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A Twenty-Minute Documentary About the Gender of Final Fight’s Poison
Reader Andrew points us towards this documentary. Which goes for twenty minutes. And which is entirely about the seemingly endless debate over the gender of Final Fight’s Poison. While it gets a little “high school paper” in parts, and is something we’ve pondered over once or twice ourselves, it’s still a fairly interesting watch, if…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
Justin Bieber is Being Sued Over an iPhone Game Called “Joustin Beaver”
Video game developers RC3 have a harmless little game called Joustin Beaver for sale on the App Store. It’s $0.99, and it’s turned the teen heartthrob into a beaver. Something Justin Bieber’s attorneys aren’t very happy about. Representatives of the Canadian pop star sent a cease-and-desist letter to RC3 over the title a few weeks…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
Mr. Shepard and Little Miss Shepard Will Save the Galaxy With Sweetness
Roger Hargreaves’ classic children’s book series head into the future, where no doubt some anonymous commenter on the future internet will make a joke about them being their favourite pieces of children’s literature on the citadel. howtocarveroastunicorn [howtocarveroastunicorn, via Gamefreaks]
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
Journey, Flower Developers Looking Beyond the PlayStation 3
Sony has done a great job with its exclusive PlayStation Network titles of promoting the kind of games you wouldn’t expect to see promoted on a modern video game console. Games like Flower, and Journey Sadly, at least for Sony – and this will be heartening to anyone who doesn’t own a PS3 – the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
Buying all of Mass Effect 3’s DLC Will Cost You $870
Downloadable content is serious business. Well, with the amount of time and money developers spend on it (and ask for it), you’d think it was. Stuff like Mass Effect 3’s DLC, though, is more of a joke. With various weapons and skins spread across pre-orders, toys and PC accessories, if you wanted to own every…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
Want to Learn Saxophone? Put Down the Duckie
Hello there, Kotaku, and welcome to the Monday evening Open Thread! We’ve got some links here for ya as usual for before you begin your conversations. Here goes: Put down the ducky if you want to play the saxophone – Aw, Mr. Hoots. Preach it! (Thanks for reminding me of this, Steve.) How piracy built…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 27, 2012 -
The PlayStation Network is About to go Down for a Day
The PlayStation Network undergoes maintenance all the time. Usually, though, it only lasts for 2-4 hours. On Thursday, the network is undergoing some serious maintenance, because it’ll be down for most of the American day. Starting at 8am Pacific and running until an estimated 10pm Pacific, almost everything PlayStation-related that uses the internet will be…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012 -
OnLive Gains Cred With Free Indie Games Festival Nominees
While members of the video game industry and press are attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week and getting a chance to view the Independent Games Festival awards ceremony on the show floor, OnLive is giving you a chance to feel included, and this very fortunately involves playing games. As of today…
By Tina Amini Published February 27, 2012 -
Hawken Team Given $10 Million Because Hawken Looks Awesome
Indie multiplayer shooter Hawken, which stole my heart, stuffed it in a mech then begged me to come get it back, has always attracted attention for how good it looked despite it being the product of a small studio, Adhesive Games. Note I say small and not poor, because the guys who are working on…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012 -
The Best Film of the Year Didn’t Need Talking. Do Video Games Need Graphics?
Last night at the Academy Awards, a silent film won best picture. Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist, a movie about silent film star George Valentin, is itself a classic silent film—for the most part, it has no sound effects or dialogue, just music and on-screen action. Several new video games like the Move-enabled competitive game Johann…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 27, 2012 -
The Creator of Final Fantasy Just Wants to Have Fun
Hironobu Sakaguchi doesn’t worry too much about the future, he said in an interview with Eurogamer published today. He worries about the now. The creator of Final Fantasy, whose latest game The Last Story hit European stores last week and will invade the U.S. this summer, says he doesn’t have any specifically pressing goals or…
By Jason Schreier Published February 27, 2012 -
Okami-Inspired Fan Art Will Be Your New Wallpaper
Foxified | Okami is not a fox, sure, but this is still awesome. (Sakimichan) Pokémon Black and White 2 Catch All the Western Gamers This Fall Announced this weekend for a June release in Japan, the first pair of main series Pokémon titles with the number two in the title will be hitting North America…
By Tina Amini Published February 27, 2012 -
Heisman Winner Robert Griffin III Earns NCAA Football 13 Cover
Former Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III will star on the cover of NCAA Football 13, publisher EA Sports said today. The Heisman Trophy winner and projected #2 NFL draft pick will join one of eight other athletes on the game’s box art. EA said in a press release that starting March 12, fans will be…
By Jason Schreier Published February 27, 2012 -
No Need to Love Lucy; Just Like Her Facebook Game
There is always another television property out there that can yet be mined for its game tie-in potential, it seems. I Love Lucy, 1950s classic and staple of late-night reruns for decades, will be making its entry into the Facebook game space soon thanks to Entertainment Games, Inc. In a press release, the social and…
By Kate Cox Published February 27, 2012 -
Every Action Has a Cost in I Am Alive
The latest developer diary for Ubisoft Shanghai’s I Am Alive goes behind the scenes of the game’s creation. A huge disaster has dragged a city back to instinctual basics, and “90% of the human race is gone.” The diary shows off a handsome amount of footage as to how you’ll survive, using what’s in your…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published February 27, 2012 -
Study Says Video Games Have ‘Problematized’ View of Religion
Do video games spend too much time emphasizing the violent aspects of religion? A study released by the University of Missouri on Monday says so, concluding that video games present religion in a “problematized” way In the study, doctoral student Greg Perreault looks at five modern games: Mass Effect 2, Final Fantasy XIII, Assassin’s Creed,…
By Jason Schreier Published February 27, 2012 -
At Least in the New Syndicate They Don’t Run You Over with a Car
I know a lot of people have nostalgia for the 1993 Bullfrog classic Syndicate (myself included). I also know that critical reception to the new game has been a bit mixed. But I will say one thing the new game has going for it: At least they don’t recruit agents by slamming into total strangers…
By Chris Person Published February 27, 2012 -
Exploring the Ancient Top Ten Lists of Doom
id Software’s classic first-person shooter Doom is a part of gaming history, forever occupying a prominent place in the collective gaming consciousness. Let’s travel back to 1993, as PC gamers faced impending Doom the only way they could: with funny top ten lists. Harvested from an archive by one Hank Leukart located on the website…
By Mike Fahey Published February 27, 2012 -
Triumphantly Hideous Dialog Makes Evil Zone One of the Funniest Games Ever
Crafted by Yuke’s and published by Titus Software in North America for the original PlayStation, Evil Zone is a fighting game that uses only two buttons for battle. I’m guessing they couldn’t afford more buttons after shelling out big bucks for this amazing voice-over work. “I’m gibbering nonsense!” Often cited in compilations covering the worst…
By Mike Fahey Published February 27, 2012