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Latest Transformers Game Reboots the Robots of Your Youth
Man, have I lost touch with the Transformers. I never knew they had an evil dinosaur that could transform into a city. When the hell did they start doing that? That’s Trypticon, at least, it’s how he appeared on Cybertron in Transformers: War for Cybertron, due out June 22. Here’s the game’s E3 trailer. My…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Results are in on PAX’s Booth Babe Ban Poll
I don’t know this means the ban on scantily-clad booth babes at the Penny Arcade Expos necessarily gets any stricter, but the policy – put to a poll of Penny Arcade’s community last week – is definitely getting more descriptive. The biggest inclusion the PAX community wanted to see in the policy is that a…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Mario Moves Up from Mushrooms
This isn’t run-of-the-mill blotter acid, this is some kind of souped-up Scandinavian hallucinogenic called Bromo-DragonFly, and as you can see, a new product needed a familiar pitchman to get a beachhead in a new market. Cops in Helsinki, Finland raided a drug den and confiscated that sheet, plus a bunch of cash and other tools…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Beauty of Human Error, Committed by a Computer Umpire
It’s the bottom of the fourth and that SOB Dallas Hodges is squeezing the zone low and away, again. Strike three went by like a freight train and Hodges just stared at it like a cow. This ump’s a disgrace. This ump also isn’t even real. He’s one of 10 in MLB 10: The Show,…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
MotorStorm 3 Goes Post-Apocalyptic?
The French site PS3Gen claims to have gotten its hands on “stolen” images of MotorStorm 3, purporting to show the PS3-exclusive racer set in a San Francisco of collapsed buildings and raging fires. Quite a departure from the series first three iterations, which set loose the fleet of cars, trucks and things that go in…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 -
UncategorizedHis Airness in Defeat, in Victory, and in NBA 2K10
Back in April, Operation Sports’s MessenjahMatt put together this excellent recreation of famous Michael Jordan performances in NBA 2K10. As Jordan is confirmed to be playable in NBA 2K11, it’s potentially a look at what that might entail. Although 2K Sports was mum on the subject speaking with me (and everyone else), ESPN reported earlier…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 -
UncategorizedBox Scores: The Vacant Confines
Some rivalries are played before sellout crowds, primetime exposure and adoring nationwide coverage. Others finish past midnight with a couple dozen disinterested people left in the bleachers and only two more watching on the TV. The latter would be the final audience for Chewblaha and his Cubs vs. Mike Dukakis’ Mets in a 12-inning affair…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Active Slapped with Trademark Lawsuit
The Active Network has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against EA Sports Active, alleging the fitness title’s online use of scheduling and fitness goals covers purposes for which it holds the trademark “Active.” GameSpot got a look at the suit, which claims The Active Network has since 2008 held the rights to the word “Active”…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Weekend Coupons: You’re Gonna Eat Lightning, and You’re Gonna Crap Coupons
You shoulda seen me when I knocked Giny Russell outta the ring. Outta the goddamn ring. September 14, 1923. The same night that Firpo knocks Dempsey outta the ring. Who gets the publicity? Dempsey. Know why? Because he had COUPONS. Hardware • The new PS3 Slim 250GB “Father’s Day Bundle” with the LittleBigPlanet Game of…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Week in Review: Promise Keepers
The weeks before E3 see lots of speculation about what it will take for one of the big three to “win” this year’s gathering. Stephen Totilo instead recounted the promises of last year’s showing, to remind everyone someone’s keeping score. Nintendo – forget such head-scratching reveals as the Wii Vitality Sensor – shone through with…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Red Faction Armageddon Brings a New Nano Forge, Alien Cocoons
Red Faction Armageddon will take place half a century after the Martian revolution of Red Faction: Guerrilla putting players in the shoes of the grandson of Alec Mason and Samanya, THQ revealed this morning. Here’s the official publisher synopsis of the story: When the massive Terraformer that supplies Mars with its Earth-like air and weather…
By Brian Crecente Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
First Look At New Red Faction Game
Red Faction Armageddon is the follow-up to last year’s surprise hit, Guerilla. Those hoping for more free-wheeling action under a Martian sky may be in for a rude shock. The game’s instead gone underground, having made a sharp turn at Survival Horror Boulevard. Sweeping vistas are being swapped out for underground chambers, and while this…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Vanquish Gameplay Trailer Is A Disco Inferno
Vanquish, the upcoming shooter from Platinum Games and Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, sounded like Gears of War on an acid trip. This gameplay trailer only confirms that suspicion. The third-person viewpoint and Space Marine characters may look familiar to Western shooter fans, but everything else looks like a breath of fresh, Japanese air. Dull…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 -
UncategorizedHalf-Life Has Never Looked This Cute
Wolf-Shadow77 has been doing these little Half-Life cartoons for a few years now, but only recently have they really hit their stride, showing Gordon Freeman’s universe in a way we’re not exactly accustomed to seeing it. The short animations use actual in-game sound clips, but then throw up visuals that upon first viewing, don’t exactly…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Is The Cheapest Game You’ve Ever Purchased?
Quiz time. It is time for what? Tell Us Dammit, dammit. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know oodles about us…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
See Fallout: New Vegas In Action
You may want to hit “mute”, but even in silence it’s probably still worth watching this Fallout: New Vegas clip, which features nothing but actual in-game footage. It’s…Fallout 3 in a new location, so it won’t exactly take your breath away, but fans sick of Washington should appreciate the new environments. I also was not…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Lawsuit Filed Against Final Fantasy XIII
Daniel Wolf has filed a class-action lawsuit against both Sony and Square Enix, claiming that Final Fantasy XIII has caused “severe and widespread damage” to PlayStation 3 consoles. Wolf reckons that freezes some players have run into while playing the game have “caused their PS3 consoles to freeze and become totally and permanently inoperable.” “Both…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kim Kardashian As Lara Croft? That Can’t Be Right, Can It?
The Tomb Raider film franchise is on the cusp of a reboot, putting a younger-than-Angelina-Jolie Lara Croft onscreen and spinning a new origin story-type yarn. Could that younger Lara Croft be somehow famous person Kim Kardashian? The next Tomb Raider flick is reportedly going to shoot in 3D and feature “a far more comic-strip version…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 4, 2010