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PAX East Kotaku Party: Scenes From The Rattlesnake Bar
The turnout at last night’s Kotaku Pax East meet-up was nothing short of amazing. There was dancing, drinking, more drinking. After that, we drank a little. Wanna see what that looked like? Here you go. The folks at Alienware, makers of the M11X, which isn’t in my backpack right now thanks to really strong locks,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Red Dead Redemption Preview: I’m A No Good Dirty Horse Murderer
The air shimmers with heat as I survey the scrub plain laid out before me. Wild animals frolic. Horsemen go about their business. I whistle for my horse, saddle up, and take my first ride into Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption. Red Dead Redemption tells the story of one John Marston, a bad man trying to…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Stargate Resistance Sold Off as Bankruptcy Guts Original Publisher
Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment started reading Chapter 11 last month, and now a court-appointed official has taken control of the company’s assets, which includes Stargate Resistance. The game has been sold off and will continue to be supported. Cheyenne Mountain, however, sounds like it has gone clank. It has less than $10,000 in the bank (so…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Scott Pilgrim vs. These Screenshots of His Game
The soundtrack composer for the upcoming Scott Pilgrim adaptation (of the upcoming Scott Pilgrim movie) debuted one of the game’s songs at PAX East, and screengrabs taken from that video give a glimpse of what to expect in the game. Anamanaguchi, the chiptune punk band that purports to create its songs with a hacked NES,…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Weekend Coupons: Keep On Rockin’ in the Free and Reduced Price World
Sometimes the deals here are so rockin’ I start nodding my head like yeah, yeah, keep on with those Weekend Coupons! And then I start shaking my head like no, no, no don’t stop those Weekend Coupons! Hardware • Of special interest to plenty of you, I’m sure, is the 250 GB hard drive for…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Live At PAX East: The 10 Best Games Of All Time?
Join us live at PAX East as Stephen Totilo, N’Gai Croal, and special guests help redefine the ten best video games of all time. Here’s the starting list, for you playing at home: 1. Legend of Zelda Ocarina 2. Super Mario Galaxy 3. GTA IV 4. Super Mario World. 5. Metroid Prime 6. SoulCalibur 7.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Originals: Still Pocket Size
Until PAX East kicked in Nintendo’s new handhelds – the upcoming 3DS and the arrival of the DSi XL – told the tale of the week’s big news. Paid DLC, as always, also pushed buttons among the week’s top stories. Kotaku’s PAX East Coverage Kotaku Talk Radio Top Stories Kotaku Census 2010: The Results (In…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
PAX East Creates A Game Of Cold-Blooded Journalism
Pen and paper role-playing game designer David Hill tasked a theater packed with PAX East attendees to create an RPG in sixty minutes, resulting in a thrilling game of journalistic intrique – with talking dinosaurs. The Design an RPG in an Hour panel at PAX East was already underway when I arrived, the room overflowing…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
They Brought The Gamers To Boston
Not everything the men behind the massive PAX East convention here in Boston told me this weekend is true. But most of it was funny and/or illuminating. Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, better known to the millions of fans of their Penny Arcade comic strip as Gabe and Tycho, have brought their giant Penny Arcade…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Mornin’ gang. Anyone else have an unusual Friday evening? Then again, what the hell is your usual Friday evening? If it includes video games, gab it up here while I make coffee and power on the weekend news-o-tron. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Argument For (And Against) Buying a DSi XL
It’s easy to misjudge Nintendo’s often fanciful video game system redesigns. When the Japanese game maker first unveiled the Game Boy Advance SP, a fancy iteration of the Game Boy Advance that folded in half, people loved the concept. And their initial impressions proved dead on, with the SP selling nearly 44 million units in…
By Brian Crecente Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Census 2010: The Results (In Full)
As you know, the results of our little Kotaku Census are in. And while infographics are pretty, I also promised I’d give you the results in full. So here they are! On the whole, they’re great reading. While some questions presented predictable results, and some didn’t really tell us much (the “genres” question was multi-choice,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s New DS Will Still Force You To Re-Buy Your Digital Games
Lagging behind standards maintained by competitors Sony, Microsoft and Apple, Nintendo is launching its second portable gaming system capable of downloading video games, without letting those who downloaded games on their first DS to transfer them to the new one. Nintendo is currently operating a pay-for-it-twice system for its DSiWare line-up, something that will be…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Crackdown 2 Screens, Only 492 More To Collect
Crackdown’s Pacific City sure ain’t what it used to be. The buildings got crummier, and the cop’s armour got better. Those delicious green orbs, however, look unchanged. Just goes to show, you can’t improve on perfection.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Yakuza Flexes Its Muscle On PS3 Sales In Japan
The PlayStation 3 had a big week in Japan, thanks to the success of Sega’s Yakuza 4, the country’s bestselling game for the country’s bestselling console. It was just a little over a year ago that the previous entry, Yakuza 3, pushed the PS3 to the top of the Media Create hardware chart. It was…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
There Once Was A PS2 Assassin’s Creed Game
The first Assassin’s Creed, much like the second, only came out on three systems: the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. But did you know that, alongside production of the original game, another was in development for the PS2 & Xbox? So says Eidos’ Jonathan Jacques-Belletete, who told 1UP that the last-gen game, like Assassin’s Creed…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedWhat If Tron Were Released In 1962?
If Disney’s computer generated sci-fi epic appeared a couple decades earlier and title sequence master Saul Bass got the job, well, it would probably look just like this, requiring a massive farm of PDP-1s to render. Oh, sure this Bass-inspired Tron send-up is positively ancient in internet terms—creator Hexagonall uploaded the parody to Vimeo some…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Off Topic: Junkyard Dogs
Thank goodness it’s Friday, when the off-topic conversation occasionally steers toward the gastronomic. Let’s ring in the weekend by talking about anything we want, as long as that anything is about hot dogs. See, the PAX East festivities happening this weekend made me pine for a Spike’s Junkyard Dog, the “German Shephard” to be precise.…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Halo: Reach’s Commendations, Credits & Your Concerns Explained
Bungie is mixing up Halo: Reach multiplayer with all new rules, adding the concepts of Credits, Rank, and Commendations; it’s all part of the Xbox 360 game’s new “Player Investment” system, which sounds way more exciting than the name implies. In Halo: Reach, Bungie is throwing out much of the old way of doing things,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2010