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Elegant Portraits for a More Civilized Age
Elegant Portraits for a More Civilized Age | Terry Fan has released more of his Victorian-era portraits of Star Wars characters. C-3PO and Yoda also have posed. The portraits are available for sale. (Terry Fan, via Neatorama) A Follow-Up with David Jaffe About that Oral Sex Remark In a promotional video interview that went live…
By Owen Good Published February 8, 2012 -
A Follow-Up with David Jaffe About that Oral Sex Remark
In a promotional video interview that went live on February 6th, David Jaffe included a statement that I and others found objectionable. So I objected. After the piece ran, Jaffe reached out to me through Twitter and we agreed to schedule a call. Yesterday evening, we spoke about the issue by phone for roughly half…
By Kate Cox Published February 8, 2012 -
You Can Hire These People To Write Term-Papers About Anything, Even Video Games
If you want, you can buy your college term-papers. This has been true for as long as there have been academic institutions—some students just don’t want to deal with the agony and all-nighters required to pull together a massive paper. They’d rather be socializing than sitting in front of a computer, bleary-eyed, cranking out half-coherent…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 8, 2012 -
Find Out What SoulCalibur V’s Online Modes Have to Offer in the Updated Kotaku Review
DLC, patches, new modes… games evolve over time, so why shouldn’t our reviews do the same? When SoulCalibur V came out last week, the online lobbies were empty, waiting for intrepid warriors to fill them with the sounds of sword-clashing. Now that people are playing online, we’ve updated our review of the game to evaluate…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 8, 2012 -
Game Developer Sentenced to Death in Iran Asks Obama for Intervention
Amir Hekmati, the U.S.-born game developer sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly engaging in espionage for the CIA, has asked the Obama administration to do whatever it takes, including a prisoner-transfer, to save him from execution. Hekmati worked for the New York-based video game studio Kuma Games, where among other projects he worked on…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 8, 2012 -
The Romance and Enchantment of Rift‘s In-Game Marriage System Makes Me a Little Queasy
I was going to title this post “The Romance and Enchantment of Rift‘s In-Game Marriage System Makes Me Throw Up a Little in My Mouth”, but that’s far too long, and while spoil the cake? “Fahey is just bitter, he has never known true MMO romance!” Really? I’ll tell you about MMO romance. I was…
By Mike Fahey Published February 8, 2012 -
Shank 2‘s Launch Trailer Paints the Walls Red
This launch trailer for Shank 2 is a spectacle of gore and cartoony style. One of the sequel’s additions to the original downloadable game is Survival Mode, which you can get your bloodthirsty eyeballs on right here. Both there and in the game’s single-player, rest assured that yes, you will feel like Rambo (and that’s…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published February 8, 2012 -
Watch a Spartan Take Down a Banshee in this Fan-Made Halo Trailer
Take a look at yet another Halo-centric fan film, made in mid-January by a team of three dedicated members on zero budget. Last week saw the release of the first episode of Halo: Helljumper, a series focused on ODST culture, and its first encounter with the hostile Covenant. Here, Halo: Archetype goes straight to the…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published February 8, 2012 -
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Leveled Up Considerably During the Review Process
Now that we’ve put the ever-questing of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning through its paces, it’s time to see how it fared in the face of the assembled game critics. As far as I can deduce, it’s either horrible or the best thing ever. Try not to strain your neck while navigating Reckoning‘s Frankenreview chart. I’ve…
By Mike Fahey Published February 8, 2012 -
BroShep Takes on Humans, Reapers and His Own Conflicted Longings in These Mass Effect 3 Screenshots
Hard choices are going to have to be made in the final part of BioWare’s sci-fi trilogy and the screen above seems to pose one such crossroads. The look on the male Commander Sheperd’s face here seems to say “How do I choose?” Maybe he could just buy them both Twisted Metal and see what…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 8, 2012 -
Shank 2, Gotham City Impostors, Catherine New This Week on the PlayStation Store
This week, there’s a good amount of solid stuff new at the PlayStation store; it ain’t the horn of plenty that we’ve seen in the past, but it’s certainly better than the cursed wasteland that was last week’s PlayStation Store update. We’ve got Shank 2, which is new this week, as well as Gotham City…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 8, 2012 -
Real Life Gotham City Impostors Looks More Entertaining Than the Game
Whoa there, viral marketeers! You have to be careful not to overshadow your product with the promotion, as these lovely shots of everyday people dressing up in Gotham City Impostors garb readily demonstrate. Monolith’s game of vigilant justice versus criminal insanity is now out on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, but it’s no substitute…
By Mike Fahey Published February 8, 2012 -
Epic Fan-Created Battle Rages Across Skyrim
In this skillfully-assembled scene that feels straight out of the siege of Minas Tirith, a cast of hundreds go to war. Featuring undead, a dragon, and a couple of decidedly irritated mage-generals, “The Great Battle of Skyrim” lives up to its name. I, for one, walked away curious to learn more about the reasons for…
By Kate Cox Published February 8, 2012 -
What? Battleship is Evolving… Into a First-Person Shooter?
Battleship was once a strategic board game in which players had to guess where their opponents had placed their war ships. This summer, it will be an action-packed movie in which ships blow each other up. And this May, publisher Activision said today, it will be a video game in which you shoot people. Developer…
By Jason Schreier Published February 8, 2012 -
This Lil’ Cablinasian Will Grow Up to Make Huge Stacks of Cash If You Play Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Right
Announced yesterday during EA’s Spring Showcase, PGA Tour 13’s Legacy Mode will let players of the publisher’s next golf sim step inside the golf great’s cleats at various points of his life. Including, apparently, Tiger’s awkward yet fashion-forward adolescence.
By Evan Narcisse Published February 8, 2012 -
That Battlefield 3 iOS Game Just Spawned Into the App Store
Anyone who’s been watching EA knows that the publisher’s going to be tethering portable spin-offs to its big releases. Last year’s Dead Space game for iOS and Android proved such games could be great and yesterday we saw the debut of Mass Effect Infiltrator. This sector’s a big deal for EA. So, it’s surprising that…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 8, 2012 -
Funky-Cute Rhythm Stealth Game Beat Sneak Bandit Creeps Onto iOS Next Week
We’ve gotten a few peeks at Beat Sneak Bandit, the charming cartoony larceny game from indie devs Simogo and the thing looks like all kinds of smooth It’s been a mystery as to when BSB would actually let you get your tap-centric thievery on, but Simogo finally announced—via yet another snappy new trailer—that their game…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 8, 2012 -
Sign #589 That the Wii Is On The Wane
There will be no Wii version of EA’s Tiger Woods series this year. There could be a Wii U version, but EA confirmed to Kotaku that the Wii is out. A couple of years ago, the Wii was the series’ flagship platform. This year, Xbox 360 Kinect gets the spotlight (PS3 is still supported, too.)
By Stephen Totilo Published February 8, 2012 -
Remembering the Pre-DLC Days, When Free Unlockable Content Flowed Like Wine
Back in the day we’d spend countless hours unlocking every hidden character, special costume, or magical weapon in our video games. Today we simply buy them outright. Commenter Superlocke laments this unfortunate evolution in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. DLC. D-L-MO’****IN-C. What exactly is going on with unlockable content in games these days? It’s like…
By Mike Fahey Published February 8, 2012
