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Kotaku Off Topic: Walking Dead
Tonight’s Kotaku Off Topic is a little horrific, not for the faint of heart. Enter the non-video game related discussion… if you dare! Speaking of faint of heart, I used to be pretty squeamish when it came to horror films. Movies like The Return of the Living Dead and Poltergeist used to make my skin…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 20, 2010 -
UncategorizedSuper Mario Bros., with Fake Boobs and Fake Bakes
To satirize self-styled guidos (and guidettes) who better than Mario and Luigi? Dr. Coolsex, the group behind Mario Kart: The Movie, give us this send-up of TV fad Jersey Shore, and introduce to our lexicon the phrase “star-stealing koopa f***er.” [via Gay Gamer]
By Owen Good Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Tetris Clears More Than 100 Million Mobile Downloads
Alexey Pajitnov might just have something here with this Tetris thing. According to early word from EA Mobile and Tetris rights holder Blue Planet Software, mobile users have racked up more than 100,000,000 downloads. That’s paid downloads. The Associated Press reports that the 100 million milestone will be officially announced on Thursday, but that EA…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Visual Effects Society Announces Video Game Nominees
Uncharted 2, Fight Night Round 4 and Star Wars: The Old Republic are among eight nominees for awards recognizing outstanding achievements in video games and video game trailers, to be given by the Visual Effects Society in late February. The nominations, announced Saturday, are for “Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game” and “Outstanding Visual…
By Owen Good Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Green Day: Rock Band Not MTV’s Only Game For 2010
Harmonix already has Green Day: Rock Band on its 2010 slate as a follow up to last year’s The Beatles: Rock Band, but the popular punk trio’s game won’t be the only music game from publisher MTV Games this year. Senior VP of MTV Games Paul DeGooyer tells Newsarama that Green Day’s release is “of…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: Tebow Likely for Cover of NCAA 11
Citing nothing deeper than industry chatter, a newspaper says the departing Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is close to finalizing a deal to appear on the cover of NCAA Football 11. EA Sports gave an expected no-comment to Kotaku, regarding the report in the Jacksonville Business Journal. But the selection of Tebow would be wholly unsurprising.…
By Owen Good Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Trademarks Luigi’s Mansion (Again)
Nintendo of America has taken the somewhat unexpected step of reviving its Luigi’s Mansion trademark, either a sign of its very protective trademarking desires or a renewed interest in giving Luigi more face time with gamers. It may be nothing more than the former, as Nintendo already has seven Luigi’s Mansion trademarksā€”three “live,” four “dead”…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Talks About The Biggest Games Of 2010 On The Bonus Round
The folks at GameTrailers invited us to take part in the most recent episode of Bonus Round, a chance to chat about (some of) the year’s biggest games hitting in 2010. This is that episode! At least, it’s part one of that episode, featuring host Geoff Keighley, Wedbush Securities prognosticator Michael Pachter, Shacknews editor Garnett…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Lawyer-Mans Can’t Help a Gamer Out
A New York personal injury firm employs reverse psychology in this humorous TV spot, but it suggests that a power outrage forcing you to start over a level you were just about to beat doesn’t constitute pain and suffering. I wonder how law offices of Trolman, Glaser & Lichtman feel about the case of the…
By Owen Good Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Pricey Bags
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Time to Buy Angel Wings Yikes! $700 for a kid’s backpack. That’s crazy talk. Tristan uses a Halo ODST bag for his school. I assume that wouldn’t fly in Japan. What you missed: How Cover Shaped Gaming’s Last Decade Ratchet And Clank Goes Vinyl The Rock Band Network’s Very Naughty…
By Brian Crecente Published January 20, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Best Games of 2009 to Play With Your Kids
Our finalists for Game of the Year have all been announced and continue to be hotly debated within Kotaku Tower as we try to come to a conclusion, but those three titles weren’t the only ones of note in 2009. We also have a slate of Editor’s Choice awards to go through. Totilo talked about…
By Brian Crecente Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Now Taking Nickname Suggestions for NCAA Football
Kotaku’s in-depth pursuit of how and why NCAA Football 10 recognizes weird created-team nicknames – like Fightin’ Planets, Ingots and Orange Psychos – created enough fan reaction that EA Sports is accepting new nickname submissions through an official forum thread. Since the publication of Saturday’s Stick Jockey, I know I’ve been swamped with queries regarding…
By Owen Good Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
BioWare’s Greg Zeschuk Has A Massive Effect On Kotaku Talk Radio
Our second studio episode of Kotaku Talk Radio is in the can! Listen now to hear one of Canada’s finest, BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk, discussing Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and beyond. Dr. Gregory P. Zeschuk kicks off this week’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio by mocking Totilo’s winter wear, and it only gets better…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
BioWare: There Will Be More Mass Effect After Trilogy Ends
Greg Zeschuk, co-founder of Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare, says that the sci-fi franchise will live on in other games after the role-playing game trilogy wraps up in Mass Effect 3. Zeschuk said during today’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio that the Mass Effect property is a “valuable universe,” that the end of…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Supreme Commander 2 Gets A Proper Trailer
Gas Powered Games‘ Supreme Commander 2 finally gets itself a proper trailer, with lovely CGI and bombastic music appropriate for a real-time strategy game of its stature. For a while there the only video we had of Supreme Commander 2 was the one that came out with the North American release date announcement, which featured…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
No Wii For The Kids: Hidden Costs Compel Console Return
It could have happened to any man with any console. But for Chris O’Brien, newspaper columnist, it happened with the Wii. The father of two bought his kids a Wii for Christmas, but returned it. Too many hidden costs. The San Jose Mercury News columnist recently explained the sticker shock that had him returning his…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Crysis 2 Welcomes You To A New Jungle: New York City
Crytek’s sequel to the tropical island set first-person shooter Crysis has a new Nanosuit, new platforms on which to play it and an all new urban setting, New York City, according to the latest issue of PlayStation: The Official Magazine. Crysis 2 takes players to a new urban jungle in the sequel, bound for the…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
How Does World Of Warcraft Threaten The Porn Industry?
According to an article by The Daily Beast’s Richard Abowitz, online games like World of Warcraft are one of the top five reasons porn-for-profit is dying, and it all comes down to staying power. Most of the reasons presented in the article make perfect sense. Fans paying more for sex with porn stars than film…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed II Discovery iPhone Preview: Sonic-y
It may have sneaked out early, in apparently unfinished form, but the iPhone take on Assassin’s Creed II will finally be out in February. Since last week, I’ve been playing it. It’s Sonic-y. Assassins’ Creed II Discovery was developed by Ubisoft and Griptonite Games, as both a DS game (released last fall) and now as…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sony Brings Patchwork Heroes To North American PSP
Today Sony Computer Entertainment America announced the domestic release of the game previously known as One Million Ton Bara Bara, now known as Patchwork Heroes, an original action puzzle game for the PlayStation Portable. So what is Patchwork Heroes? A game about destroying massive sky ships, tearing them apart piece by piece, and, you know,…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 20, 2010