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A Little Salt, A Little Pepper, A Little Mushroom
Caps –Look it’s Super Mario salt and pepper shakers! Playstation Network Cuts Down on Game Sharing Starting This Month Later this month Sony will begin limiting the number of PS3s and PSPs that can share a game purchased through the Playstation Network, the UK and U.S. More » Russian Dancing Men: Too Unforgiving to be Fun…
By Brian Crecente Published November 4, 2011 - Uncategorized
New 3DS Firmware Makes Joining Friends Easier
A new mandatory 3DS firmware update came with our copy of Super Mario 3D Land today, and we weren’t quite sure what it would offer when we downloaded it onto our system. After poking around for a bit we looked into comparing the new and old layout of the system’s friends list. The picture above…
By Matthew Buzzi Published November 4, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Peek Under the Hood of All-Girl Fighter Skullgirls
Pretty pictures and adorably odd characters are nice and all, but when it comes to fighting game fans it’s the game mechanics that matter. This video primer for Skullgirls shows off some of the features that button mashers just won’t understand. With renowned fighting game champion Mike “Mike Z” Zaimont at the helm you better…
By Mike Fahey Published November 4, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Good, The Bad, The Really Bad, and The Week in Gaming Apps
In the course of randomly selecting which mobile games we’ll be featuring in our Gaming Apps of the Day, sometimes we come up with a week’s worth of winners. This was not this week. While we did manage to drum up a pair of keepers with the iOS version of indie masterpiece Aquaria and the…
By Mike Fahey Published November 4, 2011 -
UncategorizedWe Have 10 Minutes of Super Mario 3D Land to Show You
Super Mario 3D Land will be out on November 13, but I have it now. I’m in a sharing mood. Not enough of a sharing mood to lend you my copy, but enough of a mood to show you 10 minutes of World 1. In this video, you’ll see me perform mediocre run-throughs of Worlds…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 4, 2011 - Uncategorized
If Video Game Developers Could Redesign Football
People get hurt playing football. It may seem inevitable when you’ve got three 300-lb. pass rushers bearing down on a quarterback over and over again. But how could that reality be different? That’s the question that came up during Practice, New York University’s inaugural game design conference that was held this past week. After a…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 4, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is This Leaked Picture of Grand Theft Auto V‘s Los Santos Map Real or Fake? [UPDATE]
Tweeting from an account called “GTA V Leak,” an alleged Rockstar Employee has posted what he says is an image of Los Santos from . It’s posted above. Real or fake this is our first glimpse of what the Grand Theft Auto V map could look like. The account is anonymous, going merely by @toronotoJack233.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 4, 2011 - Uncategorized
California Man Pleads Guilty to Trading Video Game Cheat Codes for Child Pornography
A 22-year-old California man pled guilty today to child pornography charges for getting a 10-year-old boy to send nude pictures of himself in exchange for Call of Duty “cheat codes,” according to U.S. Attorney court records. John Kenneth Calderon Basto, also known as Tribal x MoDzz, of Long Beach, California, pled guilty to causing the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 4, 2011 - Uncategorized
Video Games Plant the Seeds of Creativity in Children’s Minds
I was under the impression that it took a creative person to fully appreciate everything video games have to offer. According to recent research conducted at Michigan State University, I may have had that backwards. Does playing video games make you more creative? Researchers surveyed nearly 500 middle-school students as part of MSU’s Children and…
By Mike Fahey Published November 4, 2011 - Uncategorized
Modern Warfare 3 Now Available for Purchase and Pre-Load on Amazon
Amazon’s digital download service is serving up fresh copies of Modern Warfare 3 standard edition to all comers today, allowing players to purchase and pre-load for play at launch, with a $10 digital download coupon to sweeten the deal. [Amazon]
By Mike Fahey Published November 4, 2011 - Uncategorized
