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Now It’s Time For Ice Cream
STOP FOR CHILDREN | Sweet Tooth’s ice cream truck, as seen at this week’s Twisted Metal event. (Photo: Michael McWhertor) Bedtime Stories Everything You Need To See In The Gears of War 3 Beta Some of us here at Kotaku are in the beta already, so we’ve captured footage and are taking you on a…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 15, 2011 -
Rumor: Wii Price Cut Hits Monday At Target
We were expecting Nintendo to (perhaps) slash the price of its current console next month. But we may see a cheaper Wii in North America as soon as Monday, if reports from retailer Target are accurate. GenGame claims to have evidence of a price drop for the Wii coming to Target stores, which will purportedly…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 15, 2011 -
How to Get Your A-Game On (With Electricity)
Are you desperate to take your videogame performance to the next level—and willing to indulge in some high-risk behavior? Hint: you’ll need a 9-volt battery and a wet sponge! Researchers in New Mexico claim that a faint electric massage to the brain improved the performances of volunteers playing the DARPA-sponsored war simulator DARWARS Ambush! The…
By Drew Cohen Published April 15, 2011 -
Terrible 1990s Console Games Simulate the 2011 NBA Playoffs
SB Nation had a good thing going, picking winners of the first round of the NBA Playoffs using awful games like Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball and IN THE ZONE ’98. But then the Miami-Philadelphia series was simulated using Streets of Rage. Streets of Rage is not a crappy video game. See the link for the…
By Owen Good Published April 15, 2011 -
Where Are This Generation’s Tiger Handhelds?
Kids today are spoiled with their iPod touches and iPads and PSPs and 3DSes. When I was their age, portable games certainly DID NOT look comparable to their console counterparts. If you remember life before the advent of the Game Boy, then you remember Tiger Handhelds. They were cheap, they were attached to some sort…
By Adrian Covert Published April 15, 2011 -
See The All-New Twisted Metal In All-New Gameplay
Want to see what the new Twisted Metal looks like? Would more than six minutes of gameplay from the PlayStation 3 game do the trick? Well, here you go, plenty of time to ogle the all-new Twisted Metal. This newly released gameplay footage—with some Twisted Metal 2 music added by me for nostalgia purposes—shows off…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 15, 2011 -
Department Of Justice Deals Out Indictment To Top Online Poker Sites
In case you needed proof that online poker sites were shady, the Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment against the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker, charging defendants with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling.
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 -
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I really want to play Portal 2 this weekend. I hope the combined computing powers of Steam players and/or the FedEx man make that a possibility. I’m rooting for both parties, because I’d really like to shoot some portals at stuff! Since every publisher decided to release every video game all at once, I’ll probably…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 15, 2011 -
Latest Silent Hill: Downpour Screens Don’t Skimp On The Gondola
The first set of screenshots released for Konami’s Silent Hill: Downpour only featured two shots of a gondola creeping across a chasm. That’s nowhere near enough gondola. Thankfully this next set gives us a couple more. Silent Hill: Downpour’s main character is one Murphy Pendleton, an unfortunate man whose prison transport bus overturns on a…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 -
The Green Lantern Might As Well Just Use His Ring To Summon Kratos
The first gameplay trailer for Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters is here, with Hal Jordan showing off some very God of War-like maneuvers. Is this how you’d fight if you had a ring that could create anything?
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 -
Parents Concerned Over High School Students Play-Acting Call Of Duty
“It’s too real and too much like the Columbine tragedy,” says one concerned parent regarding a video shot at Rocklin High School in California depicting students pretending to play Call of Duty with imaginary weapons. Oh come on, really? There are no guns in the YouTube video “COD Black Ops JamT productions”, which features students…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 -
F.E.A.R. 3‘s New Multiplayer Modes Urge You To Fu**ing Run
When John Carpenter tells you to Fu**ing Run, you better well fu**ing run. Warner Bros. Interactive details the terrifying new multiplayer modes appearing in the third installment of the paranormal first-person shooter F.E.A.R. The creators of F.E.A.R. 3 didn’t just tap horror masters John Carpenter (The Thing) and Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) to…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 -
The Phyrexians take over in Magic: the Gathering’s upcoming expansion
The release of Magic’s newest set, New Phyrexia, is just one month away. With the Gigeresque Phyrexians winning their war against the Mirrans, the set is sure to be dark and dripping with Phyrexian infection. Check out this gallery of New Phyrexia art, including a couple of exclusives. In Magic’s storyline, the Phyrexians and the…
By Ed Grabianowski Published April 15, 2011 -
Mortal Kombat‘s Shang Tsung’s Got Soul, Unfortunately It’s Yours
It’s wonderful to see the traitorous sorcerer Shang Tsung up to his old transforming tricks again, isn’t it? He may be ancient, but he’s still got moves. Shang Tsung, as I mentioned last Friday, is a vile sorcerer that betrayed EarthRealm in order to achieve the sort of power it takes to transform himself from…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 -
We Can Unlock Portal 2 Early By Playing Indie Games Together
Now we know: Portal 2 will launch early—if enough people get together and play all the indie games in the “Potato Sack” on Steam. The countdown clock ended a noon, revealing the “GLaDOS@Home distributed computational grid status” page, showing what appear to be real-time stats of how many people are playing the games of the…
By Joel Johnson Published April 15, 2011 -
Wii 2 Controller “Like an iPad with Buttons”, Says a French Person
Destructoid has done us the kindness of translating some rumors about the upcoming successor to the Nintendo Wii from French gaming site 01net. The most interesting part? There’s a new controller coming around the bend that’s part Wiimote, part mini touchscreen tablet. The controller itself is said to include a 6″ single touch screen, d-pad,…
By Joel Johnson Published April 15, 2011 -
The Science Of Buying New Video Games
In today’s episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Phantomlink ponders the research that goes into buying a new game, and proffers a mathematical formula for determining if a game was worth your time and money. I was just wondering how fellow Kotakunites go about on purchasing their incoming games, especially with everyone being conscious about…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011
