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Incoboto is the Best Place to Be When the Sun Goes Out
The Corporation killed the entire galaxy. One-by-one the suns flickered and died, and without light or heat, so did every living thing in the galaxy, except for one small boy. And one small sun. Developed by one-man army Dene Carter of Fluttermind, Incoboto is a charming game about corporate greed killing everyone and everything we’ve…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2012 -
Mario Is A Hero To Some, And A Douchebag to Others
As far as Nintendo leads us to believe, Mario is a hero. He risks his life to save Peach time and time again. But if you look closely at his actions and compare them to Bowser’s, there may be some important details left out. This video that appeared on Cracked for their “After Hours” web…
By Tina Amini Published March 13, 2012 -
Former PlayStation Exec Taking Over Microsoft Studios Europe
The man who helped usher in the PS3 for Sony will now be the Xbox 360’s chief evangelist in Europe. Microsoft’s announced that Phil Harrison—formerly president of Worldwide Studios for Sony’s PlayStation division—has joined the tech giant’s leadership team. Harrison assumes some of the duties left open by the exit of respected game designer Peter…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 -
Microsoft Says It Has Fixed Mysterious Xbox Gamerscore Disappearances [UPDATE]
Many gamers panicked this morning when their Gamerscores—records of everything they’ve done on their Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles—zeroed out. Microsoft says not to worry. They’ve resolved the issue. “For those experiencing Gamerscore issues, please sign out and then back into your profile to resolve,” the company said on its @XboxSupport account. The account has…
By Jason Schreier Published March 13, 2012 -
Do You Prefer Your Heroes Pretty, or Pretty Ugly?
With last week’s release of Mass Effect 3 birthing a new generation of Commander Shepards, commenter TheForgetfulBrain wonders how ugly custom-made characters can get. Show him your ugly side in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I scoured the internet yesterday for some truly hideous player-made characters. To my surprise, it was a bit harder than…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2012 -
The Best 26-Minute Argument that Game Consoles Are Dying
Ben Cousins, who works for a company called ngmoco that makes video games mostly for cell phones and tablets, has a vested interest in telling you that PlayStations, Xboxes and Nintendo Whatevers are a few pistons away from horse-and-buggy obsolescence. It would be so easy to dismiss him, because game consoles are such impressive and…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 13, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Tuesday, the day when we battle to the death! Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves, where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Today’s TAYpic is another stellar contribution from TAY maestro pan1da7, as he turns the Hunters into martial arts warriors…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 -
GameStop Debunks Wild Donkey Kong 3D Rumors
GameStop has shut down rumors that a new Donkey Kong game is headed to Nintendo’s 3DS, telling Kotaku that display cases for the alleged “Donkey Kong 3D” were not official. “The displays were not supplied by Nintendo and have been taken down,” a GameStop representative told me this morning. “It’s definitely not in the system…
By Jason Schreier Published March 13, 2012 -
Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter Passes $3 Million Dollar Mark
The crowd-funding for the upcoming adventure game project from Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Studios already broke all kinds of Kickstarter records weeks ago, when it reached its funding goal of $400,000 in eight hours. It’s passed $3,000,000—which was the budget for Schafer’s classic Grim Fandango—making it one of the highest funded projects ever on the…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 -
The $150 Guild Wars 2 Collector’s Edition Comes with All This Plus a Three-Day Head Start
Fans clamoring for a chance to put down money on ArenaNet’s massively multiplayer sequel get their chance on April 10, when NCsoft begins taking preorders for Guild Wars 2 standard, digital deluxe, and collector’s editions. What do they get for putting their money down? How about access to all beta events leading up to the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2012 -
Modern What? No, Look at this Battlefield 3 Expansion Trailer. Over Here.
By sheer coincidence, total accident and obvious happenstance, today, on the day that three new maps are made available for Modern Warfare 3‘s Xbox 360 Elite subscribers, we’ve been given a trailer to show you for some new Battlefield 3 DLC. It’s just amazing how this happens. It’s like, no sooner do we tell you…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 13, 2012 -
PlayStation 3 Connects Murder Suspect to a Burned Body
On Feb. 25, a fire broke out in a Las Vegas condo. In it, the body of James Lacella, 48, was discovered. According to investigators, Lacella had been dead for days prior with a bullet in his head. The fire was apparently a cover-up. ABC Las Vegas affiliate KTNV reported that police were able to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 13, 2012 -
Boy Band Lasers Inspires StarCraft and Gundam Jokes
Korean boy band Dong Bang Shin Ki (DBSK or “Tohoshinki” in Japan) unloaded a laser light SPECTACULAR during a broadcast on local television. While the show took place in 2008 (so old!), it’s recently become a meme in Korea, where it continues to amuse the internet—especially of late. The show inspired Photoshops and comparisons to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 13, 2012 -
Bomberman, the Team Fortress 2 Edition
A pair of Team Fortress 2 modders have taken the game’s bones, a bunch of angry Scottish men and the classic Hudson game Bomberman and turned it into something wonderful Their TF2 mod, called TF2 Bomberman, keeps the original game’s core principles of bombs and a maze while putting you in control of Team Fortress…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012 -
An Enormous, Amazing Monkey Island Tattoo
Reader Jonathan Hansen, who we actually featured a couple of years ago for his awesome “classic” art, thought we’d be interested in seeing his new Monkey Island tattoo. Given the scale and the subject matter, you’re damn right we’re interested. This flesh-based epic took over three years and fifty hours in the chair to complete.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012 -
It’s Insane How Many People Read Gaming Wiki Pages Every Month
Signalling just how radically the way we read and learn about video games has changed over the past decade, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales now says he has the world’s biggest network of gaming sites on the internet. Which is a bit of a stretch; unlike his commercial rivals, Wales’ Wikia system for games – which…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012 -
There Won’t Ever be Another Mojang Game Called Scrolls
While Minecraft developers Mojang have put a legal dispute with Elder Scrolls publishers Bethesda (well, Bethesda’s parent company Zenimax) to bed, the settlement has come at a slight cost: there won’t ever be another Mojang game called Scrolls The terms of the settlement mean that the trademark Mojang has for the game won’t cover any…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012 -
Total Recall Starts Now!
Let’s go back in time. To the 90s. Maybe even the 80s, if we’ve got the juice.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
Soul Vaccination
Greetings Kotaku-eers, and welcome to a new week of evening open threads. I missed doing these last week during the Game Developers Conference! It’s good to be back. Below, please find a collection of things that you might enjoy checking out or talking about. The Tower of Power tune, in particular, is worthy of a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 12, 2012