Blog Profile / Kotaku
| URL : | http://kotaku.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Video Games | |
| Posts on Regator: | 82905 | |
| Posts / Week: | 300.2 | |
| Archived Since: | March 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
A PlayStation Plus subscription may be required for online multiplayer on the PS4, but it won't requ
A PlayStation Plus subscription may be required for online multiplayer on the PS4, but it won't required when the console gets DC Universe Online and Planetside 2, both of which are free to play. DCUO's PS4 version will also be cross compatible with the PC title. Read more...
Moneysaver One-Shot: A 4K TV For $966
Rising pixel counts, falling prices. Read more...
Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Roll Out the Barrel
Mr. Iwata, Reggie (in particular) and Miyamoto have been great friends to the Kotaku 'Shop Contest over its three year history, so we're going back to them again with this pic from E3, which I'd like to think Nintendo shot just for your amusement. Read more...
Here's a Look at One of the iPhone's New Game Controllers
With Steve Jobs no longer around to tell us these things aren't elegant enough for his device, it appears we'll finally get a proper gamepad for the iOS this year. This will be one of them, made by Logitech. Read more...
Sunday Comics: Smash Brothers
Welcome to Kotaku's Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by our readership. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner. Read more...
Good news!
Good news! Game Center CX, the great Japanese video game program, is being turned into a feature film. It'll be out in spring 2014 in Japan. Read more...
Protesting Piracy in China with...Blow-Up Dolls
Late last week at Peking University in Beijing, China, men wearing skimpy underwear and carrying inflatable friends streaked the university's north campus and tried to jump into Weiming Lake. Then, university security showed up. That's when all hell broke loose. Read more...
Kotaku 'Shop Contest: The Power of Wub: The Winners
For the first time in history, we had a three-time finalist in the latest edition of the Kotaku' Shop Contest, which sought to make Saints Row IV's "Dubsteb Gun" even more ridiculous than it already is. But he wasn't the overall winner. Who was? Menome! (above) Duck season! Wabbit season! Wub season! Fire! Read more...
Inside EA Sports, Why Madden Must Be Called 'American Football'
Once upon a time there wasn't much of a dispute over the word "football." Over here, it meant cheerleaders, instant replay, and concussions. Over there, it meant relegation, riots, and flopping. Then came the Internet, and commenters stomping around in one another's mud puddles. Read more...
LEGO Figures Not as Happy as They Were 25 Years Ago, Says Research
Years ago, all LEGO minifigures had a placid, happy expression and a pointedly non-ethnic skintone that fit their role in the larger LEGO universe: They were props, the same as a tree or a fire hydrant. But as LEGO has made more movie tie-ins—and video games—its minifigs have become more brooding. Darker. Angrier. Read more...
Are These Real Answers, or Fake Questions, in This Xbox One Document?
This past week a 100-question FAQ on the Xbox One, purportedly official communications guidance from Microsoft, landed on Pastebin. It's not the usual laundry list of wishful thinking you get in most video game fakes. That said, there's no way to know if this is true or total B.S. Read more...
Microsoft: We Won't Render Your Xbox One Games Unplayable Long-Term
The very first question in this r/games interview with Xbox Live director of programming Major Nelson elicits an encouraging answer, one that Microsoft should be trumpeting, not whispering. Read more...
World of Tanks is coming free-to-play to Xbox 360 later this summer.
World of Tanks is coming free-to-play to Xbox 360 later this summer. If you want to get in on the beta preceding it, developer Wargaming.net is taking applications right now. Read more...
NBA Live's E3 Demo Doesn't Sound Much Better than NBA Elite's
In 2010, EA Sports brought NBA Elite 11 to E3 as a shootaround demo only. I remember this vividly. You played as one player in a practice setting, learning the timing of the new stick-shooting controls. If you still have the ill-fated NBA Elite 11 demo, go to its practice mode, that's what we saw three years ago. Read more...
Forty-Five Mods Were Needed to Bring Man of Steel to Skyrim
Melding story elements of the first four Superman films—except the one where Richard Pryor recreates Kryptonite out of cigarettes—here is Skyrim at the Movies: Man of Steel, featuring Supes, Throthgar Luthor, Terence Stamp Zod, and Nuclear Man. It's got Eve Teschmacher, too, just not as hot as Valerie Perrine. Read more...
What Will It Take to Get EA on the Wii U Again? 'Sell More Boxes.'
The most glaring indictment of the Wii U's poor performance to date is the fact that FIFA—one of the biggest-selling franchises worldwide, in any genre—is publishing for everything but Wii U. FIFA 14 will come out on the PSP. It will publish on the original Wii. There'll be a version on the PS Vita, for god's sake. Read more...
Moneysaver Day One: The Last Of Us For $45 [GONE]
Don't call it "that Ellen Page game." Read more...
This Week in the Business: 'One of Microsoft's Best E3 Conferences'
What's happened in the business of video games this past week... Read more...
If The Chocobo Song Had Lyrics, They'd Be Sung In A Fake Irish Accent?
Prolific as he's been over the past few years, video game lyricist Brentalfloss has never topped his rendition of "Crazy Duck In Space." Now he's finally given the Chocobo song from Final Fantasy the lyrics treatment, and he still hasn't topped his DuckTales jam. Read more...
This LSD-Inspired Oculus Game is The Most Intense Thing I Saw at E3
I’ve seen things inside the Oculus Rift you people wouldn’t believe. And, for the most part, it involved the strange LSD-inspired indie game SoundSelf. Read more...