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UncategorizedOur Video Game Gun Rack
So many games, so many guns. Most are good, but some have to be the best, and it’s only the best that we’ve decided to hang on our Kotaku Gun Rack. Keep the crows off our porch. There’s no room for funny guns here. Nothing stupid, or novel, or unique. No, only guns that do…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
On Saturday, We Improve The List Of History’s 10 Best Video Games
On Saturday, Kotaku co-hosts a PAX panel during which we will inch closer to determining the best games ever made. The panel is Canon Fodder, season 2. The panel will be co-hosted by me and video game consultant N’Gai Croal. Joining us for an hour will be 5th Cell’s Jeremiah Slaczka, Bungie’s Jaime Griesemer, Spy…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Man Who Invented Home Video Games Knew His Guns
The man who invented home video games may have known more about real guns than any other game creator in history. But, he tells Kotaku, that’s not why the first game console had a gun. Ralph Baer is 88 and still keeps busy in his lab in New Hampshire, decades after inventing the first home…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Video Game Pulled Globally From Military Stores Over Taliban Inclusion
All stores located on Army and Air Force bases will no longer be allowed to sell Electronic Arts’ upcoming military shooter Medal of Honor because an aspect of the game includes playable Taliban characters. The Army and Air Force Exchange Services has confirmed to Kotaku that they requested the game pulled from the 49 GameStop’s…
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2010 -
UncategorizedChecking out Shogun 2: Total War’s Flexible AI in Action
In this video The Creative Assembly’s Land Battle Programmer Ingimar Gudmunsson and Studio Communications Manager Kieran Brigden talk us through a night battle in Shogun 2: Total War. The battle has the Chosokabe clan attacking the Takeda clan as a storm rages in the distance. Ignore, if you can, those splendid graphics, and instead pay…
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Capcom Brings the Dead, The Fight, The Stache to PAX
Capcom will be invading the Penny Arcade Expo later this week with a chance for you to go hands-on with eight of their upcoming games. There’s also some mighty fine swag to collect at Capcom’s huge booth. Here’s the game run down: • Marvel VS. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds • Dead Rising 2…
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Denver Thieves Steal $1,200 Worth Of Video Games
Denver police are on the hunt for a duo of thieves who they say stole about $1,200 worth of video games from a local Ultimate Electronics store, according to 9News. Police say one of the two would distract employees as the other tucked away video games on the morning of Aug. 10. Man, that’s a…
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sheriff’s Deputy Accused of Choking Wife Over PS3 Argument
A Florida deputy sheriff is under investigation for allegedly choking his wife after she threated to take away his Playstation 3, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Lake County Deputy Gary French was not charged nor was he arrested, but was part of an internal investigation conducted by the sheriff’s office. Deputies say that French told him…
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Play inFamous 2 at Penny Arcade Expo, Get a Spiffy Shirt
Sucker Punch will be at the Penny Arcade Expo this weekend letting people play Playstation 3 exclusive inFamous 2 and handing out a limited supply of these neat shirts. The developer says they will have seven kiosks at the Seattle video game show featuring a demo of the game that includes Cole’s new melee weapon…
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
The 20 Most-Loved Wii Games
Next month will be historic. This month is merely nearly historic. Smash Bros. clings to the top spot as America’s most-loved Wii game in the latest update to our Nintendo stat-tracking. Plus, there is a new contender. (Click the chart to enlarge it.) Welcome to the September edition of our monthly measure of Wii-gaming pleasure.…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 2, 2010 -
UncategorizedMedal of Honor’s Gunfighters, Uncut
I walked readers through Medal of Honor’s lone Apache helicopter level during GamesCom earlier this month. Here’s your chance to see it, uncut, for yourself. Electronic Arts says this video is an uncut, unedited video meant to “show our audience what they can expect when Medal of Honor launches on October 12.”
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2010 -
UncategorizedFlight of the Move Controllers
I knew there must have been a reason for the robot ice cream cones to glow. This is about 30 minutes of my son and I playing Gladiator Arena in Sports Champions with the Playstation Move in a very sped up video.
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
So, iTunes 10, Huh
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Sweet Sleep I downloaded iTunes 10 today — Jason Chen passed it along! That was nice of him! I haven’t really used it that much yet, but it seems slick. Haven’t started using Ping. I’m a bit social networked out, you know? Between Twitter and Facebook, I kinda feel like…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Hey Japan, Wake Up Before It’s Too Late
At last year’s Tokyo Game Show, Capcom’s Keiji Inafune (Mega-Man, Dead Rising) famously declared that the Japanese game industry was “finished”. It was a wake-up call. But Japan, he says, still slumbers. “I said that comment hoping that the Japanese creators were going to wake up,” Inafune told VideoGamer.com. “However, there has been no change…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: Wii Getting Super Mario All-Stars
According to a report from a Japanese retail event, Nintendo is planning on bringing Super Mario All-Stars to the Nintendo Wii. On sale October 21 for ¥2,500 (US$30), the compilation will mark the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. The game first went on sale in Japan in September 1985. It went on sale the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Shogun 2 Screenshots Thought This Was Sword Week
Sega has released a batch of in-game screenshots for upcoming strategy epic Shogun2 : Total War. They’re moody! While the past two games in the series – Empire and Napoleon – had screenshots big on pomp, marching drums and pretty uniforms, Sega is going the atmospheric route with Shogun 2. I think there was a rule:…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2010