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EVE Online Suicide Taunter Goes Well Beyond Apologising
The Mittani, a senior player in the EVE Online community and the man at the centre of yesterday’s story about suicide taunts at a game convention, has gone well beyond apologising for his actions. Saying that “actions > words” and that he hates it “when people use alcohol as an excuse” for their behaviour (The…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2012 -
Total Recall Starts Now!
The history of video games. Let’s not look back in anger, OK?
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
We’ll Always Have Taco-Mail
Hello, Kotaku, and welcome to the evening Open Thread. I hope you’ve had a nice Tuesday—it’s been raining in San Francisco, and but that’s been kind of nice. Here, gathered from the internet, are some things to amuse and bedevil you. Not a ton of links as today has been very busy! We’ll have more…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 27, 2012 -
Sony Killing PSP Games to Prevent Vita Piracy?
Over the past few weeks, hackers from Wololo.net claimed to have exploited code found in two downloadable PSP games, allowing for the playing of homebrew games on the system. Those two PSP games were Everybody’s Tennis and MotorStorm: Arctic Edge, the latter of which was shown off with a hacker playing the PC version of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
The True Ending of Asura’s Wrath Drops Next Month, Followed by Street Fighter
Today sees the release of the first of five rounds of downloadable content for Capcom’s interactive anime epic Asura’s Wrath, the beginning of a five round cycle that ends with a pair of Street Fighter grudge matches. The Asura’s Wrath DLC spectacular kicks off today with the release of Episode 11.5: Forging Ahead, followed next…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2012 -
The US Military Wants to Hack Foreign Game Consoles, Steal User’s Information
The Department of the Navy is looking very closely at used video game consoles. Only, they don’t want to play them. They want to crack them open and steal all the information on overseas users they can get their hands on. To that end, the Department has contracted a company called Obscure Technologies to go…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
Forget Draw Something, Check Out the Madness of Drawception
Do you like Draw Something, but feel like it could be crazier? Drawception might be more to your taste. It combines the fun Pictionary-style guessing of Draw Something with the weird-to-weirder design of a game of “Telephone.” Here are the rules, as shared on the Drawception site: How it Works Like the games “eat poop…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 27, 2012 -
Finally, A Game That Lets Me Have Unique Relationships With More Than 15 Realistic Horses
I wouldn’t say I’m a “Horse-Game Connoisseur,” but I do think horses are pretty neat. So I got a kick out of the press release I received from Ubisoft today about their upcoming 3DS game, Horses 3D According to the press release, Horses 3D will be the “first authentic horse game for the Nintendo 3DS…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 27, 2012 -
The Fake Threat of Fake Geek Girls
Imagine: You meet a girl, and you get to talking. You talk about your jobs, your neighborhoods; you talk about your interests. As it turns out, the two of you are into a lot of the same things. This is cool! Wow, she likes the same obscure slasher flicks and retro video games that you…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 27, 2012 -
Closure, Fifa 2012 New This Week on the PlayStation Store
Sony’s “Spring Fever” promotion comes to an end this week with the IGF award-winning (and very cool looking) Closure releasing as a downloadable game, as as Fifa 2012 coming as a full downloadable game for the PS3. Also of note, the AR Monument Viewer for Resistance: Burning Skies has come to the Vita as a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 27, 2012 -
Facebook Voters Will Determine if EA is The Worst Company In America
Game publisher Electronic Arts is now officially one of the eight worst companies in the United States. Well, maybe not officially. They’re one of the worst according to consumer affairs blog The Consumerist, which is running a March Madness-style bracket to determine the most heinous companies on the planet. Though The Consumerist isn’t defining exactly…
By Jason Schreier Published March 27, 2012 -
Just Who Is Assassin’s Creed III‘s New Hero?
I’ve heard about three lines from Connor Ratohnhaké:ton, the hero of Assasssin’s Creed III and I don’t know what to make of him. The hero of Ubisoft’s massive October video game is no Ezio Auditore or even an Altair. He’s not a beloved rogue or a noble assassin. He’s not the star of multiple games.…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 27, 2012 -
These Guys Want Half A Million To Prove That People Still Love JRPGs [UPDATE]
If MonkeyPaw Games raises $500,000, they’ll know that gamers still love JRPGs. The publisher, previously responsible for bringing Japanese role-playing games like Alundra and Vanguard Bandits to the PlayStation Network, is launching a Kickstarter campaign to prove that the beloved genre ain’t dead yet. Tomorrow, MonkeyPaw (and partner Gaijinworks) will kick off their Kickstarter to…
By Jason Schreier Published March 27, 2012 -
Gaming Provocateur Aiming to Raise $1 Million for Humanitarian Aid
Athene is quite a character, for a player. He rose to a certain kind of internet fame thanks to World of Warcraft, declaring himself the World’s Best Paladin. After leaving WoW, he moved on to Starcraft II and in recent months, he’s taken to League of Legends He’s provocative and potty-mouthed (the video above contains…
By Kate Cox Published March 27, 2012 -
Are Massively Multiplayer Games Too… Massively Multiplayer?
What’s better, a game with thousands of complete strangers, or one in which up to 100 of your closest friends can play together whenever they want at their own pace? Commenter IncrediBurch makes a compelling argument for the latter in today’s massively multiplayer edition of Speak Up on Kotaku. I think MMO’s try too hard…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2012 -
One-Word Video Game Reviewers Pass Some Harsh Judgements
Imagine you’ve only got one word to describe Mass Effect 3, a game that hundreds of thousands of people have been waiting for. Tough decision, huh? Well, on one new website, most people are using the word “shit” to describe Bioware’s sci-fi threequel. Which one would you use? It’s pretty clear that One Word Reviews…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 27, 2012 -
Barack Obama Locks Up The Maple Story Vote, Cluelessness Takes Second
Barack Obama has triumphed over both ignorance and the Republican primary field, in an unofficial and moderately alarming poll of players of the cartoony multiplayer online video game MapleStory We will not pass judgment about 47.79% of respondents saying that Obama is the candidate who has left the most favorable impression of them. We will…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 27, 2012 -
The Panel Discussion Half-Dozen: Six Comics That Will Make You Thing About Your Place in the World This Week
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 27, 2012 -
Magic Sex, Underwater Vomit and Heart-Punching: Why Defenders #1-4 Works
Every so often, Panel Discussion will take a look at a graphic novel or a run of comics that executes particularly well. This is Why It Works. I’d lost a little bit of faith in Matt Fraction. The Portland-based writer won me over years ago with his brilliant superspy series Casanova, which deconstructed and re-assembled…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 27, 2012