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Space Invaders‘ Creator Says He Would Have Made It ‘Far Easier’
At 69, Tomohiro Nishikado readily admits he’s bad at video games. That’s not unusual for a man his age, but he was bad at them when he was making them, specifically Space Invaders. “Had it been left up to me, Space Invaders would have been a far easier game,” he told The New Yorker Nishikado…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: BatDad: Arkham Origins
Didn’t really spy anything super-useful this week so we’ll have to go with a bit of a wild card. Everyone’s familiar with BatDad, right? Well, Arkham Origins releasing on Friday provides the opportunity for a timely and ridiculous mash-up. To the ‘Shop-poles! For those not in the know, BatDad is Blake Wilson of Atlanta, well…
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The studio behind Dark Matter, criticized by many as an incomplete game released on Steam earlier this week, has given a statement on the matter. While “it is simply not true that the game is unfinished,” InterWave Studios acknowledged its ending “may cause confusion and is not satisfactory.” They’re working on a fix.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Re-Records His Most Famous Lines for Fans
Yesterday in a Reddit AMA, Col. Matrix took requests to repeat his most iconic lines of the past three decades. Among them: Predator (above), Conan the Barbarian (but not the prayer to Crom) Kindergarten Cop and, of course, The Terminator. How in the hell did nothing from Commando make it? Here are all the videos.…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: I Thee Choose: The Winners
Last week’s challenge was to do something tasteful with a proposal at the gala launch event for Pokémon X and Y. Many of you were able to pull that off. (Many others were not.) Most of the finalists were … subtle, so look closely, but overall No. 1 halfbeast definitely hits you like an axe.…
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Politician Out to Scare Parents Makes a Great Pitch for GTA Instead
I don’t know where to begin with this, but it’s hilarious. The state’s attorney for a southern Chicago suburb on Thursday gathered middle school parents to urge an “economic boycott” of Grand Theft Auto, which has already made, like, a billion dollars. It sounds like a scared-straight lecture straight out of 1958. The assembly took…
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Indie Studio Says Failed Kickstarter is Why Its Game Looks Incomplete [Update]
A jolting conclusion awaits anyone who bought Dark Matter, an indie game released two days ago on Steam. About four hours in, gamers were abruptly slapped with a wall of text signifying the end of the game. The game’s maker says the hard stop is because the studio’s Kickstarter failed and they ran out of…
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Xbox Live Survey: Three Percent of Users Don’t Approve of Free Games?
When it was announced back at E3, the free-games-for-paid-subscribers deal called Games With Gold was supposed to last only until the Xbox One’s launch. Well, now it is officially continued as an “ongoing benefit.” That’s not what caught my eye about the announcement, however. “According to recent surveys, 97 percent of participating members have given…
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Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of Super Smash Bros., just posted this image to the game’s Miiverse feed; it was then published to its official page. Those antlers belong to Xerneas, The 16-point Pokébuck who debuted in Pokémon X (and on its cover) last week, so look for him to appear in the game in some…
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Grading NBA Live‘s Trailer, in the Shadow of NBA 2K14‘s
Maybe people aren’t cooing over it the way they are the NBA 2K14 hype reel released Thursday, but NBA Live 14‘s gameplay trailer does have its virtues. To reiterate, no video game genre more than sports suffers from the over-promises of a next console generation and the point of diminishing returns we’re reaching in recreating…
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L.A. Suburb Forced to Sell $100,000 Arcade Game Collection
Among the assets owned by the city of Glendale, Calif. is a collection of classic arcade cabinets once valued at $100,000. However, the city is being forced to sell them all off and give all of the proceeds back to the state of California. How Glendale got into the arcade game collection business and why…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of October 14
Happy weekend, Kotaku! Did you know we debuted a new feature this week? It’s called Last-Gen Heroes (and Zeroes) where, as we approach a new generation, the whole team looks back at the winners and losers of the last generation in gaming. We (and lots of you readers!) have already contributed a ton of good…
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Marvel Heroes Is The Best Game Ever, Because Squirrel Girl
Ladies and gentlemen, Squirrel Girl is now live in Gazillion Entertainment’s free-to-play MMO, Marvel Heroes. As LEGO Marvel Super Heroes doesn’t come out until Tuesday and Super Hero Squad doesn’t count, Marvel Heroes is the first, and therefor best. Disclaimer: There’s probably something wrong with Fahey.
By Mike Fahey
