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UncategorizedAn Elegant Video Hate Letter To The Makers Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops
Kotaku commenter Goldwings is having problems connecting to mutliplayer games in Call of Duty: Black Ops for the PlayStation 3, so he voices his displeasure in video form in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. My internet is fine Treyarch, so stop telling me that’s the reason why I can’t go online and play some games with…
By Mike Fahey Published February 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download Is On Fire This Week
WiiWare really heats up in this week’s Nintendo Download with Cozy Fire, a fireplace simulator with six – count ’em – six different fireplaces to choose from. Yeah, it’s that kind of week. Perhaps Nintendo and dtp young entertainment are celebrating President’s Day by releasing Cozy Fireplace. After all, President’s Lincoln and Washington surely spent…
By Mike Fahey Published February 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
This is Kotaku’s official forum, now proudly standing next to a headline stack that has a scrollbar. See? I told you it was coming. What will they think of next? While they’re thinking, please comment here about video games. (And, yes, last I heard, comment reply notifications are on their way back too.) Thanks to…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Can A Super Smart Computer Teach Game Characters To Be As Stupid As Humans?
Supercomputer Watson can best the best of us in Jeopardy, but can it make the games we play at home more challenging and fun? The day after IBM’s Watson beat Jeopardy champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, game designer Graeme Devine wondered on Twitter when game makers would be getting access to the technology. I…
By Brian Crecente Published February 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedGreen Energy Juice In My (Totally Fake) Zero-G Kitchen
Man, does this ever happen to you? I used my iPhone to film this video in the panoramic, and it ends up clipped down the middle and turned sideways. It does make the Night Note look like it was shot in space. WHICH IT WAS. The 3DS, Torn To Pieces Later this week, the glasses-free…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedCatherine Is So Hard, Let’s Make Her Easy
Action adventure game Catherine is difficult. And people in Japan are complaining. Keep in mind, that the game’s developer apparently said Catherine was not a walk in the park. The game’s Amazon Japan reviews indicate it’s much more and are littered with players saying that the game’s Easy Mode seems like your standard game’s Hard…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
PS3 Hacker Wants Your Money To Fight Sony
When George Hotz isn’t rapping, he’s fighting Sony in court. And fighting Sony in court is expensive Sony is a multi-national corporation with gobs of moolah. George Hotz is just some guy, but some guy who hacked the iPhone and now the PS3. The PlayStation 3 hacking incited Sony to take Hotz to court, and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedMan Deep Fries PSP, Tries To Eat It
Tempura is typically a Japanese dish of deep-fried fish or vegetables. Here, it’s deep fried PSP. The mind boggles. The folks in this ten minute video decide to cover a PSP in batter and then deep fry it. At about a minute in, they cover it in batter. At about 2 minutes in, they toss…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallHappy 25th Birthday, The Legend Of Zelda
Twenty-five years ago today, an ambitious title was released in Japan that would, in time, become one of the biggest and most important franchises in video game history. That game was The Legend of Zelda. While it may look crude now, it’s easy to forget that, at the time of the game’s release, it was…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
The 3DS, Torn To Pieces
Later this week, the glasses-free Nintendo 3DS goes on sale in Japan. A Chinese site already has its hands on the hot portable, and it’s ripped it into pieces. This dissection gives a closer look at the innards that power the 3DS, which boasts more powerful graphics than the previous generation of Nintendo handhelds. Of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Does Anyone Want To Dress Like Isaac Clarke?
Isaac Clarke, hero of the Dead Space series of horror shooters from Electronic Arts, isn’t the first man you’d turn to for fashion advice. I mean, he spends his days in an engineer suit. Covered in blood. The supremely talented Indonesian artist machine56 sees something in Clarke’s look, though, because he’s drawn up this design…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedReal And Not So Real Arcade Companionship
The recent The Arcade Operators Union Entertainment Expo featured a slew of prize machines — and things that can be won from said prize machines. No, you cannot win booth companions. Sorry. It’s all relative, but the biggest news from the show was the public airing of Tekken Tag Tournament 2, which seems to be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed: The After-School Cartoon Would Be A Blast
Assassin’s Creed is a pretty serious franchise! It’s nothing but killing, war, politics, religion and prostitutes. It’s about time it lightened up. Maybe with an animated series? DeviantArt user doubleleaf has drawn this entirely fantastical series of images depicting what the characters of Ubisoft’s stealth/action franchise (in particular the latest game, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood) would…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedTwo Of The Last Great American Arcades (Might Be) Closing Down
Fans of arcade gaming in the United States might be on the receiving end of a one-two punch, with both New York’s Chinatown Fair and California’s Arcade Infinity in danger of closure by the end of the month. For different reasons, both were seen as two of the finest arcades left in North America; Chinatown…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedHey, LeBron James, Why Don’t You Play Games Online?
Caught by a gamer at the recent NBA All-Star game, here’s Miami Heat superstar LeBron James talking about which games he plays (and why he doesn’t play online). The fact he plays Call of Duty, Madden, NBA2K, etc shouldn’t break your heart. The guy isn’t going to say, “Well, on road trips me and the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy Versus XIII Is Still A PS3 Exclusive…For Now
The most recent issue of Japanese magazine V-Jump features an article on upcoming role-playing game Final Fantasy Versus XIII. The game is supposed to be a PS3 exclusive. The latest V-Jump begs to differ. Developers Square Enix and Tetsuya Nomura, the guy designing it, have repeatedly stressed that this game is PS3 only. Yet, in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedPlaying Games Is Easier Than Being A Pop Star
Citing fatigue, pop star Hikaru Utada is taking 2011 off. She’s not touring and not releasing any new albums. Instead, she’s doing what many do when they want to relax: she’s playing video games. In particular, she’s all about recently released dungeon crawler Mysterious Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer 5: Fortune Tower and the Dice of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2011 -
CultureCan a Controller Be Programmed to Speed-Run Super Mario Bros.?
Long story short, this modder built a controller that, when plugged into a Nintendo Entertainment System, auto speedruns Super Mario Bros. in just a shade under 5 minutes. Naturally, commenters have shouted it down as a fake, but the Tool-Assisted Speedrun community is unanimous in calling the mod real. Modder pjgat09 provides a step-by-step, with…
By Owen Good Published February 20, 2011 -
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What’s Cookin’?
My new morning routine: Get up, dump, prepare coffee, boil a pot of water to do the dishes from last night. I have no hot water in my kitchen sink. This will get fixed sometime this week. Until then, I’m washing plates old school, and using them as little as possible. Here’s our big stories…
By Owen Good Published February 20, 2011