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Fatal Stabbing In Game Boy Dispute Nets a 5-Year Sentence
An argument over a stolen gaming handheld last May led to a fatal stabbing, a guilty plea, and a sentence to 5 1/2 years in state prison today in New Jersey. The victim’s mother is outraged. John Rosa, 23, of Paterson pleaded guilty in December to the homicide, described as “passion-provocation manslaughter” under New Jersey…
By Owen Good Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedFruit Frenzy Is Charming Juicing Fun For The iPhone
Are you thirsty for more match three puzzle gaming? Then perhaps you should drop 99 cents on Fruit Frenzy, a delightful little iOS game that delivers colorful puzzle gaming in high concentration. Fruit Frenzy is the work of White Bat Games, the product of Neil Millstone’s brain. He’s a developer brave enough to promise that…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
Open-World Zombie Survival Shambles Slowly Towards Xbox Live Arcade
Code name Class3 is not an action game with zombie targets. It’s an open-world zombie survival game, and it’s coming to the Xbox Live Arcade courtesy of Undead Labs and Microsoft Game Studios. What’s the difference between a game with zombies in it and a zombie game? A game with zombies in it could just-as-well…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Monster Closet Packed With Swag
No endlessly spawning bad guys coming out of these closets. There’s no room! They’re both too packed with gaming giveaways for any to fit. What you missed First Hands-on With Deus Ex: Human Revolution Teaches Us To Walk, Then Fly See The Augmented Cyberpunk Side of The New Deus Ex How Do You Budget Your…
By Brian Crecente Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
Your First Brief Look At Battlefield 3
Battlefield creators DICE will give us our first peek at the long-awaited Battlefield 3 tomorrow, February 4, in video teaser form. But the latest Game Informer magazine cover gives us a small hint at what to expect. Visually, Battlefield 3’s art has the same vibe present in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and its Vietnam expansion,…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
Why Would a Game With No Online Play Require an Online Connection?
For some, the inclusion of DRM – “digital rights management” which prevents copying – is a provocative act. That makes requiring an online check-in for a game with no online component, like Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2, both perplexing and obnoxious. PlayStation 3 owners buying the sequel to Capcom’s show-stealing hit of 2008 were greeted with…
By Owen Good Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mega Man On The Mend
Rock and Roll! Mega Man’s battle damage is quickly patched up by his sister Roll. Such a killer piece for UDON’s Mega Man Tribute contest by ReevolveR Fully Restored by Salvador Ramirez Madriz / ReevolveR Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Games Found and The Games Still Missing in Murdoch’s Newspaper Killer
Rupert Murdoch’s daily interactive iPad newspaper replacement, The Daily, brings with it not only a new way to read news, but a fresh look at the sections that divide a newspaper up. Among The Daily’s six relatively traditional sections was one surprise: Apps & Games. So far that means a section that talks about technology,…
By Brian Crecente Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedA More Beautiful Call Of Duty Replay
YouTube is clogged with drearily long replays of Call of Duty: Black Ops. They account for most of the most popular gaming clips on the giant site. Thankfully, someone has finally made a better, more beautiful one. YouTube user IVIachineX sets his first-person shooter clips to music. He edits them. He adds special effects. He’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedSkullgirls Brings 2D Girl On Girl Fighting To Consoles This Summer
If you like your fighting games strictly on a two-dimensional plane and with just a single gender, you might want to start paying attention to Skullgirls, a new independently developed fighting game coming to “high-definition home consoles.” Skullgirls is the work of Reverge Labs, lead by ex-Pandemic developer and fighting game expert Mike “Mike Z”…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
One Ethereal Thing To Get Right About Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
There is a quality that is hard to define but is essential for a great Lego game, John Smith told me yesterday. The man who helps make the many popular Lego video games was trying to articulate it for me. “When you think, ‘I wonder if there’s a…'” He paused, playing the role of pondering,…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
PC Gamers, We Have Some Bad Battlefield News
If you were somehow still holding out hope that the long delayed Battlefield 1943 for the PC would ever become more than a promise, give up now. Developer DICE has finally officially canceled that game (and another Battlefield project). DICE GM Karl Magnus Troedsson writes on the Battlefield Blog today that the World War II…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedDistracted Ten-Year-Old Games Himself Off A Railway Platform
A ten-year-old boy in Italy is saved from possible death by a heroic off-duty policeman after walking off a railway platform while playing his PSP. This is why we do not walk and game at the same time. Technology may truly be the downfall of man, or at least this small boy and that woman…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
Three Hours Or 30 Minutes, What’s The Right Daily Dose Of Gaming For Kids?
In one frame, a mom who cut her kids off from video games and other electronics for six months. In the right frame, a game designer who says kids benefit from up to three hours of gaming a day. In the middle: a Fox News host who limits her kids to 30 minutes of gaming…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Wii Experience, As Summed Up By 12 Plays With Familiar Names
They really did it, and last night I witnessed it. On a frigid evening in New York City, the Ars Nova theater managed to stage a dozen short plays all named after Wi games. Most of the “Wii Plays,” as we’ve noted before, had little to do with video games. Wii Tennis is about a…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
Humanity Poised To Take Its First Steps On Fake Mars
Following up on one of our earliest daily Kotaku science posts, the Mars500 Project is now in orbit, with three crew members preparing to become the first humans to set foot on fake Mars. In an experiment that began in June of last year, six men – three Russians, a Frenchman, a Columbian, and a…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedAnarchy Reigns’ Big Bull Nails You With The Jet Hammer
You want a piece of Big Bull, the latest competitor unveiled for PlatinumGames’ Anarchy Reigns? Oh he’s got a piece for you, and you’re not going to like it one bit. Big Bull is something called a Cybrid, a cyborg in which the only remaining human tissue is the brain. So there’s something human lurking…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011
