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Back To The Future’s Star Goes Back To The Past
Telltale’s series of adventure games based on Back to the Future will be with us real soon. Here’s some footage of Marty McFly hangin’ out with Doc Brown. A young, young Doc Brown. Episode 1 of Telltale’s Back to the Future series will be out later this month. Click to view More Back to the…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2010 -
Robbers Didn’t Only Get Game Schwag, They Scored Marijuana
A twelve-year-old boy was left at home while his parents were out shopping. Robbers showed up and not only stole his video games, but also medicinal marijuana. Early Saturday morning, the boy was at home playing video games when two men in their 20s found an unlocked back door and entered the Sacramento home. The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 15, 2010 -
It’s Like Katamari Damacy: The Board Game!
Courtesy of hand-crafting superstar Moxie, here’s a Katamari Damacy playset for the real world, made of little else but felt and magnets. Look at it go! Not only does it work pretty well (so long as you’re trying to pick up small metal objects), but that rendition of the game’s classic theme song is enough…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2010 -
Gran Turismo 5 Trading In Crummy Cars For Premium Models
In driving simulator Gran Turismo 5, there are over 1,000 cars. However, only around two hundred of them are premium. That, however, is going to change. GT5 designer Kazunori Yamauchi tells Japanese game mag Famitsu that there are plans to increase the number of premium cars through future updates. Yamauchi did not specify how many…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 15, 2010 -
Turn Your Phone Into A Game Rating Encyclopaedia
The Entertainment Software Rating Board, America’s classification outfit for video games, has a new iPhone (and Android) app out, and it’s surprisingly handy! Taking advantage of your smartphone’s camera, it allows users to take a snap of the cover of a game off the shelf and be beamed not just a ratings description for the…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2010 -
A Treasure Trove Of Nerd Figurines
Over the past week, the figure-centric Treasure Festa was held in Tokyo. It was, as they say, a symphony of sculpted plastic. From The King of Fighters to Love Plus, there were all sorts of upcoming gaming figurines to behold. So do that, behold them. M’kay? グリフォン新作やミリメの新作ガレキ「アスカ」の彩色サンプルなど！「トレジャーフェスタin有明4」会場の様子 [Moeyo.com]
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 15, 2010 -
If Fine Art Was A Busted Video Game
Kristoffer Zetterstrand’s works take traditional painting and smash it head-first into things that aren’t traditional painting. Often, that means video games. You can see some of his work in the gallery to your left, with classics like Way of the Exploding Fist and King’s Quest tossed into the same piece as fake dioramas of a…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2010 -
New Tales Game Ready To Tell A Story
The latest entry in Namco’s Tales role-playing series has a name. That’s good, because it’s major headaches when a game does not have a name. Dubbed Tales of Xillia, the game marks the 15th anniversary of the Tales series and is a “RPG of flickering conviction”. It features character designs by Kosuke Fujishima and Mutsumi…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 15, 2010 -
Getting One Of The World’s First Video Games Back In Action
In 1958, Tennis For Two went on exhibition at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. With controllers and an analog display, it’s regarded as one of the first ever true video games. The original Tennis for Two was only on show for two years before being dismantled in 1959, used primarily as a novelty…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2010 -
This Game Developer’s Next Project Is Time In Prison
David Rushton, founder of Utah-based studio Sensory Sweep, is looking at jail time for tax fraud and racketeering as well as US$516,819 in restitution. Sensory Sweep is best known for DS title Tiger Woods PGS Tour 2005, Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting and Justice League Heroes. More recently, the company released Major League Eating and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 15, 2010 -
2200 Minecraft Skins In Four Minutes
In the next four minutes, you’ll see more Minecraft skins than you can shake a wooden pick-axe at. It’s testament to both the creativity of Minecraft’s players and the flexibility afforded the game that in a 3:43 space we get Colonel Sanders, Mario, Darth Vader, Soundwave, a soldier from Half-Life, Batman, Vault Boy, Dr. Zoidberg…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2010 -
Doves, Pistols And Video Games
Massively-multiplayer online role-playing game Reign of Assassins Online goes into beta today. This is more than just some MMORPG, it’s from one of the greatest film director’s ever, John Woo. He’ll put a bullet in your cinema-watching head. Born in China, but raised in Hong Kong, John Woo rose to prominence during the early 1970s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 15, 2010 -
End Of The Road For Ender’s Game…Game
In 2008, Shadow Complex developers Chair revealed they were working on an Ender’s Game title. People got upset. It’s OK, people. Relax. The game’s been canned. While Chair acknowledges that there were some cool concepts in mind for how to adapt the science-fiction novel, the studio’s purchase by Gears of War developers Epic — who…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2010 -
How The Sounds Of Star Wars Were Made
Whether it’s playing X-Wing or Tie Fighter, Super Star Wars or Jedi Knight, one of the defining experiences of the world’s favourite fictional universe – including, you know, watching the movies – is defined by its sound effects. So watching this clip is, quite literally, a blast, as it shows how some of Star Wars’…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2010 -
Yeah, The Xbox 360 And PS3 Are Getting A Dreamcast Compilation
Sega has confirmed that, yes, early next year there’ll be a collection of Dreamcast games compiled in a single retail package and released for the Xbox 360 and PS3. A retail listing appeared in November blowing the lid on such a pack, but Sega’s Alan Pritchard has since told Game Informer “We actually have a…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2010 -
This Is What 2011’s Year In Video Games Looks Like Right Now
We’re mere weeks away from the year 2011 and many video game makers are drawing lines in the sand, committing to release dates as late as next November. Let’s chart 2011 as it stands right now to see how it’s shaping up. While Sony has locked in November 1 as the far-off release date of…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 14, 2010 -
World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm MMO Log Part One: The Dog And Pony Show
It’s been a week since Blizzard unleashed the Cataclysm in World of Warcraft, and I spent the past seven days getting to know the Goblins and the Worgen. Which one did I prefer? Kotaku’s MMO reviews are a multi-part process. Rather than deliver day one reviews based on beta gameplay, we play the game for…
By Mike Fahey Published December 14, 2010 -
Neuroscientists create the first brain-controlled exoskeleton
We’ve had brain-computer interfaces for years now, as well as mind-controlled prosthetic limbs. Now neuroscientists have taken it to the next level, with a system that would allow you to control a super-powered exoskeleton using only your thoughts. Image of exoskeleton from Raytheon (this type is not brain-controlled – yet). It’s a science fiction dream,…
By Annalee Newitz Published December 14, 2010 -
A Souped Up PS3 Can Cut Your Gran Turismo 5 Load Times In Half
Improve your Gran Turismo 5 loading times—if not your lap times—by ripping out that stock hard drive in your PlayStation 3 and swapping in a solid state drive. You could cut your wait to race in half. Gran Turismo 5 owners looking to optimize the PlayStation 3 game by using SSD storage instead of the…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 14, 2010 -
Technically, This Is Not Final Fantasy XIII On The iPad
This is Eternal Legacy, a new iPhone/iPad/iTouch game from Gameloft that could be mistaken for Final Fantasy in a police line-up, if Final Fantasy games committed crimes. It even has neat special effects, bad haircuts and a story that I already lost interest in. We come to these games for the… flash and brisk fun,…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 14, 2010