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It’s Not in the Game — Should it Be?
What do straight-ahead kicks, busted rackets and plaid jackets have in common? They’re all on a list of completely amateurish and uninvited suggestions for what should go in next year’s sports titles. This week’s release of NBA 2K10 and NBA Live 10 mean the major North American professional sports have all seen their video game…
By Owen Good Published October 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Weekend Coupons: Bent Boxes
When I was in college, someone at a warehouse where one of my frat brothers worked dinged a sled of Pringle’s Cheezums and the whole thing was written off. We got like 250 cans out of it. After two months I’d eaten so many damn Cheezums that everything started taking on an orange hue. I…
By Owen Good Published October 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Originals: Porn
Porn, porn porn porn. Porn porn. Porn. Porn, porn porn porn – porn porn pr0n porn porn porn? (Porn porn.) “Porn porn porn,” porn porn, “porn porn porn porn porn.” Porn porn porn; porn porn porn … porn porn porn. The week that was in Kotaku originals: Porn So About Those Porn Stars And That…
By Owen Good Published October 10, 2009 -
UncategorizedToad’s Gay? Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That …
Brentalfloss is back at it again, discovering clues to Toad’s sexual orientation in the lyrics to the Super Mario Bros. 2. Or at least the ones he made up for it. I guess the link to Sunday’s National Equality March in Washington D.C. everything cool, right? Brental (Mr. Floss) says he’ll be in attendance. You…
By Owen Good Published October 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Week In Comments
Valve Has Edited Version of Left 4 Dead 2 For Possible Release Comment by: Sobersean Nominated by: kearneybobs Travelling in a fried-out kombi I would be gaming, but I can’t kill zombies If the game’s M rated, it makes them nervous They’ll take the game and ban it on purpose And I said, Do you…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Christmas Is Just Around the Corner
As seen (and available) on Esty, via The Tanooki]
By Owen Good Published October 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Who Is Your Favorite Game Character?
The day after Thursday is……… FRIDAY! It’s time for Tell Us Dammit, time to 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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Patch Lets Left 4 Dead Out of the Closet
Steam put out a patch this evening solving a problem in the PC version of Left 4 Dead‘s Crash Course campaign, whereby rescue closet doors would not open to let survivors out in Versus mode. The patch was announced around 7:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern time. In addition to the rescue closet glitch, the patch allows…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Want To Know New Resident Evil Movie Plot?
Milla Jovovich and her husband Paul W.S. Anderson are making another Resident Evil movie. This one is due out next summer and called Resident Evil: Afterlife. Want to know the flick’s synopsis? Screen Gems offers this: In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
SEGA Takes Full Responsibility For PS3 Version of Bayonetta
Yes, there appears to be a discrepancy in the graphics for the PS3 and Xbox 360 version of Bayonetta. SEGA wants to be very clear, it did the PS3 port. Platinum Games has pointed this out in the past — even going as far to state its own role in the process. But SEGA is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
You Want It, You Got It — College Lacrosse on Xbox 360
Great, Another sport I’ve never played in my life, but will have to review because, you know, I’m the sports guy. Here’s lacrosse, game of Native Americans, Jim Brown, and every Volvo-driving L.L. Bean family between Charlottesville and Albany. College LaCrosse 2010 is on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel and, yeah, yeah, my smirking…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
PSP Minis Pay a Premium for ESRB Ratings [Updated]
Those who analogize the PSPgo, with its library of Minis titles, to the iPhone should remember that developing for both is not just about code. It’s also about the costs every Minis game must pay for an ESRB rating. Sergei Gourski, developer of the iTunes App Store hit Fieldrunners, said PSP development is “definitely more…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Eminem, Jay-Z Tracks Revealed for DJ Hero Renegade Edition
Activision gave Rolling Stone first dibs on the Renegade Edition tracklist for DJ Hero, featuring 12 cuts each from Jay-Z and Eminem – who recently endorsed the game by saying “the s—t is dope.” Jay-Z’s set is said to be the first best-of compilation of his career, Rolling Stone reports, although another is said to…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Raven Alexis Enjoys Sex On Camera, World of Warcraft
Our fellow bloggers over at sister site Fleshbot—don’t go there, it’s all naked boobs and erections!—offer a kind introduction to adult film star Raven Alexis, a self-confessed World of Warcraft “geek.” After going through the “How long have you been doing hardcore?” motions, we get to the interesting stuff — Ms. Alexis’ five-year-long career in…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Epic: Unreal The “Unofficial Engine” Of Project Natal
Epic Games, makers of things Unreal and Gears of War, are fully on board with this Project Natal thing that Microsoft has cooked up. VP Mark Rein calls the company’s popular Unreal tech “the unofficial engine of Natal.” In an interview with OXM UK, Rein says he also considers Unreal the “economic engine of Natal,”…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Borderlands Goes Gold, and There Was Much Rejoicing
With two weeks to go before its release, I suppose it would be more newsworthy if Borderlands had not gone to gold master by now. But it has, and so Gearbox has announced is officially on schedule to deliver you postapocalyptic offworld role-playing shooter action on Oct. 20. Considering the fourth-quarter triple-A delays we’ve seen…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
On The Future Of Home: If You Ask For It, They’ll Build It
Home Director Jack Buser delivered a state-of-the-software address while walking me through the new Home spaces announced this morning. Far from being concerned by the fact that not all PlayStation 3 owners make use of Home, Buser was excited that so many people have even tried it at all. “We came so close to setting…
By AJ Glasser Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Delivers Latest Pokemon Via Airmail
Nintendo sent me a bouquet of flowers this morning with an empty case for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky attached. But where was the game? And there’s something in EVERY balloon. First chipping away at stone, now popping balloons. I’m happy Activision hasn’t started doing this. I don’t even want to know how they…
By Brian Crecente Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Notebook Dump: The Lack Of Zelda
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? I pretty much got to everything I wanted to this week, though we’ve entered the time of the year when it’s less a matter of reporting not getting done but…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tangled Up In Blues
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: My Favorite Former News Lady Trash Talked On TV Hey, do you like Bob Dylan? I’m a huge fan myself. In fact from the day the original Rock Band was released until they finally released Dylan on the game, I would pester Harmonix about it every time I saw them.…
By Brian Crecente Published October 9, 2009