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Christmas Cards
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Day Note Puzzle Fun Counting Challenge This is the time of year for holiday cards and, in our business, for showcasing the ones sent out by major publishers and studios, and bragging about which ones you’ve received. They’re very flattering, but few could be as flattering as that virtual card…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
2010: Looking Back on Kotaku’s Look Ahead
We’re 10 days from New Year’s but tomorrow is the winter solstice, starting us on another trip around the sun. And a new year that will be full of its own controversies, challenges, triumphs, disappointments and delights in video gaming. This past week Kotaku put a comprehensive look into its crystal ball, breaking down what’s…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Free-to-Play Football “RPG” Gets Update
Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online American football strategy game, counts a million games played since its public release two months ago and says it will put out an update early this week that enhances gameplay and playcalling. An alternative, albeit one not fully licensed, to console football games like Madden, Quick Hit focuses on…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
New Year’s Theme is Free on Xbox Live
Xbox Live Marketplace has been running Deal of the Day promotions since Friday; today’s is completely free. Pick up a New Year’s Theme for the rock bottom price of zero Microsoft points. There it is, pictured above. The free offer is good through the end of today, but I believe that clocks in at Pacific…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Non-Adventure Adventure Game
Dutch game designer Kenney Vleugels realizes how prosaic life can be sometimes. Not that a flash game about watching a DVD turns that into an epic happening. But it is more interactive than reading someone tweet about it. Vleugels, designer of 16 flash games, has put together “Kenney’s Bite-Sized Non-Adventures” (above). Part 1 is “Watch…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Out Outs the ‘Gayest’ Video Games
Out.com, the online presence of the gay lifestyle magazine Out, has selected its “Gayest Video Games.” This is like pouring jet fuel on a thermite-and-napalm salad, but these are games that trip their gaydar, not ones straight people call “gay.” “Super Mario Bros.: Cleaning pipes and taking names,” goes the first entry. We can see…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Everybody Wants Some
The Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles saga continues with the Crystal Bearers, which makes its North American release the day after Christmas. Other highlights include Guitar Hero: Van Halen, for those who didn’t buy Guitar Hero 5 back in September. Another interesting release is 0-Day Attack on Earth, a downloadable title Square Enix is releasing to…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. ā€¢Fifteen Games that Defined the PlayStation Brand [Joystick Division] On the 15th birthday of the original PlayStation, Joystick Division looks at 15 games that helped…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Rumor: Four More Characters Coming to SSFIV [Updated]
Street Fighter enthusiasts began immediately picking through Famitsu’s live streaming demo of Super Street Fighter IV last week, and one site believes it’s found a bombshell: Four additional, unnanounced characters will be coming to the game. Update: But it is and it isn’t. Way back in September, a longtime Shoryuken forums contributor posted the names…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Uncharted 2 Art, Straight from the Artists Themselves
With Uncharted 2 out and scarfing up a bathtub of major awards, especially for visuals, the games’ creators are showing us how it was built. Several Naughty Dog artists have posted a ton of art in this thread. Richard Diamant, ND’s lead character artist, was joined by Darcy Korch, Bryan Wynia, Nichol Norman, Behrooz Roozbeh…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Advent Calendar of Indie Games
Little doors and fun-sized prizes aren’t just for the kitchen wall. The Indie Games Advent Calendar reveals a new game each day counting down to Christmas. It’s a neat way to see what’s out there and support indie devs. We’ve featured Advent calendars as a gaming theme before, but this one appears new. Started by…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Sony Piques ‘Qriocity’ by Registering that Trademark
This always happens in threes. Yesterday we saw the magic words tipping off Nintendo and Microsoft’s next projects. Today brings word that Sony’s having fun with high-scoring Scrabble consonants again, registering “Qriocity” not for a game – but a network. From the company that brought you “Qore” and “Xross Media Bar,” that one is pronounced…
By Owen Good - Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Dec. 16 PvPonline published Dec. 18 ActionTrip published Dec. 14 Digital Unrest published Dec. 12 EXTRALIFE published Dec. 17 2P Start! published Dec. 16 GU Comics published Dec. 11 Dotgif published Dec. 14 Dueling Analogs published Dec. 14 Nerf NOW published Dec. 16 Rooster Teeth published Dec. 15 Monday Night Crew published…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Atari 2600 ‘Jukebox’
Not content with just stuffing a card full of ROMs inside the old-school Atari VCS case, one modder installed an LED screen in the cartridge bay that allows the operator to cycle through and select games. Hack-a-Day says the console has “somewhere around 1200 ROMs” on an SD card inside the case. With the three…
By Owen Good