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Mass Effect 2 Came Out, People Got Excited
What. A. Week. Well, last week. Mass Effect 2 came out, and some of gaming’s Twitterati became very excited. What about you? Honest from Meteos developer Q Entertainment. Brutal honestly? Duncan Jones, director of sci-fi flick Moon, NEEDS Mass Effect 2. The Sims folks are jazzed about Mass Effect 2, too. Prince of Persia creator…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Coaching and Encouragement
To: Luke From: Owen My friends here invited me to their 6-year-old daughter’s basketball game on Saturday. Her team is in fact coached by Bev Smith, the former head coach of the University of Oregon’s women’s team, who carries one hell of a resume for anyone who’s ever coached in a middle school gym. Smith…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Woman Loses 112 lbs., Thanks Wii Fit
A 38-year-old British woman, once so large she was afraid to have sex with her husband, now parades about her home in sexy lingerie after losing 112 pounds, a dramatic change in physique she credits to a Wii Fit regimen. Lara Roberts specifically thanked the Wii for allowing her to work out in her home,…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kojima Apologizes; Says ‘No Greater Crime’ than a Delay
Hideo Kojima is taking the delay (in Japan) of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker very seriously, and has posted a personal mea culpa asking for fans’ forgiveness and their continued trust. “I always preach to the staff, ‘You must not have a delay after a release date has been announced. There is no greater crime…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Imagine: Regret
OMFG, they’ve made a game called Imagine: Reporter. Christ, I bought the $40,000 version of that 10 years ago at Columbia. I really have nothing to say after that. My career is officially a piece of DS shovelware. This week’s count: Seven for PC, two for Wii, one for DS, PS3, PSP and Xbox 360.…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - 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. •7 Games of the Past Decade That Have Aged Well [The Kartel] This seriously has me jonesing for some Knights of the Old Republic but…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Gears of War 2 Sends Us a Bloody Valentine
Epic took more than 20 suggestions for experience bonuses in a Valentine’s event and Cliff Bleszinski and Rod Fergusson chose three. Epic’s Valentine’s Day “date” with Gears of War 2 will run between Feb. 8 and Feb. 14. For at least three days in that span (and maybe the whole week; they haven’t decided yet),…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Return of the Return to Ostagar
Is BioWare actually letting Charlie Brown kick the DLC football? Looks like Return to Ostagar, the DLC pack for Dragon Age: Origins, came back sometime yesterday to Xbox Live Marketplace and for PC download. The DLC originally went live on Jan. 14 but had to be removed because a title update created a bug within…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Tacit Dissent: Why Great Characters Must Speak
The issue of silence in Half-Life or Fallout 3 has a long discussion history, but one critic doesn’t consider it a virtue. Stripping the voice from a main character is “a pathway into madness and schlocky conceits,” he says. Sean Sands, writing for Gamers With Jobs, says the forced silence of a character like Gordon…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: What’s He Really Playing? Edition
Two weeks ago, MTV Multiplayer’s Russ Frushtick invited Project Runway‘s Tim Gunn over to critique Mario’s fashion sense – and blast on some virtual big game. And as a ‘shop goes, this should be like shooting fish in a barrel. So, your mission should be apparent. Bear (har har) in mind that Gunn is an…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Your Final Shot at 100 Gamerscore Just for Showing Up [Update]
Friendly reminder that beginning in about 30 minutes, Xbox 360 Achievements.org is staging one last run on NBA Live 07’s “Online with 1,000 People” achievement. This is the last chance to do it before EA shuts down the servers on Tuesday. The boosting session starts at 1 p.m. U.S. Eastern/10 a.m. U.S. Pacific. Trueachievements.com said…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
K Monthly – January 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS January 2010 FEATURES How Cover Shaped Gaming’s Last Decade by Brian Ashcraft Are Game Companies Spoiling Their Own Games? by Luke Plunkett Bayonetta Is Not Too Sexy, But Maybe Too Serious by Lisa Foiles Why A Man Plays Mario by Stephen Totilo The 2009 eBay Holiday Video Game Grey Market Report by…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 31, 2010 - Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Jan. 27 PvPonline published Jan. 29 ActionTrip published Jan. 25 Digital Unrest published Jan. 25 EXTRALIFE published Jan. 26 GU Comics published Jan. 27 Dotgif published Jan. 25 Ctrl+Alt+Del published Jan. 27 Dueling Analogs published Jan. 28 Nerf NOW published Jan. 25 Rooster Teeth published Jan. 26 Monday Night Crew published Jan.…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Off Topic: Mr. T vs. a Door
How many takes did Mr. T need to deliver his lines after that door-busting shot? The dude is 57 and you clearly see the pain on his face. It’s like he’s in the onset of a myocardial infarction. Another YouTube sensation – Ernie Anastos of WNYW-TV in New York, best known for the “Keep f***ing…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Tune In Monday, Feb 1 to Chat with Jonathan Knight, Executive Producer, Visceral Games
Kotaku is hosting a live chat in the comments on Monday with special guest Jonathan Knight, Executive Producer, Visceral Games. Join us at 9:30 AM PST/12:30 EST to ask him about his work on the EA game Dante’s Inferno. See you then!
By Chrissie Lamond Published January 31, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: iSlate iPad Edition Winners
Much better! Week two of Kotaku’s ‘Shop Contest went more smoothly than our debut, with several dozen entries conceiving of what games on the iPad would be like before we found out on Wednesday. Our alternate source image, of Pyramid Head and a vacuum cleaner, produced fewer entries. Here’s a gallery of the 20 best,…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Bungie Definitively Shuts Down Halo: Reach/Natal Speculation
Rumors that Halo: Reach might be Natal-enabled were close to flatlining of late, but the subject never got a flat-out “no.” Well, now it has. The studio says emphatically that it is not a Natal title. That’s the newsy news out of a fun-filled “mythbusters” post Bungie put up about Halo: Reach’s development. Natal rumors…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
System Shock 2’s Surprise Ending — for Ken Levine, Anyway
Widely acclaimed when it released in 1999, System Shock 2’s cinematic conclusion nonetheless disappointed Irrational Games creative chief Ken Levine. The reason: The video that was shot wasn’t anything like what he had scripted. “Due to miscommunications or differing ideas, a different cinematic video was created from the one that I originally scripted,” Levine says…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Three New Screens for EA Sports MMA … Plus a Broadcast?
Three new screens of EA Sports MMA show Bobby Lashley – fighting tonight at Strikeforce Miami – is another fighter signed to the title. In another development, EA Sports‘ web site will stream one of tonight’s bouts live, for free. The live stream starts at 9 p.m. U.S. Eastern time (6 p.m. Pacific) and will…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010