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How To Stop The Simplest Form Of Video Game Cheating
While spit-screen gaming is the ideal means for two people to truly share a multiplayer experience, it’s not without its problems. Like cheating. A problem these two industrious souls have managed to overcome. Above, witness exhibit A, which we’ll call the “ghetto method”. It involves some tape and a blanket. And the second player, who…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2011 -
UncategorizedLittle Girl Gamer Melts StarCraft’s Heart
This isn’t the first time this pre-schooler’s been exposed to StarCraft. The 4-year-old commentated on a StarCraft 2 match with “shooties” a few month back. But, now, she’s playing In the latest video, “Stargirl” plays Protoss on easy A.I. She needs to make more guys and wants to click on big buildings. She likes to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
Skirts? Where This Game Is Going, It Doesn’t Need Skirts
For years, glimpses up skirts were used to titillate Japanese gamers. A new game’s done away with that entirely. It is moving beyond, to new realms of I-don’t-know-what. Many of the earliest computer games were adult titles, once again proving that pornography is often the killer app for early adaptors. In Japan particularly, upskirts, or…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 2, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Game You’re Paying For Before It’s Even Out
Interstellar Marines is a video game unlike your standard sci-fi shooter. Instead of being backed by a publisher, its developers are instead taking money from fans now, who will get the game when it’s done. Zero Point Software, the indie developers behind the game, believe it’s the best way to go about getting a quality,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
Um, Nice Pokéballs
There are people who have got Pokémon tattoos who may regret that decision in ten years time. And then there’s this guy, who will have many more regrets than that, and a whole lot sooner. He’s had his arm modified. Cut open at the elbow and small lumps inserted beneath the skin in what those…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2011 -
UncategorizedAre Angry Fans Really Ruining Video Games?
Josh Olin, Community Manager at Call of Duty: Black Ops developers Treyarch, thinks that “pundits” and “angry entitled fans” are ruining creativity in video games. They’re not. In an interview with NowGamer, Olin – who admittedly must wade knee-deep through stupid questions from assholes as part of his job – says the following: Personally, as…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallWhen Activision Met The Wonder Years
Normally, the sequel to a popular video game remains largely the same as the preceding title (or titles). If the first one was a shooter, the second one is a shooter. In 1993, however, one series did things a little differently. That series was Zork, a pioneering succession of text adventure games for the PC…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dragon Age II Demo Hits February 23, But Some Get It Earlier
BioWare will apparently release a demo version of Dragon Age II—at the very least for PC players—only February 23, according to an e-mail sent to GameStop employees. Those lucky retail warriors will get access to said demo even earlier. One of the perks of working at GameStop is early access to the Dragon Age II…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Are You Listening To?
You know what Kotaku’s semi-nightly open thread needs? Or could possibly benefit from? Themed Tuesdays. Yeah, let’s guide this off-topic conversation toward the new world of music. Yes, that can include video game music! How about, let’s say, once a month we share our current playlists so that we can turn each other on to…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedNew Creative Ways Of Crushing Humans Comes To Resistance 3
The folks behind Resistance and Ratchet & Clank may be best known for their inventive, sometimes kooky weapons, but Insomniac Games are also developing new ways of turning bodies into lifeless piles of meat. The latest Resistance 3 trailer not only features the glorious return of the weapon wheel—missed you, weapon wheel!—but introduces the Chimeran…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Over 60 Billion Dead In The Battle of Call of Duty: Black Ops
Since its launch in November, Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has racked up more than 5 billion headshots, downed more than a billion aircraft and killed virtual soldiers to the tune of nine times the world’s population. That’s about 62 billion and change, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s world population clock Activision hit…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Celebrate The 3rd Birthday On March 29
The 3rd Birthday, the PSP action-RPG entry in Square Enix’s Parasite Eve series, comes to North America on March 29, 2011. Yvonne Strahovski (Mass Effect 2’s Miranda) will voice series heroine Aya Brea.
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Vault Bikinis Offer Little Protection Against Fallout Mini-nukes
Charlotte‘s custom Fallout 3 character Jinx Jones wiped Megaton straight off the Wasteland map! Also, check out her Fallout: New Vegas art piece HERE Related Rampage: Red Dead Redemption – Marston Tenpenny Babe by Charlotte / hel999 Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedShuma Gorath Versus Servbot!
Meat Bun is my favorite game-themed t-shirt company, and it’s not just because Mike owns it. It’s because they make some amazingly subtle video game shirts. Take this one of my favorite one-eyed Marvel-filched Robert E. Howard creation: Shuma-Gorath. What you missed Black Ops’ Newest Four Maps in Action, Plus Zombies! A Cursed Catwoman and…
By Brian Crecente Published February 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Store Update: Rearmed With A Mustache
This week’s North American PlayStation Store update brings a great deal of mustache, thanks to the arrival of Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2, now with 100% more soup strainer. What else is on tap? The Clash’s London Calling might be the best music you can download this week, unless you’re adamantly against Rock Band 3 or…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
A New Super Mario Bros. Is Coming To Nintendo 3DS ASAP
After the runaway success of New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS and New Super Mario Bros. Wii for Nintendo’s home console, news of a new Super Mario Bros. game for the Nintendo 3DS is probably not a surprise. So, we won’t pretend that Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto promising a new Super Mario Bros.…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow To Control SOCOM With The PS3’s Gun
When I played SOCOM 4 today, I controlled it with the forthcoming PlayStation 3 Sharpshooter peripheral, a shell that houses a PlayStation Move. This scheme is not mandatory, but it works. SOCOM developer Ben Jones explains how. Jones’ explanation gives you the pertinent details. It’s hard to assess how good the Sharpshooter will feel during…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedStreet Fighter IV Ultra Combos Look Ultra Cool In Real Life
When Street Fighter IV’s ultra combos are recreated in the real world, is the result silly looking or totally bad-ass? As “action company” Thousand Pounds, demonstrates, it’s somewhere in the middle. Watch as Vonzell Carter, James Young and David ‘Dax’ Bauer beat each other up with a series of dramatic, slow motion death blows lifted…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011