- Uncategorized
World of Goo Arrives on Linux
Linux gamers do in fact exist and, as promised by 2D Boy, they can now start playing acclaimed indie puzzler World of Goo. The developers have also talked about the challenge of Linux porting. The game is $20, DRM-free and supports 64-bit systems. A demo version featuring the game’s first chapter is available if you…
By Owen Good Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Collection of Killer Gaming Wallpapers
Yesterday our sister site Lifehacker posted a collection of eye-popping desktop wallpapers they found, and it is too good not to share over here. I’ve had the same picture of the Pyramid Peaks in Colorado on my desktop since 2003. If your background’s getting a little stale, too, certainly one of these will do the…
By Owen Good Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
DW-PSP Not (Yet) Outlawed in Honolulu
Remember the PSP-playing bus driver in Honolulu? The one who wasn’t fired? Now six months later, the mayor has vetoed a city bill that would have outlawed playing games while driving. Saying it is too specific and almost impossible to enforce, Mayor Mufi Hannemann struck down the measure that made it illegal to send text…
By Owen Good Published February 14, 2009 -
UncategorizedVideo Games’ Five Most Romantic Couples
It’s Valentine’s Day, the one day in the western world U.S. (sorry, forgot about you, Amsterdam) where it’s legal to pay for sex. So here’s a very NSFW video of gaming’s top five couples. Naturally, Mario and Peach (despite that affair with Sonic) are No. 1 – even if CitizenGame completely blew it by confusing…
By Owen Good Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guild Wars 2 Coming in 2010-2011
NCsoft saw increased sales but a 40 percent drop in profit this past year. Fallout from that includes the company’s announcement that Guild Wars 2 won’t arrive until 2010-2011. Gamasutra reported that while NCsoft’s sales were up 5 percent year-over-year, including a strong December quarter-over-quarter profit increase of 60 percent. But overall, the delayed launch…
By Owen Good Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Originals: You Take That Back Brian Crecente
The boss-mans learned a important lesson about other people’s feelings when he called Wii Fit a wee fad. Indignant Wii Fitters ultrabombed his inbox to say not everyone who “plays” it looks like this. That’s right, many of them were in much worse shape when they first stepped on the balance board. But now they’re…
By Owen Good Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ric Flair Wishes You A Happy, Strangely Violent Valentines Day
And again, the Red Alert 3 marketing team outdo themselves, somehow taking Ric Flair and his figure-four leglock and turning it into a heart-warming Command & Conquer-related Valentines Day message. It’s just one in a series of videos EA threw together for the day, some featuring British working class vixen Gemma Atkinson, others the slightly…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Pads or Sticks?
Friday, Friday, Friday. It’s Friday. 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 person. You probably know fucktons about us –…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Halo Wars Figures Receive Reinforcements
Kicking the pre-release marketing for Halo Wars into top gear, a second series of Halo Wars action figures have today been announced by McFarlane and Microsoft. Unlike the first series, these figures look a little more relevant to the units and events of the game, with one series featuring the UNSC FLame-Thrower Marine and another…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Week In Comments
NSFW: The Joydick Lets Players Play With Themselves To Play Comment by: ShaggE Nominated by: MrBionic We would like to wank you for purchasing the Joydick. We don’t mean to cum off as cocky, but we guarantee this product will rub you the right way. If it doesn’t, well, different strokes for different folks. You…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Is Why Midway Is Totally Screwed
Midway filed for bankruptcy yesterday. Grim news, but it’s also a bit…vague. It’s hard to tell from mere words just how badly the house of Mortal Kombat is faring. So let’s use numbers instead. Short on alternate bedtime reading, GamePolitics have combed through the court records surrounding yesterday’s move and found the the list of…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bikini Samurai Minus Bikini
When Playboy reviewed Wii title Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad, it asked publisher D3 for this: Exclusive naked pics. And exclusive naked pics it got. Above and below are images directly from D3 of the game’s heroine Aya wearing her cowboy and boots, but not much else. At least she’s got her swords. Very important! You…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Capcom Want A New Resident Evil On Wii
So far, the Wii is without its own Resident Evil. Umbrella Chronicles is a gun game, so doesn’t count. Resident Evil 0? Remake, doesn’t count either. We’re talking all new here, baby. Speaking with Eurogamer, Resident Evil 5 producer Masachika Kawata has said: Personally I would like to create something on Wii in the Resident…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
You’ve Got 48 Hours, Make A Game
Website Boing Boing checked out the 2009 Global Game Jam, which has participants from all over the world churn out a game in 48 hours. Get a boots-on-the-ground view from LA, Pittsburgh, Australia, Scotland, Israel, Turkey and Venezuela. There are potato chips and pee drinking! Check out the games here. Our Networked Report from the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Can Screenshots Help Explain What Noby Noby Boy Is?
Can a set of new screenshots explain what exactly what is going on with Noby Noby Boy for the PlayStation Network where creator Keita Takahashi of Katamari Damacy fame failed? Nope, they most certainly cannot. Nice use of frogs though. Were I a big fan of frogs, I would be camped outside the PlayStation Store…
By Mike Fahey Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ex-Ensemble Staff Form New Studio
Ensemble Studios, developers of the Age of Empires series and Halo Wars, are dead. But the developers who comprised Ensemble? They’re still alive, and some of them have formed a new studio. It’s called Robot Entertainment, and has been established by Ensemble co-founder Tony Goodman, along with “a number of veterans” from the former Microsoft-owned…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Emulator to Play Any Game Ever Made — For Science!
The European Union put up $5.2 million (€4.02m, £3.6m) to fund a project called Keeping Emulation Environments Portable (KEEP) — which will develop a software program that can archive digital objects to preserve them for posterity. Computer historian David Anderson of Portsmouth University told New Science that that it would be a “cultural catastrophe” to…
By AJ Glasser Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox Originals Gets Grabbed By The Ghoulies Next Week
You know why the call them Xbox Originals? Because you can’t call ’em Xbox Classics. Case in point, Rare’s first Xbox title, Grabbed By The Ghoulies is your next Xbox Original. Oh, I kid, Rare! The UK developer’s debut game under the ownership of Microsoft will drop on the Xbox Live Marketplace next Tuesday, February…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Noby Noby Boy Creator Will Try, Try Again To Explain What Noby Noby Boy Is
Is there still some confusion about what Noby Noby Boy, creator Keita Takahashi‘s follow up to Katamari Damacy, is all about? Apparently. Why else would Takahashi address it again on the official PlayStation blog? Let’s let the man explain: “Basically players can control and stretch Boy, the main character of the game. As players stretch…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Valentine’s Day, Say It With Sims
It wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day without half a dozen games celebrating the number two Hallmark holiday of the year. The Sims 3 jumps on the bandwagon with two new screens of sweet, sweet love. After this week’s big ghost baby reveal, I’m really looking forward to The Sims 3. But with these cloyingly sweet images…
By AJ Glasser Published February 13, 2009