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Talk Amongst Yourselves
We end November’s Talk Amongst Yourselves with a Time Bandits reference (Crecente had to explain it to me.) Goodbye, November. Wish it farewell by talking here about video games. And let’s welcome December with a new image. Drop in your submissions for December’s artwork. As always, it needs to be a horizontally-aligned public domain piece…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 30, 2011 -
Boy Goes Black Friday Shopping For Batman Game, Gets Punch in Face Instead
I’ve never been a fan of Black Friday, it’s a celebration of everything terrible world: consumerism gone wild, so wild these days that it can lead to violence. Take for instance, this story out of the Chicago area: A 13-year-old boy went to a local Wal-Mart with his father in hopes of picking up a…
By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011 -
Infinity Blade II Improves one of the iPad’s Best Games [Update]
We hear from some quarters that video games that are not played with some use of a button do not count. Wrong. The proof is on the iPad on my desk. A year ago those buttons-or-bust gamers missed one of the iPad’s best games, Infinity Blade. It was a medieval fantasy riff on a button-pushing…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 30, 2011 -
Resident Evil: Revelations —and the 3DS Circle Pad Add-on—Coming to Europe in January 2012
The next portable installment of Capcom’s survival-horror action series looks like it’ll be hitting Europe first, along with the dock that’s bringing additional control inputs to the Nintendo 3DS. Eurogamer—among other sites—reports that Nintendo will be offering a bundle that binds Resident Evil Revelations and the Circle Pad Pro starting on January 27th. The Circle…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 30, 2011 -
The Freaky Nintendo Staircase
WHO, MII? | TOKYO, JAPAN: Staircase at a Japanese retail shop. (Photo: Koji Sasahara | AP) Surprise, Dragon Age Getting Multiplayer! That’s right, Dragon Age is going multiplayer. The role-playing franchise is, according to an insider, going beyond singleplayer for the first time, and warriors won’t simply face off against each other in combat. More »…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011 -
Did the Skyrim Patch Make Things Better? Or Worse?
After game developer Bethesda released a patch—Version 1.02—for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, gamers took to the forums. Many rejoiced, noting that the PS3 freeze issue appeared fixed. Now, some folks are saying the patch hasn’t made things better. It’s made them worse. “I have experienced dragons not wanting to fight and flying backwards staying…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011 -
Legendary Final Fantasy Translator Brings You Math Girls
If you’ve played Final Fantasy in English, you know translator Alexander Smith‘s work. His latest? Smith started a digital book publisher, Bento Books, which is releasing its first title: Math Girls, the English translation of Japan’s popular best-seller. [Bento Books]
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011 -
This Game Demo Will Self-Destruct
Japanese gamers can soon download the Monster Hunter 3G demo to their Nintendo 3DS handhelds. Demos aren’t a new thing, and they give players a taste of the final product. Monster Hunter 3G does that, too. The taste, however, doesn’t last forever. The demo quest takes around twenty minutes to complete. According to the Capcom’s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011 -
Call the Cops, Nintendo’s Reggie Drives Like a Maniac
Reggie Fils-Aime, everybody’s favorite pizza man turned game exec, is a terror on the road. The Nintendo of America president thinks it’s okay to drive like Mario Kart in real life. You know, burning rubber and throwing heat-seeking turtle shells. “I played the little game on the Mario Kart fan page and it said that…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011 -
Cut Mass Effect 2 Mission Winds Up in Mass Effect 3
Mass Effect 2 was meant to feature more Citadel missions than it ultimately wound up with. Rather than see good missions go to waste, developers BioWare will be bringing at least one of them to completion in the upcoming Mass Effect 3 The game’s lead writer Mac Walters told OXM, “There was a Mass Effect…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2011 -
Picking Boobs Is Harder Than You Think
Sister site Kotaku Japan directed our (my?) attention to a new Android app. It’s a puzzle game, and a hard one at that, judging by the reviewer’s repeated matching missteps. Oppai Choice, or “Boob Choice”, offers over fifty different oppai for players to select from. Or maybe, that should read a hundred? 女の子と胸をマッチングさせる『おっぱいCHOICE ちょっと』 [Tabroid…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011 -
Don’t Worry Link, Dragonborn’s Got Your Back
You can never be over-encumbered by a friend who’s got your back. A lovely piece of fan art done for commission by Dan Jones You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2011 -
Rock Some Portal Shower Curtains Like it was 1953
Portal’s Aperture Science got its start in 1953 producing shower curtains for the US Army. So it’s poignant that in 2011 the company goes back to its roots, and produces shower curtains for…your bathroom. These curtains don’t talk, don’t sing and don’t flash lights. They’re just curtains. Good, honest curtains. The kind of curtains Cave…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2011 -
Surprise, Dragon Age Getting Multiplayer!
That’s right, Dragon Age is going multiplayer. The role-playing franchise is, according to an insider, going beyond singleplayer for the first time, and warriors won’t simply face off against each other in combat. Apparently, dragons will also be playable in Dragon Age multiplayer, giving players the chance to go head-to-head with foes in fire-breathing, swooping-through-the-air…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011 -
This PC Developer Doesn’t See the Point in DRM
Marcin Iwinski, CEO of Witcher developers CD Projekt, utters a little common sense as a palette cleanser to Ubisoft’s increasingly farcical stance on PC gaming. Rather than punish legitimate consumers, like much of today’s DRM does, Iwinski instead sees added value as a means of combating piracy, luring customers in with things like collector’s editions…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2011 -
Japan’s Popular Monster Game Momentarily Forgets the 3DS
Monster Hunter conquered Japan on the PSP. Monster Hunter 3G is coming to the 3DS. For a brief second, the game totally forgot that. In one portion of the game’s online instruction manual for the Nintendo demo, instead of referring to the 3DS’s buttons, it refers to the triangle button, the circle button, and the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011 -
First Proper Look at the New Neverwinter Game
It’s no Neverwinter Nights, but the upcoming Neverwinter online game is still Dungeons & Dragons and it’s still Neverwinter. So a first decent look at the game’s engine since E3 (albeit via a rather cinematic trailer) is still in order. There are few things on Earth more agonising than Americans failing to pull off a…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2011 -
EA Wants To Make a Dead Space First-Person-Shooter (And More!)
With 2008 survival horror third-person shooter Dead Space, EA created a hit title. Dead Space went on to spawn a sequel, a rail-shooter spin-off and a puzzle game, animated films, comic books, and a novel. But according to one insider, EA is just getting started. EA is looking at new ways to expand Dead Space,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011 -
Let’s Not Gossip about this Pricey Cosplay Studio. Let’s Tour It!
Cosplayer Necoco, who Kotaku has featured before, checks out Studio Gossip with cosplay blog Asagawo. Located in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, the studio features several different themed rooms, providing backdrops for cosplay snaps. In the last year or two, cosplay studios have become increasingly popular, giving photographers and models a more controlled—as well as a more photogenic—photography…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011 -
Germany Gets Around to Banning Dead Island
Zombie paradise action game Dead Island may have been out since early September, but it’s only now that the Germans at the wonderfully-named Federal Department of Media Harmful to Young Persons have got around to banning it. “This isn’t unexpected,” Techland, the developers of the game, told Eurogamer. “Germany has its unique regulations regarding video…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2011