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Papa Smurf Is Not Amused By Your Sweatshop Tactics
Last week famed indie-developer Jenova Chen explained how to cheat your way through iGame Smurf Village. This week Papa Smurf caught wind of the underhandedness. He was not amused. Sometime after our article ran about Smurfing your way to a perfect Smurf village on the iPhone or iPad, Capcom got wise and released a new…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2010 -
Samsung Brings Six Free Mini-Games to Kinect Sports
Kinect gamers get a free download pack for Kinect Sports today courtesy of Samsung. The Samsung Party Pack adds six new mini-games and three mascots to the motion-gaming sports title. The mini games are super striker, Pinvaders, Rapid Runner, Target Smash, Fruit Splatter and King of the Ring. The mascots, crazy mascots according to Rare,…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2010 -
Pick Up Braid and Four Other Amazing Games For A Song
Starting right now you can pick up Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos, Revenge of the Titans for the Mac, Windows or Linux for exactly whatever the hell you want to pay, and it’s for a good cause. That’s right, Wolfire’s pay-what-you-want, donate-to-charity indie gaming bundle returns today with the Humble Indie Bundle 2. This year…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2010 -
Xbox Skate Park To Cease Shredding?
West London skate park Baysixty6’s skating days might be derailed as the hotspot now faces closure. According to website BikeBiz, the Kensington and Chelsea planning department states, “The Skatepark does not serve needs of the local youths.” The area might be turned into either an office space or a garden center. Previously, the park was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 -
The Video Game Posters For That Tiny Cinema You Never Go To
Get a load of these posters. They’re game posters done up to look like movie posters, but not the boring kind, the kind you see for a quaint little art house cinema that only shows a movie once. So they’re not cold, stark images. They’re a little kooky, a little old-fashioned, full of quirks and…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 -
Sony Can’t Quit You, Plastic Discs
Sony did win that HD format war, you know. While pundits predict that the next generation of consoles will be digital download only, Sony continues to be bullish on disc-based media. “The reason retail has been around for thousands of years is because it works really well at showing you a range of content, having…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 -
Oh, Snap. Kevin Durant Just Threw Down
Checked your Twitter feed recently? Because Oklahoma City Thunder star forward Kevin Durant just called you a punk. Well, not exactly, but he did just challenge fans to a two-on-two boomshakalakalicious bout of NBA JAM against him and his sidekick Mathias Murphy. In case you aren’t following him, Kevin Durant just tweeted the following: And…
By Gawkercreative Published December 14, 2010 -
The 20 Most-Loved Wii Games, For The Last Time
After more than three years of tracking Nintendo stats, I’m done. Monster Hunter wins. Smash Bros. comes in second. Mario squeaks in at the last minute. You are reading the final installment of a series I’ve been running monthly in various ways for a few years. Since joining Kotaku in the spring of 2009, I’ve…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 14, 2010 -
Microsoft Imagines a World Without iPhones, PS3s, Wii
The Microsoft Store is like a Bizarro World version of an Apple Store. Where Apple is stark, a single room of chrome and white, Microsoft is meant to be warm, a single room of earth tones and wood. Where Apple has more than 300 locations world wide, Microsoft has just seven. During a recent visit…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2010 -
This Might Look Like Vomit, But It Tastes Like Heaven
What you missed last night North Korean Dictator’s Real Son Ready To Spawn Homefront Attack The Embarrassing Things This Man Did For Mario Hope Crytek’s Korean Shooter Plays As Good As It Looks First Uncharted 3 Gameplay Footage Sets A House On Fire There’s A PC Remake Of GoldenEye Out Too, You Know
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 -
Gamers, Be Proud Of Your Pre-Historic Heritage
I’m a gamer. And if you’re reading this site, you’re probably one, too. Gamers like, well, games, and our games of choice now are video games. But gamers, as a breed, are nothing new. Recent archaeological findings continue to support just that. National Geographic reports that preliminary research has turned up prehistoric dice boards in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 -
North Korean Dictator’s Real Son Ready To Spawn Homefront Attack [Update]
First-person shooter is a fabricated account of what would happen if North Korean leader Kim Jung-il died and his son took over. The game’s latest trailer is hardly fiction. With the Dear Leader’s health failing, his son Kim Jung-un is being groomed as the replacement. The latest trailer shows actual footage of Kim Jung-un attending…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 -
These Zombies May Be Shambling, But They Are Also Adorable
Yeah, we know. More zombies. Blergh. But wait! This is a zombie-killing game with a difference: it’s big on charm. Bitejacker is an upcoming indie game for the PC that’s not only inspired by the zombie apocalypse tales of yore, but also Bytejacker, an indie gaming show. Double inspiration! It looks cute! Like the Super…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 -
War Has Changed, But His Secret Recipe Has Not
By Emilio Lopez, via Gamefreaks
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 -
The Embarrassing Things This Man Did For Mario
Shigeru Miyamoto might have created Mario, but he didn’t just draw the character. No, his work on Mario runs much deeper. As the years worn on, Miyamoto wasn’t directing the Mario games any more, but returned to the director’s chair for Super Mario 64, the first game to render Mario in 3D polygons. And he…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 -
Just Cause 2 Might As Well Jump
This base-jump in Just Cause 2 certainly gives new meaning to the term “leap of faith”. Press play, then wait for the parachute to open. You’ll, uh, be waiting a while. Just Cause 2 was a sandbox adventure game released earlier this year on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. We never got around to reviewing…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 -
Don’t Get Mad At This Retro Angry Birds Art
iPhone smash hit Angry Birds was not released in the 1990s. I’m sure of it. I was there in the 1990s, and I didn’t see it. But what if it was? What would it look like? Probably something like this. The pixels really complement the art style. These screens were whipped up by Penney Design.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 -
Super Smash Bros. Action Figure Brawl
Taking a bunch of tiny, adorable Marvel Super Hero Squad figures as a template, Rust This World has created a line of tiny action figures based on the characters appearing in Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. series of fighting games. While not every character is there, plenty of the main ones are, like Pikachu, Mario, Bowser,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 -
Robot Pilots Were Ejected From Vanquish
Sci-fi game Vanquish was originally inspired by a 1970s Japanese anime. It was also supposed to star a remote controlled robot. According to the game’s designer Shinji Mikami, originally there wasn’t anyone in the suit. “Instead,” he explains, “it was a remotely operated robot with three different pilots who would take turns controlling the unit…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010