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Gran Turismo 5 Gets 24 Hours Of Nürburgring Action
When Gran Turismo 5 ships at some point in the next decade, expect all the high-speed Nürburgring driving action you can tolerate. Developer Polyphony Digital is giving you three ways to enjoy the thrill of Germany’s famous. Nürburgring The official Gran Turismo site confirms that the PlayStation 3 “real driving simulator” will pack in three…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 12, 2010 -
Hey, Your Mod Got Portal In My Team Fortress …
Don’t want to wait for multiplayer in Portal 2? Some modders are privately testing out Team Fortress 2 equipped with portal guns, and released this video to show how far they’ve come with the concept. While anyone on the board can pass through a portal, whether they laid it down or not, the portals can…
By Owen Good Published May 12, 2010 -
Hell Is For Koopas
Did you ever wonder what happened to that unfortunate Koopa Trooper you left bouncing between those two pipes in Super Mario Bros.? Of course you didn’t, you heartless cad. Thankfully College Humor has its ever-bouncing back. The Koopa is sentenced to a life of hell, sure, but wouldn’t it be interesting if there was a…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010 -
Metroid Heroine Rides Through Space On A Ship With No Name
Metroid series lead and co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto teaches us something we never knew we never knew. Intergalactic bounty hunter and Metroid: Other M star Samus Aran’s ship—which bears a striking resemblance to her space suit—doesn’t have a name. In the latest issue of Nintendo Power, Sakamoto answers the question “Does Samus’s ship have a name?”…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 12, 2010 -
Speak-Up On Kotaku: Human Sexuality, Online Achievements, The Super Show, And Ostracism
It’s a whole new line-up in this week’s Speak-Up, as Ubikblack, Pointy, Anenemy, and Yantelope discuss the finer points of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, human sexuality, online achievements, and returning to the good old days of gamer ostracism. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010 -
One Excellent Hour With Rockstar Games, Talking Red Dead Redemption
Missed our live Kotaku podcast with Rockstar Games today? No problem. You can now download our one-hour conversation with two of Red Dead Redemption’s creators. Lots of good RDR info within — not all of it about me hunting animals. Hosts: Brian Crecente, Stephen Totilo Guests: Jeronimo Barrera and Rob Nelson of Rockstar Games Ranter:…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 12, 2010 -
Gawker Media Seeks Community Interns
Gawker Media seeks a few brave interns to learn about our commenting system and help us with our beloved communities. The interns will learn about behind-the-scenes administrative tasks and quality oversight under direction by our Community Manager. Applicants should have several days per week to devote to these duties. Strong communication skills, familiarity with Gawker…
By Kaila Hale-Stern Published May 12, 2010 -
Massive World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Leak Gets Plugged
Remember that giant compilation of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm alpha test info and screens MMO Champion released last week? It’s gone now, but certainly not forgotten. Let’s have a moment of silence for the staggering amount of work MMO Champion put into collecting, hosting, and posting images from the alpha build of World of Warcraft’s…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010 -
The Secret Handshake And The Problem With Gaming’s Hidden Code
Gamers are always on the hunt for vindication. Some form of acceptance amongst the wider community. Thing is, we’re so busy worrying over whether games are art, or dangerous, that we overlook a potentially larger problem: what we call them. I don’t mean the names we give to the games themselves. Those can be as…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2010 -
Steam For Mac Is Live, Includes Free Copy of Portal
Valve Software has flipped the switch. You can now officially download Steam for Mac OS X. Do so now and Valve will throw in a copy of the original Portal for free. The first-person puzzle hit can be yours for zero dollars or zero Valve Points until May 24, when Portal returns to its regular…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 12, 2010 -
Someone Needs To Make A Cube Video Game, Right Now
Speaking to MTV about his upcoming film Splice, director Vincenzo Natali expressed his desire to create a video game based on Cube, one of the greatest science fiction films ever created. This needs to be done. For those of you unfamiliar with the film, Cube is the story of a group of ordinary people who…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010 -
Monster Runaway Star Rampages Through Universe
30 Dor 016 is a star 90 times the size of our sun, ejected from its home, moving through space at a speed of 250,000 miles per hour. Anyone lose the plot to an epic science fiction video game? Alien invasion? Please. Exploring strange new worlds? So overdone. If you want to inject real drama…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010 -
Guild Wars 2 Does Away With Flawed Quest Systems
In the latest Guild Wars 2 update, lead content designer Colin Johanson talks about how the game’s dynamic event system is doing away with the traditional question-mark driven MMO quest systems in favor of world-changing events with lasting results. The standard quest system sucks. Mechanically it works fine, but in terms of immersion, it leaves…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010 -
Red, Dead, Redemption and Kotaku Talk Radio LIVE
If anyone can make cowboy shooters sexy Rockstar Games can. I hope. Don’t believe me? Stop by Kotaku Talk Radio right now to talk to two of the developers on the game. In studio right now we have Jeronimo Barrera, Rockstar Games’ vice president of development, and Rob Nelson, Red Dead Redemption art director. And…
By Brian Crecente Published May 12, 2010 -
Someone Had The Balls To Release An Iron Man 2 Demo
The last thing you want to do when critics are calling your movie tie-in game one of the worst titles of 2010 is release a playable demo for the Xbox 360, yet here we are. When you’ve got a completely ass-tastic video game on your hands that could possibly still generate sales from movie fans…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010 -
Is That A Cracked Version Of Max Payne 2 On Steam?
The Steam executable for Rockstar’s Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne bears a striking resemblance to a no-CD hack released by now defunct piracy group Myth. Could it just be a coincidence? Several Kotaku readers have pointed us towards a post on the Max Payne Steam forums, in which Steam user Liamaj points…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010 -
The Satanic Jokers and Laughing Jacks of Red Dead Redemption’s Playing Cards
It appears that Best Buy, and perhaps others, will be giving out these fancy Red Dead Redemption playing cards during the midnight launch of the PS3 and Xbox 360 Western by Rockstar Games. I love the work on those face cards. Thanks Best Buy tipster!
By Brian Crecente Published May 12, 2010 -
Guess Who Is The World’s Most Successful Game Studio
Develop magazine has released the 2010 Develop 100, an annual listing of the most successful game developers in the industry. Who took the number one slot this year? I’ll give you a hint: Nintendo. I really suck at this whole hint thing. World of Warcraft developer Blizzard may have kicked the house of Mario from…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010 -
4-Player Co-Op Onslaught Coming To Bad Company 2
Coming soon to Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Onslaught mode brings Battlefield co-op game play to the console for the first time, allowing teams of up to four players to brush up on their teamwork without other players shooting at them. Onslaught mode takes four of Bad Company 2’s multiplayer maps – Valparaiso, Atacama Desert, Isla…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010 -
Hell is other players
Part of the reason games make such an interesting topic is because they are so multi-faceted. You can talk about a game as an abstract design, as an individual experience, as a part of a broader culture, as an economic product, as a technical showpiece and many other things besides. Sometimes it’s not about a…
By Lauren Orsini Published May 12, 2010