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A Box Full of Pizza-Flavored Gaming Apps, With Frogs on the Side
Including a game called Pizza Vs. Skeletons in this week’s lineup of featured Gaming Apps of the Day seemed like a good idea, until Friday afternoon rolled around. Now I’m so hungry I could eat a deep-fried frog. Hold the unhealthy flies; I’m watching my vitality. Seriously though, I’m going to have to have a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 2, 2012 -
Research Finds That Winning Makes You Mean
Apparently, being a gracious victor in a competitive situation really is hard to do. Everyone can remember an elementary school teacher cautioning kids against being either sore losers or bad winners. A new study out of Ohio State University finds that perhaps there are reasons being a bad winner is so common. Researchers found that…
By Kate Cox Published March 2, 2012 -
Hell Yes, 100-Hour Video Games Are Worthwhile
You wanna know a really good way to piss people off? You could try telling them that 100-hour video games are a waste of time. If you do that, expect what you might call an editorial beat-down from one Jason Killingsworth. The Edge Magazine features editor has ripped into journalist Michael Thomsen for the latter’s…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 2, 2012 -
Top Colleges for Game Design in North America
For the third year in a row, among its other rankings of colleges and universities in the North America, the Princeton Review has ranked the top game design programs. Video games in all their forms and genres continue to become ever more mainstream, and the business and industry making them continues to grow along with.…
By Kate Cox Published March 2, 2012 -
Tales of the RPG I Just Couldn’t Care About
Once upon a time there was a role-playing game. It had cool graphics and a fast-paced battle system. It was filled with mysteries and plot twists. Things were good. One day, the role-playing game started to feel kinda sluggish. Its characters weren’t all that appealing. Its battles felt less like exciting, strategic brawls and more…
By Jason Schreier Published March 2, 2012 -
Finally, Some Real Footage of Sleeping Dogs
Undercover cop and protagonist Wei Shen of Sleeping Dogs—previously known as True Crime: Hong Kong—is on assignment in Hong Kong as an undercover cop. Fronting as a deported man come at long last back to Hong Kong, Wei Shen is on a mission to take down the local triad organization by the name of Sun…
By Tina Amini Published March 2, 2012 -
“Lydia NO!” Brings Skyrim‘s Most Beloved Glitch to Life
It’s bad enough when one of Skyrim‘s giants sends your character flying high into the air, doomed to a fate as the centerpiece for a fresh new crater. When it happens to Skyrim’s most famous AI companion — actually that’s quite all right. Adobe After Effects master and creator of the messiest Falcon Punch ever,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 2, 2012 -
Nintendo 3-0 This Year Against Patent Trolls
A company like Nintendo faces lawsuits with some regularity. The complexities of the U.S. patent system leave plenty of room for legitimate inventors and patent trolls alike to file infringement suits against whomever they wish. In 2010, IA Labs LLC, a company based in Potomac, Maryland, filed suit against Nintendo over the Wii Fit Balance…
By Kate Cox Published March 2, 2012 -
Holy @!#?@! Man Spends 68.5 Hours Playing Single Game of Q*Bert
When most of us think of a long session spent playing a single game, we think of spending a day or maybe a weekend immersed in story or competition. Eight or ten hours, maybe more, spent on the sofa or at a PC while the player loses track of time. One man, this morning, just…
By Kate Cox Published March 2, 2012 -
WTPT: Adventure Time Intro Sequence Just Made My Heart Stop and Start Again
I’m a huge geek for Adventure Time. And like any true, dedicated geek, I want to see one of my favorite shows plastered everywhere. Even my iPhone background is of Jake. Feel free to steal it, because it is awesome. Reddit user ungivenglory is also a big fan of Adventure Time, and he also wants…
By Tina Amini Published March 2, 2012 -
Bowser Is Evil In The First Few Minutes Of Mario Party 9
We’ve recorded the intro scene of Mario Party 9, the ninth installment in Nintendo’s popular multiplayer series that will be out on March 11 for Wii. Lots of Bowser’s minions make an appearance, including a Shy Guy, a Lakitu, and even an adorable little Wiggler. Check it out.
By Jason Schreier Published March 2, 2012 -
They Need To Be Fed to the Monster at the End
They Need to be Fed is, aside from being a mouthful to remember and say, a gravity-based puzzle platformer. Only in this case, gravity doesn’t necessarily apply in the way you feel that it should. Rather, each little center of mass — the blocks from which the player’s avatar needs to leap — seems to…
By Kate Cox Published March 2, 2012 -
Mass Effect 3‘s Launch Trailer Launches, Before the Game’s Launch
Mass Effect 3 will be out next week, but launch trailers don’t wait for games to launch. Here’s the game’s launch trailer today. Enjoy. We’ll have plenty more about the game, including a review, next week.
By Stephen Totilo Published March 2, 2012 -
Leaked Assassin’s Creed III Pics Reveal British Ambush
In these new screenshots from Assassin’s Creed III, leaked today by the website All Games Beta, the main character appears to be ambushing a group of British soldiers during the Revolutionary War. You can also see the main character hunting a deer and interacting with soldiers in what appears to be a British colony. Looks…
By Jason Schreier Published March 2, 2012 -
Only the Ruthless and Brutal Will Survive The Last of Us
Joel’s gun clicks pathetically as his finger desperately squeezes the trigger. Another survivor — the one with the still-loaded gun — grins, takes aim, and gets his head bashed in with a brick wielded by a 14-year-old girl. In describing the recent gameplay demo of The Last of Us in on the PlayStation Blog, Naughty…
By Mike Fahey Published March 2, 2012 -
The Infinite Sadness That Comes When the Game Updates End
Recently the developers of the procedural PC playground game Terraria announced that updates for the game would be ending. It was a crushing blow to commenter Jezuz. Share his desolation in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I’m… I’m not sure why, but after finding out (quite late, at that), that the developer of Terraria was…
By Mike Fahey Published March 2, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
With only a few days left before the Reaper invasion, it’s a good time to gather with your friends, loved ones and total strangers to discuss video games in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Snake56 does amazing things to the brand-spanking-new March TAYpic. I’m almost convinced this was the artist’s original intent. You too…
By Mike Fahey Published March 2, 2012
