times More Powerful than the Xbox 360
The human eye can only perceive 72 frames per second. We’ve been seeing games at 60 frames per second for some time. And as graphics approach photorealism with current computing power, some suggest that the days of giant leaps in visual quality are past us, and we’ll be seeing smaller refinements going forward. Not so,…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 -
UncategorizedLink, Ryu, Samus and More Return to Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 Today
The highly anticipated—and it says a lot that term is being used with a flash game—Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 is available to play now from Jay Pavlina and Exploding Rabbit. You can reacquaint yourself with its new features in that video or just head right over and see for yourself. The cast from the…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
European Gamers Get a Shot at Early Mass Effect 3 Demo Starting Today
North American gamers have been trying since about Friday to win their way into early access to the Mass Effect 3 demo, which begins on Tuesday. European gamers also get a chance with their own Facebook game. Europe’s Mass Effect Mission Command app involves a hacking minigame but the chances of winning also seem to…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
Gotham City ‘Shoppers
No, we are not doing a special Whitney Houston-themed ‘Shop Contest, as I threatened. We’ve got some Gotham City exploitables, courtesy of a viral marketing stunt for the game that released earlier this week, that are just waiting for you to apply some vigilante funny. To the ersatz Batpoles! Source Image: Actual People Dressed as…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
Start Your Engines for a Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Sequel
Publisher Sega will release a sequel to Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing this holiday season, Kotaku has learned. Toys associated with the franchise were displayed in a booth at the Toy Fair in New York this Sunday, where an attendant confirmed that Sega is making a sequel to the franchise-crossing kart racing game. There will…
By Jason Schreier Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Good morning and welcome back to Talk Amongst Yourselves, where you may feel free to discuss all topics related to video games. Whitney Houston is not one of them, though I did put out a bounty to find a news obituary that led with her contributions to video games. Outside of the odd song in…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Me Time
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. Legacy Control by Javis Ray published Feb. 6.—Read more of Legacy Control Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Feb. 6.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 - Uncategorized
Tebow Time: The Winners
Testing the limits of human overexposure, we put Madden Bowl XVII champion Tim Tebow up as the subject of last week’s ‘Shop Contest. Twenty of you, many not knowing what the hell football is, responded with brilliant depictions of the NFL’s messiah. We’ve got all of them, including winner pnkero, inside! Getting started, I want…
By Owen Good Published February 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
DLC? Title Update? Whatever, Gotham City Impostors Promises a Big, Free Update in March
I’m not sure whoever’s writing up these notes is properly classifying what’s to come from Gotham City Impostors, the downloadable shooter that released this week. “In March, we’re going to release our very first DLC for the low, low price of FREE,” they say. Considering one of the features is the ability to mute other…
By Owen Good Published February 11, 2012 - Uncategorized
Outgoing Twisted Metal Creator Would Consider Kickstarter Funding for His New Projects, Too
Despite his fears—as only he could express them—that crowdfunding for video games could become “a dick measuring contest,” Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe says he’d consider a Kickstarter project for backing, as he embarks on life starting up a new development studio. Of course the games development world sat up and took notice of Double…
By Owen Good Published February 11, 2012