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  Balloon Boy Game Announced for PC Worldwide

  Yesterday we explored the crossover between balloons in the news and video games. Today, certifying the saga of Balloon Boy as a true news event, someone made a flash game out of it – a flash-based side-scroller anyone can enjoy. Balloon Boy will test your knowledge of rudimentary game physics as you decide which gulls…

  By Owen Good Published October 17, 2009
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  Have You Ever Given A Game Away?

  Friiiiiiiiiiiiiiiday!! Let’s talk. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know oodles about us – more than you even want to, we’re…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 17, 2009
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  A Week In Comments

  Black Wii Remote and Nunchuk Price For U.S. Comment by: MrBangBam Nominated by: VinceNotVance This just in: Scientists across the nation have studied and found out that the black remote is only, in average, only half an inch inch longer than the white remote. To make the white remote feel better about itself, recent studies…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 17, 2009
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  Ten Ways To Spot Otaku (There You Are!!)

  In case you didn’t know, the name of this site is Kotaku. Did you know that? Some people don’t, they just click wildly around the internet like a pyromaniac in a straw factory. Kotaku isn’t a real Japanese word, it’s a word somebody (not me!) made up many years ago. “Ko” in Japanese (小) means…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 16, 2009
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  3D Dot Game Heroes… For Real

  From Software producer Masanori Takeuchi with characters from 3D Dot Game Heroes as seen on 4Gamer.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 16, 2009
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  Unauthorized Memory Units Won’t Work in Next 360 Update

  Unauthorized memory units are verböten under the next dashboard update to Xbox Live, which isn’t of mainstream concern right now, but will be to those participating in the Xbox Live Preview Program. Says Major Nelson, the Xbox Live community guru: When Preview Program members start receiving the Xbox 360 system update next week, one of…

  By Owen Good Published October 16, 2009
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  Miyamoto’s Wii Measure

  Kotaku reader phNord’s concept based on Shigeru Miyamoto’s recently confessed fetish.

  By Owen Good Published October 16, 2009
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  A Few Words from Some Sentimental and Semicöherent Legends …

  ‘You’ve got a lot of people who’ve proposed a lot of side projects,” says Mötorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, “and this is one I thought was a good idea.” With that endörsement, plus Ozzy’s, how the fü— could this be wrong?

  By Owen Good Published October 16, 2009
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  Get Your Psylocke On In New Marvel: Ultimate Alliance DLC

  Carnage was pretty cool, but I’m really glad Psylocke’s getting a shot at Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. I think my favorite Psylocke moment is when she breaks up with Archangel because they’re “too different.” I mean, come on — that’s lamer than the “I think we should see other people” breakup line. Especially so because…

  By AJ Glasser Published October 16, 2009
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  Fry’s Knocks $50 Off PSPgo Price

  Retailer Fry’s may be the first chain to start offering the PSPgo at more reasonable prices, dropping $50 from the new portable’s price for a limited time. Don’t have a Fry’s nearby? Call in a favor from a friend! Because, unfortunately, it appears that the deal is in-store only. And if you’ve ever been to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 16, 2009
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  Early Play on Illegit Forza, Borderlands Resulting in Permabans

  Illegitimately obtained early copies of Forza Motorsport 3 or Borderlands, being played online over Xbox Live, have resulted in permabans for the accounts of offending players, Microsoft has confirmed. The Microsoft chief of police Stephen Toulouse has said that his enforcement team is inspecting early play and applying permabans only to those with illegitimately obtained…

  By Owen Good Published October 16, 2009
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  GameStop: Super Street Fighter IV Has Low, Fierce Price Of $40

  Here’s your Street Fighter pun for the day: “Juri’s out on Super Street Fighter IV this March.” The GameStop listing was spotted by MTV Multiplayer earlier today and Capcom has yet to deny it. The pre-order ship date of March 23 certainly syncs up with Capcom’s Spring 2010 goal. Super Street Fighter IV introduces several…

  By AJ Glasser Published October 16, 2009
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  SuicideGirls Release Dating Sim iPhone App

  Alt porn outlet SuicideGirls is getting into the dating sim game, bringing its brand of “naughty, internet, art-sleaze superstars” (read: naked girls) to the iPhone with the app Seduce A SuicideGirl. It may be shallow, but it may also be brilliant. The official announcement may call it “our version of those old choose your own…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 16, 2009
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  Limited Edition Xbox 360 Pad Is Either For Fallout Or Forza

  The combination of carbon fiber styling and giant red radioactive warning symbol can only mean one thing: GameStop and Microsoft have partnered for a limited edition Xbox 360 controller? Does that sound right? Well, they have—officially this time—putting a wireless Xbox 360 controller with… unique styling inside an impenetrable plastic shell along with one of…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 16, 2009
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  Move Along

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Nothing But Good Times At The Library A hectic day packed with troubleshooting and review angst quickly churned up a migraine for me today. So fun. How is it that the business of covering an entertainment industry can be so incredibly stressful at times. Don’t get me wrong. This isn’t…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 16, 2009
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  APB Closed Beta Is Go!

  As promised, closed beta invites for Realtime Worlds‘ massively multiplayer online cops and crooks game APB have been distributed to the registered masses. That means? Check your email! According to beta invites going out to accepted users, beta playtesting times appear to be limited, but you get what you pay for. If you got in,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 16, 2009
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  Notebook Dump: Missing High School

  There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? Oh, man. So late today for a Friday appointment that this post will barely even contain full sentences. Busy week. Exciting new tech on the site. Our first fashion review.…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 16, 2009
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  Mortal Kombat vs. Donkey Kong Continues Proud Game Mash Up Tradition

  After news that dozens of capable game developers have lost their jobs, a LOL-tastic video game mash-up—in this case, Mortal Kombat vs. Donkey Kong—can cheer us up. Oh, Scorpion! You ham! (Yes, this is another impressively succcessful video bite from the creator of Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Pac-man and Contra vs. Duck Hunt. I’d say…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 16, 2009
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  Romero’s Slipgate Ironworks Hammered Down, MMO Project Still On

  Slipgate Ironworks, the game development company founded by ex-id Software, ex-Ion Storm designer John Romero, has been pared down by parent company Gazillion, Kotaku has learned, with the start up’s unnamed MMO still in development with a “smaller core team.” Word of the San Mateo, California based developer being hit with layoffs came earlier today…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 16, 2009
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  The Saboteur Impressions: It’s Not Just Black And White

  The build I played of The Saboteur this week was a month old, so if I had fun and was impressed, what does that mean? I’d only previously seen the game played by a developer and that was in mid-Summer. Back then I wrote a positive preview based on the number of interesting ideas the…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 16, 2009