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To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Falling Down You know what Kotaku needs? More Monkeys! Commenting hiccup today, otherwise mostly uneventful. What you missed: Double-Decker TVs Perfect For His and Her Gaming LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1 – 4 Review: The Best LEGO Game to Date The Future of Xbox 360’s 1 Vs. 100 Remains Unclear…
By Brian Crecente Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Store Update: Spanks
Who’s ready for adventure? Then you’d best fire up an instance of the North American PlayStation Store, where the adventures of DeathSpank awaits thee! It may be the brightest shining star of this week’s downloadable additions to the PS3. The developers of the other purchaseable, playable PSN game this week, Landit Bandit, may disagree, of…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
ESRB Apologizes for Email Leak
Calling it a “truly disappointing” mistake, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board has apologized directly to those whose email addresses it exposed in a reply concerning Blizzard’s now-abandoned plans to require forum members to use their real names. The reply, sent to all who were on a list of about 1,000 who complained about Blizzard to…
By Owen Good Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Are Your Online Gaming Friends Really Your Friends?
You spend your days playing with them. Maybe they’re your backup in a first-person shooter. Perhaps they heal your World of Warcraft guild raids. You count on them, and they count on you, but do you count them as friends? As I was wondering through the morning news, I stumbled over a Charm City Moms…
By Mike Fahey Published July 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Best Snowboarding Skateboarding Video Game Rap Video You’ll See Today
Video games, from Space Invaders to Bubble Bobble(!), invade the slopes and skate parks of Mt. Hood’s High Cascade in the best video ever to combine snowboarding and Super Mario World, pool tables and Portal, chiptunes and hip-hop.
By Michael McWhertor Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Is California’s U.S. Supreme Court Argument Against Violent Video Games
In a 59-page brief filed to the U.S. Supreme Court this week, the state of California makes its best argument about why it should be a crime to sell a child a very violent game. The brief reiterates arguments California officials have made against violent video games during its five-year battle with the video game…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Mars Looks Like A Great Place For Some Destructible Buildings
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to deliver an amazingly detailed view of Mars to Microsoft Research’s free Worldwide Telescope application, with images so detailed you can almost see the Google Maps camera cars roaming about the surface. The Worldwide Telescope is a nifty little Microsoft program, available for free download or as a Silverlight…
By Mike Fahey Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Dumb Reasons Publishers Passed On PS3 Hit Joe Danger
Hello Games’ Joe Danger has wheelied its way to sales success on the PlayStation Network, but the indie creators of the fun and vibrant stunt ’em up had a hard time convincing publishers that “fun” would sell. No really. According to Hello Games’ Sean Murray, the creators of the PSN exclusive stunt racer ran into…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
American McGee’s Alice Vorpal Blade Goes Snicker-Snack For Real
In American McGee’s Alice, an older, abuse-ravaged, mentally unstable Alice cuts a bloody path through an equally twisted Wonderland using her trust Vorpal Sword. Now Epic Weapons brings the Vorpal Sword to life. Epic Weapons is creating the replica Vorpal Sword to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the release of American McGee’s Alice. When the…
By Mike Fahey Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Video Games Get The Most Hate
Nintendo is determined to transform hatred of video games into love for video games. Not easy. Nintendo’s CEO Satoru Iwata recently reminded an audience of Nintendo stockholders that video games have, as recently a 2009, generated more disdain among the Japanese public than any other form of entertainment. “We should try our best to produce…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Creator of Sony’s Fake Exec Hero Moves To Activision
Activision Publishing’s new head honcho may be the man who created Sony’s tie-wearing, trash-talking fake spokesman Kevin Butler, but that doesn’t mean the largest publisher in the world will be getting their own fake executive hero soon. Eric Hirshberg, who becomes Activision Publishing’s new CEO in September, acknowledged some of the issues Activision faces when…
By Brian Crecente Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Worlds Within Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
Take a trip through Disney Town, the Dwarf Woodlands, the Castle of Dreams, the Enchanted Dominion, and Deep Space, in this Worlds trailer for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for the PSP. As I was viewing this video for the first time, my nephew, busy playing my Xbox 360 in the other room, shouted out,…
By Mike Fahey Published July 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedFt. Wayne, Indiana, Do The Right Thing
The Ft. Wayne Indiana History Center is honoring one of its local heroes, Philo Farnsworth, a television pioneer. A resident writes in to the local paper requesting that another great local creation be celebrated: The Magnavox Odyssey. In a letter to the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette, a man named David Lee Ennis writes: Regarding the…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Medal Of Honor Limited Edition Won’t Cost You Extra
EA’s modern take on the Medal of Honor series is getting a special Limited Edition version that costs exactly the same as the regular version. Of course you get what you pay for. It’s hard to figure out what the angle here is. The Limited Edition version of Medal of Honor, now available for pre-order…
By Mike Fahey Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Koopa Troopa Invades Miami Beach Red Bull Flugtag
Yes this concept art for a flying Koopa Troopa is pretty great, but not nearly as great as the real thing as spotted in Miami Beach. You can even read up on the folks behind this work of Mario-inspired, gliding art here Giant Koopa Troopa Flying Machine at Red Bull’s Flugtag Event in Miami [Loaded…
By Brian Crecente Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
To-Do In NYC: Discover The Future Of Video Games, Circa 2040
Next week, I will join talented game designer Eric Zimmerman and talented Take-Two CEO Ben Feder to tell the world what video games will be like in 2040. For this knowledge, we’re charging 10 bucks. We’ll be on a panel entitled The Future of Gaming which will be hosted by the New York Gaming Meetup…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Molyneux’s Milo Takes The Stage At TEDGlobal 2010
Peter Molyneux appeared on stage today at the TEDGlobal 2010 to show off Milo, the virtual boy for Microsoft’s Kinect that failed to make an appearance at E3 2010. How far has the character-driven game come since Project Natal’s debut? “This talk is going to be a little bit insane,” began Molyneux, showing off a…
By Mike Fahey Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Five LEGO Games You’ll Never See
This LEGO game concept art is fantastic, not just because it was so lovingly airbrushed, but because the images are for games we know will never come to exist. Take a gander and dream along with us about what could be. Two more bits of fake concept art can be found at Console Game Examiner.…
By Brian Crecente Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Why I Must Buy Sonic Colors
Preorder Sonic Colors for the Nintendo DS or Wii from GameStop, and you get this hat. I’m not sure I can live without this hat. I know it won’t come close to fitting my ridiculously over-sized head. It’s probably for the best. I’d just wear it all the time, everywhere I went. I might have…
By Mike Fahey Published July 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kane And Lynch 2’s Dog Days Start A Week Earlier
Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days moves forward one week in the release schedule, now slated to hit stores on August 17 in North America and August 20 in PAL territories. The Japanese date remains an unchanged August 26.
By Mike Fahey Published July 13, 2010