Friday the 10th of December had an air of expectancy about it. At Kotaku we had been building towards it for weeks, but suddenly it was an issue out of our hands. Democracy be damned, a group of politicians would sit in a room, and natter about a topic we’d been obsessing over for months: should Australia have an R18+ rating video games?
The Custard Clan do some pretty incredible things with LEGO. Basically recreating the kind of scenarios you created as a five-year-old chomping on action figures, they create incredible stop motion videos using LEGO. This time round it’s the turn of Call of Duty: Black Ops to get the LEGO treatment.
So Gran Turismo 5 has come and gone and, to an extent, disappointed a lot of people. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit has been the game that has sort of come in and surprised everyone, stealing the thunder of GT5 to become, arguably, the best racing game of 2010. But what did you think of Criterion’s interpretation of EA’s lucrative driving franchise?
This is an exact 10:1 scale model of the original NES controller – fully functional, with a working NES and the original Super Mario Bros. inside. Also – if you feel like joining in on what is sure to be a furious bidding frenzy on Ebay – you could bid on, and possibly end up owning this ingenius coffee table!
While You Were Sleeping was a well-received romantic comedy starring the luminous Sandra Bullock and the irrepressible Bill Pullman.
It’s also the name of a regular section here at Kotaku, where we round up all the best news coming in overnight, to save you trawling down the page for an excuse to not start work. Don’t say we’re not good to you!
