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  Why The Best Games Are Made By The Smallest Development Teams

  Commenter Crusader1025 ponders why some of the best games are created by development teams that barely qualify as teams in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. Half Life was made by 2 people. Minecraft was made by 1. While the best sellers are those who spend billions of dollars on publicity, the games themselves tend to be…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 8, 2011
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  The Best Mass Effect 2 Cosplay Meets The Best Dragon Age II Cosplay

  Which is tougher, the female version of Mass Effect 2’s Commander Shepard, or the female version of Dragon Age II’s Hawke? When costumer extraordinaire Holly Conrad and crew take on both BioWare sequels, everybody wins. You may remember Holly Conrad and her team from the best Mass Effect 2 cosplay every created. Her group created…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 8, 2011
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  Ms. Splosion Man Creator Dreams of Miyamoto. Disturbing, Personal Dreams.

  In Josh Bear’s happy dream, Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Donkey Kong and Super Mario, was sitting on a toilet. “I don’t dream of hot girls,” Bear told me as he recalled the dream last week at Game Developer’s Conference, “I dream of Miyamoto taking a dump.” In the dream, as Bear tells it, Miyamoto gets…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 8, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  You’re here for the video games, right? Good, you can talk about them here. Thanks to Snake56 for today’s image. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 8, 2011
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  Pretend Kisses, Mortal Kombat And The Quietest Night Note Of 2011

  Sorry my voice was so low! Making Killzone 3 Was Hard Work And Fake Kisses Killzone 3 cinematics director Jim Sonzero was feeling the heat. Long, brutal days turned into nights — nothing new to those in the game industry. Sonzero wanted actor Ray Winstone to get in Malcolm McDowell’s face. That’s when they started…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2011
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  Shadows of the Damned Screen Shots

  One of Shadows of the Damned’s hornier demons. Read our preview of the game here Garcia aims his Boner at a quartet of demons. Read our preview of the game here. From left to right, Johnson and Garcia. Read our preview of the game here. This demon’s name is George. Read our preview of the…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Nintendo Is So Not Screwing Around With 3DS Piracy

  The 3DS was apparently already cracked within 24 hours of release, and it’s now supposedly running piracy devices. Isn’t Nintendo going to do anything? You betcha. Back in July 2010, THQ’s Ian Curran said, “What excites me even more [than 3DS games] is that there’s technology built in that device to really combat piracy…I actually…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2011
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  Robert De Niro Is Keen For Uncharted Movie Madness

  David O. Russell, director of Three Kings and The Fighter, has a kooky idea for making Uncharted into a movie: ditch the game story and make it different. Robert De Niro hasn’t read the film’s script, but he’s hip. When asked by MTV whether he’s interested in the Uncharted flick, De Niro replied, “Absolutely, sure.”…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2011
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  Is Microsoft Getting Serious About Next-Gen? [Update]

  Console makers are always working on new stuff – you know, tinkering. But Microsoft is putting its money where its mouth is and hiring up for what could very well be a new console. There are three job listings: one for a “hardware verification engineer“, another for a “VLSI graphics architect” and one for a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2011
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  Activision Wants To Make A Dance Hero Out Of You

  Back in 2008, Activision applied for a trademark for a game called Dance Hero. Then…we all forgot about it. Now, it seems, the publisher might actually be releasing the thing. While the world was busy lamenting (or celebrating) the demise of the Guitar and DJ Hero franchises, Activision seems intent to carry on and release…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2011
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  A Nintendo 3DS Magic Trick To Amaze And Confound

  The 3DS is able to render 3D without the need of 3D glasses. Neat trick, but the 3DS has another ace up its sleeve. The 3DS can, as pointed out on blog Tiny Cartridge, continue to play music while in sleep mode when it is placed on a DS Lite. When placed on a DSi,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2011
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  Would You Play A Shooter Against 999 Other People?

  Developers Pikkotekk are trying something new: they want to make a shooter where 1000 people can go at it. On the one map. At the same time “About one year ago, we were talking with CCP and we came up with this idea that if we made a MMO FPS in Unity, the technical achievement…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2011
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  Making Killzone 3 Was Hard Work And Fake Kisses

  Killzone 3 cinematics director Jim Sonzero was feeling the heat. Long, brutal days turned into nights — nothing new to those in the game industry. Sonzero wanted actor Ray Winstone to get in Malcolm McDowell’s face. That’s when they started to pretend like they were kissing. “These guys are real pros, yet are still always…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2011
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  At Least Australians Know When Deus Ex: Human Revolution Is Coming Out

  EB Games Australia has gone very public with an official release date for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It’ll be out Down Under on August 25, so other regions shouldn’t be too far off that mark.

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2011
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  Ex-Halo Guys Show Off New, 2D Shooter

  What happens when four guys instrumental in the development of the Halo series leave Bungie and start up their own studio? They make a stylish 2D shooter/platformer. Fallen Frontier is the debut game from new indie studio Moonshot Games, which is comprised of four developers, three of whom served as producers, designers and programmers on…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2011
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  The (Small) Price You Pay For Playing DS Games On The 3DS

  You can play DS games on the Nintendo 3DS. No problem there. But did you know they take a lot longer to load on Nintendo’s new handheld than they did on the old one? A series of tests run by GameSpot, booting up five games on both the DS and 3DS, found that the new…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2011
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  The History Of Blizzard, From Broke Nerds To World Of Warcraft

  This year, Blizzard Entertainment – the developers behind series like Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo – turns 20. To celebrate, they’ve released this fascinating video retrospective. It tells a story most of you have probably never heard, at least not to this level of detail: of nerds collecting money to start a development studio, of making…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2011
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  Phony Nintendo DS Units Seized At Japanese Border

  The real, honest-to-goodness Nintendo DS is made in China. Phony Nintendo DS handhelds are also made in, you guessed it, China. Funny, that. Over 90 percent of counterfeit goods that entered Japan in 2010 were, according to Japanese customs, from China. The number is 11 percent higher than the previous year. The number two country…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2011
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  After Murder, There Was Online Gaming

  Earlier this month at a supermarket in Japan’s Kumamoto, 3-year-old Koko Shimizu went to the restroom while her mother paid for their groceries. Within minutes, the little girl was missing. Her body was discovered 500 meters away inside a large drain near a river. A twenty year-old college student named Yoshihiro Yamaguchi was captured on…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2011
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  There’s Hope Yet For Buying “Proper” Console Games Online (And On Time)

  One of the great unfulfilled dreams of the present hardware generation is the ability to buy full, retail console games online. On the day they’re released in stores. Microsoft sells old games via Xbox Live, but they’re laughably over-priced. Sony has sold a few as well, like Burnout Paradise, MAG and Warhawk, but had never…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2011