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UncategorizedI Think It Works
Folks, we’ve got some Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP to play tonight on this here iPhone, so you’ll have to excuse me for making tonight’s open thread so abrupt. But here’s a new trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger to get the conversation going. I, personally, dig it. Oh, if you’d like to purchase…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
PS3 Hacker Didn’t Flee, Did Hand Over Hard Drives, Says Lawyer
The attorney for George Hotz, the hacker being sued by Sony for jailbreaking the PlayStation 3, denies that Hotz fled to South America to avoid a court order and says he has delivered his impounded hard drives as required to a neutral party. Sony, in a court filing, had alleged the drives were delivered with…
By Owen Good Published March 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Onion Exposes ‘Shaken Manchild Syndrome’
Are video game-playing, comic book-reading manchildren the victims of an unexposed crime? The Onion News Network’s Fact Zone takes a look at the epidemic of basement dwelling twentysomethings who are the subjects of violence from frustrated parents. Celebrity spokesman Ben Stiller throws his weight behind the cause. What a terrible, terrible tragedy… Cases Of Shaken…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
EA Sports is Working on a Baseball Game — Probably for Facebook
EA Sports, whose beloved MVP Baseball series went into exile when 2K Sports won an exclusive contract back in 2005, is working on a Major League Baseball-licensed property, according to ESPN’s Jon Robinson. Before you get all giddy, a close reading of contracts leaves the impression this will be another Facebook game. Robinson points out…
By Owen Good Published March 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Watch The Creators of Doom, Prince of Persia, Pac-Man And Pitfall! Wax Nostalgic
Not only can you now relive this year’s Game Developers Conference keynote from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who spoke about the creation of Kirby and the devaluation of games in “Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future,” you can experience the best part of GDC 2011: the classic game post…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Sort of Person Plays Marvel vs. Capcom 3?
Roughly one month after its release, Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds churns up fun facts galore that gaming demographer (and social network) Raptr has culled and interpreted for your enlightenment. The full size is at bottom. More analysis, plus an explanation of Raptr’s methodology, is at the link. Marvel vs. Capcom 3…
By Owen Good Published March 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mario Meets World, Beautifully
Mario seems like such a small piece to the Mushroom Kingdom puzzle in this gorgeous fan art illustration by Alexey Mikhaylov Mario World by Alexey Mikhaylov / Arpeich Via: pacalin Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission. Mario…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedTapper: World Tour Looks Great and is More Fulfilling
Tapper was one of the best examples of the ingenuity that defined the early arcade games, when novel premises, fast action and a lot of imagination were needed to flesh out games running on primitive architecture. As a natural for the multitouch controls of the iPhone and iPad – what’s its name, after all –…
By Owen Good Published March 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Two Years in the Slammer for Hacker Who Stole $300,000 from Zynga Poker
The British hacker who fleeced Zynga Poker for 400 billion chips, which have an official worth of $12 million, $300,000 on the black market, will serve two years in prison. Ashley Mitchell did a poor job of covering his tracks after breaking into a Zynga server running the casino game and robbing it of the…
By Owen Good Published March 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Square Enix Has Balls, Sega… A Banana Holder?
Swag | Sometimes the freebies that arrive on my doorstep kinda go together. (Photo: Brian Crecente) Bedtime Stories PS3 Hacker Flees the Long Arm of Sony for South American Freedom The saga of George “geohot” Hotz continues, hurdling deeper into absurdity with each growing unit of acceleration. He fought the law and lost-a judge demanded…
By Brian Crecente Published March 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedLego Star Wars III Proves That New Star Wars Can Be Amazing Star Wars
Did you love those original Star Wars movies? Were you horrified by the newer ones… or think they were at least a wee bit inferior? Attention: we’re actually living in an era of great Star Wars. That might amaze you as much as the news that the newly-released Lego Star Wars III may be the…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedPaper Train Is Fight Control For Dummies
Paper Train takes the traffic management features of games like Fight Control and puts the whole thing on rails, with the player controlling when the trains start, stop, and crash into cows. It looks good on paper, but is it challenging? The answer is a little sketchy. Anyone that’s played the iPhone classic Fight Control…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedLEGO Star Wars III Will Make You Shit a Brick
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By Brian Crecente Published March 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Hyper Violent School Shooter Mod Yanked From Mod Hosting Site
The intentionally, unabashedly offensive School Shooter: North American Tour 2012, designed to be “the most realistic student slaughtering modification ever made,” has lost support from its former host. ModDB, original host of the Half-Life 2 mod—and hundreds of other mods—has pulled School Shooter from its site. ModDB founder Scott “INtense!” Reismanis says site administrators yanked…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
iPods, Onlive, Lithographs and LEGO Statues Among Silent Charity Auction Items
We’re just a day away from Kotaku’s final Denver fundraiser, a party we’re throwing to raise money for those in need following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Hosted at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom in downtown Denver, the event will now also include a silent auction and live DJ set by DJ LiciousD. That’s on…
By Brian Crecente Published March 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedLiberty City’s Most Dangerous Police Chases Make For Awesome GTA IV Cinema
Can you handle more than thirteen crazy minutes of Grand Theft Auto IV police chases, with Niko Bellic and his cousin Roman fleeing from cop cars, armored vehicles and police helicopters? Test your machinimatic endurance skills with “Hard Charger: Wide Open.” Written and directed by L.J. Carantan, “Hard Charger” is stuffed with thrills, spills, jumps,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedBut How Many 3DS Game Cartridges Fit In A 3DS Game Box?
In the midst of more serious experimentation with the Nintendo 3DS, I’ve been wondering how many 3DS game cartridges I could fit into the slim 3DS game boxes. I wondered this because I’ve long used a DS game box to transport a fistful of DS games any time I travel with Nintendo’s portable machine. Were…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Delayed Games In Japan Give Dynasty Warriors, Dissidia Duodecim More Time To Shine
It was a week light in new video game releases in Japan. Sega’s gangsters meet zombies game, Yakuza Of The End, was supposed to have been released this past week, but was delayed after Japan’s natural disasters. That gives not-so-fresh games more opportunity to sell overseas. Last week’s bestseller, Dynasty Warriors 6 (DW7 in North…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe First Templar Slices A Bloody Path Towards The Holy Grail
The secrets of the Order of the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail unravel in The First Templar, Kalypso Media’s combat-heavy cooperative third-person historical action game. The blood flows like wine in the latest gameplay trailer. Due out in May for the Xbox 360 and Windows PC, The Last Templar is the tale of a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2011