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There are plenty of things you can do with a tentacle besides porn, and The Darkness II has them all covered. Jackie Estacado has gone through hell; now he faces an even greater challenge: Critics. More »
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Looking at a random aerial shot of Dubai might lead you to think you're looking at a future New York. Or London. Or Hong Kong. But this place actually exists, newer than those places and more remote, too. The hyperreal city sits on the edge of the Arabian Desert, boasting skyscrapers and man-made islands unlike those found anywhere else. And, soon, if 2K Games and Yager Development get their way, it'll be the next memorable video game locale, the place where thousands of players will shoot their way through a story of what happens when society's rules crumble in a land of excess. More »
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Remember back in 1996 when Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame did the music for Quake? His music in the launch trailer for The Darkness II sounds pretty much just like that. More »
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As intrigued as I am by what 2K's doing with X-COM—and I freely admit I'm in the minority there—the publisher's recent move to delay that game another year, and release a more traditional turn-based strategy reboot meantime, reek of please-everyone panic. Fans of the original can read between the lines and see an expression of low confidence in the first-person perspective game that has everyone up in arms. More »
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Today's gamers crave choice. Choice in how they progress through a game; choice on how they develop their character. The gamers of 13 years ago needed not these things, which is why Irrational Games is including the punishing 1999 Mode in BioShock Infinite. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5877468&view=rss&microfeed=true 2K Games has unleashed a playable demo for The Darkness II, aka the further adventures of Jackie Estacado, exclusively for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. PlayStation 3 and PC players will get a taste come January 24. More »
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Maybe you're a fan of the original X-Com and met today's news of the upcoming XCom: Enemy Unknown strategy title with great joy. Maybe you don't know anything about the X-Com legacy and don't know what the hubbub about either game is about. Which XCom is for you, then? More »
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One of my favorite things about the holidays is seeing all of the creative ways video game developers and publishers find to celebrate. More »
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Ever since Epic's Gears of War plucked heartstrings with a cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" game creators have been attempting to recreate that magic, forging an emotional bond between gamers and game through evocative music. Let's see how good a job Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and BioShock Infinite did of it with their respective Spike VGA Awards debut trailers. More »
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Can't get enough Duke Nukem? (That's—I say, that's a rhetorical question, son, you're not supposed to answer it.) Well, good. Gearbox done whomped up even more DLC for the game. More »
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Earlier this week, 2K Games announced that its Canberra, Australia studio was being shifted from helping with development of XCOM to working on Bioshock Infinite. More »
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Spec Ops: The Line isn't just a game with neat sand physics and interplay, it has a lot going for it. Here's a little action video montage that shows you some bits and pieces of how the game plays, what it looks like and some of that sand. More »
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Bullets pop out of the sand in front of me. They're going straight up. For a second I'm confused. I look up, thinking maybe I'm misinterpreting what I'm seeing, that someone is shooting down at me. Then the sand begins to shift and the ground I'm standing on gives way. We fall into a massive buried lobby, the glass from the skylight we were unknowingly standing on falling with us. We land, the three of us, in a firefight. More »
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Spec Ops: The Line is a little bit Heart of Darkness, a little bit Apocalypse Now and a whole lot of shooter innovation blended into a postmodern game about honor, choices and morality. More »
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First they deliver an intricately carved pumpkin to Kotaku HQ, then this painful-looking trailer that showcases the flair with which you can dispatch enemies in the upcoming Darkness II. You can really see how the game uses its comic-book art style to maximum effect and those demon appendages give you even more options to off your antagonists. The Digital Extremes-developed sequel hits systems next February. More »
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Today's the day 2K Games delivers the "Hail to the Icons Parody Pack" downloadable content for Duke Nukem Forever, featuring new game modes and maps that parody much better games. More »
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With the New York City Comic-Con just a few days away, 2K Games gives fans of the comic book-based The Darkness II a little show of its own, with videos of Jackie Estacado's powers, the evil organization he'll be using them against, and the odd slice of cheesecake. More »
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While The Darkness II doesn't hit store shelves until February 7, preordering now for a free upgrade to the limited edition would be good for your heart, and extremely bad for the hearts of your enemies. More »
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Earlier this month Kotaku reported, per 2K Sports itself, that the historic teams featured in NBA 2K12's "NBA's Greatest" mode would not be available for online play. That turns out not to be the case. A Twitter photo from someone with the game already shows that gamers can take the 1993 Chicago Bulls or 1986 Boston Celtics online, along with any of the 32 other storied teams—for a price. More »
