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Timelapse Video Of A New Year’s Spent Gaming Wildly
This video by Vimeo user David Ghent shows what it looks like when New Year’s (Eve?) is mixed with alcohol, Xbox 360 Kinect motion gaming and some PlayStation Move — all in a room that’s not that big. And here I was expecting an injury or two. New Years time lapse [Vimeo]
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2011 -
In 2011 One Video Game Will Add More Heroic Drunken Shooting To Our Culture
In the video game war against video game cannibals, as depicted in next month’s Bulletstorm, extreme measures are required — or at least rewarded. The straight-faced official U.S. video game ratings board describes a bunch of them. This is the description on the Entertainment Software Ratings Board’s website for the M-rated (meaning for players 17…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2011 -
Nintendo Download Gallery
Sneezies Publisher: Chillingo Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 500 Wii Points Description: Sneezies is an overload of cuteness! Grab a cup of coffee, sit back in your favorite plush chair and enjoy soothing, relaxed game play featuring fantastic graphics and sweet melodies. Use your Wii Remote™ controller to drop a burst of sneezing…
By Mike Fahey Published January 3, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Happy new year. You are reading the second sentence of Kotaku’s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Now you’re reading sentence no. 3. Join in the conversation in the comments section. Talk about anything related to video games right here. And, as always, you can be responsible for the image up top. Each day, Talk Amongst…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2011 -
Kissy Kissy Kiss
To: Brian From: Luke I left my iPhone at a friend’s place earlier today, so there will sadly be no video night note. In its stead, here is 1986’s Bikini Shop. etc etc etc Here’s what you missed: Hacker Claims To Have The PS3’s Front Door Keys Microsoft Researchers Made An Xbox Game Little Girls…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2011 -
Please Insert Coin
By Berk Ozturk, as seen on it 8-bit
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2011 -
Rose Parade Suddenly Hungers For Ghosts, Fruit
The annual New Year’s Day Rose Parade is supposed to be about football. There are flowers in there somewhere, too. But we don’t care about that stuff. We just care about a giant Pac-Man and his Pac-Man marching band. Sure, it’s a marketing stunt pulled by Namco Bandai and not a spontaneous outpouring of love…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2011 -
Angry Birds Turns Its Fury On PS3, PSP
As promised, mobile sensation Angry Birds has landed on the PlayStation 3 (and PSP), due to be released as part of this week’s PlayStation Store update. The game, which has moved well over 20 million copies across various mobile phone platforms, will be released as a PlayStation mini title, meaning it can be played on…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2011 -
Rumor: 3DS Stolen From Chinese Factory
A worker at a Chinese manufacturing facility claims to have smuggled out a production model of Nintendo’s latest handheld. As proof, he offers these lovely photos. There are no blurry, rushed shots here; instead, the guy has sat down with the console, switched it on, taken his time and given us a good look at…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2011 -
This Year, Marcus Fenix Hopes To Cut Back On The Reps
Did any of you make a new year’s resolution? These guys did. Let’s hoping most of them, Gordon Freeman aside, can actually stick to them! You can see the full gallery over on Dorkly, but these are the highlights. While some are reaching at jokes, others – Marcus Fenix in particular – read true enough…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2011 -
Little Girls Make StarCraft II Sound Like SweetCraft II
You want to know how cute 4 year-old girls are? They can make Starcraft II sound adorable This clip, part of a fan podcast of sorts, may look like the internet’s 1,114,236th home-made video about Starcraft II, but it’s not. Because the interrupting exclamations of a small child make it more heart-warming than the rest.…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2011 -
Microsoft Researchers Made An Xbox Game
For years, getting a computer to play chess has been a badge of honour for AI programmers. Getting an Xbox Live game to play something 10x more complex, then, seems like something to be proud of. Microsoft has quietly released a first-party game on Xbox Live Arcade called “Path of Go”, a computerised version of…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2011 -
Hacker Claims To Have The PS3’s Front Door Keys
Famed hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz, who among other things helped crack the iPhone, reckons he’s found what are essentially the keys to the PlayStation 3. And has posted them online for the world to see. While a group claimed last week that they’d done much the same thing, and were in the process of releasing…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2011 -
All Packed Up With Nowhere to Go
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Did You Keep Your 2010 Resolutions? I Almost did Some highlights from this weekend: Galaga World Record Falls Mass Effect 2’s Cerberus Network Taking Hiatus; More DLC Confirmed 2010: The Year In Gaming Red-Ringed Xbox 360 Faces Celebratory Firing Squad Lian Li PC-V2120 Full Tower Case Review Tactic 3D Sigma…
By Owen Good Published January 2, 2011 -
Activision Threatens 600 UK Jobs Over Loss of Tax Breaks
Activision’s so incensed over the United Kingdom’s rollback of promised tax breaks for video games development that the publisher is considering the withdrawal of its 600-employee office from the country, according to The Telegraph. Though tax relief proposals had support from both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leadership in Parliament, the plans were scrapped in…
By Owen Good Published January 2, 2011 -
Xbox 360 Toaster Is Part Of Your Complete Morning
The idea behind this casemod may sound ludicrous, but let’s think for a second. When was the last time a burglar went straight for a toaster? Of course, this is a toaster plugged into a TV, so maybe that’s a dead giveaway that this console mod does not in fact lightly brown slices of bread.…
By Owen Good Published January 2, 2011 -
The Week In Games: Puzzling Prospects
The critically anticipated Lost in Shadow for the Wii (pictured), and the cheerful platformer ilomilo on Xbox Live Arcade highlight the first week of major releases in 2011. Tuesday (Jan. 4) Lost in Shadow (Wii) – Kotaku’s runner up for Best New Game of E3, Lost in Shadow is the journey of a boy’s shadow,…
By Owen Good Published January 2, 2011 -
Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Five Video Game Drinking Games That Are Worth a Shot [Joystick Division] As these involve drinking whenever Super Meat Boy dies or John Marston is…
By Owen Good Published January 2, 2011 -
Any Dead Space Gamesave Gives You OG Plasma Cutter in Dead Space 2
Whether or not you’ve completed the original Dead Space, if you have any game save file from it on your hard drive, you’ll get Isaac’s original plasma cutter free for use in Dead Space 2, which arrives Jan. 25. Louis Gascoigne of developer Visceral Games told Joystiq that any upgrades to the weapon in the…
By Owen Good Published January 2, 2011 -
Galaga World Record Falls
Galaga’s tournament-setting world record fell again, reclaimed on New Year’s Day by the previous record holder, Andrew Laidlaw of Washington state. Laidlaw’s 4,525,150 was certified on Friday by Twin Galaxies, the world sanctioning authority for video game high scores. Laidlaw set the mark on the tournament setting, which allows for five lives total on the…
By Owen Good Published January 2, 2011