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Cloud and Boy Might Seem Familiar, But It’s Still Great Fun
I don’t get to play a lot of Windows Phone games, mostly because I don’t own a Windows Phone and because there aren’t enough of them to warrant buying a Windows Phone. However, during last month’s game developers conference, I got to play a Windows Phone exclusive game developed by a student team from Taiwan.…
By Eric Jou Published December 3, 2012 -
Crazy Pokémon Fan Breaks Up Sports Game
Sports games are no strangers to fans running on the field. Sometimes those individuals are drunk. Sometimes they’re just naked—or naked and drunk. Rarely, if ever, are they wearing a Pikachu backpack and truly awful jeans. As pointed out by Yahoo and ESPN, a fan with questionable fashion sense raced on the field early in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 3, 2012 -
The World’s Most Expensive LEGO Brick Costs $14,000
That’s for a single brick, mind you. Not a set. Just a single 4×2 brick. That brick is made from 14-carat gold, though, and between 1979-81 was given out to employees who had worked at the LEGO company for 25 years. So it’s not only made out of gold, it’s incredibly rare too, and is…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 3, 2012 -
How to Make the Wii U’s Controller Even More Like The 360’s
The Wii U’s Pro Controller already does a great 360 pad impersonation, but just in case you wanted/needed it to be more like Microsoft’s input device, here’s a mod that shows you how to drop a pair of Xbox 360 thumbsticks inside the casing of a Wii U Pro Controller. It’s of course not going…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 3, 2012 -
The Old-School Mutant Beat-em-up Of Your Dreams
The supremely-talented Dave Rapoza has an original comic coming out called Skull and Shark. To advertise it, he’s whipped up a trailer (featuring the music of Lazerhawk) that turns the comic into an old-school beat-em-up. Seeing it presented like that, it would totally work as an old-school beat-em-up. Fingers crossed something like that, you know,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 3, 2012 -
A Long, Fascinating History of Video Game Samples in Rap Songs
Continuing on from a list they put together in October, Spin magazine has built a video showing you a whole bunch of video game samples used in hip-hop tracks. It runs in gaming’s chronological order, so while the music may be all over the place, the games at least will be in order. In case…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 3, 2012 -
Eerily Accurate BioShock Infinite Cosplayer Gets Job Appearing on Actual BioShock Infinite Stuff
Turns out we weren’t the only ones impressed by the “lifelike” imitation Russian cosplayer Anna Moleva could do of BioShock Infinite’s Elizabeth. The game’s creators, Irrational, were too. So impressed, in fact, they offered her a job, which means she’ll be appearing on stuff like BioShock Infinite’s marketing art, TV ads (so there’s a live-action…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2012 -
This Week’s Most Awesome Cyberpunk Game Trailer Sure Came Out of Nowhere
I wake up on Monday morning, I check my email and Twitter, and I see some normally-calm friends freaking out over this clip for a game called STEALER, by tiny Russian indie dev Winged Doom. It’s not even a game. Well, not really. It’s just a pitch trailer, something put together for mood, to reflect…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2012 -
The Lich…Queen? Sephiroth Swimsuit Shots? It Can Only Be a Cosplay Roundup
This week’s roundup of the best in cosplay features the two images listed in that headline. Both of them as amazing as they are unlikely. But they’re far from the only standout shots. There’s some amazing Zelda cosplay that looks like it was actually shot in a dungeon. A Warhammer 40K couple. Even some Fate/Extra!…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2012 -
How To Fix Female Comic Characters: Turn Them All Into Hawkeye
You probably don’t even need to read comics to know that, even to this day, many big-label artists and series still put their female characters in physically impossible poses, all in the name of making them look sexy. In an attempt to fix this, artists worldwide are teaming up for a top-secret initiative. And by…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2012 -
Game Falls $28 Short Of $50,000 Kickstarter Goal
This has got to be agonizing. DreamQuest games wasn’t looking for an insane amount of money when they put their planned game, Alpha Colony up on Kickstarter. All they wanted was $50,000 to develop the exploration, building and trading simulation for PCs and mobile devices. The detailed explanation, with screenshots, and a playable browser-based demo…
By Owen Good Published December 2, 2012 -
Will Anyone Really Care If There’s No More Baseball on the Xbox 360?
The first week after Thanksgiving is typically when MLB The Show‘s publicity machine rolls out the first screenshots and begins teasing upcoming details for the game, and right on schedule we got them this past week. The Show has had no serious competition for five years. Next year it won’t have any, in name or…
By Owen Good Published December 2, 2012 -
Masters of Slenderman Terror Join Slender Sequel
Not with a gun to my head would I watch Marble Hornets. How much of a cowering, frightened ninny am I? I won’t even google it to get an abstract of what the YouTube series is about to cite in this lead paragraph. It is, on Kirk Hamilton’s recommendation to me, the most fucked-up frightening…
By Owen Good Published December 2, 2012 -
Hate Using the Classic Controller on the Wii U? Use the PS2’s Instead.
A conversion kit going on sale soon in Japan allows gamers to connect a PlayStation 2 DualShock to the Wii U. It’s an alternative for those who don’t prefer the Wii Classic Controller to play old Wii games, and find themselves unable to use their good old GameCube controller because the new console lacks a…
By Owen Good Published December 2, 2012 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Chin Down Eyes Up: The Game
BioShock Infinite‘s underwhelming cover art revived the concept Mega64 brought to our attention three months ago: If you’re making a video game, chin-down, eyes-up is the way to go for every cover subject. Well, I think it should be the way all images should be presented, at least for this edition of the Kotaku ‘Shop…
By Owen Good Published December 2, 2012 -
Japanese Developer Codes First Ever Ding-Dong-Ditch Simulator
We called it Ring-And-Run. Other kids called it Ding Dong Ditch. Only when I moved out and lived on my own did I realize how aggravating it is to have some nitwit fifth-grader knock on your door and hide in the bushes when you went to open it. At least they didn’t leave a flaming…
By Owen Good Published December 2, 2012 -
Can People Still Get Dead Island In Countries Where It’s Censored? ‘I Hope So,’ Says Developer
Like the original Dead Island, the sequel, Dead Island: Riptide won’t have a German release, because that country is really weird about depictions of killing video game zombies, who technically are not even human and literally are not real. The game’s creative director was asked if he thinks Germans are still getting their hands on…
By Owen Good Published December 2, 2012 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bleak Friday: The Winners
Know how I can tell this picture of a father and son buying a Wii U on Black Friday is staged? There are no police barriers in the background. A publicity photo from Nintendo was the grist for last week’s ‘Shop Contest. We’ve got a dozen more interesting takes on this tender moment, plus overall…
By Owen Good Published December 1, 2012 -
Here Are the Winners of the 2012 Saxxys for Excellence in Team Fortress 2 Movie-Making
Two weeks ago Valve opened voting on the second annual Saxxy Awards, celebrating cinematography in Team Fortress 2 and the Source Filmmaker tool released earlier in the year. Last night, voting ended, and winners in four categories were crowned. You may see them here in this gallery. The overall winner has not yet been named.…
By Owen Good Published December 1, 2012 -
What Kind of Person Plays a Sports Video Game? MIT Has the Answers.
More than a year ago, Abe Stein of the Game Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reached out to me about a survey he was conducting, an examination of sports video gamers. Stein, himself a committed sports gamer, wanted to know who made up this segment of gaming—long viewed as an outlier to the…
By Owen Good Published December 1, 2012