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Week In Games: Just Caves
If you have any funds left over from the previous weeks’ blockbuster video game releases, perhaps you’ll be interested in what this week has to offer, namely another use for your Wii MotionPlus and Just Cause 2. For the more discriminating video game enthusiast, the long in the waiting release of Cave Story on WiiWare…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 21, 2010 -
UncategorizedCheating At Pokémon And Walking At The Same Time
Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver both come packed with the Pokéwalker, a nifty little device that promotes good health through Pokémon mastery. Then this lazy yet inventive individual comes along… I know I shouldn’t call the creator of the Pokéwalker cheat device lazy. For all I know he or she can’t walk, and this is a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
MomoCon Cosplay Gallery: Atlanta Gets All Dressed Up
MomoCon has filled the campus of Georgia Tech in downtown Atlanta with cosplayers, and video game fans are there in force. Check out characters from Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Miles Edgeworth, BioShock, Brutal Legend, and more! It was nice to see a couple of games represented that you don’t normally see that often being cosplayed.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
Passage Creator’s Next Game Hits Next Month
Next month, Jason Rohrer, innovative developer of Passage, is releasing Sleep Is Death. The multiplayer video game combines adventure gaming with a second player’s need to craft new, reactive scenes in mere 30 seconds intervals. Caught Sleeping [Boing Boing]
By Stephen Totilo Published March 21, 2010 - Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published March 19 PvPOnline published March 16 ActionTrip published March 16 GU Comics published March 18 Ctrl-Alt-Del published March 15 Dueling Analogs published March 15 Nerf NOW published March 16 Rooster Teeth published March 20 Monday Night Crew published March 19 Virtual Shackles published March 19 Dotgif published March 19
By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
Adult Rated Video Games Bound For Australia?
No, not yet, but the possibility of Australia getting games rated 18 and older has increased quite a bit with the chief opponent to the move, trouble-plagued South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson, stepping down from office this weekend. Atkinson, who was elected to Parliament in 1989, made public his decision to step down from…
By Brian Crecente Published March 21, 2010 - Reviews
Dante’s Inferno Dark Forest Micro-Review: Much Power, Little Point
For five bucks, a Dante’s Inferno player can have the most powerful Dante in video games. The Dark Forest add-on pack for Dante’s Inferno, released at the beginning of this month, is a an uncommon piece of single-player-oriented downloadable content. As aggressive as publishers have been to issue DLC for big console games lately, they…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Is Kotaku In Your MP3 Player Of Choice Yet?
Each week we record a live audio call-in show, modeled off of all those drive-time talk radio shows on the radio. We do this, in part, so you can listen to Kotaku while obeying the speed limit. If you’re not already downloading Kotaku Talk Radio, find it in iTunes or in the Zune marketplace and…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Prez Promises Killzone 3, Eventually
Sure, a third entry in the Guerrilla Games’ Killzone series seems like an inevitability, an obvious sequel as assured as Gears of War 3 or Resistance 3. PlayStation president Jack Tretton promises it will happen, as close to confirmation as well get. When asked by GameTrailers TV host Geoff Keighley, Tretton wouldn’t confirm that Sony…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Get Your PlayStation Move On At PAX East
Our PAX East party might be the convention’s must-attend Friday night event, but what can you do on Thursday night? Why not get some hands-on time with the PlayStation move at Sony’s PlayStation Blog meet-up? Sony’s PlayStation Blog crew is making the cross-continent trip next week to spend a little time in New York and…
By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
One Left 4 Dead Character Won’t Survive The Passing
Valve’s poster for Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing downloadable content finally gets a tagline: Nobody Survives Forever. And while the original survivors will be showing up at the beginning of The Passing, only three make it to the end. The news comes by way of Valve’s Chet Faliszek, speaking to Geoff Keighley at GDC,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
What The People Behind Mass Effect And Dragon Age Are Trying To Do
I spoke to the men running the studio behind many of the world’s biggest role-playing games a couple of weeks ago, to discuss a variety of things. I left with a bonus: The BioWare Vision Statement. Here is that vision, from the mouth of Ray Muzyka, EA’s general manager for (as he named them) BioWare…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
On the weekend, you can talk about video games right here. This is Weekend TAY, which is just like Weekday TAY, except, because this goes live Saturday morning, the Smurfs might appear. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
By Stephen Totilo Published March 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Naughty Bear Does His Chest Burster Impression
Rather than tiptoe around our nightmares, the fine folks at Artificial Mind and Movement have decided to just tear through our darkest childhood fears like so much tissue paper with their latest Naughty Bear video vignette. This is almost exactly the same as a nightmare I had as a child, only a creepy rendition of…
By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sometimes Camping Is OK
As seen on Halolz.
By Brian Crecente Published March 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Census 2010: You, Gamer
OK, we are done with the tangible stuff. The machines you own, the games you play. To finish off our census, we’re going to dig a little deeper. The final questions are about your tastes as a gamer. Where you play, what you play, who you play with, etc. So if you’ve bugged us about…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Announcing our PAX East Party: Come Drink AND Eat
So all of the neat things you find out when reading Kotaku on a Friday night? Take for instance news that we’ll be hosting our own open-bar party at Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston next week. Stephen Totilo and Michael Fahey will both be in town for PAX East and, much more importantly, to…
By Brian Crecente Published March 20, 2010 -
UncategorizedPole Dancing at the Game Developers Conference
As we mentioned earlier this week, GDC got some class this year with some pole-dancing, clothes-on erotic dancers. I’m not quite sure how a cluster of scantily clad women cavorting around metal poles helps to push home the point of a game, but the place was packed when I arrived and remain packed ten minutes…
By Brian Crecente Published March 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
First Impressions Of The Kane & Lynch Movie Script
I’ve been slowly reading through a draft of the big screen adaptation of IO Interactive’s Kane & Lynch today, the movie set to star Bruce Willis as Kane, Jamie Foxx as Lynch. Screenwriter Kyle Ward has done some… interesting things. The version of the Kane & Lynch script we got our hands on dates back…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 19, 2010
