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UncategorizedKevin Butler, as You’ve Never Seen Him Before (NSFW)
Cat’s out of the bag, folks. Kevin Butler is not really PlayStation’s vice president of everything from First Person Shooter Relations to Rumor Confirmation. He is, in fact, the actor Jerry Lambert, who played quite the cringe-inducing straight man in the most recent episode of Showtime’s “Shameless” on Monday. KB, under the auspices of being…
By Owen Good Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Google Now Guesses Release Dates for Movies and Video Games
Google has some pretty neat built-in tricks, and it seems they’ve just added another one: with just a quick search, Google will try to tell you the release date of any movie or video game. [Lifehacker]
By Joel Johnson Published March 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedIn Russia, Raving Rabbids Make Your Salads, Not Mischief
Who would want to co-opt Ubisoft’s bothersome mascots, the Raving Rabbids? Russian salad maker Belaya Dacha, apparently, who have swiped the leporine mischief makers—or a very, very close approximation—to shill their pre-packaged salad greens. A helpful tipster turned us on to Belaya Dacha’s salad spot, which he says was created by the Bazelevs Group, a…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Stacking Piles on the DLC in April
If we had any quibbles with Stacking, Double Fine’s acclaimed downloadable game, it’s that it felt held back in a semi-conspicuous way – one that might have foretold a sequel or a DLC extension. Lo and behold, the latter is indeed coming. The Lost Hobo King, the next chapter of the ragtime nesting-dolls saga, will…
By Owen Good Published March 18, 2011 -
Uncategorized3DS LEGO Star Wars Makes The Case Against 3D
Playing through a healthy chunk of LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars on Nintendo’s 3DS left me impressed. It also left me with a question: Should Nintendo require 3D on all 3DS games? I don’t really know the answer to that, but this LEGO game leaves me hoping they won’t. Don’t get me wrong.…
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Ducks, Limited
Duck Hunt’s erstwhile mallard joins two of its kin in flight for this mixed-media wall art, available via Etsy for $120. The pixels forming the duck are quarter-inch tiles made from salvaged book covers. The entire piece is 21″x26″, sold framed with glass. Asshole Dog sold separately.
By Owen Good Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Your Latest Reboot Is Sonic the Hedgehog‘s Comic Book Series
Even Sonic the Hedgehog is starting over with a clean(er) slate. After 200-plus issues of Sonic’s Archie Comics series, Sega’s famous mascot is shedding nearly 20 years of continuity, and “going back to a simpler premise.” Sonic: Genesis will go where many comic book series have gone before, possibly killing off a major character and…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Snow and Sun
A Final Snow | Colorado treated us to a beautiful morning snow today. It’s probably the last I’ll see here before moving to New York at the end of the month. (Photo: Brian Crecente) Silent Auction, Live DJ Added to Japan Earthquake Relief Fundraiser With less than a week till kick off, the Kotaku Japan…
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
NES Classic Super Dodge Ball Is Back As WiiWare Game
In addition to breathing new life into River City Ransom, developer Miracle Kidz is giving another Technos classic some love. There’s a new Super Dodge Ball (aka Downtown Nekketsu Dodgeball) on the way for WiiWare, a game that appears to stick to its NES roots closely. The game is already available as an Xbox Live…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
PlayStation’s Top U.S. Exec Cleans Up Pro Poker Tour Event
That, folks, is a 10-6 unsuited. In poker jargon, that hand is known as “garbage.” But for Jack Tretton, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, they were the winning cards at a pro-am poker event earlier this week. Tretton was one of several executives entered in the World Poker Tour’s Silicon Valley Poker Challenge,…
By Owen Good Published March 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Gorgeous Tech That Powered Milo & Kate Makes The Xbox 360 Look Brand New
Fable developer Lionhead was working on an ambitious Kinect-controlled game, Milo & Kate, and developing new engine technology to go with it. They showed off some of that new tech at GDC and, well, it’s really, really good looking. Ben Sugden, lead programmer at Lionhead Studios showed off Milo & Kate’s world at GDC in…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedSpines Shatter When Mortal Kombat’s Thunder God Steps Into The Ring
There’s gonna be big trouble in Little China when Raiden tosses his wok-shaped hat into the Mortal Kombat tournament. We all know Raiden’s story. After failing to take down Jack Burton during the Little China incident, Raiden transformed from inept villain to slightly more ept do-gooder, talking the Elder Gods into letting humanity battle the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reveal their greatest creation: scifi writer Adam Shadowchild
The funniest character from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Paul isn’t the little gray alien — it’s Jeffrey Tambor’s Adam Shadowchild. We interviewed Pegg and Frost and got the backstory on Tambor’s arrogant science fiction author. [io9]
Meredith Woerner Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
What We Love And Hate About The 3DS, So Far
We got our Nintendo 3DS systems on Tuesday, many days in advance of the machine’s March 27 North American release. Today is Friday and, wow, have we been working hard! We’ve had a few days to form opinions and notice some things about the 3DS that we love and some that we could do without.…
Brian Crecente and Stephen Totilo Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Darkspore Delayed, Needs More Time To Evolve
Sci-fi RPG (and Spore spin-off) Darkspore is the latest release to get pushed back. Originally slated for end of March, EA’s PC game is now due April 26 (North America) and April 28 (Europe/Asia). Darkspore devs say they need more time to incorporate user feedback from the beta.
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedNintendo 3DS Size Comparo Video
The Nintendo 3DS comes from a long line of handheld game systems of a mostly refined pedigree. We thought it would be fun to line them all up for a little size comparison. (And we threw in an iPhone 4 for reference.) I’m not a terribly big fan of the paint scheme on our office…
By Joel Johnson Published March 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedI Can’t Stop Playing Collision Effect, Can You?
I’m the guy on the subway who is playing Collision Effect. I used to be the guy on the subway playing Drop 7. (Everyone else is playing Angry Birds.) Since I downloaded Collision Effect a couple of weeks ago, it has been my iPhone obsession. All I’m doing in this game is tapping colored orbs…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Lost Your Nintendo 3DS AR Cards? No Problem: Put Them On Your Phone
Did you know you could use Nintendo’s 3DS to do augmented reality on an iPhone? No, no. Not using an iPhone. I mean on top of an iPhone Totilo forgot to bring his AR Cards into the office today, so instead of printing some new ones, we just copied them onto our phone. Not only…
By Joel Johnson Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Torchlight in the Xbox 360. Slam Bolt Scrappers in the PlayStation 3. Gotta make my mind up. Which game should I play? This weekend, which consists of Friday, Saturday and Sunday afterwards, I’m going with both. In these slow spring release weeks, when I don’t have too much interest in the Homefronts and Crysis 2s…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2011
