The Nuts & Bolts Of Skyrim’s New Engine

You know how the next Elder Scrolls game has a fancy new engine? Why not read all about it. There’s even pictures!

This Kid Made One Of The Biggest Games On Earth (His Mom Helped)

When you were 14-years-old, what were you doing? Robert Nay is 14, and he’s programming a hit game. The eighth grader programmed the free physics-based puzzle game Bubble Ball for the iPhone, which knocked Angry Birds from the top spot on Apple’s free app chart after being released on December 29. It’s clocked over 2…

Unboxing A Very Special Edition Of The (Totally Fake) PSP2

While every second person in China has their hands on a PlayStation Phone, the honour of the world’s first PSP2 “unboxing” goes to the crew at Way of the Rodent. OK, not really. Not only did they get an early look at the handheld (OK, not really), but it’s the Ivory Coast Special Edition to…

LittleBigPlanet 2 Visual Guide

Japan’s Biggest Pornstar To Become China’s Biggest Popstar?

Sola Aoi, star of adult films like Oral Infection and Perverted Neighbor, has already captured the imagination of China with her ample talents, but is looking to do the same with her singing voice. The Tokyo native’s popularity exploded in China during the past few years as her adult videos made the internet rounds. The…

The 3DS Might Be Making Japan Sick

While everyone was having a great time at Nintendo’s big 3DS showcase in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago, some people weren’t having the greatest time afterwards, with a Japanese magazine reporting widespread cases of discomfort after use. Weekly tabloid magazine Friday claims that, having interviewed a range of people during and after the event,…

Xbox 360 Nearly Overtakes Wii In The US

Don’t look now, but the Xbox 360 nearly outsold the Wii in the US last year.

It Is Illegal To Shoot Pigs Over The Internet With Robot Shotguns

You pull the trigger in a game, and a series of 1s and 0s determines whether you did anything in the virtual world. You pull the trigger on this thing and a real gun shoots at a real, living creature. Last year, Jay Williams – the man whose property the contraption was discovered on –…

Is Microsoft About To Let Kinect Play Nice With Windows?

With hackers showing the world what Kinect is truly capable of, it was only a matter of time before Microsoft decided to release its own, official PC support for the Xbox 360’s motion sensing camera. PC gossip site WinRumors reckons that Microsoft “is currently preparing an official Kinect SDK and driver support for Windows based…

Have You Ever Dreamed Of Double Jumping?

This girl has. And her somber realization upon waking up that, no, sorry, you can’t double jump like Alucard or Samus or the Scout, is a good way to start an open thread. Don’t you think? Can’t say that I’ve ever been fooled into thinking I had double-jumping skills, but of course I’ve dreamed of…

The Xbox 360 Is Coming For Your Daughters

Steve Ballmer, head honcho at Microsoft, argues that Kinect for the Xbox 360 is the way to get 15-year-old girls cursing up a storm on Xbox Live in a new interview with USA Today The animated Microsoft CEO ends that quote by saying “we haven’t done as good a job drawing in that broader set…

Modern Warfare Maker Says It Can’t Fix Rampant Hacking On PS3

That Call of Duty games are routinely exploited by cheaters and hackers, regardless of platform, is nothing new. But players of the PS3 version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 say the situation is worse than it’s ever been. “This issue is really out of hand,” writes one member of the Infinity Ward forums,…

The Super Smash Bros. Mod That Looks Backward

Fans of Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. series of fighting games love to tinker, hacking new characters, stages and moves into the game. A soon-to-be-released demo for a Super Smash Bros. Brawl mod named “Project M” takes a different approach. The mod’s creators want to tweak Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii and model it…

When A Metal Gear Gets Hit With A Warhammer

This is Metal Gear Tau Rex, a re-imagining of the bipedal nuclear threat as made famous by Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation. Warhammer miniature fan Caiin injected some Ork Tau flavor into Metal Gear lore last fall. Seen on Work In Progress, via Reddit

The Single Most Important Piece of Tattered Paper in Kotaku Tower

The paper almost feels fleshy, it’s so worn. Bits of it have fallen off, and it’s curled on the edges. I had a mild panic attack earlier this month, after returning from Vegas, thinking that I had somehow lost it. This is the single most important piece of paper in Kotaku Tower. What you missed…

Japanese robotic dancers are cute and/or disquieting

Here are some of the mechanical participants of Tokyo’s Robot Japan 2011 dance competition. Some of the contenders are charming, whereas others scuttle around in that abandoned Chuck E. Cheese that lurks in the umbras of your nightmares. [Robots Dreams]

Can Stargate Universe come back from the dead?

After the announcement that Syfy was not interested in 3rd season ofStargate Universe, internet rumors have been popping up all over claiming that SGU is far from dead (mostly fostered by the show creators themselves). Can SGU live again? In the end of Decemeber show co-producer and co-writer, Brad Wright, told Show Patrol that “We…

The Perfect Game for the iPad

What started out as a wonderful indie computer game has become a wonderful indie iPad game. This is the sort of experience I’d like to expect from gaming on the iPad, and when it happens I’m delighted I have this Apple tablet to game on. In World of Goo you’re building wobbly, inky structures with…

The Dark Prince Of Cosmos

Mike Mitchell created an excellent Katamari Damacy themed illustration “Prince Of Darkness” for Gallery 1988‘s “Multiplayer” show. Prince Of Darkness by Mike Mitchell (Store) (Tumblr) (Twitter) Via: sirmitchell Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.

Xbox Live Indie Clips: The Charge Is Only Briefly Sexy

Some Xbox Live Indie games try to confuse you with pictures of beautiful women in tight clothing, masking a mediocre gameplay experience with sex. Say hello to The Charge by Zebra Games. It’s games like this than make me glad that Indie games on Xbox Live comes with demos by default. I should have taken…