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Oh, If Only We’d Actually Gotten This Brilliant Battlestar Galactica RPG
In the same vein as the previously wonderful Game of Thrones RPG parody video, CollegeHumor has posted a mock-up of what a SNES RPG based on the recent Battlestar Galactica series would have looked like. And just like with GoT, they nail it. Especially the effects budget stuff. If you haven’t seen the show, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2012 -
What If Skyward Sword Was a…Game Boy Game!
Let’s imagine, for a moment, that 2011 Wii game The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword had been released a little earlier. Early enough to have wound up on the Game Boy. Artist Constantin Georges provides the illustration of this fantasy, mocking up both box art and some impressive screenshots to go with it. The Legend…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2012 -
Who’s Winning Old Republic’s PvP War, Empire or Republic?
Seeing as Star Wars: Old Republic takes place within the confines of a massive galactic conflict, every Player vs Player encounter can be viewed as a small battle in one enormous war. At this stage, then, who’s winning? According to BioWare the Empire is, having taken out 53% of the Alderaan Civil War and Voidstar…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2012 -
Major League Gaming Steps Up Fight Against SOPA
The dreaded, and ridiculous “Stop Online Piracy Act” has upset a lot of people, who in turn have spent a lot of time saying how upset they are. It’s also upset a rather large gaming enterprise, who have put their money where their mouth is. Following the decision late last year by hosting provider GoDaddy…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2012 -
Fund GildenTide and Help Develop a Steampunk Street Fighter
Circular Geometry Studios loved the gameplay of the Street Fighter Alpha Series, and seeks to develop in a space where indie games don’t get much attention: the fighting genre. “After seeing that a small group like the developers of the video game Skullgirls can indeed create a fighting game, we gathered talented people who wanted…
By Owen Good Published January 4, 2012 -
Historic Register Adds Landfill Where Atari Dumped the Worst Console Game Ever
Alamogordo, New Mexico. Fifty miles southeast of Roswell, the most famous UFO site in the nation. Also the scene of the most infamous landfill in video game history. Here, Atari buried thousands of cartridges of E.T. a game that, combined with an awful Pac-Man port was blamed for the collapse of North American console gaming…
By Owen Good Published January 4, 2012 -
It’ll Be Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter x Tekken vs. King of Fighters XIII (and More) for EVO 2012’s Tournament Season
Fighting games thrive on competition. And trash talk. Especially trash talk. For fans of video game brawling, the biggest—yet most respectful—competition is the annual EVO series, which brings fight-stick masters from around the world to fireball their way to ultimate supremacy. The promotion’s organizers have just announced the games that’ll be featured in this year’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 4, 2012 -
Are These The 100 Best Adventure Games of All Time?
The fine folks over at Adventuregamers.com have taken on one of the most herculean tasks in video-game-list-writing: They have assembled a list of not the top 10, not the top 20, but the top 100 adventure games of all time. It’s a really good list, too. The list was part of a multi-part series they…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 4, 2012 -
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes for Xbox Live Indie Games
To ring in the new year, the folks behind the Xbox Live Indie Channel has announced a few changes. The changes will allow for submission of larger games, new price points, and a new maximum number of titles per developer. From the official XNA Game Studio Team Blog: Higher maximum CCGAME size Since the start…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 4, 2012 -
NFL Blitz Returns to Set Up Us Da Bomb
A long-forgotten truth of NFL Blitz revealed itself to me as I looked to salt away my first victory: You don’t salt away any victories in NFL Blitz. You want a time-consuming play? Unload a deep pass route, like the fondly remembered “Da Bomb.” I’ve become such a slave to clock management, not just in…
By Owen Good Published January 4, 2012 -
32-Year-Old Homeless Man Found Dead Outside Japanese Arcade
January is always cold in Japan’s Mie Prefecture. This January is no different. For many, it’s a matter or turning on the heater. For the homeless, it’s a matter of survival. Recently making the rounds on 2ch is the story of a 32-year-old man discovered outside a Matsusaka City game center in Mie Prefecture. The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 4, 2012 -
Skyrim and the Compass to Nowhere
Why do you do what you do in Skyrim? Here’s the idea of an open-world game: you do what you want. Skyrim is certainly an open-world game, no argument about that. Can you do what you want? Well, within the obvious constraints of the game, you can indeed do whatever you feel like doing. Want…
Rowan Kaiser Published January 4, 2012 -
You Are the Float
The Rose Bowl’s Kinect float | As seen in Pasadena, California on Jan. 2 (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images) The 2012 Year in Games… a Preview That Has My Jaw on the Floor Finish playing the best games of 2011. Then tape this to your refrigerator. This is a preview, of some of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2012 -
Check Out DMC: Devil May Cry Gameplay Footage. Then, Talk Hair.
With DMC: Devil May Cry, the iconic Capcom series has been shipped off to Westerners to develop. The game is being handled by Ninja Theory, the folks behind Heavenly Sword In this recent gameplay clip, the developers talk about DMC. Meanwhile, I just stared at the hair. Back when the game was first revealed at…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 4, 2012 -
You’ll Find Hidden Chronicles To Be a Decidedly Different Sort of Zynga Game
Launching today on Facebook, Zynga’s Hidden Chronicles ditches farming and building in favor of unlocking the mystery of your uncle’s death via hidden object games. Okay, there’s a little building too. I didn’t even realize my uncle had died, but here we are in Hidden Chronicles, rifling through his stuff and travelling the world rifling…
By Mike Fahey Published January 4, 2012 -
Portal 2, The Best Game of 2011 is the Kotaku Game Club‘s First Game of 2012!
Welcome back, Game Club! It’s a brand new year, and we should make sure to start it on the right foot, right? There’s no better way to do that, I think, then to play a game we know is going to be great. Since we just gave Portal 2 our Game of the Year Award,…
By Mike Epstein Published January 4, 2012 -
When NBA2K12 Hates Your Name
Rich Funk is a glorious name. Rich Funk is not only a Kotaku (hi Rich Funk!), Rich Funk is also a NBA 2K12 owner. According to Rich Funk, “My legal name is Richard Funk. As I usually do with sports games, the day I got NBA 2K12, I created myself as a player in the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 4, 2012 -
The Sins of The Naked Gun Are Visited Upon Frank Drebin’s Son
White-haired action comedy hero Leslie Nielsen may have passed, but his legacy lives on in The Naked Gun: I.C.U.P., an episodic adventure series coming to iOS and Android devices in the next few months. Let’s check out the first trailer, shall we? Rather than spend the millions of dollars it would take to resurrect Nielsen…
By Mike Fahey Published January 4, 2012 -
Mass Effect’s Newest Cast Member Kicks Off New Dark Horse Comics Series
Thanks to previous mini-series, Mass Effect fans have been able to learn more about characters like The Illusive Man and Aria T’Loak. Now the fauxhawked soldier who’ll be running alongside your Commander Shepard gets the spotlight in the first issue of the new Mass Effect: Homeworlds series. You can take an exclusive look at issue…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 4, 2012