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Scottish Team’s Bankruptcy Means FIFA 13 Faces a Financial Decision, Too
It’s a simple truth: A club that is relegated out of a league appearing in EA Sports’ FIFA runs the risk of getting relegated out of the video game, too. For the more popular sides, this usually isn’t much of a threat, and in any event many of the biggest leagues run two divisions deep,…
By Owen Good Published July 19, 2012 -
Recruiting Myself with NCAA Football and Wondering If I’ll Even Answer the Phone
Deciding where to go to college was very simple for me. It had nothing to do with a university convincing me to enroll there; it had everything to do with convincing one to actually admit me. N.C. State, for whatever reason, sent me the fat envelope in late 1990, and I said yes on the…
By Owen Good Published July 19, 2012 -
Craigslister Offers Spare Dark Knight Ticket In Exchange For Sex [UPDATE]
Tickets for the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises might be sold out across the board, but here’s one guy with a spare. Don’t get too excited: there’s a catch. Update: The listing, created as a prank by comedian Joe Stapleton, has sadly been removed from Craigslist This anonymous Craiglister, posting in the “men…
By Jason Schreier Published July 19, 2012 -
How Many Games Systems Do You Have Hooked Up?
Ultimately we want to own all of the game consoles, but how many do we keep hooked up at one time? Commenter Rumbrave_Remy wants to know in today’s installment of Speak Up on Kotaku. How many game systems do you have plugged in at once? I feel like this is a question that comes up…
Featuring Rumbrave_Remy Published July 19, 2012 -
EA, Zynga, Microsoft Support Challenge to Defense of Marriage Act
Three companies with major involvement in video games—EA, Zynga and Microsoft—have joined some 40 other companies, including the Gap, Google and Starbucks, along with several cities, including New York, Boston and Los Angeles, in filing a brief to support a legal challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act. The Act, signed into federal law in…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2012 -
Assassin’s Creed III‘s Top Creator Is Answering Your Questions Right Here, Right Now
Do you have a question about Assassin’s Creed III? Would you like Alex Hutchinson, the creative director of this fall’s big game, to answer it? Ask your question in the box below. Hutchinson will be answering the best ones starting at 5pm ET. We’ve got him here for a half hour. Go! UPDATE: Here’s a…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2012 -
Browser-Based MMO Runescape Boasts 200 Million Players… and Counting
When you talk about MMORPGs in the United States, most minds jump to World of Warcraft. And yes, with subscriber base that peaked at twelve million and still hangs out around ten million, WoW was and is a big deal. But Runescape, a free-to-play browser-based MMORPG from British company Jagex, makes every subscription-based game ever…
By Kate Cox Published July 19, 2012 -
You Are The Protagonist Of This First-Person Graphic Novel
Lots of video games are made to be played from the first-person perspective. People regularly complain about this. But what about a first-person comic book? That’s a little less ordinary. This twist in presentation was enough to make even old, cliched zombie trophes feel new in Brian Ralph’s graphic novel, Daybreak. The reader is pulled…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 19, 2012 -
A Video Game That Feels Like A Dream
While standing behind the demo for Papo & Yo yesterday at a Sony event, watching the game in action as I waited for my turn to play, the first thing I noticed was that the main character doesn’t walk up stairs. He just sort of glides. So when I got my hands on the controller,…
By Jason Schreier Published July 19, 2012 -
Jann Lee Takes on Tina in Dead or Alive 5‘s Tag Mode
With Tina and Jann Lee returning to the ring in Dead or Alive 5, there are just too many pretty characters in the game to choose just one. Luckily there’s Tag Mode. Taking place inside an electrified wrestling ring surrounded by screaming fans (hopefully not screaming because they’re being electrocuted, but I’ll take it), Dead…
By Mike Fahey Published July 19, 2012 -
This Week’s Coolest Nintendo Download Transforms Your DSi Into a Tiny Programming Tool
This week’s Nintendo downloadables include the 3DS release of the Game Boy’s Kid Icarus and Tumble Pop, a new puzzle game by Nikoli and a colorful action adventure game from Aksys, but the title I’m looking most forward to isn’t a game at all. It’s a game creator. Well, Petite Computer isn’t just for creating…
By Mike Fahey Published July 19, 2012 -
Half-Life 2 Art Director Laments The Stale State Of Modern Video Games
If there’s one man who knows from originality in video games, it’s Viktor Antonov. He’s the man responsible for the oppressive, beautiful art design of City 17 in Valve’s masterpiece Half-Life 2. One of the main reasons that I’m excited about the upcoming Dishonored is that Antonov will be art director. Just check out this…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 19, 2012 -
The Mastermind Behind the Ouya Console Is Answering Your Best Questions Right Here
Julie Uhrman want to make a $99 hackable Android-based game console, and now she’s got about $5 million in Kickstarter pledges to make that dream a reality. But since news broke about the ambitious Ouya device, many gamers have had many questions. Some have been answered in official interviews; some on Ouya’s Kickstarter page. Today,…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2012 -
Oh Look, It’s A Crapload More Resident Evil 6 Gameplay Footage
Man, at this rate, we’re not even going to have to play Resident Evil 6, we can just watch it. Then again, after reading Jason’s article about Let’s Play, it actually sounds like a kinda cool idea. At any rate, three new videos of the game have hit YouTube—you can watch them here. Lots of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 19, 2012 -
The Creative Director of Assassin’s Creed III Will Answer Your Questions Live on Kotaku at 5pm ET
We’re so in love with our new live, reader-led Q&As that we’re doing two of them today. At 1:30pm ET, you’ll be able to ask questions and get answers from Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman. And then, at 5pm ET, come back and do the same with Alex Hutchinson, the creative director (read: top game developer)…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2012 -
Fieldrunners 2 Is a Huge Improvement Over the First Fieldrunners
It’s been four years since the first Fieldrunners, the hit tower defense game which was what everyone with an iPhone seemed to have long before Angry Birds took over. Subatomic Studios has finally created a sequel, a rather large game that makes the first one look like a tech demo. The core gameplay is the…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2012 -
How Ratchet & Clank Does Tower Defense
Yesterday’s news that the next Ratchet & Clank involves tower defense elicited at least one groan from a reader who recalled what a wretched addition tower defense was to last year’s Assassin’s Creed. Tower defense games may be popular—who doesn’t love setting up rows of towers to kill marching enemies?—but some series just don’t need…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Thursday. You’ve made it this far. The weekend is within reach. Do not falter, heroes. Go on and talk about the games you’re playing, loving and hating. Head over to Talk Amongst Yourselves, the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Go to the TAY…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 19, 2012
