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Perhaps I Need To Give Metro 2033 Another Look
Best Video Games Of The Year lists are good for fomenting argument. But maybe they can also give an overlooked game another chance for attention. Here’s one man sticking up for Metro 2033, and sticking up for it… interestingly. Amid the Red Dead Redemption talk and Call of Duty conversation over at Slate.com’s Gaming Club…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Heads Up About World of Warcraft Password Reset E-mails [UPDATE]
An e-mail some of you may have received that appears to be a request for a password reset for World of Warcraft is a phishing scam. Consult this official Blizzard thread for information. [Update: Blizzard is sending legit warnings, too.] While some sites, such as Linked In, have prompted password resets due to the hack…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 14, 2010 -
UncategorizedKinect Modders Recreate Big’s Giant Piano Scene, Without the Piano
FAO Schwarz and giant pianos combined to provide a touching moment in the movie Big in 1988. Xbox 360’s Kinect and modders combined to recreate that scene without a real piano more than 20 years later. Heart and Soul? Nailed. Chopsticks? Let’s see it. [Thanks Rob]
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
How People Played A Holocaust Game
Coverage last week of the concentration camp first-person shooter Sonderkommando Revolt may have raised curiosity about how people would play a game about the Holocaust. A writer at the Daily Beast shares a story of one such session he observed in November involving the game Train. The Train is a board game of sorts that…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 14, 2010 -
UncategorizedIntroducing The SlayStation, My Favorite New Musical Instrument Of 2010
The SlayStation is not a PlayStation. It’s more of a musical instrument. The notes you play on it come from video clips of video games. Check this out. The top video here and all the rest in this post were made by a guy named Mike Toillion who appears to have been working on something…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
NASA tables plan to expose monkeys to gamma radiation
Protests from animal rights activists have put a moratorium on NASA plans to expose 27 squirrel monkeys to gamma-ray radiation. Researchers hoped to simulate the effects of space radiation on humans, but protesters claim the experiment’s cruel and unnecessary. The experiment was put in limbo after PETA obtained documents detailing the experiment using the Freedom…
By Cyriaque Lamar Published December 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
More iPhone Games Will Soon Look This Good
Infinity Blade on the iPhone looks damn good. And as of Thursday, anyone will be able to make a game for the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad will be able to make a game using the same graphics technology. The iOS version of the Unreal Development Kit will be free to download some time this…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 14, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe History of Switzerland As Told By a Secret Gamer
This isn’t really how Switzerland came about, though wouldn’t it be great if it were. Instead it’s an amusing mishmosh of legends and cliche with a dash of Mario added in for flavor. That’s right, about 30 seconds in, William Tell does a Mario and saves the princess from a castle, complete with question blocks…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Papa Smurf Is Not Amused By Your Sweatshop Tactics
Last week famed indie-developer Jenova Chen explained how to cheat your way through iGame Smurf Village. This week Papa Smurf caught wind of the underhandedness. He was not amused. Sometime after our article ran about Smurfing your way to a perfect Smurf village on the iPhone or iPad, Capcom got wise and released a new…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2010 -
UncategorizedSamsung Brings Six Free Mini-Games to Kinect Sports
Kinect gamers get a free download pack for Kinect Sports today courtesy of Samsung. The Samsung Party Pack adds six new mini-games and three mascots to the motion-gaming sports title. The mini games are super striker, Pinvaders, Rapid Runner, Target Smash, Fruit Splatter and King of the Ring. The mascots, crazy mascots according to Rare,…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2010 -
UncategorizedPick Up Braid and Four Other Amazing Games For A Song
Starting right now you can pick up Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos, Revenge of the Titans for the Mac, Windows or Linux for exactly whatever the hell you want to pay, and it’s for a good cause. That’s right, Wolfire’s pay-what-you-want, donate-to-charity indie gaming bundle returns today with the Humble Indie Bundle 2. This year…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Xbox Skate Park To Cease Shredding?
West London skate park Baysixty6’s skating days might be derailed as the hotspot now faces closure. According to website BikeBiz, the Kensington and Chelsea planning department states, “The Skatepark does not serve needs of the local youths.” The area might be turned into either an office space or a garden center. Previously, the park was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Video Game Posters For That Tiny Cinema You Never Go To
Get a load of these posters. They’re game posters done up to look like movie posters, but not the boring kind, the kind you see for a quaint little art house cinema that only shows a movie once. So they’re not cold, stark images. They’re a little kooky, a little old-fashioned, full of quirks and…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sony Can’t Quit You, Plastic Discs
Sony did win that HD format war, you know. While pundits predict that the next generation of consoles will be digital download only, Sony continues to be bullish on disc-based media. “The reason retail has been around for thousands of years is because it works really well at showing you a range of content, having…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Oh, Snap. Kevin Durant Just Threw Down
Checked your Twitter feed recently? Because Oklahoma City Thunder star forward Kevin Durant just called you a punk. Well, not exactly, but he did just challenge fans to a two-on-two boomshakalakalicious bout of NBA JAM against him and his sidekick Mathias Murphy. In case you aren’t following him, Kevin Durant just tweeted the following: And…
By Gawkercreative Published December 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
The 20 Most-Loved Wii Games, For The Last Time
After more than three years of tracking Nintendo stats, I’m done. Monster Hunter wins. Smash Bros. comes in second. Mario squeaks in at the last minute. You are reading the final installment of a series I’ve been running monthly in various ways for a few years. Since joining Kotaku in the spring of 2009, I’ve…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 14, 2010 -
UncategorizedMicrosoft Imagines a World Without iPhones, PS3s, Wii
The Microsoft Store is like a Bizarro World version of an Apple Store. Where Apple is stark, a single room of chrome and white, Microsoft is meant to be warm, a single room of earth tones and wood. Where Apple has more than 300 locations world wide, Microsoft has just seven. During a recent visit…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2010 -
UncategorizedThis Might Look Like Vomit, But It Tastes Like Heaven
What you missed last night North Korean Dictator’s Real Son Ready To Spawn Homefront Attack The Embarrassing Things This Man Did For Mario Hope Crytek’s Korean Shooter Plays As Good As It Looks First Uncharted 3 Gameplay Footage Sets A House On Fire There’s A PC Remake Of GoldenEye Out Too, You Know
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010
