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Help Find Molyneux’s Stolen Passport, Laptop and iPad
Someone broken into Peter Molyneux’s car and stole his laptop, iPad and passport Thursday night. If you’d like to help out the creator of Fable, Black & White and more than a few game design whoppers you’ll land a £1000 reward. Personally, I’d just as him to help wrap up the rumored Syndicate sequel as…
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Judge: $400 Million Activision Vs. Electronic Arts Lawsuit is a go
A California judge ruled this week that Activision Blizzard Inc. has enough evidence to proceed with their $400 million lawsuit against Electronic Arts over the loss of developers Jason West and Vince Zampella. The Modern Warfare suite kicked off a flurry or suits and counter-suits, each one more fanciful and surreal then the last
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Silent Auction, Live DJ Added to Japan Earthquake Relief Fundraiser
With less than a week till kick off, the Kotaku Japan Earthquake Relief fundraiser continues to grow. 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 top of the on stage Rock Band and DJ Hero gameplay and…
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedFantastic Pets Grants You The Flying Unicorn You So Richly Deserve
Forget Homefront, Fantastic Pets for the Xbox 360 and Kinect is where THQ is going to make the big bucks. What other game projects a flying unicorn or robot cat into your living room? Before we begin, no, that’s not a pegasus. A pegasus only has wings. This mother here has wings and a horn,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedRecord Holder Says “I’m Playing Donkey Kong So I Can Get Laid”
Hank Chien, the plastic surgeon who is the two-time (and current) world high score champion in Donkey Kong, is the subject of a documentary getting its second screening tomorrow. In “Doctor Kong,” Chien, who took the high score in Donkey Kong about a year ago, then won it back from “The King of Kong” villain…
By Owen Good Published March 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedBehold The Zelda-Riffic Joy Of Spiral Knights
Earlier this week I told you about Spiral Knights, the upcoming free-to-play online space dungeon crawler from the creators of Puzzle Pirates. Now watch me play through the game’s Training Grounds and, if you’re lucky, try it out yourself. When I posted the news that Spiral Knights was coming out on April 4 courtesy of…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Jak & Daxter Jump From The PlayStation To Your Shelf
Later this year, Diamond Select Toys will be releasing this pair of figures based on Naughty Dog’s Jak & Daxter series of platformers for the PlayStation. There’ll only be “one” toy, so to speak: hero Jak. You get his sidekick Daxter thrown in for free. Jak stands 7 inches tall, and aside from some wonky…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Is Why We Don’t Play Board Games Anymore
Lacking anything more sensible to do, the team at GlazeBros crafted a crude board game with painful consequences, and then tested it out on themselves. Ladies and gentlemen, The Waxing Game, family fun that will leave you hairless. If the GlazBros think this terrifying tale of hair removal is painful, just wait until they actually…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Look at the Earlier Works of Minecraft‘s Creator
Markus “Notch” Persson didn’t succeed with his original attempt at games development, bringing us Minecraft on the first try. The 31-year-old Swedish developer has been programming since age eight. Yesterday, he shared a gallery of his earlier work, showing that success doesn’t come from one effort, but from many attempts, in fits and starts. The…
By Owen Good Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Even “Real” Mobile Games Costing Scant Millions to Develop
Firemint, developers of Flight Control and Real Racing 2, say in this interview the full-blown 3D racer for iOS/Android was “…developed over 18 months on a budget of US$2 million.” Now the real question: How much did they make? [PocketfulOfMB.com]
By Joel Johnson Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
NCsoft Makes A Massively Multi-Million Dollar Donation To Japan Disaster Relief
Amidst the flurry of game developers stepping up to offer aid to Japan in its time of crisis, Korean MMO developer NCsoft has pledged an amount equaling one month of the revenue of its Japanese arm – roughly 6.3 million dollars. While NCsoft is a pretty big deal in the United States, in South Korea…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Saints Row Creators Don’t Mind If You Want To Pirate Their Games…
Volition, the team behind upcoming THQ games Saints Row: The Third and Red Faction: Armageddon, is still in the business of making their games for the PC, without worrying about the platform’s rampant piracy problems. “I don’t think [piracy] is something at the forefront for us,” Volition studio manager Eric Barker tells Eurogamer. “First and…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Rare Game Pulling Five-Figure Bids, with Some Proceeds Going to Japan Relief
It’s well settled that Stadium Events is, if not the rarest video game on the collectible market, is certainly the rarest of any retail release. A year after a sealed copy of the NES game set a record for the most ever paid for a single game, another verified, factory-sealed copy is seeking to dethrone…
By Owen Good Published March 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
Stolen PS3 Leads Cops to Double Murder Suspect
A man suspected of a double homicide eluded police for two months, until a PlayStation 3 stolen from the victims’ home turned up and led authorities to an arrest. In Gaffney, S.C., Giles Lee Palmer, 22, faces two counts of murder in connection with the Jan. 19 shooting deaths of Dominique Cintrell Morgan, 19, and…
By Owen Good Published March 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
That Looks Like The Creature That Ate Our Cat
Hey, Kotaku. You wanna talk about… well, anything? Then this is the place to do it, right below this Alf picture. Did anyone out there actually watch Alf? Because I did. Like, borderline religiously. But my interest in Alf was nothing compared to the grown man who once taught me geography in the 7th grade.…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
Even the All-Stars are Role Players in MLB 11 The Show
Sitting there with my DualShock in my lap, I struggled to recall the last time a video game blindsided me this hard, much less at a point this early in playing it. I’d ranked up at a respectable rate, gained a fast understanding of my abilities and the situations in which they were useful. I…
By Owen Good Published March 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedExperience Super Mario Bros. As First-Person Shooter
What if, say, Modern Warfare creators Infinity Ward were given the keys to Super Mario Bros.? Brandon Laatsch, friend of Freddie Wong, lets us see the NES classic from Mario’s perspective, injecting Call of Duty gameplay shenanigans into Nintendo’s blocky platformer for a round of “Capture the Flag.” Awesome work, but could somebody please remix…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedHere is Strip Mining: The Minecraft Porno [NSFW]
It’s a tall order finding any sexual reference, much less anything exploitable into one, in Minecraft (outside of the obvious livestock jokes.) Yet here an enterprising soul has managed to build a Minecraft homage to a cheesy porn film. It goes from cheeky parody of porn plot tropes, with some kinky pickaxe spanking, to OMG-is-that-a-blowjob…
By Owen Good Published March 17, 2011