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GameStop Begins Buying and Selling Used Skylanders Toys
GameStop might not accept your band game instruments as trade anymore, but the company does have its eye on another sort of colorful plastic toys. Gaming website Pixelitis recently received information about a Skylanders trade-in program being tested at several U.S. GameStop locations. Having spent the months following Christmas 2011 fielding calls from desperate children…
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2012 -
The Spooky-Smart Platformer Closure Is All About Shadowplay
Lots of indie platformers these days are basically Mario with a twist. The quality of the game, then, relies hugely on that twist. Braid was an incredible game because the time-manipulating twist so fundamentally changed the template set forward by Super Mario Bros. that it became its own whole thing. Closure is a new downloadable…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 4, 2012 -
USC’s Song Girls Finally Immortalized in a Video Game
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: Do little jugs get your attention? No? Well, how about the Song Girls of USC, or the Texas Pom Squad. Or a guy from Michigan staring up the crotch of Paul Bunyan. Trophies and university-specific cheerleaders are part of the coat of polish the…
By Owen Good Published April 4, 2012 -
Retired Pro Football Players Get the Go-Ahead to Blitz EA for Using Likenesses in Madden NFL
Like a quarterback scrambling in the pocket, Electronic Arts has been dodging court cases related to its sports titles left and right. In recent years, the litigation’s been initiated by athletes—both college and professional—that would have the publisher dole out a cut of profits for using their likenesses. The latest one could potentially involve thousands…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 4, 2012 -
Sportaku Starts Now
From the Worldwide Leader in Sports … Video Games, your 6 p.m. Sportaku begins now.
By Owen Good Published April 4, 2012 -
Sonic‘s Co-Creator Joins Nintendo
Well this is a line-crossing worth taking note of. Gamasutra reports that Hirokazu Yasuhara, co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, has taken a job at Nintendo. Because it’s never the wrong time for a Ghostbusters quote: Dogs and cats! Living together! Mass hysteria! Yasuhara has joined Nintendo’s Software Technology devision, an American-based second-party developer that has…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 4, 2012 -
Kingdoms of Amalur‘s “Teeth of Naros” DLC Will Add Bite to the Game
EA and 38 Studios just keep making the already-sizeable Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning bigger. On the heels of last month’s massive pirate-themed DLC, EA has announced the next bout of content for the game, a forbidding area called the “Teeth of Naros.” The “Teeth of Naros” is named for a troll god, we are told,…
By Kate Cox Published April 4, 2012 -
Attention PAX East Attendees, We’re Hosting a Crazy Panel on Friday
On Friday, April 6, you can take over Kotaku for one hour…. if you attend our PAX East panel! Our panel will run from 2:30-3:30pm on-site at the Arachnid Theater, and it just might destroy our site’s sterling reputation. Hooray! We’re calling it: “Take Over Kotaku (For One Hour)” Have you dreamed of filing a…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 4, 2012 -
Report Claims That These Are the Next PlayStation’s Processing Specs
Following up on news broken by Kotaku on Sony’s next PlayStation, IGN is reporting that the console codenamed Orbis will use two AMD chips for graphics and processing. Citing unnamed sources, the article says that the Orbis might be sporting AMD’s A8-3850 APU and Radeon HD 7670 GPU. The 7670 is an update of the…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 4, 2012 -
Did These Horrible Deeds Clinch EA’s Spot as America’s Worst Company?
Game publisher Electronic Arts took home the grand prize in The Consumerist’s Worst Company in America contest, and they don’t seem pleased about it But do they deserve the gold star? How do they stack up next to the other finalists? Let’s go through the four companies that made it to the Final Four and…
By Jason Schreier Published April 4, 2012 -
The Ancient Mayans Foresaw the Coming of this Devastating Case Mod
Dan McGrath’s stunning Thermaltake Level 10 GT mod might be called the AzTtec, but the inspiration is all Mayan. Looking every bit as if it were carved out of ancient stone from some scenic Central American temple, the material covering Thermaltake’s Level 10 GT case is actually a material called Balsa Foam, which when carved…
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2012 -
I Didn’t Know What to Expect from the Wonderfully Random Really Big Sky
Why would I feature a game that came out last year in our relatively new weekly PC Indie Spotlight feature? I simply couldn’t resist the sweet allure of a procedurally generated twin-stick shooter that never played the same way twice. And I missed Luke’s post last year and didn’t notice Really Big Sky until it…
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2012 -
They’re Never Too Young To Start PC Gaming
Not only is this nine-month-old infant attempting to play Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on his father’s computer, he also gets incredibly annoyed when his session is interrupted. This is how it starts. Yes, I found another excuse to post a video of one of my children, but it does speak of the allure of the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2012 -
Six Years Ago, I Decided to Hate World of Warcraft. Can Mists of Pandaria Change My Mind?
World of Warcraft and I never did really get along. Since its launch in 2004, I’ve lost track of the number of friends of mine who loved it. They’d tell me breathlessly about their druids, priests, and hunters while extolling the benefits of the Alliance or the Horde. After ages of politely declining to join…
By Kate Cox Published April 4, 2012 -
A Little Something Special for the Shadowrun Fans in the Audience
Culled from the video from this morning’s Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter post, it’s time to put the sins of Shadowrun games past behind us. Watching the executive producer of 2007’s horrid first-person shooter get pelted with random objects a few thousand times should do the trick. The 2007 game was a cross-platform affair, uniting Xbox 360…
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2012 -
Putting Together the Perfect PC
The TechSpot PC Buying Guide offers an in-depth list of today’s best hardware, spanning four unique, yet typical budgets. Whether you are a first time builder seeking guidance or a seasoned enthusiast, we have you covered. After working on this guide for many years, we learned the biggest pitfall of our previous work along with…
Matthew DeCarlo | TechSpot Published April 4, 2012