video games
PC

How To Hack Your Kinect

When the Kinect first launched last November, gamers were (to put it charitably) a bit sceptical. Here was a device with incredible technological potential, and the most impressive game that came out with it was a dance simulator.

April 23, 2011
News

The Gossip Lead Singer Beth Ditto Is A Fruit Ninja Enthusiast

The last page of Marie Claire‘s May issue features Beth Ditto talking about what’s inside her handbag. The contents are refreshingly down-to-earth: “101″ straggler earrings; a maxi pad; a Burger King receipt; a screwdriver. But Ditto also has an iPhone. On which she plays Fruit Ninja.

April 13, 2011
Xbox

Why An Old Datsun Is The Second Most Popular Car In Forza 3

It’s really no surprise that on this list of the 99 most-raced vehicles in Forza 3, the pole position goes to the Bugatti Veyron and its 1001 virtual horsepower. Right behind it? The Datsun 510, a 40-year-old compact Japanese car. Why?

March 30, 2011
News

Radiant Silvergun And An Argument For Games As Art

While famed film critic Roger Ebert says he still hasn’t changed his mind about video games, and his view that they can’t be art, he recently pointed his nearly 400,000-strong Twitter followomg to what he called a “well-written defence of video games” by musician Blake Williams. Here is the article, with permission, in its entirety.

March 16, 2011
In Real Life

The Hipster Indie Version Of Super Mario Brothers

What do all indie films need? Melodrama, heartbreak, a struggle with purpose in life and drugs all wrapped up in a retro setting, of course. And that’s exactly what Joe Nicolosi did here for a SXSW short.

January 21, 2011
In Real Life

Can We Stop Blaming Games For Childhood Obesity Now?

The United States has been growing increasingly more obese over the past few decades, and video games are often cited as one of the key factors behind this meteoric rise in pounds-per-person. Now researchers say that isn’t necessarily true.

January 13, 2011
PC

Your First Look At An Intense Dead Space 2 Trailer

Dead Space 2 is one of the year’s most anticipated games, and we’ve got an inside look at the action-horror series’ next chapter. Check out an exclusive pulse-pounding trailer featuring Smashing Pumpkins, plus our interview with Executive Producer Steve Papoutsis.

January 5, 2011
In Real Life

Are You A Video Game Hoarder?

Today in Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Floppy McWiggle wonders if keeping large amounts of video games around the house is hoarding or just love.

December 20, 2010

The Wii Didn’t Start The Fire

Kotaku AU

File this under: ‘we thought this would be lame but it turned out to be awesome’. A brilliant reworking of Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’, replacing history spinning ‘classic’ with the history of video games. Watch and have your heart warmed.

October 31, 2010
News

US Talk Show Host Defends Video Game Free Speech

As the US Supreme Court battle for free speech in video games closes in, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is adding his support for video games as art.

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