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UncategorizedThe End Of Brotherhood And The Future Of Assassin’s Creed
The future of Assassin’s Creed series promises twists and “something really big,” the writer of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood tells Kotaku. But what about the new game’s cliffhanger ending? ” “We have a lot of twists waiting,” Jeffrey Yohalem told Kotaku during a recent telephone interview. “There’s a lot that’s going to happen that should be…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Cutest Way To Scratch Up A Television
Pugs are cute. They’re so…pugnacious. And it’s not just real pugs, Xbox 360 Avatar pugs are pretty cute, too. Know what’s cuter than all that? A real pug going bananas upon seeing its Xbox 360 counterpart. Sure, the scratches paw scratches might not be adorable, but c’mon, look at this and try not to tell…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Heroes Of The Second World War
Nintendo may have been around during the Second World War, but it wasn’t making video games. If it was, though, maybe some of its most beloved characters would have looked a little…different. A bunch of artists (two of them, Gavin Goulden and Jorge Lacera, from Irrational Games in Boston) are currently running a little showdown,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Indie Mega Hit Minecraft Gets Inevitable Merchandise
Minecraft just started down the road toward becoming a real live video game over the weekend, when it got a beta date, but it’s already raking in the cash and now it even has official t-shirts. ThinkGeek is now selling two officially-licensed Minecraft shirts. The Minecraft Union shirt, pictured below, reminds us of the tenants…
By Brian Crecente Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
On Kotaku’s Compromised Commenting Accounts
Some time over the weekend a group compromised Gawker Media’s servers, resulting in a security breach at all of the Gawker sites, including this one. Editors and tech are here for all the Q&A you can handle about what happened. If you have not yet changed your account password, please stop here and click through…
By Brian Crecente Published December 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Waffle Game That Changed Their Lives
You’ve never heard of this game. It’s in only one cabinet, playable in one city and, generously estimating, maybe it makes a dollar a day. Nothing about this video game suggests it’s someone’s meal ticket, but it is. For life. Built over the past year, Off The Waffle the game, found in Off The Waffle…
By Owen Good Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Uh-Oh, Guillermo Del Toro’s Insane Is A ‘Trilogy’
Failing to learn one of the very important lessons of video game hype, Guillermo Del Toro and his pals at THQ revealed today that their collaboration will be for not one game but a trilogy. Don’t they know their history? Del Toro’s team said that their 2013 game, inSane, will be the first of a…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Characters Covered In Plastic And Strung Out On Crack
That “on crack” bit isn’t me being rude. That’s what the guy who made these figures said — that they look like they’re on crack. Mario and Peach were made from ECW action figures while Toad was made from a Mini-Me action figure. Figure maker kodykoala acknowledges that they look weird, but says this is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Shatters All Previous Warcraft Records
The latest expansion pack for World of Warcraft crushed the last 24-hour sales record set by the massively popular, massively online computer game, selling 3.3 million copies in a single day. “We had to bring Azeroth to the brink of destruction in Cataclysm, but the result was our best expansion yet,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO…
By Brian Crecente Published December 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedLet’s Eat Anpanman’s FACE
What you missed last night Commenting Accounts Compromised – Change Your Passwords FAQ: Compromised Commenting Accounts on Gawker Media Oh Good, Elder Scrolls V Won’t Use That Broken Old Engine Why Do The Spike VGAs Even Bother With “Awards” Part? Please, Enough With The Tomb Raider Reboots Already! Nintendo Makes Mario’s Creator Drive To Work…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Former Sony Brass Not Hip To A Foreigner Running The Show
Howard Stringer is the bossman at Sony, running the show. He’s not Japanese, but a Welsh-born American. And according to one former Sony exec, a foreigner never should have run the company. Koichiro Tsujino, who headed up Sony’s Vaio division and was the president of Google Japan until earlier this year, gave a seminar in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Virtual Racing Is Better With A Race Queen Pit Crew
Codemasters shows off racing game F1 2010 in Tokyo, complete with racing wheel and “race queens”. As seen on Game Watch Impress Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Makes Mario’s Creator Drive To Work
There’s a great piece up on Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto over on the New Yorker, and while we knew much of what’s been written, one thing stands out: the guy’s being forced to drive to work! That’s right, apparently while he used to enjoy walking or riding his bike, these days the suits make him…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Come And Play, Everything’s A-KO
Street Fighter and Sesame Street? Mario and Sesame Street worked just fine, so sure, why the hell not. These Sesame Street x Street Fighter designs are available on redbubble, where you can get them as shirts, hoodies or, if you’re a little short on cash, $2.50 stickers. Shame they’re limited to one design per item!…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Totally Sick Of Final Fantasy IV
When not making new Final Fantasy games, Square Enix likes to remake old Final Fantasy games. There’s one title in particular that the company cannot stop remaking, though I really wish it would. Remakes of Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years are headed to the PSP next spring. The games will…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2010 - CultureTotal Recall
These Are Not Action Figures, They Are Nintendo Games
You’ll usually find something being crammed in a “blister pack” when it’s an action figure or a control pad. You don’t normally see video games shipped that way. But it turns out that in Western Europe (and very rarely Canada), in the 1980s and 1990s, you could find classic Nintendo games encased in plastic, hanging…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Do You Want For Your 3rd Birthday? A Gun? Hot Pants?
Japanese actress Rei Okamoto might not be voicing protagonist Aya Brea in upcoming PSP title The 3rd Birthday, but that doesn’t stop her from posing with a pistol and dangerously short shorts. The 19-year-old Okamoto is voicing Aya’s adopted sister Eve Brea, who is actually an Aya clone. Guess that gives her the okay to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Please, Enough With The Tomb Raider Reboots Already!
This new Tomb Raider game is being hailed as a reboot of the series. Really? If my PC had to be rebooted as many times as this franchise, I’d have thrown it out years ago. Since the 1996 release of the first Tomb Raider, there have been – excluding the handheld and mobile versions and…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedThere’s A New Sakura Wars Game Blossoming
There’s a new Sakura Wars (yay!). It’s a browser game (oh). This is the debut trailer for the upcoming Sakura Wars: Taisho Roman Gakuentan. Set in a school, the game has players duke it out with steampunk-style demons. First released on the Sega Saturn in 1996, Sakura Wars spun off titles for the Dreamcast, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2010