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UncategorizedLike Tapper With a Soccer Ball — And Zombies, Of Course
Pro Zombie Soccer got a special iPad version – the “Apocalypse Edition” this past week; today we’ll take a look at the just-a-buck original which combines a single simple gameplay mechanic with that winningest of themes, the undead. PZS is like a country music song that thinks up a catchy chorus and then writes the…
By Owen Good Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
So That’s Where Blanka Gets His Juice
The Street Fighter Blanka needs a RECHARGE! Chewing down on that electrifying Pokemon Pikachu gives him a quick fix. Great idea by banzanza RECHARGING by banzanza Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.
By Michael McWhertor Published January 27, 2011 -
UncategorizedEven A LEGO Star Wars Game Needs Voice Actors
Just because none of the characters in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars actually talk doesn’t mean they don’t employ high caliber voice talent. They just grunt a lot. The cast from the hit animated television show Star Wars: The Clone Wars reprise their roles in LEGO Star Wars III, only there’s no script,…
By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Isn’t Sim City, It’s A Musical Instrument
Isle of Tune looks like Sim City. You can lay down streets like it’s Sim City. But once you start planting musical trees and chime-triggering houses, you’ll realize this is actually a delightful music sequencer. Suburban sprawl as symphony? The road that you pave establishes the length of the musical sequence and how it might…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 -
UncategorizedNGP’s Killzone, Uncharted, Resistance and More in Action
The unveiling of Sony’s Playstation Portable replacement, the NGP, came with one slick, game-packed video showing off a dozen or so games on the device. Among the games we got a quick look at were Gravity Daze, Killzone, Reality Fighters, Smart As, Broken, Little Deviants, WipeOut, Resistance, Uncharted and Hot Shots Golf Next. Enjoy and…
By Brian Crecente Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Scientists Pinpoint The Clock Inside Every Living Thing, Even You
Inside every living creature there’s a 24-hour clock that regulates the biochemical, physiological, or behavioral processes going on inside of us, and now scientists have discovered exactly what that clock is. We call the 24-hour cycle that exists inside all living things on the planet the circadian rhythm. This rhythm can be seen in our…
By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
First Look At Anarchy Reigns, From The Makers of Madworld
The game we’ve known as Max Anarchy until now—well, for the past two days—will be known as Anarchy Reigns when it comes to the West. Sega makes the latest game from PlatinumGames official today, with all-new screens. Anarchy Reigns is described by Sega as a “third-person multiplayer brawler” due for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Pot Man And The Video Game Characters A Rapper Identifies With
Are Mega Man’s battle chips the same thing as a rapper’s weed and alcohol? Houston-area rapper A.D.D. talks about the video game characters that inspire him, name-checking Kingdom Hearts, Metal Gear, and Tomba. Tomba? Okay, A.D.D. earns some serious video game cred for calling out that pink-haired pig-hugger Tomba as one of his inspirations, even…
By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Might Be The World’s Most Dangerous Game
The instructions for the Wii-based game Akashi couldn’t sound more dangerous: “Players are blindfolded and a sword is given to them in order to play.” Good thing we have video of this one in action. Akashi is an audio-only game. You play as the blindfolded samurai, using audio cues to determine where your enemies are.…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sony Is Not Ready To Discuss NGP Price Or Skype, But Portable 3D Is Another Story
The NGP, Sony’s new gaming portable, might seem like a great machine. But there are things that Sony isn’t quite ready to talk about. That doesn’t mean I didn’t ask after I saw the NGP in Tokyo. This evening, I had a sit down with Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida, who worked very closely…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
GameStop Starts Absurd Pie-In-The-Sky NGP Price Guessing
Yes, yes, we’ve heard you tipsters. GameStop is “estimating” that the NGP is a penny shy of a grand. I suspect they may be guessing or want to roll in glorious amounts of bogus pre-order cash. Update: Sarcasm, even sarcasm highlighted with italics and an abundance of adjectives and hyperbole, still doesn’t play on the…
By Brian Crecente Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is Electronic Arts Really Not Making Games For The Next PSP?
There was one glaring omission from the list of developers working on games for Sony’s powerful new portable, the NGP While the list included developers big and small, from Tecmo Koei to Activision, publishing powerhouse Electronic Arts was nowhere to be seen. Why? It’s not just what we want to know, it also seems to…
By Brian Crecente Published January 27, 2011 -
UncategorizedTeam Fortress 2 Does Its Best Dreamcast Impression
Space Channel 5 is a Dreamcast (and PS2) rhythm action game that had you controlling a sassy reporter through a series of dance-offs. It has absolutely nothing to do with multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2. Until now. Using the magic of the personal computer, YouTube user xcloudx01 has put together this clip in which Space…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Bully Arcade Cabinet We Wish Was Real
With a built-in exercise bike and a sweet slingshot controller, this conceptual arcade cabinet from Kotaku reader Cobra would be the ultimate way to play Rockstar’s school days sandbox game Bully. Perhaps if arcades were more successful than they are today we’d see something like this sexy Bully cabinet sitting in the corner of our…
By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2011 -
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Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Adds A Chinese Vampire And A Robotic Mutant Killer
We’ve got less than 20 days before the release of Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and Capcom is still rolling out the new playable characters. Here comes the purplish pairing of Marvel’s Sentinel and Darkstalkers’ Hsien-Ko. Hsein-Ko and her sister Lei-Lei used a forbidden Tensei-no-Jutsu technique to try and bring their mother…
By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Celebrity Impersonators Flood The Virtual Spaceways
EVE Online recently introduced an amazing new character customization tool that has the game’s players seeing virtual stars at every turn. Space Conan O’Brien heads up our star-studded gallery. It’s the most versatile character editor I’ve ever seen, and now it’s in the hands of countless EVE Online players, sculpting faces to resemble their favorite…
By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Complete Guide To Sony’s Next, Big Portable PlayStation
Sony’s impressive successor to the PSP was revealed to the world in Tokyo. Here is everything we’ve written about it, all of our hands-on impressions, photos and more. The PSP2 Is Here: Dual Analog Sticks, Touch-Sensitive OLED, 3G Built In & So Much More The PSP2 is finally here. Sony revealed its brand new PlayStation…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 -
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Witness the most face-melting action scenes from Enthiran, the Indian Terminator
We’ve been ridiculously excited for the Tamil science fiction blockbuster Enthiran once we heard that it was totally bonkers. And indeed, these clips prove that the movie delivers scads o’ madness. Robotic orb of machine gun death = total delight. In Enthiran (a.k.a. Robot), Dr. Vaseegaran (the Indian megastar Rajinikanth) builds the robot Chitti Babu…
By Cyriaque Lamar Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
NGP Battery Life Will Be Comparable To The PSP’s
The sight of Sony’s new NGP gaming handheld running demos of PlayStation 3 games is both exciting and terrifying for those concerned about the so-called PSP2’s battery life. Sony tells Kotaku that we can expect a decent amount of charge. The battery life target is the same as that of the current PSP 3000 model,…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
EVE Gallery
A close, but not quite representation of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Kurt Russell, Morpheus, and George Michael walk into a bar. . . Cate Blanchett, captain of outer space. I could totally see this happening. You don’;t want a boyfriend. What you want is Mr. Spock. Want to know what happens to…
By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2011