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Mass Effect 2’s Cerberus Network Taking Hiatus; More DLC Confirmed
News updates from Mass Effect 2’s Cerberus Network will cease after the service marks its one year anniversary on Jan. 24. Updates will then come only with downloadable content – and one more package is on the way in 2011. Cerberus Network’s daily update has added background to the Mass Effect continuity, providing a short…
By Owen Good Published January 2, 2011 -
The Moneysaver: The First Hangover of 2011 [Updated]
Don’t you worry your pretty striped head, we’re gonna get you back to Tyson and your cozy tiger bed. And then we’re gonna find our best friend Doug, and then we’re gonna give him a best friend hug. But if he’s been murdered by crystal meth tweakers, well then we’re shit out of luck. Good…
By Owen Good Published January 2, 2011 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Tron-ify Everything
Tron: Legacy is a critical mixed bag at best – unless you’re Ian Bogost’s daughter – but it’s still useful for something: The first ‘Shop Contest challenge of 2011. Drawing from this poor cat and BossLogic’s awesome Street Fighter art, we’re going to transport games to the Game Grid this week. There’s an unintentional yo-dawg.…
By Owen Good Published January 2, 2011 -
The Week In Review: Ringing Out The Old
The winner and losers; the highs and lows; the disappointing failures and the heartwarming successes of 2010, we covered it all as the Earth’s odometer rolled over another year this past week. Fahey supplied a gorgeous, poster-quality roundup of the 2010 timeline to roundup our recap. Other fan favorites included Crecente’s accounting of the past…
By Owen Good Published January 2, 2011 -
BTTF
By Luke Plunkett Published January 1, 2011 -
2010: The Year In Gaming
What would the new year be without a massive graphical detailing of the highs and lows of the year previous? Let’s take a look back at 2010, giant infographic style. This graphic is a labor of love created by myself to mark the passage of one hell of a year in gaming. How much a…
By Mike Fahey Published January 1, 2011 -
Red-Ringed Xbox 360 Faces Celebratory Firing Squad
You just wrapped up another semester of college. What are you going to do to celebrate? Shoot up a dead Xbox 360 with semi-automatic rifles of course! Ben Strauss sends in these pics of the celebratory firing squad that both wrapped up another year at a local college near Kansas City and bid adieu to…
By Brian Crecente Published January 1, 2011 -
CTA Digital Showing Off Assault Rifles, Inflatable Kart, Bowling Ball at CES
Our favorite Brooklyn-based wacky video game peripheral maker, CTA Digital, will be showing off their latest collection of plastic and rubber add-ons for the Wii, Playstation 3 Move and Xbox 360 Kinect at CES next week. Among the peripherals being showcased at CTA Digital booth is the PS3 and PS3 Move Assault Rifle Controller, Playstation…
By Brian Crecente Published January 1, 2011 -
Monster Hunter Has A Merry Christmas In Japan
The PlayStation Portable represented well in Japan’s Christmastime hardware contest thanks to the continued sales rampage of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd and idol worship game AKB1/48: Idol to Koishitara… and maybe even The 3rd Birthday The latest Monster Hunter game for the PSP has racked up more than 3.5 million sales in Japan, something the…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 1, 2011 -
Box Scores: Skill Beats Speed Down The Stretch
From Gran Turismo 5 comes our latest game of the week, a race pitting Kotaku reader Icegoat in a roadster overmatched by nearly 150 hp against the rest of the field, “I like a challenge,” writes Icegoat, who ran a BMW Z4 tuned up to 397 horsepower against a field of racers ranging in power…
By Owen Good Published January 1, 2011 -
If Only Tron: Legacy Was This Great
It’s not. As seen on Buzzfeed via Make and Technabob
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 1, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
This is the January image for Talk Amongst Yourself. Allow it to put the fear of quiet discourse into your soul and inspire you to instead talk it out in the comments below. This 15th century painting by Domenico di Michelino is called La commedia illumina Firenza and is meant to depict a scene from…
By Brian Crecente Published January 1, 2011 -
Ten Years of PopCap Games
The makers of massive hits Bejeweled, Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies are eying 2011 as the year for aggressive expansion, PopCap Games head Dave Roberts tells Forbes. The casual game maker pulled in $100 million in revenue in 2010 and has 400 employees, but 2011 could see the company going public, more international expansion and,…
By Brian Crecente Published January 1, 2011 -
QWOP For iPhone Is An Olympic Challenge For Thumbs
Learn to walk, learn to run all over again with QWOP, the iPhone port of the highly entertaining and/or maddening track and field Flash game of 2008. Using a touchscreen to independently control calves and thighs sounds fun, right? Well, QWOP may not be fun in the traditional sense. It’s wacky. It’s challenging. But one…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 1, 2011 -
Fight Night Champion Serves a Standing Eight in the Joint
Anyone old enough to remember Marv Albert on NBC calling a James Scott bout live from Rahway State Prison will want to pay attention to this, the bareknuckle jailhouse fight within the “Champion Mode” of Fight Night Champion. Promised by EA Sports when Champion Mode was first revealed last month, this fight pits protagonist Andre…
By Owen Good Published December 31, 2010 -
Did You Keep Your 2010 Resolutions? I Almost did
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Tell Me About Your 2010 Looks like you had a great 2010. I did far too much to include it in a mere day note! :p What you missed I’ve Got Sand In My Arcade Eyes Five New Year’s Resolutions For Gamers The Year In Sports Video Games Report: Ubisoft…
By Brian Crecente Published December 31, 2010 -
Report: Ubisoft Antipiracy Measure No Longer Requires Always-On Net Connection
Beginning with this summer’s release of RUSE, Ubisoft curbed the use of its atrociously executed antipiracy safeguards, which required a constant Internet connection for the game to function. Apparently, an online connection is now only required at startup. PC Gamer reports that the constant DRM checks on games like Assassin’s Creed 2 and Splinter Cell:…
By Owen Good Published December 31, 2010 -
Fallout 3 Tribute Available on Rock Band Store
“Vault 101,” the Fallout 3 ballad by nerd rockers Kirby Krackle, is now available on the Rock Band Store. The download is $1 or 80 Microsoft Points. You can see it performed in-game on the jump. Fallout 3 Tribute Track Rocks Rock Band
By Owen Good Published December 31, 2010 -
The Year In Sports Video Games
Every year in sports has its winners and losers, but in sports video games, the results aren’t about pennants and trophies. And they’re not always clear-cut, either. We expect the routine with sports video games, the only genre consistently delivering sequels on an annual basis. And 2010 was like most years before it, with its…
By Owen Good Published December 31, 2010