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Introducing Soccer Relegation to American Football — in a Video Game
Maybe the only way to make the Oakland Raiders’ season interesting past the sixth week would be to force them – and every other wretched team – to play for the right to stay in the National Football League. That will never happen in real life. But Backbreaker, coming Tuesday from NaturalMotion and 505 Games,…
By Owen Good Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Princess Is In Another Birdhouse!
Thanks Eugenio
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
UFC Online’s One-Use Code a Lesson in How Not to Do It [Updated]
THQ’s decision to put UFC Undisputed 2010‘s multiplayer behind a “Project $10” one-use code was controversial enough. Its slapdash implementation in the game couldn’t make the publisher look worse. Update:: THQ has responded with a statement. THQ’s statement: At midnight on May 24, the UFC Undisputed 2010 Microsoft servers went live and we experienced a…
By Owen Good Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Cast of Lost as Game Characters
What if the cast of Lost didn’t stop entertaining us when the show wrapped up earlier this week? What if they went on to try their hand at video games? Artist extraordinaire and friend of Kotaku David Stonecipher shows us what could have happened in such a world. How the Cast of Lost Would Fit…
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
NBA Live is Now NBA Elite [Update]
Earlier today, the NBA Live page on Facebook put up that image, and the answer seems to be “What is the new name of EA Sports’ NBA franchise?” Correct! I’ll take “Potpourri” for a thousand, Alex … That’s according to Official Xbox Magazine, whose latest issue reveals the name change in an exclusive from EA…
By Owen Good Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Quick Links
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: This Bukkake Is Totally Delicious, Totally Safe For Work Tiny is sometimes better. We like to keep our readers informed, but not every patch, game unveiling and new product deserves a full story. Our solution? Quicklinks. These are those tiny posts you see scattered around the page with no image…
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
You Got PAC-MAN in My Bejewled!
Namco created a PAC-MAN themed match three puzzle game for the iPhone and iPad to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their beloved pill-popping, ghost-chasing yellow hero. There’s also a free flash version of the $2 iPhone game.
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: Air Jordan on Cover, Possibly Playable in NBA 2K11
ESPN, citing multiple unnamed sources, says 2K Sports is pursuing basketball’s greatest player ever, Michael Jordan, for the cover of NBA 2K11 and may have plans to feature him as a playable character in the game. Jon Robinson, ESPN’s sports gaming columnist, adds that he’s “heard whispers” that 2K has been in negotiations with Jordan’s…
By Owen Good Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Is More Likely How The World Ends
We can daydream about alien invasion, killer robots, and rampaging genetic mutations, but the world is more likely to go on until something like this happens: the death of a star. Sure, we’ll all be long-dead by the time it happens, but it’s nice to image that our sun will look nearly as pretty as…
By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
There’s a New Mario in Town
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is now the highest rated video game in history… at least according to Game Rankings and its penchant for number crunching and outliers-inclusive averaging. It was a good run 1998’s The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
ModNation Racers Creator Talks Playing, Creating, And Sharing Beer
Find out how cake and beer helped one studio produce the massive creative racing engine that is ModNation Racers in this week’s Kotaku Talk Radio Podcast, now available for download. United Front Games’ Dan Sochan took your calls today about ModNation Racers, the newly-released create-your-own racing game for the PlayStation 3. Hell, he even took…
By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Let’s Discuss Alan Wake Episode Five – Now
We are up to Alan Wake’s fifth episode and a well-lit room. Time to talk about a few things. -How’s the gameplay holding up for everyone? Enough variety? I’d already played a preview version of the game, which included the spotlight moment on the dam. So that was spoiled for me. There is just enough…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
You Apparently Have Something Against Puppets
Thanks to all who voted in our Split/Second Faux Destructo Contest. Basically, you released a lot of pent-up aggression by envisioning a Split/Second-esque race car slamming through various otherwise serene TV show sets. All 5 winners below! Fifth Place/Fourth Place (Tie): Little House on the Prairie and A PBS Fundraiser Rolling through an unoccupied lean-to…
By Gawkercreative Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Half-Life 2 Comes To Mac, Gets New Graphics, New Achievements
As promised, Half-Life 2 has come to the Mac as part of Valve’s weekly updates to the Steam library. PC gamers are also in for an update, as the classic first-person shooter gets a few new tweaks. Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two are now available via Steam on Mac,…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
How Many Free PSP Go Games Does Europe Need?
Europe has been on the receiving end of great PSP Go game bundles since the device launched in October of last year, and they’re only getting better, with Sony soon offering ten free big-name titles to Euro Go purchasers. It seems like Sony has always pushed the PSP Go stronger in Europe than it has…
By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Video Games, I’ve Let You Down
It’s hard to explain your favorite games to people who don’t play them, isn’t it? Well, if you think that’s tough, wait ‘til you hear about the time I played Fallout 3 with my parents. Around the time the game launched, they came down to visit me in Brooklyn from Massachusetts. As my dad had…
Leigh Alexander Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: Project Natal To Cost Too Much Money
Would you pay $149 USD for Project Natal? According to a report from Edge, that’s what current Xbox 360 owners should expect to pay when the much-hyped motion sensing camera from Microsoft launches later this year. Edge, citing a “trusted source,” the same individual who fed the outlet details on Gears of War 3’s coming…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Game Design as Make-Believe: Depiction vs Narration
Based upon part six of the Mimesis as Make-Believe serial. In Walton’s make-believe theory of representation, there are in effect two different ways in which representations can be constructed: they may be perceptual in nature i.e. making use of one or more of our senses, in which case they are considered a depiction, or they…
By Lauren Orsini Published May 26, 2010