To: Geoff From: Ashcraft RE: TK
Well, we all are, I’m sure. We got eight (yes, EIGHT) emails from Crecente today. Keep in mind, that he has flown half-way around the world to relax and unwind, and the dude is messaging us about this and that. I’m sure he’s doing this during bathroom breaks or something — moments when he can slip away from the fam.
Over the weekend, I took my kid shopping for new training wheels. The ones he had were falling apart. So! We took him to the bicycle shop, got him black and red training wheels to go with his black and red bicycle. When Mini-Bash saw the new training wheels, his face lit up and he exclaimed, “Those training wheels are sexy!”
Eh?
The kid repeated it, loud as ever. My wife nearly fell over laughing. Sexy? Why are they sexy? Where did you learn that word? Did you learn that at school? Did you hear it on TV? How are they sexy? We asked him again. “What do you think of those training wheels?”
“They’re cool.”
Cool? Thing is, he was right: Those training wheels are sexy.
What you missed last night Those who entered the contest READ THIS Bethesda make Portal level New PSP colour New PS2 Harmonix’s iPod game Power struggle at Sony Computer Entertainment? More »
Oh, did you just call out GTA IV? I think you did. You totally called out GTA IV. Which would be amusing, if it weren’t for the fact hearing in-game characters referencing both their own and someone elses real-world games is a little…creepy. More »
Some of you may own multiple consoles. Some of you, just one. And other of you are really, really into board games. But what do consoles say about their owners? A panel of pundits offers up profound and deep insights about game hardware. Insights like:
Q: What does a PlayStation reveal about a dude? “The PlayStation 3 may indicate that the user is any “early-adopter,” someone who likes to be the first on the block to have things. Owning the PS3 may also send the message that the person may have deep pockets.”
HOLY SHIT. My mind? Blown. More dimestore Freud after the jump.
Our panelists include: NY-based psychologist Carl Arinoldo, DeVry University’s Ed Magnin, online gaming network CEO Ted Owen and GameTrailers.com’s Shane Satterfield. More »
Above is one shockingly bad 40GB PS3 ad The boy sitting on the floor says that he love Ridge Racer and the only Ridge Racer game he couldn’t play was RR7. He says that he’s waited a year to play the game, and now he finally can. His family claps. Hooray for price-cuts! However, the other three ads Sony has put out (after the jump) are pretty good. Not bad, even. Click over to watch ‘em! More »
The internet got a little excited a while back over Psychonauts. Can you blame us? It’s like saying Eddie didn’t die, and the Cruisers are reforming for a world tour. The world is also holding its collective breath for more Full Throttle, more Day of the Tentacle, more Grim Fandango…shit, more of anything Schafer’s done. Thing is, the guy prefers new stuff. He even says so in an interview with Playboy.
Playboy: Does that mean we’re not going to see a Grim Fandango 8?
Schafer: I’ve toyed with that because I love those characters and that world. I would love to go back and spend time with the characters from any game I’ve worked on, and I would love to make a sequel to any of them. But I also want to make something new. If there were five of me I might make sequels, but there’s always some new idea I want to explore.
Playboy: What if you had the opportunity to farm out a sequel — not farm out in a negative sense, but…
Schafer: Phone it in? Squeeze it out?
Playboy: If you could give the reins to someone you trusted to execute a Psychonauts sequel, where you had basic veto power and could do general shaping…
Schafer: It just all depends on the person. If it was a team that I knew and trusted then, yeah, that would be great. The team that made Monkey Island 3 was not under our control at all. They were really clever, smart guys and they wrote really great dialogue so in that case it worked out great.
You know, the sad thing is, dude’s got a point. I can already picture Christmas 2010, we’re all a little older, a little balder, and we’re sitting around complaining about how badly we want a Brutal Legend sequel, and Schafer’s all “nope, time for something new”, and the cycle just repeats itself until we’re all dead/have lost interest. Write the Lightning [Playboy, via Game|Life] More »
Yes, yes, popular anime Lucky Star has gotten its game adaptations and even its shameful movie adaptations. So how does one go about promoting said shameful movie adaptations? With, you guessed it, schoolgirl uniforms. In Den-Den Town, this in-store display features a Lucky Star uniform in hopes of encouraging something whether that be a purchase or not. The little notice attached to the skirt says things like “(Especially in the breast vicinity) Touch.” YEP! Gotta give the wizards at Japan’s nerd stores credit. They sure as shit know how to promote things! Uniform [Ota Road] More »
Ahoy! We’re giving away a BlackSite: Area 51 gaming PC from Alienware. The winner will also get an Area 51 T-shirt, an “eyeblack” patch and a copy of Midway’s Stranglehold PC. The computer is a $US 3,000 dollar machine, making this one of the most expensive things we’ve given away, so any bitching about the TOTALLY FREE AND AMAZING PRIZE will be met with the blunt end of the Ban Hammer.
The contest is based on Crecente’s sadistic treasure hunts. Long-time readers will know what we’re talking about. Basically, we give you a clue about a post we’ve done, and then y’all must go find it. If you find the correct post, there will be another clue, which you’ll need to track down. And so on. This contest will have ten questions, or “Missions” as I call them. These missions are unnumbered, but if you are doing the contest correctly, they show flow into the next question, etc.
Anyone who posts answers on Kotaku or anywhere on the internet will be banned and made an example of. Here’s your first mission:
While Crecente wasn’t able to see out of his Halo 3 helmet, this guy was – and added an awesome visor. Thumbs up all around. Find him!
Send your answers, your address and ten correct links to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom. Specs and some very important info after the jump. More »
You’ve whined for it long enough, so here, Britons, this week we’re trying something different. The individual format charts, as opposed to our old friend, the all format charts. What’s the difference? Well, it makes Pro Evo’s dominance look more dominant, that’s for sure. Even the PS3 version of the game made the charts, and it’s one of the worst ports in living memory.
1) Pro Evo 2008 (PS2) 2) Pro Evo 2008 (360) 3) Halo 3 4) Football Manager 2008 5) Brain Training 2 6) Brain Training 7) Pro Evo 2008 (PS3) 8) Phantom Hourglass 9) FIFA 08 (PS2) 10) The Simpsons Game (PS2)
[charts courtesy of ChartTrack] More »
Screw RPGs, booze is where it’s at. I know it, you know it and damn sure Square Enix knows it. The publisher is offering a special bundle when Wine no Hajimekata DS goes on sale November 28th. The ¥4,830 (US $US 42) limited edition set includes a copy of the game plus a bottle of red wine. Keep in mind that the game itself costs ¥2,940, so that’s a ¥1,890 ($US 17) bottle of wine they’re giving away. Bottoms up! Squeenix Booze [Game Watch Impress] More »
First thoughts on playing Portal? “This cake had better be good“. Second thoughts? “You know, extra levels for this would actually be some DLC I’d pay money for”. The latter, we’re not there just yet (though someone’s got to be thinking about it), but Bethesda level designer Daryl Brigner has at least got the ball rolling, coming up with a new, downloadable level for the PC version. It’s called Ren Test2, and while we haven’t been able to test it ourselves, word on the internet is that it’s tough. Tough but fun. Developing in our spare time, too [Bethesda Blog] More »
