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Playing With Your Children Can Save Their Mental Health
Using the television or video game console to babysit your child might be more detrimental than you think. The results of a two decade study show that actively participating in your child’s life could save them from severe personality disorder. While psychologists have pinpointed many of the adverse elements that go into a child growing…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe iPad’s Best Free Games Right Now
You spent enough money on that shiny new iPad. You shouldn’t have to pay for games as well. Here’s a selection of the finest free gaming the iPad has to offer. There’s a tremendous amount of free video game content available for the iPad some seven months after launch, but how do you weed through…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
For Some Reason, Sony Believes Now Is The Time To Hype Move
With the Xbox 360 Kinect selling like gangbusters, Sony releases this infographic to demonstrate how its take on motion gaming is picking up speed. Are you convinced? The infographic uses up a lot of real estate discussing people interested in buying a PlayStation Move controller. Intending to buy and purchase intent weigh heavily, but those…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Dangers Of Playing Kinect Enthusiastically
Microsoft’s new Kinect sensor continues to walk the path of Nintendo’s Wii with Civil-War-reenactment precision. 1) Sports mini-game compilation released. 2) Talk show hosts made giddy. Now: 3) Accidental swattings and injuries immortalized on YouTube and elsewhere. Up top is one unintended swat of one Kinect gamer by another. Here is a second, though the…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download: The Best Use Of Your DSi Ever
Never before has a downloadable game for the Nintendo DSi made as good a use of the handheld’s features as Kaasa’s Discolight. You will believe the DSi screens can be two different colors at once. For a mere 200 DSi points you can transform your Nintendo DSi into the ultimate disco light. Choose a genre…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Fallout: New Vegas Makes Millions
Bethesda Softworks is calling Fallout: New Vegas’ launch a success, with more than five million copies shipped since the game’s release, with retailers calling for more. Now all they have to do is fix it After the warm reception Fallout 3 received a few years back, it was a no-brainer that Fallout: New Vegas would…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Check Out The New Official PlayStation 3 Bluetooth Headset
It’s time to throw out that old, clunky PlayStation 3 Bluetooth headset. There’s a new earpiece in town, and it’s smaller, sleeker, and more functional than before. A reader sent us promotional materials for the new PlayStation 3 Bluetooth headset last week, and now Sony follows up with the details on this update to the…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Deaths Of Sackboy
Before Media Molecule decided to end Sackboy’s life in a puff of smoke, LittleBigPlanet’s creators had other, more gruesome ideas in mind. Check out the developer’s Sackboy death reel. In an extensive and quite interesting article posted on the Media Molecule blog, the developers detail the evolution of Sackboy from a 2D placeholder graphic called…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2010 -
UncategorizedSomeone Is Already Playing Gran Turismo 5
While fans all over the world sit and wait for word on the holiday release date for Gran Turismo 5, some lucky bastard is sitting in his home playing it. Reader Alex sent along this video of YouTube user You5825 racing through Gran Turismo 5 on his PlayStation 3. It doesn’t look to be a…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft Are Finally Competing on Common Ground
With the launch of the Xbox 360’s Kinect last week, all three major video game consoles now have motion-based gaming support. But which is the best? That’s not as easily answered as one might think. While all three allow you to forgo button-mashing for body movement to interact with games, they all do it in…
By Brian Crecente Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Wet 2, Naughty Bear 2 Coming From Familiar Team With A New Name
The head of the 375-person development studio Artificial Mind and Movement realized his company had a bad name. So, today, they’ve changed it, and revealed two sequels in the process: Wet 2. Naughty Bear 2. They’re coming from the studio now known as Behaviour Interactive. Live with that “u” in there, Americans. Starting today, then,…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
The moment you were awaiting is now. You may talk about video games with your fellow Kotaku readers. And you may do it here. Hooray! Thanks to KindaGamey for today’s image, even though it makes me feel like I’m missing a reference to some meme. Do your best to confuse me and submit your own…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
iTunes Chart Toppers: Tap Zoo and Plenty Of Stories
As we approach the often expensive holidays it seems that the free-to-play games are making a resurgence on the iPhone. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 26 2 2 Restaurant Story (TeamLava) Free (with paid DLC) 3 7 3 Tap…
By Brian Crecente Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Let The Wacky Time Begin!
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Daylight Savings Time is over. Kiss it good-bye! Japan doesn’t have that clock-switching system, so tonight, my last post goes up at 11:30pm. That’s late! So…time to pass out. Oh and speaking of time, congrats to you for six years at Kotaku. What you missed last night Call Of Duty, Time…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 8, 2010 -
UncategorizedStreet Fighter Player Copies Victory Pose, Defines Epic
Over the weekend at the SoCal Regionals fighting tournament, Street Fighter player Tokido duked it out for top spot in the losers’ bracket. And then won the hearts of everyone in the room. Tokido is one of the top Akuma players on the fighting game circuit. After defeating player ClarkyD, Tokido didn’t miss a beat…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dames Don’t Do Nintendo Ads For Free
Ever wonder why Dame Helen Mirren agreed to appear in upcoming Wii ads? Maybe she likes the Wii. But maybe it was the two-day commercial shoot and the very hefty paycheck. Ka-ching! According to MSN News, the 65 year-old Oscar winner received £500,000 (US$800,000) to appear in a Wii Fit Plus advert. “Nintendo insisted they…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 8, 2010 -
UncategorizedLet’s Hope Half-Life 3 Looks This Good
While game studio Valve torture the world with a lack of updates to the Half-Life universe, animator James Benson has whipped up for kicks his own vision for an updated, improved Half-Life game. Benson, who put together the brilliant Dance Fortress 2, has modelled not only a more fluid set of movements for Half-Life hero…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Nintendo In Your Cars
You can keep your trashy Call of Duty Jeeps: we’ll take a classy little car inspired by a Nintendo console any day of the week. This Scion has been done up pop culture mag Giant Robot’s editor Eric Nakamura and vehicle artist Len Higa, with select bodywork and the paint inspired by Nintendo’s Famicom console.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Metal Gear Rising Is Gonna Cut You In 2012
First revealed in summer 2009, Metal Gear Solid: Rising is an action game starring Metal Gear creator Raiden and set between MGS2 and MGS4. The game was expected to be out in 2011. Those expectations, it seems, are wrong. Kotaku has been told that Metal Gear Solid: Rising will miss 2011, and will instead hit…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 8, 2010