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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 - Uncategorized
GameStop: We Must Educate Customers About DLC
GameStop’s chief operating officer says the company must embrace downloadable content for the games it sells and educate its customers on its benefits, calling such a posture critical to the company’s survival. Speaking at the Game Business Law conference at Southern Methodist University, J. Paul Raines said the DLC market could see considerable growth immediately,…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Replacements, Still Replaced in Video Games
Fifteen years ago, in the infancy of console sports simulations, 38 baseball players made a choice that would ensure they would never appear in a video game. Only five of them remain in the major leagues. They crossed a picket line, an act of war to organized labor, by signing replacement player contracts with Major…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Win a Football Autographed by an NFL Star
This isn’t Super Bowl weekend, it’s Pro Bowl weekend. And to liven up what is otherwise light-hitting exhibition football action, we’ve got a memorabilia giveaway courtesy of Quick Hit Football. Quick Hit, whom I’ve written about before, is the free online American football strategy simulation. They have five current NFL players appearing in the game,…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Disgaea Infinite to Hit North American PSPs in May
NIS America‘s latest Prinny Bomb communication announces that Disgaea Infinite is on the way to North America. We’ll see it in May. This will be NIS’s first visual novel, a popular genre in Japan, published in the United States. According to the announcement, players can play with a Prinny as the main character, and they…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Weekend Coupons: Spread the Savings
No real theme to this week’s deals, but that means there’s a wide array of cheap stuff being offered out there – some of it meh, most of it good. Hardware • 360 console update: Best Buy has the Elite with free Madden NFL and an extra controller ($76 bonus value, ends this Sat. 1/30),…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Courtney Love Now Says Cobain Would’ve Been Cool With Guitar Hero 5
Professional widow Courtney Love, PO’d at Activision for how Kurt Cobain of Nirvana is presented in Guitar Hero 5, says Cobain probably would have found his game appearance amusing. But since he’s dead she gets to do all the suin’. Telling the U.K.’s NME magazine, Love characteristically spewed filth-flarn-flarn-filth when passing along this update. What…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Originals: iPad the Score
Apple’s unveiling of a tablet PC threatened to crowd out the rest of the games and devices news this week, but we didn’t let that stop us from delivering our usual slate of reports, reviews and rumors. iPad Hands On With Apple’s iPad, Everything But The Games iPad Doubts: A Gamer’s Problems With Apple’s Wonder…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Looks like George is late for both the iPad announcement and the State of the Union. Who schedules these things in January, anyway? It’s not a convenient month for travel. But it’s always a convenient time for Kotaku’s open thread. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sony Pleased As Punch With Apple’s iPad
While Nintendo president Satoru Iwata expressed some rather public disappointment with the new Apple iPad yesterday, representatives from rival firm Sony couldn’t be happier. “Apple’s entrance into the portable gaming space has been a net positive for Sony,” Sony’s John Koller, Director Hardware Marketing, told the Wall Street Journal. “When people want a deeper, richer…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy XIII On… The PS2?
Square Enix’s role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII is a PlayStation 3 game (and an Xbox 360 game!). But at one time, the game was running on the PS2. Early artwork and screens have been published in two new books from Square Enix, giving insight into the game’s design process. These test version images pre-date E3…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
LittleWhite Knight Chronicles
Sony & Level 5’s White Knight Chronicles, for the PS3, is a very serious affair. Lots of world-saving, and giant creatures with sharp knees. So it’s refreshing to see the game’s characters presented in a softer light. This White Knight character pack for PS3 platformer LittleBigPlanet will be out on February 25, along with some…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
No Mature Games Allowed In Xbox Game Room
One of the biggest potential stumbling points for the 360’s (and PC’s!) Game Room – having to secure an endless stream of ESRB ratings – has been solved in a fairly unique way by Microsoft. Whereas similar platforms – like Nintendo’s Virtual Console for the Wii – submit each game to the ratings board individually,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 30, 2010