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This Is Not A Halo 3 Screenshot
This looks like a screengrab from Halo 3’s Valhalla multiplayer map. But it’s not. It is, if you take a closer look, actually a fully-functional PC desktop. The radar monitors your outside temperature. The player indicators are links. The grenade icons launch programs. The ammo counters in the top-right show your unread emails and rss…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 22, 2009 -
Sony CEO Approved By Sony Board of Directors
The Sony Board of Directors have approved 15 directors, including American Howard Stringer. Besides acting as chairman and chief executive, Stringer is taking an another title — president — as announced last February. Over 8,000 investors were in attendance at the annual shareholders meeting in Tokyo. Stringer told investors that the company was trying to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2009 -
Soviet-Era Arcade Museum Opens In Russia
In Soviet Russia…they had video games. Not particularly special ones, mind you, but they had them. And those dusty old machines now have pride of place in a new museum in the Russian capital, Moscow. The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines (the Soviet ethic lives on in the place’s name, then) is home to versions…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 22, 2009 -
Your Love Plus Virtual Girlfriend Experience Trailer
Do know: the trailer is heavy on the Japanese language (it is a Japanese game). Konami’s upcoming DS dating sim Love Plus appears to be the most advanced dating sim to hit the platform. The first part of the game is standard fare: Players court three girls, trying to get them to fall in love.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2009 -
Shia LaBeouf Totally Hates The Wii
Here’s a pleasant change from seeing your average celebrity gushing over a video game: seeing a celebrity troll on the Wii. Seems that while Shia LaBeouf – the star/destroyer of both the Transformers and Indiana Jones franchises – is a big-time gamer, he’s only a big-time gamer on the 360 and PS3. Which he seems…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 22, 2009 -
French Version of Arcade Mania Goes Gold
Yes, we know, books don’t actually go gold like video games do. But still, publisher Pix’N Love got back its French language version of Arcade Mania back from the printer. Here are the Pix’N Love fellas checking out the book! Below, boozing it in celebration. Congrats, Pix’N Love! I’ll definitely toss up some pics when…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2009 -
The SEGA Honeymoon
What better way to celebrate a lifetime of matrimonial commitment than with a honeymoon spent crawling through SEGA arcades? UK:Resistance reader “Radguy” did just that with his new bride. Went on a SEGA specific Japan honeymoon with my wife and sought out the great SEGA spots that we only get mere glimpses of on websites.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2009 -
For Everything There is a Purpose
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Happy Father’s Day! This … “knife” has bugged me ever since I got down here nearly four months ago. It’s for certain one of my grandmother’s old kitchen implements but I can’t figure out what it is for. It can’t be a filet knife, because it has a rounded tip…
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
Week in Games: Answer the Bell
Wii core gamers get a sop this week with The Conduit and Resident Evil: Archives deploying on Tuesday; fans of the sweet science can tap gloves with Fight Night: Round 4 on the PS3 and 360. There’s also about a zillion Transformers games dropping, like there’s a big movie out this week or something. Is…
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
Achievement Unlocked: Read About Easy Achievements
The first time you press a button in Ghostbusters – assuming you run straight to the fire pole – you get 5 Gamerscore. Plenty of other games will fatten your total for not much work. I haven’t played Prototype, haven’t played Red Faction: Guerilla yet, but of the new games out there I scarcely see…
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
Call of Dookie: Modern Walmart
Something about this story is a little too perfect. But let’s take it at face value. This guy went into a Walmart customer bathroom and found the commode bowl filled with Call of Duty. Writes blogger Kevin Gannon: I was looking at the guns and huge knives while Carlos was in the bathroom. He came…
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
Pac-Man Scarf Costs More Than PSP Go
PSP Go at $249? Yeah, who’s gettin’ ripped off NOW? Yesterday’s foray into high fashion leads us now to this, Pac-Man, ported over to fabric at a cost of $298. Of course, this is a limited edition, hand embroidered number, courtesy of Fummel & Kram. Why, it even comes with a tag that says “If…
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
Peter Moore Challenges Obama to a Fitness-Off
President Obama again referred to video games as a family-life negative in his Father’s Day message. But Peter Moore – grabbing for publicity – challenges him to drop the rhetoric and see what they offer. Moore, the EA Sports honcho, was motivated to pose a 30-day EA Sports Active Challenge by Obama’s recent comments to…
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
More Proof that Anything + TF2 Soundfile = Comedy Gold
About 30 seconds in you see the clip that probably inspired this 5 minute masterpiece: “I must stop little baby!” Readers soccerboy33 and Hugo M. tipped this collection of nut-shots, bike crashes, failed stunts and America’s Funniest Home Videos runners-up, which of course are infinitely funnier when set to an antic soundtrack and narrated by…
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
Playing Larger than Larger-than-Life Gears of War 2
Every year some yoyo goes and builds the world’s largest TV, but it’s not every year some yoyo gets to play Gears of War 2 Halo on it. According to Engadget, the Jonas Brothers’ video director managed to hook up a console to this behemoth at the new Cowboys Stadium, home of a 160′ by…
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
iPhone C64 Emulator Submitted, Denied
Manomio’s C64 emulator wasn’t refused for licensing reasons. It was refused because “an Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means.” That means booting ROMs, which is the whole point. Touch Arcade points out that “a number of apps in the App Store” already violate that provision, including: […] CHIP-8…
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
The Father of Cartridge-Based Consoles
Overshadowed in popular culture by the Atari VCS, the Fairchild Channel F is little more today than the answer to a trivia stumper: the first game console to use cartridges. And this man built it. Reader Knoxximus passed along this interview, from February, with Jerry Lawson, who was the director of engineering and marketing for…
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
Desert Bus Creators Take on Jack Thompson
This trailer for Penn & Teller: Bullshit – an unabashedly biased take on the talking points of various agenda pushers – puts our favorite disbarred lawyer in the crosshairs in the upcoming season. Looks like they’re going after the idea that video game violence begets real world violence, specifically Thompson’s claim that games represent “the…
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
First things first: Go give your old man a bona fide little kid neckhug, it’s better than any Hallmark card. Then, come on back here and shoot the breeze in Kotaku’s official open thread. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
By Owen Good Published June 21, 2009 -
Father Knows Best: The Best and Worst Fathers in Video Games
Fathers are easy to find in video games. When they’re not antagonizing their offspring or killed off in the first level, they often serve as our main characters’ major motivation. In honor of Father’s Day, we celebrate dads in video games: from the good to the bad to the “Luke, I am your father kind,”…
By AJ Glasser Published June 21, 2009