Evony Shop Contest Winners

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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Evony, In Perfect Harmony Winners

Evonyizifying video games was the name of the last ‘Shop Contest challenge, and either way it figured to be not half as obnoxious as the ads for the freemium online game. We raked in over 900 submissions. Over 900! AlanMooresBeard (1) took care of the obligatory Bad Dudes entry. BigMike McCarthy (2) supplied the most,…

Boys’ Beyblade Bathtub Breakage Begets eBay Bailout

At first blush, you might think the older kid on the left is faking the tears. But at right, one sees only the authentic, thousand-yard stare of a younger brother caught up in more trouble than he can possibly imagine. These two have lost their entire collection of Beyblades, the spinning-top toy based on the…

Minecraft Goes Through the Looking Glass of Garry’s Mod

Garry’s Mod is powerful, but not this powerful. That’s where “Photoshop” comes in. But this brilliant Minecraft/Half-Life 2 mashup uses both to tell a charming story. Before you go asking OMG, where’s the texture pack, here’s the scoop. Artist Robbaz recorded the opening in Minecraft, went through the portal, then spliced in a recording made…

He’s Playing for the Madden Cover — Oh, and a Super Bowl, Too

The cover of Madden NFL is the modern Wheaties box. Every sport has its video game and a cover athlete, but only Madden gets the bar-argument debate over who deserves the front. That begins tomorrow after the clock hits zero in Super Bowl XLV. Handicapping the next cover selection is alternately easy and difficult. Offensive…

Rovio Will Fling Angry Birds Into 3DS ‘Later in the Year’

Rovio Mobile confirmed over its official Twitter account that all versions of Angry Birds will be brought to the Nintendo 3DS within the year. Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, and the forthcoming Angry Birds Rio, a tie-in with the movie of the same name, will be digital downloads over 3DSWare, Rovio told the blog 3DS…

Draw Your Own Controller With This Kinect Mod

The march of mod progress has steadily delivered many cool things during the Kinect’s short lifespan to date. We can add another breakthrough: The ability to recognize hand-drawn buttons. This hack, by Garratt Gallagher, won Willow Garage’s recent open-source Robot Operating System contest. Here he draws four buttons with a piece of paper and a…

Like It or Not, Here’s World 1-1 in Left 4 Dead

This looks a lot like the re-creation of World 1-1 in Half-Life 2 – it and Left 4 Dead use the same engine and toolkit, after all. But Left 4 Dead Super Mario Bros does include subterranean rooms. Bill’s jumping is of little use in this board though – everything’s built too high. He busts…

Box Scores: Cleveland Dreamer

On Dec. 2, the Cleveland Cavaliers were 7-10 when they faced LeBron James. Since then, they’ve gone 1-32, tying an NBA record with 23 straight losses. Only in NBA Jam could this team turn its season around. Kotaku commenter Bamzilla set about to do just that, taking the Cavs in NBA Jam’s Classic Campaign, which…

Leaked Battlefield 3 DLC Info Points to a Classic Map Reboot?

Someone from the Battlefield 3 forums unearthed a poster that purports to reveal plans for the extra maps included in the game’s limited edition. A four-map redo of the “Strike at Karkand” map from Battlefield 2 will be included. Furthermore, for those who don’t pick it up free in the Limited Edition, it’ll be available…

The Moneysaver: Teen Exploitation

I can’t believe this, Wyatt. I’m so disappointed in us. All our lives we’ve been saying how great it would be if we went to parties, right? And now it’s our party and we’re looking at game coupons. Game coupons! Why did I forget that Robert Downey, Jr. was in this film? It took seeing…

EA Might Be In Trouble For Using Scared Moms As Game Bait

Electronic Arts’ Dead Space 2 marketing campaign is in the sights of a parents advocacy group. Well, actually, it is, since a “parent advocacy group” is calling out the campaign for the same reason I think it’s stupid: it completely overshoots (and in many ways insults) its target market, pandering to a demographic that won’t…

Here’s One Thing We Want From The NGP

This. This is what we want. Well, not Okami specifically, just the idea of it, where we can walk into a store, pick up a game and know it spans the divide between three PlayStation consoles. We don’t want mere re-releases. Or simple remakes. We want Sony to make good on its retreat from the…

First Rule of Capcom’s Fight Club: Talk About the 3DS

Here’s a stylish look at Fight Club, the celebration put on by iam8bit and Capcom last night that provided 1,500 fans a peep at Super Street Fighter IV on the 3DS, if they waited in line 19 hours. Taking place last night, Fight Club’s admission line snaked around an entire city block in downtown Los…

Fat Ugly or Slutty Submissions

She’s Got the Hadouken Nailed

Reader Jorge R. says he gave his girlfriend his PC gamepad and a copy of Street Fighter IV. After a week, here’s her new manicure.

Big Game Hunters

Are you ready for some football? Or are you simply gearing up for some big advertising? Do you have any idea what I’m talking about? Let’s talk about it in tonight’s open thread. Comic book fans, you may want to tune into Sunday’s Super Bowl game to see the first Captain America trailer (io9 has…

A Chronicle of Misspelled Slurs — Except ‘Fat,’ ‘Ugly’ or ‘Slutty’

From the message that Xbox Live user ralphy305 sent a female gamer, it’s clear the time he should have spent on his spelling and grammar was instead put to keying in a text representation of an ejaculating penis. Give the devil his due, though, ralphy305’s invective was also a hat trick hitting the titular themes…

More Gundam Hack ‘n’ Slash Action Coming To America

Namco will bring the beautifully cel-shaded Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 (aka Gundam Musou 3) to North American Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s this summer—and it’s bringing all-new Mobile Suits with it!

Watch a Video Game Being Made In Seven Minutes

Three developers from Cryptic Studios participated in last weekend’s Global Game Jam, the festival that challenges participants to create a game from scratch in just 48 hours. They built this time-lapse video, compressing two days of work into seven minutes. Jimb Esser (programming), James Laird (programming and design) and Nick Duguid (art) collaborated on “Benny…