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  The Imaginative Tim Rogers Answers Your Video Game Questions

  Is Super Mario Bros. 2 bad? Was the Sonic series ever good? Who is the Ben Kingsley of video games? What does that even mean? You asked our opinionated columnist video game questions. He answered, in depth. It’s the beginning of a new tradition: you tweet at me (twitter.com/number108) with questions regarding videogames, the videogame…

  Tim Rogers Published December 2, 2010
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  Eat If You’ve Got ‘Em

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Why Is Video Game Sleep So Boring? Welcome back, Crecente! Hope you had a nice time off. Picked these candy cigarettes up at the supermarket today. I bought candy cigarettes as a kid. They were colored chewing gum and wrapped in paper. If you “puffed” on them powdered sugar (or…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 2, 2010
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  Judge Hacks Prosecution To Pieces In Xbox 360 Modding Trial

  The Xbox 360 criminal hacking trial began in Los Angeles with a bang. “I really don’t understand what we’re doing here,” said U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez. According to Wired blog Threat Level, the judge’s open court “tirade” was directed at prosecutors and lasted 30 minutes. The judge was upset about a whole host of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 2, 2010
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  This Is How Valkyria Chronicles 3 Begins

  Next January, the third installment in the Valkyria Chronicles fights its way on to the PSP. January is so far away, so why don’t you watch the game’s opening right now? Headed to Japanese shops on January 27, Valkyria Chronicles III takes place during the Second European War and follows the exploits of a Gallian…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 2, 2010
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  The Most Shameless Starcraft Rip-Off You’ll See This Week

  Gameloft is a mobile publisher with a reputation for releasing titles whose settings and designs can sometimes be, let’s say, unoriginal. The company’s latest reveal, however, may be the most unoriginal of them all. This is StarFront, an upcoming real-time strategy game for the iPad and iPhone. You will note that it features armoured human…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2010
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  Does The World’s Best Race Track Look Better In GT5 Or Real Life?

  This video shows a complete run of the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife course, widely rated as the best damn race track in the world. On the bottom screen, a real driver, in real life. On top? Gran Turismo 5. The real driver is Denis Malevanyi, a part-time veteran of the course. He’s driving the exact same car…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2010
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  Dress Like A Yakuza For Only $900!

  Ever wonder why thugs turn to a life of crime? Maybe it’s because their threads cost so damn much. This outfit, based on the tracksuit protagonist Tatsuya Ukyo wears in PSP game Yakuza: New Chapter Black Panther and its spin-off television drama. The outfit is from Japanese designer DressCamp and will set you back ¥42,000…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 2, 2010
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  The Science Of Size In Video Games

  Freelance artist and game designer Anjin Anhut shares some thoughts (and neat comparison charts) on what size means for video game’s creatures great and small . Feeling And Understanding While “make it big” seems to be the obvious approach, there is more to consider and to achieve by structuring the sizes of protagonists, enemies, items…

  Anjin Anhut Published December 2, 2010
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  Her Art Is A Symphony Of Evil

  Kotaku featured the art — if you can call it that — of voice actress Yuu Kobayashi (Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Ar tonelico III) several times before. Kobayashi’s work is nightmarish and unique. And, yes, we’d say her phallic doodles are art and deserve a video send up. Thank you, Yuu Kobayashi for your…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 2, 2010
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  Play This Game, Help Save Lives

  Phylo looks like just another minimalist Flash game that has you moving blocks around, but under the hood, every time you click something, you’re helping save lives. How? Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz are tracking the game, because how players arrange the various coloured blocks helps them compare genome sequences in…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2010
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  Australian Study Finds No “Conclusive” Evidence That Games Harm Kids

  As this report on Kotaku AU details, Australia continues to deal with how it classifies and views video games. A statement released today by the Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’ Connor states that a review of existing research has found that “there is no conclusive evidence that violent computer games have a greater impact…

  Mark Serrels Published December 2, 2010
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  Wii Remotes, Ho!

  He may not have the stature of Lion-O, but his heart’s still in the right place. As seen on Threadless

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2010
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  Xbox 360’s Borderlands GOTY Edition Won’t Cross The Border

  The PS3 version of Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition will be released in Japan. According to one report, the Xbox 360 version will not. The Xbox 360 version was originally intended to hit retail alongside the PS3 edition later this month, but according to an online report and retailers like HMV, the title is…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 2, 2010
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  Call Of Duty’s Publishers Couldn’t Give A Hoot About iPhones Or Facebook

  While Activision remains committed to complete and utter domination of home consoles and the personal computer, it seems the mega-publisher couldn’t care less about emerging platforms like Facebook or the iPhone. “We don’t view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games,” Activision boss Bobby Kotick says. He may be in the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2010
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  Is Pokemon Still Gaming’s Monster King?

  From Godzilla to Gamera, Japan loves its monsters. Pokémon, or Pocket Monsters, is no exception. But Pokémon’s days as Japan’s reigning video game monster ruler could be over. This is anecdotal evidence at best, and in no way am I trying to imply that Pokémon is no longer popular in Japan (that would be insanity!),…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 2, 2010
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  Half Of Xbox Live’s Users Aren’t Paying Subscribers

  It’s easy to assume that most people who connect their Xbox 360 consoles to the internet have an Xbox Live Gold subscription. But nope. Turns out a lot of you don’t “Of our 25 million members, about half of them are subscribers to the business and pay us about $60 a year for that,” Microsoft’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2010
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  Go Go (Away) Kamen Rider Girls!

  This year marks the fortieth anniversary of masked, motorbike-riding super hero “Kamen Rider” (“Masked Rider”). How will this milestone be marked? Why, with hotpants. A Japanese record label is teaming up with the franchise’s production company to create “Kamen Rider Girls”, a Japanese pop unit with five girls ranging in ages 18-20 and representing different…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 2, 2010
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  NSFW: Can Trashtalking Rattle A Real Soldier?

  Morons yammering away in your headset can be off-putting to the average gamer toiling through a round of Call of Duty online, but how does it affect the combat capacity of an actual, trained soldier in the field? Machinima specialist Rooster Teeth’s new series Immersion seeks to find out, having US Special Forces veteran “Shane”…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2010
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  Here’s A Look at Iran’s First Big Time Video Game

  Though the country earlier this year published a sci-fi MMO, Garshasp – a monster hunter of folklore – is billed is Iran’s first AAA-quality video game. It’s being made for the PC because trade sanctions prohibit selling dev kits there. Thus, Garshasp has been in development since 2006, and its makers are waiting on a…

  By Owen Good Published December 2, 2010
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  Hell Yeah, This Lady Would Love To Be In The World Of Warcraft Movie

  Of all the things she’s done in her life – like starring in sitcoms, animated series and big Hollywood movies – there’s nothing actor Mila Kunis would love more than to play a “kick-ass mage”. Kunis, who has scored gamer brownie points for her addiction to WoW then lost them with a starring role in…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2010