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This Is The New Villain In Wizard 101
Popular kids online game Wizard 101 just hit the 10-million-registered-users mark. To celebrate, the folks behind the game at KingsIsle dropped by Kotaku’s New York office with a poster of the game’s next big villain. You see here Morganthe, “the queen of the shadow web,” as printed on KingsIsle’s poster. I don’t play Wizard 101…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 2, 2010 -
UncategorizedHow To Switch Sides In City Of Heroes’ Going Rogue
In this video documentary for Paragon Studio’s super hero MMO City of Heroes, the team talks us through the morality system that changes your villain into a hero and vice versa in the upcoming Going Rogue expansion. Changing sides isn’t a simple choice in the Going Rogue expansion. It’s a path that a hero takes…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Video Games Teach Men About Sex
Did you know that if a woman repeats herself three times, you have to go gain more experience before hitting on her again? GamesRadar takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the carnal lessons males learn through gaming. It’s called “The Three Strikes Law,” and it’s common throughout most early Japanese role-playing games. It’s completely ridiculous, but…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Solves Backwards Battery Problem
The mad scientists at Microsoft have conjured a technology called InstaLoad that will allow you to put batteries into a device — in either direction. Look at the batteries in this official Microsoft image here. Madness! The technology, announced yesterday by Microsoft, works with AA, AAA, C and D batteries. This is one of those…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
First Transformers: War For Cybertron DLC Contains All Three Preorder Characters
Folks who spent up to $100 for War for Cybertron preorder codes on eBay are going to kick themselves, as a listing on the Xbox website for the game’s first map pack indicates that all three preorder characters are included. This is why we don’t buy preorder codes on eBay Released just last week and…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
R-Type Coming to the iPhone “Soon”
Classic 80’s arcade side-scrolling space shooter R-Type is coming to the iPhone soon, Electronic Arts tells us. They are also giving us a rundown of the game’s features and some nice screens. As with the original, you will be piloting the R-9a Arrowhead spaceship as you take on waves of enemies from the Bydo empire.…
By Brian Crecente Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Gears Of War Designer Walks Us Through Bulletstorm
Confused by the over-the-top combat of frantic gameplay of Bulletstorm? Let the dulcet tones of Epic Games’ design director Cliff Bleszinski guide you through the game in terms you can understand, like “radial blur” and “gang bang.” This director’s commentary walkthrough video is full of wonderful Cliffy B. quotables, like “toy with your enemies like…a…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Man Punches Punching Arcade Game To Death
A Meridian, Idaho man has been charged with malicious injury to property after allegedly causing $3,000 to an arcade machine at a local bar by punching it. The goal of the game? To punch it as hard as you can. According to witnesses, an intoxicated 30-year-old Dustin Gooden was playing a ‘test-your-strength’ arcade game at…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rock Band Finally Gains Creedence
Creedence Clearwater Revival music will not be available in Rock Band until next week, yet somehow the series has still been a smashing success. How can this be? CCR is the sort of band that has a song that fits any particular moment in your life. Songs like “Down on the Corner,” “Bad Moon Rising,”…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
20 Amazingly Detailed Call Of Duty: Black Ops Screens
Can you spot the dragonfly in this picture? Treyarch and Activision have released 20 new Call of Duty: Black Ops screens brimming with nice little touches, from snow-speckled facial hair to insects thriving in the jungle heat, but something’s missing. As detailed as these new screens are, they still manage to highlight some of the…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Apple Engineers “Totally Wrong”, Nintendo Misjudged Excitement and Other Great Corporate Excuses
This morning iPhone owners woke to a very unusual thing: An apology letter from Apple. Everything about the letter, from its opening line of “Dear iPhone 4 Users”, to its unusual use of phrases like “totally wrong”, is cringe-inducing, but Apple isn’t the only company that doesn’t know how to come clean when they screw…
By Brian Crecente Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Weird Environmental Tips
If you play the Nintendo DS puzzle game Picross 3D long enough, you unearth some advice about how to be more eco-friendly. But the advice is a little weird. Have a look. This isn’t the first time Nintendo’s tucked a message about environmentalism in a DS game. Chibi Robo, anyone?
By Stephen Totilo Published July 2, 2010 -
UncategorizedGender Dysphoria
Tetricide – Suicidal moves during the game of Tetris that purposely cause the falling shapes to get too high for any more rows to disappear. Game ends because pieces reach the top; a “death” is self-inflicted. Soon to be seen at upcoming 8-Bit art show Tetricide, Gender Dysphoria is the work of multimedia artist Jonathan…
By Brian Crecente Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Would I Like This Voltron USB Drive? Yes, I Would
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: From Snakes to Scorpions Not sure if you remember Matt Alt. He’s a game localizer, author and all around nice guy, and I wrote about him in a feature I did on the meaning of ninjy. (He’s actually co-written a book on ninjas!) Anyway, he love robots and has created…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 2, 2010 -
UncategorizedHow A Japanese Political Party Used A Virtual Singer
Democratic Party of Japan member Kenzo Fujisue apparently has a “secret plan” to tap into the country’s youth for the upcoming July election. Does that plan involve a virtual idol? Miku Hatsune is a popular computerized singer that was originally just software for the Yamaha Vocaloid, which allows people to synthesize singing by typing in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Is Japan Interested In 3D TVs? Survey Says…
In The Land of the Rising Sun, electronics manufacturers like Sony and Panasonic are rolling out 3D televisions. Sony, in particular, shows great interest in 3D with its TVs and 3D-ready PlayStation 3. Japan, however, does not. According to Kakaku.com survey that polled 8,957 individuals, 70 percent said they were turned off by wearing 3D…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Crackdown 2 Meets Perfect Dark
You know, I was playing Perfect Dark the other day, and thought to myself, “Man, you know what this game needs? More Crackdown cameos”. And whaddya know. Here we are. With a Crackdown unlockable now available within Perfect Dark XBLA. Now if only I’d actually thought that, instead of using it to set the scene!…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 2, 2010