Cops Ram Plane with Car, Something I’ve Only Done in Video Games
Would you like to see what happens when Brazilian cops ram a private plane with their car to keep it from taking off? Watch this. This was too good not to share. Enjoy. [Via Twitter]
By Stephen Totilo Published November 4, 2011 - Uncategorized
The LEGO Universe Ends on January 31
Despite a strong brand name, positive early buzz, and the implementation of a new free-to-play model back in August, the massively multiplayer LEGO Universe will be closing its doors on January 31, 2012, the day imagination died. While the game attracted plenty of players, LEGO Universe‘s problem laid in turning its big numbers into big…
By Mike Fahey Published November 4, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Craziest Battlefield 3 Strategies We’ve Seen So Far
In warfare there are the tried and true methods of combat, the time-tested techniques that are proven to bring success over your adversaries. Then, there are the methods seen in these videos. Collected here for your enjoyment—err, tactical appraisal—are some of the most insane, unique, and funny ways to dispatch opponents in Battlefield 3. Hopefully,…
By Matthew Buzzi Published November 4, 2011 -
UncategorizedNew Multiplayer Trailer for Assassin’s Creed Revelations Explains How We’ll All Take Each Other Out
Last year, the multiplayer for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood proved to be a surprising and promising addition to the historical adventure series. A new video for Assassin’s Creed Revelation reveals the new abilities, modes and locations coming to this year’s sequel. You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 4, 2011 -
UncategorizedRainbow 6: Patriots‘ Tough Choices Brought to Life in this Proof-of-Concept Video
We’ve been telling you about the hard choices being put on the players of Rainbow 6: Patriots since June, now see for yourself in Ubisoft’s proof-of-concept video. Happy birthday to you. While the footage differs slightly from what was leaked to Kotaku earlier this year, it certainly demonstrates the ideas we’ve been discussing since yesterday’s…
By Mike Fahey Published November 4, 2011 -
UncategorizedOur First Look at Battlefield 3’s Intense Back to Karkand Maps
This December Battlefield 3 returns to Karkand with the Back to Karkand map pack. This trailer we see the first ingame shots from Strike at Karkand, Sharqi Peninsula, Gulf of Oman, and Wake Island, from the upcoming expansion pack Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand. This expansion pack also features new weapons, vehicles, persistence, and the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 4, 2011 -
UncategorizedNintendo’s Delivery of Super Mario 3D Land Didn’t Embarrass Me. Nope. Not at All.
Earlier this week, Nintendo FedExed me a copy of their next Zelda game. FedEx wasn’t good enough for their next Mario game. No, to deliver Super Mario 3D Land they went the extra ridiculous mile. This was shot today at Kotaku’s New York City offices. You can contact Stephen Totilo, the author of this post,…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 4, 2011 - Uncategorized
Leaked Copy of Modern Warfare 3 Sells for $1,725 on eBay
There’s only four days until you’re officially allowed to buy Activision’s latest blockbuster FPS. That’s 96 hours. Yes, K-Mart screwed the pooch and let some units slip out into the wild, where they’ve been spotted on eBay. But, you’d be playing such a copy at your own risk, at least if you don’t want severe…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 4, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe History of Battlefield in 45 minutes
Lest we forget, Battlefield 3 is the latest iteration of a more than decade-long stories series, a franchise that did much to change the way we played shooters. This excellent video from GamerSpawn takes us from that first Battlefield, Battlefield 1942, in 2002, to this month’s release of Battlefield 3 Sit back and enjoy this…
By Brian Crecente Published November 4, 2011 - Uncategorized
Kinect for Windows Coming Soon to Change the Way We Do Everything
The sinister phase two of Microsoft’s Kinect plan picks up steam as the company makes Kinect for Windows impeding arrival official. Are you ready to do everything six to eight feet from a computer screen? With hundreds of financial, educational, and commercial companies signed up to see what Kinect can do for them, next year…
By Mike Fahey Published November 4, 2011