Bring Back World War II

Commenter Bipolar.Bear.Disorder is missing the good old days of World War II in today’s installment of Speak-Up On Kotaku. Am I the only one left in the gaming community that misses World War II games? With everyone’s intense focus on modern and future warfare, I feel as if World War II video games, my favorite…

The Fallout Conversation System Does Not Work In Real Life

When you try to apply the logic and mechanics of the conversation system from Bethesda’s Fallout series to real life relationships it can only end in tears – or dead girlfriends. If only every major decision in life came with enough time to stop and ponder a selection of choices conveniently labeled in terms of…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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Finally, The Censored Duke Nukem Forever Trailer

Duke Nukem Forever has a launch date. May 3. And now you all can finally see the trailer I saw of the game in September — just with some of the breasts pixelated. Plus, it’s got a Duke Xbox controller, sorta. Duke Nukem Forever, which is now being made by Gearbox Software, has been in…

Pretty Little Pictures

Trey Ratcliff sees the world with a gamer’s eye When he looks at Beijing through the lens of his camera he sees Tron. When he finds a secluded bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand he thinks Hobbits. When people ask the famed HDR photographer how he edits his colorful, evocative images, he compares himself to a…

Duke Nukem Forever Has a Release Date, And No You’re Not Dreaming

The long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever will be out in North America on May 3, Take-Two said today. (May 6 worldwide). Six months ago, we’d have laughed that off, but we did play the game in September. It’s real. You’re not dreaming right now.

You Cannot Stop The Japanese Schoolgirls

Spent the morning at the doctor about my exploded elbow. He said to come back if it still hurts. There will be cutting, oh yes! Just need the bugger to hold up next week while I’m in Tokyo. Then he can cut all he wants. Oh, and nice office, Crecente! What you missed last night…

Marathon Programming Session Resulted In Smash Hit Game

Game programmers today are hardcore. They always are, but in the past, they were a little more hardcore. Shinichi Nakamoto created Bomberman, the bomb-throwing game. The game was originally released on PC in 1983, but later ported to Nintendo’s popular Family Computer, or Famicom. That port was supposedly done in 72 hours by one man,…

Clean Clothes Are Important, Even After The Apocalypse

Fallout Guy gets a job at a Rhode Island dry cleaner. As seen on Super Power Bros. Thanks Patrick!

Is 3D Is Making Everyone Barf?

If 3D causes you to feel ill, tough crap. 3D is here to stay. According to optometrists, as many as one in four individuals either experience eyestrain — or worse, become dizzy or ill. One study of 115 South Koreans found that viewing 3D close-up causes more eyestrain than 2D, reports Fox. This lead the…

Whoah, Why Are There Boobs In This Tiger Woods Game?

Having spent “ages” working on a custom avatar for her Tiger Woods 11 character, Briton Jo Eley says she booted the game up to find that…well, her avatar was apparently playing topless. So says a report on the website of Britain’s The Sun, at any rate, where Eley says after discovering the “glitch” while playing…

Let’s All Play This Adventure Game Together

Kaptain Brawe is a delightful little adventure game from Cateia Games. I played it earlier today, so why don’t you join me. OK, so as you’ll see, I’m not going to play play it. Watching a man solve adventure game puzzles is the very antithesis of excitement, especially when he’s playing the mode with the…

Wait A Minute, This Game Isn’t About Strippers!

The streets are lined with shops and populated with otaku. This game’s setting looks like Akihabara, and that’s because it is. But where are the strippers? The game’s title, Akiba’s Trip, sounds like Akiba Strip in Japanese. No wonder the developers used photos of underwear strewn about Akihabara to promote the game. Akihabara is largely…

An Unlikely Trio Making New Social Game

Cave (known for its arcade shooters), Gree (known for its mobile phone games) and Electronic Arts (known for being Electronic Arts) are all working together on a new social game for Japan’s Gree networked gaming platform.

Bus Shelters Turn Wait Times Into Neighbourhood Deathmatches

Web giant Yahoo has installed twenty large touch-screen displays in bus shelters across San Francisco. These displays are not for trailers. Instead, they’re to let people engage in some free multiplayer gaming. It’s called the Yahoo Bus Stop Derby, with commuters able to choose from four simple games to play. While they play, their results…

Meet The Man Responsible For Gaming’s Hottest Tune

Vietnam games and movies often rely heavily on old chestnuts like “Paint It Black” or “Fortunate Son” to capture an era. One Vietnam game enlisted some dude from Sweden instead. Shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam features a loading song that’s referred to informally as the “Operation Hastings loading song”. Commenters on forums knocked heads…

GLaDOS, Your New PC Is Ready

OK, so since she IS a computer, Portal’s GLaDOS wouldn’t exactly need a rig of her own. If she did, though, it’d look exactly like this. This is the Hammerhead HMR989 from DARWINmachine. And aside from the fact it’s in a rather elegant, glowing “case”, its key point is that it’s not really a PC…

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A Brief History Of The First-Person Shooter

First-person games may be the at the top of gaming’s food chain in 2011, but it wasn’t always this way. Join us, then, on a guided tour of the genre’s history, from dark, wireframe beginnings to Call of Duty. This of course isn’t every first-person game of the last thirty years. If it was doing…

The Illustrated Guide To Role-Playing Monsters

Not all role-playing games are played on a monitor or TV screen. Some are played around a table with words and numbers, and when you’re playing one of those, you’re not limited to the monsters a developer has designed. You’re free to make your own. While this would normally be the domain of a role-playing…