-
This is the Only Post on Kotaku That Looks Normal
To: Luke From: Owen Re: AbNo That’s because the Weekend Note doesn’t usually get an image. I hope we get the image servers back soon. Not that yesterday and today were a party, but I don’t want to know what Monday would look like without them. Other stuff you missed: Kinect Marketer: We Don’t Want…
By Owen Good -
You Won’t Go It Alone in Singularity
Not sure what Singularity is all about? This trailer for its multiplayer – now there’s an irony – should clue you in. For starters, it’s got projectile-vomiting, time-traveling zombies, a real one-up of that conventional foe. That bug that possesses you and makes you shoot your teammates looks like a barrel of fun. Looks like…
By Owen Good -
The Cars of Need For Speed World
The beta for the racing MMO Need For Speed World launches on Monday, and Electronic Arts has revealed its list of cars. The 1981 Renault 5 LeCar, 1977 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser and 1985 Pontiac Fiero did not make the cut. The cars are grouped by tiers according to performance. Here you go. Tier 1 Mazdaspeed3…
By Owen Good -
The Week in Games: APB is 10-8
That’s scanner-speak for “in service.” The arrival of the highly anticipated crime MMO headlines the week, joined by Singularity on PC, the 360 and PS3, and Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 doing a full Ginsberg. Today, June 27 Sin and Punishment: Star Successor (Wii) Monday, June 28 thinkSMART (DS) Tuesday, June 29 APB (PC) –…
By Owen Good -
Kotaku’s Top Five List of Top Ten Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The 8 Most Annoying Types of Video Game Levels [Ranker] Here’s one: Boss battles that take you from the standard third-person control you’ve been fighting…
By Owen Good -
‘Major Patch’ is on the Way for Backbreaker
Backbreaker the challenger to Madden NFL that got one very big thing right but a lot of little things wrong (or not at all), will get a “major patch” taking into account community suggestions, the studio said on Friday. “We’ve had to hold back on discussing this for the past couple of weeks but today…
By Owen Good -
The Fickle Fortunes of Comic-Con
Though Hollywood has cozied up to Comic-Con, which is in San Diego on July 22, a film’s strong showing there does not necessarily portend success at the box office. Nor does a poor screening imply a bomb. In a look at Comic-Con The New York Times notes that a film industry dazzled by the faith…
By Owen Good -
Kinect Marketer: We Don’t Want Shovelware — Nor Even Call of Duty
Microsoft’s director of platform marketing says he knows Kinect “will have fewer games than our competitors,” but that’s fine. “We don’t want shovelware, we don’t want ports, we don’t want stuff with motion controls tacked onto it.” “That’s not a slam to our competitors,” Chris Penello told Gamasutra in an interview Friday. “We wanted original…
By Owen Good -
Six Minutes of Mafia II Gameplay
Many details of Mafia II get exposure in this video from the Slovakian site Sector – such as the ability to swap between a realistic driving mode (where your car takes damage), and arcade, where it doesn’t. Getting it legal is a little more involved than just wheeling into a pay-n-spray. In the shop, you…
By Owen Good -
Doodle Jump Hits Five Million
The creators of Doodle Jump, the addictive platformer for the iPhone, believe their app is the first to break five million downloads from the iTunes store. That means they’ve taken in more than $3 million. That’s if the developer/iTunes split of revenue is still 70/30; the app sells for 99 cents. The creation of brothers…
By Owen Good -
Kotaku Off-Topic: To Our Allies in England
I’ve invoked plenty of martial themes for the World Cup, not least being France’s characteristic surrender. Regardless of our defeat yesterday, I won’t stop now. Today, England must go it alone versus Germany, amidst the V-1 chorus of the vuvuzela. It won’t be a surprise to hear the Dambusters March (above), if not sung in…
By Owen Good -
A Day Without Pictures
Ordinarily I don’t like to belabor technical issues, but today’s daylong outage of our image server postpones one of our most popular features: The Kotaku ‘Shop Contest roundup. I swear this is just a postponement – not a cancellation. Unfortunately, it also potentially affects tomorrow’s Sunday Comics and other features. Trust us that we have,…
By Owen Good -
Gaming With Defendant Costs Judge His Seat
Weird story out of Bristol, Va.; a judge there has abandoned his seat after it came to light that he’d been a constant video gaming companion of a man he’d sent to jail at least three times over the years. The gaming friendship Judge Joseph R. Carico, 40, had with Jeremy Hubbard, 28, came to…
By Owen Good -
Fans At Last Will Find The Silver Lining
When last heard from, those behind a long-in-development, fan-made King’s Quest sequel were on the verge of an agreement with Activision allowing them to finally complete their project. This afternoon, that news came. The Silver Lining will finally be completed. Phoenix Online, the collection of fan-developers who’d been working on The Silver Lining for upwards…
By Owen Good
