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This Is What You Will Unlock In Borderlands 2 If You Have a Borderlands Save File
People who have save files for the first Borderlands on PC, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 will get the stuff in the image here, according to an official posting by Borderlands folks at the official Gearbox community site.
By Stephen Totilo Published July 6, 2012 -
Can’t Wait For The Dark Knight Rises? This Low Budget Edition Is Out Now.
Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises won’t be out until later this month, but if you’re fiending for an early hit before then, you can try this low-budget film. I think it captures the essence of Batman and the other characters quite well. The heated conversation between Bane and Batman might be the highlight of this…
By Tina Amini Published July 6, 2012 -
PlayStation All Stars Borrows Two Fighters from Street Fighter X Tekken
Billed as a big reveal tonight during the Evolution Championship Series, the next two fighters on the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale roster sound a little familiar. That’s because Heihachi Mishima and Toro Inoue were both in the lineup for Street Fighter X Tekken Still, both have long and noteworthy ties to the Sony brand. Heihachi…
By Owen Good Published July 6, 2012 -
LEGO Is About The Best Way to Make 8-Bit Video Game Art
LEGO and video games to together perfectly. The blocky, pixel-based aethetic of retro 8-bit gaming is ripe for recreation in squared off blocks. One gamer out there has the time and the LEGOs to make it all happen, and the tumblr for showing it off. Meufer’s recreations range from the iconic to the nearly unknown,…
By Kate Cox Published July 6, 2012 -
Backhanded Box Quotes: Zeroes Aren’t Hard to Find
Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. Spec Ops: The Line Released: June 26. Critic: hcookie (Metacritic) • “Incredible storyline. The Apocalypse Now for the next generation.” • “Gameplay is fantastic and a great story. “ • “Do not…
By Owen Good Published July 6, 2012 -
Piling On: Four Hundred Games I’ll Never Finish, and Counting
Tuesday afternoon I got the Internet connected in my new home. From Wednesday morning until Thursday afternoon, my PlayStation 3 was downloading every free title due to me as a PlayStation Plus subscriber. Since I moved, that console has literally spent more time acquiring games than I will likely spend playing them, or any game…
By Owen Good Published July 6, 2012 -
This $1,238,099.99 Video Game Auction Boggles the Mind [Update]
For a minimum bid starting at a more than a million dollars, a collector is offering his entire catalog of video games for Nintendo home systems from the NES/Famicom through the GameCube, plus the full lineup of every game released on any Sega system—all of it in the box with original instructions. Easily numbering more…
By Owen Good Published July 6, 2012 -
Look At These Game Developers Do Normal People Things Like Cuddle Their Pets
There are few things in life as sweet or satisfying as the companionship of a pet. Okay, I think I’m saying that as a crazy-cat-lady-in-the-making, but still! Unable to get a pet of my own, I thought I’d ask developers about their pets. It’s a living vicariously through other people thing. Plus, who can resist…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 6, 2012 -
Trollin’ Up the Score in NCAA Football‘s New Heisman Mode
Hand it to EA Sports, its marketing of the “Heisman Challenge” mode of NCAA Football knows exactly what you’ll do with it. Given the means to put an all time great on any college team, you’re more apt to pervert history than recreate it. Ads have shown Eddie George in Michigan’s winged helmet, Robert Griffin…
By Owen Good Published July 6, 2012 -
The 120 Stars of Super Mario 64
deviantART artist kitsovereign created an awesome montage of the 120 stars of Super Mario 64. Meaning each star mission, represented visually here. After making its rounds on the Internet, this Reddit user decided to partition and categorize them by mission. For ultimate nerdiness. And factiness. Check them out down below. Don’t forget to expand both…
By Tina Amini Published July 6, 2012 -
A Love Letter to the Collect-o-Thon Platformer
In this “anything for an opportunity to feature Sly Cooper” edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter GiantBoyDetective pronounces his love for platforming games that have you find countless things. The Sly Cooper Collection has been sitting at the top of my backlog for a good while now and I finally got around to playing…
Featuring GiantBoyDetective Published July 6, 2012 -
A Very Special Fourth of July Week in Gaming Apps
There are many ways to celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Some people host massive cookouts. Some shoot off fireworks. Others still throw parades. Here at Kotaku, we celebrate by limiting our daily gaming app spotlight to only four amazing games. Some might tell you this is because we were…
By Mike Fahey Published July 6, 2012 -
Peter Molyneux’s Next Game Hides a ‘Life-Changingly Important’ Surprise
As he often does, Peter Molyneux has promised that his next game will be a doozy. The creator of games like Fable and Black & White is releasing an experimental game called Curiosity for PC, Android, and iOS. The concept is that players all around the world can click to tap away at a black…
By Jason Schreier Published July 6, 2012 -
Diablo III Suffers From A Common Video Game Plague: It Ends
Regardless of how good a game might be, regardless of how many hours of entertainment it provides, a game that dares to end is a game that has damned itself. We don’t want our games to end, and the recent complaints around the Diablo III endgame are a testament to that desire. Taking a look…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 6, 2012 -
Phew, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Will Have Afro Breakdance Kung-Fu and Boxing Dinosaurs Again
The announcement of a fighting game sequel always comes with two varieties of nervous tension. First comes the worry of “Who’s gonna be in it?,” where one wonders if their favorite fighters will be showing up in a new installment of Series X. Then comes the panic that developers might have nerfed or ruined your…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 6, 2012 -
These Loyal RPG Fans Are Just Looking For Some Hope
There are a lot of disgruntled gamers out there. For every video game series that has been abandoned or mistreated by its creators, there’s a group of fans who want nothing more than to see their favorite titles restored to glory. Americans who love games like Mega Man Legends, Mother, and Valkyria Chronicles are angry.…
By Jason Schreier Published July 6, 2012 -
In Praise of the Video Game Controller, the Violin for ‘Gaming’s Virtuosos’
To those who are infatuated with motion controls—their fingers swiping across iPad, their hands waving in front of Kinects—I’d like to point out that the controller is still an excellent and precise (!) way to play video games. That is the point of a new piece about the benefits of the unheralded video game controller…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 6, 2012 -
Another Week, Another Comment of the Week
Hello Kotaku! Welcome to judgment day. Where you are the judges. And I guess I’m kind of a judge, too. Please post your Comment of the Week submissions down below, with a link to said comment. Vote ’em up if your favorite is already there. And when your brain starts angling towards “I said something…
By Tina Amini Published July 6, 2012