In Real Life

It’s Lexicon Like Donkey Kong

Having nothing better to do, evidently, Denver’s Westword set out to chart the comprehensive history of “It’s On Like Donkey Kong”, and found that Ice Cube has much to do with the social currency of the phrase, whether a call to celebrate or a challenge to fight. It was copyrighted by Nintendo last year. The full graphic is at the link.


March 3, 2011
News

So, How’d The Nintendo 3DS Do In Its First Week On The Charts?

This past weekend, the Nintendo 3DS officially launched (in Japan), moving more than 350,000 units in just two days on the market. Not bad! Nintendo 3DS games managed to sell pretty well too, with the latest Professor Layton game performing better than anything else for Nintendo’s new portable. But it wasn’t the week’s most popular game.


January 20, 2011
Nintendo

How Does The Nintendo 3DS Price Stack Up?

Nintendo has revealed the launch price of the Nintendo 3DS, the company’s priciest portable yet at $US249.99. How does Nintendo’s stereoscopic 3D gaming handheld compare to the competition and its ancestors?


September 14, 2010
News

When The Game Comes On, Madden Goes Off

An interesting little graphic EA Sports sent us today illustrates what most would expect: An actual NFL game crashes Madden NFL’s participation numbers. But it still holds on to about 34,000 hardcore users from kickoff to final gun.


April 9, 2010
News

There Are Too Many Damn Video Games

Ever get the feeling there are more games being released than you can even keep track of, let alone get your hands on? Don’t worry. It’s not your mind playing tricks on you.


January 4, 2010
In Real Life

Left 4 Dead 2′s Frying Pans Kill A Tank 3 Times Faster Than Shotguns

Granted, this chart assumes the Tank is just standing there taking the abuse. Still, a Steam user found that 10 frying pan hits kill a Tank in nine seconds, compared to 30 blasts from a combat shotgun in 26 seconds.


January 2, 2010
News

The 2009 eBay Holiday Video Game Grey Market Report

While game publishers look to retail sales figures to gauge the success of the holiday season, let’s take a look at how our favourite games and consoles performed in the shady back-alleys of eBay’s 2009 holiday grey market.


November 24, 2009
News

Modern Warfare 2 Apparently Quite Popular

Kotaku AU

What Price would you put on Modern Warfare 2 being the most played game over Xbox Live in Australia last week? No, really, no Russian to answer all at once.


October 21, 2009
News

Aion Wings It To The Top Of September PC NPDs

The NPD PC charts for September have arrived, bringing with them several new entries amidst the old favourites, with Batman, Champions Online, and Aion slipping into the top 20.


September 10, 2009
News

Aussie Charts: How Did Batman Do?

Kotaku AU

Batman: Arkham Asylum is one of the best-reviewed games all year. And from hearing you guys discussing it, it certainly sounds like plenty of you bought it. But how many is plenty?