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Owen Good commented on TGS Booth Babe March, Brought to you By Microsoft

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:31:10 EDT

hola cheet meng

Owen Good wrote Weekend Note: Sony Guts! Pt. II

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:18:23 EDT

To: Luke? Bash? Crecente? Oh, God — Fahey? From: Owen I have no idea to whom I am handing off this shift. Half of Kotaku is posting from the future, thanks to TGS. The rest, well, we're making it up as we

Owen Good wrote Sunday Timewaster: And We Really Mean It

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:30:02 EDT

Insidious Tuna sent this along. I swear I've seen it somewhere before, but apparently not on Kotaku. This game has a very simple premise and a very difficult opponent — your own patience. My only advice to you is that,

Owen Good wrote Ars Certifies Dead Space's Scariness Cred

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:46:59 EDT

"Do yourself a favor when you get the game," writes Ben Kuchera at Ars Technica. "Make the room as dark as possible. Turn the sound system up. Allow yourself to be swept away in it." "The game is scary," Kuchera says

Owen Good wrote Crecente's DNA Reaches Orbit

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:20:56 EDT

Game designer Richard "Lord British" Garriott and his "immortality drive" — containing Crecente's genetic material — is officially in orbit now. Sorry I missed this earlier, but Garriott rode the candle out of Baikonur early Sunday, and his Soyuz craft

Owen Good wrote Microsoft Reconsidering XBLA Delisting Stance

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:56:40 EDT

Back in May, news that Microsoft would de-list low-selling, underperforming XBLA titles caused a bit of a stir. Well now that delisting might be put off or even canceled, according to Microsoft VP John Schappert. Schappert told IGN that the original

Owen Good wrote This Guy Won an Oscar Playing Gandhi

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:38:57 EDT

That's Ben Kingsley on the set of Prince of Persia. I think he's pointing out the production assistant who didn't peel the grapes for his trailer's fruit and cheese plates like he'd asked. Or he's getting into character to fuck

Owen Good wrote The First Gamepumpkins of the Year

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:16:50 EDT

And we've received our first game pumpkin submission — Mega Man firing on Mr. Game & Watch from Super Smash Brothers. Reader Nathan G. carved it, about three weeks before Halloween, so, it should be good and slimy and rotted

Owen Good wrote Soulja Boy Now Offering Ass-Whoopins for Free

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:59:55 EDT

Noted game critic, aspiring developer and rapper Soulja Boy says there are four Xbox 360 titles on which he cannot be beat — any circumstances. Halo 3; Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare; Gears of War and Grand Theft Auto

Owen Good wrote Invade Stormwind? You and What Arm-- oh, That One

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:41:19 EDT

When you can't convince 35 other people of your master plan to attack two Alliance capital cities, you really only have one alternative: Do it yourself. "Bradster" does. He owns that rig above — 11 computers that run 36 World

Owen Good wrote Greenberg Claims Japanese Devs "Tremendous Shift" to 360

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:26:14 EDT

Well, here we go again. Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg, talking to slightly-interest party Major Nelson, says he's never seen such a "tremendous shift" in developer loyalty, and he means from Sony and to Microsoft. Guess we couldn't expect him to keep

Owen Good wrote Saturday Timewaster: Fantastic Contraption

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:57:54 EDT

Reader Alex B. sent in this — Fantastic Contraption — a physics flash game where you string together wheels and joints in order to carry an object toward a goal on the screen. It's nice nonviolent trial-and-error fun, indulging both

Owen Good wrote Sarah Palin in Rock Band 2

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:37:32 EDT

Oh, you thought we were done with the Sarah Palin shit? Well think again, my friends. After last Sunday's post about Palin in video games, reader Marion D. sent me three screens showing his band's lead singer in Rock Band

Owen Good wrote What's the Lousiest Game Gift You've Ever Gotten?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:24:02 EDT

Bash left the TUD Giraffe in my care this weekend, so I'll close out my shift by asking the juicy question. Here's one for a good discussion: What's the lamest game, or game-related, gift you've ever received? Reaching back, I'm

Owen Good wrote Media Molecule Apparently Reconsiders on LBP Beta User Levels

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:05:29 EDT

1Up's reporting from TGS that Media Molecule cofounder Alex Evans hisself "let slip" that all those awesome LittleBigPlanet beta user-created levels we've been seeing will in fact make the transition into the full final game. This countermands MM's Leo Cubbin,

Owen Good wrote Gaffer's Gears 2 Leak Pics Include Free (sur)prize

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:40:31 EDT

Tipster Matt sends us this — Gaffer dreammastah got his hands on Gears of War 2 and provides enough visual proof (if static) to convince us it's real. One gameplay screen, no box art, so commenters are wondering if this

Owen Good wrote Xboxes Go Off Rails on Crazy Train, Microsoft Sues

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:47:46 EDT

Microsoft wants $2 million from DHL because, it says, the parcel carrier failed to compensate it for a bunch of consoles lost in a 2007 train wreck almost exactly one year ago. In fact, the one-year anniversary of the derailment

Owen Good commented on Guitar Hero Custom Track Of "The Touch"

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:27:00 EDT

Arise, Rodiums Prime.

