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And Now We’re Trapping Antimatter Atoms
Antimatter and matter annihilate each other on contact, so how do you go about capturing atoms of antihydrogen for study? The brilliant minds at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva have figured it out. Antiparticles are the evil opposite of particles, carrying the same mass but the opposite electrical charge. As matter is comprised…
By Mike Fahey Published November 17, 2010 -
UncategorizedKotaku’s 2010 PSP Gift Guide
The holidays are coming, and that means it’s time for you to start thinking about what sorts of gifts you want to give and get this year. Apple has had it’s turn with the iPhone and iPad Gift Guides; now it’s time for the dedicated portable gaming machines to have their say, starting with Sony’s…
By Mike Fahey Published November 17, 2010 -
UncategorizedSorting Fact From Fiction In Call Of Duty: Black Ops
For a game based on a historical period and littered with historical figures, the latest Call of Duty game sure does take a lot of liberties with, well, history. So let’s try and sort the fact from the fiction. Call of Duty: Black Ops takes place during the Cold War, a period of time in…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 17, 2010 -
UncategorizedCut The Rope Goes Cosmic
Chillngo’s adorable little candy-muncher Om Nom has proved irresistible to iPhone gamers. Here’s a sneak peek at what more than three million Cut The Rope players can look forward to in update 1.1. Cut the Rope is a physics puzzler in which players strategically slice ropes in order to give the ever-hungry Om Nom candy.…
By Mike Fahey Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy Artist Has Fancy Art Show
While studying art history in college, I often wondered if professional artists really wear scarves in galleries. If they are Yoshitaka Amano, they do! The artist is showing his fine work at Shibuya gallery Art Statements Tokyo until next January. This is the first time these pieces are being shown at an exhibition in Japan.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Could Microsoft Give Project Gotham Devs A Lift?
Microsoft is shopping around for a new Project Gotham Racing developer. Activision is looking to offload original Project Gotham development studio Bizarre Creations. Could the timing be any better? the Project Gotham Racing franchise was a huge success for both Bizarre Creations and Microsoft, but that pairing came to an end in 2007 when Activision…
By Mike Fahey Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Tron: Evolution Will Always Have Daft Punk
No matter how Propaganda Games’ video game companion to Disney’s Tron: Legacy turns out, it will always have two tracks from Daft Punk’s movie score to make it worthwhile. Disney Interactive details the music of Tron: Evolution. when a game developer is hit with massive layoffs towards the end of the development cycle for a…
By Mike Fahey Published November 17, 2010 -
UncategorizedA Grenade To The Groin Makes This Call Of Duty Kill A Bit Different
At first this kill video from Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer seems unremarkable. But then they slow it down and zero in on a single grenade that lands in the most sensitive of places. Best First Blood Impact Kill EVER! [YouTube]
By Stephen Totilo Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Tony Hawk: Shred Sells Like Rancid Hotcakes
Perhaps you’ve seen the stack of Tony Hawk: Shred skateboard bundles sitting at your local video game store. You might want to get used to them, because the game’s first week sales number are very, very low. A word to publishers: Taking your franchise away from a developer two week’s before the release of the…
By Mike Fahey Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
And the Nominees for Games of the Year Are…
Spike TV’s Video Game Awards show seems to improve a bit every year. This year’s show kicks off on Dec. 11 with a very strong line-up of contenders for a myriad of awards. One note, both Stephen Totilo and myself are judges for the show, though this list of nominees reflects the votes of quite…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Fallout: New Vegas’ First Add-On Pack is an Xbox 360 Exclusive
The Xbox 360 version of Fallout: New Vegas is getting a new mission pack on Dec. 21 called Dead Money, Bethesda said today. The 800 Microsoft point pack has players working alongside three other captured wastelanders to recover the treasure of the Sierra Madre Casino. The download add-on includes new terrain, foes and choices, according…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
The iPhone Version of Rage Hits Tomorrow
If id Software founder John Carmack can be believed, the iPhone version of shooter Rage is due to hit iTunes tomorrow. Carmack Tweeted this morning that Mutant Bash TV has already been approved by Apple, so that really means it could hit anytime this week. Here’s IGN’s look at the game, which appears to be…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
It’s A Letter, But Not The Intended Birthday Letter
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Gift Guides Tomorrow is Micro-Bash’s birthday. He will be two years old. The following day? That’s Mrs. Bashcraft’s birthday, which kinda sucks for her, because that means she gets shoehorned in with Micro. I actually went and bought her some presents the other day, and I hid them in the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sony: Gran Turismo 5’s European Release Isn’t Changed
Rumors are swirling online that the oft-delayed Gran Turismo 5 will suffer a delay once more. Not so, Sony tells Kotaku. When asked whether the rumors of a two day Gran Turismo 5 delay for Europe were true, Sony replied, “We’ve announced the date as the 24th and have not changed that at all.” So,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 17, 2010 -
UncategorizedA Glimpse At Bioware’s Next Game… Could it Be Mass Effect 3?
The developers behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age plan to show off their next big game during this year’s SpikeTV Awards, but here’s an incredibly short glimpse of it. Click to view World Premiere – BioWare | SpikeTV | SPIKE.com We don’t know what it is either, but it certainly looks like a modern or…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Video Game Characters Are Older Than You Think
How old is your favourite video game character? Ten? Twenty? That’s nothing. Some of Nintendo’s characters are as old as the 121 year-old company itself if these old black & white photos are anything to go by. They’re the work of David Cole, who has placed some of Nintendo’s most iconic characters not in screenshots…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 17, 2010 -
UncategorizedThis Isn’t “Character Creation”, It’s More Amazing Than That
Have you ever created a character in your own (or somebody else’s) likeness in a game? Oblivion, perhaps? Or FIFA? If you have, no matter how good it looked, it suddenly looks like crap next to this. This is the new character creation suite for space MMO EVE Online, currently being tested out by the…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Woman Is The Nintendo Wii Killer
Meet Aki Higashihara. She might look like your typical Japanese pin-up with a blog and a smile, but she is anything but. This is the woman who could be killing the Nintendo Wii. In Japan, Higashihara’s blog is referred to as the “DEATH BLOG” after popular manga “Death Note”. If she blogs about something, that…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 17, 2010