Posts by Owen Good
Culture
Child’s Play Drivers Pile Back On The Bus
1:00PM Owen Good | Take a seat and don’t stand forward of the yellow line – Desert Bus for Hope kicked off its third marathon o’ masochism, and looks to top the $US70,000 it raised last year for the Child’s Play charity. More »
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Gameloft Cuts Android Efforts, Says It’s Not Alone
12:20PM Owen Good | The French mobile games developer Gameloft has scaled back its development on Google’s Android platform, complaining that the Android application store is “not as neatly done” and offers little enticement to buy games offered there. More »
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Lacrosse Title Debuts On Xbox Live Indie Channel
2:00PM Owen Good | Absolutely, it’s an exciting and physical sport. But even lacrosse fans admit the game has a niche following. But lacrosse does have its own video game now, which just went up on Xbox Live yesterday. Suck on that, water polo! More »
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Free-to-Play Madden Alternative Inks Four More Celebs
1:40PM Owen Good | Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online fantasy sports/RPG hybrid Kotaku profiled two months ago, has signed agreements with four more coaches to use their likenesses as opposing AIs within the game. More »
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So, Are The Haystacks Of Assassin’s Creed II Any Bigger?
12:00PM Owen Good | Doesn’t look like Ubisoft learned their physics lesson. Matt, who helped the Kotaku Bureau of Weights & Measures calculate the cushion Altair would need in reality, thinks the haystacks are bigger in ACII. They still look puny to me. More »
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Dev Alleges Some Deceive ESRB To Get Lower Ratings
2:40PM Owen Good | The CEO of Artificial Mind & Movement — the studio behind WET and the PSP build of Danté’s Inferno — said at a development conference that the ESRB is easily manipulated and that publishers take advantage of it. More »
Culture
American League’s Best Pitcher Is A Warcraft Player
2:00PM Owen Good | Kansas City’s Zack Greinke locked up Cy Young Award as the American League’s top pitcher, but he never gave much thought to his shot at the hardware. “I’ve been playing this World of Warcraft game,” he told the hometown paper. More »
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BioShock 2 Rated M For Intense Violence, Wirty-Dords
1:00PM Owen Good | No surprise BioShock 2 picked up an M from the ESRB, but that’s not to say its newly minted rating certificate isn’t interesting. The writeup says we can expect F-bombs, mother F-bombs, the C-word and the past tense of “tweeta”. More »
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Bayonetta’s Torture Moves — Press B To Summon Guillotine
2:40PM Owen Good | Look, beheading’s one thing. Getting kicked repeatedly in the arse by a woman in high heels, on the way to your own execution – that’s the torture. More »
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