• winnerman.jpg Winner

    And the $500 Winner Is...

    Well I'm home and still sober so I decided to go ahead and do the drawing for Kotaku's Year End contest. The winner of a $500 gift certificate to Circuit City and the soon to be most despised person on our commenting section is Mr and/or Mrs/Ms LessMeister. Once I get the person's pertinent details I'll hip you to it. More »

    9:00 PM on Sat Dec 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    85 views, 9 comments

    Latest by vgachi: Maybe LessMeister can take that $500 to buy a DS at Circuit City. This week, you get a $10 more »

  • Contest

    The End of the Year and $500 Contest

    The $500 contest is officially wrapped up. Make sure you check back later tonight (or tomorrow morning, depending on what state I am in when I return to the homestead) for the winners name. It's fun giving away $500, I can't wait. More »

    6:00 PM on Sat Dec 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    41 views, Comment

  • pssp33333.jpg PS3

    More Dirt on the PS3 Problems

    As the year of the Xbox 360 launch wraps up, the year of the Revolution and PS3 launches (maybe) is already beginning to show some signs of juicy gossip. We reported Friday about what a man named Fishie claimed was his first hand experience with what he called a very not-ready-for-prime-time Playstation 3. Today I've got an interesting conversation between an in-the-know and a friend that occurred a few months ago. More »

    4:29 PM on Sat Dec 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    17,802 views, 9 comments

    Latest by Mluiry: Hi I also had a problem with my PS3 but luckily I found a great tech support site that helped more »

  • Itradevideogames.com

    A Barter Solution for Used Video Games?

    I'm the kind of guy who buys a game, plays through it once or twice, then sells it on Amazon Marketplace. Most of the time I get a good price. But other times I don't, or Amazon won't let me sell titles that have been recently released. More »

    12:37 PM on Sat Dec 31 2005
    By Shaker
    252 views, 3 comments

    Latest by cubic-k: Tradable games on that site seem to be set as well, and no imports. more »

  • Looks vaguely familiar Moonfighter!

    Hey, Didn't I Meet You in 1983?

    I just had the hugest sense of deja vu after coming across this. Pazzazz Games just released a game for Palm and Pocket PC devices called Moonfighter!, in which you pilot your spacecraft around lunar terrain collecting energy spheres to keep your mission going. It's a side scroller, which makes it pretty darn close to a title called Jupiter Lander for the Commodore Vic 20. I can't remember much of 8th grade because I played that stupid game for hours on end, and daydreamed about it when I wasn't home. More »

    12:10 PM on Sat Dec 31 2005
    By Shaker
    252 views, Comment

  • xlive.png Xbox

    Microsoft's Online Strategy "Absolutely Flawed"?

    The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the business strategy behind the Xbox Live service. Microsoft is betting big — to the tune of $200 million — that online gaming will be the killer app behind the Xbox 360. Fine and dandy. But I came across this quote:

    Added Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities: "At the end of the day, we don't play games for social interaction.... We play games to escape." Microsoft's strategy is "absolutely flawed," he said.

    Don't play for social interaction? Absolutely flawed? I beg to differ. I can't think of a reason to buy half the current titles available for the Xbox 360 — Perfect Dark Zero, Project Gotham Racing, Madden — if they didn't have an online component. Plus, hasn't he heard of a little game called World of Warcraft? More »

    11:39 AM on Sat Dec 31 2005
    By Shaker
    257 views, 14 comments

    Latest by Josh Korr: As some of the comments have said, we won't know if Xbox Live will be successful for several years. But more »

  • Uh, that's not how you hold it, Mr. Testerman Business

    Profile of a Video Game Tester

    Ran across this profile of Peter Chan, a quality assurance tester at Insomniac Games. The article details how Chan spent eight months playing nothing but Ratchet: Deadlocked. I hope he gets paid a lot. But it beats copyediting Crecente's copy. More »

    11:06 AM on Sat Dec 31 2005
    By Shaker
    930 views, 4 comments

  • meonme.jpg Podcast

    Me on Me: Podcast Interview

    I'm a talker. I know it and everyone I know, knows it. And now the guy from Revogaming knows it. Anthony Sarni intereviewed me for a podcast on his site earlier this week. The resulting 45 minute podcast covers everything from video games as art to how I landed my job at Kotaku and life at the Rocky Mountain News. Like I said, I'm a talker. More »

    10:13 AM on Sat Dec 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    175 views, 2 comments

    Latest by dan: Five hours of sleep... what a slacker. more »

  • This ain't street art Sony

    Pissed Off Residents Paint Over PSP Ads

    Man, Sony just can't take a clue that using graffiti isn't the best idea to reach an "urban" market. This article might slap the clue club upside the marketing people's heads. It says, neighbors in three neighborhoods around Philadelphia have painted over the ads in anger. A city manager even says the ads are "illegal" in that Sony didn't get the proper permissions. "They are disrespectful of the neighborhoods where Sony thought it could get away with this conduct." More »

    9:14 AM on Sat Dec 31 2005
    By Shaker
    995 views, 10 comments

    Latest by RowdyRoddyPiper: I'm surprised no one was killed putting these things up. North Philly is a rough place. The fact more »

  • Here we go again Rumor

    Another Shipment of Xbox 360s Heading to Best Buy?

    The red phone, which should just be labeled the 360 phone, rang today and we got a tip about a potential shipment of Xbox 360s heading to Best Buys Jan. 3. The tip points to this link, which has store numbers and shipment quantities, as usual. The only thing that makes me hesitant is that the numbers are taken from GameFAQs. My area Best Buys adamantly refuse to tell me anything, but here in the battlefield that is Detroit, that's no surprise. More »

    12:00 PM on Fri Dec 30 2005
    By lsmith
    309 views, 4 comments

    Latest by Papercutninja: Does anyone even care anymore? more »

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