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Dishonored’s Probably Not Right For LEGO, But Here’s Dishonored LEGO Anyway
Something tells me the chances of us seeing officially licensed Dishonored LEGO are slim. Rats, murder, prostitutes… I don’t think it’s quite LEGO’s thing. But hey, where LEGO misses an opportunity, custom builders are always there to come through with the goods. Nathan Proudlove built this Dishonored “Tall Boy” walker, a unit in the game…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 6, 2013 -
Report: Valve’s Steam PC Getting 2013 Reveal, Runs On Linux
According to a report on German IT site Golem, Valve engineer Ben Krasnow told an audience at the recent EHSM 2012 conference in Berlin that the company’s long-awaited “Steam Box” custom PC/console/thing will indeed be running on Linux, and will be revealed in full at either GDC or E3 later this year. Meaning the PC…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 6, 2013 -
USB 3.0 Is Going To Double Speeds
USB data transfer is about to get a hell of a lot faster. The USB Promoter Group is rolling out SuperSpeed USB, a supplement to USB 3.0 due out later this year that should surge your speeds two-fold. SuperSpeed USB is supposed to give you 10 Gbps USB data rate, which is the same as…
By Leslie Horn Published January 6, 2013 -
The Walking Dead Guys Would Love To Do A Halo, Half-Life Series
Fresh off their success with The Walking Dead series, as well as experience with half a dozen other properties that belong to someone else, developers Telltale have told Red Bull (the website of… the drink) what their dream projects are. And they’re about the same as anyone else’s dream projects. “Coming from LucasArts we always…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 6, 2013 -
Rest In Peace, PlayStation 2 (2000-2012)
Having stopped shipping in Japan last year, The Guardian has confirmed with Sony that PlayStation 2 production has now ceased worldwide. Let that sink in for a second. There are no more PlayStation 2 consoles being made. Anywhere. Once the new consoles already on shelves are gone, that’s it. While it’s almost 13 years old,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 6, 2013 -
The Speakys—Your Games of the Year—Have Been Named, Now Pick the Best
The votes are in, and you have spoken. The second annual Speakys, the Kotaku community-voted awards organized by GiantBoyDetective, have named their individual category winners. From here, the category winners will be faced off in a vote to determine the Speakys’ overall game of the year. Remember, tomorrow Kotaku will be conferring its Game of…
By Owen Good Published January 6, 2013 -
Did Sports Video Games Really Get Any Better in 2012?
Earlier this week, Metacritic bemoaned 2012 as a year of poorer review scores for video games than the one preceding it. Fewer titles surpassed the all-important 90—which practically guarantees job security to those who developed or greenlit the project—than in 2011. Interestingly, the three console platforms’ average review scores all improved slightly. This isn’t proof…
By Owen Good Published January 6, 2013 -
1993: The Birth of DLC
There’s a past-is-prologue quality to a lot what wwwtxt curates and sends out over its Twitter feed, exemplified by this nugget published on Friday. wwwtxt is not a bot. It’s Daniel Rehn, an artist and “media archaeologist,” who culls discussions before 1995, the beginning of the commercial Internet as we know it. The sources include…
By Owen Good Published January 6, 2013 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Balloon Snake
It’s been a while since we’ve had this kind of an it-shops-itself exploitable: Solid Snake made out of balloons, with a mesmerizing stare that could be made to express any emotion or fit any situation. Some folks already got a head start on this when Tina posted the image on Friday. We’ll let everyone else…
By Owen Good Published January 6, 2013 -
Author of The Warriors, Cult Film Adapted to Hit Video Game, Dies at 88
Sol Yurick, the writer whose 1965 novel “The Warriors” was adapted into a film 14 years later—which then became one of the best adapted works ever in video gaming—died this weekend. He was 88. Yurick’s work itself was a loose adaptation of a story told 2,300 years before: Anabasis, which chronicles the journey of Greek…
By Owen Good Published January 6, 2013 -
We’ve All Been Fooled by the ‘Firefly MMO‘ [UPDATE 2]
If you think there’s going to be an MMO based on or “inspired by” Firefly, well, you’re not alone. So did I yesterday, and we’ve all been trolled. [Update] This story has taken a few more turns. The upshot is that it may not be a hoax after all. For the latest, check out this…
By Owen Good Published January 6, 2013 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest Year-End All-Star Extravaganza
Anything goes and anything went as we asked you to revisit the exploitables and callbacks of the year that was 2012. halfbeast’s bitchin’ fightstick leads our roundup of overall finalists, with hat-tips to all-stars sciteach, uscg_pa, and returning champ Pan_1da7. Thanks to all who participated. There’s a ‘Shop Contest tomorrow, etc. AirCairo azureguy Galogon halfbeast…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2013 -
GLaDOS Did Appear in Pacific Rim‘s Trailer, but Won’t Return for the Movie
When Pacific Rim‘s latest trailer (above) went out last month, a lot of people thought, “Wait! I know that voice!” And indeed, it sounds like Jax Teller reading from “The Life and Death of Sam Crow” as an enormous sea monster destroys a bridge. Oh yeah, GLaDOS from the Portal series can be heard as…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2013 -
Report: Warner Bros. Interactive Interested in Bidding on THQ’s Assets
A bankruptcy judge yesterday did not approve the bidding procedures THQ proposed in selling off its assets, which THQ’s creditors had complained was rigged to sell the whole thing to a private equity firm for $60 million. Now comes a report that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is an interested buyer. The word comes from Distressed…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2013 -
The Moneysaver: Walking in a Winter Download-land
Digital downloads lead the list of offers this week, particularly as Steam’s always-popular holiday bonanza is closing down gets an encore lasting through Monday. Green Man Gaming has discounts on 10 preorders between now and April, and a coupon code currently on offer will stack on that, so give it a look if what you…
By Owen Good Published January 5, 2013 -
The Best Of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. You see that up there? That up there is what we call wishful thinking, also known as a potentially awesome video game realization of one of the best comics there is: Calvin & Hobbes. Unfortunately it’s currently just a…
By Tina Amini Published January 5, 2013 -
I Don’t Understand Why These Skyrim Mudcrabs Are So Funny
Help, I think I’m suffering from a mild case of idiocy. What is it about this video by YouTube user NormalDifficulty that I find so amusing? Is it because the mudcrabs are so posh, wearing tophats, monocles and whatnot? Is it that they sound so accusatory? How they gang up on the adventurer? Maybe the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 4, 2013 -
Forget Wikipedia. Let Urban Dictionary Tell You About The Biggest Games.
Urban Dictionary is so weird. Once, it was used mostly to define slang. But now? You can search for just about anything and it’ll have a number of amusing user-defined entries. It’s like Wikipedia, only more unruly. Here are how Urban Dictionary users are describing the biggest gaming franchises. It’s as silly as you might…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 4, 2013