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The LA Times’ Attempt At Making The Perfect Game
Who said designing video games was hard? All you need to do is steal the best parts from each and combine them into one enormous smorgasbord of all you can eat gaming. The Los Angeles Times went ahead and listed their most valued and defining game qualities from this year in an attempt to form…
By Jim Reilly Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
Podcastalooza: The News You May Have Missed
Many of you, hopefully most of you, sat down and watched our Very Special Kotaku Holiday Podcast. But how many of you caught the director’s uncut of each in-game podcast? Over the past week we’ve been running a new unedited in-game podcast each day. Because I know some of you don’t have the time or…
By Brian Crecente Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
Mega64 Brings It Home
Anthony Funn from Sony tries to re-convince the general public that Playstation Home is indeed very fun. He highlights some of its actives, like waiting in line, beards, and moving stuff. Definitely not the funniest video they’ve done. I would have liked to have seen more running-man dancing and derogatory comments made towards women.
By Jim Reilly Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
New Year’s Resolutions For The Game Industry
It’s the New Year, and that means it’s time for resolutions. You know, drop some weight, quit smoking, get organized – just like you resolve to do every year, right? It’s also a good time to reflect, maybe mull over some things you learned during the year and how you can apply those lessons in…
By Brian Crecente Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
A Year in Review: The Top Game Trailers for 2008
As the year comes to a close let us all stop for a moment and reflect on the wonderful world of hype, marketing, and yes, game trailers. When it comes to launching a successful title, game trailers are proving to be ever so more crucial. Today we honor the most successful trailers in terms of…
By Adam Barenblat Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
Get The Tomb Raider Underworld Soundtrack For Free
Did you know you could download the entire 71-track score to Tomb Raider Underworld online for free via the Tomb Raider Chronicles website? Well you do now. Apparently the massive, 198MB download has been sitting there for quite some time, but nobody bothered to let us know, so we were fully prepared to go into…
By Mike Fahey Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
The Complete List of Halo Wars Achievements
The Red Versus Blue folks over at Rooster Teeth got their hands on the full list of achievements for Halo Wars. As is often the case, the break down of earnable points for the Xbox 360 real-time strategy title gives us a glimpse of the game’s 15 missions as well as some of the things…
By Brian Crecente Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
PlayStation 3 101: Surfing The Web
It really makes me wonder what sorts of people Sony feels purchased the PlayStation 3 system this year when they feel they have to post a video tutorial explaining how to surf the web. While the first couple of tutorials presented as an introduction to new PlayStation 3 owners delivered some information you might not…
By Mike Fahey Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
PotBS Avatar Combat Updated For The New Year
Flying Lab’s MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea sails into the new year with the release of the highly anticipated build 1.11: The Clash Of Steel, which completely revamps avatar combat. While ship-to-ship combat in Pirates of the Burning Sea has been well-received by players since launch, the avatar combat, which sees players taken on…
By Mike Fahey Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
A Year in Review: The Top Features and Reporting Of 2008
It’s been a pretty amazing year for the game’s industry. We’ve seen record sales, major layoffs, the disbarment of Jack Thompson and not a few smaller stories to mull over as well. I combed through the year’s worth of features and original stories that ran on our site this year to find the most read…
By Brian Crecente Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
PlayStation 3 Used To Break SSL
The PlayStation 3 was instrumental in the efforts of an international team of security experts to successfully hack VeriSign’s SSL website security scheme, and it only took 200 consoles to do it. I’ll try not to get too technical here, mainly because I don’t truly understand a great deal of this myself. Using a pool…
By Mike Fahey Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
XBLA Gets First Merv Griffin Game
It’s time for the final Xbox Live Arcade game of 2008, and they’ve saved the best for last, provided you are a big fan of crossword puzzles, game shows, or the works of Merv Griffin. Merv Griffin’s Crosswords is a game based off of a television game show created by Merv Griffin, deceased media mogul…
By Mike Fahey Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
Kotaku’s Game of the Year Finalists
I went through yesterday’s list of nominations for our annual Game of the Year awards and tallied the games to come up with a short list of finalists for us to vote on. Three categories had ties, so I went back and polled Kotaku Tower to select which of those games should make the list.…
By Brian Crecente Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
Megaten Online Open Beta Is Open
Time to put on some skinny clothes, land wrangle yourself up a choice demon as Aeria announces the open beta for Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online. The online version of the Shin Megami Tensei series is open to all comers, with gameplay just three short steps away. Just create an account on AeriaGames.com, download the…
By Mike Fahey Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
Jaffe: Gears of War 2 Versus God of War 3, PS3 Versus Wii
Famed Playstation developer David Jaffe may seem like an odd choice for guest developer for our in-game podcast about the Xbox 360’s Gears of War 2. We actually did invite Gears developer Cliff Bleszinski, but his handlers said he was too busy. But Jaffe certainly wasn’t some sort of alternate or sub, as the head…
By Brian Crecente Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
Oh, 2009, Hi
To: Crecente From: Luke Re: The Goaties Gonna keep this brief, because I’m drunk, drunk, drunk. Anyway, it’s 2009 here already. Ticked over a few hours ago. So…happy new year! What’s 2008 like, still kickin’ it? Here’s what you missed: An In-Depth Resident Evil 5 Demo Graphical Comparison DIY Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming On The…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
These Are The 20 Best Street Fighter IV Players In Japan
Street Fighter IV records player’s points totals, as well as their overall win/loss ratio. Which means people can compare their skills from a distance. It also means we can compile “best of” charts! Which is exactly what this list is, courtesy of the fanatics over at fighting board Shoryuken. These twenty guys are, according to…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
American Consoles Use Enough Power In A Year To Run San Diego
This year, the National Resources Defense Council took a look at how much power is consumed running America’s gaming consoles. Their findings? That America’s gaming consoles suck up a whole lotta juice. In total, consoles used up an estimated 16 billion kilowatthours per year. Which equates to around $1 billion worth of power. Which is…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 31, 2008 - Uncategorized
Getting Slayer In GH: Metallica Was Tough, Tough, Tough
Perhaps the most promising thing about Guitar Hero Metallica isn’t Metallica themselves, but the slew of accompanying artists that are also appearing in the game. One of those is Slayer. And getting Slayer was tough. Despite “Raining Blood” already making an appearance in the series, courtesy of Guitar Hero III, Metallica drummer/public spokeshole Lars Ulrich…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 31, 2008
