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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Our #TAYpics Derby winner is MrSnuffles, who has a less cuddly concept of Kinect-enabled pets management. I shudder to think what he envisions for Milo. You too can have your remixed image featured in TAY! Just submit it in the comments and hashtag it #TAYpics. Or simply enjoy the company and conversation of your fellow…
By Owen Good Published September 5, 2010 -
New Star Wars Multiplayer Might Remind You Of Super Smash Bros.
At PAX, LucasArts is showing off what person after person keeps calling Star Wars Smash Bros. Wrong? The video I’ve shot and am showing you here is the offline multiplayer mode in the Wii version of October’s Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. And, no, its designer says, Smash Bros. was not the inspiration. Watch…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 4, 2010 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Antiques Gameshow Winners
We took the contest to Antiques Roadshow-land last week and discovered that one man’s trash is another man’s ‘Shop. We had another 700-entry contest, check out the 20 best below! Asked to mind-meld video games with heirloom appraisal, you guys did a damn fine job. 4lk4linetri0 and SonanceSpark supplied the requiste TF2 entries; L3G10N and…
By Owen Good Published September 4, 2010 -
Conduit 2 Makes Way For GoldenEye
Conduit 2, a game that’s actually been in development for the Wii instead of talking about it, got a reminder of the pecking order for Nintendo shooters when Sega moved it to 2011 to stay out of GoldenEye’s way. Nintendojo reports that Sega and High Voltage Studios confirmed that Conduit 2 will be moved to…
By Owen Good Published September 4, 2010 -
Kill Zombies With Your Rock Band Drums
The wait to use your Rock Band or Guitar Hero drums against the undead is almost over. Here at Penny Arcade Expo, Vancouver-based developer Andrew Laing is debuting Drumskulls. It’s like drumming, but it’s also like saving the world. Laing and I ran through a quick demo earlier today: I played the game and liked…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 4, 2010 -
Real People Play The Highest-Tech Catan Board Game You’ve Ever Seen
Back in July, our Luke Plunkett wrote about the high-tech future of board games. Then we saw a canned demo of classic game Catan on Microsoft’s surface. Now, watch real people play, as seen at PAX 2010. Earlier today, Kevin Foreman, lead designer at Vectorform, talked me through a demo of the game as I…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 4, 2010 -
It’s Got A Gun — You Wanna Say It’s Not A Sports Game?
What is and what isn’t a sport is an endless, often pointless argument, typically involving figure skating, stock car racing, bowling and even ballroom dancing. But what is and what isn’t a sports video game is rarely debated. The settled nature of that discussion – if it is even discussed, really – reflects the position…
By Owen Good Published September 4, 2010 -
Box Scores: Grillin’ Hot Dogs
Once again, there is nothing more American than taking down some hoon playing America’s Team in Madden online. Especially when you do it on a 4th and goal with no timeouts, instead of kicking a tying field goal. Kotaku reader Ant06 encountered said hoon in a Madden quickmatch and decided to send America’s Other Team,…
By Owen Good Published September 4, 2010 -
How Duke Nukem Forever Was Brought Back To Life
The revival of Duke Nukem Forever in Seattle at the Penny Arcade Expo may be the most stunning comeback story in video game history. In an interview with Kotaku, Randy Pitchford, the man instrumental in Duke’s return, explained how Duke came back from the dead. Duke Nukem Forever was supposed to be done. Gamers can…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 4, 2010 -
The Moneysaver: Before There Was Duke
Just wanted to remind y’all who said it first. Now I’m giving you a choice. Either click on these coupons or start eatin’ that trash can. Hardware • The Logitech G9X Laser Mouse (yes, dented box but it’s new) is $47.99 with coupon from Logitech. [Dealzon] • Dell dropped the price by over $200 on…
By Owen Good Published September 4, 2010 -
Fluidity Is A Lovely Loco Roco For The Wii
Nintendo’s new game at Penny Arcade Expo 2010 is Fluidity, a downloadable WiiWare game that has you sloshing water through the pages of a magical book called the Aquaticus. This game’s a beauty. I have three clips to prove it. In the first clip, you can see a Nintendo representative showing the basics of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 4, 2010 -
The Week In Review: Kicking A Hurricane’s Ass, Chewing An Earthquake’s Bubblegum
Duke Nukem Forever was Twitter’s No. 1 worldwide trending topic yesterday, over two global natural disasters. You’d better believe it’s the biggest news here, even against three other stories that would have carried a week by themselves. By those, I mean the PlayStation Move review, previews and impressions; news that GameStops on U.S. military installations…
By Owen Good Published September 4, 2010 -
Wait, This Time The New Sonic Game Does Look Good
And I thought it was weird that I played Duke Nukem Forever on Friday at PAX 2010. Did I also play a new Sonic game that was good? Was it all a dream? A Kotaku reader I ran into on Friday named Mark played Sonic Colors and said he still can’t stand seeing Sonic in…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 4, 2010 -
The Guns Of Our Forefathers
When you think of guns in video games, you think of assault rifles, plasma rifles, rocket launchers or machine guns. Why is it you never think of, say, a musket? When you consider that the concept of the firearm has been around for over 800 years, and that guns have undergone such a long and…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 4, 2010 -
Duke Nukem Forever: From Vaporware To Software
It wasn’t supposed to be real. It was supposed to be imaginary. Vapor. Yet, Duke Nukem Forever, a game in development for over 13 years, is very real Studio 3DRealms first revealed that it was working in the game in 1997. That means that when development on this game started, Google hadn’t even been founded…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 4, 2010 -
PS3 Modchips Banned In Australia [Update]
Despite the fact that a 2005 Supreme Court ruling determined that video game console modchips were legal under Australian law, the nation’s Federal Court has ruled that the new PS3 Jailbreak modchips are to be outlawed down under. Earlier this week, a temporary block on the sale of the devices was ordered, but yesterday the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 4, 2010
