Hello Kotaku! It’s Friday once again. And for most of us here in the United States, and elsewhere, this weekend is an extended one thanks to Columbus Day! I will be spending the weekend with family, so my gaming time will be at an unfortunate minimum. I hope a lot of you, though, get to…
Once Apple introduced the Siri AI personal assistant, it was only a matter of time until someone mashed up the introductory video so that it was GLaDOS living inside of Cupertino’s new smartphone. That someone is YouTuber bamfer23, a.ka. filmmaker Jeff Heimbuch, and he achieves a high level of hilarity by having GLaDOS be the…
November’s The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword looks almost nothing like the old Nintendo Entertainment System Zelda II, but now that I’ve finished the new Wii game’s first dungeon, I can say that, folks, after more than 20 years, the wait is over. We can finally call a Zelda a role-playing game again. The last…
Battlefield 3’s Caspian Border, packed with vehicles and jets, is getting one last test before the open beta shuts down. Developers DICE writes on the Battlelog blog that they’re opening up the map this weekend to do some load testing using 64-player matches. Do keep in mind that this is a beta and a stress…
Not A Lie | TOKYO, JAPAN: A Slime cake at an event for the iconic role-playing game series (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Under the Pale Blue Sky of Faron Woods, Inside the Mushroom-Lit Skyview Temple of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, as Totilo will explain a bit later…
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, as Totilo will explain a bit later today in his full impressions of the game’s initial dungeon, is the sort of Zelda that fans have been waiting for, for two decades. Glimpsed here in a clutch of new screenshots, readers get a chance to examine the Faron Woods that…
In this short, beautiful video, we see Link’s visit to the Skyview Temple, the first temple of the Wii’s upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Stay tuned for more coverage this morning including a batch of new screens and Totilo’s write-up of his time spent playing through an early chunk of the game. You…
“What’s dowsing,” you may ask? It’s how Link finds things in the massive world of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Think of it as his version of a quest arrow or objective compass. Link is able to dowse with the help of Fi, the spirit of the powerful Goddess Sword and Link’s guide. In…
On either July 6 or 7 of this year, 21-year-old Koichi Akashi spent time at a Kobe City video game arcade. Akashi, who’s unemployed, was apparently waiting for someone. When the man he was waiting for, a 19-year-old college student, showed up at the arcade, Akashi told him, “I’ve spent ¥200,000 waiting for you. One…
So the owner of the Elder Scrolls trademark is taking Minecraft developer Mojang to court, saying the latter’s upcoming game Scrolls should be called something else. Bad words ensue. And now competing screenshots. Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has just posted a work-in-progress screenshot for his game, and it’s got…a giant dragon. You know, Elder…
Happy Friday. Here’s something tranquil to ease you into the day. This is a clip made by French team ArtefactoryLab, who filmed Paris circa 2011 and then, with some computer work, recreated the water levels of the city’s devastating 1910 flood. Sounds slightly morbid, but nobody died in the original, and nobody died making this…
Poor Perolex. All he/she wanted was some help getting through a dungeon. All Perolex got was a schooling For some reason, it’s funnier because they’re whispering. Grammar Nazi [Felicia Day] 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…
This is Pipeworks, an Oregon-based game studio headed up by Robert Daly. Apparently, Daly’s been saying he was in the Special Forces. But at least one Special Forces website, that’s not exactly true. Updated with response from Pipeworks disputing the accusations. If you’ve seen Spike TV, you’ve probably seen Daly on Deadliest Warrior. His studio…
Like any industry, game developers have their own lexicon, used to describe the unique people and quirks they encounter. If you’ve ever wondered what some of these are, Gamasutra enlisted the help of a few developers (who had themselves picked the brains of plenty more) and found that across the video game industry there exist…
PC owners, you probably already know this. Valve boss Gabe Newell sure does and lets everyone know for the umpteenth time that PCs matter. Why? Because certain people think they don’t. In the latest issue of PC Gamer UK (via website CVG), Newell said that PCs are “great value for money”. “People like their PCs,”…
Just in time for everyone who has stopped playing FarmVille, Hollywood is working on a cinematic version of FarmVille In a recent interview with IGN, Toy Story writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen hinted that they are working on a FarmVille flick. From the interview: We’re in conversations with Zynga to do something with one…
Rocket tanks are awesome. But other Battlefield 3 bugs, like the human slug, kinda creep me out. Especially when somebody recreates them using actors. 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.
Blackwater, a competent Kinect title with unsavory mercenary connections, is an on-rails shooter that also supports traditional gamepad controls. As previously mentioned, Blackwater, renamed to Xe Services llc, was contracted by the U.S. government to provide training and diplomatic security, most notably in the Middle East, for much of the last decade. Its presence alongside…
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sony is about to buy Ericsson, the mobile phone company it teamed up with in 2001. Sounds boooooring, but it actually has the potential to be a big move for the PlayStation brand. The Xperia Play, a phone released by Sony Ericsson’s joint venture, has been a bit…
Last summer, legendary Japanese figure maker Kaiyodo released a Revoltech figure of Woody from Toy Story. Soon after it was released, people started noticing that, yes, something was off with the figure. In the West, figure collectors noticed that Woody looked psychotic and juxtaposed him with, for example, Gears of War‘s brutality. In Japan, figure…
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