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The Clever Art Of Stealing

The quote “Good artists borrow, great artists steal” is often attributed to Pablo Picasso. There doesn’t seem to be solid evidence that he actually said it, but the quote is often misinterpreted anyway. It’s not that stealing is okay, but rather, stealing implies taking something and making it your own. What’s more, not every artist…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 21, 2011

Is The Entire PlayStation Network Down? [Update]

Can you log onto the PlayStation Network via your PS3 console at the moment? We can’t, and we’re getting reports plenty of other people can’t either. Attempts to log into the PSN on consoles are being met with the error message 80710A06. While American users began reporting the issue a few hours ago, I’ve since…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2011

Super Mario 3DS Might Be Out This Year?

When the Nintendo 3DS was first unveiled, we were shown a bunch of trailers from games that barely even existed yet. And even then, saw nothing of a new Mario game. So it’d be sweet if it actually came out this year. But it just might, if comments by Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto can be…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2011

Mobile Games Maker Sends a Message With Amnesty International App

The iOS games studio Mobigame – best known for titles like Edge and Perfect Cell – has teamed up with Amnesty International to publish a game raising money for the human rights advocacy organization, observing its 50th anniversary this year. Bulletproof, costing 99 cents on the iTunes App Store, places the player as a political…

By Owen Good Published April 20, 2011

April Twentieth

What were we talking about? Oh, wait, we didn’t actually start talking yet. I must have been thinking of Talk Amongst Yourselves. Anyway, man, why don’t you join us in the open thread, pass some of that sweet conversation around. If you’re looking for some pot-related things to read tonight, don’t miss io9‘s great write-ups…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011

Fans Vote Heisman Winner For The NCAA 12 Cover

Alabama’s Mark Ingram, the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner, was voted the cover athlete of NCAA Football 12, whose debut trailer you saw yesterday. Ingram, expected to be a high draft pick in next week’s NFL draft, beat out candidates Nick Fairley of Auburn, Jake Locker of Washington, and DeMarco Murray of Oklahoma in a fan-voted…

By Owen Good Published April 20, 2011

Gamefly Triumphs in Postal Service Dispute

The U.S. Postal Service gave an unfair advantage to competitors like Netflix and Blockbuster Video, a regulatory board said Wednesday, awarding game rental service GameFly a victory in a two-year dispute over the postage, breakage and sorting of its disc mailings. The Postal Regulatory Commission found that the USPS gave “an unreasonable preference” to Netflix’s…

By Owen Good Published April 20, 2011

The Uneasy Shooter Inversion Focuses On The Gravity Of War

Cover based third-person shooter Inversion looks and feels very much like other cover based third-person shooters—Gears of War, for example—with the exception of one major thing: gravity. That and a rare innovation with one other video game staple, the exploding barrel. We’ve seen Inversion before and been impressed with its gravity manipulation based gameplay. But…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011

The New No More Heroes Is For Adults Only In Japan

There’s another version of the original No More Heroes coming to the PlayStation 3, but this one’s for Japan only and only for adults. No more toning down the graphic violence of Travis Touchdown in No More Heroes: Red Zone. As previously reported, Grasshopper Manufacture’s No More Heroes is being given another shot on the…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011

See The Sims Creator Will Wright Deliver A Dizzying, Fascinating Talk About Video Games And Education

If you’ve ever seen Will Wright, the big brain behind games like The Sims, Spore and SimCity, deliver one of his humorous, hypnotizing talks, you’re probably going to want to settle in and watch this one too. If you’ve never had the good fortune to be assaulted by Will Wright’s smarts, well, you’re in luck.…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011

Spoiler-Free Tips For Enjoying Portal 2

You’ve heard of Portal 2, but are you ready to play Portal 2? Do you need help determining which part of the game to play first? Want to know how to find the game’s coolest hidden items? The answers to that and much more are below (some of them hidden behind links, to protect unspoiled…

By Stephen Totilo Published April 20, 2011

See (Almost) Every New Mortal Kombat Fatality, Then See Kratos Become A Baby

We’re still plugging away at our Mortal Kombat review, but if you want to skip to the good and gory stuff, GameTrailers has a montage of the many, many ways to kill kombatants in the new game. They also have every single “Babality” in a hilarious diaper-filled montage. It’s kind of amazing

By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011

Freek Out!

CONTROL FREAK | NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Kontrol Freek’s new TeeFreek button toppers. (Photo by Crecente) Digital Dragnet Cast For More Possible Victims of Accused Xbox Pedophile Police are calling for parents to search the Xbox Live friend’s lists of their children for the user name of self-professed furry and accused sexual predator Richard Kretovic.…

By Brian Crecente Published April 20, 2011

X Rebirth May Be The Sexiest Looking Space Sim Of 2011

Granted, I’d be hard pressed to list many of this year’s hardcore space sim contenders, but the newly revealed X Rebirth—the latest in Egosoft’s 12-year-old X series—is going to have a hard time being visually out-sexed. This is a gorgeous game. Publisher Deep Silver labels X Rebirth “a fresh beginning” for the series, one that…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011

ESRB Lauds Retailers’ Performance In M-Rated Game Report

The Entertainment Software Ratings Board has responded to a Federal Trade Commission report that video game retailers do a good job of observing the M-rating on video games and refusing their sale to minors. “We are extremely pleased to see the Federal Trade Commission confirm not only that the video game industry continues to have…

By Owen Good Published April 20, 2011

The 3DS Is Back On Top In Japan, Despite Heavy Robot Casualties

After losing the weekly hardware battle against the deeply entrenched PlayStation Portable, the Nintendo 3DS strikes back, becoming the bestselling piece of hardware in Japan. The system likely has two new games to thank for that little surge. Pilotwings Resort was just released overseas, as was a 3D version of Konami’s baseball sim Pro Yakyuu…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011

N.O.V.A.: Elite, The Facebook FPS Where Paying Is Winning

Gameloft takes its iPhone Halo clone to Facebook with N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance: Elite, a competitive first-person shooter that eschews balance for the sake of getting paid. It’s a common practice in social games; the more people pay, the better they play. But having a larger farm than the next guy isn’t quite the…

By Mike Fahey Published April 20, 2011

Step One: Move To L.A., Step Two: Re-Think My Entire Video Game Collection

We’ve seen some great gaming set-ups on Kotaku in the past: Brian Crecente’s High-Def Game Room, galleries of game developer’s game rooms, and even pictures submitted by you guys (to Kotaku Australia), which included some of the most awesomely bad set-ups I’ve ever seen. Almost as bad as when my friend Drew made his own…

Lisa Foiles Published April 20, 2011

The Arrival Of The First Mass Effect 3 Screens

First screen shots of BioWare’s Mass Effect 3 are here, thanks to Game Informer, and if there’s one thing we can glean from our first look at this year’s big sci-fi RPG, this sure as hell is a Mass Effect game. We’re only going to get two screens for now, both of them showing Commander…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011

PlayStation Home Now Home To Real-Time Multiplayer, Better Graphics & More

The PlayStation 3’s digital hang out space, PlayStation Home, will soon be home to better actual video games, thanks to the platform’s next big update. Version 1.5 of Home brings promised features like real-time multiplayer, improved physics and better visuals. What else? The official announcement goes far enough to say that “PlayStation Home v1.5 was…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011