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If Football Awards Were Named for Tecmo Bowl Legends
Maybe the NHL names every award for someone, but the NFL gives blandly titled honors. Pigskin Doctors concocted awards named for players from Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super Bowl, giving them to current players who most resemble their performances. No, Bo Jackson is not on this list. (Most are from TSB). But I love it…
By Owen Good Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Uverse, Mediaroom On Xbox 360 Won’t Replace Your DVR
After a three year long wait, the Xbox 360 will get IPTV service in the United States, thanks to Mediaroom and AT&T Uverse. While a nice addition to the Xbox 360’s list of services, it has its limitations. The Xbox 360 won’t necessarily replace your existing set-top box. Consider the console as another “node,” as…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 10, 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. •10 Facts I’ve Learned About Modern Warfare 2 [Unreality Magazine] More or less, in all of them the writer comes to the realization his opponents…
By Owen Good Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Namco Files Patent for Wiimote Drumming Game
A pair of attachments would turn two Wiimotes into a set of sticks, presumably for an air-drumming game, according to a patent filed recently by Namco Bandai. While the patent doesn’t specifically reference the Wiimote, the drawings do look awful familiar, and so far it’s the most notable example of a rectangular control with an…
By Owen Good Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Total Finances Destruction
If the holidays weren’t enough of a wallet-wrecker, Army of Two: The 40th Day, is here to deal another $60 critical hit to your bank account. The Olympics are just around the corner, which means the biennial failfest of Olympic-branded games occurs on Xbox 360 and PS3. Serious Sam comes to Xbox Live Arcade on…
By Owen Good Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Writing ‘Sweets’ Summons Scribblenauts Truffles
While not cake, these confections define the idiomatic dilemma of choosing to have one or eat it. Ana Fuji’s amazing truffles tackle many themes, games among them. On the jump, Pokémon, LEGO and, yes, Super Mario truffles. Mario and Pokémon Truffles [Sprite Stitch, thanks Jane]
By Owen Good Published January 10, 2010 -
UncategorizedSpeed-Skating Plagues Modern Warfare 2 [Update]
So, we’ve had the Javelin glitch – a bad enough exploit to get people banned for using it. Now Modern Warfare 2 players report they’re seeing sped-up players and iced-over surface physics. Update: The problem should be fixed by now. [Update, 3 p.m.] Via Twitter, Robert Bowling has explained that this was not a glitch…
By Owen Good Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Playing Gears Of War 2 At CES… In 3D!!!
Of all the 3D content on display at CES 2010, it might have been the Gears of War 2 demonstration at Samsung’s booth that was most impressive. That was because it was the television doing all the work, not some specialized build of Gears of War 2 retrofitted to spit out 3D stereoscopic visuals. The…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Bad Company 2’s PC Beta Gets a Snow Date
DICE mentioned this Thursday; PC gamers will begin their Bad Company 2 beta on Jan. 28. It had been delayed because of the popularity of the PS3 beta. The beta will test vehicle combat on a snow map The beta runs from Jan. 28 to Feb. 25 and will feature the Port Valdez map in…
By Owen Good Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Vibrating Football and Pocket Chess: The Future Past of Gaming At CES
Excalibur isn’t just the name of a wicked-cool sword, it’s also the name of a company that makes retro gaming products. The Excalibur booth at CES was packed with a cornucopia of chintzy handheld games, wooden chessboards, mini air hockey tables and wooden puzzles. But what really caught our eye was their line up of…
By Brian Crecente Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ding Dong, It’s Another BioShock 2-o-Gram
A month before its release, special deliveries from the BioShock 2 viral website are still showing up at people’s doors. This time, the packages contain a chess piece and a coded telegram from the “International Order of the Pawns.” Reader J.P. says way back in September he wrote to the address one finds on the…
By Owen Good Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Shapeshifting PC Motion Controller
We saw this Wii PC peripheral knock-off while strolling through the halls of CES this weekend. The fact that the oddly-named CyWee Z lets you play the likes of Shaun White Snowboarding with motion on your PC wasn’t all that interesting. What was interesting was that the controller transformed from a straight Wii remote like…
By Brian Crecente Published January 10, 2010 - Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Jan. 6 PvPonline published Jan. 7 ActionTrip published Jan. 4 Digital Unrest published Jan. 4 EXTRALIFE published Jan. 5 Dotgif published Jan. 3 GU Comics published Jan. 7 Ctrl-Alt-Del published Jan. 6 Dueling Analogs published Dec. 29 Nerf NOW published Jan. 4 Rooster Teeth published Jan. 7 Monday Night Crew published Jan.…
By Owen Good Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Play Modern Warfare 2 With a Machine Gun
CTA Digital, makers of Wii bowling balls, tennis rackets and pool cues, aren’t content with cornering the market on bizarre Wii peripherals, they’re bringing their line of unorthodox controllers to the Playstation 3 too. While stalking the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center this week during the Consumer Electronics Show, past women in evening…
By Brian Crecente Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
That’s right, being the Father of the Country means you can be passive-aggressive to an entire nation. We prefer much more direct conversation here in Kotaku’s Official Open Thread. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
By Owen Good Published January 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Playing Dark Void PC at CES… In 3D!!!
Nonplussed by the PS3’s Gran Turismo in 3D and sort of blown away by Super Stardust HD 3D, I was split on 3D gaming when it came time to check out Capcom’s upcoming Dark Void. Where Gran Turismo’s 3D seemed to add very little to the experience, giving you a slight sense of depth but…
By Brian Crecente Published January 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Look Inside the LEGO Universe
A massive profile of NetDevil by the Denver alternative weekly WestWord turns up some interesting tidbits about the LEGO MMO the studio is building. The piece, by Joel Warner, is a serious deep dive into not just NetDevil, but also the LEGO culture it seeks to tap with LEGO Universe, a project that has been…
By Owen Good Published January 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
EA to Release Three More Game Soundtracks for Download
Over the next month EA Recordings will roll out soundtracks for three of the publisher’s big upcoming releases, releasing music for Mass Effect 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Dante’s Inferno via digital download. Mass Effect 2’s soundtrack will release Jan. 18, (the game is out Jan. 26), likely via iTunes, reports Gametunes.Net. It will…
By Owen Good Published January 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ships Named for Star Trek Online
Cryptic held a contest to develop names for three ship classifications in its upcoming Star Trek Online MMO, and the winners have been announced. The winners get the game and a special in-game title for their characters. Here are the ships, identified as Tier 5 vessels: EMISSARY CLASS (pictured) Emissary Class Star Cruisers are the…
By Owen Good Published January 9, 2010