Oh I am so ashamed I remember this shit

Owen Good commented on Stan Bush Wants "The Touch" In Guitar Hero, Rock Band

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:31:54 EDT

If I send this video to a friend, does that mean I'm Touch-Rolling him? Bush-Rolling? Rodimus Prime Rolling?

Owen Good commented on Stan Bush Wants "The Touch" In Guitar Hero, Rock Band

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:26:09 EDT

Fuck that, let's get "Smell Yo Dick" in SingStar

Owen Good wrote Getting a Look at The Conduit's Visuals

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:26:40 EDT

This 90 second clip highlights the effort put into The Conduit's visual detail, no mean feat considering it's working on a Wii and that's not exactly a PS3. My visual palate is about like my wine palate, I pretty much

Owen Good wrote Rumor Smash Galore: EA Not Interested in Epic, No Sega Portable

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:13:58 EDT

Often times it's more work to discover something is crap and shouldn't be posted than it is to find something that is. But we've heard so much noise about a couple things it's nice to put the rumor smash on

Owen Good wrote More Deus Ex 3 Details Emerge

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:25:19 EDT

Well, looks like PC Zone was saving up its 200th issue for Deus Ex. It's the cover story in the latest edition, which has already landed in subscribers' mailboxes and hits newsstands on Oct. 9. The writeup also features the

Owen Good wrote Facebook a 'Major Community Tool' for APB

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:17:11 EDT

Also in Realtime Worlds' newsletter for fans, which went out this week, is word that Facebook will play a large role in building the community for APB, the long-awaited cops-and-robbers MMO. And APB's closed beta stage is upcoming, with alpha testing

Owen Good wrote Gears COG Unlocks Secret Site Full of Goodies

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:01:32 EDT

Well, get a load of this. Remember the E for All Expo? Yeah it's this weekend in Los Angeles and finished as of today (so are the Cubs, unfortunately). But the Gears of War 2 booth there handed out a

Owen Good wrote Will Wright Backs McCain; Zelnick? Duh, Obama.

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:32:32 EDT

Back in February 1Up took a broad look at who the gaming industry, on the whole, was giving to in U.S. political campaigns. Develop Magazine revisited the subject this weekend, going through Federal Election Commission records to find the donation

Owen Good wrote TimeSplitters 4 Concept Art

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:13:31 EDT

If Haze didn't float your boat, and it didn't float many, Free Radical's right back atcha with TimeSplitters 4. Of course the game has been officially officially known for some time, but FR put up three concept art scans on

Owen Good wrote Old People: Play Video Games, Maybe Get a Break on Car Insurance

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:56:16 EDT

Is President Palmer still doing the Allstate insurance ads? Why didn't he tell us about this? It seems the U.S. auto policy underwriter wants to test whether video games can help make 50-year-olds (and up) into better drivers. Allstate's offering specialized

Owen Good wrote Capcom "Cautiously Optimistic" re: MM9 Sales; Pre-Emptively Debunks All Figures

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:17:23 EDT

Nintendo Everything reports Capcom's Christian Svensson, VP of Business Development, says earlier reports of Mega Man 9 doing 140,000 US downloads in one week for the Wii are incorrect. "Any numbers you've seen or quoted are not correct," Svensson said.

Owen Good wrote Halo Wars: The Back Story

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:42:37 EDT

GameTrailers TV got its hands on the backstory trailer for Halo Wars. The 3:28 video sets up what's going on and why in the forthcoming RTS based on the Halo universe. Seems the Covenant have been scraping around in the

Owen Good wrote Settlement in Take Two - Chicago Bus Ad Suit

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:31:51 EDT

Remember the lawsuit over the Chicago bus ads for Grand Theft Auto IV that the city took down after a TV report created bad publicity? Seems a settlement is in the pipeline. GamePolitics is reporting an agreement has been reached

Owen Good wrote Rock Band 2 Glitch Wipes Out Bands?

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:03:05 EDT

Lots of people on the Rock Band forums are complaining of a pretty heinous multiplayer glitch in Rock Band 2, which seems to only affect the 360 version. In a nutshell, it strikes bands with Live Enabled gamers as the

Owen Good wrote TF2 Spy Crab Calendar Out Now

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:37:03 EDT

Hey, 2009's almost upon us, and TF2Newbs has put out a 12-month zipfile of spies doing the crab walk in Team Fortress 2. My favorite is August, which captures this conversation between Nfreak (the calendar's creator) and his cohorts: {OSS} |CiC|

Owen Good wrote The Conduit Already has MotionPlus, WiiSpeak, Sequel

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:18:03 EDT

High Voltage chief operating officer Eric Nofsinger told MTV Multiplayer that The Conduit, due out March 2009, will support MotionPlus and WiiSpeak, and alludes to an already-planned sequel that will make greater use of those capabilities. “We’re hooking it [MotionPlus] up,”