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UncategorizedWatch Me Beat Kinect Sports 2 Tennis Without Moving
It’s not often I get to proclaim myself an athlete, and today isn’t going to change that, but I will say that I owned the shit out of my computer-controlled opponents today in Kinect Sports Season Two After feeling really awkward for a while playing a Kinect game in an office filled with quietly working…
By Chris Carolan Published October 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Only 500 Wrists Shall Ever Wear This Forza 4 Watch
Okay, I suppose someone might share or pass down this limited edition Forza Motorsports 4 watch from Level Up Wear, but with only 500 total being made available in the U.S. and UK, but with only 500 being made they might be better off just hanging onto it. Do people even wear watches anymore? With…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedThanks to Video Games, Someone Pretended That Frank Zappa and Beck Were WWE Pro Wrestlers
The video website Vimeo is a good place to find video game trailers, clips of people flying Wii Remote-powered drones and people having Kinect mishaps. It’s a place where folks upload their create-a-wrestler for WWE video games. That brings us today’s random finding: the work of one Tommy Else, who used WWE Raw 2 a…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Conan O’Brien Tribute Gallery Recalls van Gogh, Surrealism, Gaming Art
Late night talk show host, funny man and all-around red head Conan O’Brien is returning to New York City with his show this week, but only for a week. To celebrate, Conan brought his pop-up art exhibit to the city. The COCO MoCA (The New York Museum of Conan Art) will be housed on the…
By Brian Crecente Published October 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedDon’t Forget to Suit Up for Today’s Other Big Game Release
While all the grown-ups are playing Battlefield 3, what’ll the kids be playing? That’s right, Battlefield 3 as well, but keep a copy of Disney Universe nearby in case Child Protective Services stops by. Hey look, it’s got Tron in it! Oh come on, even adults can’t resist the charm of the freaky little critters…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011 -
Uncategorized5 Questions the GTA V Trailer Will Hopefully Answer
Above is the first trailer for GTA IV. Remember that? It came out at the end of March 2007 and answered questions about the next GTA, even as it raised a bunch of new ones. It showed graphics that shamed its contemporaries, revealed Liberty City (aka New York City) as the location and introduced us…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Second Wave of Halo Anniversary Edition Toys Gets Animated
How many different Master Chief figures can McFarlane Toys make? Oh they’re just getting started. The company recently announced series two of the Halo Anniversary Edition figures, featuring the white-striped version of John 117 from the animated Halo Legends short “The Package”. And what a package series two will be. We’ve got “The Package” version…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Check Out the Party Posse from BlizzCon
Thanks to everyone who came out to hang with Kotaku and friends of Kotaku at the Kotaku/Samsung BlizzCon party last Friday. The Samsung Blue drinks were flowing, the food kept coming, and the new Samsung 950 Series 3D LED Monitors were incredible. Not even the zombies that escaped from the haunted house across the street…
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Grand Theft Auto V Will Be Set in Los Angeles, May Star Multiple Characters
Strengthening long-standing rumors for years that the next Grand Theft Auto would be set in Los Angeles or a fictional version thereof, a source familiar with the game told Kotaku today that those rumors are true. GTA V will be set in some version of L.A., bringing the famous franchise to a place that last…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedBattlefield 3 trailer + Minecraft = Minefield
Maybe you can’t afford a PC capable of maxing out Battlefield 3. Don’t worry, there’s always Minecraft. I like the weirdly downscaled music in the clip and the hilariously tense moment of the enemy in the sniper scope lens. Also: Derp Avenue, where noobs come to die. You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
NVIDIA Offers Guides to Building A PC Worthy of Battlefield 3
One thing that’s becoming clear from the reviews coming in about Battlefield 3 is that a person’s satisfaction might vary greatly depending on whether you play it on console or PC. If you want to experience the make-your-eyes-tear-up peak experience supposedly offered by DICE’s Frostbite 2 engine but don’t know where to start, then Nvidia’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Greenskins Are Coming, and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Co-Op Mode Is Coming With
As promised, four-player online co-op is here for the PlayStation 3 and PC versions of Warhammer: 40.000: Space Marine, with the Xbox 360 version following soon after. And so the enemy of my enemy becomes my friend. Relic calls it Exterminatus mode, and it adds two new maps and a standalone game mode to Space…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Should you Buy Kirby’s Return to Dreamland? No.
Kirby’s Return to Dreamland is the first Nintendo-published game for the Wii since June and only the third of the year, but scarcity alone does not guarantee quality. Nor does the fact that this Kirby game allows him to do what he hasn’t done for years: inhale his enemies. So Kirby sucks, but is Kirby’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Next Chapter in the Halo Saga Begins Right Here
The road to 343 Industries’ Halo 4 begins today with the release of Halo: Glasslands, the beginning of a new series from Star Wars and Gears of War scribe Karen Traviss that bridges the gap between the third and fourth games. Want to read a huge chunk of it? You’ve come to the right place.…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Battlefield 3 Reviews We Can Find Are Pretty Positive
Normally on the day after the review embargo for a major video game release is up sites like Metacritic are flooded with fresh opinions waiting to be woven together into one of Kotaku‘s Frankenreviews. Not so with Battlefield 3 As of this writing there were only 18 critic reviews of the PC version, four for…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedHere’s Who You’ll Be Swinging With in Grand Slam Tennis 2
Last week, I reported on how EA’s going to be handling the debut of their Grand Slam Tennis series on the Xbox 360 and PS3. During my hands-on time, I only got to see Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova in action but this new trailer shows off the other racket-wielding pros you’ll be controlling in…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedWarp’s Teleportation Lets You Distract Bad Dudes with Decoys, Then Tear Them Apart From the Inside
With the genius exhibited by Valve’s Portal games, it wouldn’t be entirely unfair to think that there’s a conceptual no-fly zone around the use teleporting as a game mechanic. At the very least, if you’re going to use the ability to pop in and out of reality in your game, then you need to make…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
These Are the Best Cities For the Next Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto is a franchise driven by stories, with a massive cast of characters and nearly endless replayability. But the thing that most distinguishes one Grand Theft Auto from the next is Rockstar’s glorious, subversive take on each of the games’ settings. The cityscape of a Grand Theft Auto is often the game’s most…
By Brian Crecente Published October 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Your PC Must Be This Powerful to Run Skyrim
And now the figures you’ve all been waiting for! Bethesda’s Pete Hines has tweeted the minimum and recommended PC specs for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and they’re rather reasonable. First off we’ve got the minimum specs, which are just enough to get you playing the game without all the bells and whistles that come…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
News of GTA V‘s Trailer Hit On Unhappy Anniversary for GTA Foe
Jack Thompson, active nemesis of any video game that he believes causes real world violence, was disbarred on September 25, 2008. Website GamePolitics notes that his disbarrment kicked in Oct 25, 2008 and that, three years to the day later, we get an announcement of GTA V. Jack hates GTA
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011