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Giving Voice to The Old Republic
We’ve already heard the script for Star Wars: The Old Republic is more than 40 novels long. In this developer discussion, BioWare talks about the effort and why this is a game changer. SW:TOR promises a fully voiced, more immersive MMO experience – between player and NPC, player and quest-giver, etc. The result, they hope,…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mario Teaches Typing Warcraft
Since I just got promoted, I can finally reveal that I lack any experience with one rather common game. I haven’t played a minute of Warcraft – except for the original RTS. On a Mac. Fortunately, Cracked is here to explain the Warcraft phenomenon in the context of something I can understand – Super Mario…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bethesda: Extending Fallout Level Cap Again ‘Could Unbalance the Game’
The level, stat and skill caps you have in Fallout 3 – 30, 10 and 100, respectively – seem to be hard numbers that Bethesda Softworks isn’t inclined to raise further. MTV Multiplayer recently asked Bethesda Softworks’ Jeff Gardiner if there were any plans to extend the game’s level cap, as was done when Broken…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Game Characters Looking for Love in All the Creepy Places
Game characters putting ads on Craigslist personals? Why, that idea sounds familiar. Asylum wrote ads from Solid Snake, GLaDOS and others, trolling for replies. Wait til you see what someone wrote to the Little Sister. Posting on Craigslist in Aruba, Little Sis writes that she doesn’t have any Adam in her – but she sure…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Scribblenauts Gets a UK Release Date
Scribblenauts hits the U.S. on Sept. 15 – we’ll cut to the chase, it’s releasing 10 days later in the U.K., which is Sept. 25 or 25/09/09 for those with whom we have special relations. So, woohoo, even though this game depends on a zillion-word vocabulary and there is tons of localization to be performed…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Actually Responds to Obama’s Xbox Line in Speech
Getting huffy about President Obama using video games as a rhetorical punching bag in speeches on personal responsibility is pointlessly argumentative. But Microsoft has responded to POTUS’ latest call-out, this time of the Xbox. In his speech to the NAACP at its 100th anniversary celebration, Obama said parents can’t demand achievement in school and then…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Today’s Punishment: Soldier Performing Britney Spears on SingStar
If, to feel safe and secure, you depend upon the image of the U.S. fighting man as 200 pounds of rompin’ stompin’ shitkickin’ dynamite, this might not be the video for you to watch. If, on the other hand, you take a certain sociopathic pleasure in tough guys caught unawares, or you have serious Department…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Discussing a Dangerous Game — for Girls
Another new concept we’re trying out for our expanded weekend coverage is the Weekend Reader, where we excerpt a well-written long-form piece on a subject in gaming and invite readers to discuss it. Not everything has to be quick-hitter, incremental developments and snarky takes on the week’s news. The weekend’s longer news cycle is a…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Quickfixes Botched NCAA Roster Files
NCAA 10 went out the door this week with a roster file shot through with errors, and in certain cases, teams lacking an entire freshman class. A patch is OTW but players are super PO’d. This didn’t catch everyone by surprise. Back in June, fans of the college football sim started building their own custom…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Cutie Cosplayer Wants to Make You a Plush Toy
Remember Hezachan? Destroyer of websites from the Top 50 Cosplay Cleavage Shots debacle-a-thon? She’s also a big Starcraft fan, and her seamstress skills don’t stop at stitching together anime getups. Sure, this is a big free ad – but Heza’s not exactly fish food, and she’s got a history on weekends. She’s hand-made a Reaver…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 -
UncategorizedYes, I Know About the Damn PS3 Slim Video [Update]
Ordinarily it’s not my policy to cave in to peer pressure like this, but ignoring the likely-fake shakycam video of a PS3 Slim hasn’t slowed the tide of hey-d00ds tips we’re getting about it. There’s also a nagging, buzzing doubt in my head, in the region of my brain that entertains such ideas as a…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Seeks a Few Good Store Managers
Would you like an exciting career in retail management? Can you upsell a 13-month Xbox Live Gold subscription on a $100 wireless adapter? Can you answer “What’s a Zune?” without using the word “iPod”? If so, Microsoft has a job for you. As previously reported, the first stores in Microsoft’s grand plan to battle Apple…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gold Cartridge Buyer Recreating Nintendo Championships Today
J.J. Hendricks, the Denver entrepreneur who bought the rare Nintendo World Championships Gold cartridge, is hosting an event today that seeks to recreate the original contest. He spoke to Kotaku about it and his acquisition. Hendricks, the owner of vintage game-and-console retailer JJGames.com, bought the NWC Gold cart last month for $17,500. The seller was…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Weekend Coupons: Done Dirt Cheap
Two things move a game. You either gotta have it, or the price is right. And if you’re reading coupons, it’s probably not to find the must-buys. So let’s go for a stroll: Hardware • These things go on sale so often you should never spend full price. Amazon is offering the wireless adapter for…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Originals: Hardened Prestige Edition
This week you can take in the originals roundup with our free giveaway: Day-Vision goggles. Just go get a rubber band and a couple TP tubes, strap them to your face, and read the following: Reviews, Previews, Hands-On and Impressions Battlefield 1943 Review: Battling In The Pacific Taking Tony Hawk For Another Ride Droplitz Micro-Review:…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
If Nintendo Won’t Make A HD Starfox, These Guys Will
In the absence of a high definition Nintendo console – or even new Starfox games, for that matter – some fans have taken matters into their own hands, and are building a new Starfox game: Shadows of Lylat. Similar to the popular Battlestar Galactica mod, Beyond the Red Line, Shadows of Lylat is built on…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Week In Comments
The Trouble With Girls’ Games Comment by: Nominated by: Curse_Lily Part of the problem is that all the games in the article are aimed at children. And as such, they suffer from the problem that afflicts the vast majority of children’s games: they’re awful. They are all extremely shallow in concept and gameplay, and where…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Is Your Favorite Game Theme?
Today I woke up late. Then I ate eggs. I ate all of the eggs in the house. There are no more, so forget it, you can’t have any. Know what you can do? Talk. It’s Friday, time for TELL US DAMMIT. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Here’s The Mafia II Demo We Got To See At E3
I walked away from my Mafia II demo at E3 pretty impressed with what the guys at 2K were doing with the series. Now it seems that demo has been released to the public, so let’s see what you think. Click to view
By Luke Plunkett Published July 17, 2009