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UncategorizedThe Whitest COD Players U Know
Sketch comedy group The Whitest Kids U’Know take a look at Call of Duty and nail the most irritating part about multiplayer FPS gaming, the dipshit who won’t pay attention or cut his mike. This clip is from their latest season; you can catch them on the Independent Film Channel on Tuesdays at 10. Whitest…
By Owen Good Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Scientists Analyzing Entire Server Logs from Everquest 2
Nearly 60 terabytes of info gathered from more than 400,000 Everquest 2 players has been made available to scientists studying a variety of topics, from social interactions to machine learning. A meeting last week of the American Association for the Advancement of Science said that Sony, when approached about access to the game’s data, simply…
By Owen Good Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
NFS:World Online Launches Asian Site
You can get your first look – and, if you read Mandarin, the first words about – Need for Speed: World Online, EA’s racing MMO launching soon in Asia. Of course, we see this after Maggie (sniff … sniff) is gone – she could read this stuff cold and tell us what is up. I…
By Owen Good Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Chinatown Wars Ad Gives Brief Glimpse of Gameplay
It’s a free ad for GameStop, but since we haven’t seen any Chinatown Wars gameplay, it qualifies as interesting. So does the pre-order lure: Start the game with $10K and the best weapons. This ad had been running in Late Night With Conan O’Brien – which just aired its last episode last night. Wonder where…
By Owen Good Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Saturday Timewaster: Don’t Shit Your Pants
Here’s a text-based real-time “survival horror” game with surprisingly strong replay value, for such a passive act. Its title is its goal: Don’t Shit Your Pants. You’ll figure out how not to defecate in your britches easily enough, but once you get a peek at the 10 achievements for the game, you’ll start experimenting with…
By Owen Good Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Bankrolling “Games for Learning” Project
Microsoft has put $1.5 million into a “Games for Learning Institute,” to study links between video games and learning, and how to enhance them. The research wants to analyze the reactions and processes of avid gamers to see whether games develop learning skills that transfer to the classroom. Already the project has lined up middle…
By Owen Good Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Weekend Coupons: Halo 3 Legendary for $40?!
That coupon gets you another 25 percent in Gamestop store credit for trading in DS games. Elsewhere, you can get a Halo helmet for $40, and a free game for a Steam preorder of H.A.W.X. Also at GameStop, any trade-ins will get you another 20 percent in store credit toward your purchase of Resident Evil…
By Owen Good Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Violent Gamers Immune to Pain — of Others
More scholarship suggests playing violent video games makes one – get ready to have the song stuck in your head, too – “comfortably numb” to others in pain and less likely to help them. Two perfessers cooked up a study in which 320 college students were given violent and nonviolent video games to play. After…
By Owen Good Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gossip Rag Says Obama is BrickBreaker Fiend
President Obama famously battled it out with his staff over keeping his Blackberry. Now we know why – he gets his BrickBreaker on every night. The Star – as in the reliable publication you often see at the checkout between this month’s BIG SEX NEWS reported by Cosmo and Glamour – reports that the Gamer-in-Chief…
By Owen Good Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Originals: DS-Hi!
Ninty’s two-dot-oh of the two-dot-screens handheld got a North Am release date this week, and there was much rejoicing. The news partially stole thunder from the SFIV release (OMG) and GTA DLC (ORLY) drops. Elsewhere in the news from Kotakopolis: Reviews, Impressions and Previews Street Fighter IV Review: Seth’s Soliloquy F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Review:…
By Owen Good Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Are Your Votes For 2008?
It’s Friday. Know what that means? It’s Friday. That’s not all, it’s also time for Tell Us Dammit. 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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
How That Awesome Half-Life Movie Was Made
About a week ago, we showed you part one of “Escape From City 17”, a short, fan-made Half-Life movie put together by the Purchase Brothers. Let’s all today see how they made it. In an interview with NewTeeVee, the brothers – David and Ian – reveal that the movie didn’t, as first believed, cost $500…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
F.E.A.R. Mask Contest Reminder
Time is running out! Reader Alymew sends this, making us very, very afraid. Look at that Gloomy Bear stuffed animal! SO SCARY. We’re giving away a copy of multi-plat horror shooter FEAR 2: Project Origin. Here’s the contest: Masks are scary, so make a mask. You can make it out mask out of anything –…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Heavy Rain Creator: Hollywood Actors Don’t Care About Games
Been some big(ish) names doing video game voice work of late. Robert Downey Jr. Ron Perlman. Kristen Bell. But are they really doing the work? Heavy Rain creator David Cage doesn’t think so. In an interview with NOW Gamer, Cage says: Actors (and their agents) often have so little consideration for games that the only…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
World Of Goo Coming To Japan
Indie puzzle physics game World of Goo is going to be released in Japan via Nintendo’s WiiWare in second quarter 2009. Nintendo of America’s senior director of project development Tom Prata, who spoke today at DICE, disclosed the Japanese release. The game has already been released via WiiWare in North America in October 2008 and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
NPD Says PC Retail Sales Down 50%
Speaking at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas today, Anita Frazier of the NPD Group has revealed an interesting little piece of information regarding the PC market, saying retail sales are down by over 50%. That’s over the past seven years. Grim reading, then? Not really. Although NPD “has been having trouble with is digital…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Week In Comments
PlayStation Store Update: Noby Noby Noby Comment by: RoboticSpacePenguin Nominated by: phinehas Noby Noby Boy is awesome so far. In the first 10 minutes I grew a little and explored. Then I ate some stuff, but didn’t realize I could fart it out. I guess I stored up so much stuff that when it came…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Overlord Does the DS
Overlord: Minions for the DS reminds me of a certain game where you have four different-colored playable characters that you guide with a stylus to work together to solve puzzles. Any guesses? If you said The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, you’re wrong. The developer drew inspiration for Minions from an old Blizzard game…
By AJ Glasser Published February 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony: We Have Sold 21 Million PS3’s
Sales update time! Sony announced today that the company has sold 21.3 million PlayStation 3 consoles worldwide, a figure that by February is probably a bit higher, as their tally only runs until December 31, 2008. But 21.3 million is the number they gave, so it’s the number we’re running with. Not disclosed was a…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 20, 2009
