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THQ Back In The Business Of Losing Money, May Drop Annual UFC Games

After a long, money and talent-bleeding period, publisher THQ had a pretty damn good last year. The Darksiders and Red Faction maker thanked UFC Undisputed and Red Faction for that. This year is not off to the same great start. THQ lost $30.1 million USD this past quarter, thanks to slower sales of this year’s…

Pinball Wizards Are Not Welcome In Beacon, New York

Fred Bobrow, owner of the Retro Arcade Museum in Beacon, New York, might not look like a criminal to you, but he has broken Beacon Law, and paid the price. Eighteen months after opening the Retro Arcade Museum in Beacon, Bobrow was forced to shut it down, thanks to an old law on the books…

Even Soda Can Super Mario Gets A Sequel

One August ago, we showed you a Mario made of boxes of Pepsi soda cans. One year later, we are showing you Super Mario Made Of Soda Can Boxes 2. 2010 edition is up top. 2009 edition is here, first posted on Kotaku in August 2009 Mininmal graphical improvement. Not really a generational leap. A…

PlayStation Plus Subscribers Get PixelJunk Racers 2nd Lap 1st

Hardcore PixelJunk brand fans may have a convincing reason to become PlayStation Plus members as of now. PlayStation 3 owners who subscribe to Sony’s premium service will be the first to get access to PixelJunk Racers 2nd Lap starting Tuesday. That’s not a sequel, but an upgrade to the original PixelJunk Racers. Developer Q-Games has…

Ace Combat Returns To Consoles With Assault Horizon

Namco Bandai takes to the skies on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next year with Ace Combat Assault Horizon, a rebirth for the franchise featuring helicopters, turret-gunning, and quick-time events. Fans hungry for a new console version of Ace Combat since the 2007 release of Ace Combat 6 on the Xbox 360 are on…

Skype Getting Into Gaming?

Skype, the mostly free, Internet replacement for phones and video phones, may get into online gaming. As part of a filing that would make the company public and allow for stocks of it to be traded, Skype detailed some plans for expanding its business. VentureBeat reporter Dean Takahashi zeroed in on the gaming part of…

Super Scribblenauts Has Vomit & Corpse-Eating Carnivorous Bikes, Still Safe For Kids

What innumerable whimsical scenarios can Scribblenauts players generate like some sort of god in the sequel? How about knife-wielding murderous computers, flaming snowmen and flesheating bicycles? That’s just the tip of the iceberg in the still kid-friendly Super Scribblenauts. That animated assault and the setting on fire of Christmas trees is just the type of…

The Man Who Brought Tetris Home To Consoles

Henk Rogers of Blue Planet Software, the man who secured the console rights to Tetris with Nintendo, posing outside the first Classic Tetris World Championships in Los Angeles.

Red Dead Redemption’s Famous Scream

Unless you’ve lived off the grid for the last 60 years, you’ve heard the “Wilhelm scream.” It’s a stock sound-bit originally used in film and television post-production. It started in a Western movie. It’s back in a Western video game. Kotaku’s Owen Good previously wrote about the Wilhelm scream and its long history in the…

Ferrari Racing Plus Giant Robot Arm Equals Awesome

The only thing I can imagine that would be more exciting than racing a Ferrari F2007 at high speeds, is pretending to drive a Ferrari F2007 at high speeds while being swung about by a giant robot arm. Now this is scientific research I can fully endorse. Paolo Robuffo Giordano and colleagues at the Max…

Tetris Finally Has An Official World Champion

Yesterday at Los Angeles’ Downtown Independent Theater, 29-year-old loan coordinator from Redondo Beach, California Jonas Neubauer was crowned the first-ever Classic Tetris World Champion. Over 200 players showed up to test their Tetris skills against the best the world had to offer at the Classic Tetris World Championship, organized by former Nintendo World Champion and…

The First Time I Played Doom Was Yesterday

More than 17 years after it was released, more than a decade after I was first paid to write about video games, I have finally played Doom. For an hour last night. My belated snap judgment? I like Doom! I like the way it looks. I like the way the gun bounces as you run.…

iTunes Chart Topper: Planets Collide, Osmos Returns

Osmos the highly regarded game about little orbs absorbing bigger ones makes it’s return to the list. Both iPhone and iPad gamers have found a renewed interest in it’s galactic ambiance. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone…

The $100 Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Collector’s Edition Is Worth Every Penny

With two different intricately-detailed, creepy cool jack-in-the-box collectibles packed inside the collector’s edition of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, the question isn’t if you should buy it, but where. The collector’s edition for Assassin’s Creed II, with its lovely tin and Ezio action figure, was quite a nice little package, but Ubisoft has outdone itself with the…

This Is Call of Duty: Black Ops Multiplayer In Action

We know very little about the multiplayer in Call of Duty: Black Ops, except that there will be competitive multiplayer, separate co-op and, for PC gamers, dedicated servers. Any other facts or hints may be in this debut multiplayer trailer. The end of the trailer shows an in-game screen and video capture tool. But surely…

CGI Snooki Beats Obama With A Wine Bottle

Next Media Animation continues to make a game out of Taiwanese news, with a summation of trash TV show Jersey Shore that captures Snooki’s true essence. Ashcraft spoke to the folks at Next Media Animation last month, after the company’s Wii molester monk and Tiger Woods videos caught our attention. During the interview, Next Media…

This Could Be The Worst Nintendo Download Ever

This week’s Nintendo Download brings a collection of six downloadable games so underwhelming you probably shouldn’t even bother reading about them. Did you read Lisa’s column? It’s pretty awesome. Go read that instead. Still here? You must be really bored. Are you at work? Perhaps you should find a job that keeps you too busy…

Seventeen Expansions Later, EverQuest Gets Player Housing

Eleven-year-old MMO EverQuest is getting its 17th expansion pack in October, raising the level cap, adding more than 450 new spells, 18 raids, 13 zones, more than 120 quests, and finally giving players somewhere to live. Just because Sony Online Entertainment is already teasing the fourth game in the EverQuest series doesn’t mean it’s forgotten…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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