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Harmonix Let A Fan Make The End Credits To One Of Their Games
I’ve never “finished” a Dance Central game because, every time I start playing, the booze eventually runs out, and/or people eventually go home. I could play it sober, by myself, but, um, no. That might have to change soon, though, because Dance Central 3’s closing credits are wonderful. Not only are they a great pixel…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2013 -
Pets & Video Games. It’s Like The Internet Condensed Into A Single Thing.
Press Paws is an upcoming art show in LA that wants to bring together pets and video games. If that wasn’t already a perfect pairing, the show is also about raising money for charity. Featuring the work of over 50 artists (like Paul Robertson, who did the image up top, and Jim Mahfood), proceeds raised…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2013 -
For One Weekend, A Real Street Was Turned Into An 8-Bit Landscape
To promote the release of Wreck-It-Ralph in the UK (for some reason, it’s out later in some markets), between January 11-13 a lane in London was transformed into an 8-bit landscape by an artist and a team of workers. The installation was done by Aden Hynes Sculpture Studios, and included a car, a letterbox, animals,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2013 -
Where Street Fashion Meets Ancient Video Game Art
Serene Weather, a design firm from Korea, put together this fashion shoot using real-world locations and not-real pixellated characters. I know, the legs are too skinny for this to have actually happened, but I like to think that behind every one is an actual person wearing those actual clothes. On the Street [Serene Weather, via…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2013 -
Sports Video Gaming Must Face Its Own Era Of Excess
Wednesday was supposed to be a day of no news in Major League Baseball. There are no league games in January, of course; pitchers and catchers report to spring training in 29 days. And exit polling had long foreseen the shutout ballot, for the first time since 1996, that the Baseball Writers Association of America…
By Owen Good Published January 13, 2013 -
Modder Creates The World’s Coolest Iron Man Video Game (Inside Grand Theft Auto)
Grand Theft Auto IV modder H1Vltg3 has built this incredible Iron Man mod for the PC version of the game, which does so much more than just reskin the main character. The mod also contains a script which dramatically alters the way you can play the game, giving him proper hand repulsor beam effects and…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2013 -
Correction: Jack Thompson Wanted Best Buy to Not Sell M-Rated Games To Kids
We recently reported that violent video game critic Jack Thompson asked Best Buy in October to not sell M-rated games. He actually wants them to not sell them to kids, asserting that “Some of these ‘Mature’ games, in addition to containing adult levels of violence, also contain sexual, pornographic material, so much so in fact…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 13, 2013 -
If Street Fighter IV was a First-Person Game, Here’s What It Would Look Like
Pipoca, the Brazilian animator who brought us First-Person Bomberman, now delivers this concept of Street Fighter IV‘s bonus stage, fought first-person style. It’s a great take, but if the combos are based on your point of view, I’m now completely messed up on how to throw a hadouken. What’s forward? Up? YouTube video uploaded by…
By Owen Good Published January 13, 2013 -
The World of Warcraft Theme Park in China Features a “Happiness Index” for Its Rides
This weekend Redditor FrancescaO_O paid a visit to Joyland, the World of Warcraft-themed park in China, and reported back with this amusing picture. Each ride comes with a five-star happiness rating! That’s most likely a broken English translation, where “happiness” is meant to reflect the ride’s thrill level—as in, a five-star ride has more drops,…
By Owen Good Published January 13, 2013 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Googly Eyes
That no-good Chris Person stole our thunder on Tuesday with this, in which he discovered that googly eyeballs add a certain je ne sais quois to every video game. Well, he is just one person. We are an army of ‘Shoppers, and this week we’re going to take his idea and completely overrun him with…
By Owen Good Published January 13, 2013 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Balloon Snake: The Winners
I told you maggots to hold the damn file size under 2 MB, but no, one of you just had to create something so hilariously excellent above that limit that I am now forced to take extraordinary measures just to bring it to you. So now all of you must stay late in order to…
By Owen Good Published January 12, 2013 -
Warcraft-Playing Bodybuilding Fan Barely Misses Donkey Kong World Record
Vincent Lemay came in just 2,700 points shy of Hank Chien’s world record score for Donkey Kong, adding his name to the team of rivals for what has become arcade video gaming’s Holy Grail of high scores. On Friday, Lemay, 21, of Quebec, recorded a verified performance of 1,135,900, according to Patrick Scott Patterson, an…
By Owen Good Published January 12, 2013 -
EA Sports’ Dream Appliance Has Arrived: The Internet-Enabled Fridge
Seven months ago at E3, I sat down with EA Sports’ boss, Andrew Wilson, for an annual chat that always features a lot of big-picture spitballing because of where and when it takes place. I forget what question brought this up, but I’m now looking at my notebook from that day and I see the…
By Owen Good Published January 12, 2013 -
MLB The Show Welcomes a Notorious Pirate
Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh’s center fielder, is your cover star for MLB 13 The Show, following an extremely brief period in which fans voted on the honor. McCutchen prevailed by nearly 20,000 votes over New York’s C.C. Sabathia, and by more than 30,000 votes over Miguel Cabrera of Detroit, the first batter to win the Triple…
By Owen Good Published January 12, 2013 -
StarCraft II Says It’s Sorry With a Free Name Change for Everyone
Battle.net had hinted at plans for a name-changing service—for a fee—in StarCraft II some time ago but it never materialized. With the paid name-change option deprioritized and unlikely to happen anytime soon, Battle.net is saying sorry by giving everyone a free name-change. “The fact that we didn’t keep you updated when we deprioritized the feature…
By Owen Good Published January 12, 2013 -
The Speakys Have Spoken; This is Your Game of the Year
Though Speak Up on Kotaku became one with the Force back around September, the reader-voted GOTYs it spawned lived on in the second annual Speakys, which longtime reader GiantBoyDetective organized this year again. The votes have been tallied, and it’s a clean sweep for 2K Games in both chambers of Kotaku‘s congress: Borderlands 2 is…
By Owen Good Published January 12, 2013 -
Is Resident Evil: Revelations coming to Xbox 360? This achievement list says yes. (It may be coming to PS3, too.)
By Owen Good Published January 12, 2013 -
Those wacky MIT kids perched Pac-Man on the Great Dome yesterday, continuing a recent trend of game-themed “hacks.”
By Owen Good Published January 12, 2013