Kotaku: Blood

Limbs and Heads Fly Free In Total War: Shogun 2's Rating-Changing Blood Pack

Mike Fahey — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:00 EST

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While Total War: Shogun 2 does an excellent job of depicting the titanic clash between two warring factions, it's always been missing a little something to make the experience complete: Majestic arcs of spurting crimson lifeblood, and the odd severed head. All this and more can be yours for $1.59. More »

Infamous Has a Little Halloween Fun With Call of Duty (Modern Gorefare!)

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:40:00 EDT

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The creators of the enjoyable open-world Infamous games nto their super-hero cities. They've done it before, and, hey, we like when developers make jokes. More »

'70s Filters and Voice Overs Makes Everything Better

Brian Crecente — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:00:00 EDT

The House of the Dead Overkill - Extended Cut now in 3D and HDTV with "More Blood", "More Gore", "More Strippers." Your mother won't like it! So keep it in a brown paper bag when you pick it up for the PS3 on Oct. 25. More »

Rise of Nightmares Cuts a Bloody Swath Through Fourteen Screenshots

Mike Fahey — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:20:00 EDT

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I get the point; this is an M-rated Kinect game. Can you please stop throwing blood all over me, Sega? Oh god, it's in my mouth. More »

This Is The Bloodiest Lord Of The Rings Game Ever

Mike Fahey — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:00:00 EDT

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One would assume that cutting your way through countless orcs would leave your clothes rather messy. Snowblind Studios, the developer of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North makes that happen in what looks to be the most violent game the fantasy series has ever seen. More »

Damn, Agent 47, You Are Good

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:30:00 EDT

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This may be the best whack job from IO Interactive's Hitman: Blood Money, as played by TheAuZZieGamer. For those unfamiliar with this particular Hitman mission, it involves the assassination of Vinnie "Slugger" Sinistra, an FBI informant in the Witness Protection Program. More »

Tiger Blood Energy Potion Brings Out The Raving Lunatic Actor In You

Mike Fahey — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:20:00 EST

Watching a celebrity dissolve before your very eyes is entertaining, but Charlie Sheen's reign as everybody's favorite frothing-at-the-mouth WINNER can only last so long. Luckily for Blood Energy Potion creators Harcos Laboratories, printing out stickers doesn't take long at all. More »

New Surgical Special Effects Are All Smoke And Bloody Mirrors

Mike Fahey — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:00:00 EST

Realistic rendering of smoke and blood isn't just a game developer problem. Engineers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York have come up with a novel way to give surgical students the virtual blood and gore they need. More »

Six Flags Facebook Game Is Fun Until Someone Loses An Arm

Mike Fahey — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:20:00 EDT

With countless folk horror tales of theme park rides decapitating or removing the limbs of riders, you'd think Six Flags would have shied away from promoting over-the-top, blood-spurting violence in their new Facebook game, Six Flags Mascot Park. More »

Aliens VS. Predator Kill Moves Are A Tad Bit Graphic

Mike Fahey — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:30:00 EST

Actually they aren't too bad, provided you turn the sound down a little and keep your hand away from the pause button. Pause is not your friend here. More »

The ESA Is Out For Blood At E3

Mike Fahey — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:30:00 EDT

The Entertainment Software Association has big plans to give back to the community at E3 2009, and it's not afraid to spill a little blood to do it. Well, draw a little blood. More »

Left 4 Dead Screens: You've Got Something on Your Mouth, Hon

Owen Good — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Blood, mostly. Here, take a napkin, wipe it off ... These are 19 new screenshots of Left 4 Dead that NeoGAF put up earlier this week. Lots of dismemberment and bloodspatter, but I'm not seeing any mid-spew vomit money shots here. The full gallery is on the jump. NeoGAF has them at higher resolution. More »

Dracula Wants Your Blood, Southern California

Mike Fahey — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:40:00 EDT

Dracula teaming up with the Red Cross? Can you say dream team? Encore Software is celebrating last month's release of their PC mystery adventure game Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon, with a Dracula Blood Drive. The event is taking place October 3rd and 4th in either different locations throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties, with donors being entered in a drawing to win a copy of the game and various other prizes. While many of you have never heard of the game, to quote an imaginary out-of-touch 80's marketing executive, "Giving blood is rad, dudes!" More »

