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Jump Into Uncharted 3 with The Kotaku Game Club Right Here!

Mike Epstein — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:00:00 EST

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Howdy folks, welcome to week two of Kotaku Game Club: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. (Extra colons are extra fun.) We're going over the middle leg of the Uncharted 3 adventure today. More »

Darkspore is now Building Better Battlers

Mike Fahey — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:20:00 EDT

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Maxis splices the DNA of Will Wright's Spore with Diablo with today's release of the PC action RPG Darkspore, now available in stores and fine downloadable retailers across North America. I can't wait to play. More »

The First Templar Slices A Bloody Path Towards The Holy Grail

Mike Fahey — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:20:00 EDT

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The secrets of the Order of the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail unravel in The First Templar, Kalypso Media's combat-heavy cooperative third-person historical action game. The blood flows like wine in the latest gameplay trailer. More »

Age Of Empires Creators Declare Orcs Must Die

Mike Fahey — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:40:00 EST

What can a lone War-Mage do against a never-ending horde of orcs hell-bent on invading his castle? Quite a lot, actually. We'll find out for ourselves later this year, when Robot Entertainment releases its new action-strategy game, Orcs Must Die! More »

A Look At Darkspore's Cooperative Multiplayer

Brian Crecente — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:00:00 EST

Electronic Arts is giving us an advanced look at how cooperative play is going to work in upcoming action role-playing game Darkspore. More »

The Lighting, Lasers and Fire of Darkspore

Brian Crecente — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:20:00 EDT

Here's a closer look at Darkspore, an action game that seems to neatly blend the best bits of Diablo and Spore. More »

Curt Schilling's All-Star RPG Becomes Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning

Mike Fahey — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:40:00 EDT

Previously known simply as Project Mercury, Curt Schilling's 38 Studios and EA finally give the Todd McFarlane, R.A. Salvatore, and Ken Rolston powered role-playing game a name, promising open world exploration and fast-paced action combat in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. More »

Disney Is Completely Serious About These Tron Action Figures

Mike Fahey — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:30:00 EDT

Disney unleashes the first product shots of their massive Tron Legacy toy and electronics line, including mice, keyboards, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 controllers, and action figures with cutting-edge impulse light projection technology that makes them extremely ugly. More »

Metal Gear Solid: Rising Is All About The Slice And Dice

Mike Fahey — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:45:53 EDT

During Microsoft's E3 press conference, Metal Gear Creator Hideo Kojima introduced a trailer for Metal Gear Solid: Rising, showing off a fast-paced action game with Raiden using his sword to slice enemies, vehicles, and scenery to pieces. Check out our live blog for images from the trailer! More »

The Characters Of Zenonia 2

Mike Fahey — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:30:00 EST

Gamevil's follow-up to the beloved iPhone role-playing game Zenonia brings four new characters, ranged fighters Ekne and Morpice, and melee warriors Daza and Lu. Get to know them in their official bios. More »

Global Agenda Teaser Prepares For Launch

Mike Fahey — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:00:00 EST

Hi-Rez Studio's action MMO Global Agenda is coming February 1st, and this official launch teaser should give you a good idea of what to expect once next month rolls around. More »

A Visual Tour Of Mytheon's Hot Spots

Mike Fahey — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:40:00 EST

Petroglyph and True Games have released a set of screenshots detailing the various environments found in the upcoming online action RPG Mytheon. Let's take a tour of Colchis, The Dominion of Hades, and The Shattered Isle. More »

League Of Legends Won't Cost You A Dime

Mike Fahey — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:20:00 EDT

Riot Games announces today that its upcoming Warcraft III mod turned full game League of Legends will be free-to-play, with a premium retail edition available for those that would rather pay. More »

Mytheon Trailer Casts The First Stone

Mike Fahey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:40:00 EDT

The first trailer for Petroglyph's Mythic gives us a bit more of an understanding as to what's actually going on in the online action roleplaying strategy hybrid. More »

Ninja Blade Review: Ninja Tragic

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:40:52 EDT

From Software's Ninja Blade gives Xbox 360 owning wannabe ninjas the opportunity to live vicariously—and cinematically—through protagonist Ken Ogawa, a super ninja tasked with saving futuristic Tokyo from parasite-infected Japanese schoolgirls, yakuza and salarymen. More »

MadWorld Review: Simple Jack

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Madworld gives Wii owners the opportunity to take out their frustrations on scores of helpless bags of meat and brain dead street scum—no match for a buff bounty hunter with a chainsaw for an arm. More »

