No, this isn’t my current gaming rig. It’s a postmortem picture of the last computer I built myself which died by heat and electrical shorts. These days I run a Voodoo with an AMD 64 FX-60 2.5 GHz dual core processor, 2 gigs of memory and an ATI Radeon X1900 graphics card. It’s in need…
Treyarch is declassifying information on Call of Duty: Black Ops‘ many multiplayer features, offering a quick briefing on the online half of the game a few weeks before launch. For example, did you know that Black Ops supports split-screen online multiplayer? Oh, you did? That’s why Treyarch community guy Josh Olin is calling these “little-known…
Notch, developer of the world carving, item alchemy game Minecraft, is bringing players of the PC hit a treat for Halloween: biomes. What are biomes? This video shows you ten of them. These collections of Minecraft flora and fauna range from arctic to desert zones, with each biome capable of spawning its own monsters and…
I possess this box. In this box was an Xbox 360 Kinect and games. Courtesy of Microsoft, Kotaku is now a gaming news outlet that can be the controller. We have Kinect. One is hooked up to my TV. The Xbox 360 Kinect launches on November 4. As an agreement for getting the device early,…
Looks like someone at 2K Games had a little leftover resurrection potion from whatever they used on Duke Nukem Forever because the formerly dead downloadable content for BioShock 2 on PC is alive. It’s coming. Viva PC Gaming Week! Over on the 2K forums, 2K Elizabeth spreads the news that BioShock 2’s PC patch as…
Character art. Screen shot galores. Pre-rendered scenes. If you were feeling wistful about Final Fantasy fighting game Dissidia 012[Duodeicm], fret not. You can see a lot of the 2011 PSP game, with new images from the house of Final Fantasy, Square-Enix.
Microsoft says its next generation video game console is backed by a half-billion dollar ad campaign and packs in technology ripped from the fantasy world of Minority Report. It’s also already sitting in more than 40 million living rooms. It’s not a new version of Microsoft’s Xbox, but the five-year-old Xbox 360 paired with an…
Accused Penny Arcade Expo code thief Justin D. May was placed on a pre-trial probation this week which includes conditions that he stay in school, forfeit his computer and stay off Xbox Live, court officials tell Kotaku. May, 21, was arrested on Sunday, March 28, after representatives from developer Atomic Games say they caught him…
Rare owned by Activision? Could have been! Giant video game company Activision, who are publishing a Wii homage to GoldenEye next month, were thisclose back in the day to buying Rare, the studio behind the original 1997 Nintendo 64 first-person shooter, according to an interview in Develop. Former Microsoft executive Ed Fries, who was instrumental…
I had as joyful a youth as anyone could have. My childhood included a Nintendo Entertainment System. But, man, imagine if my childhood included this Nintendo Super chair. Surely, the Nintendo Chair would have enhanced my experience of Nintendo’s classic games? Surely, this is not the most sturdy video game peripheral ever designed. Who cares?…
The sharp-eyed gamer, the jaded gamer and the snob gamer will not mistake the screenshot of Conduit 2 atop this story as an image of an Xbox 360 game. “That’s a Wii game?” they will sneer. “Figures.” You can sneer at Conduit 2. You can roll your eyes. It is one of those Wii game…
Japan’s Club Nintendo members do really get the coolest stuff. Takes these Animal Crossing cards, for example. This is “karuta”, which is a Japanese card game that is typically played during the New Year’s holidays. As one of the cards is read, players try to grab the corresponding card. The person who does it the…
For better or worse, a fan made an El Shaddai toy. As seen on はちま起稿
I was harsh, you might think too harsh, about the Dagobah level in my review of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. I said it added nothing, that there was no gameplay, no significant plot points, nothing but a slick looking cut-scene wrapped in two minutes of walking. That can’t be true, right? See for…
Who would have thought that, beneath their constant chatter and from within their cable-infested coccoons, all Starcraft’s Adjutants ever wanted to do was dance By Kaynine, as seen on Blizzard
It pays to be a Playstation fan, or at least it will starting in April when Sony Computer Entertainment of America kicks off their new loyalty program, Playstation Rewards. Under the new program gamers will be rewarded for not only their purchases, but also the amount of time they spend interacting with the Playstation, Susan…
For PC Gaming Week, Kotaku has invited top creators to predict the future of computer gaming. Today, Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, makers of legendary PC-only first-person shooter Crysis and 2011’s PC and console Crysis 2. PC Gaming in the Future. When I started developing games for the PC nearly 20 years ago, both the…
You can talk about video games right here, folks, as you can in Talk Amongst Yourselves every day. You can even talk about games that weren’t on the Commodore 64, if you insist. Reader KindaGamey is responsible for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics
AMD has enjoyed a terrific run with the Radeon HD 5000 series as it took Nvidia no less than six months to counter with its initial Fermi products. It’s been a year since we reviewed the Radeon HD 5870, calling it a “real winner, and possibly one the best graphics cards we have ever reviewed…
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