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Only Kinect Rush Will Take You Up and Make You an Incredible Butt-Sliding Rat
Microsoft’s using CES 2012 to talk up its best-selling motion-sensing peripheral, with its announcement of blockbuster sales and a Windows version of Kinect. Part of that push will be the recently announced Kinect Rush, the all-ages game being developed in partnership with Pixar. These new images from Kinect Rush give a glimpse of some of…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 10, 2012 -
UncategorizedGhost Recon Future Soldier Slides Back to May, Beta in April
Ubisoft’s big revision to the Ghost Recon series, Ghost Recon Future Soldier has been delayed to May 22 in the U.S., May 24 in Europe. And, look at this, we’re getting an apology “We’re pretty much there,” the game’s development director, Adrien Lacey, said in a YouTube announcement of the delay. “We just want to…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
The 10 Most Bogus Entries in the Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember being awed at when the TV specials based on the Guinness Book of World Records would show up on network TV. I’d see really big things! Really small things! Weird life forms out of 1950s monster comics! A guy who’d never cut his fingernails, like, ever!…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 10, 2012 -
UncategorizedArt Brut Makes Me Want to Rock Out
Art Brut made the best song ever about not being able to achieve erection. “Rusted Guns of Milan” appears on their 2005 debut album Bang Bang Rock & Roll and its lyrics hit a sweet spot of not-that-it’s -ever-happened-to-me. “I’m sorry/I’m so sorry/Can I get you a cup of coffee?” Indeed. I’ve seen them live…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mad Catz’s Cyborg Line Grows a Sexy Pair of Ears
I think I’ve finally discovered the sinister plot underlying Mad Catz’s visually and functionally striking line of Cyborg gaming products: They’re preparing to build an actual cyborg, and the newly-announced F.R.E.Q. 5 Pro Gaming Headset is the ears. Mad Catz already has the eyes, the hands, the legs, and the neural interface (fudging it a…
By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
How Can Anyone Be Disappointed By Both Skyrim and Skyward Sword?
Some folks loved the latest Legend of Zelda game but weren’t fond of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Others turned up their noses at Skyward Sword but embraced Bethesda’s latest wholeheartedly. Somehow commenter Sloopydrew found himself disappointed with both games. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku we try to determine what sort of alien he…
By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Bluetooth Gamepad, Daisy Chaining Headset, and Other Things SteelSeries is Showing at CES
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is the time for gaming peripheral makers to shine, and not many are quite as shiny as SteelSeries. They’re doing up CES 2012 big with a tiny Bluetooth gamepad, some travel-friendly headsets, and mice, mice, mice. The most intriguing new product in SteelSeries’ lineup would have to be the new…
By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome back to Kotaku‘s official forum. Please talk here about video games. It’s better if you do. Thanks to reader Dissolved for today’s image. Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share your own riffs on our January image to our #TAYpics thread. Just remember to keep…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy Origins Get Summoned to the PlayStation Network Today
Folks looking to re-visit where Square’s big-deal JRPG franchise started—or encounter it for the first time—can do so today. Final Fantasy Origins bundles the first two Final Fantasy games in a downloadable package that can be had for $9.99 on the PlayStation Network
By Evan Narcisse Published January 10, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Shapeshifting Glory of Muffin Knight Never Grows Stale
I original planed on topping off today’s Gaming App of the Day with “Revolutionary Game Features Unicorns Pooping Explosive Rainbows”, but I didn’t want to oversell Angry Mob Games’ Muffin Knight A pint-sized platformer with role-playing elements, Muffin Knight has been around on iOS and Android devices since last fall, winning hearts with its colorful…
By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nyko Parades PlayStation Vita Performance Enhancers at CES
Nyko never met a console or portable it couldn’t make a ton of additional crap for, and the upcoming PlayStation Vita is no different. At CES 2012 in Las Vegas the peripheral maker debuts its launch lineup of Vita accessories. Accessories like the Power Grip, a rechargeable battery pack that boasts three times the battery…
By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
Become the World’s Deadliest Tourist With Assassin’s Creed: Revelations‘ Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack
Take a whirlwind tour of the Mediterranean on January 24 when Ubisoft releases the Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, featuring three brand-new killing floors and a handful of Brotherhood leftovers. Slated for release on January 24, the Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack gives Assassin’s Creed multiplayer fans a chance to romp through the…
By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
Lineage II Chocolates? Yum.
Delicious | TOKYO, JAPAN: Part of a give-away to promote the game in Japan. (Photo: GameWatchImpress) Report: Mass Suicide Threats at Xbox 360 Plant On Jan. 2, over 300 employees at a Foxconn plan in Wuhan, China threatened to throw themselves off a building in a mass suicide. Foxconn makes Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony products. More »…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012 -
UncategorizedWatch a Man Clone Himself and Sing the Skyrim Theme
You’ve already seen a man clone himself and play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the violin. Now, you’re going to see a man clone himself and sing the game’s iconic theme. The man here is Diwa de Leon. Don’t fret; there are hats and instruments, too, including, yes, violins! Well, a violin that’s been…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
Report: Mass Suicide Threats at Xbox 360 Plant [UPDATE]
On Jan. 2, over 300 employees at a Foxconn plant in Wuhan, China threatened to throw themselves off a building in a mass suicide. Foxconn makes Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony products. These workers manufacture Xbox 360s. According to Chinese anti-government website China Jasmine Revolution (via Watch China Times), the workers were protesting denied compensation they…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
How Halo has Spawned a “Type of Animated Pornography”
It’s called “Machinera”. And it’s just the tip of the iceberg of yet another painfully funny post over on parody site Christwire By the end, you’ll see Halo revealed for what it is: a “Nietzschean New World Order” recruitment tool, played by dehumanised robots on their Xbox shooting consoles. You’ll also see how the Covenant…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Sexy and Sadistic Nintendo Art of NekoshowguN
You might not know Japanese illustrator NekoshowguN. But you damn well should. The young artist first made her splash as part of the Osaka art collective Digmeout. She’s done art for music games GuitarFreaks and DrumMania, but her highest profile work to date is lead character and weapon design for Goichi Suda‘s upcoming hack-and-slash Lollipop…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
What Does Over a Decade of Cosplay Look Like?
For all intents and purposes, HezaChan has been cosplaying since the dawn of the internet. Granted, loads of people were online before 2001 (many of you included), but take a look back at her cosplay photos from 2001. It looks like a million years ago. HezaChan’s first cosplay was Saber Marionette J at the 2001…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
This Man Can’t Stop Building Awesome Mass Effect Weapons
Hey, it’s Zander Brandt! Builder of fake Team Fortress 2 guns and fake Mass Effect guns, he’s back with…another fake Mass Effect gun. And this one’s great. It’s one of the best-looking guns in the franchise, the M-96 Mattock Assault Rifle, and doesn’t just look like it’s made of metal (it’s not, it’s made of…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2012