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EA’s Disaster Plans Don’t Include Billion-Dollar Lawsuits or Giant Meteors
A cocktail-napkin calculation about what’s at stake in former NCAA players’ lawsuit against EA Sports arrived at a potential cash-and-prizes value of $1 billion. But as apocalyptic as that total sounds, Electronic Arts doesn’t sound too worried. “We could lose billions more if a giant meteor hits the earth,” spokesman Jeff Brown told CNBC’s Darren…
By Owen Good Published August 3, 2011 -
Um, Pretty Sure This Is An Open Thread, Guys
Friends of Kotaku, you’re more than welcome to take this thread and make it your own, flavoring it with all the off topic conversation that you seem to like so much. So, have at it. Anyone going to QuakeCon this weekend? I’ve never been, but it seems like it’s going to be a good time.…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 3, 2011 -
Nintendo: It’s For Dresses, Now
Honey, if I bought this for you, would you wear it for me? This Game Boy-themed tube dress costs about as much as the original device did—$70. It’s made by HereandThereVintage and available on etsy. Nintendo Dress [Etsy via LikeCool] You can contact Owen Good, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
By Owen Good Published August 3, 2011 -
DC Universe Online Brings a Multitude of Heroes to the Fortress of Solitude
DC Universe Online‘s latest game update delivers a new group raid in Superman’s hideout, and tunes up the difficulty in the old one at Batman’s crash pad. It’s available now for the game on PS3 and PC. The narrative behind the Fortress of Solitude raid involves heroes and villains forming an uneasy alliance against Brainiac,…
By Owen Good Published August 3, 2011 -
Now Minecraft Has Its Own Convention—MineCon
Looking for an excuse to go to Vegas? Why not meet up with your fellow Minecraft fans at the game’s forthcoming convention, MineCon? That’s the place to be for Minecraft high rollers this fall. The game’s creator, Marcus “Notch” Persson, tells PC Gamer that MineCon will throw down at the Mandalay Bay on November 18…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 3, 2011 -
The 15 Greatest Pros—and the Greatest Pair of Cons—Come to NBA 2K12
Before Air Jordan, Converse was the top brand on the basketball court, singularly identified with Julius Erving since his ABA days. The only way I’d have a bigger shoe-gasm watching this video is if Dr. J set those kicks down on a red-white-and-blue ball, and the camera raised up to reveal a New York Nets…
By Owen Good Published August 3, 2011 -
The Most Mythologically Epic Pile-Drive in the History of YouTube
There are fan videos, and there are fan videos. And then there’s “The Ballad of Mike Haggar.” Posted by YouTube user Hortyort (whose real name is Glorbus Finn), the video shares an epic poem recounting the journey of Final Fight‘s ass-kicking mayor as he fights his way to the end of the the game and……
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 3, 2011 -
What Is Scribblenauts Remix?
Currently, we know Scribblenauts Remix is a new domain registered by Warner Bros. (and spotted by “superannuation“), but little else about mysterious Scribblenauts project. But, I wonder what would be summoned if we typed in “iOS” into a Scribblenauts game…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 3, 2011 -
Indie Bundle Adds Five More Games if You Donate Five Bucks or More
The Humble Indie Bundle 3 has now added five more games, and still is being offered for the super-low price of “whatever you want to pay.” Provided whatever you want to pay is more than the average donation, which is $4.96 as of now. The Bundle’s masters today decreed that the lineup from Humble Indie…
By Owen Good Published August 3, 2011 -
Quake Cake Down
Strogg!!! – Strogg recently beheaded from Fahey’s Quake cake. (Photo by Michael Fahey) Requiem For An iPhone Game Free running through a dream, leaping over crates, running along walls, dashing through gaps, Requiem is a slightly marred look at what Mirror’s Edge could have been on the iPhone. In Requiem you play a boy lost…
By Brian Crecente Published August 3, 2011 -
The Hidden is the Strange Lovechild of Face Raiders and Ghostbusters, Living in Foursquare’s Foster Home
At first glance, The Hidden looks an awful lot like Face Raiders, one of the free augmented reality games pre-installed on every 3DS. Like Face Raiders, The Hiddenis a shooter that uses the 3DS’ camera to superimpose things for you to shoot in your real world environment, turning whatever room you’re in into a shooting…
By Joshua Rivera Published August 3, 2011 -
The Video Game That Got Jazz so, so Right
For some reason or other, jazz soundtracks are a rarity among video games. Plenty of games feature heroic chiptune anthems, Hollywoodesque orchestral scores, and evocative sci-fi themes, but jazz, one of America’s oldest art forms, remains surprisingly underrepresented. Though they may be few and far between, there are a handful of games that have used…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 3, 2011 -
Black Ops’ Rezurrection DLC is One Small Step for Zombie-Kind
Nacht der Untoten. Verruckt. Shi No Numa. Der Riese. These names strike terror in the hearts of anyone that dared venture into the undead playgrounds of Call of Duty: World at War. The zombie story started there. It ends on the Moon. Due out on August 23 for the Xbox 360, the Rezurrection donwloadable content…
By Mike Fahey Published August 3, 2011 -
The Xbox 360 Has a Hidden Solution to Your Nintendo 3DS Screen Woes
If you own (and use) a Nintendo 3DS, you’ve probably noticed that the system’s top screen can get marked up and scratched rather easily, just by closing and carrying it around for the sake of Street Passing. Nintendo has recommended that 3DS owners place a cloth between the screens to prevent any damage, but some…
By Jen Schiller Published August 3, 2011 -
Modern Warfare 3 is Also Deploying to Wii
Not one to exclude 87 million customers, Activision confirmed today that it will release a Wii version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 this year. Typically, the Wii versions of Call of Duty games launch alongside their HD counterparts.
By Michael McWhertor Published August 3, 2011 -
The New Spider-Man isn’t the Only New Comic Worth Checking Out this Week
Good luck squeezing into your local comics shop this week. Plenty of strangers will probably be dropping in to pick up the new Spider-Man comic with the new Spider-Man in it. But squeeze on in, because there are some cool new comics out this week. And there are some good old ones available for legitimate…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 3, 2011 -
Master Chief takes on Voldemort
Halo‘s Master Chief jumps into the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Spoiler alert! It’s still pretty close to the how the actual movie ends so if you don’t want the movie ruined, don’t watch. Harry Potter vs. Halo [Official Ending] [Youtube]
By Sam Winstrom Published August 3, 2011 -
Call of Duty: Black Ops Getting A Resurrection This Fall
Activision will release the fourth Call of Duty: Black Ops “content pack,” named Resurrection, by end of September on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, the company says. Resurrection will follow First Strike, Escalation and Annihilation. Details still to come…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 3, 2011 -
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Serves Up Multiplayer Marines 1.8 Billion Ways
If the text flashing by in this trailer are to be believed, Relic Entertainment has managed to cram 1.8 billion different ways to customize Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine‘s six multiplayer classes, a number at least 1,000 times larger than the amount of people likely to care. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this…
By Mike Fahey Published August 3, 2011 -
How To Make The Doom 4 We All Want and Need
For a time, years, whenever a person talked about a first-person shooter they called it a Doom Clone. Such was the power, the influence of one of the first, first-person shooters, the proto-FPS. But in establishing an entire genre, Doom also planted itself firmly in history, becoming a game that even its savvy creators seem…
By Brian Crecente Published August 3, 2011