Indie Dev Meme Speaks Truth to the Powerless

Meme Generator now has “Optimistic Indie Dev” on its menu of choices, and it’s become quite active. Some suck, but a lot provide biting commentary on independent games development, in a can’t-live-with-em-can’t-live-without-em way. For an all-star selection of the best, go here. Meme Generator now has “Optimistic Indie Dev” on its menu of choices, and…

Pac-Man Dookie: A Retrospective

The original image. By Fletch Brendan Good An alternate concept of Pac-Man on the john. By Fletch Brendan Good Pac-Man does his business in the tunnel. The original image, resized larger. An alternate of the tunnel image. “I needed to flatten out the bottom edge of the turds.” By Fletch Brendan Good. The size of…

You May Now Play Long Lost Bio Force Ape

There must be some law that only in April can we get news about Bio Force Ape, a never-released NES game whose wild-ass title and premise spawned an awesome hoax in 2005. This, however, is legitimate: the ROM of the game is now available for you to download and play on an emulator, unless someone’s…

How Long Does it Take to Stomp Out a 999-Hit Combo in Marvel vs. Capcom 3?

Roughly four minutes and 20 seconds is the answer, if it’s Chun-Li doing most of the dirty work vs. Dante in Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Whoever’s playing as Chun-Li wings off another 24 hits to grow on after the combo meter hits 999, too. You can probably fast forward from about 25 seconds to 4:21…

Climbing Out of a Slump

We’re on just the third day of the Major League Baseball season, so it’s impossible to say anyone is really in a hitting slump. MLB 11 The Show has been out for about a month, though, and one reader found his rookie struggling to get a hit, until he ended the slide the old fashioned…

Nielsen Survey Finds Black Gamers Spend the Most Time Playing Consoles

Nielsen, the folks who measure every single thing that is or could possibly be done with a television set, have released an analysis of gaming habits by ethnicity, finding that African-Americans game the most per day, on average, Asian-Americans the least. Black gamers spent an average of 16 minutes a day using a TV to…

Wild Things

I’m not much for giving inspirational addresses, but I’d just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we’d save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves. Me, I’m for wasting sportswriters’ time. So…

Let’s Close Out April Fool’s With This Unbeatable Minecraft Office Prank

Closing out this April Fool’s Day is a prank that is 100 percent truthful in its awesomeness. At Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Greenview Data, the co-workers of one Minecraft-addicted employee, Matt, converted his cubicle into a Minecraft cave anyone could be proud of, in game or in real life. It wasn’t as simple as taking 62…

Stay Gold

What we’ve got here is an open thread. And if that’s what you want, that’s what you get. Kotaku readers, please collect yourselves here for some rip-rap-rappin’ with your fellow video game enthusiasts. We’ll leave you with a short but sweet off topic post where you can talk about anything—video games, toys, books, cars, sports,…

Paint the Town Brown with Duke Nukem Forever

Evidently, crap will be a missile weapon when Duke Nukem Forever releases – quite ironic for a game that’s spent 14 years unable to shit or get off the pot. I have no problem with toilet humor, I can deal with the sight of turds and I can handle, conceptually anyway, someone throwing them around.…

Super Meat Boy Creators Went Through Hell To Get Their Game Done, Felt ‘Taken Advantage Of’ By Microsoft

You thought playing Super Meat Boy was hard? Because making the notoriously difficult indie platformer sounds like pure hell, according to a Super Meat Boy post mortem that lays out what went right (fun design environment, Steam) and what went wrong (financial drain, Xbox Live Arcade). Team Meat’s Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes recount the…

Why Nintendo Has No Interest in Mobile Phones

Though Nintendo has, notably, struck an arrangement with AT&T to provide free wireless Internet hotspot access, the company remains adamant that it isn’t entering the mobile phone business. “We don’t want to be in the phone business,” Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, told CNN. “We don’t see that as an opportunity. Phones are…

Ridley Lives, Like A Boss

It’s Metroid madness in Adam Sidwell’s new poster design. This will be the last in his Video Game Boss series. Check out all of Adam’s prints at his shop Related Rampages: Skeletor | Stay Frosty | Space Pirates (More) Metroid by Adam Sidwell / theSKID (Store) Via: theskid Need your daily fill of geek eye…

Original Madden Developer Sues for Millions in Royalties

One of the developers on the first edition of John Madden Football is suing Electronic Arts, seeking a handsome cut of the estimated $4 billion in profits the series has reaped over more than 20 years. Robin Antonick, a contracted developer who, in 1986, helped Trip Hawkins build the seminal football franchise with consultation from…

Johnny Cage Fights Dirty In New Mortal Kombat Clip

Mortal Kombat’s most self-centered kombatant is the star of our latest look at the series’ bloody revival. Watch as Johnny Cage lights up the screen in “Fight Dirty” his follow-up to “Ninja Mime.” Not only is it a chance to see Johnny be amusingly smarmy, there’s also a delightfully painful testicular readjustment on one of…

Modern Warfare Makers Complain Of Secret Call of Duty Games And More Broken Promises

“Don’t worry about it. It’s impossible for you guys to get fired,” Activision boss Bobby Kotick told Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella in 2008, according to a new cross-complaint filed today in a Los Angeles court. Two years and one Call of Duty game later, the creators of the billion dollar war…

Pass It On

Bronze | The Pony Express, immortalized in this statue found at the Colorado state line, lasted a bit more than a single year. (Photo by Me) Bedtime Stories These New Shots From Skyrim Are No Laughing Matter There’s nothing funny at all about the latest screenshots from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, unless you count…

Leaked Forza 4 Video Confirms Kinect Features [Update]

Realizing it is April Fool’s, if this video is a fake, someone went to a lot of trouble to create something that delivers no punchline. Here is a solid three minutes jampacked with in-game footage of Forza 4, touting a lot of features we’d scented from a marketing survey that went out last week. Details…

Sega’s MLB-Licensed Management Sim Launches

Just to make it official, Sega’s MLB Manager Online had a beta launch earlier this month, not a full launch as some posts had implied. Moot point now as the fully-licensed sports management sim is now available. All 30 Major League teams and over 900 real players are featured in the game. Scads more details…

West And Zampella vs. Activision Cross-Complaint