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Insert Kopeks to Enjoy This Goat-Carcass Polo Game
Jason Torchinsky tried to import a Polish automobile; he got this instead, Ulak-Tartysh, a video game about the Central Asian sport of buzkashi, in which polo is played with the headless body of a goat. Torchinsky, the guy who built a gigantic functional Atari joystick for the I Am 8-Bit art expo, breaks down the…
By Owen Good Published July 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
South Park Tower Defense’s Working Titles Sucked
While South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! is a long title for the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game, some of the working titles were even more of a mouthful. Snowballing, anyone? At the “Save South Park One Snowball At A Time” panel at Comic-Con yesterday, South Park Digital’s Chris Brion explained how the tower…
By Mike Fahey Published July 26, 2009 -
UncategorizedDragon Age “Ultimate Collector’s Edition” Features Night-Vision Sausage
This unboxing spoof of the Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition foofaraw shows you what you get if you pony up for Dragon Age’s “ultimate collector’s edition.” Like both the PC and 360 versions. And sausage. Specifically, it’s “from dwarven butcher shops.” Makes sense, don’t dwarves have infravision? I guess that’s why one bite bathes the…
By Owen Good Published July 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Comic-Con Cosplay Stories
Why does Wonder Woman remind me of my mother? Does dressing as Starfox make you a furry? Isn’t being asked to pose every other minute annoying? These questions answered in my last Comic-Con cosplay post. My mother, a 5’11” tall former dance instructor with long, dark hair (it’s reddish now, but don’t let the dye…
By Mike Fahey Published July 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Another thing I want to do with our expanded weekends is this: The List of Lists. Each week throws off several new lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial – Top 6 Phallic Objects in Video Games; Top 12 Most Hated Non-Human NPCs from 1990s RPG, you get the idea. Rather than run one…
By Owen Good Published July 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Visit To Flynn’s Arcade, The Home of Tron
As part of the Comic-Con hype-cycle for Disney’s Tron Legacy, which takes us back to the video game world of Tron next year, the company built a replica of Flynn’s Arcade in San Diego’s Gaslamp District. It was awesome. Featuring a few dozen playable, perfectly preserved arcade games, a playable Space Paranoids—the fictional arcade game…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bungie Says It’s ‘Close’ to Signing New IP Deal
Earlier this week, Bungie’s Lars Bakken strongly implied that Halo: Reach would be the last Bungie-made Halo title. Bakken now suggests that the studio is close to getting a publisher for its new, non-Halo IP. Says Bakken to Eurogamer: I think internally we’ll know sometime soon. I don’t handle these things, but I’d imagine we’re…
By Owen Good Published July 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
London, Mapped in Warcraft Style
A programmer showcasing the capabilities of an open-source, dynamic mapping framework has rendered the entire world – in a Warcraft II motif. You can head over to Cartagen, the mapping utility, and see for yourself. It runs in HTML5 and does not require Java or Flash. Punch in a landmark and off you go. (I…
By Owen Good Published July 26, 2009 - Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published July 22 PvPonline published July 24 ActionTrip published July 20 Digital Unrest published July 20 Least I Could Do published July 20 Little Gamers published July 22 EXTRALIFE published July 20 GU Comics published July 22 Ctrl-Alt-Delete published July 22 Dueling Analogs published July 20 8-Bit Theater published July 23 Awkward Zombie…
By Owen Good Published July 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Enjoy a more standards-compliant Weekend TAY, now that we’ve got an image and dialogue that conforms to the one-and-only Kotaku open thread that runs midweek. P.S. No, you weren’t seeing things. Or not seeing them. My screwup this morning delayed your TAY. Rest assured everything is now fully on schedule. Confused about commenting on Kotaku?…
By Owen Good Published July 26, 2009 - Reviews
Wii Sports Resort Review: More Motion in the Ocean
Packed with Nintendo’s new MotionPlus add-on, Wii Sports Resort delivers a dozen new family-friendly, Mii-sporting games to Nintendo’s Wii console. But is this one mini-game collection too many? First there was Wii Sports and then came Wii Play, which sweetened the deal with a free remote. Now we have Wii Sports Resort which comes with…
By Brian Crecente Published July 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Way To Blend In, Ezio
As seen on the grass outside Comic-Con.
By Mike Fahey Published July 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gears Of War Armor Coming To Your Avatar
Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski and Rod Fergusson showed off some new Gears of War gear that will be coming to hordes of Xbox 360 Avatars this year. Look how adorable your personal COG soldier will be. Epic will also be giving serious Gears fans a chance to dress like their favorite Locust beast, a look…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Two More Brütal Legend Gameplay Videos for You
Gametrailers TV’s latest episode threw out two WORLD EXCLUSIVE (natch) clips of Brütal Legend gameplay – filled with guitar powerslides, headbanging followers, and good old fashioned beat-em-up asskicking mayhem. For an original IP, Brütal Legend is going off with some uncanny expectations. Please be good. Please be good. OK, I think it will. Brütal Legend…
By Owen Good Published July 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Custom Make “Any Game” as an NES Cart Necklace Charm
We do a lot of free ads for Etsy craftspersons, yeah, but this is pretty good: Old school NES carts are available as mini-sized necklace charms, in hypoallergenic silver if you want to upgrade. Artist Laura Swingle makes the charms; her page features Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, Zelda, Zelda II, Super Mario Bros. 2 and…
By Owen Good Published July 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gears of War: The Gearsiverse Liveblog
All things Gears of War will be discussed at today’s Gears of War: The Gearsiverse panel, featuring Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski and Rod Fergusson, just for starters. We’re in the hall, liveblogging our little hearts out. Dude and Rod will be joined by Gears of War movie scriptwriter Chris Morgan, Gears of War comic book…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Star Trek D-A-C Coming to PSN, PC
More than two months after the movie that everyone’s now forgotten about, Star Trek D-A-C will arrive on the PlayStation Network, promising a new ship class and “updated gameplay features.” That is according to a news release, but it couldn’t get any more specific about the release date than “late summer 2009.” The release also…
By Owen Good Published July 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
NECA’s Other Video Game Toys
Here’s a look at the video game toys NECA is producing or pitching when they aren’t recreating Rapture denizens or defying the laws of thigh physics. The main focus this year at the NECA booth seems to have been Street Fighter IV and Gears of War, the two great tastes that sounds great together when…
By Mike Fahey Published July 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Valve’s User Forum Foreshadowed “Spitter” Months Ago
On May 31 – before anyone knew Left 4 Dead 2 was coming – user Walking_Target gave a detailed description of a special infected he and a friend wanted to develop with the L4D SDK. “After spending an hour chatting about it, we came up with the idea of ‘The Spitter’ ” Walking_Target writes. He…
By Owen Good Published July 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wimpified Bionic Commando: Rearmed Patch is Now Live
You also get trophies with this patch, which reader Alex L. said went up on the PlayStation Network today. When news of the patch spread last month, Capcom didn’t give a date for its release. We heard it got approved this week, through the company’s official Twitter feed. It is now out, so run go…
By Owen Good Published July 25, 2009