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The Stupidest PS3 Password Story Ever
When Sony was hacked in 2011, it was major news. People’s personal information was put at risk. This latest PlayStation password story is not major news. It shouldn’t even be on television. TV Asahi, a major Japanese television network, is reporting that Ramos Angelo Miguel, 22, was arrested in Tokyo’s Fussa City for using somebody…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 10, 2012 -
Team Fortress 2 Channels LL Cool J (What?)
There’s a new item in Team Fortress 2 that the Scout can employ which plays music. Sounds pretty trivial, but man, you’ve got to read Valve’s description of the item. My radio’s bad from the Boulevard. I’m a hip-hop gangster and my name is Todd. Terrorising my neighbours with the heavy bass. I keep the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 10, 2012 -
What Pokémon Would Look Like as Classic Disney Characters
Canadian artist Beth Turnsek is the one to thank for these amazing Pokémon images which reimagine the Japanese series in her own charming style, which resembles classic animated films. What’s cool about this series is that she’s gone through and drawn her favourite pocket monster from each variety, so you’ll find a single Earth Pokémon,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 10, 2012 -
Blizzard and Valve go to War Over DOTA Name
Blizzard once made a game called WarCraft III. Then someone made an awesome mod for it called DOTA. Then Valve decided to make a game called DOTA 2. Then Blizzard decided to make something called Blizzard DOTA And now Blizzard is fighting a legal battle with Valve over the whole thing. What a mess Two…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 10, 2012 -
Mass Effect Gets the Final Fantasy VII Treatment
In Final Fantasy VII, there are two art styles at work. On the overworld, everyone is blocky, cute and deformed, but jump into a battle – or look at the game’s promo art – and suddenly everyone’s adult-sized and finely-detailed. 3D artist Nix has taken the same approach and applied it to Mass Effect. Not…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 10, 2012 -
Video Game Divorce Rates Lower Than Real Divorce Rates
Maplestory, an online game that’s been running since 2003 (2005 in North America), lets players get married. It also lets them get divorced. And that’s where it gets interesting. In 2011, the divorce rate in Maplestory for North American players was 46%. That’s…pretty terrible, but it’s actually less terrible than the divorce rate for American…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 10, 2012 -
Super Meat Boy Being Rebuilt for Touch-Screen Mobiles
Despite the fact its creators have railed against the quality of iPhone games, and openly trolled consumers on the iTunes store by selling a parody game for $350, Super Meat Boy is being rebuilt to be playable on touch-screen mobile devices, the game’s two-man team said in a Twitter conversation today. Yes, that could mean…
By Owen Good Published February 9, 2012 -
Live in L.A.? Want to Hang Out with Nintendo This Friday?
To mark Rhythm Heaven Fever‘s launch, Nintendo is holding a launch event this Friday Feb. 10 at the iam8bit Gallery on Sunset Blvd from 6 to 10pm. There will be drinks, food, and music, too. First come, first served.
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2012 -
Here are all of Tonight’s Interactive Achievement Awards Winners
Tonight, the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards are going down at DICE in Las Vegas. The winners aren’t selected by TV voters, or magazine readers, they’re picked by 20,000 members of the Academy of Arts and Interactive Sciences. In other words, the peers of those nominated. The show has just wound up, and here’s the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
This Ezio Statue Could be Yours for Just…$375
Sideshow Collectibles has released this line of Assassin’s Creed statues which feature star Ezio jumping from a busted building about to stab someone in the face. What could you expect to pay for such polystone heroics? It’s in the headline. Sure, he’s just under 14″ tall, and is “limited” to 2000 pieces, but boy, $375…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
Look, I Only Killed Them Because My Jerk of a Cat Asked Me To
Greetings, Kotaku-eers, and welcome to the Thursday evening open thread. The week is almost over! It’s been a fun one. Below, find a selection of link-type-things from around the internet, arranged for your reading enjoyment. How the tv shows in The Running Man compare to reality – I need to watch The Running Man again.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 9, 2012 -
These Developers Just Took Their Characters Out Back and Shot Them. For Real.
There’s retiring old video game characters by not using them any more, and then there’s retiring old video game characters by building little models of them and destroying them. Introversion, the developers of strategy game Darwinia, are done with the property. Having worked on it in some for another for nearly a decade now across…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
Call of Duty Population Explodes to 40 Million Users, Half Coming From Modern Warfare 3
Activision today said its Call of Duty franchise has more than 40 million monthly active users across all of its titles, half of that coming from the latest release, Modern Warfare 3 What’s more, there are 7 million users in the game’s Call of Duty: Elite online service, 1.5 million of them as paying annual…
By Owen Good Published February 9, 2012 -
Why the Internet Gave This Man $1 Million. In a Single Day.
In case you’ve missed it, a video game idea on Kickstarter has helped smash the site’s records by raising over one million dollars in a single day That. Is. Bananas. And it begs the question: why? Why were so many people so willing to invest money in an idea that the video game industry itself…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
“LEGO Minecraft Micro World” to be Unveiled Next Week
The LEGO Minecraft concept that passed approval with LEGO’s petitioning board has a name and has a reveal date. It won’t be at Toy Fair this weekend, but it will be at LEGO World Copenhagen on Feb. 16. The set’s model name is 21102 LEGO Minecraft Micro World.
By Owen Good Published February 9, 2012 -
These Are the First PSP Games That Will Work On The Vita
Sony has released a list of the first 275 PSP games that will be available to be downloaded or transferred onto their new handheld Vita. Sony has put a note in the post indicating that the list is not complete, and that more games will be added in subsequent updates. It’s a far-reaching list, and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 9, 2012 -
How Facebook Powers Up Angry Birds, or Enter the Birdquake
Rovio’s smash hit Angry Birds is coming to Facebook on Tuesday, but it’s not making it to the world’s largest social network without getting some community-aided enhancements. Play well with others and you could earn one of the four brand new power-ups that make the Mighty Eagle look like … just the Eagle. Earned through…
By Mike Fahey Published February 9, 2012 -
A Picture Worth Eight Thousand Dollars
Tim Schafer Made $8,000 While This Photo Was Taken | At D.I.C.E. 2012, Al Lowe, the creator of Leisure Suit Larry, met up with Double Fine’s Tim Schafer, whose studio had a pretty good day raising money for its next project. Al is helping with the remakes of the original Leisure Suit Larry games. (Photo…
By Owen Good Published February 9, 2012 -
Double Fine’s New Game is a 24-Hour Millionaire
Less than 24 hours after its creation, the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter drive has broken the $1 million mark. That’s more than double their $400,000 goal, and well beyond Kickstarter’s 24-hour fundraising record.
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 9, 2012