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Square Enix, Modern Warfare 2, If Only
For reference, see this. Thanks Dareon!
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Erotic Game Now Detecting Shapes (Oh Dear)
Teatime, developer of adult Love Death series, is bringing Tech48’s face tracking camera tech to Love Death 4. What’s more, the game will detect shapes. This cannot end well. It’s not yet known how this shape recognition tech will be employed in the game, but the pictured example seems to indicate that you-know-what will play…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Scribblenauts Figure Only Needs One Word: Aaawwww
Despite a groundswell of internet love, Scribblenauts isn’t quite at the stage where they’re churning out official action figures. Still, that doesn’t stop people making their own. This custom Munny figure, by Don Schwabs, is great. Great for the figure, yeah, but also great for the tiny pencil. So cute! Scribblenauts Munny by Don Schwabs…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Want To Work For This Company? Make A Gundam Model
In Japan, job hunters often have to take a battery of tests and go through a gantlet of interviews. Add to that, Gundam model making. Artificial teeth maker Bitec Global Japan has made Gundam model-making into the application test for the new college grads. This October, hopefuls will be required to put together and paint…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Battlefield Heroes Changes Coming
For the first time since the game went into open beta earlier this year, significant changes are being made to one of the classes in EA’s free-to-play online shooter, Battlefield Heroes. That class is the gunner, for whom three of his abilities have now been modified. – The gunner’s “grenade”, the explosive keg, now not…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Why We Moved Our Party, And Can’t Recommend Trump House
Sometime after midnight last night, I was awoken from my drool inducing slumber. My cell phone was ringing, and it was Kotaku columnist Tim Rogers. “Dude,” he started, “It’s the club owner. He’s talking money, and he sounds high.” BUT FIRST! Here are directions to Mother, the location of our event tonight in Shimokitazawa —…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Let’s Tap (Your iPhone)
Let’s Tap, former Sega talisman Yuji Naka’s quirky Wii party game that involved…tapping things, is coming to the iPhone as a series of individual apps. The main Wii game is being broken up into five apps, with the first – Tap Runner – available now. You can play the games the same way you did…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Blomkamp: Master Chief Is A Victim Of The Military-Industrial Complex
You may be as sick as we are of hearing how the Blomkamp/Jackson Halo movie is dead. For all that chatter, however, you probably never heard what it was about Halo that got Blomkamp interested in the first place. Sure, there are lasers and aliens and intergalactic fighting. If you were born with a penis…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
No, Their Jubblies Are Not SIXAXIS Controlled
As seen on Game Watch Impress.
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Party: Change of Venue
Change of plans. We’re still having the Kotaku party but we decided to move venues after the owner of the Trump Room club called us at 1 a.m. Monday and demanded six times our agree upon fee. Fuck that. We passed and instead called up Mother at 2 a.m. and switched our party to that…
By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Legal Tender
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Flight to Tokyo GO! It’s funny what the mind archives sometimes, and the reveries these things inspire. This week I found a 1968 Swiss franc in a pile of quarters dispensed by the laundromat coin changer. I looked it up online, halfway fantasizing I’d found something rare. I’ve never seen…
By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gift Card, Free Action Figure with ODST
Toys ‘R’ Us is sexing it up for Halo 3: ODST – buying it from the retailer between now and Sept. 26 gives you a $20 in-store gift card and an action figure, both free. This deal is in-store only, unfortunately, so those with no TRU are SOL on ODST. The retailer ran a similar…
By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rare: “We’re Long Past the Stage” where Goldeneye Deal is Feasible
The long, sad tale of bringing the groundbreaking shooter Goldeneye to Nintendo’s Virtual Console, or Xbox Live Arcade, appears to have ended long ago, with a whimper. Addressing a reader question about Goldeneye ever getting an agreement between Nintendo and Microsoft, releasing it to current generation consoles, Rare said, alas, no. That was some time…
By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
When “Head Start” Means “Wait Seven Hours”
We’re hearing the Aion servers are struggling to manage the hordes who preordered the MMO – 400,000 according to NCsoft – leaving some in the headstart program crestfallen and dreading what happens when the general public comes online Tuesday. “There are more people waiting in cues to start the game than there are in the…
By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009 -
UncategorizedHeavy Channels Lady Gaga in ‘Babyman’
Ah, the TF2 soundfile, the gift that keeps on giving. Here’s a remix of Heavy crooning “Babyman,” a sendup of Lady Gaga’s chart-topper “Pokerface.” Warning, 30 seconds of this is enough to get both songs stuck in your head. Credits also to Medic and Spy for some of the vocals. But Heavy makes it clear…
By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Scrapped Halo MMO’s title: ‘Halo Universe’?
Dylan Cole, an artist formerly with Ensemble Studios, has on his personal Web site some concept pieces for a canceled Halo project that may or may not have been called “Halo Universe.” Ensemble of course was the muscle behind a Halo MMO that was greenlighted and then scrapped sometime last year. Cole’s pictures (two are…
By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: ODST is OTW
The list isn’t nearly as long as the last one, but the upcoming releases for Sept. 21 are packed with star power, led of course by the week’s marquee drop, Halo 3: ODST. Aion arrives for the PC Tuesday; the PS3 gets a downloadable double, Zombie Apocalypse on Thursday, and Fallout 3: Broken Steel on…
By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009 - 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. • 12 Advertainment Video Games [oobject] Not really a ranking, but a look back at a dozen nutshots to gamers’ intelligence over the years, beginning…
By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
News of a New Street Fighter Coming from Capcom?
After a certain number, a sequel is foregone conclusion. Rocky IV assured Rocky V. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s 18th baby guaranteed a 19th. So an announcement of an announcement about a possible Street Fighter sequel is not stop-the-presses news. Still, the Japanese Street Fighter IV official blog promised last week that they’d speak about…
By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009