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Word-Battle-Game Quarrel is Finally Coming to Xbox Live
The iOS competitive word game Quarrel is coming to Xbox Live Arcade, Joystiq reports. The game was initially developed for XBLA, but was moved to iOS due to financial troubles at its development studio. It’ll come out on Jaunary 25th and cost 400 Microsoft Points, or $5. (It is currently free on iOS.)
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 16, 2012 -
Soulcalibur Battles Its Way to the iPhone
With the success popular 2D fighting franchises like Street Fighter and The King of Fighters have had on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, it was only a matter of time before Namco Bandai got in on the action with 3D fighter Soulcalibur, due out for iOS January 19. According to the post on Japanese…
By Mike Fahey Published January 16, 2012 -
The New Best Way To Argue About Video Games [Now Back in Stock]
About a month ago, I wrote the following post about “The Metagame,” a fun card game dedicated to fostering debate about video games. Right as I published it, however, the folks behind the game ran out of inventory. They’ve just gotten more printed, so I thought I’d re-post now that you can order your own…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 16, 2012 -
Q.U.B.E. Shows One Way for Indie Games to Get Money and Make it Back
How much does it take to make an indie game? How long until one makes a profit? The metrics on this kind of thing are always mysterious but a new post on Indie Fund’s official website gives some enlightening information with regard to the first game funded by the small-developer investment collective to see release.…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012 -
Britney Spears’ Son Follows In His Mother’s Dance Steps
Well now we know where one of those 25 million copies of Ubisoft’s Just Dance games ended up: In Britney Spears’ living room, where the all-singing, all-dancing performance artist recorded her son Preston getting down to a little “Shake Your Groove Thing”. Ubisoft couldn’t pay for a better endorsement of Just Dance Kids 2. Spears’…
By Mike Fahey Published January 16, 2012 -
Here’s What Grim Fandango HD Might Look Like
I caught this over the weekend when our friends at Rock, Paper Shotgun posted it—some folks have been dilligently working on putting together an HD “Deluxe” version of the beloved Tim Schafer/Lucasarts adventure gaming classic Grim Fandango. They’ve posted a video that, sadly, isn’t in-engine, but it does give a good sense of what their…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 16, 2012 -
Upgrade Your Arsenal with These Max Payne 3 Pre-Orders
We’ve already passed on details about the pre-order loot that early birds in the United States will get with their reservation money, that being early access to the Cemetery multiplayer map. Europe will be getting that same online arena by pre-ordering from the following retailers: UK: Game AU: EB Games DE: GameStop ES: GameStop FR:…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012 -
Check Out This Amazing Gears of War Pistol Made Entirely of Paper
Some time ago we shared the papercraft wonder that was Leo Firebrand’s Fallout 3 homage: the laser pistol. Paper (and some papier-mâché for the gun handle) alone yielded a believable piece of the post-apocalypse. Firebrand has taken his gun-smithing to another level with the Snub Pistol used by Gears of War‘s Marcus Fenix and his…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 16, 2012 -
Gaming Industry Spent As Much As $190,000 Pushing for Senate Version of SOPA Last Spring and Summer
Many gamers and video game companies can’t stand the Stop Online Piracy Act and its companion bill the Protect IP Act (PIPA). But the Entertainment Software Association, the lobbyists who stage E3 each year and defend gaming’s freedom of speech rights, thinks PIPA is a good idea And they’re paying to support the legislation. Lobbying…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 16, 2012 -
The Force Was Strongest With These Star Wars Comics Caption Winners
Those panels up above, featuring mulleted stand-ins for Kotaku staffers past and present? One of your very own peers wrote them. And it caused much merriment in Kotaku Tower, so thanks for that. In case you missed it, Dark Horse gave Kotaku readers the chance to write their own captions for a page from the…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012 -
Become the True Enemy in Dead Island‘s Ryder White DLC
Now that we’ve experienced the horrors of Banoi island through the eyes of Dead Island‘s four protagonists, it’s time to get a little antagonistic. Villain Ryder White steals the spotlight in the next installment of Dead Island downloadable content. Featuring an all-new story packed with hours of gameplay, the Ryder White downloadable content for Dead…
By Mike Fahey Published January 16, 2012 -
Amazon’s Got All the Dragon Age You Can Eat for $11.99
As part of its week-long sale-e-bration of EA PC games, Amazon is offering a digital download bundle of Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate and Dragon Age II for download at the low price of $11.99. [Amazon.com]
By Mike Fahey Published January 16, 2012 -
The Unquestioned Homophobia In Battlefield 3
The first time I heard “I’m getting my shit pushed in!” during a multiplayer match of Battlefield 3 was from the mouth of an acquaintance in Party chat. I assumed he and his friends were laughing at how ridiculous it sounded, because robbed of context it did sound pretty funny. I’ve since come to realize…
Dennis Scimeca Published January 16, 2012 -
The Nine Circles of Xbox Live Hell
Commenter Firescorpio takes us on a (somewhat misspelled) journey through the nine circles of Xbox Live hell, a path that transforms an innocent online gamer into a foaming, frothing, enjoyment-destroying fuckwit in today’s infographic-tastic edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku. Here’s something i have been working on today, guess i’ll share it with you guys. hope…
By Mike Fahey Published January 16, 2012 -
Heroes of Ruin’s Going to Make You Fight Off Lots of Angry Shark Men in Lots of places
I’m not going to lie to you: that golden-haired, human-faced, griffin-looking creature early in this video for Square Enix’s action/RPG gives me the creeps. Put an animal head on a human body—as with the numerous shark men seen in this Heroes of Ruin trailer—and I’m fine but something about the opposite screams crime against nature…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Monday in America, the perfect time to sit around discussing video games in Kotaku‘s official forum! It’s Dr. Fetus versus Bearded Dude in today’s Street Fighter-inspired TAYpic from DanimalCart. Thanks! Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share your own riffs on…
By Mike Fahey Published January 16, 2012 -
Attractive Young Men Smiling at the PlayStation Vita
In case you were still on the fence about purchasing the new PlayStation Vita next month, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has released some photographs demonstrating how hip, happy, and attractive you will be when you own one. Look at these fine young fellows, enjoying on-the-go gaming wherever they please, with nary a care in the…
By Mike Fahey Published January 16, 2012 -
It’s Like Mario Bros., But Smaller and Harder
When I was seven years old, I got the Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas. My parents already had a Pong machine and a Magnavox Odyssey, and I enjoyed both machines very much. Bu this was different. This was my console. My first console. And the game I fell in love with instantly was Super Mario…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 16, 2012 -
8-Bit Weapon’s Latest Music Video Sports Iconic Game Characters as Guest Stars
The video above is supposed to be an homage to the 1980s graphic adventure games published by Sierra On-Line. But, if you watch the whole thing, you’ll spot some characters who weren’t part of that defunct publisher’s stable. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing 8BW perform live and they put on a great show. They’ll…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012 -
Princess Diana Goes Fishing for Monsters in This Wonder Woman #5 Preview
There’s been a weird quirk about Brian Azzarello’s writing assignments for DC Comics: the less the super the hero, the more powerful his writing’s been. Best known for his decade-long crime masterpiece 100 Bullets at the publisher’s Vertigo imprint, Azzarello’s also tried his hand at in its caped crimefighter universe, too. While his grittier sensibility…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012