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Your Favorite Video Game Is Probably Part of This Guy’s Amazing Tattoo
This is Charles Wheeler’s right arm. In case you can’t tell, he loves video games. A couple of years ago, he decided to get a major tattoo. “I had wanted to do a sleeve but could not figure out an idea,” he told Kotaku. “Then I said, ‘Why not a gaming sleeve?'” The 30-year-old native…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 19, 2012 -
Nine Words Have Sold Me On Jason Rohrer’s Next Game
From Jason Rohrer, the maker of Passage, Sleep is Death and Diamond Trust of London, we’re getting a new PC/Mac/Linux game called The Castle Doctrine This is the description: “a massively-multiplayer game of burglary and home defense”. I don’t need to know anything else! Sign me up. Follow the game at the official Castle Doctrine…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 19, 2012 -
If You Want To Be Taken Seriously, Don’t Call Your Game Warface
Crytek, the studio behind the Crysis series and its eye-bleeding Cryengine graphics tech, are getting ready to launch their newest game. It’s a free-to-play shooter. It’s already out in some parts of the world, and will be out in North America pretty soon. And it’s called Warface Yes. That is the name. “Warface.” Crytek would…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 19, 2012 -
EA: Social Games Aren’t Dying, But Consumers ‘Won’t Pay for Crap’
With player numbers dropping and the recent revelation that 85 percent stop playing after the first day, a shadow hangs over the once ridiculously profitable social gaming scene. Speaking today at App Conference in San Jose, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello said that the decline of social gaming is overplayed; it’s not dying, it’s evolving.…
By Mike Fahey Published October 19, 2012 -
Goldfinger Is A Silly Movie. It’s An Even Sillier Chapter of 007 Legends.
Goldfinger might be the most iconic of all the James Bond films. Even if you’ve never seen it (or, like me, saw it once, long ago, at about three in the morning while not really paying attention), you know its big beats. Goldfinger is the one where Bond is strapped to a table with that…
By Kate Cox Published October 19, 2012 -
The BioShock Infinite board game sounds pretty neat. Lots of stories, cards, dice, figures, and all that jazz.
By Jason Schreier Published October 19, 2012 -
How To Fix The Best RPG Series On The Planet
Suikoden is a video game series about destiny. About fate. About people who fight against near-insurmountable odds to accomplish things that shouldn’t be possible. So in a twist of morbid irony worthy of The Twilight Zone, this wonderful RPG series has spent the past 15 years embroiled in its own battle against fate, its own…
By Jason Schreier Published October 19, 2012 -
Sleeping Dogs Is About To Get A Little Crazier
Just in time for Halloween, Sleeping Dogs developer United Front Games will be releasing add-on content for the amazing hands-on, kung fu combat, open world game. And there will be zombies. And vampires. Sort of. It’s called Nightmare in North Point, and instead of slapping rival Triad members in the face with a fish, you…
By Tina Amini Published October 19, 2012 -
Thank God I Can Make My Borderlands 2 Character Stop Yapping
Considering that the point of Borderlands 2 is to use the biggest possible gun on the biggest possible dude, it sure is a chatty game. Even the guns talk! It’s basically a comedy; a machine-gun barrage of riffs, references, and cheeky toilet-humor. The jokes are pretty good, generally speaking, even though they have a tendency…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 19, 2012 -
What’s Better Than Old School Tank Combat? Old School Tank Combat in Space.
Don’t let the over-the-top and quite frankly incredibly misleading launch trailer put you off Nexon’s new free-to-play online iOS game. Space Tanks is the Atari 2600 classic Combat from the future. It’s the little things. Six players gathering online in a top-down tank battle. Toss in a few power-ups, add some enhancement towers, allow players…
By Mike Fahey Published October 19, 2012 -
Capcom Says They’ve Made 75 Resident Evil ‘Titles’. Seventy. Five.
There sure have been a lot of Resident Evil games, right? The above chart was posted by Capcom back in June. I just noticed it on their corporate website today, and… wow… I knew they’d made more Resident Evils than the name Resident Evil 6 implies, but not this many! Surely, Capcom’s count of “titles”…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 19, 2012 -
This Miniature Replica Portal Gun Does Not Actually Shoot Miniature Portals, But It’s Still Cool
Do you need an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device? Of course you do! Sure, there’s a life-sized replica out there in the world, but for those of us with smaller living rooms (and smaller budgets), this miniature edition, from ThinkGeek, is just the ticket. This model, admittedly, can’t actually make a wormhole in your wall.…
By Kate Cox Published October 19, 2012 -
Maybe Capcom Was Right. Resident Evil 6 Is Selling Well in Japan.
Despite taking a beating from some critics (including two of our own) Capcom’s Resident Evil 6 appears to be a hit in Japan, nearly doubling the sales of Resident Evil 5 in the same time period. The Japanese sales-tracking service Media Create shows the PlayStation 3 version of RE6 selling 634,933 and 92,921 in its…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 19, 2012 -
If I Ever Play Mass Effect On PS3, It Will Have To Be On This Gorgeous Custom Mod
I have a PlayStation 3. It works perfectly well. In well over four years of loyal service, it hasn’t failed us yet and it most certainly does not need replacing. And yet. I don’t even want to play Mass Effect on it. I’ve got that trilogy on PC, and I like it better that way.…
By Kate Cox Published October 19, 2012 -
Square Enix Finds Redemption for Demons’ Score with Symphonica
I was terribly disappointed with the way Square Enix priced iNiS’s rhythm game, Demons’ Score. So disappointed that when I heard the company had released another iNiS rhythm game on iOS I almost didn’t bother. Between the free initial download and the stirring sounds of Dvorak’s New World Symphony my tenuous convictions crumbled, and I…
By Mike Fahey Published October 19, 2012 -
This Week’s iPad Charts: Of Course Free is the Right Price
This is Mike Fahey with Kotaku, reminding you to keep your pets spayed and neutered, in honor of a The Price is Right game topping this week’s free iPad charts. You should probably just pick one—spay or neuter, not both. I’m not a vet or anything, mind you. I’m just a big Bob Barker fan.…
By Mike Fahey Published October 19, 2012