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Finally, Someone Talks Common Sense About PC Piracy
Ubisoft has no idea on the topic of piracy and the PC market. None. It must be embarrassing for lower-downs at the company who do have an idea to have to listen to people like Stanislas Mettra open their mouths Thankfully, not everybody in the industry shares that stance. Trevor Longino, from Good Old Games,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 24, 2011 -
Come on! Heroes Is Nintendo’s Sauciest Game Name Yet
Today’s Nintendo DSi Ware features this innocuous little RPG-influenced shooter with a name that might ring a little less innocuously to American ears. Come on! Heroes is a game of tiny men lobbing projectiles at an onslaught of knights and priests, who explode in a puff of milky smoke. It’s a bold political statement from…
By Joel Johnson Published November 24, 2011 -
Your Friend Who Is Playing Facebook Games All the Time at Work
For the hopelessly devoted Facebook gamer on your list, sure, you could just load up a gift card and give them $100 to burn through in MafiaCitySimSocialCastleFarmWars. You could also stage an intervention. Neither option is going to make both giver and recipient happy. Instead, here are some ideas that, like the best holiday gifts…
By Owen Good Published November 24, 2011 -
Modern Warfare 3 Looks Even Better In LEGO
This is as close to an official LEGO interpretation of Activision’s tentpole franchise as we’re gonna get, I reckon. Honestly, it looked pretty believable until they blew up the LEGO Eiffel Tower. There’s no way that would happen in real LEGO life. (I love how well these guys mix minifig-scale work with microscale forced perspective,…
By Joel Johnson Published November 24, 2011 -
Building the World’s Biggest LAN Party
The DreamHack festivals, held throughout the year in Sweden, are the world’s biggest LAN parties. How big is big? The one starting today, DreamHack Winter 2011, is the biggest of the lot, and should pull in over 12,000 people. The event set a world record for LAN parties last year when it drew 12,754 computers…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 24, 2011 -
People That Overuse the Word “Kawaii”
“Kawaii”. In Japanese, it means “cute” or “adorable”. The word was adopted by Westerners enamored with Japanese culture. But it’s gone mainstream, and it now appears in the Oxford English Dictionary Diehard Japanophiles have been using it from long before, peppering their English conversations with a “kawaii” here, a “kawaii” there. Is it possible to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 24, 2011 -
A 100 Ways To Die in Skyrim; The Musical
This fourteen and a half minute long video delivers 100 ways to die in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (and more than a few laughs) set to Elvis’ A Little Less Coversation. Two great things in one great video. Enjoy. You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
By Brian Crecente Published November 24, 2011 -
How To “Undress” Your King of Fighters XIII Fighters
Now, you can’t really undress your fighters in King of Fighters XIII. However, you can customize them. You know what that means? You can “undress” them! As a Japanese KOF site pointed out, it’s possible to change the color of the fighter’s clothes. What players do with that customize mode and which bits of clothing…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 24, 2011 -
Now This is a Turkey Worthy of a Third-Party Accessories Manafacturer
The employees of peripheral maker PDP Gaming celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday with a turkey made of pastry and cream. What’s in your stomach? You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
By Mike Fahey Published November 24, 2011 -
Your Guide to the Biggest Games of 2011. The Ones You Want. The Ones That Stink.
Throughout the year, we here at Kotaku have covered most of the biggest video games on any machine that will play video games. From Arkham City to Zelda: Skyward Sword, from Dungeon Raid to Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery, we covered the biggest and best of them. As the holidays approach and shopping season kicks in,…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 24, 2011 -
The Boy You’ve Got a Crush On
OMG have you seen Justin? He’s the hottest guy in class, but he’s too busy talking about video games to notice me. Now it’s Christmas, and I have to get his attention with the perfect gift, before that slut Amber gets to him. God I hate Amber. With her hair and that stupid eyeliner. It’s…
By Mike Fahey Published November 24, 2011 -
Fund Immortal Souls Sequel for a New Twist On RPGs
Immortal Souls Sequel is exactly why you don’t judge books by their covers. At first I was skeptical of its style and plot, but the gameplay mechanics won me over with a Puzzle Quest-inspired fighting system. This could be a really fun game. Goal: $14,000 Notable Reward: $25 – You get a copy of the…
By Chris Carolan Published November 24, 2011 -
GameStop Opening Thousands of Stores for Black Friday Midnight Madness
You’re going to have to shake off that that turkey coma this year, because there are deals to be had. Video game deals. GameStop’s going to opening up 2,200 store up at 12:00 a.m. so you and thousands of others can swoop down and grab up the games and hardware you’ve been lusting after. Today’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 24, 2011 -
I Am Alive Creator Insists He’s Not Opposed to a PC Port and Didn’t Mean to Piss Off PC Gamers
Yesterday, Stanislas Mettra was quoted by IncGamers as saying some, well, very inflammatory things about why I Am Alive, the upcoming downloadable title for Xbox 360 and PS3, didn’t have a PC port. Mettra’s now written us—not to give the usual “I was misquoted,” or “taken out-of-context” dodge—but to say that if his words sound…
By Owen Good Published November 24, 2011 -
From Pile of Mega Blocks to StarCraft Battlecruiser In Under Two Minutes
In this video Sargonas turns a table-filling pile of Mega Blocks into StarCraft Battlecruiser in one minute and 40 seconds. The time-lapse video actually compresses six and a half hours of work with snaps every three seconds. [via Joystiq] You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find…
By Brian Crecente Published November 24, 2011 -
Fund Pota-toss, Because We All Should Know the Power of Potatoes
The visuals and gameplay behind Pota-toss are pretty cool. The game has already hit its goal as far as funding goes but every little bit counts. At its barebones it’s a game of throwing potatoes at your friends. What I really thought was cool about Pota-toss was its GPS functions.Pota-toss will create the players level…
By Chris Carolan Published November 24, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Thanksgiving today and you are most likely gorging yourself on delicious foods. I on the other hand will spend most of the next 24 hours traveling. What are your favorite iOS games to play while traveling? Take this time to Talk Amongst Yourselves ! Thanks to reader Angryrider for today’s image. Take a crack at…
By Chris Carolan Published November 24, 2011 -
The Leftovers Is Competitive Plants Vs. Zombies Without As Much Charm
The LeftOvers is an quirky real-time strategy iOS game with an aesthetic that doesn’t quite gel for me. It’s sort of like competitive Plants Vs. Zombies, only without the draw of man-eating plants and cute, but deadly zombies. In The LeftOvers, the world has suddenly been stripped of all adults and the children of the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 24, 2011 -
Writing on an Xbox 360, Not Out of Desperation
360 | SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS: Eva Longoria autographed an Xbox 360 game console for charity during Eva Longoria’s Celebrity Casino Night, presented by Xbox Live. (Photo: Darren Abate | AP) The Beautiful, If Stabby Art of the Assassin’s Creed Series With Assassin’s Creed Revelations out recently (and starring in its own Fine Art), I thought…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 24, 2011