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Xbox 360 Console Spammed With Child Pornography
A couple from Dublin, Ireland had to call the cops last week when their Xbox 360 console was spammed with images of child pornography. With their real names withheld due to the nature of the case, “Amy” said her boyfriend had been playing a game when a message from another user popped up. Upon opening…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2010 -
UncategorizedAwkward: Zelda Music On Reality TV Show
There’s a big TV show called America’s Got Talent. Britain’s Got Talent, too. Even Norway has it, and we like Norway’s the best, as it’s the only one with uncomfortable live renditions of a song from Ocarina of Time. The real action begins at 2:20 in the clip above, but if you’d like to sit…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku: Census 2010 Closes Tonight
Just a reminder that if you’d like to take part in our Census 2010, which is polling users about their video gaming likes, dislikes and secret feelings, you’ve only got a few hours left. The polls should be closing at around midnight Sunday, MT. We’d have loved to leave them open for a bit longer,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
Not Owen
To: Luke From: Not-Owen Luke, I am not Owen, though I do sometimes watch sports. Not much sports, but I do like boxing. I caught the replay of the last Pacquiao fight this morning, and boy was it dull. My wife has been trying to watch some NCAA men’s basketball tournament this weekend, but I’ve…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
People Watching Me Discuss Video Game Journalism
“Members of the gaming press are always working. For instance, that picture I took at the beginning of the panel? I’ve already uploaded it and posted it on Kotaku.” The audience at my MomoCon panel on game journalism. Nice-looking bunch!
By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2010 - CultureSplitscreen
ModNation Racers Has Four-Player Splitscreen Possibly Thanks To You
post What’s the point of a beta test for a video game these days, other than to drum up publicity? The makers of upcoming PlayStation 3 game ModNation Racers say it got them to add a feature. During the Game Developers Conference earlier this month, game producer Dan Sochan told Kotaku that the public beta…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
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
