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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 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Off Topic: Raw Thrills
It’s Friday night and we’re feeling a little “off topic” right now, so let’s take a sharp turn from our regularly scheduled video game conversation and discuss other nerdy delights: film, music, comics, science, food, whatever you choose. Me? I’m going to talk about food for a minute, which may be the new rule: Friday…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 19, 2010 - Uncategorized
PSP Still Winning The War In Japan
The PlayStation Portable may not have had another stellar performance on par with its showing in Japan last week, but the PSP is still resting comfortably atop the country’s hardware chart. Sony’s portable managed to move another 39,125 units in Japan last week, according to sales tracker Media Create, outselling the Nintendo DS platform by…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 19, 2010 - Uncategorized
Game Developers Conference 2010, As Told To Twitter
What was everybody (on Twitter) talking about during this year’s GDC? Game researcher Jesper Juul offers his annual look at the most tweeted highlights from the week of GDC, during which “pocket protector” was a surprisingly hot topic. Back from Game Developers Conference 2010 and trying to get my bearings like everybody else. On the…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 19, 2010 - Uncategorized
Beyond Sonic The Hedgehog: These May Be The New Sega All-Stars
Sonic the Hedgehog may be Sega’s most recognizable cash cow—those Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games titles are huge—but the successes of Bayonetta, Total War and Football Manager may represent the new wave of Sega’s key franchises. Sega bigwig Mike Hayes tells CVG in an interview that has designs on “sequelizing” many of its…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 19, 2010 - Uncategorized
Everybody Loves The Panda
From: McWhertor To: Ashcraft Re: Your Favorite Animal Is… Did you really go to the zoo? Or was that just Night Note code for “I’m going to sit on the couch watching French films and pounding sake”? If you did, here’s an uninteresting factoid: my most recent zoo excursion occurred in Japan at the Ueno…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 19, 2010 - Uncategorized
Pikmin 3 “Well Underway” Says Miyamoto
Nintendo designer and Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto was in London today to pick up his BAFTA fellowship award, an honor he reciprocated by delivering his acceptance speech in pure English. What did Miyamoto have to say, specifically about Pikmin? According to the tweet-reporting of the Official Nintendo Magazine UK, Mr. Miyamoto offered the briefest…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 19, 2010