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The Darkness comic book has been around since 1996, but you don't need to worry about fifteen years of continuity in order to understand 2K Games' The Darkness II. You just need three minutes with Johnny Powell. More »
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XCOM is no X-Com. More »
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A "Game of the Year" edition of Sid Meier's Civilization V, featuring six packs and the digital soundtrack, hits stores on Sept. 27 for $50, 2K Games said this morning. More »
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You thought you saw all there was to see of Borderlands 2 at Gamescom last week? These two fresh shots direct from PAX will show you how very slightly wrong you were. More »
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2K Games has just now gotten around to posting its 20-minute E3 demonstration of XCOM; the voice-over script is the same that I heard in 2K's booth, so you may judge for yourself what this game really is, what it isn't, and what it really stands for. I stand by my original impressions, and I'm still intrigued enough to want to see the final product. XCOM is due for a March 6 release. More »
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The throwaway guns of the original Borderlands, which numbered in the hundreds of bazillions, were nothing compared to the fire and forget disposability of the game's sequel. And Borderlands 2's "disposable razor-style" guns from fictional manufacturer Tediore, the Walmart of intergalactic gunmakers, already stand out as one of the game's better features. More »
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A Swiss police association is calling for a ban on The Darkness II because the game includes moments of police being shot and killed, a Swiss newspaper reports. More »
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NBA 2K12 will follow last year's extremely popular "Jordan Challenge" by again reaching deep into the game's memory bank, serving up 15 re-creations of the NBA's greatest performances with an all-new cast of legends, and broadcast presentation authentic to their eras. More »
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The thinning of the fall and winter 2011 video game herd claims a victim today, as 2K Games delays Digital Extremes' The Darkness II. Originally on the books for an October release, 2K is now aiming the first-person shooter for February 2012. More »
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Andrew Ryan was a visionary, dreaming of a utopian society where great men and women could live free of the rules and the government keeping them from realizing their true potential. His story begins in BioShock: Rapture, available today in bookstores everywhere. More »
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The beloved but dormant X-COM series, the strategy game franchise created by Mythos and Microprose, is getting a revival in the form of a first-person shooter next year, offending the sensibilities of old-school PC gamers. Why would 2K Games do such a thing? More »
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The people who make Civilization have given the world CivWorld, a free Facebook version of their legendary strategy series. The game is complex and kind of tough! More »
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Gamers who prefer their operating systems designed by Apple will also have a chance to take a bite of Duke Nukem Forever's "pain cake" this summer, when Aspyr brings 3D Realms, Gearbox Software and 2K Games' raunchy first-person shooter to Mac OS X this summer. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5815972&view=rss&microfeed=true Judge a small portion of Duke Nukem Forever for yourself. The game's demo has been widely released on Xbox Live Marketplace and Steam, with a PS3 version due "ASAP." Read Kotaku's take to see if Duke's worth the bandwidth. More »
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If you know the name Jim Redner, there's a good chance you know him for the single Duke Nukem Forever tweet that caused a brief public relations shitstorm last week. If you don't, Jim Redner will tell you all about the "brain fart" that caused Duke Nukem Forever's publisher to drop him like a bad habit. More »
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Who cares if Duke Nukem Forever is "good" or not? It is at least as satisfying as a greasy burger, as catchy as a Ke$ha song or maybe as enjoyable as a performance of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark in which no one suffers a debilitating injury. (Or does. Which would make that superhero musical better?) More »
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At E3, I visited the 2K Games booth every day of the show. Every day I went there, I saw these two guys from High Voltage Software in the 2K "Sports Bar," sitting in easy chairs, playing Nicktoons MLB. As far as I know, it was all they did all day. More »
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The news that 2K's XCOM reboot would handle combat as a first-person shooter sent longtime fans of the PC strategy series on a gamer's tour of the Kubler-Ross stages of grief, rage, of course, lasting the longest. A year after it was first shown at E3, and about a year before its release, we might be seeing a game that can sway some of them into acceptance? More »
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XCOM, The first-person sequel to classic strategy game X-Com, will be released on March 6, 2012, for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, that last platform being newly-confirmed by publisher Take Two. More »
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2K Games has released an initial, stand-alone gameplay trailer for The Darkness II, sequel to 2007's under-appreciated gem The Darkness. The title will pick up where the last left off, with mafioso protagonist Jackie Estacado wielding an assortment of grotesque powers, including the ability to summon impish "Darklings" and to pilot yucky, stretchy tentacles and tendrils. More »
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If I had to summarize Duke Nukem Forever in one picture, it would be at about 1:27 in this here launch trailer. Warning: may contain more naked breasts than you ever wanted to see. More »
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