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The Week in Evil DLC
Downloadable content. Everyone hates it—but everyone buys it. Yes, even you in the comments, smart guy. Here’s a look at the latest package of extensions and pre-order bonuses designed to crowbar the last dollar out of your wallet. Can you still respect yourself if you buy it? Mass Effect 3: From Ashes Available: Day-one DLC.…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2012 -
Square Enix’s Next Mobile Game Is Called Guardian Cross
Publisher Square Enix will release a new fantasy game for iOS and Android this spring, it said on its press Twitter account today It’s called Guardian Cross and its Facebook page describes it as a fantasy card battle game Square Enix has had several forays into the world of mobile gaming. It recently released ports…
By Jason Schreier Published February 24, 2012 -
Pinball Wizard
Pinball Wizard | The twin-flipper pinball table—which practically anyone with a living memory of pinball understands as the game’s only layout—was developed by this man, Steve Kordek, who died on Sunday. He was 100. (Image by Pinball News) Pokémon Director Teases New Game Announcement This Weekend News of the next Pokémon game could come as…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2012 -
MLB 2K12 Demo Arrives on Tuesday; No Word Yet on The Show
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Major League Baseball 2K12 will release its demo on Tuesday, 2K Sports said today. Still no word from Sony regarding a demo for MLB 12 The Show The demo will rematch the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers, the two teams from last…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2012 -
Expect NCAA Football 13 to Have a Heavy Heisman Focus
The Gaming Tailgate, which last year chipped in to help NCAA Football 12 coordinate its end zone artillery, has noticed that this month seven Heisman Trophy winners have all been mentioned on Twitter in connection with NCAA Football 13. Most of the mentions come from Sandy Sandoval, EA Sports’ top man for athlete relations. Famous…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2012 -
Biff Tannen Gives You Sports’ Lead-Pipe Locks for This Weekend
Hey, are you a sports fan on the go? Who has time these days to watch the big game, or bother with messy DVR, or boring highlight shows? With Biff Tannen’s Sports Almanac, we’ll give you the weekend’s biggest matchups before they happen, thanks to these highly accurate peer-reviewed scientific simulations of sports video gaming’s…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2012 -
A Children’s Treasury of NBA All-Stars Shrugging
Kevin Durant wonders what the fuck is going on. What is this bullshit? Kevin Love seems to ask. Eighty-eight points in an all-star game? Are you fucking kidding LaMarcus Aldridge? To reiterate, neither Kobe Bryant nor Durant can believe this shit. I love it that this is Kobe’s signature highlight.
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2012 -
Pokémon Director Teases New Game Announcement This Weekend
News of the next Pokémon game could come as soon as this Sunday. Junichi Masuda, one of the original minds behind the popular role-playing game series and the director of Pokémon Black and White, the series’ most recent entries, will appear on TV Tokyo’s Pokémon Smash Sunday morning to make “a very important announcement,” he…
By Jason Schreier Published February 24, 2012 -
Five Mobile Games Combine to Form Week in Gaming Appicus
Any one of this week’s Gaming Apps of the Day could easily crush you beneath their heavy metal feet. When all five of them join together, however, they’re one giant pissed-off strategic defense robot that’s got the Empire State in its sights. Will anyone survive? Worry not, fair citizens; the only thing this week’s apps…
By Mike Fahey Published February 24, 2012 -
World of Warcraft is Good for Grandparents’ Brains
For many years, researchers have conducted various studies on the effects games and play can have on the aging brain. Games specifically designed to enhance certain kinds of thinking, like Brain Age, may or may not always have the intended effect. However, a team of researchers have found that perhaps mainstream games, not expressly designed…
By Kate Cox Published February 24, 2012 -
What’s So BioWare About the Next Command & Conquer?
During my recent interview with BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, we talked about the obvious things like Mass Effect and Star Wars: The Old Republic We also discussed Command & Conquer Why were we discussing Command & Conquer? More specifically, as I asked both men, why should we think of the upcoming Command…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 24, 2012 -
Very Tall Tree Wins Free Copy of Mass Effect 3
EA wanted the hype for Mass Effect 3 to go where no game had gone before. So they flew ten copies of the upcoming game into the stratosphere by attaching them to weather balloons. The idea was to have frenzied fans track down the games and claim them when they descended back to terra firma.…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 24, 2012 -
Why You Should Care About The Final Fantasy Creator’s New Wii RPG
Hearts exploded with giddy appreciation for Nintendo this week as the gamemaker announced it would be partnering with publisher Xseed Games to bring fantasy Wii role-playing game The Last Story to U.S. shores this summer. Nintendo has traditionally treated its RPG properties like adolescent children, keeping them inside as long as it can, so this…
By Jason Schreier Published February 24, 2012 -
Oklahoma Kills Violent Video Game Tax With a Sick Quicktime Event That Stabs a Shard of Glass Into Its Eye Socket and Suffocates it With a Grocery Bag
The tax on violent video games proposed by Oklahoma representative William Fourkiller has been rejected by the Oklahoma House Revenue and Tax Subcommittee. Fourkiller’s proposal had been modified to focus on creating a task force looking into video games’ relationship to obesity and aggression. It was voted down 5-6. In the minutes from the subcommittee…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 24, 2012 -
You’ll Get to Dress Up in Ninja, Wrestler and Business Bat-Clothes With the Free Gotham City Impostors DLC
Players of Monolith’s Bat-FPS can enjoy a free update today which adds to the wardrobe options for the game’s Bats and Jokerz avatars, including some that don’t have pointy ears at all. The update also adds a new rooftop map to Impostors‘ environments, a much-requested join-in-progress feature and promises to improve match-making for the online-only…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 24, 2012 -
Angry Birds Creator Wants to Gobble Up Other Studios
While Rovio’s already revealed the next galactic entry in their super-successful Angry Birds franchise, there’s still room for them to grow as a business. Right now, the Finnish company’s a one-property entity and even if that property is as ubiquitous and popular as Angry Birds, they’re still at risk if bird-flinging is all they do.…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 24, 2012 -
Don’t Worry, Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition Owners Will Be Able to Play Online Against Plain Ol’ Mortal Kombat Players
Netherrealm and WBIE proudly stride into Capcom territory—y’know, trying to sell you a game you already own—with the already announced Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition. Hrm. Here, they try to calm the fears of anyone worried about the MK online community splitting into two, with the game’s developers saying that two versions of the fighting game…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 24, 2012 -
Is Mass Effect 3‘s Controversial DLC Your Fault?
Games are a passion and a hobby for millions of players worldwide. As is clear from even the most cursory glance at the comments on any post here at Kotaku, gamers feel very strongly about their content and its makers. They are also a business. An exceptionally large, very valuable business. The most recent ESA…
By Kate Cox Published February 24, 2012 -
WTPT: BioWare Fan Throws a Fit Over Mass Effect 3 DLC
A portion of the gaming community hasn’t taken news of the day one DLC, From Ashes, for Mass Effect 3 lightly. Amongst them is Francis, who you may know from his many YouTube videos, rants and other oddities. He is not pleased with having to pay more for a complete game. IT’S 10 AMERICAN DOLLARS,…
By Tina Amini Published February 24, 2012