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What’s The Poop On Dirty Diapers?
Keeping a dozen cranky infants happy hardly sounds like a fun time in real life; on the iPhone, it’s the premise of Dirty Diapers, a fast-twitch puzzler just released on the App Store. Dirty Diapers is by Streaming Colour studios, which made 2009’s Dapple, a game I still think highly of. In it, 12 babies…
By Owen Good Published December 22, 2010 -
Are Game Companies Doing Enough To Avoid Funding War In the Congo?
Earlier this year we reported on efforts to urge electronics companies from using conflict materials mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Enough Project has released a report ranking companies’ responses. Where do Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony rank? The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country torn with strife. Since 1998 the Second Congo…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2010 -
Super Meat Boy Is Tougher Than N+
Science has not told us whether notoriously hard video game Super Meat Boy is tougher than notoriously hard N+. So we must rely on a second-best method. MTV Multiplayer’s Russ Frushtick has studied the two game’s Xbox Live Arcade statistics for both side-scrolling, curse-inducing games and declared Super Meat Boy as the more rigorous experience.…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 22, 2010 -
Still Need a Stocking Stuffer? Give the Gift of Melee with Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Brush up on your crowd-blending stealth, assassination techniques, and melee fighting skills with the new Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, out now from Ubisoft. And for the first time in the series, you can play in multiplayer mode. Or just go solo with more than 20 hours of singleplayer gameplay in which you can lead and control…
By Gawkercreative Published December 22, 2010 -
The PSP2 Is No PlayStation Phone
Should you save up for the rumored PlayStation Phone or the equally rumored PSP2? Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kazuo Hirai manages to calm potential consumer confusion without actually confirming anything. What do we know about the PSP2 so far? According to various sources from throughout the gaming industry, it’s a powerful little machine that houses…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2010 -
Sunday’s Wildest NFL Play Immortalized In Tecmo Bowl
The Philadelphia Eagles beat the New York Giants on Sunday with a play that just should not have happened. It defied logic in real life; it defies logic when it’s recreated in the classic video game Tecmo Bowl. The video game version is here. Tecmo DeSean Jackson even runs along the goal line properly. Well…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 22, 2010 -
It Takes A Wizard To Steal $45,000 Worth Of Magic Cards
A former Wizards of the Coast employee from Burien, Washington stands to lose a lot more than his job as King County prosecutors file felony theft charges over the theft of $45,000 worth of rare Magic: The Gathering cards. Twenty-six-year-old Donald J. Henry has been accused of the massive theft after a fellow employee observed…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2010 -
The Fallout Neon Sign Goes To….
Four Kotaku readers had tied in our Fallout New Vegas sign post yesterday. Each submitted all the proper materials at the same minute. So we voted. There could only be one winner of our neon sign ipottersmith, you win! This is ipottersmith’s winning entry that met all the required criteria. Correctly identified my favorite video…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 22, 2010 -
New Technology Could Revolutionize the Search For Internet Porn
When you search for “work related” videos on the internet, the results are normally limited to the title or tag given to any uploaded clip. What if computers could recognize specific human interactions? Would they get embarrassed? A new method developed by an Oxford University team including Alonso Patron-Perez, Dr. Ian Reid, Dr. Marcin Marszalek,…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2010 -
QWOP Is One Of Life’s Hardest Activities
The guy in this video curses a lot. Can you blame him? He’s trying to play QWOP, one of the worst video games I’ve ever played. This game made the guy playing it exclaim in the clip: “You’ve got to be licking my nipples with the tongue of an elephant.”(Warning: Lots of Not Safe For…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 22, 2010 -
Do Video Games Really Need To Be Immersive?
Do we need to be drawn into our games, or can we just play and enjoy? That’s the question pondered by commenter RAMeyer19 in today’s installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku. Why in video games is “immersion” so often quoted as an important factor that a game has or lacks? Can I not love playing Pac-Man…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2010 -
What Ever Happened To The Christmas Video Game?
Christmas. It’s not only a holiday, but a mood, a memory. Movies ranging from It’s A Wonderful Life to Home Alone capture that festive feeling. Video games, do not. The fall season is typically when the gaming industry releases its most anticipated titles. Halo, Gears of War games and Uncharted games all get marquee fall…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2010 -
This Classic RPG Series Revels In Its Hair Metal Roots
In 1987 Japanese developer Falcom released a role-playing game so metal it needed its own in-house band to create the soundtrack. This February XSEED celebrates with the Ys I & II Chronicles Hair Metal Pack for the PSP. Ys I & II Chronicles is a re-imagining of the first two games in the oft-mispronounced Ys…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2010 -
Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow Whips Up A Double Dose Of DLC
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow left many unanswered questions lingering after the credits rolled, and Konami plans on answering them with a double dose of downloadable content coming next year to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The ending to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was…let’s just say it was interesting and leave it at that. Hopefully…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2010 -
Dungeons & Dragons Does Digital Download With Daggerdale
The battle for the Forgotten Realms goes digital with Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale, a downloadable multiplayer dungeon crawler coming to Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, and PC this Spring from Atari and Bedlam Games. Dungeons & Dragons Online is lovely, but I’ve always had a different vision for an online version of Dungeons &…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2010 -
Call of Duty Publisher’s Accusations Are ‘Deliberate Misdirection,” Rival Says
Yesterday, Activision accused rival games giant EA of all sort of skullduggery while suing them for $400 million for allegedly trying to “hijack” the Call of Duty franchise. Today, EA fired back. “This is a PR play filled with pettiness and deliberate misdirection,” EA’s head of communications Jeff Brown told Kotaku. “Activision wants to hide…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 22, 2010 -
The Year’s Biggest News In One Short Video Game
Oil in the Gulf. A cat thrown in a garbage bin. Chilean miners rescued. Prince William engaged. Top Gear driver unmasked. This is a very British view of the 10 biggest news stories of the year, turned into video games. The people at NGamer made this interactive montage in Nintendo’s WarioWare D.I.Y. I get most…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 22, 2010
