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UncategorizedPerfect Cell Is A Great Escape
Locked in a research laboratory at the bottom of the sea, an alien lifeform breaks from its captivity and mounts an escape. That’s the premise of Perfect Cell by Mobigame, our iGame of the Day. Thinking on it, I might be mistaken in calling this a puzzler in that video. It’s a platformer, for sure,…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhat About The PlayStation Phone And PSP2, Sony?
Two notable absences from Sony’s CES 2011 keynote were the long-rumored PlayStation Phone and PSP2. In the question and answer session following the conference, Sony’s head of home electronics Mike Abary gives fans the old no comment. Abary was fielding questions that poured in from Twitter, Facebook, and the UStream TV chat room that hosted…
By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedFable Golf Game, Game Room Games Are Going To Be On The Windows Phone 7
Fable Coin Golf was the oddest of the games Microsoft showed in Las Vegas today, all slated to come to the Windows Phone 7 … (you know, Microsoft’s answer to the iPhone.) Check out the reel of upcoming games. Some neat stuff there. The only other thing we know about Fable Coin Golf is that…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedAvatar Kinect Is A New Xbox Live Gold Perk And A Fancier Chatroom
We’ve been wondering what Avatar Kinect is. Now we know. It’s a way to use Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect sensor to slip us into a Matrix of avatars hanging out together in the virtual world. They showed it in Vegas today. Remember, the Kinect is a hands-free system and it’s already been able to make…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Wave Your Hands To Use Netflix On Xbox This Spring
At CES today, Microsoft said that people with the Kinect sensor hooked up to their Xbox will be able to use the controller-free device to control Netflix and Hulu starting this spring. Meaning: choosing/playing movies and TV with a wave of the hand. No remote.
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Live At Microsoft’s CES 2011 Keynote
What has Microsoft brought to Las Vegas for the Xbox 360? What else will they show besides video games? The answers await inside Microsoft’s CES 2011 keynote. Read on for Kotaku’s live blog of this year’s Microsoft news conference, headlined by CEO Steve Ballmer presenting what’s in store for 360 fans in the coming year.…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sony’s Doing Glasses-Free 3D Too
There’s no glasses free 3D PSP coming yet, but Sony just showed that they will be making camcorders and cameras that show 3D images without the need for glasses. Sony’s not shunning glasses-free 3D, which Nintendo is bringing to us for gaming this winter. At CES 2010 out in Vegas, Sony just showed a 3D…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
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