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Hope Tomorrow’s Race Isn’t Delayed, Too

Just to screw with you, GameStop’s put Gran Turismo 5, which was originally planned to release on Tuesday, on the hood of Joey Logan’s No. 20 Toyota for tomorrow’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway. Seen via GoJoeyLogano.com Logano has a 21-race sponsorship deal with the games retailer, and also drove with GameStop…

Two Important Questions About Playing Kinect Naked

Kotaku has already put Kinect through its paces, testing its voice and face recognition capabilities and how well it performs under imperfect lighting conditions. We haven’t tested it naked (as far as I know…) but other people have. IGN UK went there, asking “Can you play Kinect naked?” Yes, you can and it won’t detect…

Black Friday Ads Leak New PlayStation Bundles, DS Colors

Holiday shopping madness is just around the corner, with deals from post-Thanksgiving “Black Friday” sales heralding video game savings. In addition to temporary price cuts, it appears new PlayStation 3, PSP and Nintendo DS bundles are en route. Supposed scans from Sears’ Black Friday print ads point to a pretty good deal on the PlayStation…

PSPgo Price Drops Its Way Out Of Last Place In Japan

Sony’s recent slashing of the PSPgo’s price worldwide has had a noticeable effect on sales of the download-only device, at least in Japan. The regularly triple-digit selling PSPgo just had one of its best weeks ever overseas. The smaller, lighter version of Sony’s PlayStation Portable just moved another 3,000 units in Japan, managing to outsell…

NASCAR 2011 Screens Get Loose In Turn Three

The flaps go up to keep Jeff Gordon from going airborne in this new batch of screenshots for NASCAR 2011: The Game, due next year from Eutechnyx and Activision.

The Ice Tea

To: Owen From: Crecente True story. Earlier today Ice T tweeted that he was hoping to get Call of Duty: Black Ops early because he’s a fan. I bugged some Activision folks about it and they called Ice T to hook him up. That’s right, I did Ice T a solid. Now he owes me…

NASCAR: The Game 2011 Screens

Nintendo Keeps Super Mario’s 25th Anniversary Classy For America

When Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. collection comes stateside next month, it will come in a pretty little package for Wii owners. If you’re a fan of Mario, you’re probably going to want to grab this slick limited edition package. Included in the Super Mario All-Stars collection are Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost…

And Here’s NBA 2K11 In 3D

Those who dug out their 3D glasses for the last post, my attempt to show you Madden’s 3D mode fell flat. Here to save the day is Operation Sports’ MessenjahMatt, with a 3D presentation of Michael Jordan in NBA 2K11. This re-enacts Jordan’s no look, back-to-the-basket, over-the-head layup against the Knicks (in game, it’s not…

Madden’s 3D: A Bag Of Chips And Not All That

Last week, Madden NFL 11 slipped in a 3D presentation mode through a promotion with Doritos. It’s the old-school red-and-blue 3D, and if it’s not entirely free, it only costs a bag of chips. Is it worth even that? Short answer: Not really. The biggest problem isn’t anything in the mode, it’s what isn’t in…

Are These The Video Game Characters The Defined A Decade?

Master Chief, Nathan Drake, Alyx Vance, Niko Bellic, Kratos, The Boss, GlaDOS — just a small selection of the 30 video game stars that the newest issue of Game Informer names as the video game characters who “defined a decade.” The mag’s newest issue not only sports some impressive artwork by friend of Kotaku and…

Xbox Live Indie Clips: Radiangames Fluid

Developer Radiangames returns to Xbox Live Indie Clips with Fluid, a game that melds the gameplay of Pac-Man with the urgency of a timer and the terror that is hordes of jellyfish. I actually meant to get to Fluid back when it first hit Xbox Live Indie Games, but the timing was such that I…

The Complete Kinect Round-Up

Kinect game reviews, good and bad. Kinect stress tests. Kinect photographed near a can of beans. A video diary of nine days with Kinect. A tale of two re-arranged living rooms It’s all here in our definitive Kinect article round-up. What We Loved, What We Hated About the Xbox 360 Kinect Microsoft calls it a…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

This weekend, liquefied guts will be all over my television screen as I spend a little more time with Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage for the PlayStation 3. What about your gaming plans for the weekend? After throwing exactly one zillion punches, I plan to do a little shadow boxing of my own,…

The Daily Show Solves The Problem Of Violent Games And Children

Is the solution to children playing violent video games bundling Family Game Night with a machine gun, a nine-person shooter, or replacing Niko Bellic with American public radio personality Ira Glass? Watch out: He’ll shoot your penis off. The Supreme Court hearing regarding California’s violent video game law began this week, and The Daily Show…

To-Do In New York: Mario Party 25 At The Nintendo Store

The Nintendo World Store (and former Pokemon Center) hosts a grand-re-opening on Sunday — several days after re-opening — in New York City. They’re having a 25th anniversary party for Super Mario Bros., with the promise of Super Mario cake. Cake. Mario games. Someone in a Mario suit. Surely, Mario gets more of a party…

Will Kinect’s “Thousand Points of Light” Interfere With the Wii’s Remote?

Let’s say for some odd reason you want to have both your Xbox 360 Kinect on and your Wii? Why? I haven’t a clue, but if you did, would the two systems, which both use infrared, interfere with one another? I tried playing Rally Ball with the activated Wii Remote in my hand and had…

When A Man Turns 60

Chris Crawford, whose lifelong dream has been to master the creation of interactive storytelling, turned 60 in late June. He moved the final red bead, the ones marking each day of his sixth decade, to the jar on the left. In a sobering late June post I saw yesterday as it wound its way through…

How Video Game Graphics Sped Up Chemistry

Video gamers’ desire for more realistic graphics has produced more than just flashy new games; just ask a computational chemist. Theoretical chemistry involves using the principles of physics to explain and predict chemical reactivities. Computational chemistry takes the results of theoretical chemistry and pipes them through computer programs in order to calculate the properties and…

How Video Games Changed Our Science Fiction Fantasy

Roger Ebert has said that video games cannot be art. Similar judgments have been made over the decades and centuries about novels, plays, movies, television, comic books, and of course science fiction. Now, videogames are up in front of the Supreme Court. Once again a new and innovative form of art and entertainment is being…