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Avoid All Armadillos
Ladies and gentlemen, let’s celebrate our ability to survive the vast majority of this week with some friendly, off-topic conversation. Talk about video games if you want, but just talk about something with your fellow Kotaku readers. I’m about to finally put this Mortal Kombat review up—a review delayed by my inability to bring the…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
How an Imperfect Player Became the Perfect Madden Cover Pick
He’s the first Madden cover star from a losing team. The first with no Pro Bowl appearances at the time of his selection. He led NFL running backs in one statistical category last year – fumbles. Peyton Hillis hardly carries the credentials that rate a career honor many great football players will never see. But…
By Owen Good Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Viacom Got a Smidge More Than $49.99 for Selling Rock Band Studio
When Viacom said vaya con dios to Rock Band and its studio, Harmonix, the price of sale was $49.99. Actual retail price of the tax writeoff they got to take? $115 million, with about half of that returned this year as a cash refund on past taxes. [Gamasutra]
By Owen Good Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
To-Do In New York: Watch A Portal 2 Writer Play Portal 2
Portal 2 co-writer Erik Wolpaw is coming to New York University next month to present a “brief guided play-through of Portal 2“, according to the event’s organizers at NYU. He’ll also hopefully say smart things. I’d settle for funny things. Or things about Portal 2 DLC. Or… anything. NYU Game Lecture Series – Erik Wolpaw…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Entire Bit.Trip Saga Is Coming To Nintendo 3DS
The adventures of Commander Video are served six ways in the new Bit.Trip Saga, the Nintendo 3DS compilation that will included every Bit.Trip game released by developer Gaijin Games. Not only do you get Bit. Trip Beat, you get Core, Void, Runner, Fate and Flux That’s more than two years worth of Bit.Trip releases on…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fold Paper Like a F***ing Badass With Duke Nukem Forever Papercraft
Hey, chumps, if you’re not dropping the hundy on Duke Nukem Forever‘s “Balls of Steel” special edition, you can still get your hands on its macho-iest component, that being the papercraft. That there, what looks like a Minecraft skin of Duke, is the special papercraft you get if you buy the special edition. But there’s…
By Owen Good Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fruit Ninja Kinect Sneaks Out Via Korean Ratings Board
Tap and slash mobile hit Fruit Ninja will make the leap from phone to Kinect, according to a Korean Game Rating Board approval. Siliconera spotted the rating, issued April 27, which heralds the arrival of Fruit Ninja Kinect. Maybe we’ll see this one at E3…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Ridiculously Easy Game Show Question was Good for $100,000 Today
Ridiculously easy for us of course. I’m sure when some neckbeard gets to $100,000 on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and goes deer-in-the-headlights when asked “Which Pope commissioned the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling,” every snark on the art history blogs is all lolwut and SMFH and such. Yes, “I don’t think it’s…
By Owen Good Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
FBI Cybercrimes Joins 22 States In Sweeping PlayStation Network Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigations today confirmed to Kotaku that it is looking into the security breach that brought the Playstation Network down and exposed millions of users’ personal data to cybercriminals. The FBI is joined by nearly two dozen state attorneys general and possibly the Federal Trade Commission who are looking into this month’s…
By Brian Crecente Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Darkness II
DEMON ARMS | The Darkness II is, not surprisingly, much darker than the Darkness. (2K Games) Is Let Them Eat Cake the Most Authentic Royalty Simulator of All Time? Oh, perchance for but a moment to be an inbred simp amidst a pageant to celebrate the sublimation of fresh genetic material into our state-supported carnival…
By Brian Crecente Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedTo-Do In Early May: Watch Live Zelda Ocarina Concert On My Computer
Heather in St. Louis appears to be obsessed with playing the ocarina. She’s got a hit YouTube channel full of dozens of videos of her playing Zelda songs, along with Donkey Kong songs, Final Fantasy songs, and even a Nelly song. (She manages to have a different ocarina in just about every other one of…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedHere’s a Sneak-Peek of Hulu Plus on Xbox 360
Hulu Plus is coming to Xbox Live tomorrow, so we took a quick look to see if there were any mind-altering changes compared to similar apps like Netflix and the Zune store. Guess what? There aren’t. Anyone who’s used Netflix on Xbox 360 before will feel right at home with the Hulu interface since it’s…
By Mike Epstein Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedLittle Things Get a Lot of Attention in the First Two Madden NFL 12 Videos
Two videos give the first look at Madden NFL 12‘s gameplay, calling attention to gameplay (above) and presentation details added for this year’s game. They don’t cover everything. There are three deeper discussions of the game’s defensive and collision upgrades and fully customizable playbooks. The presentation video shows progressive lighting, new broadcast overlays, jazzier pregame…
By Owen Good Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Lara Croft Still Looks Like Hell in the New Tomb Raider
The makers of the new Tomb Raider have been stripping away any semblance of glamor Lara Croft may have exhibited in previous games. Her next, simply titled Tomb Raider, features a muddier, bloodier Lara simply trying to survive. The game is the subject of numerous magazine covers this month, all of them appearing to use…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Redbox Video Game Rentals Go Nationwide In June
After nearly two years of testing video game rentals in its ubiquitous crimson movie rental machines, Redbox is ready to take its game national, offering game rentals at more than 21,000 locations nationwide starting June 17. Redbox began testing video game rentals in its DVD rental kiosks back in August of 2009, slowly adding locations…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Even If Yoshi Is Gay, Where are the Other Gay Video Game Heroes?
Can an egg-laying dinosaur without sex organs be gay? IGN’s Jack DeVries makes the case that Mario‘s green dinosaur steed with the prehensile tongue is “dating”-in the strange, largely irrelevant backstory that frames the series-Birdo, the pink, bow-wearing dinosaur first seen in Super Mario Bros. 2 Birdo, according to official Nintendo lore, is male. The…
By Joel Johnson Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedEA’s Next Need For Speed Leaks Early, Goes On The Run In November
Looks like we’re getting a peek at the next Need For Speed a little earlier than publisher EA planned. Details on Need For Speed: The Run appeared on UK retailer ShopTo.net earlier today, a title heretofore unannounced by Electronic Arts. So… what’s The Run? Based on the first trailer for the game, it appears to…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Colleague Shares the Trauma of the Southern Tornadoes
Tiffany Nevin, news editor at GamingAngels.com (we’ve featured her work before) lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Her neighborhood and much of the rest of the American southeast has been mauled by tornadoes, claiming the lives of more than 200 people. Yesterday, another tornado ripped through her neighborhood. She shot this video an hour after it passed.…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow Do You Like Driver: San Francisco Now?
Ubisoft Reflection’s attempt to get the Driver series back on track will hit on August 30, according to a new trailer for the game that’s coming to just about every platform imaginable. Want to see what Driver: San Francisco looks like now? Have a look. Remember, this is the Driver game that has you playing…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2011 -
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One of the iPhone’s Best Role-Playing Sagas Continues in Zenonia 3
In 2009 Zenonia changed my idea of what an iPhone role-playing game could be. 2010’s Zenonia 2: The Lost Memories further refined the series’ winning formula. Now Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story arrives, and it looks to big the biggest Zenonia yet. The third installment of Gamevil’s action-RPG sees players adventuring as one of four…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011