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UncategorizedAn Arcade Game To Fall In Love With
Love Plus, the love simulator from Konami, is coming to Japanese arcades, so get ready to fall in love all over again. This latest trailer shows some of the date events like playing darts, as well as the dress up sequence, which could prove embarrassing for some players. The cabinets do have privacy dividers on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedWhen A Game About English Words Is Released In Japanese
Scribblenauts is a title that is synonymous with the English language. Or, at least, the Roman alphabet. So how does the game look when it gets translated into Japanese? It’s fascinating seeing the game running like this. To make things easier, the Japanese version has a fancier notepad, on which players can write characters in…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedSee Kingdom Hearts Running On A PSPgo
The fact you can’t buy Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep on the PSPgo highlights one of the bigger problems with Sony’s struggling handheld. It also helps explain why piracy is so rampant on the portable device. This clip, from a device that is able to run copied games on the handheld, shows what PSPgo and/or…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Who Was That Masked Model?
In Japan, there are idols for everything, whether it be trains, personal computers or, of course, video games. They have one thing in common: they’re all smiley and cute. But what about an idol that never showed her face? Last summer, a blog went live featuring a young model named Imao with a doe-eyed anime…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedIt’s Worms For The 21st Century
Watch, as a fight between a painter and a guy who is rubbish at basketball enters the video game realm, and only escalates from there. This is what the Worms of the future should look like. Or Smash Bros., depending on how you interpret the battle!
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Year In Video Game Trailers
Movie trailers suck. They lie, and they spoil. Game trailers, on the other hand, are an artform. Once derided as a smoke and mirrors show, being barely representative of the titles they were trying to sell, many game trailers have since moved beyond this trapping and become something more: short bursts of creativity and innovation,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Will The PSP2 Look Like This?
Note these images are not from Sony. They’re mock-ups. But since they’re mock-ups of an image that claims to be of a real PSP2, they’re still worth looking at! These pics, commissioned by PSM3 and put together by this guy, formed part of a recent news article in the magazine, speculating on both the PSP2…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Year In Surprises: Highs And Lows From 2010
Can we still be surprised by video games in an industry rife with rumors, leaks and publishers who prefer safe bets to bold risks? Looking back at the turn of events that was 2010, a year sometimes rocky, sometimes thrilling, it seems we can. We should have seen some of the biggest surprises of 2010…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Welcome Back, Search Bar
Kotaku readers, if you’re not too pre-occupied with typing things into the search textfield or refreshing the #speakup page, waiting for it to work, how about joining us for some off-topic conversation tonight? As Mr. Crecente mentioned earlier, we’re heading to CES next week, which means a return to the desert of Las Vegas. Having…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Call of Duty: Black Ops Nabs ‘Most Pirated Game of 2010’ Distinction
Not only is Call of Duty: Black Ops one of the fastest selling video games of all time, racking up more than a billion dollars in sales in 2010, it’s also impressively enough one of the most illegally downloaded. According to a report from BitTorrent news site TorrentFreak, the PC version of Black Ops has…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 28, 2010 -
UncategorizedKinect Hacked To Play World of Warcraft
We’ve made it an important milestone in the increasingly long list of hacks that transform Microsoft’s Kinect from Xbox 360 motion controller into something grander. World of Warcraft is now playable with Kinect hand-waving action. The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California demonstrates its Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST)…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 28, 2010 -
UncategorizedHere’s Where The Instruction Manuals Have Gone
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: The Autographs Of My Boyhood I don’t have any gaming autographs either. My childhood signatures include David Copperfield, the Harlem Globetrotters and the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. Oh! And C3PO. I was a strange child. What you missed The Consumer Electronics Show Cometh New Owner of an Xbox Phone? Play These…
By Brian Crecente Published December 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
When Larry Niven reinvented the Green Lantern universe
Larry Niven is best known as author of Ringworld novels and creator of the Known Space universe — but did you know he also helped to reinvent the Green Lantern Corps and their masters, the Guardians? You might have seen Larry Niven’s Green Lantern graphic novel, Ganthet’s Tale, which he co-created with artist John Byrne.…
By Charlie Jane Anders Published December 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Were The Biggest Games In Japan In 2010?
Not too surprisingly, it was a pair of Pokémon games for the Nintendo DS that sold better in Japan than anything else. Also not shocking is that the top ten games are dominated by titles for Nintendo platforms. Pokémon Black and White moved nearly 4.5 million copies in 2010, followed most closely by New Super…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 28, 2010 -
UncategorizedFeel The Drama, The Lightning of Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy
Square Enix’s next Final Fantasy fighting game for the PSP will, at the very least, have some very handsome cinematics stuffed onto a UMD, as proven by the latest Japanese trailer for Dissidia 012 [duodecim] Final Fantasy. See new contenders and old favorites from Final Fantasy games new and old in the newest trailer for…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ever Wonder How The Nintendo Zapper Light Gun Worked?
Today’s shooting gallery games take advantage of high-tech infrared sensors and cameras. Back in the days of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, things were much simpler. As a child I spent countless hours firing away at video game ducks with my NES Zapper light gun, but I wasn’t actually firing anything. If anything, I was…
By Mike Fahey Published December 28, 2010 -
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The Ten Funniest Video Games Of 2010
Splitsider put together a list of the ten funniest video games of 2010 today. Among the gut-busters is Fallout: New Vegas, Super Meat Boy and Hamlet. That’s right Hamlet, a game that Splitsider says is an “ironic take on the Shakespeare play, if it were adapted by terrible game developers.” Sold. Hit up the site…
By Brian Crecente Published December 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
You Too Can ‘Date’ The President In 2011
Adult dating sim My Girlfriend Is The President, the loli-political erotic adventure that piqued our curiosity last year, is getting an official release in English, so non-Japanese speakers can see what it’s like to “date” schoolgirls-of-state and alien ships. JAST USA will release a localized version of this erotic game curiosity for the PC in…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Jerry Rice’s New Football Video Game Is For The Dogs
Dogs playing football is a video game idea that sells itself, but it never hurts to have a little star power behind your title. Get ready for Jerry Rice & Nitus’ Dog Football for the Nintendo Wii. Developer Judobaby has plans to create an entire series of Pet Sports League video games, and it’s kicking…
By Mike Fahey Published December 28, 2010