I’m a big fan of Infinity Blade’s amazing graphics and interesting take on iPhone gaming. So it’s great to hear that the first update for the $6 game is expected to hit next week. The update will include five new swords, five new shields, five new helmets and a new set of armor. The free…
Metal Gear’s “Solid Snake” and Modern Warfare 2’s “Ghost” join forces once again in the third chapter of epic crossover parody Modern War Gear Solid. Can they finish the fight? Can you see where this is going? In the third and perhaps the most impressive fan film from Beat Down Boogie, Snake and Ghost face…
Best Video Games Of The Year lists are good for fomenting argument. But maybe they can also give an overlooked game another chance for attention. Here’s one man sticking up for Metro 2033, and sticking up for it… interestingly. Amid the Red Dead Redemption talk and Call of Duty conversation over at Slate.com’s Gaming Club…
An e-mail some of you may have received that appears to be a request for a password reset for World of Warcraft is a phishing scam. Consult this official Blizzard thread for information. [Update: Blizzard is sending legit warnings, too.] While some sites, such as Linked In, have prompted password resets due to the hack…
FAO Schwarz and giant pianos combined to provide a touching moment in the movie Big in 1988. Xbox 360’s Kinect and modders combined to recreate that scene without a real piano more than 20 years later. Heart and Soul? Nailed. Chopsticks? Let’s see it. [Thanks Rob]
Coverage last week of the concentration camp first-person shooter Sonderkommando Revolt may have raised curiosity about how people would play a game about the Holocaust. A writer at the Daily Beast shares a story of one such session he observed in November involving the game Train. The Train is a board game of sorts that…
The SlayStation is not a PlayStation. It’s more of a musical instrument. The notes you play on it come from video clips of video games. Check this out. The top video here and all the rest in this post were made by a guy named Mike Toillion who appears to have been working on something…
Protests from animal rights activists have put a moratorium on NASA plans to expose 27 squirrel monkeys to gamma-ray radiation. Researchers hoped to simulate the effects of space radiation on humans, but protesters claim the experiment’s cruel and unnecessary. The experiment was put in limbo after PETA obtained documents detailing the experiment using the Freedom…
When building a ramp in the Forge level creator in Halo Reach, don’t get your hopes up. Not only will it not get you anywhere, but it may just break the laws of Halo physics. Ramp Physics Fail [YouTube]
Infinity Blade on the iPhone looks damn good. And as of Thursday, anyone will be able to make a game for the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad will be able to make a game using the same graphics technology. The iOS version of the Unreal Development Kit will be free to download some time this…
This isn’t really how Switzerland came about, though wouldn’t it be great if it were. Instead it’s an amusing mishmosh of legends and cliche with a dash of Mario added in for flavor. That’s right, about 30 seconds in, William Tell does a Mario and saves the princess from a castle, complete with question blocks…
Last week famed indie-developer Jenova Chen explained how to cheat your way through iGame Smurf Village. This week Papa Smurf caught wind of the underhandedness. He was not amused. Sometime after our article ran about Smurfing your way to a perfect Smurf village on the iPhone or iPad, Capcom got wise and released a new…
Kinect gamers get a free download pack for Kinect Sports today courtesy of Samsung. The Samsung Party Pack adds six new mini-games and three mascots to the motion-gaming sports title. The mini games are super striker, Pinvaders, Rapid Runner, Target Smash, Fruit Splatter and King of the Ring. The mascots, crazy mascots according to Rare,…
Starting right now you can pick up Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos, Revenge of the Titans for the Mac, Windows or Linux for exactly whatever the hell you want to pay, and it’s for a good cause. That’s right, Wolfire’s pay-what-you-want, donate-to-charity indie gaming bundle returns today with the Humble Indie Bundle 2. This year…
West London skate park Baysixty6’s skating days might be derailed as the hotspot now faces closure. According to website BikeBiz, the Kensington and Chelsea planning department states, “The Skatepark does not serve needs of the local youths.” The area might be turned into either an office space or a garden center. Previously, the park was…
Get a load of these posters. They’re game posters done up to look like movie posters, but not the boring kind, the kind you see for a quaint little art house cinema that only shows a movie once. So they’re not cold, stark images. They’re a little kooky, a little old-fashioned, full of quirks and…
Sony did win that HD format war, you know. While pundits predict that the next generation of consoles will be digital download only, Sony continues to be bullish on disc-based media. “The reason retail has been around for thousands of years is because it works really well at showing you a range of content, having…
Checked your Twitter feed recently? Because Oklahoma City Thunder star forward Kevin Durant just called you a punk. Well, not exactly, but he did just challenge fans to a two-on-two boomshakalakalicious bout of NBA JAM against him and his sidekick Mathias Murphy. In case you aren’t following him, Kevin Durant just tweeted the following: And…
After more than three years of tracking Nintendo stats, I’m done. Monster Hunter wins. Smash Bros. comes in second. Mario squeaks in at the last minute. You are reading the final installment of a series I’ve been running monthly in various ways for a few years. Since joining Kotaku in the spring of 2009, I’ve…
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