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The Cheaper, Better Tasting Alternative To The Nintendo 3DS
In today’s short but sweet episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter 100Tacks spends a dollar on a portable Nintendo product that does 3D without the aid of special glasses. I got my 3D’S today for one dollar! About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to say, and sometimes what they have to say…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dead Space 2 Steam Purchasers Are Dead In The Water
Dead Space 2 became available for pre-purchase on digital download service Steam yesterday. It went live early this morning. So why aren’t Steam users able to play it yet? Several readers have alerted us to an issue with invalid serial key errors when trying to activate newly-purchased copies of Dead Space 2 on Steam. The…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
This is Kotaku’s official forum. Today, we’d like to talk about video games. But we also need a favor. We’ve got this frightful image today from reader Nexus SIX, but we are running low on new January images. If you have Photoshop skills, please head over to #TAYpics and scare us up a few more…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Surprise Dead Space Game You Need to Play
This week I found myself doing something I’ve never done before with an iPad. Playing a game, not to pass time, but because it was fun, frightening and I wanted to see what was going to happen next. Gaming on the iPhone and iPad is for me a diversion, something I do to take the…
By Brian Crecente Published January 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedGearing Up For Sony Later This Week
Live from my hotel room in Tokyo! Sleepy, too. What you missed last night Rumor: The First Official Shot Of The PSP2? The Best Way To Stop Game Piracy Is With Silly Pirate Heads The Best Video Game Costume & Character Design Of 2010 The Nintendo 3DS Is The Anti-Game Boy When Street Fighters Go…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
The iPhone’s Most Popular Game Will Put Your Eye Out
Angry Birds didn’t sweep the nation, it swept the whole damn world. The game’s popular enough to merit more than stuffed animals, a board game and an animated series. It’s popular enough for a slingshot that you can shoot things with. This Angry Birds catapult is from the folks behind the stuffed toys and was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Why Don’t Foreigners Like Japanese Role-Playing Games?
For decades, Japanese role-playing games ruled gaming. These days, they don’t. Now, Western role-playing games get all the attention and praise. What gives? Noting the low popularity of Japanese role-playing games outside their native country, Sakaguchi believes that role-playing games need to break the stereotype they’ve created. Sakaguchi tells Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and Xenoblade…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
All Your “Villes” Belong To FarmVille
Game developer Zynga built an empire on social networking games like FarmVille, FrontierVille and CityVille. Notice what all those games have in common? They all have a “ville” suffix, which is why Zynga is readying legal action against Facebook game Blingville, from developers Overtime Apps, claiming that the use of “ville” infringes on its copyright.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Earth Is Ruined, So We Must Kill Lots Of Robots
A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda is an indie action title released last week on Steam (though it’s been available elsewhere since December). I thought it looked pretty cool, so decided to give it a try. Won’t you join me? In A.R.E.S., you play a robot on a space station who has to kill a ton of other…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedHey, This Fallout Movie Isn’t Too Bad!
When the trailer for a fan movie about Fallout was released a few weeks back, I was…sceptical. Which was stupid, because the movie is now out, and it’s actually pretty damn good. The short film is called “Nuka Break”, and is about the journey of a Vault survivor, his Ghoul pal Ben and a former…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo 3DS Is The Anti-Game Boy
Inexpensive, low-tech and sporting an impressive battery life, the Nintendo Game Boy was released in 1989. Next month, Nintendo is releasing the 3DS. It’s everything the Game Boy wasn’t. It is the Anti-Game Boy. Designed by Gunpei Yokoi, the Game Boy was big and bulky with gray graphics. The machine was and is almost indestructible,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Everywhere You Look, Minecraft
This is a shot taken from an upcoming documentary about Minecraft, by the same guys who did chiptune doco Reformat the Planet. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Origins Of Pokémon (In Two Minutes)
The story of Pokémon is a long and ridiculous one. Cutting its origins down to a two-minute web animation saves us all a lot of trouble, heartache and having to actually watch an episode of the awful Pokémon cartoon series. DJChlorine has taken the very first episode of the long-running Pokémon animated series and broken…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
When Street Fighters Go On A Gender Bender
French artist Bastien Vives has taken the cast of the Street Fighter series and reworked them. Most of them are now a different gender. Others are the same gender, they’re just…looking at the world in a new way. Guile, for example, is now a lady with a much more fashionable haircut. Dee Jay is also…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedKinect Delivers Its Ultimate Slap To The Face (Of A Small Child)
Start at 1:00 in. It’s OK to laugh. Because she survives. Actually, she doesn’t just survive, in the accompanying YouTube commentary her mother says “my daughter is fine” and “she doesn’t even have any bruises”, and commands us all to “watch it and laugh now!” If you say so, lady. The game in question looks…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedPraying To The Anime Goddess
It’s said that there is a religion for everyone. Otaku are no exception. Ryohoji Temple, a Buddhist temple in Tokyo’s Hachioji, might have been built in the 16th century; however, it is anything but traditional. CNNGo reports that in June 2009, the temple’s chief monk Shoko Nakazato created a manga-esque sign to “tell the people…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 25, 2011