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I’d Play This Game Even If It Wasn’t Called Drunken Robot Pornography
When Dejobaan Games, the developer behind The Wonderful End of the World and AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity create a first-person shooter that’s all about building and demolishing gigantic robots, they don’t need to name it Drunken Robot Pornography to get my attention; the name it Drunken Robot Pornography because there’s something wrong…
By Mike Fahey Published May 15, 2012 -
Black Ops II Studio Head Knows Fans Want a “Better-Looking Game”
Activision puts out a new Call of Duty game every year. It’s been that way for the last half-decade or so. Trouble is, this annualization give people a wide-open lane to complain about recycled engines and how the games all look the same. Mark Lamia—head of Treyarch, the studio behind the Black Ops branch of…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 15, 2012 -
Nintendo Brings Augmented Reality Pokémon Hunting to the 3DS
Catching them all gets a bit more personal later this year as Nintendo announces two 3DS eShop tie-ins for Pokémon Black and White 2: the pro version of its free 3D Pokédex, and Pokémon Dream Radar, a game that let’s players capture monsters in real life and transfer them to the full games. This is…
By Mike Fahey Published May 15, 2012 -
What Do Predator, Mortal Kombat, Dragonball Have in Common? This Guy.
This guy is Mike La Jute Blanche. He’s a French cosplayer, and holy crap, he is good. Just look at his work. The outfits and make up are incredibly impressive, and he does a great job of capturing Predator, Dragonball‘s Piccolo, and Motal Kombat. The hip-hop Piccolo is especially wonderful. Sure, his Kratos cosplay needs…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 15, 2012 -
Game Breaking Bug Discovered in Diablo III
Players are reporting a game breaking bug in newly released Diablo III. The bug kicks players off Diablo III servers, bringing up an Error 3006 message. The bug is triggered when players interact with the Templar follower early in the game, equipping the Templar with a shield. Players on Blizzard’s Diablo III forums are reporting…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 15, 2012 -
It’s Like Metal Gear, Metal Gear…Pomeranian
This last weekend, Sony kicked off a nationwide promotional tour for the June 7 release of Tokyo Jungle at Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara. While the event consisted of little more than a spokesperson and two demo stations, I was able to spend almost a half hour with Sony’s newest big name PS3 title. The demo…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published May 15, 2012 -
Well, I’d Say This Stupid Error Message About Sums It Up, Diablo III-Wise
Hey, I know that server errors are to be expected when an online game launches. That doesn’t make it any less annoying that I’ve been trying (quite diligently!) to log in to Diablo III for the last half-hour to no avail. I don’t even want to play with other people! I just wanted to click…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 15, 2012 -
Come On, a Card Game About Tentacle Rape? [Update]
Tentacle Bento is the name of a card game currently up on Kickstarter seeking funding. As of posting, it has received twice as much money as it originally said it needed. Which is a bit of a bummer, since it’s a game about raping girls with tentacles. Yeah, you can say this is a fetish,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2012 -
Sega’s Greatest Hero Had an Action Figure
If you think I mean Sonic, get out. And don’t come back. I mean Segata Sanshiro, Sega Saturn ad man and star of easily the greatest video game commercials ever made During the height of his popularity in Japan in the late 90s, Takara released this figure based on Sanshiro (played by former Kamen Rider…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2012 -
Diablo III is now LIVE
After eleven years, the next entry in the Diablo series is now unlocked, open and ready to go. Or, at least, it should be. If you’ve got the client installed, have at it! And if you have any problems, comments or excited thoughts, please, leave them below. UPDATE – And whaddya know, people are having…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2012 -
Batman Figures Pull a Knife on Arkham City’s Finest
There are two kinds of Batman: Arkham City action figures. There are the standard ones, and there are the expensive ones. These are a new line of the standard ones, but before you let that put you off, some of them look pretty great. DC Collectible’s third series of Arkham City toys include six figures.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2012 -
Official Servers Make a Battlefield 3 Comeback
After it was discovered last week that the number of “official” DICE and EA Battlefield 3 servers on console had dropped significantly in the wake of a new rental scheme, the developer has moved to bring a large number of them back. We were told last week that no servers had gone offline; instead, DICE’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2012 -
PC Zombie Darling Causes Sale Explosion, ArmA Devs Happy to Help
Diablo III may have all the marketing and hype as far as the PC market is concerned, but I’ll be damned if anything, Blizzard-developed or not, is going to keep me from playing more DayZ this week. The zombie survival mod for Bohemia Interactive’s military sim ArmA II has come out of nowhere to be…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2012 -
Ghost Recon “Trailer” is More of an “Awesome Short Movie”
In 2010, Ubisoft released one of the best video game “trailers” I’d ever seen, using fancy effects and real actors to bring Ghost Recon to life. Now, two years later, they’re back, and this one’s not only longer, it’s better. I can’t imagine the marketing pull this will receive will be worth the time and…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2012 -
Designing a Better Steam, For PC and TV (and Phones!)
Unlocks aside, Valve’s Steam service works pretty damn well. One thing it’s always been a little lacking in, though, has been its appearance. The latest redesign helped, but it’s still a little cluttered, a little messy. So designer Josh Collie thought he’d take a swing at redesigning the thing. I like what he’s come up…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2012 -
The Name’s Gambit; Remember It
Hello camp Kotaku, and welcome to another Open Thread. If you’re reading this, it’s probably 10:40 PM EST, which means only 5.3 more hours until Diablo III unlocks. Well, 5.3 hours and one minute. (Or yes, if you want to be “more accurate,” 5 Hours and 21 minutes.) While you’re waiting, take some time to…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 14, 2012 -
Check Out All The Loot In The Diablo III Collector’s Edition
Blizzard certainly didn’t skimp on the Diablo III collector’s edition. It’s a big honkin box, filled with an amount of loot appropriate for a game that is all about, well, loot. Stephen’s copy arrived at Gawker HQ… but he wasn’t there to receive it, so our own Tina Amini opened it up and had a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 14, 2012 -
Blizzard Offers Some Unlucky Diablo III Fans Refunds, Others “Free” Games
Poor Aussie Diablo III fans who pre-ordered the game then lost their money (and game!) when retailer GAME went into administration yesterday, you’re suddenly in luck. Blizzard will be footing the bill, and getting you the games you paid for. The company has issued a statement that basically says “if you kept your receipt, buy…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2012 -
The Witcher Developers are Working on at Least One Entirely New Game
The Polish game studio CD Projekt is hiring for two new games, at least one of which has nothing to do with The Witcher One of the franchises is described as “dark fantasy” (just like The Witcher), and the other sounds like something totally different. “Our mature dark-fantasy world is well known around the world,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 14, 2012
