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CultureTotal RecallThis is Why You Don’t See Many Games Based On Soap Operas
Think games based on movies, action-oriented TV shows and classic works of literature are a bad idea? They’ve got nothing on games based on soap operas. This is Neighbours. It’s a game based on the mega-popular Australian soap of the same name, which has been shown in over 50 countries since its first episode in…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Left Behind
Left Behind | One gamer’s entry in Gizmodo’s outstanding Rapture Bomb gallery. Do yourself a favor and check it out. PSP Games Coming to PS3 With HD Visuals, Extra Content Sony today unveiled a new initiative whereby select PlayStation Portable titles will be ported to the PlayStation 3, with improvements made along the way to…
By Owen Good Published May 22, 2011 - Culture
Dealt DiRT
Codemasters’ rally-racer DiRT 3 is the lone major console release this week, bringing a new gymkhana mode to its menu of off-road offerings. Tuesday DiRT 3 (PC, PS3, 360) Also: Cake Mania: Main Street (DS); Dead or Alive: Dimensions (3DS); Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale (PC, 360); Emily The Strange (DS); Kung Fu Panda 2: The…
By Owen Good Published May 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Drinking Games
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 5 Hard Drinkin’ Video Game Heroes [Calm Down Tom] I’m surprised at how temperate Cole Phelps is in L.A. Noire. The detective genre usually…
By Owen Good Published May 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Reconsidering Mafia II in the Lights of L.A.
In the runup to the game’s release last year, Mafia II‘s development studio and publicity team tried, with limited success, to set reasonable expectations of the game. “It isn’t Grand Theft Auto,” I was told, more than once, in emails and in the game’s review notes. The talking point reflects the popular expectation, built over…
By Owen Good Published May 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Looks Like Carmageddon’s Making a Comeback
Carmageddon‘s official site is displaying a countdown that will reach zero early the morning of June 1. The site is registered to Square-Enix, the series’ owner (acquiring it with Eidos). The series’ last release came in 2000; a Carmageddon 4 had been rumored in 2005 but was put on hold indefinitely.
By Owen Good Published May 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Ocarina Included in Ocarina of Time 3D Premiums [Updated]
French gaming site Le Mag Jeux Video got pictures of what appear to be the official premiums for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D; it includes a wooden (or wood-patterned) pen and a plastic ocarina with the holes identified by their note. I had no idea an ocarina looked like a blue athletic…
By Owen Good Published May 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Report Says GameFly Picking Up Digital Distribution Service
Discs-to-your-door rental service Gamefly will buy Direct2Drive from IGN, according to a report by MCV, likely expanding digital rentals’ availability over PC down the line. MCV notes that Direct2Drive had recently launched a digital rental service. Though neither IGN nor GameFly have commented on this rumor, which spread Friday, MCV says an official announcement is…
By Owen Good Published May 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
V.G. Noire
This week on Twitter a bunch of friends were cracking wise about some L.A. Noire crossovers with other video games. That seemed to be as good an idea as any for this week’s ‘Shop Contest. Don’t worry, I’ve included images. Here’s what we’re going to do: Cole Phelps is a video game cop, right? Let’s…
By Owen Good Published May 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Listen, we can do this the easy way, or we can go down to the station. So talk! Amongst yourselves of course. About games. Welcome back to Kotaku’s official open thread. Incursor is our winner today of the #TAYpics derby. Want your handiwork featured in Talk Amongst Yourselves? Submit an image to #TAYpics (Read this…
By Owen Good Published May 22, 2011 - Culture
Sunday Comics
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 May 16. – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published May 18. – Read more of Nerf…
By Owen Good Published May 22, 2011 -
UncategorizedHere’s Your First Look at a PSP Remaster Game In Action [Update]
The first title revealed for Sony’s new PlayStation Portable Remaster Series is Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD. Here’s the game’s debut trailer, showing the kind of improvements Sony hopes will convince people to buy a PSP game and play it on their PS3. UPDATE – The original 360p version has now been replaced with a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
PSP Games Coming to PS3 With HD Visuals, Extra Content
Sony today unveiled a new initiative whereby select PlayStation Portable titles will be ported to the PlayStation 3, with improvements made along the way to (hopefully) make the whole thing worthwhile. It’s called the PlayStation Portable Remaster Series, and sees certain PSP games re-released on the PS3 with enhancements like exclusive new content, HD graphics,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Welcome Back PSN: The Winners
Last week’s contest asked you to present an allegorical illustration for the glory of PlayStation Network’s return, after an agonizing 23-day outage. We ended up with one of our most-entered contests of the past four months. There are 20 finalists, but aren’t all of us the winners here? stae60 (17) and symbology (18) start us…
By Owen Good Published May 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedTesla Orchestra Gives an Electrifying Performance of the Zelda Theme
Sometimes called the Zeusaphone, a Tesla coil’s musical application is well known and long admired. We’ve heard it with the Super Mario Bros. theme, now admire a high voltage performance of The Legend of Zelda‘s title theme by Tesla Orchestra, a group of coilers from the Case Western Reserve University student and alumni community. [Thanks…
By Owen Good Published May 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
My Workout Partner is a Role-Playing Game
Two hundred bucks. My health insurance company will give me $200 if I just go to the gym, 50 times in a six-month span. That’s about two times a week. Coming into May, I only needed seven more visits to collect the moolah. And even with cash on the barrelhead waiting, I started making excuses…
By Owen Good Published May 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fox News Debate of Federal Funding for Games Goes About Like You’d Expect
Here’s a video that is uncomfortable to watch on two levels. The first is that I feel terrible for Brian Ambrozy, the editor-in-chief of Icrontic, who is appearing on Fox News to try to explain why and what kind of video games are now eligible for federal arts funding. The second is the nonstop assault…
By Owen Good Published May 21, 2011 -
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Leaked Video Gives In-Depth Look at FIFA 12 and its ‘Impact Engine’
A leaked webcast of the improvements to and new features in FIFA 12 graced YouTube earlier this week, was removed, and has returned. It’s about 10 minutes of new stuff, some of it highly technical, but for FIFAphiles, it sheds plenty of light on the “Impact Engine” anchoring this year’s batch of upgrades. Operation Sports…
By Owen Good Published May 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedVoting on TF2‘s “Saxxy” Awards Opens Today
This a nominee for “Best Replay” in Team Fortress 2‘s “Saxxy” Awards, designed to celebrate the game’s new replay camera feature. With the entry period closing yesterday, voting has begun on a field of entries numbering “in the tens of thousands,” according to Valve. The panel of jurists is anyone with a copy of the…
By Owen Good Published May 21, 2011