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UncategorizedWatch A High School Class Receive An Audience With The Most Powerful Man In PC Gaming
Tippecanoe Valley High School’s sports & entertainment marketing class just started a new program where they chat via webcam with important business folks. To kick things off, these kids got to spend over forty minutes with Valve boss Gabe Newell. What’s great is not just the fact he spared the time to chat with the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Braving The Xbox Live Indie Wasteland, One Game At A Time
One hundred days ago, Kotaku reader Steven set out on a voyage. He was going to wake up every morning, buy a new Xbox Live Indie game, play it, then review it. Now, 100 days later, he’s still going Inspired by the mini-revolt staged by some Indie devs last year against Microsoft’s treatment of their…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
The T-Virus Makes for a Charming Specimen
Resident Evil T-Virus charm. “The vial is about 1 and a quarter inches long … filled with my special, homemade, crystal clear goo, which has a few tiny real bubbles suspended in them to give the charm a more futuristic look to it. It has a double helix design embedded inside that almost seems to…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Bulletstorm’s PC Demo’s on the Way — After it Releases
Bulletstorm got a pre-release demo on the Xbox 360 and PS3. “In other news, PC gamers are grumpy about this,” Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski tweeted last month. Well, Bulletstorm will get a PC demo, but after its release. In other news, PC gamers are probably grumpy about this. Epic’s Mark Rein tweeted that the Bulletstorm…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Kotaku.TV
Kotaku readers, I’ll politely ask you to talk amongst yourselves in off-topic (or on-topic) conversation. Movies, music, books, politics, science, video games, whatever’s on your mind, this is the nightly place for it. If you’re feeling lurky instead, here’s a selection of links—all of them videos—for you to enjoy. Have a good weekend. Ciao! Sucker…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Gamer Budgets Increase, but Tilt More Toward Mobile
Did you spend less on games last year? More on mobile purchases? Ratings research firm Nielsen said gamers shifted their budgets into mobile app purchases and “other leisure activities,” mirroring the widely-bemoaned sales decline seen last year. Curiously, the whole-dollar figure gamers put toward games purchases remained somewhat flat, even if its slice of the…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Hollywood’s Already Bought the Rights to a Dead Island Movie
That didn’t take long. Days after Dead Island’s haunting trailer hit, making it the most talked-about game in development (well, this week), a report already has it that the producer behind “The Mummy” bought the rights to a Dead Island film adaptation. Sean Daniel, a producer behind “Tombstone” and “Dazed and Confused” and, in a…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s A Zombie Apocalypse… Wedding?!
What could be more romantic than being on the run with the love of your life as you’re chased down by flesh-ripping zombie hordes? That’s the concept behind this “Left 4 Dead inspired” wedding photo shoot. Manila-based photographer Jervy Santiago tells Kotaku that the subjects of his Left 4 Dead-inspired session, Ingle and Aimee, love…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Day Guitar Hero Died
I’ll never forget where I was when I heard that a plane had crashed in an Iowa cornfield, with Izzy Sparks, Johnny Napalm, and Lars Ümlaüt aboard. Here’s “The Day Guitar Hero Died,” by The Warp Zone, a tribute to the one-time phenomenon killed last week by Activision. Not to damn it with faint praise,…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Is What Virtua Fighter 5 Looks Like Now, With Liquid Metal
Sega keeps Virtua Fighter alive (in Japan at least) with yet another update to the seminal 3D fighting game. What does Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Version A bring to the beat ’em up? Dural, maybe? The series’ shiny boss makes a brief appearance at the end of this new trailer for Sega’s latest update…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedPlay “Human Tetris” with This Kinect Mod
Here’s another Kinect mod from the “Why haven’t they thought of that already?” file. This is a take on “human tetris,” one of the premises of Fuji TV game show Tonneruzu, albeit without boat horns, chortling audience, and a Japanese Chuck Barris as the host. Simple concept: The screen sends a virtual wall at you,…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedDuke Nukem Says Hello
John St. John is SO going to be my new ringtone. “Kotako Kotako Kotako” Excellent. North Korean cryptogram in comments. Or soon will be, as promised. Angry Birds, Cut The Rope and Now… Bugs Wars? Shooters struggle to work on the iPhone and iPad because the people who play these sorts of games most, people…
By Brian Crecente Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
King’s Quest Finds A New Life
The long dormant King’s Quest series will soon get a new lease on life, thanks to Telltale Games. Add that classic Sierra franchise to Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, The Walking Dead and Fables on the long list of Telltale projects. And add a few more to that too. Telltale Games will also be…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Vegas Club Offers a ‘Wine List’ of Vintage Games
The idea, says Christopher LaPorte, is you’ll come into his club, sit on a large, luxurious couch, and examine a list handed to you by an attractive cocktail waitress. You’ll then say something like, “I’ll have the Mega Man 3, 1990. Please bring two controllers.” “I really want it to be like a wine list,”…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I’ve dusted off the old PSP—and I gotta tell ya, it was disgustingly dusty—to play some Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together this weekend. Anybody else up for some turn-based strategy? That’s a genre I rarely find myself with the time and patience to play anymore, as I tend to do most of my gaming…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Bloodiest Football Game You’ll Play Today
While it’s not the most accurate representation of American football, Milkstone Studios’ Zombie Football Carnage still has all the right moves – just a little bloodier. Zombie Football Carnage hit the Xbox Live Indie Games store today, and its colorful Castle Crashers-style graphics caught my eye immediately. The you play a little football helmet wearing…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedAt Last, You Too Can Understand The Confusing, Bewildering Slam Bolt Scrappers
I’ve written about Slam Bolt Scrappers before. It’s got a weird name, but it has merited my attention — and yours. I picked it as one of my two favorite unreleased games from last year’s PAX Eat gaming convention (the other was Monday Night Combat). I’ve tried hard to explain it. But the game is…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedNow You Can Play Gran Turismo 5 On Five HDTVs
The makers of Gran Turismo updated their real driving simulator for the PlayStation 3 earlier today, bringing with it a ton of fixes and features. It also included something for Gran Turismo 5‘s most serious players, multi-monitor support. Yes, you can now play Gran Turismo 5 on up to five monitors at once, provided you…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2011