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UncategorizedThe Green Hornet Demands A Kato Combat Video Game
Sony kicked off its 2011 CES keynote with some spectacular fight scene footage from The Green Hornet. If we don’t get to play Kato in a video game, something is terribly wrong with the world. As an added bonus, here’s Sony’s Sir Howard Stringer and the stars of the movie, plugging the movie. Follow our…
By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Live At Sony’s CES 2011 Keynote
What will Sony have for PlayStation 3 and PSP owners at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show? What will they have to show off beyond video games? We’ll find out at the PlayStation maker’s CES 2011 keynote. Read on for Kotaku’s live blog of this year’s Sony electronics blowout, which is sure to span movies, music,…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mario, You Might Want To Turn Around
Mario needs to swing that flashlight around right quick! Excellent character filled Super Mario Bros. illustration by Maicon Costa. View in High-Res HERE Related Rampage: Alphabetical Poster Mario in Trouble by Maicon Costa / Maicon MCN (Behance) (Twitter) Via: maiconmcn
By Michael McWhertor Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Preorder Incentives Offer Putter, Two Courses For Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12
Moving up nearly three months to be here in time for The Masters, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 was given a March 29 release date yesterday. If you’re so inclined, the major games retailers have listed their preorder bonus content. Amazon gives you an extra club – the “Georgia Classic Putter,” which gooses putting attributes…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Best Rock The Post Office Delivered
To: Luke From: Stephen What you may have missed from the day crew CES 2011 Can Only Get More Impressive After This Some StarCraft Player Has The Best Girlfriend Ever Review: ‘Lost In Shadow’ And The Six-Hour Wait For A Wonderful Eureka Doctors Say The 3DS Is Safe, Potentially Beneficial To Children PLUS… CES keynotes…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedKinect Powered Jiggle With Soulcalibur’s Ivy Goes Too Far
Ivy from Namco’s Soulcalibur fighting game series is perhaps best known for her ample endowments and her unique sword. When combined with Kinect motion capture, Ivy’s extreme anatomy doesn’t hold up very well. The creator of this real-time motion capture Kinect hack explains this as “a physics simulation of 2 capsules on dual-axis hinges, with…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedFight Night Champion Starts Your Career With A Big Loss
From what I can tell in this video, here’s how Andre Bishop’s fight career ended up in the crapper: Someone told him to take a dive and he didn’t. When the muscle showed up, someone got shot. (NSFW language.) That’s Champion Mode, EA Sports’ first crack at putting a narrative into a sports game. Its…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
EA Closing Down Online Play For 25 Old Sports Games [Updated]
As happens every year around this time, Electronic Arts is ending online service for many old games, the majority of them sports titles. The publisher’s Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth series also is affected. The closures mean largely that only the two most recent titles in EA’s FIFA, Madden, NCAA Football, NHL…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Is One Intense Music Video For An iPhone Game
Com2uS goes all out for the impending release of Inotia 3: Children of Carnia, hiring Korean indie band Dear Cloud to appear in this lavish music video for the second sequel to an iPhone role-playing game. This is the sort of treatment I’d expect a big console game release to get, not an old school…
By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhat If Street Fighter’s Best Wrestled For WWE?
John Cena not your idea of an ideal pro wrestler? And Dhalsim is? No to HHH, but yes to Blanka? Street Fighter fan “jim784m” made this Street Fighter version of pro wrestling using the character creation tools in WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011. Anyone with the game can download it and wind up with many…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
The PlayStation 3’s Next Big Innovation Is… 3D Bikinis
Sports Illustrated’s annual homage to bikinis is coming to the PlayStation 3 in stereoscopic 3D amidst a flood of models-in-swimsuits related content via the PlayStation Network. Of all the PS3 exclusives this year, this is one we weren’t expecting. Sports Illustrated’s 2011 swimsuit issue will get the 3D treatment this February when it becomes available…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Doctors Say The 3DS Is Safe, Potentially Beneficial To Children
Nintendo warned that its new 3DS portable gaming system might have negative effects on young children’s vision. Now the American Optometric Association steps forward to say that using 3D technology could have a positive effect on children’s eyesight. How so? Nintendo was covering its bases at E3 last year and again in December when it…
By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2011 -
ReviewsReview: ‘Lost In Shadow’ And The Six-Hour Wait For A Wonderful Eureka
How long would you wait until a video game showed off its best idea? How much good would you enjoy in order to reach something great? Lost In Shadow demands six hours to get itself ready. Lost In Shadow is a Wii-only side-scrolling platforming game. You play as the shadow of a boy, running and…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedYour First, Secret Look at 2011’s CES
The Consumer Electronics Show floor doesn’t open officially until Thursday morning, but we got an early look at the show in progress. What did we see? Green Hornet, Smurfs, and lots of 3D. Here’s a quick look at some of the biggest company’s rush to deliver the pinnacle experience at this year’s show. While an…
By Brian Crecente Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Some StarCraft Player Has The Best Girlfriend Ever
Adrienne Baginski’s boyfriend loves StarCraft II. Adrienne Baginski loves him, so she made him the most adorable plush rendition of a Protoss Probe she possibly could for Christmas. Lucky bastard. There are handmade plushies, and then there are handmade plushies. This is no “Oh look, I sewed two pieces of colored felt together and stuffed…
By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Wearable Brain Scanner That Keeps You In The Zone
From playing video games to operating nuclear facilities, focus and attention are key factors in excelling at important tasks. Freer Logic’s BodyWave scanner trains users to be aware of their brain functions without making them wear a silly hat. The BodyWave tracks brain activity, but it doesn’t hook up to your head. The device, which…
By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
How Super Mario Bros. 3 Works
Millions of people have played Super Mario Bros. We’ve run, jumped and some even used the game’s special shoe. How’d we learn how to play it? How does this game teach so much with so few instructions? Game designer Radek Koncewicz recently broke down the way the game’s first world teaches players 30 fun things.…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Where Do You Buy Your Video Games?
The daily Speak-Up on Kotaku doesn’t have to be an essay. Sometimes all it takes is a simple question. Commenter Rueli is fed up with GameStop, and wants to know where everyone else goes for their retail gaming fix. Gamestop finally broke the last straw. I’ve dealt with their crap for too long and now…
By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2011
