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‘Nelson Tethers’ Could Be Gaming’s Fargo, A Wintry Black Comedy

In the next game from the studio behind the episodic adventure games Sam & Max, Strongbad, and the Tales of Monkey Island, the fictional town of Scoggins, Minnesota is a cold play and also a bit weird. “It’s a dark comedy,” the game’s lead designer, Mark Darin, told Kotaku in a phone interview today. “It’s…

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First Bulletstorm Screens Show Off Outrageously Large Guns, Plants

Painkiller developer People Can Fly are loading Bulletstorm for a 2011 release, promising “outrageously large guns” and “hordes of mutants and flesh eating gangs in an abandoned paradise,” all of which one can clearly see in brand new screen shots. The PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360 shooter is coming next year, courtesy of Epic…

BlazBlue Gets Its Own Tournament Edition Joysticks

Mad Catz once again proves its mastery of slapping new graphics onto existing products with the Blazblue: Continuum Shift Tournament Edition joystick, sold exclusively through Aksys Games at $199.99 a pop. Right now I can get a Mad Catz Street Fighter IV Tournament Edition Fight Stick from GameStop for $149.99. This is essentially the same…

Bulletstorm Screens

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‘Gold N’ Fly’ Combines Nintendo 64 James Bond Classic With Jay-Z, Nas, T.I.

The 13 year wait is over. New York rap producer Alex Kresovich has merged the music of 1997 Nintendo 64 James Bond classic GoldenEye 007 with big-time rappers’ rap lyrics. “I’ve been working on a mashup mixtape since January using all the music from ‘Goldeneye’ for Nintendo 64 to make a free project that (hopefully)…

RayStorm Reborn Next Week

Scrolling shooter fans have every reason to get fired up over Xbox Live Arcade next week, when Square Enix releases the remake of Taito classic shmup, RayStorm HD. RayStorm HD takes the lock-on shooting action of Taito’s 1996 arcade game, slaps on a fresh coat of HD graphics, widens the playing field, and tosses in…

Warpath And Barricade Join The War For Cybertron

Activision continues to relentlessly tease Transformers fans with new character reveals for June’s War for Cybertron, with fan-favorite Warpath and obscure Decepticon race track patrol team member Barricade join the fight. Oh I know there’ve been other versions of Barricade since the first generation of Transformers. He was leader of the Bruticus Maximus team in…

13 Extraordinary Halo Reach Screenshots, Shot By Gamers

Halo Reach, like Halo 3 before it, has an in-game screenshot tool. Play the game. Watch an interactive playback of what you did. Move the cameras. Snap your shots. In just one day, gamers have taken some amazing pictures. See more for yourself at the Halo Reach section of Bungie.net. Bear in mind, all of…

You Can Play The Secret Of Monkey Island Inside This Post

Online gaming innovator InstantAction may have just changed the way games are distributed on the internet, with the introduction of a service that lets publishers embed games like The Secret of Monkey Island as easily as a YouTube video. InstantAction’s new service uses thin-client, in-browser, and progressive downloading technology to allow publishers to stream video…

Game Design as Make-Believe: Imagination

Based upon part one of the Mimesis as Make-Believe serial. Game designers are tremendously imaginative people, and as such we often make a serious error in dealing with other players: the great majority of people have vastly more ordinary imaginations. This observation – which should be a truism given the popularity of predictable soap operas,…

Meet The Man Who Stormed The Old Republic’s Jedi Temple

Remember the amazingly cool trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, where the Sith crashed a transport into a Jedi temple? Now you can meet the man in charge, Darth Malgus, an anti-hero so interesting he scores his own novel. Darth Malgus made a huge impression at E3 last year, starring in one of the…

You Cannot Club Seals On The iPhone

Developer Matthew Smyth is upset that Apple rejected his seal clubbing game for the iPhone. PETA, on the other hand, is so overjoyed they sent Steve Jobs chocolates. iSealClub is a game based on Canada’s annual commercial seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and around Newfoundland, Quebec and Nova Scotia. Taking place during…

Retailer: New Call Of Duty Goes To Arctic, Cuba, Vietnam

The product listing for the newly-announced Call of Duty Black Ops appears to spill major details about the November first-person shooter: Call of Duty returns this November, but this is a Call of Duty like no other, this is Black Ops. Now you will witness the birth of the Elite Special Forces and take part…

Team Fortress 2, Meet Mega Man

Agent Midnight over at DeviantArt thinks Scout Man has what it takes to be a real video game, though he might need a little help. Check out the rest of his Team Fortress 2 sprite work here

An All Points Bulletin On APB’s Release Date And Pricing Structure

Realtime Worlds’ massively-multiplayer sandbox game APB finally has an official release date: June 29 in North America and July 1 in Europe. How much will players have to pay to play? Realtime Worlds is introducing an “evolutionary” pricing plan for APB, giving players some room to move in terms of subscription fees. The game itself…

The World of Crackdown 2 Is 1000 Meters Tall [UPDATE]

Players will be able to climb high and dive deep in this summer’s open-world big-city Xbox 360 exclusive Crackdown 2. The tallest building? Over 500 meters. But that’s barely the half of it. [UPDATE: The developers shared a little more.] On this week’s Kotaku Talk Radio podcast, four of the men at Ruffian Games who…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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“Throwing Like A Girl”

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft It’s Golden Week in Japan — a bunch of spring holidays clumped together. This morning, we went to the park and played catch. I really love baseball, really love playing it. I have two super nice Made in USA pro model Rawlings gloves, which I treasure. Mrs. Bashcraft and I played…