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Hey, Whatever Happened to Marcus, the PSP Mascot?
A Sony executive recently declared that Marcus Rivers, the smartass ‘tween flack for the PSP who debuted at E3 last year, delivered “positive sales effects,” for the handheld. Near as I can tell, that’s the first anyone’s heard of the little twerp in more than four months. Marcus still anchors the front of Sony’s official…
By Owen Good Published February 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Tetris Decorates a Fridge
Reader Edo in Switzerland got a strange compulsion to decorate his refrigerator this weekend. “Not the best Tetris game ever, but a fancier fridge indeed,” he writes. Indeed. Naturally, the green squiggly is where this board went wrong. Oh, well …
By Owen Good Published February 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Box Scores: Finns in the Finals
“Sports games are really the best RPGs,” writes reader ACES11, who inserted into the NHL a Finnish Elite League team that hasn’t won squat in 45 years, drafted smartly and played well, and made it to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals against Montreal. Playing NHL 11’s dynasty mode, ACES11 took Saiman Pallo, of…
By Owen Good Published February 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Bulletstorm Once had Campaign Co-Op, but It “Broke Down” the Game
As an irreverent, dick-joking romp filled with guns and bloodshed, Bulletstorm would seem to be a natural for cooperative play in the game’s main campaign. It actually was much less than a perfect fit, said Epic Games’ design boss. A cooperative campaign mode “was in there at one point and it actually worked,” Cliff Bleszinski…
By Owen Good Published February 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Moneysaver: Does Barry Manilow Know You Raid His Wardrobe?
That’s the last time, Bender. That the last time you ever make me look bad in front of those kids, you hear me? I make $31,000 a year and I have a home and I’m not about to throw it all away on some punk like you. Here’s something I didn’t know. Molly Ringwald and…
By Owen Good Published February 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Week’s Most Dangerous Cosplay
This is not a photoshop. This is cosplayer Jenn, dressed as the adventurous Lara Croft, hanging from a rope underneath a waterfall in Victoria, Australia. Click through to see just how far she’s hanging. She’s just stepped off a 165-foot waterfall, making this if not the most authentic piece of cosplay we’ve seen this week,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2011 -
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