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Call Him “Xbox 360 Kid”
The Nintendo 64 Kid has found his modern replacement: the Xbox 360 Kid. But pawing at the box has been replaced with “air running” and some box humping. Squealing, too. Kids, today! As sister site Gizmodo pointed out, if he’s this excited right now, just image him if he gets the Red Ring of Death.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 28, 2009 -
South Korean Criticism of Super Street Fighter IV Korean Stage
For the first time in a Street Fighter title, there is a South Korean character: Juri. Not everyone is happy with the way South Korean is depicted in the SSFIV stage. According to South Korean newspaper The Dong-a IIbo, South Korean gamers who have seen Super Street Fighter IV’s South Korea stage feel disappointed and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 28, 2009 -
New Fist of The North Star Screens/Art Already Dead
In March 2010, Tecmo Koei is bringing post-apocalyptic martial arts manga Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) to the PS3 and the Xbox 360 in Japan. The game has been titled Hokuto Musou, and is part of Koei’s popular “Musou” series of games. Besides new screens, there is new art of characters like…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 28, 2009 -
Geometry Wars Meets Project Natal?
This is supposedly video of somebody playing Geometry Wars on Project Natal. Emphasis on the supposedly, in case you missed the italics first time around. A Destructoid reader reckons this was shot at a “Christmas Party”, though that’s where the information dries up. On the “could be” side of things, there’s lag at several points,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2009 -
Zelda Producer Wanted More Crossbow Training, “More, Better FPS” From Nintendo
Eiji Aonuma, master of all things Zelda at Nintendo, was a big fan of Link’s Crossbow Training. So big, in fact, he wanted to make a sequel to the Wii Zapper launch title. “To tell you the truth, I actually wanted to create Link’s Crossbow Training 2,” he told gamesTM in an interview. “I thought…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2009 -
Paul McCartney Live Tracks On The Run Towards Rock Band
MTV have announced that next week a collection of live Paul McCartney tracks will be made available for download in the Rock Band store. Called the “New York City” pack, it will include three songs from a recent live performance in NYC: Jet, Band on the Run and Sing the Changes. Or, as per usual,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2009 -
Sony Trimming More Costs
2009 wasn’t the best year for Sony, at least financially. So the Japanese company is looking to trim a little more of its overheads, specifically with the way PlayStation games are distributed. Previously, Sony Computer Entertainment’s distribution arm and that of the rest of the company were entirely separate operations. In 2010, though, they’ll be…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2009 -
The Exploder
To: Kotakuland From: Owen Re: What Do You Want From Santa? Mine is a family raised on bad puns and inscrutable inside jokes. We deliberately corrupt words and then use them in conversation without batting an eye. For example, dinner might be “country-style snake.” Or, salmon is “slalom,” (and a big portion is “giant slalom.”)…
By Owen Good Published December 27, 2009 -
Final Fantasy Classic, with Lyrics: Soak It In, Mofo
Brentalfloss is back to camp out in our corpus callosum or medulla oblongata or wherever it is songs of this type embed themselves. If Styx were members of my church growing up, this would sound like 4/5ths of the hymnal. Final Fantasy Classic WITH LYRICS [YouTube, Thanks Lyndon R. L.]
By Owen Good Published December 27, 2009 -
Week in Games: We Don’t Need Another Hero
The second package of DLC for Borderlands – Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot – comes to Xbox Live on Tuesday. But why are you looking for new games this week anyway? This week’s count: three for Xbox 360; two for Wii and DS; one for PC. Monday (Dec. 28) Four Player Tangerine Fight (360) The Magic…
By Owen Good Published December 27, 2009 -
Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 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. •Eight Games That Should Never Become Movies [The Kartel] I think the fundamental problem with this genre is that no one has ever written or…
By Owen Good Published December 27, 2009 -
Wait — New Game Plus Is in Mass Effect 2?
Although a Mass Effect 2 designer said back in June there would be “no new game plus” – a second playthrough with abilities and items earned from the first – BioWare’s community coordinator has said rather definitively there will be. On Thursday, BioWare’s Chris Priestly wrote the following: If players start a New Game +…
By Owen Good Published December 27, 2009 -
How Will New Rules Affect In-Flight Gaming?
It’s not a petty concern. Since Friday’s incident en route to Detroit, airlines are ramping up security procedures at the behest of the government, and “approved portable electronic devices” have long been a whipping boy for this sort of thing. Unfortunately, it sounds like they’ll be verboten for international flights inbound to the U.S. While…
By Owen Good Published December 27, 2009 -
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
As I’ve said, thank God I’ve never loved a woman enough to be manipulated by the atrocious jewelry ads of the Christmas season. And now that it’s over, thank God they are too. But in TAY, pet gripes are forever. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
By Owen Good Published December 27, 2009 -
Playboy Teases Us With the Ultimate Coulda-Been Game
Tucked in this Playboy profile of a con man who ripped off the Pentagon is this tantalizing nugget: A company claimed to be working on an adaptation of Road House, the 1989 Patrick Swayze vehicle and Cinemax staple. Although Dennis Montgomery’s life stacks up like the classic tale of bullshit that follows a bona fide…
By Owen Good Published December 26, 2009 -
3D Realms CEO Vows Duke Nukem ‘Resurgence’ in ‘Next Few Years’
Scott Miller, the 3D Realms cofounder who came out looking somewhat better than eternally dithering partner George Broussard in Wired’s recent profile of Duke Nukem Forever, claims that “numerous other Duke games” are in development, some meant for casual gaming. Miller, quoted in the “first printed issue of Gamesauce,” says “the next few years should…
By Owen Good Published December 26, 2009 -
Sooprise, Sooprise: ‘PSP-4000’ Ad was ‘Mistake’
To the shock of very few, the advertisement about a week ago listing a “PSP-4000” in addition to PSPs 1000 through 3000, and the Go, has been disowned by the advertiser, who calls it an error. Accessories4Technology, the creator of the ad (and the accessories series mentioned in it) told Negative Gamer that it was…
By Owen Good Published December 26, 2009 -
In Tight Times, Gamers Dig Deep for the Needy
Despite a flatlined economy and a sharp downward trend in game sales, Child’s Play and other gaming-themed benefits have done as well or better than in better times. GamePro, rounding up a look at game philanthropy, spoke to Kotaku editor-in-chief Brian Crecente about this site’s November event in Denver (pictured), which pulled in contributions more…
By Owen Good Published December 26, 2009 -
A Conversation with a Game? Devs Seek to Break the Ice
Language recognition is not a new concept to video games – the first text adventures had to understand commands somehow. But researchers are trying to integrate it in more open-ended ways – allowing for dynamic conversations between players and characters. BBC Radio profiled the efforts, lately highlighted in the game 221B, a movie adaptation of…
By Owen Good Published December 26, 2009 -
For the Goomba, What’s Their Motivation, Again?
Boss battles are critically important to most video game genres, providing climactic story points as well as the kind of challenge for which the game was bought in the first place. But what about the minor foes of a game? The personal blog 2-Bit Wasteland takes a sometimes irreverent, sometimes idealized look at the grunts…
By Owen Good Published December 26, 2009