Requiem: Bloodymare Trailer

fdemarco — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:00:00 EST

When I heard there was going to be an ultra gory MMO, my interest was piqued. But, after seeing some screens and now this trailer, my pique has waned a bit. It looks nice if not a bit generic and there's not nearly as much blood and gore as I had hoped for something with "bloody" in the title. But, who knows, it could shape up to be a really amazing game for all I know and then who will be laughing out of the other side of his face? The real question though is: Does lots of blood equal a good MMO? More »

No More Heroes Censorship Explained...Kinda

Mark Wilson — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:00:44 EST

No More Heroes was supposed to be a gorefest in Europe and the US. But to every Australian Kotaku writer's surprise, the game will have the blood censored for its Europe release. In the theme of pretending we care about markets outside the US, we thought that we should let you know that Grasshopper CEO 'Suda 51' and Marvelous's Yashiro Wada made a joint statement today on the matter that should clear things up a bit:

First, let me say how honoured I am that everyone in Europe is expecting No More Heroes....The sales point of this game is action. Both I and Wada san have concentrated on making the best possible action game for the Nintendo Wii. We have chosen to release in Europe the same version as has shipped in Japan considering the broadly growing Wii market.

In other words, everyone thinks this will be a more lucrative plan. I prefer the subtlety of ash fountains to spurting blood anyway. More »

Holy Hell, That's a Long Machinima: BloodSpell

Maggie Greene — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:30:17 EDT

Have 84 minutes to kill? No? Me neither. But if I did, I'd wade in and take a look at the feature-length cut of the BloodSpell machinima by Strange Company (directed by Hugh Hancock) - it's long, it's been four years in development all told, and seems like one hell of an ambitious project. I did take a short gander at it, and if the whole 84 minutes is as nicely put together as the short bit I watched, it's probably worth a looksee. The machinima was made with the Neverwinter Nights engine. It's also being released under Creative Commons: More »

Chinese MMO Maker Out For Blood

fdemarco — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:00:00 EDT

Moliyo, a Chinese company that runs a popular MMO called Cabal recently banned over 120,000 players for using illegal software to hack into the game and get better stats and money, etc. Pretty standard stuff. Well, now Moliyo is offering to take these cheaters back into the the fold...for a price: their precious precious blood! For one pint of blood, formerly ousted gamers can join the ranks of the Cabal privileged once again. A similar offer is being made to non-cheating players where they will be given a free account with their one pint donation. More »

More Left 4 Dead Details Rise From The Grave

fdemarco — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:00:27 EST

Those lucky bastards at IGN U.K. have got a chance to do hands on with Turtle Rock Studios' upcoming zombie slaughter fest, Left 4 Dead. The newest addition to the zombie game brigade will feature 4 person co-op play and the ability to play either the survivors or the infected. IGN goes in to great detail about the different classes of infected and their various powers (they are not allowed to use traditional weapons). Currently, Turtle Rock is developing Left 4 Dead for PC to be released this summer. The possibility of a 360 version is also discussed, but Turtle Rock is remaining tight lipped on that subject. More »

Blood-Spattered 360 Mod

Brian Crecente — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:00:40 EST

One of the Llamma's Game Console forum readers has upped pics of their sweet new case mod. More »

Worth's Never Made Games

Mike Fahey — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:40:49 EST

Nothing helps me wind down at the end of a long work day quite like flipping through Worth1000's Photoshop contests. As a graphics designer on the side, I can truly appreciate how much better most of these bastards are than I am, while still catching the occasional really bad one that boosts my self esteem. More »

Japan Gets Wii Late, Consoled With VC List

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:20:54 EST

Mark my words, this Saturday, blood in the streets. That, and grown man crying. Hell, women crying too. This Saturday, the Wii launches in Japan. What am I picking up? Wii Sports (no, it's not bundled here) and nothing else. Why should I? Nintendo is putting a ton of sweet titles on the Virtual Console. The company has disclosed all the games that will hit this year. The Land of the Rising Sun will see, count 'em, 20 more games than the US before year's end. Envy after the jump. Brian Ashcraft More »