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Miracle Nintendo
Lo, the image of Jesus did appear on a Nintendo Entertainment System, to tell the world that whosoever presseth up up down down left right left right B A start shall not die, but have 30 lives. I missed the boat on offering the Jesus Nintendo last week, when it was timelier, but this challenge…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s morning in America. It’s also early afternoon in the U.K. And it is 9 p.m. in Kazakhstan. Time for everyone to talk amongst themselves. About video games. Thanks to Shadoroch for the TAYpic. Want to have your TAYpic featured here? Send your images to #TAYpics. Make sure your image is 640 pixels wide by…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Meet the New Strip
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Oct. 1.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Oct. 7.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Laundry Time Winners
A designer’s concept blending a functioning coin-operated washing machine with a coin-operated video game was only slightly less absurd than the 20 laureates of this week’s ‘Shop Contest, led by Daniel Bain. See them all inside! Getting things started, electrikALIEN (6) just thought of the latest craze but, of course, it means one more peripheral…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
WWE 12 Gets a Lucha Libre Cover Star in Mexico
Regional covers for sports video games are not uncommon, especially for titles like FIFA. (Madden, once upon a time, also had a Spanish edition). I don’t know that it’s ever been done for THQ’s WWE series before now, though. [Update: It has. Several times.] There is a huge, rich, pro wrestling scene down in Mexico,…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sinestro Batman is Yours for Arkham City if You Pick Up a Crappy Blu-Ray
Green Lantern was not critically acclaimed. Nearly everyone hated it, but that won’t stop it from getting a Blu-Ray release. And with its Extended Cut Blu-Ray Combo pack is a skin dressing Batman in a Sinestro Corps getup for Batman: Arkham City, should you have the PS3 version. The skin was overlooked when it was…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
So Another Hall-of-Famer Sued EA Sports. Should Video Gamers Care?
As multiple lawsuits have been brought in multiple venues by multiple former college athletes—some of whom are actually more recognizable as professional stars—I’ve tried to pull back to the big picture of what really faces video gamers and (principally) EA Sports in the parade of litigation over unauthorized use of likenesses in sports video games.…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Culture
This Week in the Business: ‘Sony’s Bad-Mouthing Microsoft at Every Corner’
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Sony’s bad-mouthing Microsoft at every corner.”—Indie developer Guillaume Boucher-Vidal talks about his frustrations and why he lashed out at Sony and fellow developer Team Meat in an apology letter QUOTE | “Xbox Live Arcade’s health is flagging.”—Ron Carmel of 2D Boy…
James Brightman | IndustryGamers.com Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
AT&T Giving Uverse Subscribers $60 to Go Buy Xbox Live Gold
Wednesday, Microsoft announced that more than 40 providers had signed on to deliver TV programming to Xbox Live. One of those, AT&T, has been supplying content through its Uverse service for about a year, where it’s been available to free subscribers. Now it will completely transition to Xbox Live Gold. Therefore, AT&T is giving its…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Requires a ‘Permanent Internet Connection’
Mandatory constant Internet connections piss off PC gamers. No studio can has yet put that news in any light that didn’t summon an extremely indignant reaction. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2‘s tried to put it in a different light by saying the constant connection is how players will be served actual game content. Like missions. That does not…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 -
UncategorizedEaster Egg Gives Breaking Bad a Cameo in Rage
Appropriately enough, the season four finale of Breaking Bad is on AMC tomorrow night. You may recall that, in late August, Rage made a strange cameo in the meth-slinging drama, in which someone plays the game with a light gun. Well, Rage has returned the favor with a Breaking Bad prop cameo of its own.…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
They Think I Do Not Know a Buttload of Crap About the Gospel, but I Do
Orphans! Listen to Ignacio. I know it is fun to wrestle. A nice piledrive to the face, or a punch to the face, but you cannot do it. Because it is in the Bible not to wrestle your neighbor. Software • Tuesday, Oct. 11 release Forza 4 regular 360 game comes with $10 eGift Card…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Co-Op Multiplayer for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Arrives Oct. 25
“Exterminatus,” the late-addition cooperative mode for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, will release Oct. 25, publisher THQ said today. It had originally been scheduled for an “early October” release. Exterminatus has two maps, and lets up to four players take control of a Space Marine in what’s essentially a Horde match, fighting wave after wave of…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
L.A. Noire Studio Owes $1 Million to Employees—and a Quarter of That Is Claimed by the Boss
Team Bondi, the Australian studio that saved the worst year of its existence for the one in which it finally delivered L.A. Noire, owes its employees more than $1 million, according to papers filed in the studio’s liquidation. It’s a fitting epitaph for an outfit slagged over the summer for shady employment practices and insider…
By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Come Into the Light! All Are Welcome!
Kotaku readers! How are you this fine Friday evening? If you feel like responding to that question, or starting a thread of your own, this particular post is wide open for those very purposes. Anyone going to Indiecade in Los Angeles (Culver City) this weekend? If so, I’ll see you there? Sound good? Sounds good.…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Bulletstorm’s Creator Says All the Cussin’ was ‘A Bit More Than We Really Wanted’
Bulletstorm, released in February, is probably still 2011’s most foul-mouthed game. It may be 2012’s most foul-mouthed game, too. It popularized the term “dicktits” after all. Adrian Chmielarz, the creative director at Poland-based People Can Fly, tells the latest edition of Game Developer magazine that he didn’t know just how much swearing was going on…
By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
So, Who’s the New Guy?
Well met, Kotaku readers. You’ve probably seen my name popping up on the site this week and might be wondering who the hell I am, where I came from and why I’m here. I’ve been writing about video games for about 10 years, getting my start at the late, lamented Teen People magazine. (Oh, sure,…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Battlefield 3 for Xbox 360 Has Something Special On the Second Disc
The Xbox 360 version of DICE’s Battlefield 3 will ship on two discs—one dedicate to single-player, one dedicated to multiplayer. One of those discs will also have something Xbox 360 owners will probably want to clear some hard drive space for. According to a report from Gamerzines, Battlefield 3‘s second disc will also include an…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2011 - Culture
Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick. It’s Right There in the Title
Tearing into my first bite of Jimmy Dean Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick reminded me of an idea that came to me while I was unemployed. It also reminded me of being unemployed, but that’s another story. The idea was something called the Chicken Donut. Basically I’d take a shell donut like the kind…
By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
There Will Be No Backbreaker 2 as Its Studio is Moving Away from Console Gaming
Backbreaker‘s small but extremely passionate following got some bad, but not really unexpected news. “Unfortunately, and unofficially, it is very unlikely that we will revisit [Backbreaker]/full-on football again,” the game’s lead developer told a forum member. What’s more, Todd Gibbs told the forum user that “the company has changed direction and is currently not looking…
By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011