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Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth Cravings Before Twisted Metal’s Return
Irrationally excited for the return of Twisted Metal to the PlayStation? The PS3 sequel won’t be out until some time in 2011, but United Front Games’ ModNation Racers is going to make the wait slightly easier. Mr. Tooth will be joining the list of paid and fully authorized racers in the “Play. Create. Share.” PS3…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Great Hogtie Massacre Of 1911
There’s an achievement in Red Dead Redemption for tying a woman to the traintracks, ala old silent films. There isn’t one for tying 19 people to the tracks. That didn’t stop this enterprising player from performing the feat, though, finding a spot where train tracks pass close to a busy road then getting busy with…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Where Do You Go After Rock Band 3?
Somewhere else, that’s where. Rock Band 3 lead designer Dan Teasdale is leaving Rock Band developer Harmonix. In his blog, he states why. “Working on something like Rock Band basically allows you to auto-complete most of the achievements on your life list,” he blogged late last week. “‘Make a game with unique controllers’, ‘Make a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Now You Really Can Drink Like A Murloc
Drink mead, World of Warcraft fans? If you don’t, you may want to start, then start drinking from one of these. It’s a new entry in Taverncraft’s line of steins and tankards (they’ve done Warhammer Online ones previously), and rather than go the dignified route and emblazon it with heraldry and heroic deeds, they’ve slapped…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Wow! World of Warcraft Fireworks
The “behemoth”, eh? As seen by reader Ray
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Team Fortress 2 Engineer Update Day One: Let Those Golden Wrenches Fly
It’s Engineer Update Day One, and twenty-five lucky Team Fortress 2 Engineers have already found themselves on the receiving end of the fabled Golden Wrench, forever enshrined in the Official Wrench Log. Only seventy-five remain. Do you have the golden touch? Now I have to be honest here: I’ve not been following the lead-up to…
By Mike Fahey Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
We’re Huge in the UK
As seen in the UK’s Sunday Times. [Thanks Paul]
By Brian Crecente Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
You Can Get The New 360 In Colors Other Than Black
If you’re willing to pay a little extra, that is. Sensing correctly that there are some prospective purchasers of the Xbox 360 S not happy with its glossy black colour scheme, custom electronics firm Colorware are reminding the world that you can get a new 360 in its “classic” shade of white. Or blue. Or…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
All the FarmVille You Can Eat
Uber popular real-time farming sim FarmVille has players grow their own fruits and vegetables. That’s a game. In real life, people buy crap from convenience stores. As previously mentioned, FarmVille has a cross-promotion at convenience store chain 7-Eleven with FarmVille branded snacks. The cross-promotion also features in-game FarmVille items that include a sandwich cart, a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
You Don’t Need A Continental Congress When You’ve Got An Australian
The United States had to fight a long and bloody struggle to gain independence from Britain. They should have just done things the Australian way, it’d all have been over with a single stamp. Thanks Zak Canard!
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Makes American Games “American”?
This weekend was July 4, Independence Day. It’s America’s biggest national holiday. And it’s got me thinking about American games — namely, as this post title indicates, what makes American games “American”? Sure, the fact that Americans made them makes them American by default. There are obvious games to point to, like Madden football. The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
This is Kotaku
Hey there! Welcome to Kotaku. Sit back, have a drink, let me show you around the place. Kotaku might be best known for its up-to-the second video game news coverage, or its deep dive into video game culture, or the news it breaks, but it’s so much more. Kotaku is the gamer’s guide to everything,…
By Brian Crecente Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
When Mars Declared Independence From Britain
Upcoming title Jamestown has very little to do with the early colonization of North America, and everything to do with four-player co-op on 17th-century British colonial Mars. Yup, it’s the 1600s and Britain has taken possession of the planet Mars. Sounds like an excuse to use muskets against Martians, but instead, Jamestown is a retro-themed…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Your NBA 2K10-Illustrated Guide to the LeBronathon
NBA superstar LeBron James convened a six-team pitch summit over the long weekend and could soon choose his next club. Thanks to the magic of video games, we can see what all potential outcomes look like. While James’ choice will assuredly remake the NBA landscape, its effect on games is not so profound. Of course…
By Owen Good Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Coming To America
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Soon, very soon, Mrs. Bashcraft and Mini-Bash will board an airplane for the U.S. It will be the first time that either has gone to America without me. The purpose of the trip? For them to learn English and about America. The reason why I’m not going is that whenever we…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2010 - Reviews
Crackdown 2 Review: Shoot First, Leap Buildings Later
Crackdown 2 poses a question players have subconsciously been answering since their first contact with a controller or joystick: Would you rather spend your time in a video game jumping? Or shooting? Three years ago with little preceding hype, Microsoft released the marvelous Crackdown, a gameplay-centric game created by Real Time Worlds and overseen by…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Activision Wants “More Value” For Call Of Duty Xbox Live Players
The Call of Duty games have a massive multiplayer following on Xbox 360. But is the series going to make the leap to a massively multiplayer online game? Nothing is confirmed yet. “We’ve heard that 60 per cent of [Microsoft’s] subscribers are principally on Live because of Call of Duty,” Activision Blizzard honcho Robert Kotick…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Metal Gear Solid Creator Poses With Cosplayers
Hideo Kojima, best known for making Metal Gear Solid games, is in France for the Japan Expo. He is posing with cosplayers, and pointing a plastic gun at one guy’s face. Don’t point guns at people, kids! This cosplay of MGS character Raiden doesn’t just get the thumbs up from Hideo Kojima, it gets the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Video Game Beard Wars: The Winners
For the past few days, the video game industry has waged a beard war in our inbox, grown men doing battle not with fists or firearms, but with braids, themes and names. Names for their beards. What began as an innocent request for challengers last week has become an expedition into the darkest recesses of…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2010