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Brain Making Too Much Noise? Reboot It
As many as 23 million adults in the United States suffer from tinnitus – a ringing sound in the ears that won’t go away. Scientists may have found a way to ease the currently cure-less affliction by rebooting the brain. Tinnitus is more common than you think. One in ten seniors and 40 percent of…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Gamer’s View of CES From Robotic Pitchman to 3D Bikinis
While last week’s Consumer Electronics Show wasn’t very heavy with video game news, there was still plenty to see and do in the heart of the world’s biggest gadget show. Here for your perusal is a quick run down of all of the oddities, the gadgets, the board games and toys that we found the…
By Brian Crecente Published January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Woman Credits Wii Fit For Parkinson’s Diagnosis
A British mother of two says she began to figure out she was suffering from Parkinson’s disease only after stepping on a Wii Balance Board. About one year ago, Julie Wilks noticed that her balance was heavily shifted to one side, an unevennes the Balance Board portrayed on her TV via her Wii. That began…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Video Game Pirate Trades Sails For Steam
Kotaku commenter Heyitsguy was once a video game pirate, downing PC games for free via the internet. Now he is not. He tells you why in today’s episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku. 2011 will be the year that I stop illegally downloading games. It began just a few years ago when I discovered torrents. I…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedMordor Is Real, and It’s In Sicily
It’s been nearly 350 years since Mt. Etna blew its top in a major way. Until yesterday, when Europe’s largest active volcano spewed hot lava for two hours—within shouting distance of these people’s houses. Location, location, location. Fortunately the eruption didn’t cause any injuries or damage, which means that the residents of this volcanic village…
By Brian Barrett Published January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Super Mario Mushrooms Served 120 Ways
Super Mario Bros. has mushrooms that change your size, grant you extra lives, and even poison you. That’s not enough fungus for deviant artist MyBurningEyes, so he came up with 120 new types of Mario mushrooms. You may have seen some of these creative Mario mushrooms before. Hell, you may have seen all of them…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedGet A Taste Of Diablo III Arena Combat With Bloodline Champions
The Arena player-versus-player system coming in Diablo III blew fans away at BlizzCon 2010. Stunlock Studios’ newly-released free-to-play PC arena combat game Bloodline Champions feels a lot like Blizzard’s competitive multiplayer mode. I couldn’t get enough of Diablo III Arena combat at BlizzCon. Bringing the fast-paced, mouse-drive combat of Diablo into a competitive multiplayer game…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Own A Panoramic Piece of Game Informer History
Kotaku, Gizmodo and one-time Game Informer illustrator Sam Spratt is taking preorders for the wonderful panoramic he created for the December cover of Game Informer magazine. Updated The image, which spanned three covers seamlessly stitched together, highlight the controversial list of Game Informer’s 30 Characters who Defined a Decade. The semi-gloss prints are a massive…
By Brian Crecente Published January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Cooking Mama Barges Into Café World’s Kitchen
Every day thousands of players flock to Zynga’s Café World, clicking on food and serving it to the virtual masses for experience points and in-game coinage. That’s some sweet action right there, and Cooking Mama wants a piece of it. Majesco makes its Facebook debut today with Cooking Mama Friends’ Cafe, weighing Mama’s charm against…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
LittleBigPlanet 2 Gunning For World Records No Other Game Could Win
Guinness is handing out the video game world records left and right, and now it’s Sony’s turn. They’ve assembled a crack team of LittleBigPlanet 2 players to take down fabricated records next week, and you can watch. At this point we’ve resigned ourselves to the fact that the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition is nothing…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
One Day, The 3DS Might Just Record 3D Video
Ah, the future. No, teh future. Nintendo seems to be milling over new wonders for its upcoming 3D-glasses-free game handheld. In Nintendo’s regular Q&A with company boss Satoru Iwata, the honcho and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto were talking loosely about possible plans for the Nintendo 3DS. “In a future, improved version, I think it would…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
China Is Both Too Scary and Not Scary Enough To Be Video Game Villains
The North Korean bad guys in the upcoming video game Homefront were originally going to be Chinese, but the people making the game changed their mind for two reasons. First, Danny Bilson, one of the executives of the game’s publisher told Kotaku in an interview, “They’re just not that scary.” Homefront needed a scary enemy,…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedA New Way To Get Toto’s ‘Africa’ Stuck In Your Head
When was the last time you heard an a capella send up of shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2? Never? Me too! Sit back and enjoy this wonderful, voices-only original song that waxes poetic about Electronic Arts’ 2010 shooter at the expense of those playing it, and, of course, shooter rival Call of Duty: Black Ops.…
By Brian Crecente Published January 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedDid You Save Money As A Kid?
To: Crecente From: Bash RE: Glass Monkey, That Funky Monkey I really think it’s important that kid’s save money. I never saved much when I was a kid, though. Kinda wish I did. A friend of mine saved up all his money from when he was a kid and when he grew up, he bought…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedFear And Fraternity Make for An Uneasy Alliance
The fiction of FEAR 3, the concept of killer and victim teaming up to confront something horrific, is thick with potential. But when you cede both of those roles to the control of gamers can that tension still exist? Played alone, FEAR 3 has gamers taking on the role of Point Man, a super soldier…
By Brian Crecente Published January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Big List Of Japan’s 3DS Games
On February 26, the Nintendo 3DS will be released in Japan. If a 3DS game has a release date — or even release window — this is where you’ll find it. Winning Eleven 3DS Soccer – Feb. 26 Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition – Feb. 26 Samurai Warriors: Chronicle – Feb. 26 Tobidasu! Puzzle…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
BoneCraft Is Porn’s Answer To World Of Warcraft
Blizzard, congratulations. You know you’ve really made it when people are making pornographic video games based on your popular franchises. BoneCraft is an upcoming parody of both World of Warcraft and StarCraft, in which space marines battle orcs for the chance to get with some elves. Unlike previous efforts like Whorelore (formerly World of Whorecraft),…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2011