League of Legends Gameplay Is Colorfully Chaotic

Mike Fahey — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:40:00 EST

In case our feature on Riot Games' upcoming mod turned action-strategy game League of Legends didn't adequately explain what the game was, perhaps the official gameplay trailer will. More »

Class Of Heroes In Session This April

Mike Fahey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:20:00 EST

Dungeons? Alchemy? Catacombs? PSP? Yes, it's a new title from the folks at Atlus! They've just announced portable dungeon crawler Class of Heroes, coming this April to the PSP. More »

LEGO Batman The Video Game Review: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Brian Crecente — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Traveller's Tales, it seems, have discovered a license to print money. Find a popular franchise, turn even the most insane, homicidal characters within the story into teensy digital mini-figs and let them get to popping each other apart. But with LEGO Batman the developer took it a step further. Instead of riding on the popularity of an existing franchise and epic plots, they created their own story, a story that is doled out from a multitude of perspectives, first Batman and Robin and then the variety of villains. Does Traveller's Tales have what it takes to mine Batman for both mini-fig fun and a decent story? Do they even need to, or does the mechanic alone keep the LEGO franchise afloat? Hit the jump to read up on the game's good, bad and ugly. More »

Alpha Protocol Aims Ambitiously For RPG, FPS Fans

Leigh Alexander — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:20:00 EDT

Obsidian Entertainment says it's found the right mix of action and RPG, balancing subtlety with "over-the-top" visual style, and weighing realism carefully against the "abstraction" of fantasy elements. More »

The Bourne Conspiracy Impressions

fdemarco — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:00:00 EDT

I'm sure by now most of you are familiar with the genius cell phone PR stunt that Sierra threw together for the upcoming Bourne Conspiracy game. While it was cool, the real question is, how was the game? I met with some of the developers from High Moon Studios to check out the game being played and get some explanation of was all about. More »

Savage 2 Enters Beta

Mike Fahey — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:40:07 EDT

S2 Games is developing and publishing the sequel to their ambitious online action RTS , Savage: The Battle for Newearth independently, so the sequel will go into beta when they say so. They say so. Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is now entering the beta testing stage for pre-order customers. What this means is that if you put money down on the game, you'll get a chance to participate in the final testing stages before release. This isn't a try before you buy situation at all - you pay full price and commit to buy the game upon release, going on to help them tune the game for the general public. An odd sort of arrangement, but with S2's focus on community involvement, not a surprising one. They want committed fans with an interest in seeing Savage 2 be the best it can be. I'm just glad the game is nearing release, as I've been looking forward to it since GDC back in March. More »

Buka Unleashes The Swarm

Mike Fahey — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:20:33 EDT

I am really liking what I am seeing coming out of Russian publisher Buka. First the reveal the human hunting game The Hunt, the very concept of which gives me chills, and now they unleash The Swarm, a 3rd person action adventure title that places you as a survivor of an alien invasion in post-apocalyptic Moscow. Start off as a normal human who slowly assimilates alien abilities and characteristics, becoming something entirely different and infinitely more dangerous. The game promises huge aliens and an eerily accurate modeling of Moscow in demolished form. With two intriguing game concepts announced in the span of a week, Buka looks to be coming out in a big way. They've definitely got my attention. More »

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII: Trailer

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:40:48 EDT

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Clip: Human Pole Position

fdemarco — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:00:00 EST

Filmmaker Guillaume Reymond from NotsoNoisy.com has impressed us before with his amazing live action, stop action animation hybrids. So far, his "Game Over" video series has included such classics as Space Invaders and Pong. Now Reymond brings us his version of Pole Position. It was created the same way the other two were, using real people sitting in a large theater to create the illusion of the pixelated graphics. Pretty great stuff, especially when the lights go out. Flynn De Marco More »

Amazing Custom Gears of War Figure

Mike Fahey — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:40:26 EST

Emilio Lopez, the artist for a webcomic called Terranova, created this custom Gears of War action figure to give to his cousin for Christmas. More »

First Pics Of Devil May Cry Fan Film Hit 'Net

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:25:47 EDT

Thank God for Twitch. It's one of the best online resources for under-the-radar movies, from overseas to domestic independents, from horror to action to experimental to whatever. They cover everything cool in film. And Friday's update has something for us gaming nerds: first pics of the Devil May Cry fan film, Sins Remembered. More »

Overlord by Triumph Studios Coming To PC & 360

brownlee — Wed, 03 May 2006 12:40:50 EDT

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From those righteous dudes from Delft who brought gamers the brilliant Age of Wonders series of games comes the announcement of their newest title, Overlord, which cuts away from the Masters of Magic turn based strategy mold to deliver a visceral action game experience on the PC and 360. More »