February 11, 2012 – Mark Little flicks the joystick and opens a special developer's menu in Major League Baseball 2K12. The screen jumps to an empty ballpark, with a few lines representing the trajectory of a pitch and the timing of the batter trying to hit it. More »
Having Made This Bed, Will MLB 2K Lie In It Next Year?
February 11, 2012 – Mark Little flicks the joystick and opens a special developer's menu in Major League Baseball 2K12. The screen jumps to an empty ballpark, with a few lines representing the trajectory of a pitch and the timing of the batter trying to hit it. [Kotaku]
Machine-Gun This Truck from the Comfort of Your Computer Desk on Valentine’s Day
February 11, 2012 – Out in the middle of the desert, a remote-controlled M249 Squad Automatic Weapon will unload its magazine into Sweet Tooth's iconic ice cream truck from Twisted Metal, releasing on Tuesday for the PlayStation 3. [Kotaku]
Radiant Historia Gets a Re-Release in March
February 11, 2012 – Radiant Historia released in North America more than a year ago for the DS and quickly distinguished itself as a top-flight JRPG. Trouble is, Atlus didn't print enough copies to satisfy demand. [Kotaku]
"This is Crap," Sony’s Chief of Development Said, After First Playing Demon’s Souls
February 11, 2012 – We've heard (as far back at 2010) Sony admit that it blundered big time by not publishing Demon's Souls in North America. Now we know why they passed. [Kotaku]
Take the Official Tour of the PlayStation Vita
February 11, 2012 – After posting its official unboxing teaser video on Thursday, Sony yesterday published this 12-minute guided tour of the system, explaining all of the features and benefits of the PlayStation Vita, with Guy Longworth, PlayStation's chief marketer, and John Koller, who is the boss of PlayStation's... [Kotaku]
This Skyrim Mod Literally … Well, See For Yourself
February 11, 2012 – This is an update to the Portal Core Space mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and it references the Meme Who Must Not Be Named. But it does so quite hilariously—and loudly. [Kotaku]
March Mass-ness is Sooner Than You Think
February 11, 2012 – There are eight days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training in baseball. More importantly, there are 24 until Shepard, Alenko and Liara report for duty in Mass Effect 3. [Kotaku]
Wired Controllers Blamed in Attempted Murder
February 10, 2012 – Cops in a northeastern Pennsylvania community booked a man on attempted murder charges, saying he tried to strangle his wife with "a video game cord." Either he was playing with wired console controllers from a generation ago, or the guy went and grabbed the Xbox 360 brick to choke his... [Kotaku]
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
February 10, 2012 – Fleeing from the NeverDead tyranny, the last Battlestar, Goodlactica, leads a rag-tag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest to a shining planet known as UFC Undisputed 3. THQ's mixed martial arts simulation landed on my doorstep today. [Kotaku]
The Roof, the Roof, the Roof is Not on Fire, Says Konami
February 10, 2012 – An image circulating Twitter earlier today seemed to imply a Konami office building in Japan was burning. It most certainly was not, a spokesman told Kotaku. [Kotaku]
This Mass Effect 3 Misspelled "Renagade" Console is Up for Grabs [UPDATE]
February 10, 2012 – EA has put a "Mass Effect 3 Mission Command" app on Facebook, through which fans can unlock some Avatar items and possibly get chosen for early access to the game's upcoming beta. [Kotaku]
Concentrate All Firepower …
February 10, 2012 – Concentrate All Firepower on that LEGO Star Destroyer | The assembly of an enormous Executor-class Star Destroyer, in LEGO. It's 50 inches long, 3,152 pieces. [Kotaku]
This Week in the Business: ‘Activision Should Man Up and Buy Take-Two.’
February 10, 2012 – What's happened in the business of video games this past week ... QUOTE | "Activision should man up and buy Take-Two."—Asif Khan, analyst with Panoptic Management Consultants, on what Activision should do to make sure their sales numbers continue to look good. [Kotaku]
Alternate-Reality Intrigue is the Key to The Hacker’s Charm
February 10, 2012 – Partly for nostalgia, but definitely on its own merits,The Hacker is my favorite mobile game, so far, of 2012. The first rejected password on that green monochrome screen took me back more than 25 years to Activision's Hacker on the Commodore 64, a game that had no real instruction manual, just... [Kotaku]
Alternate-Reality Intrigue is the Key to The Hacker’s Charm
(Kotaku.com ) February 10, 2012 – Partly for nostalgia, but definitely on its own merits,The Hacker is my favorite mobile game, so far, of 2012. The first rejected password on that green monochrome screen took me back more than 25 years to Activision's Hacker on the Commodore 64, a game that had no real instruction manual, just... [Gizmodo]
Super Meat Boy Being Rebuilt for Touch-Screen Mobiles
February 9, 2012 – Despite the fact its creators have railed against the quality of iPhone games, and openly trolled consumers on the iTunes store by selling a parody game for $350, Super Meat Boy is being rebuilt to be playable on touch-screen mobile devices, the game's two-man team said in a Twitter conversation... [Kotaku]
Call of Duty Population Explodes to 40 Million Users, Half Coming From Modern Warfare 3
February 9, 2012 – Activision today said its Call of Duty franchise has more than 40 million monthly active users across all of its titles, half of that coming from the latest release, Modern Warfare 3. What's more, there are 7 million users in the game's Call of Duty: [Kotaku]
"LEGO Minecraft Micro World" to be Unveiled Next Week
February 9, 2012 – The LEGO Minecraft concept that passed approval with LEGO's petitioning board has a name and has a reveal date. It won't be at Toy Fair this weekend, but it will be at LEGO World Copenhagen on Feb. [Kotaku]
NeverDead: The Kotaku Review
February 9, 2012 – At E3 in June, I watched Konami's Shinta Nojiri play NeverDead and struggle to reassemble his dismembered, immortal hero just to dispatch what looked like the game's run-of-the-mill enemies. [Kotaku]
