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An All-New Hate Machine
Kotaku goers, would you please help us get through this short-staffed Monday with a little contribution of your own? Man, we really appreciate you doing us an off-topic solid here. We’re at a loss for words. Let me tell you, it’s not always easy trying to co-author a site when it’s just you and Brian…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
UncategorizedGlitch Is An MMO That Doesn’t Look Like Anything Else
Browser game Glitch is, first of all, maybe the first massively-multiplayer game to place its players inside the minds of supernatural creatures. It’s also the next project from (some of) the people who brought you Flickr. Yes, Glitch is different. The web-based multiplayer game is not about killing or farming, but growing, building and developing.…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Future Of The Nintendo DS Looks Like Radiant Historia
The Nintendo DS has one more thing to look forward to in 2011 with the release of Atlus’ Radiant Historia, which brings an all-new 16-bit style, time-traveling “steampunk” adventure to the handheld next February. Radiant Historia offers owners more of what the Nintendo DS excels at, namely old-school style Japanese role-playing games that involve saving…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
ReviewsReview: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Is This Year’s Other Great Racer
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit promises to return one of the most successful racing video game in history to its roots, delivering an easy to understand, but still deep driving experience to gamers of all kinds… including fans of Mario Kart. Hot Pursuit is two games in one. Players can take on the role of…
By Brian Crecente Published November 22, 2010 -
UncategorizedMachinima’s Picks For Best Games of 2010 Include Minecraft
As the year wraps up, so does everyone’s take on what they think are the best games of 2010. We’ve seen Spike TV’s Video Game Awards nominees. And you’ll be seeing our short list of Game of the Year nominees in early December, but here’s a run down of the finalists for Machinima.Com’s annual Inside…
By Brian Crecente Published November 22, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Patch That Changes World Of Warcraft Forever
In two weeks, World of Warcraft gains Goblin, Worgen, and a healthy dose of high-end content, but first the world must die. WoW lead systems designer Greg Street talks us through the rebirth of Azeroth coming in tomorrow’s massive patch. Street makes one point perfectly clear: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is not the expansion pack…
By Mike Fahey Published November 22, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download: Shooting Penguins From The Free Throw Line
Give thanks for the opportunity to lob penguins into a basketball hoop this week, courtesy of WiiWare and Snowpack Park, a game you might want to download to your Wii? No? Maybe Tetris then? Nintendo’s Snowpack Park, a penguin hunting and flightless bird mood management sim, leads this week’s list of fresh downloadable options for…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
UncategorizedNeed For Speed: Hot Pursuit
You’ve got to love this game’s Pursuit Equipment. The game’s demo gives you a broad look at the game. Seacrest County is a big, wide-open world in Hot Pursuit with a fantastically-diverse selection of roads on which to race. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is the most impressive thing that the game brings to the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 22, 2010 - Uncategorized
Barebones
To: Ash From: Crecente Today was fun. Fahey’s out on vacation. Owen’s enjoying his weekend and Totilo was out with a nasty bug. So McMike and I spent the day holding down the fort… or tower, as it were. And there was plenty of stuff going on as well. Can you believe it’s only three…
By Brian Crecente Published November 22, 2010 -
UncategorizedShuzzle: Kids Shouldn’t Learn Shapes Like This
Shuzzle is an iOS puzzle game that makes you put shapes into the right slots. I’m glad I didn’t have to learn shapes this way when I was a kid, or I’d have developed some serious psychoses. [iTunes]
By Jason Chen Published November 22, 2010 -
UncategorizedKinect Can Also Turn You Into A Bloated Mutant
We’ve seen some fun and sometimes funky homebrewed uses of Kinect for the Xbox 360, thanks to the release of open source drivers for Microsoft’s camera sensor, but how many of those apps support house cats? This one does. Robert “Flight404” Hodgin has whipped up a Kinect demo that can bloat or emaciate the body…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 - Uncategorized
Touch World Of Goo On Your iPad (Soon)
2D Boy, makers of WiiWare/PC hit World of Goo, are bringing their game to Apple’s iPad, bringing with it support for up to 11 fingers at once. When can we expect this all-new, touchscreen-controlled World of Goo? “As soon as we get approved by Apple,” explains 2D Boy. “We hope before the holiday season.” The…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
UncategorizedDad Builds Bedroom Marble Run for World’s Luckiest Son
He’s a generous Dad, too—for he has put the instructions on Instructables, for building your very own. I don’t think you even need children as an excuse to create this, that’s how awesome it is. [Instructables via DailyWhat]
By Kat Hannaford Published November 22, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo DSi Comes In Festive Orange & Green For The Holidays
Rumor? Ha! Nintendo has made official that Black Friday will get an injection of green and orange with a pair new Nintendo DSi bundles that with either remind you of Halloween, Christmas or Samus Aran. Orange and green Nintendo DSi bundles will hit North American retailers on November 26 for $149.99 USD, with a copy…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 - Uncategorized
Is this a portrait of a human 50 million years from now?
We recently rounded up the most nightmare-inducing creations of speculative zoologist Dougal Dixon. Here’s another one of Dixon’s futuristic Homo sapiens. This being is more or less a psychic raspberry strudel. io9 superstar reader Hypnosifl has blessed us with this pre-Man After Man musing Dixon contributed to the November 1982 issue of Omni magazine (RIP).…
By Cyriaque Lamar Published November 22, 2010 -
UncategorizedBehind the Scenes With the iPhone’s Take on Diablo
I loved the original Dungeon Hunter. The iPhone Diablo-esque action game was one of the first iPhone games that felt like both something built for the iPhone and a solid, deep game. Here’s a look at Dungeon Hunter 2, complete with strangely mis-matched translator voice-overs.
By Brian Crecente Published November 22, 2010 -
UncategorizedMicrosoft: There Will Be A Halo Movie
At the Future of Television East conference last week, Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor sat on a panel that focused on the grail of transmedia. Halo’s franchise development director is a shortish, stocky guy who looks like a feisty boxer. And he’s proud bordering on arrogant about the lauded series of games that sold so many Xboxes.…
Harold Goldberg Published November 22, 2010 - Uncategorized
California Is The Best Place To Buy World of Warcraft: Cataclysm First
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the kind of game shops open at midnight to sell. No shop is planning more midnight Cataclysm madness than Fry’s Electronics in Fountain Valley, California. That store will host all of the following on the night of December 6, starting at 9PM PT as midnight and the WoW expansion tick…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 22, 2010
