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Sega Hacked, Says Payment Info Not Compromised
Sega joins Bethesda, Codemasters and Sony among the gaming companies to suffer a hack. The personal info of users of its Sega Pass online service users was compromised, but payment data was not. Here’s the e-mai the publisher is sending to affected consumers: Dear ———-, As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2011 -
Happy (Early) Father’s Day From Prototype 2
Who’s your daddy… or what’s your daddy? Activision sent out these digital Father’s Day cards just in time for the big event this Sunday. Are you prepped for the weekend. I know as a father I expect to be carried around and fanned at all times.
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2011 -
“Bill McDonagh was riding an elevator up to the top of the Andrew Ryan Arms—but he felt like he was sinking under the sea.”
Head to Tor Books’ website to read an excerpt from author John Shirley’s “BioShock: Rapture,” a prequel novel set for release on July 19. [Tor Books]
By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2011 -
We Debate Real And Fake Gaming Problems With College Humor
One of your (favorite?) Kotaku editors is on College Humor‘s Nerd Alert show. The topics: Duke Nukem Forever not being very good. EA possibly imbalanacing Battlefield 3 through some downloadable content shenanigans…then we talked to a quadraplegic gamer who wants developers to make controls re-mappable so people like him can play them (which he does…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2011 -
The BioShock and Skyrim Show
I recently rearranged my life so I could see two important video games: BioShock Infinite and Skyrim. They are two games for which you should rearrange your life—or at least your Thursday in early June. They were the games people were buzzing about last week’s E3, their titles the words people said when I asked…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2011 -
The Forever Man
You’ve probably seen this 10-year-old Duke Nukem Forever preorder receipt before – perhaps even here. What you may not have known was that it belonged to Bill Stiernberg, a 27-year-old attorney who was recently interviewed for the game’s release this week. “It was kind of surreal to turn this fading, disintegrating pre-order [receipt] to the…
By Joshua Rivera Published June 17, 2011 -
CityVille Creator Sues for “Copying”
Zynga, the social gaming empire behind CityVille and FarmVille, is suing Brazilian social gaming studio Votsu over copying game features, branding, producing strategy, and, according to PocketGamer, mission statements and company benefits. [PocketGamer]
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2011 -
No! This is the Cutest Link You’ll Ever See
This is Mannix. He’s so convincing a Link that we’re told Nintendo has approached him about cosplaying the character at conventions officially. But for now we see the child in a photo shoot by the talented Sid Ceasar in some dark and forlorn wood. He’s an altogether different sort of cute Link, than the one…
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2011 -
Wii U Development Kits Coming to a Game Studio Near You, Soon!
At this year’s E3, Nintendo showed off Wii U “games” that were actually taken from 360 and PS3 versions According to one report, the reason for this was that developers only had access to “underclocked” Wii U development kits, able to produce games that weren’t quite up to current gen snuff. Sega West production boss…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2011 -
Kid Gets School Ban On Pokémon Overturned
New York student Lucas Ayala, who goes to Out World Neighbourhood School in Queens, was so sick of a ban on playing with Pokémon cards during breaks that he wrote the school a letter, asking them to reconsider. Somehow, that actually worked The school’s assistant principal, moved by Ayala’s politely-worded letter, not only replied, he…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is a general video games forum; please do bring up any and all topics pertaining to video games. Have fun everybody! Side note: We’re running out of TAYpics again. We had a bunch, but went through them pretty fast. If any of you TAY hot-shots have been saving your…
By Mike Epstein Published June 17, 2011 -
Need For Speed: The Run Is Mostly Not Running
Mirror’s Edge meets Need for Speed: That’s what I was expecting, hoping for as I stood in line last week to see Electronic Art’s new racing game. The brief glimpse I caught of Need For Speed: The Run prior to my meeting showed a racing game that let you get out of the car and…
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2011 -
Riptide GP Rips Android Gamers a Console Quality Racer
I knew absolutely nothing about gaming on the Android platform before Vector Unit sent me a build of its jet ski racer Riptide GP and a couple of devices to play it on. Now I want to know everything. Shortly after I wrote up Hydro Thunder Go for the Windows Phone 7 as a gaming…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2011 -
Touch Me, Because We’ve Come This Far
Advanced | LONDON, UK: The Game Boy Advance was showed off with Atari’s Touch Me at a 2001 game exhibit. (Photo: Sion Touhig/Staff | Getty) The Problem With Releasing Duke Nukem Forever After All These Years… I’ve finished Duke Nukem Forever. There are a lot of things wrong with it, which I’ll get to next…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2011 -
Who’s Bringing Minecraft to the Xbox 360?
Not Mojang, the game’s original developer. According to Minecraft designer Markus Persson, 4J Studios is doing the port. “They seem to have a very good mentality, and obviously are very talented,” tweeted Persson. [@notch via GamePro]
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2011 -
This is a Super Robot Trailer in Three Parts
2nd Super Robot Taisen OG is coming to the PS3. This is the game’s trailer. It’s as if the trailer is chopped up into three distinct parts. I like the first part best. The others? As much as that style is part of the series, less so. 『第2次スーパーロボット大戦OG』第1弾PVを公開！【映像配信】 [ファミ通.com Thanks, Josh!]
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2011 -
Report: Microsoft *Finally* Has Sold 1.5 Million Xbox 360s in Japan
According to Japanese site Wazap, the Xbox 360 has finally crossed the 1.5 million sold mark in Japan. The Xbox 360 launched in Japan in 2005, but didn’t sell a million consoles until 2009. Now it’s 2011, and apparently Microsoft has sold another 500,000 in Japan. [はちま起稿]
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2011 -
The Problem With Releasing Duke Nukem Forever After All These Years…
I’ve finished Duke Nukem Forever. There are a lot of things wrong with it, which I’ll get to next week in my review. One thing I want to talk about today, though, has as much to do with the game as it has the game’s publishers. You may have read this elsewhere already, or seen…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2011 -
An Old Building Becomes a Battleground For Old Games
How exciting can you make a drab old apartment building in the Czech Republic look? Turns out, with some video game effects, pretty damn exciting. Pavel Novák made this video, called 8-bit invader, showing a building being turned into a retro video game extravaganza. It’s not an actual projection, as it’s all computer work, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2011 -
The iPhone, Not the 3DS, Brings These Kiddy Cards to Life
Bandai’s Carddas series of kiddy card games is going AR. Its newest One Piece and Kamen Rider cards are AR enabled and can be played with an iPhone. AR is the holy shit moment for the 3DS; however, these cards apparently do not work with Nintendo’s handheld. Here’s how it works: scanning a card causes…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2011