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China Gets 3D Street Fighter For Arcades
Taiwanese arcade distributor Wahlap Technologies will be releasing in the Chinese market something of a novelty: a Street Fighter IV arcade cabinet that lets you play the game in 3D. This isn’t the existing 3DS version of Super Street Fighter cleaned up and re-released. In fact, it’s not Super Street Fighter IV at all. What…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Will Japan’s Earthquake Impact The Tokyo Game Show?
The streets of Tokyo are darker these days. It’s not only rolling blackouts, but restaurants, convenience stores and electronics shops are turning off their signs at night in hopes to conserve electricity. The goal in conserving electricity is to divert it to the power grids in northeastern Japan that need it most. There are a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Man Who Already Broke His Brand New Nintendo 3DS
Over the weekend, the Nintendo 3DS finally went on sale in the West. Kotaku reader Alastair saved for months to get his own Aqua Blue 3DS. Then, he totally ruined it. “Within a couple of hours of opening the box I managed to spill metal polish on the desk on which the new handheld was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is The 3DS Suffering From A “Black Screen Of Death”?
Now that the 3DS is in the hands of customers across the Western world, people are finally playing the thing in large numbers. Large enough, it seems, to have found a “black screen of death” error affecting the handheld. It doesn’t seem terribly widespread, so don’t panic. But those who have encountered the error have…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mortal Kombat’s Final Roster Leaked
If you think looking at a character select screen for a fighter is a spoiler, move right along. If you’d like to see what looks like the final roster for the upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot, though, please continue! There is of course no way to verify the select screen at this time. If you’re working…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallOnly In The 80’s Would They Put Video Games On A VHS Tape
Video games have made their home on any number of storage mediums over the years, from compact discs to cassette tapes to plastic cartridges. Someone even, in the 1980s, thought it was a good idea to put them on video tapes. It wasn’t. In the mid-to-late-80’s, three companies began working on consoles designed to use…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Get Your Game Face On — In 3D
The 3DS Faces the Public | Kelly Yeom of Brooklyn and Roberto Sanna of Manhattan play Face Raiders while waiting for the midnight launch of the Nintendo 3DS at Best Buy’s Union Square location in New York.. (Photo: Anders Krusberg for Nintendo of America) Nintendo 3DS Buyer’s Guide We’ve played the games. We’ve shown you…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
3D and Short Play for Madden NFL Football
Madden NFL has had a largely tractionless history on Nintendo’s platforms since the Wii supplanted the GameCube. It’s a version that simply lacks identity, floating from cartoon characters attempting to play simulation quality football, to real world strategy that has to account for gameplay gimmicks. Madden NFL Football for the Nintendo 3DS doesn’t do much…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Legends in Your Living Room
Hype for Augusta National Golf Course’s appearance in Tiger Woods: PGA Tour 12 has reached near saturation limits. Did you know another legendary figure also ends a long absence from video games? If golf is too sedate for you, Randy “Macho Man” Savage returns to the ring in WWE All-Stars, his first appearance under the…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
GameFly Implies It’d Double Monthly Profits If It Got the Netflix Postage Rate
GameFly has been at it with the U.S. Postal Service for nearly two years now over what it perceives as preferential treatment to Netflix, whose mailings GameFly alleges are given higher priority by postal sorters, not to mention a better postage rate. So much that savings from the postage rate Netflix enjoys would double GameFly’s…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Top 5 of 10: High Achievers
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Shovelware for Achievement Whores [UGO] Well researched list that reads like a boosting guide for ultra-score seekers. Many of the titles are from the early…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dragon Age II Coulda Used Dave’s Mapper
Maybe Dragon Age II, criticized for its repeating dungeon structure, could have benefitted from something like this nifty dungeon randomizing web application. Not that I’m any better at it myself. I suffered the same criticism the only time my D&D friends, all older than me, let me DM an original dungeon. “Is there a secret…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 -
UncategorizedPicked Up a 3DS? Whaddaya Think? Tell Us Here
I don’t get my 3DS for another 90 minutes – the GameStop here in Springfield, Ore. did no midnight launch (mall location) and won’t open until noon. But we’re already getting reports in from readers in North America about their experiences with Nintendo’s new handheld. Tipster RavenWorks: “I entered ‘Shazam!’ as my 3DS status message.…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Owen’s Good Walk Spoiled is Tomorrow at 2
If you want to see me get smoked over the first nine of Augusta National, I’ll be facing EA Sports’ Justin Patel in a mini tournament being streamed live tomorrow at 2 p.m. EDT. Justin and I will be playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters and discussing the game. You can watch live…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
PAX’s Creed
Everyone did so well ‘shoppin’ up that Gameface of Blizzard’s founders at the NASDAQ that we’ve decided to stick with the theme of mostly weird people playing video games. This is supposed to be Altaïr Ezio playing Killzone 3 at PAX East, but it really looks like the Shmoo if he was an NFL defensive…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Triforce Johnson Was First in Line After All
Isaiah “Triforce” Johnson, the Power Glove-wearing superfan whose attempts to start the 3DS launch line as early as Tuesday were thwarted by zealous security and suspicious cops, was in fact the first person in North America to be sold a Nintendo 3DS. Here he is receiving it at Best Buy’s 3DS launch event in Union…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 - Culture
Sunday Comics
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published March 21 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published March 21 – Read more of Nerf…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Blizzard Hits the Street Winners
Blizzard’s cofounders paid a visit to Wall Street earlier this month, providing us with a very exploitable image for the latest ‘shop contest. See who really runs the U.S. financial system in our gallery of 20! We had a number of particularly strong entries this week. At least 20, by my count. Matching Frank and…
By Owen Good Published March 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Metacritic Now Rating Humans
Metacritic, whose 90s, 80s, 70s and dreaded 60s are points of pride and shame for the video game industry, will now be applying ratings to individual game developers, giving them a score based on an average of all the games they’ve worked on. For an industry obsessed with applying arbitrary numbers to the subjective appraisal…
By Owen Good Published March 26, 2011