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Not Owen

To: Luke From: Not-Owen Luke, I am not Owen, though I do sometimes watch sports. Not much sports, but I do like boxing. I caught the replay of the last Pacquiao fight this morning, and boy was it dull. My wife has been trying to watch some NCAA men’s basketball tournament this weekend, but I’ve…

By Stephen Totilo Published March 21, 2010

The Legend of Zelda Invades Farmville

With all of those multi-colored bales of hay in Farmville why aren’t more people doing this? Or maybe they are and I haven’t seen it yet. [Thanks Dom8bit]

By Brian Crecente Published March 21, 2010

People Watching Me Discuss Video Game Journalism

“Members of the gaming press are always working. For instance, that picture I took at the beginning of the panel? I’ve already uploaded it and posted it on Kotaku.” The audience at my MomoCon panel on game journalism. Nice-looking bunch!

By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2010

Week In Games: Just Caves

If you have any funds left over from the previous weeks’ blockbuster video game releases, perhaps you’ll be interested in what this week has to offer, namely another use for your Wii MotionPlus and Just Cause 2. For the more discriminating video game enthusiast, the long in the waiting release of Cave Story on WiiWare…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 21, 2010

Cheating At Pokémon And Walking At The Same Time

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver both come packed with the Pokéwalker, a nifty little device that promotes good health through Pokémon mastery. Then this lazy yet inventive individual comes along… I know I shouldn’t call the creator of the Pokéwalker cheat device lazy. For all I know he or she can’t walk, and this is a…

By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2010

MomoCon Cosplay Gallery: Atlanta Gets All Dressed Up

MomoCon has filled the campus of Georgia Tech in downtown Atlanta with cosplayers, and video game fans are there in force. Check out characters from Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Miles Edgeworth, BioShock, Brutal Legend, and more! It was nice to see a couple of games represented that you don’t normally see that often being cosplayed.…

By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2010

A Week With Bob

This is how you make friends and influence people in the Information Age (as a writer, anyway): You write something, you twitter about it, you religiously check your mentions and retweets, you follow the people who mention or retweet you, you keep on the lookout for your new friends tweeting about their own writing, you…

Tim Rogers Published March 21, 2010

Passage Creator’s Next Game Hits Next Month

Next month, Jason Rohrer, innovative developer of Passage, is releasing Sleep Is Death. The multiplayer video game combines adventure gaming with a second player’s need to craft new, reactive scenes in mere 30 seconds intervals. Caught Sleeping [Boing Boing]

By Stephen Totilo Published March 21, 2010

Adult Rated Video Games Bound For Australia?

No, not yet, but the possibility of Australia getting games rated 18 and older has increased quite a bit with the chief opponent to the move, trouble-plagued South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson, stepping down from office this weekend. Atkinson, who was elected to Parliament in 1989, made public his decision to step down from…

By Brian Crecente Published March 21, 2010

Is Kotaku In Your MP3 Player Of Choice Yet?

Each week we record a live audio call-in show, modeled off of all those drive-time talk radio shows on the radio. We do this, in part, so you can listen to Kotaku while obeying the speed limit. If you’re not already downloading Kotaku Talk Radio, find it in iTunes or in the Zune marketplace and…

By Stephen Totilo Published March 20, 2010

PlayStation Prez Promises Killzone 3, Eventually

Sure, a third entry in the Guerrilla Games’ Killzone series seems like an inevitability, an obvious sequel as assured as Gears of War 3 or Resistance 3. PlayStation president Jack Tretton promises it will happen, as close to confirmation as well get. When asked by GameTrailers TV host Geoff Keighley, Tretton wouldn’t confirm that Sony…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 20, 2010

Get Your PlayStation Move On At PAX East

Our PAX East party might be the convention’s must-attend Friday night event, but what can you do on Thursday night? Why not get some hands-on time with the PlayStation move at Sony’s PlayStation Blog meet-up? Sony’s PlayStation Blog crew is making the cross-continent trip next week to spend a little time in New York and…

By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2010

One Left 4 Dead Character Won’t Survive The Passing

Valve’s poster for Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing downloadable content finally gets a tagline: Nobody Survives Forever. And while the original survivors will be showing up at the beginning of The Passing, only three make it to the end. The news comes by way of Valve’s Chet Faliszek, speaking to Geoff Keighley at GDC,…

By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2010

What The People Behind Mass Effect And Dragon Age Are Trying To Do

I spoke to the men running the studio behind many of the world’s biggest role-playing games a couple of weeks ago, to discuss a variety of things. I left with a bonus: The BioWare Vision Statement. Here is that vision, from the mouth of Ray Muzyka, EA’s general manager for (as he named them) BioWare…

By Stephen Totilo Published March 20, 2010

Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

On the weekend, you can talk about video games right here. This is Weekend TAY, which is just like Weekday TAY, except, because this goes live Saturday morning, the Smurfs might appear. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

By Stephen Totilo Published March 20, 2010

Naughty Bear Does His Chest Burster Impression

Rather than tiptoe around our nightmares, the fine folks at Artificial Mind and Movement have decided to just tear through our darkest childhood fears like so much tissue paper with their latest Naughty Bear video vignette. This is almost exactly the same as a nightmare I had as a child, only a creepy rendition of…

By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2010

Sometimes Camping Is OK

As seen on Halolz.

By Brian Crecente Published March 20, 2010

Kotaku Census 2010: You, Gamer

OK, we are done with the tangible stuff. The machines you own, the games you play. To finish off our census, we’re going to dig a little deeper. The final questions are about your tastes as a gamer. Where you play, what you play, who you play with, etc. So if you’ve bugged us about…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2010

Announcing our PAX East Party: Come Drink AND Eat

So all of the neat things you find out when reading Kotaku on a Friday night? Take for instance news that we’ll be hosting our own open-bar party at Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston next week. Stephen Totilo and Michael Fahey will both be in town for PAX East and, much more importantly, to…

By Brian Crecente Published March 20, 2010

Pole Dancing at the Game Developers Conference

As we mentioned earlier this week, GDC got some class this year with some pole-dancing, clothes-on erotic dancers. I’m not quite sure how a cluster of scantily clad women cavorting around metal poles helps to push home the point of a game, but the place was packed when I arrived and remain packed ten minutes…

By Brian Crecente Published March 20, 2010