The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game

This week a church in Guam pronounced a man and his copy of dating sim Love Plus husband and, well, wife, and the happy couple will be hosting a reception in Japan that you are cordially invited to view tomorrow. The unnamed man took his DS and the game to Guam where he said vows…

Morale Booster Connects Troops with NFLers on Xbox Live

Members of the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers engaged U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq in a Guitar Hero battle, which would have been a heart-warming story if brickheaded quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hadn’t called the game “Rock Band” on the teevee. Well, alright, maybe it’s a heartwarming story anyway. The jamfest was put together by Pro…

Cooperative Multiplayer with the Devil You Don’t Know

New Super Mario Bros. Wii released a week ago, and even its lighthearted cartoon environment and four-player cooperative mode still manage to bring out the worst in multiplayer behavior – if you don’t know your partner, that is. “Being granted the opportunity to be friends or adversaries, games allow us to act out the worst…

The NIMF is No More

The National Institute on the Media and the Family – whose annual report cards were more fair and reasonable than such an Orwellian name might imply – will close at the end of 2009 after 14 years of watchdoggery. The closure is apparently tied to the end of funding from a primary NIMF source, Fairview…

No Less of a Memory — The Human Drama of Video Game Sports

Some video game sports moments are so indelible we remember and narrate them the same way we do the ones from real life. I’m not saying we confuse the realities, necessarily, although anyone who’s completed his third season of a dynasty in any simulation can be forgiven for wandering into an alternate reality. “My star…

Weekend Coupons: Home Stretch

This Friday won’t be the death of Internet specials, but you can bet retailers with a physical location will be trying to drag you in there for values, rather than ship ’em to your door. Online shops will be trying to keep up, too, but come Nov. 27, everyone’s gonna try to make both their…

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Kotaku Originals: Review to a Thrill

The releases of Assassin’s Creed II and Left 4 Dead 2 dominated this week’s news cycle, with McWhertor and Totilo supplying immediate reviews of what both offer. The end of Pandemic, as a studio anyway, was the big headline. Kotaku Talk Radio Top Stories Confirmed: EA Closes Pandemic Studios, Says Brand Will Live On Rumor:…

Modern Warfare 2 Selling Just Fine On PC

Proving that the Modern Warfare 2 “boycott” was more hollow tantrum than actual boycott, Infinity Ward have revealed that the PC version of the game has been outselling its predecessor. “The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 has actually outsold the PC version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in it’s first week”, IW’s…

Sony Giving Away Free Comics

While Sony’s digital comics store for the PSP won’t be launching until next month, that hasn’t stopped the company from teaming with IDW to give away some free comics to tide you over. Free doesn’t need a store! The publisher is offering an issue of Star Trek: Year Four – The Enterprise Experiment, which you…

The Life and Times of Luigi

If you ever wanted to know why Luigi is thinner than Mario or how he bears living in the shadow of his older brother, this exhaustively researched article over on GamesRadar’s got you covered. “Luigi: A life in the shadows” cover the other brother’s origins from palette swap to star of his own (two) video…

Microsoft Denies “One Million Banned” Report

There are some out there who believe that during the recent wave of Xbox Live bannings, Microsoft kicked as many as one million people off their online service. It’s a belief Microsoft execs do not subscribe to. “We didn’t release the number”, Xbox Live GM Marc Whitten told VentureBeat. “I cannot explain to you why…

Virtual Console: Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Pilotwings, All Coming

Has a year of uninspiring selections all but made you forget the Wii’s Virtual Console even existed? Understandable. Might want to buckle up, though, because three of the most-requested games for the service are finally making an appearance. This coming Monday – November 23 – sees the release of the original SNES Mario Kart, for…

Valve Bans Gray-Market Modern Warfare 2 Keys

Some who bought CD keys for Modern Warfare 2 – no physicial media in other words – from import resellers have seen their access to the game vanish, as Activision has apparently asked Valve to ban such keys. A poster in Valve’s official forums complained that a key he bought through G2Play.net no longer lets…

Nintendo’s Denise Kaigler Has Left The Building

Nintendo’s vice president of corporate affairs, Denise Kaigler, has announced that she’ll be leaving the company after less than two years in the position. Some may know Denise as that lady who replaced Nintendo fanboy icon Perrin Kaplan in the job. Others may know her as that lady who played splish-splash with Totilo, as both…

New Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Costumes In Action

Tecmo recently updated the Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 cast’s wardrobe, offering style savvy ninja masters new, sometimes inappropriate attire for Ryu, Momiji, Rachel and Ayane. If you didn’t download the pack, here’s a revealing look at what you’ve been missing. Frankly, I think the four bucks is a small price to pay to improve upon…

Child’s Play Drivers Pile Back on the Bus

Take a seat and don’t stand forward of the yellow line – Desert Bus for Hope kicked off its third marathon o’ masochism, and looks to top the $70,000 it raised last year for the Child’s Play charity. Online sketch comedy team LoadingReadyRun is back behind the wheel, promising to play the most boring video…

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Snow Temple Preview: Ditching Zelda

Two of the major selling points for The Legend of Zelda: Spirits Tracks have been the train and the addition of Zelda to Link as a companion character. But what can you expect from the rest of the game? I sat down at Nintendo’s Redwood City office to get a good look at the single-player…

Gameloft Cuts Android Efforts, Says It’s Not Alone

The French mobile games developer Gameloft has scaled back its development on Google’s Android platform, complaining that the Android application store is “not as neatly done” and offers little enticement to buy games offered there. This is interesting because, as MacWorld points out, smaller developers had welcomed Android as an alternative to the sometimes inscrutable…

Ubisoft Says No Thank You To No More Heroes PS3, 360

The recently announced Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 port of Wii game No More Heroes is now on the hunt for a new North American publisher. Ubisoft says it’s passing. In a statement to G4, the French publisher said that unlike the original Wii game and its sequel No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle, No More…