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Sunday Comics
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published March 7 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published March 11 – Read more of Nerf…
By Owen Good Published March 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedLet’s Learn How To Play The Wonderfully Complex Civilization Board Game
Civilization: The Board Game from Fantasy Flight Games is no mere global Monopoly, no svelte Catan. It is a complicated affair and one that’s not so easy to capture on video. The game came out in November, but I’d not seen it played until this weekend at PAX East. One of Fantasy Flight’s employees was…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
PAX East Cosplay Day 2: The Castle Crasher, The Little Sister, And A Lego Master Sword
On the first day of PAX East, we got some good video game cosplay, but day two trumped the day one efforts. A Zelda sword made of Lego pieces? A Team Fortress 2 / BioShock mash-up? Professor Layton teaming up with Uncle Sam? Congratulations, all around PAX East day 2 cosplayers. You did some fine…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedToy Soldiers: Cold War Adds Co-Op And… Is That Rambo?
We here at Kotaku loved the first Toy Soldiers, a downloadable Xbox 360 tower defense game set during World War I. The new one, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, is debuting at PAX East in Boston, where I saw it on Saturday. It looks like a fantastic upgrade. The game’s creators at Signal Studios have added…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: History’s Greatest Villains Winners
Last week, we asked you to take some of the most revered, most admired and least threatening figures of history and swap them out for the most dreadful and frightening adversaries in video games – as if John Adams were, for example, a Triceratops. Here’s what we got. Krakenstein (12), who inspired our contest, added…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedStar Trek Fan Dances His Ass Off To Kinect
This man is playing Dance Central, a dancing video game for the Xbox 360’s Kinect sensor. He’s at Boston’s PAX East gaming convention. He is dancing to Bell Biv Devoe’s Poison, a song that taught children of the 90s never to trust a big butt and a smile. The song teaches us a new lesson:…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Resistance, Ratchet & Clank Creators Push Into Facebook with Insomniac Click
Insomniac Games, the makers of the Resistance and Ratchet and Clank series, will push into mobile and Web-based games development with a new division – Insomniac Click – that the studio unveiled on Saturday. Going public with their plans at a social gaming panel at the South by Southwest interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Insomniac…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nickels, Dimes, Pennants, Pennies or Points, Sports Gamers Still Get Value
>It didn’t take long after MLB 11 The Show’s release for everyone to notice its microtransactions menu and give it a good public flogging. While I don’t claim that these things are in anyone’s interest other than the publisher’s, gamers do a fantastic job of making this out to be a more odious threat than…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedHere’s One Tricked-Out Ride on Shift 2 Unleashed
Here’s Shift 2: Unleashed being played at PAX East on three extremely large television screens, shot by our man there, Stephen Totilo. It’s video-of-video, but this setup definitely amplifies the thrill-ride sense of speed and motion delivered through driving the game in its default in-car camera view. The flag drops on Shift 2 Unleashed on…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Settings Highlight The Show‘s Good Cause
MLB 11 The Show arrived on Tuesday, bringing with it a set of controls and options designed to include disabled gamers. The association for these gamers, begun by a 25-year-old college student, also launched on Tuesday and gets a plug from the PS3 game. The Association for Disabled Virtual Athletes is the brainchild of Hans…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedStop What You Are Doing and Watch This My Little Pony Video Right Now
Proving that My Little Pony makes everything hilarious and StarCraft II makes everything awesome – at the same time – is this fantastic two-minute mashup that is simply not to be missed. YouTube’s StubbornlyObsolete put this together using the audio from StarCraft II’s cinematic launch trailer and video from seventeen goddamn episodes of “My Little…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
UFC Takeover of Strikeforce Could KO EA Sports MMA After One Round
Zuffa llc, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has bought out mixed martial arts’ second largest promotion, Strikeforce. The acquisition could mean only one MMA video game going forward. Last year’s EA Sports MMA was licensed by Strikeforce, using its rules, many of its fighters, and venues where major Strikeforce cards have been…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedWarp Is My Favorite Scientist-Exploding PAX East Discovery, So Far
I keep asking people who I run into at PAX East to tell me which games I should check out. Thank you, to whoever told me to try Warp. I think it was Eka, hype man extraordinaire for Monday Night Combat. I’m glad I went. Warp lets you be an alien who can warp through…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Homecoming Kings
The Rays and the Red Sox had an old-fashioned bad-blood rivalry early last decade, one that cooled off in animosity as the talent gap between the two clubs has narrowed. When these two American League East franchises meet, three big name players will be facing their former team. That would be Carl Crawford, who played…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Run a Katamari All Over This (and Any) Site
Are you browsing this page on Google Chrome right now? Well, you’re going to want to. Some saint of a coder has developed an utterly delightful hack that rolls up all of a Web page’s text and pictures, Katamari-style. How’s it work? Pasting a piece of JavaScript into Chrome’s address bar activates the hack, which…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Call of Juarez: The Cartel Creators Argue Their First-Person Shooter Is No Celebration Of The Mexican Drug War
The creators of the upcoming video game that pits United States law enforcement agents against a Mexican drug cartel deny that they are ripping their subject from today’s headlines. It’s a hard position to understand, given that Call of Juarez: The Cartel is set in modern times, casting its bad guys as a vile Mexican…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Moosiest Moose We Know
This is no longer a vacation. It’s a quest. It’s a quest for coupons. I’m gonna have deals and you’re gonna have savings. We’re all gonna have so much fucking fun we’ll need plastic surgery to remove our godamn smiles. You’ll be whistling “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” out of your assholes! Hardware • PS3 Slim 320GB Console, Playstation…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Look At Project Milo, Which Was Actually An Adventure Game
Despite being presumed dead in the water, Lionhead’s Project Milo was once one of Kinect’s most interesting titles. What originally appeared to be little more than an AI chat program eventually was revealed as an adventure game, something we’re only now getting our first real look at. These storyboard images obtained by Develop show some…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
PAX East Cosplay Day 1, From Assassins To Valkyria Chronicles
People dressed up as video game characters for PAX East here in Boston (I think most were supposed to be video game characters). Some tried harder than others. Some just stood inside giant mech suits. Some were paid to cosplay, and some did it for the love. There was even someone cosplaying as a reporter…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 12, 2011