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How Tron 3 Is Like The Empire Strikes Back And The Dark Knight
Tron 3 isn’t going to be like Tron 1 or Tron 2. No, Tron 3 is going to be like…The Dark Knight. Or maybe The Empire Strikes Back. Well, sorta. Here’s why! “Now that we’ve got the backstory out of the way and we know this world and we know these characters, there’s a lot…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 Brings Plenty of Touch to Its Golf Game
Golf, with an emphasis on precision, and players always initiating rather than reacting to the action, is a natural for the mobile platform. That doesn’t mean any offering – even one with the weight of Tiger Woods and EA Sports’ names behind it – is automatically on the green in two. Following up last year’s…
By Owen Good Published April 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Delayed By Earthquake, Baseball Game Is Back On
One of the games delayed in the days and week following the Tohohu Earthquake in Japan, MLB 2K11 is finally getting a release date: it’ll be out May 12 in Japan on the PSP, PS3 and Xbox 360 [ via ファミ通].
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
How To Build Your Own Adventure Time Game Boy
If you like video games and animated series Adventure Time, no doubt one of your favourite characters will be Beemo, Jake and Finn’s adorable little talking Game Boy…console…thing If you’d like to have your very own Beemo, well, get ready, because here’s how you do it. You’ll need a Game Boy Color. And some tools.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedBangai-O HD Says There Is No Such Thing As “Too Many Missiles”
Classic explosion simulator Bangai-O is getting a HD re-release on Xbox Live Arcade this Spring. While the graphics have been improved since the N64/Dreamcast original, the batshit crazy obsession with missiles remains.
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Guy Built A Real, Living, Breathing City
It’s been, can you believe, eight years since the last true SimCity game was released. Yet time hasn’t stopped people from doing amazing things with the venerable old PC game. This is Al Aauim, a city that’s been built in the game that’s frightening in its realism and attention to detail. Using real Asian cities…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedPlease Be A Heart Container, Please Be A Heart Container, Please Be A Heart Container…
Zachariah Perry Cruse, you have made perhaps the greatest thing ever. I want one in my kitchen. Keep my bread in it. So when I make toast, it feels like I’m receiving a GREAT TREASURE.
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
2 Year-Old Child Goes Missing In One Arcade, Turns Up In Another One
On the evening of April 5, two parents were gaming at a Sapporo arcade. They took their eyes off their kid. It was then that their two year old daughter went missing. A 28 year-old man supposedly took the girl by the hand and took her from the arcade. According to reports, he apparently intended…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Let’s Hope This Tasteful Gran Turismo Clothing Isn’t Repeatedly Delayed
Sure, you may be hard-pressed seeing the branding at all, but official Gran Turismo clothing was never going to be of the tacky-slogan-on-a-t-shirt variety. This line of clothing, now available for the first time to those in the USA, keeps its Gran Turismo roots very close to its chest, opting for subtle badges and inconspicuous…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Killing Giant Monsters In The Name Of Helping Japan
Artist Joe Guinto will be auctioning off this great Shadow of the Colossus piece at the Kawaii Kon, April 29 in Hawaii. All proceeds will go to the Gamers Heart Japan charity. Shadow of the Colossus by Joe Guinto
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhat Happens To Your PlayStation Phone Game When You Get A Call?
We’ve seen the specs for Sony’s PlayStation phone, the Xperia Play. We’ve seen it in action. But we haven’t seen what happens when you get a phone call while gaming. This happens. The game cuts out, and the Xperia goes into phone mode. After dealing with the phone call, a window pops up on the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
From Booth Babe To X-Rays
Yuuri Morishita got her start as a booth companion back in 2003, appearing at events like the Tokyo Game Show. But by 2007, she was appearing as an on-stage guest to promote games. And now, she’s releasing an x-ray video. Not x-rated, x-ray. Like many pin-up hopefuls, Morishita paid her dues, passing out fliers and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Indie Dev Pulls Game In Protest Over GameStop Takeover
Blind Mind Studios, the developers of indie space strategy game Star Ruler, is withdrawing the title from sale on the Impulse digital shopfront following its sale to multinational retailer GameStop “Due to a rather large list of things we detest about GameStop”, a Blind Mind rep writes on the company’s website, “Star Ruler will no…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Please, Stop Putting Multiplayer In Games That Don’t Need It
Some games are suited towards multiplayer components. Others are not. So why do so many games waste time and money trying to be the former when they’re clearly the latter? It’s something Randy Pitchford, boss of Gearbox Studios (Borderlands, Brothers in Arms), has on his mind. “…the reason [publishers demand multiplayer components] is because they…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallRemembering Sega’s Exiled Mascot
Nintendo has Mario. Microsoft has Master Chief. And Sega, well, for a long time Sega has had Sonic the Hedgehog as its mascot. Thing is, Sonic is an usurper Before the blue, spiky hero with the red shoes burst onto the scene in 1991, Sega already had a mascot: Alex Kidd. A character we have…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Valve Tied To Vast Potato-Based Conspiracy, May Be Portal 2 Related
As of last Friday, April 1, Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve has been dropping cryptic clues in its own games (Team Fortress 2, Portal 2) and games made by others (Super Meat Boy, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, AudioSurf). The common thread? Potatoes What appears to be a complex alternate reality game, or ARG,…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Are Ya Buyin’?
Hola, Kotaku. Let’s put this Tuesday to bed with a question, as we tend to do on Tuesdays. As a consumer of goods and services myself, I’m wondering, what have you been buying lately? Surely you’ve picked up some comic books, some video games, some action figures, a car or house or two. Maybe you’d…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Is What The Mysterious Pandora’s Tower For Wii Looks Like
Earlier this year, Nintendo of Japan unveiled Pandora’s Tower, a new Wii game slated for an overseas release this spring. We didn’t know much about the title beyond its use of classical piano music and large upper back tattoos. But now we have video of this high-speed action game. Pandora’s Tower appears to be a…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 5, 2011
