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Pixelated For Halloween

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:00:37 +0000

Suitably late, old-School Halloween costume as seen at kindacarsick (via Harvey Smith’s Twitter feed).

Pumpkin Chop Makes Top 10 Indie Games List

AJ Glasser — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:20:00 +0000

Major Nelson’s got the Xbox Live numbers up for the week of October 26th and who should be in third place on the Indie list but Pumpkin Chop.

I took a look at the virtual pumpkin carving sim not too long before Halloween and liked what I saw. So I’m glad to see its done well enough for itself to make the top 10 purchased Indie Games on Xbox Live.

In total, three Halloween-themed games made top slots on the Indie list. Besides Pumpkin Chop, Halloween HD made the cut at number eight and I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 held the number two spot. With a name like that, I can understand how it did so well — I don’t even need to play it.

Sadly, though, Halloween is over. So I won’t expect to see Pumpkin Chop on anyone’s top 10 ’til next year at least. But if you’ve got a copy, I guess you could practice your design skills for next year’s Kotaku Pumpkin Patch.

LIVE Activity for week of Oct. 26th [Major Nelson]

Nintendo Love Invades West Hollywood Costume Carnaval

Brian Crecente — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Every Halloween the city of West Hollywood blocks off part of Santa Monica Boulevard for the West Hollywood Costume Carnaval.

This year about 400,000 people from all over Southern California converged in costume to walk around and have a good time. As always, the Nintendo love was ever-present.

IRL Big Head Mode Makes Halloween Cool & Creepy

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00:06 +0000

Big head mode, an undisputed classic video game Easter Egg, as it turns out, also makes for a damn good Halloween costume. Kotaku reader Eric’s papercraft big head mode version of himself makes normal Eric equally cool and creepy.

Eric doesn’t pull off any flaming NBA Jam-style dunks in his Flickr photo gallery, but he does have some stunning and surreal photos of the big head mode mask. In both wearable action and creation, rarely have I been so jealous of someone’s Halloween idea.

Of course, Eric’s got the right resume for modelling polygonal heads, having worked for EA, Black Box and Deep Fried Entertainment, modelling characters for games like Def Jam Vendetta, Need for Speed, NBA Live and much much more.

More photos at Eric’s Flickr, with a little “making of” technical detail at his personal site.

Harley Quinn Hearts Kotaku

Brian Crecente — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:00:01 +0000

Back in July, Lisa Foiles (of Nickelodeon’s All That fame) wrote up a blog response to a post Owen Good wrote up about Girl Gamers.

In it she argued that girls who play games are not rare, but girl gamers are.

Tonight she send along this pic of her dressed as Harley Quinn with a special message to Kotaku readers. Happy belated Halloween everyone.

Who’s Got Halloween Costumes To Share?

AJ Glasser — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000

A few of you sent in choice pictures of video game-themed Halloween costumes you were brave enough to wear. Lucky for you, we’re brave enough to post them.

P.S. Sorry, guys. I wound up not going as Peach this year because I couldn’t find anybody to by my Mario.

P.P.S. Check back at 5AM for a very special Batman: Arkham Asylum costume. It’s so spiffy, this boss is giving it its own post.

These are actually colleagues of mine who posted their group costume to Facebook. I re-posted here so you could compare this Zoe to the Drag Zoe in the next three pictures.

Kotaku’s Super Huge Pumpkin Patch (Part Four)

AJ Glasser — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:30:00 +0000

Happy Halloween, everybody. Remember not to eat poisoned candy and not to drive drunk. Also, if you live in the Bay Area, the Bay Bridge is still out!

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Kotaku’s Super Huge Pumpkin Patch (Part Three)

AJ Glasser — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Happy Halloween, everybody. Remember not to eat poisoned candy and not to drive drunk. Also, if you live in the Bay Area, the Bay Bridge is still out!

Kotaku’s Super Huge Pumpkin Patch (Part Two)

AJ Glasser — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Happy Halloween, everybody. Remember not to eat poisoned candy and not to drive drunk. Also, if you live in the Bay Area, the Bay Bridge is still out!

Kotaku’s Super Huge Pumpkin Patch (Part One)

AJ Glasser — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Happy Halloween, everybody. Remember not to eat poisoned candy and not to drive drunk. Also, if you live in the Bay Area, the Bay Bridge is still out!