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Two Mirandas, Catwoman and a Black Widow Walk Into a Bar…
And…look, I’d finish that with a punchline, but I’ve been distracted by somebody cosplaying the lights out as Zelda’s washed-up sailor, Linebeck. Those mentioned and more are the stars of this latest instalment of Fancy Pants, our regular look back at the best of the past week in cosplay. Fancy Pants is a look at…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2012 -
New Steam Community Feature Shows Testers Prefer Sex, Butts, Memes
When Valve sat down to design its new Steam Community system, it probably figured including the ability to share screenshots would lead to page after page of glorious vistas, hilarious missteps and dramatic explosions. Nope. Turns out most people currently in the community beta just want to see sex. And butts. And Sonic memes. The…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2012 -
For the Longtime Sports Gamer, What’s Not in the Game Counts More
He wasn’t some chicken-feed performer. His jersey number was retired and he’s in the hall of fame, and he was also named one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players. Sure, he played for a small college, and to the general public his name is always mentioned alongside an even greater teammate’s. Yet nothing can take…
By Owen Good Published August 19, 2012 -
Tyrion Lannister Statue is Just Like The Man Himself: Small, Yet Impressive
Dark Horse will next year be releasing this statue based on the Game of Thrones TV series, featuring the likeness of Tyrion Lannister, who is played by Peter Dinklage. Standing 10″ tall and due in February 2013, the statue will sell for $200. What’s cool is that Dinklage himself was filmed by the show’s crew…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2012 -
Did OnLive Gut Its Employees’ Stock Options to Make Itself Cheaper to Buy Out?
In the aftermath of OnLive’s not-really-bankruptcy, not-really-restructuring comes this rumor from TechCrunch, which may explain why the cloud-gaming service would want to, effectively, terminate itself as a company, but not its services, nor offer up any of its assets for liquidation to settle its mounting debts. OnLive, suggests TechCrunch, opted for its technical “form of…
By Owen Good Published August 19, 2012 -
League of Legends Wins Fight Against Porn Site
Apparently when GoDaddy was hawking .co domain registrations with Danica Patrick and bodypaint, some Colombian outfit snapped up LeagueOfLegends.co and redirected gamers who forgot to type that last “M” to a porn site. Considering the overall popularity of LeagueOfLegends.com, this was a shrewd bit of cybersquatting. Well, now their cynical pornmongering has come to an…
By Owen Good Published August 19, 2012 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Raising Excitement
We’re kind of late on this one, but there was a major game announcement back in July: Farming Simulator 2013 arrives in October for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, in Europe, of course. Now, I can’t understand why they don’t release Farming Simulator every two or three years, with the latest and greatest genetically modified…
By Owen Good Published August 19, 2012 -
Would It Change Your Mind to Know Curt Schilling’s Beautiful “Copernicus” MMO was Supposed to be Free-to-Play?
Though the studio’s founder himself said the game wasn’t even fun—no one internally was playing it—“Project Copernicus” was one of the most lamented casualties of 38 Studios’ collapse, primarily because its screenshots looked so damn good. Not at all like a free-to-play game. But that was the plan for “Copernicus” from the get-go, said Curt…
By Owen Good Published August 19, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves is where you should go to talk about games. And life. And hot dogs from Gray’s Papaya.
By Owen Good Published August 19, 2012 -
Star Wars’ Intro Eaten Alive By 30 Rock’s
The classic opening to Star Wars gets a little shorter and a lot more contemporary when it’s smashed together with the intro to comedy series 30 Rock. You can see this clip and the original running side-by-side here. Just in case you needed to check how well it’s been done. It’s only seeing them like…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2012 -
In case you haven’t already noticed, every Steam account now has access to the DOTA 2 Spectator Client
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2012 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Kitchen Sink Winners
A grab bag of images last week served you everything from NBA superstars to prom couples and hovercrafts. There’s no real unified theme here, except for the funny. We’ve got all the finalists above, plus overall winner kaploy9! Zombie-Hunter (19) came through with the strong execution of a picture a lot of people were expecting…
By Owen Good Published August 18, 2012 -
Someone’s resumé says something completely unsurprising: Black Ops 2 will release a Wii U version.
By Owen Good Published August 18, 2012 -
Trust No One in DayZ—Especially Those With a Helicopter
It’s tempting. You’re in an ultra-realistic, post-apocalyptic fight for survival, and some helpful human players show up in a goddamn helicopter of all things, blow away the zombie menacing you, and invite you aboard. And why wouldn’t you join them? It’s great to have friends with aircraft. Except these aren’t your friends. If you’re playing…
By Owen Good Published August 18, 2012 -
Weak Traffic, Low Subscribers Meant Something Had to Happen—but OnLive Employees Didn’t Expect the End
All of OnLive’s 200 employees worked daily with the cloud gaming service’s traffic numbers, and knew that something big had to happen for the company around this time of the year. That’s not to say everyone expected to lose their jobs together on the same day, no severance, no benefits, no nothing. That’s according to…
By Owen Good Published August 18, 2012 -
Borderlands 2‘s Official Rating Description is Outstanding
Back at E3 I was dismayed to learn that, thanks to prudes overseas, Borderlands 2‘s darkly humorous death animations would have to be toned down from the original’s, which included eyeball-exploding electrocutions. Well, if the official ratings description handed down by the ESRB is any indication, I needn’t have worried. Borderlands 2 went to gold…
By Owen Good Published August 18, 2012