Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

This is Kotaku’s official forum for you to talk about video games. This paragraph also is a palindrome. Emordnilap a si osla hpargarap siht. Semag oediv tuoba klat ot uoy rof murof laiciffo sukatok si siht. I didn’t say it was a palindrome composed of more than 50 percent actual words. Hisilarn is the weekend…

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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Backstage at Nintendo World Winners

Our efforts to meme-ify a moment from the big 3DS public event in Japan last weekend bore prodigious fruit – more than 600 entries. But we still haven’t answered who that guy was. First, the inevitables Andy Bane (5) gives us Antoine Dodson, Berd (7) and Zigzagoon (20) gave us good treatments of Team Fortress…

Belgian Postage Stamps Honor — New Super Mario Bros. Wii?

bpost, the postal service of Belgium, will put stamps featuring New Super Mario Bros. Wii on sale beginning Monday. Looks like it offers Mario with three different powerups, plus Yoshi. A sheet is €4,99. [via Polygonal Lawn, thanks Philip]

Fight In The Shade Of 600 Arrows Launched By This Minecraft Contraption

Wait, we forgot to mention those arrows are on fire. Minecraft user ScottyDoesKnow built this dispenser array as a monument to overkill. The framerate only slows down when it shoots eggs. Or eggs and arrows. [thanks Trakata for the tip.]

Boxing Is The Past; Long Live Boxing

Two years ago, EA Sports president Peter Moore called boxing “the past of fighting.” Mixed martial arts was the future, with his company hard at work on that game. Thursday, Moore wrote, “let me be clear, boxing’s not dead.” Moore also acknowledged the sport “clearly is not the cultural fixture it once was,” and is…

Kinect-Controlled Gundam Mech Stands On Its Own One Foot

In the evolution of Kinect-controlled robotics, we’ve gone from a Roomba in November, to a robot moving its arms in December, now to one that may stand on one foot. We should be slaves to our robot overlords by May. This is a Kinect-controlled V-Sido humanoid robot, dressed to resemble a Gundam mech. Sort of…

Can Sports Close Facebook Gaming’s Credibility Gap?

The coda for Facebook games, among serious gamers anyway, normally begins with a sneer at the idea and then an accounting of all the ways it’s not a video game. Would a sports title make any difference? Probably not. Well, not right now, anyway. Earlier this week PGA Tour Golf Challenge went live on the…

Zombie Yoshi Didn’t Survive The Outbreak

He’d be perfect, recast as a Left 4 Dead smoker. Zombie Yoshi, a six-inch tall custom figurine by artist Kody Koala, whose other work may be seen here and here. This statue sold on eBay for $162.50. Seen via icanhasinternets.

Minecraft And Team Fortress 2 Is Like Comparing Weapons And Cows

Tuesday, a reader compared Minecraft and Farmville. Heresy! Would Team Fortress 2 be more apt? Both involve crafting, but where five cows equal one hat in Minecraft, the cost is more ridiculous in TF2. Very large infographic, by SplitScreen, inside. Minecraft vs. Team Fortress 2 [Split-Screen; higher-quality .png available there.]

Box Scores: Beast Mode

Everyone saw Marshawn Lynch go 67 yards through the entire New Orleans defense to put away the Saints on Saturday. No more than 12 hours later, JuGGerNaut6372 performed his salute to Beast Mode with this run in Madden NFL 11. That’s the Raida Organization’s Brandon Myers on a 60-yard catch-and-run in the fourth quarter against…

What Could Possibly Go Wrong With This Glasses-Free 3D Solution …

This video is comprised of: English in a French accent, 38 seconds; what the hell is he putting on his face, 22 seconds; and HOLY GOD STOP DOING THAT TO YOUR EYES, 55 seconds. François Vogel, an innovative filmmaker and visual artist, here demonstrates why you should never complain about 3D glasses again. Interesting, definitely…

The Moneysaver: The Devil’s Greatest Trick

You think you can catch Keyser Soze? You think a guy like that comes this close to getting caught and sticks his head out? If he comes up for anything, it’d be a 3-for-2 used games deal and free shipping. Nominate your favorite movie to lead the next Moneysaver, and get starred if we use…

The Week in Review: Crosshairs

Video games are not responsible for the mass killing in Tucson, Ariz. a week ago. But the suspect’s deranged ramblings in an online game’s forums put them in the spotlight. Gamers have, justifiably, long mistrusted their portrayal in these stories. The blame script is exceedingly familiar to the community by now, and it’s propagated by…

If Professor Layton Was On The Xbox 360…

There’s more than one way the Nintendo DS’ favorite Professor can solve a puzzle. As seen on Super Punch

Blacklight: Tango Down Gets A Sequel (Can It Dance The Salsa?)

Online shooter Blacklight: Tango Down is getting a sequel, and this time it’s free-to-play

The Invisible Batter of Baseball on the PlayStation Move

MLB 11 The Show will get PlayStation Move support but I wouldn’t put high hopes on it. The only supported feature will be a Home Run Derby mode, shown here, and that weird floating bat just strikes me wrong. CtrlAltKill brought this back from CES. The game has foregone the representation of a hitter, just…

To The Bathroom….FOR THE HORDE!!!!

Well, this brings a whole new meaning to the term “droppin’ loot”. A World of Warcraft super fan has decked out his bathroom in the colours of the game’s Horde faction, complete with shield, sword, faux stone walls and…a large crow. Who sits, perched above you, while you drop a deuce. There are even some…