Wednesday, December 31, 2008
These Are The 20 Best Street Fighter IV Players In Japan
10:00PM Luke Plunkett | Street Fighter IV records player’s points totals, as well as their overall win/loss ratio. Which means people can compare their skills from a distance. It also means we can compile “best of” charts! More »
American Consoles Use Enough Power In A Year To Run San Diego
8:00PM Luke Plunkett | This year, the National Resources Defence Council took a look at how much power is consumed running America’s gaming consoles. Their findings? That America’s gaming consoles suck up a whole lotta juice. More »
Media
Pirate Baby’s Energy Drink Commercial
6:00PM Luke Plunkett | Paul Robertson can do no wrong. As evidenced by his latest work, this commercial for Syke, an energy drink that may or may not be real. Way marketing is these days, its hard to tell. More »
News
Getting Slayer In GH: Metallica Was Tough, Tough, Tough
4:00PM Luke Plunkett | Perhaps the most promising thing about Guitar Hero Metallica isn’t Metallica themselves, but the slew of accompanying artists that are also appearing in the game. One of those is Slayer. And getting Slayer was tough. More »
News
Square Enix Says Future Unreal Engine Use Will be ‘Case-By-Case’
2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Instead of using an in-house engine Square Enix used the Unreal Engine for The Last Remnant. This was a first for the company, and how was that? More »
Kotaku AU: Games Of The Year – #5
2:00PM David Wildgoose | And at number five in my personal top ten for 2008, it’s… a match-3 puzzle game?!
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News
This Was The First Zelda-Free Year In a Decade
1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Feeling left out by Nintendo’s mad dash for cash, but can’t quite work out why? How about this: 2008 will be the first year in a decade that a new Zelda game wasn’t released. More »
Culture
Who’s Asking If Games Are Art Now?
12:40PM Michael McWhertor | The London Review of Books! John Lanchester questions whether the medium is “art” for the literary publication, now three decades old, and comes away conflicted, if positive about the present and future of games. More »
More Like LittleBugPlanet (Sorry, Sorry)
12:20PM Luke Plunkett | According to some upset posters over on the official LittleBigPlanet forums, the Metal Gear Solid DLC released for the game last week didn’t just bring good times. It brought bad, content-erasing times as well. More »
