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Find Out How a Blind Man Can Play in Mortal Kombat Tournaments
Mortal Kombat can be hard enough at the best of times, but could you play it with your eyes closed? Course you couldn’t. And even then, you at least know what the stage and characters look like when you open your eyes again. James, blind from birth, does not. Which is what makes his story…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2012 -
Valve Has Been Teasing a Secret Robot Army For Over Two Years Now
Valve’s announcement of a new “Mann vs Machine” game mode for Team Fortress 2 didn’t just come out of the blue. It didn’t even have its hat tipped over the weekend No, the studio that does crowd-teasing like no other has been building up to this moment for over two years The history of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2012 -
“Cans! It Was Only Cans!”
As long as we’re posting dialogue bits that we enjoy, I thought that this fine Monday evening I’d share my favorite line from Speed. Which is saying something! I don’t know why, but my sister, friends and I would repeat this line—Cans! It was cans!—over and over and over again, laughing and laughing. Evidently we…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 13, 2012 -
Could You Record a Song Every Single Day of the Year on Your PSP? This Guy Just Did.
Last year, Kotaku reader Chris Sands went through a bit of a rough patch. Undergoing complex brain surgery to help alleviate a bizarre hiccupping condition (which got him on the BBC as the star of a documentary!), he made PSP game Beaterator an integral part of his rehabilitation. An avid musician, putting beats together on…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2012 -
The Greatest Sharks In Video Games, Just In Time For Shark Week
Did you feel slightly on edge when you got out of bed this morning? Like your world was just a little bit more dangerous? As you went about your day, did you have the sense that you were… hunted? Well, that might be because IT’S MOTHER EFFIN SHARK WEEK, YO. Shark Week is the Discovery…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 13, 2012 -
Americans Are the Best Pokemon Video Game Players in the World. We Just Suck at Cards.
Just as the U.S. dominated the medal count at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, our boys brought home the golden Pikachu cup in all three divisions of the 2012 Pokémon World Video Game Championships in Hawaii this weekend. The trading card game? Not so much. As expected, 2010 and 2011 World Champion Ray Rizzo…
By Mike Fahey Published August 13, 2012 -
Team Fortress 2 Now Has a Third Team: Robots. Also, Co-op!
Team Fortress 2 now has a co-operative “horde” mode of its own, allowing five players to team up and take on waves and waves of…angry robots. As expected, Valve’s “Gray” teases have indeed led us to the dawn of the franchise’s war against robotics. The robots are modelled after each of the existing game’s iconic…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2012 -
Get A Load Of Catwoman Clawing It Up In Injustice: Gods Among Us
Here now, the new Gamescom trailer for Injustice: Gods Among Us, featuring a ton of but-whipping (geddit?) by the one and only Catwoman. Dang, girl! Those are some serious claws you’ve got there. (Via Ed Boon)
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 13, 2012 -
Hey Look, It’s The First Level Of System Shock 2 In Valve’s Source Engine
Before you get all super excited about “OMG System Shock 2 remake,” well… this isn’t one. What it is is a fun way to imagine what one of the greatest games of all time would look like with a more current engine. Inspired by those images depicting what BioShock would look like in Crytek’s CryEngine…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 13, 2012 -
Fewer People Finished Mass Effect 3 Than Mass Effect 2
I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t wait to finish Mass Effect 3. Sure, I wanted to close out the battle against the Reapers, but I played to complete the campaign in BioWare’s threequel to see where all the characters I’d grown to know wound up. Oddly, many other people who bought Mass Effect…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 13, 2012 -
It’s Okay To Steal That Old Lady’s Seat If You’re Using It To Play Video Games
There’s a YouTube series called Subway Thoughts that I, as a veteran subway user, love. In the most recent Subway Thoughts, Kurttoons considers swiping a seat from an old lady to play Angry Birds or, you know, the thousands of other games we all click to buy and then forget about.
By Tina Amini Published August 13, 2012 -
The Dorkly Weekly: Vote President Evil for Devouring Your Brain
So the president is dead. That doesn’t make him any more or less effective than any other leader of the free world since James K. Polk. Have you seen James K. Polk? No, not lately, I mean the older photos. Even when he had skin he looked like the kind of guy that wouldn’t mind…
By Mike Fahey Published August 13, 2012 -
Fake Gamer Of The Week: My Supah Glahsses Make Me Supah Fantastich At Video Games
Ya, hello little boys and girls. How aah you today. Are you good? I am good. Are you? Ich heisse Hans, and I am very, very good-looking and also a male model and also very good at PC gaming, ya! You puny little dogs don’t even rate for me, I am so good at killing…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 13, 2012 -
Borderlands 2‘s Villain Is Mighty Handsome. Game Looks Good, Too.
Meet “Handsome Jack,” the evil mastermind you’ll be taking on in the upcoming Borderlands 2 See! His army of robots! Hear! His swagger and confidence! Know! That you’re totally going to stuff it all down his pie-hole. Pride goeth, and all that. See you soon, Handsome Jack.
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 13, 2012 -
Sadly, Rock Band Blitz Does Not Feature Call Me Maybe
No matter how many times I ask the fine people at Harmonix to put Carly Rae Jepsen’s masterpiece “Call Me Maybe” into Rock Band, they just don’t listen. But hey, the actual setlist for Rock Band Blitz—which Harmonix will release on August 28 for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network—is looking pretty groovy. Here’s the full…
By Jason Schreier Published August 13, 2012 -
Everyone On The Internet Plays Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ At The Same Time
There have been approximately one billion tribute, cover, and parody versions of Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know.’ One of my favorites was this amazing Star Wars parody, but this shredding solo acoustic guitar version by Mike Dawes is another contender. There are so many different versions, actually, that Gotye himself has mashed up…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 13, 2012
