Wait a Minute, Could Uploading Video of Video Games Really Send You to Prison?

It might in the future, according to one reading of Senate Bill 978, assuming it gets passed. This is a proposed law put before the Senate about a couple months ago, but the games community just sat up and noticed once it read the language and understood the totality of its prohibitions. The proposed law…

The Future of Sports Doesn’t Seem Set in Motion

I have this silly daydream of a Kinect-enabled baseball game. In it, you can call for your runner to steal by going through the signals of a third-base coach. Then touch the cap, touch the belt, touch the letters, indicator, sign, corners of the mouth, batter-up fists, clap, let’s go. Or you can, you know,…

Katamari Karma’s Gonna Get You

Freddie Wong is back with another video game video, and it is fantastic. You can see the punchline coming, but that’s not to say it isn’t well executed. [h/t Renzor004 and Umbra]

Be True to Your School and Make a Video Game Better

NCAA Football 12 isn’t out for another 10 days, but there’s something you can do in the meantime—with the new version of the game, even—that will add to your experience, and others’ too, when it arrives. You can create your high school’s uniforms, using TeamBuilder, the web application for NCAA Football now in its third…

Cup-Art Bandit Strikes Again With Metroid

Last month’s Mega Man mosaic of painted cups in a chain-link fence has a sequel, and an artist claiming responsibility for the acts of awesomeness. Here is Samus and a metroid by Pixeled Fence, “a gamer’s urban art project.” It and the Mega Man mosaic appeared on the Carterville Road overpass of University Avenue in…

The Best Videos of the Week

Maybe you stayed offline all week and couldn’t check out your favorite Gawker Media sites. Or maybe you just got back from an awkward brunch and want to escape for a bit. Well, whatever the case, we’ve got you covered. Here are some of the most amusing and entertaining videos we watched during the week…

Here’s Ice-T’s Chainsaw Kill in Gears of War 3

As we all know by now, Ice-T voices a character in Gears of War 3. This minute-long montage of gameplay, courtesy of Gamespot, features him as “Aaron Griffin,” and Ice-T’s catch phrases over Griffin’s attacks. Now we know why the actor/rapper was so fired up that he wrote this tribute to the game and performed…

Talkin’ Bubbles … Sixto and the Hoot

When you get deep into the weeds of a player-management mode, you test the limits of the game’s ability to randomize reasonable names as it seeds the roster with fresh talent. Reader Justin is a decade into MLB 2K11‘s franchise mode as the general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, and shares this gallery of gems.…

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E3: Go for the Games, Remember it for the People

How long ago was E3? Until yesterday, it was the day after I last did a laundry. And that’s a hell of a long time. I sat there in the laundromat with my 3DS, looking at the 134 people I met at E3. I’ve not had a StreetPass notice since. Ultimately, that’s what E3 is…

Savings are Your’n on the Fourth of July

You probably think it’s just a hamburger. A patty’s just a piece of meat, but it can have character. See that doughnut hole? Gets 18 patties to the pound instead of 16. Saves me about $40,000 a year. That’s serious money, Ron. I plug the hole with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, spices. I cover it with…

The First of July

Kotaku readers, we leave you this Friday with an open thread for your enjoyment. You’re steering the ship tonight, so please make pleasant conversation and offer links of interest to your fellow Kotaku readers so that we can have a healthy, productive off-topic post. If you’re celebrating your independence this extended holiday weekend, please do…

Artist Wants to Make a Life-Size Replica of Counter-Strike‘s ‘Dust’ for Us to Play In

Aram Bartholl has a habit of bringing the most recognizable things from our virtual worlds into reality. He created the first-person shooter glasses. He installed replicas of Need for Speed Underground 2‘s flashing neon arrows and Counter-Strike‘s crates in public spaces. Now he wants to construct one of the world’s most played multiplayer maps, “de_dust”…

Professor Layton Anime Coming Stateside This Fall

Level 5’s puzzle adventure series Professor Layton spawned a film in 2009, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva. Anime distributor Viz Media now plans to bring the Japanese movie to America this fall, reports Anime News Network. Another puzzle solved.

Even Team Fortress 2‘s Mann Co. Store is Having a Sale

Now that Team Fortress 2 is free-to-play, what will you spend your disposable income on? Perhaps newly price-slashed items in the game’s Mann Co. store! Many of those virtual items are on sale, just like tons of other Steam stuff. Some of those virtual goods, which one could argue carry price tags too hefty, are…

LittleBigPlanet Creators ‘Stepping Away’ from Series to Pursue ‘New Ideas’

Media Molecule, the UK studio behind LittleBigPlanets big and small are taking a break from the PlayStation series that has spawned two PlayStation 3 games and one PSP game. They’re moving on to “new ideas,” according to the studio’s director. Edge reports from Gamelab 2011 in Barcelona, citing Siobhan Reddy, who says the developer is…

Civ World Wants You… But Not Just Yet

Happy Fourth Soon | Sid Meier as Uncle Sam. (Image from Firaxis Games) Zynga Files $1 Billion IPO Fueled By Virtual Farms, Mob Wars and Cityscapes The game makers behind mega Facebook games Farmville, CityVille and Mafia Wars today filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission to take Zynga public in hopes of raising…

Left 4 Dead 2 Campaign Opens A Portal to Portal 2

Spoiler alert? Only if you planned to play community made campaign “Suicide Blitz 2” in Left 4 Dead 2, currently the officially featured fan-created add-on for Valve’s zombie horror first-person shooter, the game that has a very neat Portal 2 Easter Egg buried within. Watch as two Left 4 Dead 2-loving ladies discover the existence…

Bye Bye Games for Windows Marketplace, Hello Xbox.com

In what does not seem like a positive sign for Microsoft’s Games For Windows efforts, the Games For Windows Marketplace is merging with Xbox.com, a move that the Xbox 360 maker says is for convenience and ease.

6 1/2 Minutes of the Most Gorgeous Game You’ll See This Week

This is Journey, a downloadable game for the PlayStation 3 that is coming out this fall and looks like a dream. The game’s creators at ThatGameCompany are running a beta for the Journey now, to test its quiet, anonymous multiplayer mode. I played through the beta. It takes about a half-hour to get to the…