World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the kind of game shops open at midnight to sell. No shop is planning more midnight Cataclysm madness than Fry’s Electronics in Fountain Valley, California. That store will host all of the following on the night of December 6, starting at 9PM PT as midnight and the WoW expansion tick…
Motion gaming, mobile gaming, traditional gaming. More than any year before, shopping for that gamer in your life has become a minefield of games, deals and gadgets. With Black Friday looming, Kotaku is here to help with a hand-dandy primer on what’s new, what’s hot and what’s coming to the world of gaming. Motion Gaming…
It’s amazing what a single, surprisingly-fitting piece of music can do for a game. Take Robot Unicorn Attack, for instance. The original was wonderful. The remakes? All that really changes is the art and that single song. Robot Unicorn Attack’s latest target is Christmas. The 99 cent iPhone game is due to hit iTunes Tuesday…
The theme song for Conan O’Brien’s new show on TBS sounds sorta kinda like a theme song from Super Mario Bros. 3. And we know someone who works with Conan loves Mario. Right? Listen. Even the guy making the video concedes this might be a stretch, but listen and then try to not hear it.…
Our video games are in color. Even our noir video games set in 1940s Los Angeles. They don’t have to be, right? This is a trailer for Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire, with one change. We made it black and white. Sure, this is a crude transfer. I took Rockstar Games and Team Bondi’s official L.A.…
Plenty of hot new titles swamped the charts this week including id’s Rage for the iPhone and iPad, LEGO Harry Potter and Need For Speed Hot Pursuit. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 28 2 2 Smurfs’ Village (Capcom) Free…
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To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Ahoy! Saturday was spent covering the Kinect launch in Japan. There weren’t that many lines, but I do expect Microsoft to see a bump in Xbox 360 sales in Japan. How big? It’s hard to say. Japanese game retail blogs (here, here, here and here) are reporting sluggish interest. Even though…
With the United States’ budget projected to hit a $418 billion shortfall by 2015 and a $1.3 trillion shortfall by 2030, the New York Times knows something has to be done. So they made a game. The Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget allows you to get rid of that nasty deficit by clicking on…
Late last month, photos of a rumored PSP phone surfaced. The prototype looked like a Sony Ericsson cell phone mated with a PSP. Rumors, right? Know what they say, where there’s smoke there’s fire — with “they” being Sony. “There’s a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere,” Sony…
On July 29, PS3 title Hyperdimension Neptunia was released in Japan. Late last week, Record of Agarest War 2 hit Japan. Hey, wait a sec… There’s something familiar, and it’s not just the game covers. Both titles were developed by Idea Factory and Compile Heart. While Hyperdimension Neptunia is a role-playing send up of the…
When people first started talking about messing around with the insides of the Kinect, Microsoft played bad cop, making legal threats. Thankfully, things have calmed down since then. A few weeks back, Microsoft said – in response to a “bounty” being offered to the first person to “hack” Kinect – that it would “work closely…
Now that the game is on store shelves and impressing people’s pants off, Nicolas Collings — an artist at Ubisoft — has been able to share some of his work from Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Men, women, faces, weapons, armour…there’s a nice variety of content on display, all of it showing just how many polygons go…
Never mind that we don’t know how much a Nintendo 3DS game costs to buy, developers need to develop the games first. And that costs money. According to Harvest Moon publisher Marvelous Entertainment, Nintendo 3DS games cost — depending on the title — between ¥70,000,000 (US$838,976) at minimum and ¥100,005,000 ($1,198,598) at max. These, of…
Star Wars Kid, one of the internet’s earliest celebrities, had to do his lightsaber combat the hard way. Now, with Kinect and a computer, anyone can look like the world’s biggest Star Wars nerd. Using a hacked Kinect, Yankeyan has rigged up this basic tool that can track a user wielding a wooden stick and,…
The Nintendo 3DS is a glasses-free 3D gaming portable due next February for ¥25,000 (US$299). That’s a long ways away! Let’s make a low budget version right now First you’ll need a Nintendo DS, DS Lite, DSi or DSi XL. Take your pick! Next? Next you’ll a lenticular lens sheet. Then? Then, you’ll need tape.…
I can’t remember if I ever even finished PC adventure game Myst. There was just so much sitting, and thinking, and doing nothing. This guy, he’s finished Myst. And he’s done it in under two minutes. Don’t believe me? Check the clip above, which clocks in at around 1:45. The guy has click madness, so…
GStar, South Korea’s annual video game expo, ended on Sunday, but the show’s photos live on. The event showcased computer games like World at Warcraft: Cataclysm, arcade games like Tetris Giant, iPad games like Kart Rider, and console games from the PS3 and Xbox 360. Check out the festivities in the gallery below with images…
GSC Game World, developers of the cult PC shooter series STALKER, think there are people out there who would like to dress like someone who scrounges around in post-apocalyptic wastelands. So they’ve come up with an official line of STALKER clothing! You can’t buy any of these yet – GSC are just in the “prototype”…
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