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The Waiver-Wire Prospects of MLB 2K11

I’m thinking of a famous, very touching monologue by Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager of the Baltimore Orioles, talking about cutting players during spring training. “You call ’em in and say, ‘It’s the consensus among us that we’re going to let you go back home.’ Some of them cry, some get mad, but…

By Owen Good Published March 16, 2011

Star Trek Fan Dances His Ass Off To Kinect

This man is playing Dance Central, a dancing video game for the Xbox 360’s Kinect sensor. He’s at Boston’s PAX East gaming convention. He is dancing to Bell Biv Devoe’s Poison, a song that taught children of the 90s never to trust a big butt and a smile. The song teaches us a new lesson:…

By Stephen Totilo Published March 12, 2011

A Brief Moment with Firefall, The Free Game That Wants To Be World of Warcraft with Guns

Orange County, California might be bland, confesses one developer of Red 5’s team-based shooter Firefall, but the game certainly is not. Armor-bound medics squirt now de rigueur healing ribbons that glow a pale green to extrude life back into teammates wearing primary yellow or red that’s too busy for G or B. I stood for…

By Joel Johnson Published March 11, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

Microsoft Has Now Spent Over Ten Years In The Console Business

Time flies, doesn’t it? One day, you’re thinking only Sega and Nintendo are capable of building quality, successful gaming hardware. The next, you wake up to find that Microsoft is building a video games console. Yet it’s been eleven years to the day that the world awoke to such a scenario, as it was at…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011

Kinect Sets Guinness Record As “Fastest Selling Electronics”

Congratulations to Microsoft, who took what I thought was going to be a modest hit and making it a giant one. Now let’s get that next wave of games coming! [GuinnessWorldRecords.com]

By Joel Johnson Published March 9, 2011

The End Of The Shenmue Saga Would Have Been ‘Tight,’ Mega 64 Reveals

Will there ever be a Shenmue III? Maybe. But the long hoped for conclusion to the Shenmue saga is moot now, thanks to Sega legend Yu Suzuki revealing to Mega 64 how the story arc would have ended. Spoiler alert! Suzuki spilled the beans on the remaining chapters of the Shenmue saga at GDC last…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011

Shenmue III is Coming?

Speaking at a talk during the Game Developer Conference today, designer Yu Suzuki said that he thinks Sega is going to let him make Shenmue III. The audience broke into shouts and applause, and then Suzuki abruptly changed topics.

By Brian Crecente Published March 2, 2011

Felicia Day Teaches Us Proper Dragon Age Dagger Techniques

Felicia Day, star of the Internet series The Guild, will also be the star of Dragon Age: Redemption a web spin-off to the dark fantasy Dragon Age series that will debut this summer. She also has a huge crush on Thane, the dying green alien from Mass Effect 2 (“He is not a lizard man!”…

By Stephen Totilo Published February 17, 2011

HD Halo Remake Coming In November?

The rumored HD Xbox 360 remake of the original Halo: Combat Evolved will be released on November 15, 10 years after the Xbox classic debuted, Joystiq reports. Series creator Bungie wouldn’t be involved. Microsoft hasn’t confirmed, though we’ve asked.

By Stephen Totilo Published February 4, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

Microsoft’s First Console Adventure Was A Lesson In Failure

Like most other things associated with Sega’s ill-fated Dreamcast console, it’s been largely forgotten that the ahead-of-its-time machine featured the first ever console appearance (at least in terms of the console itself) for a company by the name of Microsoft. While Microsoft would of course enter the console business properly with the Xbox in 2001,…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2011

Dragon Age II Demo On The Way

BioWare has confirmed that a demo for Dragon Age II will be hitting the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC on February 22.

By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011

Games That Make You Want To Go Places

Video games are meant to be an escape from the real world. Yet sometimes, escape be damned, they do such a good job of depicting real locations that the player can’t help but want to pack their bags and go travelling. Whether that be because a game is set in a painstakingly realistic simulation of…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2011

The Manly Art Of Posing With Video Game Systems

I’ve never posed with a video game system. I doubt you have either. But the top men in video games do that any time there’s new gaming hardware to show off. How cool can you look posing with plastic? In chronological order, here are some of the great achievements in hardware-posing, as photographed by the…

By Stephen Totilo Published January 28, 2011

Game of the Year 2010: The Readers’ Choice Award

Capturing more than 12,000 of the nearly 30,000 votes cast in our Game of the Year poll, this cross-platform game captured Kotaku’s 2010 Readers’ Choice Award. No, it’s not Red Dead Redemption. Congratulations to Mass Effect 2, which earned more than 40 percent of the total votes for game of the year. Call of Duty:…

By Brian Crecente Published January 24, 2011

Xbox Changes Coming This Week

Xbox 360 users, two things: one, you’re getting back the option to boot your console straight to a disc, and two, your Xbox.com Gamercards are in for a change. That is all.

By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2011

2010 Game of the Year Finalist Debate: Red Dead Redemption

In another universe, they made a box containing Red Dead Redemption that’s just for me. The front is familiar. The back, though, boasts the kind of bullet points I might demand of a great video game: –Respects Your Intelligence (Because it doesn’t bore me with some easy and obvious macho super-hero of a main character.)…

By Stephen Totilo Published January 18, 2011

Is Microsoft Pissing Off Japanese Game Makers?

In the West, Microsoft is king. Well, queen. In Japan, it’s not — not by a country mile. The software giant needs every ally it can find. But even its most ardent supporters seem restless. Tokyo-based arcade developer Cave brought a handful of its shoot’em up games to the Xbox 360 instead of the PS3,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 18, 2011

2010 Game of the Year Finalist Debate: NBA 2K11

Sports titles just aren’t supposed to be game-of-the-year contenders. Their annualized nature sends the message that this year’s game, no matter how great, won’t be worth owning in 365 days. If anything could rise above that, it is NBA 2K11. Michael Jordan is as timeless a figure in sports as they come. People still think…

By Owen Good Published January 17, 2011

Did You Know There Was Crazy Duck Racing In Shenmue II?

Why did Sega’s beloved and ambitious Shenmue series fail to progress beyond its second game? Because Sega never really promoted one of Shenmue II’s most spectacular features: underground duck racing. From the man who brought you video game racing classics like Out Run and Super Hang-On comes Shenmue II’s duck racing mini-game, a component of…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 14, 2011

This Dog Is One Fierce Son Of An Xbox

This is Kapone, a dog that is doing very well learning to protect its owners. Kapone’s father is Xbox, a prize-winning German Shepherd a dog whose owner boasts is a North American champ. Let’s back up a second. In Canada, a group called Dei Precision German Shepherds is proudly raising the now five-year-old German Shepherd…

By Stephen Totilo Published January 14, 2011