Next week, New York’s Ars Nova theatre company will be presenting twelve plays based on…Wii games. Those selected include Wii Tennis, Let’s Tap and…oh dear. Buck Fever. Each is a “short” play that, while named after a Wii game, may not necessarily be a direct adaptation of one. So “All Star Cheer Squad” may start…
Nintendo is gaming’s comeback kid. Just when everybody counted them out with the GameCube, the Kyoto-based game maker fired back with the hugely successful Nintendo DS and the Wii. But there’s more to the Cinderella story than that. Specs Price: US$24.95 Platform: Hardcover What’s in the book: 256 pages, black and white pictures. The Basics…
Kotaku commenter GeshGav (art blog here) is sprucing up one of the hallways in his home. Not with wallpaper, or a fancy coat of paint. But with this amazing Mario picture. Bravo!
Wii Fit’s skiing looks harmless enough. You ski by…leaning a little. Don’t tell that to this guy’s living room, though. He ends up doing quite a number on it. Which considering the game is requiring him to just stand up is quite an achievement. God forbid someone give him a Kinect. He’d probably end up…
The US Secret Service, in a throwback to the 20th century, currently train using tabletop simulations. Realising that 1944 was a long time ago, they’re now looking to replace that with video games. Specifically, with a “virtual reality” environment that uses a 55-inch stereoscopic 3D display to let trainees enter a simulated training area and…
While a 5-month old baby died from internal bleeding, 21-year-old Trent Owen Ngaruhe Hapuku apparently continued playing his PlayStation. The New Zealander faces manslaughter charges after Mikara Ranui Jarius Reti died on January 11. Hapuku was left in charge of young Mikara. The baby’s mother, Jamie Reti, supposedly left the child alone with the 21-year-old…
You’ve seen the effects of Halo on the human heart. Now see the effects of…SimCity (via).
While to outsiders Japan appears a homogeneous nation (with only 2% of the population being registered foreigners), there are actually key regional differences in the way people behave and the language is spoken. The country’s video game developers are no exception. It’s easy to divide the country into East and West Japan — or simply…
Don’t look now, but Mass Effect 2 on PS3 is having a little trouble saving some people’s games. Be cautious!
That may sound like a tough one, but actually, the AbleGamers Foundation has an answer, and that answer is Forza 3. The Foundation, which exists to promote awareness and accessibility in video games for disabled gamers, selects once a year a recipient for its “Accessible Mainstream Game of the Year”. This is awarded to the…
Here’s a novel concept: digital delivery store Direct2Drive is trialling an offer whereby PC gamers can download and rent a game. It works like this: you download the entire game from D2D, and pay $5 for five hours of playtime. If at the end of that time you want to buy the game, you pay…
With the PS3 able to play games in 3D and Nintendo about to launch a 3D handheld, it’s easy to get carried away with the “latest big thing” in gaming. And forget we had 3D games the 1980s Yes, long before Sony added 3D capabilities to the PS3 and Nintendo unveiled the 3DS, several companies…
Even in light of the toll Dead Space 2 has taken on my circulatory system, I’m going back into it. If you’re not a fan of the deep space terror of that game, join us for some off-topic conversation instead. Tonight’s open thread is extra geeky, so feel free to nerd out in the comments…
We’re not sure why toy maker Kotobukiya is releasing a figure based on Phantasy Star Online now, but we’re not complaining. Who doesn’t love PSO and would want a little robot maiden to remember all the good times? Whatever the reason, Kotobukiya is releasing a very reasonable model based on RAcaseal Eleanor from Phantasy Star…
Almost two millennia before the rest of humanity entered the industrial age, the Greek inventor Hero invented the steam engine, wind-powered machinery, and theories of light that couldn’t be improved for centuries. And then he invented some really crazy stuff. Scientific geniuses have to pull off a tricky balancing act before they’re even born. Great…
Two teenagers in California were found dead in a vacant apartment with an empty can of Four Loko, the banned alcohol and caffeine concoction, and other evidence of drug use. There goes any hope of a brand revival.
Dead Space 2 now has me thinking video games may not be a healthy pursuit after all. Despite playing through the original Dead Space twice, my heart was not as well-conditioned to its horrors as I originally thought. Visceral Games’ newest sci-fi fright-fest piles on the spooks and scares just as well as its predecessor,…
…Max Anarchy, a new online multiplayer game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, a title revealed in the latest issue of Japan’s Famitsu magazine. It features the return of at least one original Platinum Games character. Screens from this week’s leaked issue of Famitsu show Madworld‘s Jack Cayman, the man with the chainsaw, as…
The ups and downs of Halo: Reach multiplayer… how do they affect the human heart? One player decided to monitor his heartbeat during a six minute game session to track the effects of Xbox Live on the old ticker. Reddit user gortag—who says he’s studying for his PhD, even if this project appears to be…
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