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Teen Boy Invents Leather And Pizza-Scented Candles For Men
After making fun of his sister for selling scented candles as a school fundraiser, 13-year-old Hart Main of Ohio was inspired to invent “Mancans,” candles that emit manly odors. [Jezebel]
Margaret Hartmann Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Time to Wake Up, Sleepyhead
Bears do it. Frogs do it. Even hamsters do it. However, there has been no scientific evidence that humans need to hibernate, so stop using the crappy weather as an excuse to be lazy! Answer the question below, email your answer to [email protected] and you could win a Wii Fit Plus with a Wii Balance…
Sponsored post Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nyko’s Charge Base S For Xbox 360 Improves On The Unimprovable
The original Nyko Charge Base was like my personal team doctor, making sure my controllers were ready and charged for game time. But could Nyko improve on something that’s near perfect? (Yup.) [Gizmodo]
Jason Chen Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedThese Magic Cards Are The “Holy Shit” Moment of Nintendo’s New Toy
There will be sixteen games available on the Nintendo 3DS when it goes on sale on March 27, but its best games may be the ones built right into the machine. And video doesn’t show the half of it. It’s these silly little experiences that you’ll be making your friends watch—and that they’ll be making…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Art Project That Took One Convention, 40 Hours And 5,760 Pixels To Complete
Pixel artiste Jude Buffum’s interactive art installation “Painting with Pixels” slowly rendered over the course of five days at this year’s Game Developers Conference, a project that you can now watch be constructed pixel-by-pixel in just two minutes, fourteen seconds worth of time-lapse photography, thanks to I Am 8-bit.
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhat Is Chessboxing?
Chessboxing is an activity that combines the physical demands of boxing with the mental discipline of chess. Competitors alternate between rounds of chess and rounds of boxing, kicking things off with a four-minute round of chess and alternating with fisticuffs until 11 rounds have passed, or one competitor jams a rook in the other’s eye.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Silver The Hedgehog, Felicia Day, The British Joker And Kratos, All New This Week
Do you like comics about video games? I sure hope so, because there are a lot of new ones this week, and not many interesting new comics that aren’t about games. Here are this week’s notable releases… Comics You Should Consider Buying Knight & Squire #6 This clever series about England’s version of Batman and…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 16, 2011 -
ReviewsHomefront Is An Emotional Shooter That Doesn’t Quite Deliver
I nearly wept during the opening of Homefront. Maybe it was the father in me, maybe just that I’m human, but those opening moments, so cleverly crafted to grab a hold of you and pull, succeeded on a level few games have before with me. Homefront depicts a United States, a Colorado, ghettoized by an…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Large Hadron Collider Might Also Be The World’s First Time Machine
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, propelling charged particles to high speeds and smashing them together in the name of science. It also might be a time machine. At least that’s what a long-shot theory put forth by Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho suggests. If this wacky…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedCasey the Bully-Breaking “Zangief Kid” Gets the Street Fighter Remix He Deserves
You may recall Casey Heynes, the chunky kid who was tired of being bullied and became an icon. Now he’s immortalized—overmortalized?—in this video that mixes back in all the sound and visual effects we all heard in our mind when we first watched Casey piledrive his bully into the schoolyard concrete. [via Calm Down Tom]
By Joel Johnson Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Co-op Gaming Between an iPad and iMac, Guerilla Bob-style
Forget “PC vs Console” wars. Now it’s going to be “iPad vs Mac”. (Keyboard and mouse forever!) Guerilla Bob is a simplistic, three-quarters-overhead shooter in the Ikari Warriors vein, but that’s not what makes it unique. It’s that the co-op shoot ’em up doesn’t just allow two iOS devices to team up, but supports full…
By Joel Johnson Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Keeping The HD-DVD Dream Alive
The other day while watching my high-definition copy of Blade Runner on my Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, I received an Xbox Live message thanking me for keeping the dream alive. Oh come on, where else can you buy a copy of The Bourne Identity for $2.39? They called us foolish for supporting HD-DVD over Blu-ray,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Twelve Years Later EverQuest Still Soldiers On
Today marks the twelfth anniversary of the original EverQuest. What keeps one of the original big massively-multiplayer fantasy games going after all these years? Ask a hardcore EverQuest player why they’re still playing a 12-year-old game, and they’ll shower you with stories of their fantastic adventures, anecdotes that are only humorous to folks that have…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
The iPad Only Makes Gaming Better
Computer, console, phone, tablet: The more devices that can play games the better for gamers. That’s the philosophy of Donald Mustard, one of the people behind Advent Rising, Shadow Complex and Infinity Blade. “Great games will always be great,” said Mustard, co-founder of Chair Entertainment. “The more delivery methods we have to get games out…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Microsoft’s Kodu Cup Contest Rewards Underage Game Developers
Today Microsoft fully launches its kid-friendly PC game development tool Kodu Game Lab, along with a contest that could win your child $5,00 cash, a new laptop, and a trip for two to New York’s Imagine Cup. We got our first look at Microsoft’s Kodu Game Lab back in 2009, finding it to be a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedAr Tonelico Qoga‘s Intro Is A Wonder To Behold
Last night I picked up a copy of Gust’s newly-released Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel for the PlayStation 3, slipped it into my console, and watched the introductory movie five times in a row. We’re in the midst of a Japanese role-playing game drought. With a strong emphasis being put on developing games…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
What’s Wrong With Giant Breasts And Ninja Skills?
In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku commenter CuttySark wonders why portraying women and men video games as physically or mentally superior is such a bad thing. I was reading an article the other day about women and how they are represented in games and media, with standards unattainable by the average woman/girl (i.e. Physical appearance, intelligence,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome back to Kotau’s official gaming forum, where you can talk about games or even craft an image to top these posts (and maybe earn a star, he kept hinting, since he is out of new images to run). Thanks to reader Tosh.Ownage for today’s pic. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is The Riddler Arkham City’s Scarecrow?
If there is a new Batman video game coming out in the fall called Batman: Arkham City, could you imagine it not including The Riddler? OK, you detectives, if the Riddler was getting an expanded role in the game what would it be? What was Batman doing during the end of a recent demo I…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 16, 2011