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Hey Kids, Enjoy Your Sexy Wii Game
We Dare, the Ubisoft upcoming game for swingers, is rated ages 12-and-up in Europe. Ah, kids these days. The Wii version game uses the Wii Remote and can support up to four players and their libidos as they play through a whole host of mini-games that include spanking, erotic dancing and pretending the phallic Wii…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 4, 2011 -
Female Zombies Don’t Get Lady-Like Deaths, But Keep Their Dignity
Sega’s Yakuza crime games are infected with zombies (and zombies from other games). In the game’s fictional Kamurocho, schoolgirls and business ladies are turning into the walking dead. But when you finally kill them, they don’t exactly end up lady-like. Then again, trying to eat people isn’t very lady-like, either. Funny, that. A whole bunch…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 4, 2011 -
Why I Stopped Playing The 3DS In 3D
Tomorrow will mark my one week anniversary of owning a Nintendo 3DS. I’m happy with the handheld — it’s a peach. However, six days in, and I’ve already ditched the 3D. I loathe it, and it’s a feature I can do without. Thankfully, Nintendo allows players to switch on the 3D effect and switch it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 4, 2011 -
You Can’t Kill The Resident Evil Movies
The Resident Evil movies are the cinematic equivalent of zombies. Just when you think they’re dead, when you won’t be subjected to them anymore, they get up and shuffle to your local cineplex. Guess what, they’re making yet another Resident Evil flick. Tentatively called “Resident Evil 5”, this will be fifth film outing for the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 4, 2011 -
Music Game Group Surprised By Nazi Complaints
Kishidan, a Japanese pop group, showed up on MTV wearing Nazi-style outfits late last month, drawing international criticism. Kishidan typically dresses as high school thugs from the 1970s, wearing bosozoku (biker gang) style outfits. Kishidan is tongue-in-cheek look at Japanese gang culture from days gone by. Their music is poppy and fun and is known…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 4, 2011 -
Kevin Butler, V.P. of the 2-1 Meatball Pitch
Trying very hard to make “Well played, Mauer” into a meme, or at least a theme, here’s fake honcho Kevin Butler getting worked at clutch time by the Minnesota Twins’ all-star catcher in a spot going up now for MLB 11 The Show. Mauer, also The Show’s cover man last year, showcases the new analog…
By Owen Good Published March 4, 2011 -
Bungie Makes Its MMO Official — But It’s Not ‘Warcraft in Space’
Rumored for more than a month, Bungie’s next project is an MMO, the developer confirmed today at GDC 2011. But David Aldridge, the studio’s lead network engineer, said it is not “WoW in space,” referencing earlier reports of the project. Aldridge did not give any other details, such as a title, but we’ve already been…
By Owen Good Published March 4, 2011 -
Herbing My Car
Growing up the neighborhood eccentric was a guy named Herb. He wore loud pants (often bought from a yard sale) and would whistle and scat-sing as he strolled by, twirling a golf club modified into a walking stick. Herb always had a dalmatian by his side and usually a handful of redskin peanuts. Herb was…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2011 -
Could You Rewrite Fight Night?
The concept behind Fight Night Champion’s narrative “Champion Mode” inspired me when I read of it. I looked forward to it as a breakthrough opportunity for the sports genre. But it served up a tray of disappointingly bland cookie-cut characters and conflicts, and the progression of your career was too short and too rigid. That…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2011 -
Animal Crossing Deepens the Madness of Charlie Sheen
Say what you like about Charlie Sheen, he so completely owns the story of his downfall, it can’t even be considered a downfall. Anything mocking him comes off as an admiring meme. This Animal Crossing mashup is but the latest. Melding some of Sheen’s more off-the-wall quotes over placid scenes from the Nintendo social sim,…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2011 -
Nominate Someone — or Some Game — for the Hall of Fame
Three video game titles will be enshrined along with the second class of honorees at the International Video Game Hall of Fame in Ottumwa, Iowa, which is seeking public input as it assembles nominees for final voting. Nominations close on March 15. A group as large as 18, comprised of living persons, organizations, and game…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2011 -
This is Your Brain On Call of Duty
The technology behind popular brain-control games like Star War’s Force Trainer and Mindflex could make future video games more challenging, more frightening. Puzzlebox Jigsaw is a high-tech solution to tracking what people think about the games they play by reading a gamer’s mind as they play them. Puzzlebox’s Steve Castellotti created a system that uses…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2011 -
Minecraft‘s Creator Says Piracy, Theft Aren’t the Same
Generally, those who create monster indie game hits don’t follow up by spouting, well, corporate attitudes about their games when in public. So the fact Markus “Notch” Persson has a more liberal view of the piracy issue isn’t that surprising. But he does have strong words for it. “Piracy is not theft,” he told the…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2011 -
A Key Is A Bridge In This Magical Game
Hanford Lemoore’s experimental game sounded bad at first. He was showing it today in San Francisco at Game Developers Conference and got as far as saying that it is a first-person game in which the only thing you can do is pick things up and put them down. A few minutes later, after he was…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 3, 2011 -
The Games of Tomorrow, in San Francisco Today
Kotaku’s reporting team is in its second day of news-wrangling at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, bringing back details, screens, footage and anything else bubbling up at one of the industry’s leading conferences. The conference is scheduled to last through tomorrow, but that won’t be the end of news coming back from San Francisco, For…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2011 -
The PlayStation Move Can Control Robots Too
Yesterday Sony unveiled Move.Me, a software application that allows hobbyists and academics access to the Move controller to do things like operating robots remotely. Today, we see the Move operating a robot remotely. While not quite as impressive as some of the things we’ve seen hobbyists do with Microsoft’s Kinect, moving a robot around remotely…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2011 -
One Of L.A. Noire‘s Murder Mysteries Is A GameStop Exclusive
There are a million stories in this naked city, but the Naked City story for L.A. Noire is only yours if you preorder the game through GameStop. Since L.A. Noire’s particular flavor of police investigation action is episodic, standalone cases make excellent preorder gifts. That’s what Rockstar Games is doing with Naked City, which sees…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2011