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Let the Xbox 720 Concepts Begin!
Now that rumours about the next Xbox console are flying thick and fast, those with an eye towards the future and a hand on their mouse are dreaming up concepts of what the next machine will look like. Here’s the first credible one I’ve seen in the wake of the recent rumours, which is the…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Whore of the Orient is the Next Game From LA Noire’s Creator
Brendan McNamara, whose LA Noire project resulted in a good game and a shuttered studio, has ended up at the same place many of his ex-employees did: filmmaker George Miller’s KMM Studios. He’s there to develop a game called Whore of the Orient, which has been described as “one of the great untold stories of…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 28, 2011 - CultureTotal Recall
So, Who Exactly Could Be In a Sony Fighting Game?
There’s a rumour going around that Sony is set to take on Nintendo’s Smash Bros. series with a fighting game franchise of its own. Interestingly, a lot of the early sentiment I picked up on over the weekend was people wondering whether the PlayStation brand had a strong enough roster to support such a game.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Red Bird Baked in a Pie
Red Bird Baked in a Pie | No pork products on this Angry Birds pizza. Just red and yellow peppers, olives, mushrooms. (Seen via Neatorama) Only One Man in the World Owns TF2‘s “Top Notch” Hat It shouldn’t be hard to guess who it is, either. Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson was invited to play…
By Owen Good Published November 27, 2011 - Culture
Megathrusters Are Go!
A re-release of three Sly Cooper classics on the PlayStation Network, and the arrival of Voltron: Defender of the Universe on PSN and Xbox Live Marketplace, highlight what is traditionally the slowest week of the video game calendar. After next week’s Mario Kart 7 on 3DS, retail will go into hibernation until January. Tuesday •…
By Owen Good Published November 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Would You Pay $1,300 for a Virtual Spaceship? [Update]
When EVE Online began selling premium vanity items this summer, everyone lost their minds and rioted. Granted, these were $68 virtual monocles and such, but they didn’t offer any kind of performance advantage. Another space-based MMO, Dark Orbit decided to offer a rare spacecraft with a value of €1.000 (roughly $1,300) and found more than…
By Owen Good Published November 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Only One Man in the World Owns TF2‘s “Top Notch” Hat
It shouldn’t be hard to guess who it is, either. Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson was invited to play in Team Fortress 2‘s third Mixup event. Playing on RED, he was teamed with Valve’s Jon Lippincott and Cobalt’s Daniel Brynolf (against a BLU comprising filmmaker Freddy Wong, Valve’s Robin Walker, and others). After Notch collected…
By Owen Good Published November 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Frozen Delights
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. • 12 Awesome Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite Tributes [oddee] From ice cube makers to cell phone cases to that badass executive desk, I can’t…
By Owen Good Published November 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Just in Time for Christmas, the Batcave Will Be Arkham City‘s Newest Challenge Map
After being mentioned in the GTTV Presents GameStop Unwrapped TV special on Thanksgiving, it looks like the newest location for players to kick the asses of Gotham’s worst criminals is going to be the Dark Knight’s innermost sanctum. A new DLC pack’s coming on December 20th, which bundles the all-new Batcave challenge map, along with…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Saudi Arabia’s Gaming Expo is Also a Giant Sausage Party
When Saudi Arabia gets into games news here, it’s usually for banning a game (which its citizens can readily obtain by other means), although it does have developers, who recently published an Uncharted clone. This weekend saw the nation’s first gaming exposition, too, although a visit to its main page advises “Attendance for males only.”…
By Owen Good Published November 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Note About the Most Recent ‘Shop Contest
Regarding our ‘Shop Contest of Nov. 27, “Don’t Fear the Creeper.” The base image, submitted to Kotaku’s tips forum by a reader, was taken by Adam Sahlin of minecraftforum.net. Kotaku did not receive permission to use it and has been asked to remove it. We have. As such, this week’s ‘Shop Contest has been aborted.…
By Owen Good Published November 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Everybody had their fill of turkey and shopping? Good, we can all kick back and get back to talking—amongst ourselves, in Kotaku’s official open thread. Discuss anything you like here, so long as it’s about the vidya. Big thanks to Pan1da7 for today’s TAYpic. We had to reach back a week to find one. It…
By Owen Good Published November 27, 2011 - Culture
Sunday Comics: By Any Other Name
Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Nov. 21.—Read more of Awkward Zombie 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. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Nov. 25.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
By Owen Good Published November 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Tanooki Suit Riot Winners
As PETA picked a peck of pickled trouble with Super Mario 3D Land‘s use of the Tanooki Suit, it figured to be a good time to ‘shop up a Tanooki-clad Mario enthusiast who’d rather cosplay than go naked. We’ve got 20 winners inside, including Zigzagoon—who also made ‘Shop Contest history! Leading off, Deadphool (4) had…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is “Morning Wood” Really a Map Name in Modern Warfare 3‘s First DLC?
Grain-of-salt territory here, but rumors have it that Modern Warfare 3‘s first set of premium downloadable content will feature five maps entitled “Morning Wood,” “Concrete,” “Park,” “Italy,” and “Overwatch.” The title of the first, and the fact “Overwatch” was a map in Modern Warfare 2, calls for some healthy skepticism. Modern Prestige has what it…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is Sony Working On its Own Smash Bros. Game?
It seems Sony could well be working on its own take on Smash Bros., Nintendo’s beloved first-party fighting game series. Called (or at least code-named) Title Fight, the project, supposedly in development at SuperBot Entertainment, features a range of Sony’s first-party mascosts squaring off against each other in a fighting game. Some of the characters…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Magneto’s Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Suit is Again a Royal Pain for Spain
About six years ago, Marvel needed to give Magneto a uniform befitting a head of state for his appearance in The Pulse: House of M Special. It was, as that image above suggests, a straight copy of the duds King Juan Carlos wears as World’s Most Interesting Man Captain General of the Armies. The royal…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Games for All of Us
With respect and admiration for, if not apologies to, the late Ernie Harwell, here’s something adapted from his famous Induction Day speech at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Aug. 2, 1981, which itself was adapted from this 1955 essay. Stick Jockey published this last year on Thanksgiving weekend. I’ve updated it for this year,…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Lawsuit Dropped with “Jew or Not a Jew” iPhone App’s Removal
If someone was going to sue over an iPhone app called “Jew or Not Jew,” I would have expected it to be an infringement claim coming from Saturday Night Live, or Al Franken, the Minnesota senator who wrote a sketch by that name which aired in 1988 here in the U.S. Instead, it was an…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedEA Sports Delights in Signing Away Pro Evolution Soccer‘s Three-Time Cover Star
Back in January, one of Lionel Messi’s teammates on FC Barcelona let slip that the football superstar greatly enjoyed playing EA Sports’ FIFA series. At the time, he was the three-time cover star of Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer, from its 2009 to 2011 editions. So it wasn’t much of a surprise, then, when Cristiano Ronaldo…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011