Later … At The Hall Of Doom …

Oh man, the Hall of Doom … that thing that looked like a cross between my elementary school principal and Darth Vader … Well, it’s different in DC Universe Online, as this latest batch of screens attest. Looks a lot more serious and threatening in this set of 11 screengrabs, which also includes Bane’s Venom…

Pick Up Red Dead Redemption’s Soundtrack — In Vinyl

Sure you can download the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack – get it on CD even! But if you want authentic pop, crackle and hiss coming over your wild west soundtrack, only Rockstar has what you need, a double vinyl LP. The studio partnered with Wax Poetics to present the limited edition RDR soundtrack “on blazing…

Not Its Own Video Game, Not A Real Card Collection, Yet More Than Both

Somewhere out there is a guy who’s spent big money on football cards. He can look at them, but can’t touch them. He can use the players – all elite – in a $60 video game, but never does. In fact, there are actually 35 of these big spenders – players who have each paid…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Master System Cover Winners

The Master System/Mega Drive debuted before the advent of home desktop publishing, so the design choices of its ridiculously minimalist covers seemed somewhat sophisticated at the time. We gave modern games a retrofit in last week’s ‘Shop Contest. razzbarry (15) and Zinger314 (20) had different takes on similar themes. BuckThunder (5) was so, so cruel…

Shadow Puppets 2.0 — With Kinect

This cool demonstration by Design I/O, which produces “interactive installations” shows the Kinect being used to project animated hand puppets that respond to the user’s movements. Design I/O built it in a day using open-source Kinect drivers. Kinect’s software recognizes not only the X and Y axes of your arm’s position but also its Z…

Have we found the universe that existed before the Big Bang?

The current cosmological consensus is that the universe began 13.7 billion years ago with the Big Bang. But a legendary physicist says he’s found the first evidence of an eternal, cyclic cosmos. The Big Bang model holds that everything that now comprises the universe was once concentrated in a single point of near-infinite density. Before…

Leaked GameStop Black Friday Ads Includes PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 Bundles

It looks like the GameStop Black Friday ads hit stores today. We’ve had a number of tipsters sending in lists and scans. Check it out. Among the deals (and questionable deals) are some interesting bundles and “door busters”: -Buy any 4 GB xbox 360, and get your choice of Madden 11 or Medal of Honor…

Box Scores: Fickle Forty-Niner Fans

San Francisco’s quarterback swap and resulting two game winning streak in real life had one 49er fan jumping into Madden to reboot the season, starting by dumping proven bust Alex Smith. Mike Singletary and Jed York are still insane and delusional as all hell, respectively, but Derek B. runs this show, meaning they’re 1,000 percent…

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EA Sports Rumored To Revive NFL Blitz

NBA Jam’s critical success has led EA Sports to resurrect the beloved NFL Blitz series as well, Jeff Gerstmann reports over on Giant Bomb. Development is rumored to be underway, and the multiplatform game wouldn’t release until 2012. Gerstmann attributes the news to an industry insider and also his previous report that EA Sports, in…

The Moneysaver: ALL THESE COUPONS ARE YOURS

What is going to happen? Something wonderful. I’m afraid. Don’t be. We’ll be together. Where will we be? Where I am now. Would you like to renew your PowerUp Rewards Card? Put $5 down on GT5? Hardware • Refurbished Nintendo Wii with controller, nunchuk, Sports Resort, Wii Sports, plus a “classic controller” is $157.97, free…

The Week In Review: Black Friday Eve

The calm before the annual storm. It was the last normal week before the holiday shopping season begins and the mass media enforces your civic duty to agonize over what to buy mom, and whether Walmart sold enough of it. We stepped in with our 2010 Gift Guides on five platforms so far, with more…

Kinect Launches In Japan But Does It Connect With Players?

After going on sale earlier this month in North America, Kinect finally launched in Japan. How’d it go? There was at least one long line for Kinect, which is good news. Why is it good news? Because if Kinect is successful in Japan, hopefully that means more Japanese developers will make software for it. If…

A Fine Day For A Pac-Man Parade

The lone game character from the International Video Games Hall of Fame’s inaugural class will appear on a float for the first time in the 122-year-old Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, Calif. Pac and his four adversaries also constitute the first video-game float ever in the parade, which precedes the Rose Bowl on New…

How A Game Controller Can Change The Way You Work

We’ve seen Kinect do some pretty interesting things these past few weeks, but ironically, the most exciting thing we’ve seen so far is simply using the camera to control Microsoft’s Windows 7. Here you can see Wolfgang Herfurtner, boss of “multitouch and gesture computing” company Evoluce, use several Windows 7 programs using nothing but his…

The Music Game Is Dead (Long Live The Music Game?)

There once was a time when music games were the biggest – and in some cases best – thing to happen to the video game industry. Oh, how those times have changed. Gamasutra’s chart fiend Matt Matthews has got hold of the revenue generated by the sale of music games over the past three years,…

Wiebe: Still Points Available In Race To Donkey Kong’s Max Score

The infamous “kill screen” sets a limit to the highest possible score in Donkey Kong. Steve Wiebe, who reclaimed the world’s No. 1 in September, says the game still has about 100,000 points to go. “Believe it or not, we’re still leaving some room at the top.” Wiebe told Crave. “But I think people put…

End Of Line

Wait, is it really Friday already? Huzzah! Let’s kill this work week with a little off-topic conversation. We’ll smother it with chit-chat and dump its body in the river. C’mon. It’ll be fun! As I said last night, I went to see Tron Legacy last night and, man, let me tell you something—the embargo for…

Books Retailer Jumping Into Used Games Market?

Books-a-Million, America’s third-largest books retail chain, weathered a crummy third quarter but sounded upbeat about plans to move into a new line of business: Video games. That’s news to some of their stores. Gamasutra reports that many of the chain’s locations, principally located in the American South and Midwest, began selling used titles over the…

BioShock Creators Won’t Let PS3 Lag For BioShock Infinite

PlayStation 3 owners may still feel the sting of the original BioShock being an Xbox 360 “exclusive,” then eventually getting a port of the game from another developer a year later. Don’t expect similar treatment for BioShock Infinite Irrational Games’ technical director Chris Kline took to the developer’s forums this week to address concerns that…