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So I Went To A Hockey Fight And Punch-Out!! Broke Out …
Fighting in hockey is awesome. It’s more than tolerated – the NHL has no problem with fighting on the ice, nor in the video games it licenses. Know what makes a hockey fight more awesome? Punch-Out!! music. This is Zack Stortini of the Edmonton Oilers and Chris Barch of the Dallas Stars getting rough Tuesday…
By Owen Good Published January 27, 2011 -
Kotaku At (Nearly) 100,000 Facebook Fans, A Milestone In Our Social Lives
For months we’ve been running a Kotaku page on Facebook. Many of you have visited to chat about video game news, to call each other names, all that good stuff. Nearly 100,000 of you like us on Facebook. Thanks! There was a time in the lives of each of us who work at Kotaku when…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 -
Is Minecraft’s Halo Homage A Remake Or A De-Make?
Super Mario Bros.? Check. Portal? Check. What’s next for Minecraft? Halo, inevitably. Here’s “Halocraft,” a PvP arena homage to Halo 2’s Lockout map. Modified textures and sounds, if not the graphics, complete the look and feel of the original. The World Of Halo And Minecraft Collide For Some PVP Action [Hot Blooded Gaming]
By Owen Good Published January 27, 2011 -
The Video Game Controllers You Might Not Want… Until You Use Them
The people who make unusual game products like a Wii Remote that can be customized with LEGO blocks—one of their more successful video game controllers—can sometimes make a controller better than Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft, I’ve learned. Power A is the company who makes official LEGO Wii Remotes, which unless you’re the creator of Final…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 27, 2011 -
Minor League Team Parties Like It’s NHL ’94
Like Tecmo Bowl and RBI Baseball, NHL ’94 is a sports video game that transcended its genre. Anyone who played a Genesis or Super Nintendo in the 1990s remembers its goal celebration – every player rushing the scorer, sticks raised. Hardly unique to NHL ’94 – many other games signified scores in similar ways –…
By Owen Good Published January 27, 2011 -
Call of Duty For NGP ‘Will Set The Bar’ For Next-Gen Portables
PlayStation Portable owners haven’t seen a Call of Duty game on their platform since 2007’s Call of Duty: Roads to Victory. That will change with the arrival of the next generation PSP, the NGP, says Activision. Philip Earl from Activision took to the stage at Sony’s unveiling of the PSP2 to show the Call of…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 27, 2011 -
The Dark Tower Video Game Rumored For 2013
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series of novels is being adapted for movies and television. Also planned? A “very ambitious game component […] that will further utilize elements from the books,” says an AICN source.
By Michael McWhertor Published January 27, 2011 -
How Marvel Broke My Heart
It wasn’t their so-bad-they-were-good 80s movies. Nor was it their early, failed flirtations with video games. No Marvel broke my heart when they stopped printing this magazine-sized comic. The Savage Sword of Conan was my first “adult” comic, the first step I took beyond (please don’t laugh) the likes of Richie Rich, Casper and Archie.…
By Brian Crecente Published January 27, 2011 -
Nintendo ‘Traumatized’ By 3D Virtual Boy, But ‘(Laughs)’ About It Now
The Virtual Boy is one of Nintendo’s biggest flops, an experiment in stereoscopic 3D that left a bad taste in the mouths of some of the game maker’s employees, leaving them with hesitation that the Nintendo 3DS could succeed. In the latest “Iwata Asks,” the interviews conducted by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, he asks the…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 27, 2011 -
Like Tapper With a Soccer Ball — And Zombies, Of Course
Pro Zombie Soccer got a special iPad version – the “Apocalypse Edition” this past week; today we’ll take a look at the just-a-buck original which combines a single simple gameplay mechanic with that winningest of themes, the undead. PZS is like a country music song that thinks up a catchy chorus and then writes the…
By Owen Good Published January 27, 2011 -
So That’s Where Blanka Gets His Juice
The Street Fighter Blanka needs a RECHARGE! Chewing down on that electrifying Pokemon Pikachu gives him a quick fix. Great idea by banzanza RECHARGING by banzanza Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.
By Michael McWhertor Published January 27, 2011 -
Even A LEGO Star Wars Game Needs Voice Actors
Just because none of the characters in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars actually talk doesn’t mean they don’t employ high caliber voice talent. They just grunt a lot. The cast from the hit animated television show Star Wars: The Clone Wars reprise their roles in LEGO Star Wars III, only there’s no script,…
By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2011 -
This Isn’t Sim City, It’s A Musical Instrument
Isle of Tune looks like Sim City. You can lay down streets like it’s Sim City. But once you start planting musical trees and chime-triggering houses, you’ll realize this is actually a delightful music sequencer. Suburban sprawl as symphony? The road that you pave establishes the length of the musical sequence and how it might…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 -
NGP’s Killzone, Uncharted, Resistance and More in Action
The unveiling of Sony’s Playstation Portable replacement, the NGP, came with one slick, game-packed video showing off a dozen or so games on the device. Among the games we got a quick look at were Gravity Daze, Killzone, Reality Fighters, Smart As, Broken, Little Deviants, WipeOut, Resistance, Uncharted and Hot Shots Golf Next. Enjoy and…
By Brian Crecente Published January 27, 2011 -
Scientists Pinpoint The Clock Inside Every Living Thing, Even You
Inside every living creature there’s a 24-hour clock that regulates the biochemical, physiological, or behavioral processes going on inside of us, and now scientists have discovered exactly what that clock is. We call the 24-hour cycle that exists inside all living things on the planet the circadian rhythm. This rhythm can be seen in our…
By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2011 -
First Look At Anarchy Reigns, From The Makers of Madworld
The game we’ve known as Max Anarchy until now—well, for the past two days—will be known as Anarchy Reigns when it comes to the West. Sega makes the latest game from PlatinumGames official today, with all-new screens. Anarchy Reigns is described by Sega as a “third-person multiplayer brawler” due for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 27, 2011 -
Pot Man And The Video Game Characters A Rapper Identifies With
Are Mega Man’s battle chips the same thing as a rapper’s weed and alcohol? Houston-area rapper A.D.D. talks about the video game characters that inspire him, name-checking Kingdom Hearts, Metal Gear, and Tomba. Tomba? Okay, A.D.D. earns some serious video game cred for calling out that pink-haired pig-hugger Tomba as one of his inspirations, even…
By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2011 -
This Might Be The World’s Most Dangerous Game
The instructions for the Wii-based game Akashi couldn’t sound more dangerous: “Players are blindfolded and a sword is given to them in order to play.” Good thing we have video of this one in action. Akashi is an audio-only game. You play as the blindfolded samurai, using audio cues to determine where your enemies are.…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2011 -
Sony Is Not Ready To Discuss NGP Price Or Skype, But Portable 3D Is Another Story
The NGP, Sony’s new gaming portable, might seem like a great machine. But there are things that Sony isn’t quite ready to talk about. That doesn’t mean I didn’t ask after I saw the NGP in Tokyo. This evening, I had a sit down with Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida, who worked very closely…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 27, 2011 -
GameStop Starts Absurd Pie-In-The-Sky NGP Price Guessing
Yes, yes, we’ve heard you tipsters. GameStop is “estimating” that the NGP is a penny shy of a grand. I suspect they may be guessing or want to roll in glorious amounts of bogus pre-order cash. Update: Sarcasm, even sarcasm highlighted with italics and an abundance of adjectives and hyperbole, still doesn’t play on the…
By Brian Crecente Published January 27, 2011