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Mass Effect, Dragon Age Creators Consider The Post-Release “Romance Pack”
The doctors behind BioWare, the hallowed game studio behind Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins, were telling Kotaku last week that their plans to add content to their recent games is flexible. More vehicle missions are possible. More sex? “People actually do ask: ‘Why don’t you do more relationships?'” Greg Zeschuk told Kotaku as…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Go To Hell With Today’s Live Podcast
It’s hump day, it’s also St. Patrick’s Day, but much more importantly, it’s Kotaku Talk Radio day. Today we’ve got Hans ten Cate, senior producer, for Dante’s Inferno. Cate will be joining us live this week to talk about Dante’s Inferno, their recently released Dark Woods prequel level and the game’s upcoming downloadable content, including…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Cannot Find My House Key
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Infinite Space Any idea where I put it? What you missed last night Rumor: New Xbox 360 Model Slims Down [Update] Tokyo’s Virtual Child Porn Bill Delayed Bad Company 2 Video Spoofs Modern Warfare 2’s “F.A.G.S.” PSA Dead Mario And Crucified Jesus Kotaku Census 2010: PIRATES!
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Resident Evil Creator Wants To Make 3D Horror Game
Shinji Mikami, the game designer behind Resident Evil, has always had a game he’s been dying to make. “When it comes to my personal desires, I’d like to make a true-3D horror game, something where you’d use glasses like in the Avatar film,” he told Japanese game magazine Famitsu. “It’s been my goal since the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Why Hello Kitty Is Collaborating With This Popular Franchise
Hello Kitty, affectionately known in Japan as “Kitty-chan”, first appeared on a coin purse in the mid-1970s. From these humble beginnings, that cat created an empire of cute. But how? Before the Hello Kitty purse went on sale, Sanrio, originally a silk company, was looking to create characters to appear on “gifts”. Whether it be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
So, How Laggy Is PlayStation Move?
While at GDC, we noticed that the new PlayStation Move controller has a little lag. Want to see how much lag? The technical gurus at Digital Foundry took a 60 frames-per-second camera to GDC, went and used the Move for a bit, and took this footage. It doesn’t take the 20% speed to see that…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
PC Sales Charts, From The Land Of The Boxed Copies
While the NPD Group has ceased providing weekly sales charts for the boxed-copy PC market in the US, it still hands out its monthly – and often hilarious – lists. Let’s look at February’s. As you’d expect, they look a little different to those found on Steam or Direct2Drive. While those are often quite contemporary,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Open Darth Vader’s Head, Eat Gum
Ever wonder what is inside Darth Vader’s helmet? Well, besides actors Sebastian Shaw and David Prowse. Japanese corner stores are selling this “Darth Vader Gum Pot”. It includes the Vader helmet “gum pot” as well as shinny black mint-flavored chewing gum. Yours for a ¥760 (US$8.40) a pop, er pot. Whatever. Darth Vader Mint Chewing…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
When Gun Nuts Meet Video Games
Firearms enthusiasts. Hardcore video gamers. They sound like two completely different groups of people, but both have one thing in common: everyone else thinks they’re crazy. That’s one of the key take-aways from a great piece over on the Escapist, written by a man who is both a gamer and a gun lover, a games…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Is Looking Forward To Tiger Woods’ Return
Scandalized golfer and serial cheater Tiger Woods is returning to golf. Game company EA Sports is thrilled. “We’re looking forward to seeing Tiger back on the golf course,” blogs EA Sports exec Peter Moore. “All eyes will be on Augusta in a few weeks.” And then after that, people will slowly forget that Woods had…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Finally, A Gaming Mouse For Left Handers
The world can be a tough place for left-handers. Which is why there are things you can buy to make things easier for everyday actions, like opening cans, playing golf, playing video games on your PC… …wait a minute. People play video games on their PC left-handed? Enough to warrant this, the Razer DeathAdder Left…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Love Plus Simulator Getting Inevitable Schoolgirl Figurines
Love simulator Love Plus is quite popular in Japan. There’s an upcoming manga, a Love Plus inspired massage parlor and t-shirts for brave souls. Heck, it’s even in Nintendo DSi XL TV ads. What’s next? Characters Nene Anegasaki, Rinko Kobayakawa and Manaka Takane are all getting their own figurines. DO NOT BE SURPRISED. The figures…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy Creator SHAVES HIS MOUSTACHE?
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is known for two things: Final Fantasy, and his moustache. So imagine the horror when he posted this on his Twitter account. Say it ain’t so, Gooch! Not the mo! Thankfully, it was all for laughs, Sakaguchi later revealing that he’d been messing around with Moustache Removing Software, otherwise known…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dead Mario And Crucified Jesus
To depict the true meaning of game over, artist Kordian Lewandowski called on Mario, Princess Peach and, well, Jesus. Carved by a 24-year-old Michelangelo, La Pietá shows Mary cradling Jesus in her lap after he has been crucified. The statue was vandalized in the early 1970s when an Australian geologist took a hammer to the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010 - Reviews
Greed Corp Micro-Review: Is Greed Good?
Running a corporation is hard. It’s even harder when your business is mining, and there’s less and less land to mine. Competition heats up. Time to bust out the cannons. Time to play Greed Corp. Developed by W!Games, Greed Corp is a turn-based strategy game that puts players in charge of a mining operation. Players…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
God of War 101: Best Shirtless Classical Dudes Flicks
With gaming’s favorite shirtless Greek, Kratos, now beating up and killing baddies in God of War III, it is time to look at some of the best shirtless guy films. Because when you’re done playing a shirtless guy, you want to watch shirtless guys. Here is a list of five of the best classical-style epic…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rumor: New Xbox 360 Model Slims Down [Update]
These pictures apparently show the guts of a new model of the Xbox 360. The important bits? The fact that for the first time the console combines the CPU and the GPU in a single chip. Oh, and it’s small The pic above shows the board in question, with the chip part of a rumoured…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason!
For the most part, Heavy Rain is an entertaining exercise in story-telling. For the most part. The parts where you’re yelling at small children, not so much. Anyone who’s played the game, and got as far as the clown scene at the mall, will know how awful the part that happens next is. Really, Quantic…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Census 2010: PIRATES!
Today’s census questions are all about pirates. Yaaarrrrrrrr! It’s a touchy subject in the video game business. Despite having been around since the dawn of time, when young men swapped 3.5 inch floppies on the school playground (ooo eerrr), piracy is increasingly being cited as a serious problem by video game publishers and retailers, who…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010