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Women’s Tears Are A Real Turn-off
In today’s Friday fun edition of the daily Kotaku science post, scientists in Israel make women cry and then make men smell their tears. Surely that’s got to be fun for somebody. Making women cry is something that men do on a regular basis, often without any idea how or why they are doing it.…
By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedYou Can’t Secretly Play The New Angry Birds At Work
The new Mac version of Angry Birds only plays at full-screen. So forget secretly playing this game when your boss, professor or other favorite authority figure isn’t watching. You can’t hide it quickly. You can, however, watch our video preview. Check out a few minutes of the $5 (discounted from $10!) Mac version of Angry…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Is Portal 2 Played With A Magnetic Motion Controller
Keyboard and mouse controls got you down? Yeah, didn’t think so. But if millimeter precise motion control sounds like an interesting way to play Valve’s first-person puzzler Portal 2, you might want to buy yourself a Razer Sixense. Razer’s motion control scheme for the PC, which uses a magnetic field to track a pair of…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Your Computer Must Be This Powerful To Run Shogun: Total War 2
Shogun: Total War 2 has been dropping jaws with its gorgeous visuals since it was revealed at E3 last year. Surely such lush graphics come at a steep price? Let’s see what the official PC specs say. It doesn’t take that beefy of a PC to simply play Shogun: Total War 2. The biggest hassle…
By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011 -
Uncategorized“I Made A Video Game Where You Can Blow Out A Man’s Asshole”
Hear Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski utter the words that could one day appear on his tombstone in the latest installment of Bulletstorm’s Bulletpoints video series. Not safe for work, unless you work at a proctologist office. At least this video didn’t call me dick tits
By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
No Love For Store-Exclusive Bonus Items
Commenter Curly Haired Boy rages against retailer-exclusive bonus items in today’s installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku. What’s the deal with retailer-exclusive bonus items? Fans hate missing out on them, they create more work for developers, and then the market awareness of a title just gets increasingly muddled. The completionist in me gets incredibly annoyed when,…
By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedCES 2011 Can Only Get More Impressive After This
Morphing cars, dancing Tiger Lillies? They’ve got nothing on this AC/DC-loving robot. Kotaku is on the ground at CES 2011 in Las Vegas, checking out all the show’s biggest news about video games, tech and whatever weird stuff we can find. Dig into our full CES 2011 coverage.
By Brian Crecente Published January 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Mysterious, Magical Kentucky Route Zero, A 2011 Game To Anticipate
The trailer for a game I hadn’t heard of comes with the most unusual description: “a magic realist adventure game about a secret highway in Kentucky and the mysterious folks who travel.” This is Kentucky Route Zero. I want to play it. All I know so far is what you can all see here and…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedIf You Act Now, Dragon Age II’s Exiled Prince Is Free
Today BioWare dishes out details on The Exiled Prince, the first installment of downloadable content for Dragon Age II that players get for free – as long as they preorder the game within the next four days. The Exiled Prince, much like The Stone Prisoner downloadable content for the original Dragon Age, introduces players to…
By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedPockie Ninja Mixes Naruto With Bleach, Unofficially
After weeks of teasing something called Project Ninja with images of tiny Naruto and Bleach characters, online game operator NGames reveals Pockie Ninja, a web game featuring characters “inspired by” those popular anime series. So far all I’ve seen is bits of character art and this trailer, released today with the reveal of the game’s…
By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
We Are Servbot
As seen at Capcom’s Las Vegas Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 party last night.
By Brian Crecente Published January 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
We Almost Got Glasses-Free 3D Gaming Last Decade
We’ll get a chance to play video games in 3D without wearing special glasses in the coming months, as Nintendo releases its 3DS system… but Nintendo already had glasses-free 3D gaming two machines ago. We just didn’t know about it. In an interview posted on Nintendo’s website, company boss Satoru Iwata talks about how the…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011 -
Uncategorized7 More Minutes of A Visually-Improved Morrowind
Recently we told you about a fan project that gives 2002 role-playing game favorite The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind significantly upgraded graphics. Then this mod compilation got blocked due to complications. Still, here’s a new video of it. As our Luke Plunkett wrote overnight, all is not lost with the nixing of this so-called Morrowind…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedBurn It All Down
To: Brian / Stephen From: Luke Here’s what you missed: GameStop’s Holiday Was A $3 Billion Disappointment Morrowind Mod Pack Put To The Sword Rumor: Here Are The PlayStation Phone’s Specs Let’s See The PlayStation Phone In Action Sony Thinks It Can Stop PS3 Hacks HD Re-Releases Should Be A Celebration, Not A Quick Buck
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Red Dead, Mass Effect & Uncharted Turn On The Charm
Artist Emily Carroll’s video game-inspired works don’t fill the page with explosions, or large necks, or slutty women. They just show people smiling. Warm, happy smiles. While Carroll gets Red Dead’s Bonnie McFarlane 100% right, and assembles the sweetest team of Cerberus soldiers the galaxy as ever seen, that Chloe & Drake shot, from Uncharted…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Welcome, New Arcade!
You only ever seem to hear about arcades closing these days, so let’s break that depressing trend and welcome the opening of a big new arcade instead. Pinball Wizard Arcade is located in Pelham, New Hampshire, and will be throwing its doors open on January 12. Not only does it have a great name, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Civ World May Be The Death Of Us All
The game formerly known as CIvilization: Network – now more appropriately titled Civ World – is coming later this year. But if you’re lucky, you can play it this month. While the game’s open beta won’t be taking place until around June, beginning January 12 select alpha testers will be let in the front gates…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Not Really A PSP, But It’ll Do
This “PS One Handheld Game Player” is in no way endorsed or supported by Sony. That doesn’t stop it playing PS1 games, though. For USD$77 you can buy the unit, based off an older PSP knock-off that was actually a portable TV and media player. This newer model, though, is more in line with the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedCave Maps Turn Into Dungeon Crawls
The sandstone caves of Nottingham are a network of caverns and tunnels deep beneath the English city. There’s currently a project underway to “map” these caves, and the results look more than a little familiar. I never thought I would see the day where science, tourism and “noclip mode” intersected, but it appears that day…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011