Saturday, October 31, 2009

News

Xbox Live Smashes Mass Banhammer On Pirates

4:30PM Owen Good | “A small percentage” of Xbox Live users with modded consoles that allowed pirated games to play woke up to find an early treat in their Halloween bag: a banhammer. More »
Rumours

Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Names Upcoming DLC?

3:30PM Owen Good | PC gamers dissecting the Left 4 Dead 2 demo found files that might reference the names of future DLC packs, CVG reports. More »
News

NBA Live 10 And NBA 2K10: It’s Fargin’ War

2:40PM Owen Good | Because of exclusive arrangements and wide disparities in quality, pro basketball is really the only sports game where there’s real head-to-head competition. And it’s getting nasty between 2K Sports and EA Sports. More »
News

Bayonetta Xbox 360 Selling Out?

2:20PM Brian Ashcraft | Kotaku columnist Tim Rogers brings word that store after store in Tokyo is selling out of the Xbox 360 version of Bayonetta. But why? More »
Culture

Milla Jovovich Offers Video Game Advice For Parents

2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Star of the Resident Evil film series, Milla Jovovich is more than an actress. She’s a mother, too! More »
News

Patch Means Lilith’s Power Now ‘Works As Intended’ In Borderlands

1:40PM Owen Good | I’ve logged about a zillion hours in Borderlands, none of it as Lilith. But apparently her phase strike “now works as intended” thanks to patches for the PS3 and 360 versions that rolled out today. More »
Culture

Cole Hamels Reminds You That Grenades Are “For Pussies”

1:20PM Owen Good | Well. This is edgy as all get-out. Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels comes to Modern Warfare 2 to tell us that mindlessly hucking grenades is a dickbag cop-out. And then there’s “Fight Against Grenade Spam,” which makes a cheerful acronym. More »
Media

Lego Indy Trailer Discreetly Avoids Dr. Jones’ Creepy Past

1:00PM Owen Good | Here’s the Nepal bar shootout scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, for Lego Indiana Jones 2. I guess the Lego-talk gibberish can’t get across the sequence’s subtle implication that Dr. Jones was boinking Marion when she 16. More »
Culture

Pumpkin Overload

12:40PM AJ Glasser | Oh wow, there are SO many pumpkins to post today. In fact, too many — I broke the website when I tried to upload them all. More »
Hands On

LostWinds: Winter Of The Melodias Micro Review: A Pleasant Gust Of Fun

12:20PM matt cabral | Frontier Developments’ follow-up to their excellent wind-powered WiiWare launch title LostWinds returns gamers to the magical land of Mistralis.  More »