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If He Doesn’t Win Re-Election, President Obama Can Always Coach the Dallas Mavericks
Or the Chicago Bulls. Or Golden State Warriors. Or any team in NBA 2K12’s Association or My Player modes, as Reddit user soadfan09 discovered today. This has actually been known for some time, but it’s still cool to see POTUS now as HCOTDM. He’ll show up on the sidelines about three seasons into your team’s…
By Owen Good Published May 25, 2012 -
Assembling the LEGO Avengers
With the phenomenal success of the Avengers still vibrating in the world’s collective consciousness, the folks at LEGO sent a set of Avengers-themed LEGO Marvel Super Heroes bricks my way. So I spent several hours putting together a stop-motion video of the assembly of Earth’s mightiest minifigs. Is it me, or does the Black Widow…
By Mike Fahey Published May 25, 2012 -
Get a Whole Bunch of Classics for Cheap in the Big Honkin’ Mother of All Indie Game Sales
Indie game developers get it: people don’t have a lot of money these days. And while they’d love to sell their creations at full price, it’s given that a lower-priced offering will get people to try games like Canabalt or World of Goo out and come back to try out even more titles. That’s why…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 25, 2012 -
Who Knew That a Halo Beatdown Could Be So Danceable?
“Video game remixes” are becoming quite the thing these days—not to be confused with video game soundtrack remixes, video game remixes are when a musician takes the sound effects of a game and combines them into something musical. This Halo one is particularly neat—created by FlashBangMusic, it uses some of the most iconic Halo sound…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 25, 2012 -
For One Night Only, a Game You Need to Get Drunk to Play
Video games took over New York University last week and a whole bunch of people got drunk to celebrate. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. NYU’s Game Center held its third annual No Quarter exhibition last week, a yearly event where they showcase work that they commission from inventive game designers. This year, one of those…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 25, 2012 -
Gears, Gods, And Giant Robots: A Look Back At One Of The Best RPGs Ever
The other day on Twitter, fellow Kotaku writer Kate Cox mentioned she had just finished Xenogears, Square’s classic PlayStation role-playing game. Since Xenogears is one of my favorite games, a classic up there with the best RPGs ever, I bugged her roughly 19283493849284924 times to come chat about her experiences for Random Encounters. Eventually she…
By Jason Schreier Published May 25, 2012 -
Taking Comment of the Week Submissions
Well I bet you weren’t expecting this one, were you? Last week I made a bold attempt at simplifying the comment of the week submissions for Best of Kotaku. It was a great idea, spurred by you guys. Unfortunately, I can’t make that system—involving what is a broken tag page—work for us. So we’re going…
By Tina Amini Published May 25, 2012 -
GameStop Says They Won’t Mess With Your Game Informer Subscription After All [UPDATE 3]
Earlier this week a person claiming to work for mega gaming chain GameStop posted a warning on Reddit to all prospective shoppers: if you sign up for a Game Informer subscription while you’re at the shop, you will be signed up for a digital subscription, not for the print magazine—unless you ask. Worse, the person…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 25, 2012 -
Demon’s Souls Servers Will Stay Alive Indefinitely
It looked like next week was going to be the last hurrah for the online component of Demon’s Souls. But publisher Atlus has announced that they’re going to be keeping the servers online for their hit PS3 hit for as long as they can
By Evan Narcisse Published May 25, 2012 -
My PC Dropped Dead, but at Least I Rescued My Mass Effect Saves
I love my desktop PC. I’m a PC gamer through and through, and my current computer, which is the machine I also use every day for work, is one I built for myself in 2010. I dust it out regularly, am careful with my file management, and have mastered the art of putting the mouse…
By Kate Cox Published May 25, 2012 -
Plant Fruits, Vegetables, and Rows of the Undead on Your Zombie Farm
By sheer chance, one of my best friends and I were booked for the same flight from DC to Boston just before PAX East. We met up in the airport and had a while to relax over coffee before boarding. She couldn’t stop playing with her iPad. “What are you doing?” I finally asked. Her…
By Kate Cox Published May 25, 2012 -
People Are Playing Diablo III In All Sorts Of Places Now
In your basement, cuddled up next to your cat, on a mountain, and now on a tablet. Kotaku reader Wojtek wanted to see what running Diablo III on a touch device would be like, so he set the game up on his Samsung Series 7, which runs Windows. He describes the experience as functioning, as…
By Tina Amini Published May 25, 2012 -
Don’t be a Sparkly Vampire, be a Badass Vampire Instead
You don’t often see vampires reduced to using submachine guns, but then, that appears to be the premise – at least in this trailer – for Dark, a shooter due on PC and 360 next year. Maybe this shows how you become a vampire, I don’t know, but developers RealmForge say it’ll have RPG-like levelling,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2012 -
You, Too, Can See Yourself in Hogwarts in Harry Potter for Kinect
Let’s be honest: it’s fun to track Harry, Hermione, and Ron’s adventures through Hogwarts and the magical realm, but part of each of us always wants to be there ourselves. Well, the new Harry Potter game for Kinect wants to put you in Hogwarts, too. Or at least a scan of your face. Which is…
By Kate Cox Published May 25, 2012 -
New WWE ’13 Trailer Leaks
Wait! That’s WWE ’13‘s music! THQ will probably be showing off the teaser for their next sports entertainment extravaganza at E3 in two weeks. But the trailer trickled out onto the internet a bit early. The clip spotlights current WWE Heavyweight Champion CM Punk as the game’s centerpiece, a move that pleases me greatly. Punk’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 25, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Americans among us, rejoice! For this weekend will be a long one! Need a place to talk about your Memorial Day plans? Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 25, 2012 -
Report: How Scammers Are Stealing Xbox Live Accounts, and the Few Things You Can Do to Protect Yourself [Update]
For months now, Xbox 360 owners have been complaining of a surge in account thefts, incidents when people wake up one day to find themselves no longer with access (or even possession) of their own Xbox Live accounts anymore. At first believed to be the result of hacks in relation to EA’s FIFA series, it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2012 -
Sleeping Dogs Looks Like a Spicy Hodgepodge from the Last Five Years of Action Games
I may be crazy for looking forward to United Front’s upcoming open-world action game but Sleeping Dogs looks like it’s going to scratch a particular Hong-Kong-gangster-cinmea itch of mine. It also looks like it’s throwing elements designed to appeal to every possible sort of taste. Extreme car-jacking a la The Wheelman? Check. Need for Speed-style…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 25, 2012