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UncategorizedHeavy Rain‘s Voice Acting Is Better In Real Life
If you’re going to make fun of Heavy Rain, you’ve got to do a lot more than just shout “JASON JASON” in a mall. In this parody sketch, the comedy team at Mega64 have gone back to doing what they do best: harassing innocent members of the public. And while the obvious lost child joke…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallSo Who The Hell Is This Peter Molyneux Guy, Anyway?
Whenever the subject of the Fable series or its outspoken creator Peter Molyneux pops up, a lot of people question why the man is given so much airtime. Why people give a hoot about the games he’s making. He seems to be known by many as simply the guy behind Fable. Or that guy who…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
Come Sue, My Lord
The creators of the titillatingly marketed, disabled-gamer-saving MMO Evony went on the warpath yesterday to extract nearly $1 million out of a modder accused of selling auto-playing bots and a gigantic map that exploit the game. When you’re getting sued for $825,000, it’s probably not a great idea to show up to federal court in…
By Owen Good Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Full NFL Shutdown May Threaten Half of Madden Sales
With the NFL and NFL Players Association trading punches over who should and shouldn’t attend the league’s draft in April, it’s safe to assume a lockout will last at least that long. Now analysts are speculating on worst-case scenarios for Electronic Arts should a work stoppage eliminate the real-world season that helps drive so much…
By Owen Good Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Rural Juror
Good evening or morning, Kotaku readership. Let’s wind this Wednesday at Kotaku down with a little off-topic conversation, shall we? Yes, let’s. Because Kotaku is desperately seeking words over the next 24 hours. Mr. Totilo will be out, I will be performing my civic duties by trying to get out of jury service (I kid!)…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedRing Blade Welcomes You to Shuriken Hell
After a seven-level warmup with Ring Blade, a bullet-hell shooter with a twist, I found my right index finger getting that weird burning-inside/cold-to-the-touch feeling. It’s a good thing, I think. Ring Blade, from MindTrip Studios, is a mobile game right in the sweet spot of any shooter fan with an iPhone. It sticks to a…
By Owen Good Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Guess What, Horse Armor Still Sells
Buying The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion’s Horse Armor. It’s like listening to Barry Manilow, eating at the Olive Garden or ordering Spectravision. No one will admit to doing it, but still enough do so keep it in business. Bethesda Softworks’ Pete Hines said, scouts’ honor, that this still happens. “I don’t have the report in…
By Owen Good Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Great Concept Art Makes Me Wish StarCraft: Ghost Would Come Back To Life
Blizzard’s ill-fated console spin-off, StarCraft: Ghost, has been “indefinitely postponed” since 2006, thought not technically canceled. And while I was never personally a big fan of the way StarCraft: Ghost played—I played it at two E3s long ago—this fan-made concept art makes me want it. This is the student work of artist Paul Hyun Woo…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Just 5 Percent of Games Were Rated M Last Year, Says ESRB
Just five percent of all games rated by the ESRB and published in 2010 were classified as M, a marginal decline from 2009 when they accounted for 6 percent, the board said in a news release today. The smallest portion of the 1,638 ratings the ESRB doled out last year belongs to EC which, safe…
By Owen Good Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Three New Shots From The Dead Island Tourism Board
While the straitjacketed brute pictured above certainly doesn’t look like a very inviting resident of this tropical getaway, new screens of the now highly anticipated Dead Island are welcome, regardless of whatever mutant zombie happens to be photobombing these shots. We’ve seen before that Dead Island is potentially as attractive as the promise of its…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedOh, Awesome, Soon You May Perform “Bed Intruder” in Rock Band
Antoine Dodson went full meme in late July; his local-news anti-crime rant was autotuned into “Bed Intruder” in early August. The Blue and Gold Marching Machine of North Carolina A&T State University performed it at halftime about a month later, and then Rock Band 3 arrived two months after that. Why has it taken so…
By Owen Good Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Something Positive From Super Mario Bros.‘s Minus World
Jude Buffum‘s excellent piece for Giant Robot‘s “Water Works” exhibition in Los Angeles, CA from March 19th to April 13th. This will be a benefit for UNICEF and child victims of the earthquake in Japan. All profits will be donated. Related Rampages: Toadstool Terrarium | Battle Bones Minus World by Jude Buffum (Flickr) (Facebook) (Twitter)…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Domo Should Protect The 3DS Too
CUTE | The Domo Starter Kit for the DSi arrived with a handwritten message from Hori noting that the kit is “unique and holds a special place in our hearts.” Ours too Hori, ours too. (Photo by me) Battlefield 3 Hits Snipers Right Where It Hurts You’ve been here before – pinned down by a…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nazi Dinosaur Battles Finally A Reality When Dino D-Day Deploys In April
You know what World War II games need more of? Dinosaurs. Specifically, Nazi dinosaurs, the kind one can send into multiplayer battles, huge cannons strapped to their cold-blooded endothermic backs! We’ll do so with Dino D-Day, the long in the making multiplayer mod for Valve’s Source engine. Dino D-Day will officially release on April 8…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011 -
ReviewsThe Waiver-Wire Prospects of MLB 2K11
I’m thinking of a famous, very touching monologue by Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager of the Baltimore Orioles, talking about cutting players during spring training. “You call ’em in and say, ‘It’s the consensus among us that we’re going to let you go back home.’ Some of them cry, some get mad, but…
By Owen Good Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Japanese Game Sales Hold Tight In Japan, Thanks To 3DS and Dynasty Warriors
Honestly, I wasn’t sure if we’d even get fresh sales figures from Japan this week, but we did and it appears that video game sales overseas are still rather strong, with the latest Dynasty Warriors game debuting with a quarter million copies sold. Dynasty Warriors 6 (or Shin Sangoku Musou 6, if you have trouble…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedAnarchy Reigns‘ Mathilda Has Curves And Spikes In All The Right Places
She’s one part Bayonetta, one part purple people beater. She’s Mathilda, and she’s ready to enter the blood-soaked multiplayer ring of Platinum Games’ Anarchy Reigns. Platinum Games and Sega continue rolling out characters for the upcoming brawler also known as Max Anarchy, and each new character is more intriguing than the last. Mathilda here is…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Quirky Touches That Only Nintendo Would Hide In the 3DS
Nintendo lets me spin the menu on their new 3DS system with my breath. Their machine can figure out that my face on Angelina Jolie’s head should be classified as “female.” They’re counting my steps, for kicks. You know gaming hardware is made by Nintendo if it’s fun in little ways you didn’t expect. I’ve…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Game Boy Puts The Bomb In School Bus Bomb Scare
Police responding to a bomb scare this morning on a school bus outside of the Northside Intermediate school in Milton, Wisconsin, discovered an 11-year-old boy in possession of a video game system dressed up with wires and batteries to look like an explosive device Milton Police Department Lieutenant John Conger confirmed with Kotaku that the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Red Dawn Remake Pulls A Homefront, Retcons Korean Invasion Of U.S.
The forthcoming remake of Red Dawn, the 1984 film in which American teenagers band together to fight invading Soviet forces, will feature a North Korean invasion of the United States, not a Russian one, similar to just-released shooter Homefront. Why is that so interesting? Because they already shot the film as a Chinese invasion of…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011