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A Shrunken Cortana and Master Chief Wage War Against Halo’s Bad Guys

Evan Narcisse — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:45:00 EST

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The newest Halo Minimates aren't going to offer up any clues to Halo 4, but they're still worthy additions to the collections of fans who've been following the sci-fi series. First announced last September, the Series 4 set will mark the first time that Cortana's been a bite-sized plaything. The UNSC vs. Covenant battles will spread to your desk later this year. More »

How Can Good Triumph Over Evil When Evil Is So Awesome?

Mike Fahey — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:40:00 EDT

It's more than just blue lasers versus red lasers in our Monday installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku, when commenter KingKellogg the Waffle Haggler ponders the eternal question: Why is being evil more exciting than being good? More »

Capcom Brings the Dead, The Fight, The Stache to PAX

Brian Crecente — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:20:00 EDT

Capcom will be invading the Penny Arcade Expo later this week with a chance for you to go hands-on with eight of their upcoming games. More »

Industry Types Confess the Evil Deeds They've Done (in Games)

Owen Good — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EDT

What's the most cruel, unfair, downright evil thing you've done in a game? Bitmob polled some industry types with the question. Hal Halpin was a real jerk in Mario Kart 64; Todd Howard created a suicide squad in X-Com. More »

Steam Weekend Deal: Four Ubisoft Classics For $10

Mike Fahey — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Steam concludes its week long sale salute to Ubisoft by offering four classic titles from the publisher for just under $10, including Beyond Good and Evil and the original Far Cry. More »

Capcom Confirms Resident Evil 5 Controls Change

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:00:00 EDT

A big gripe for some Western players about Resident Evil 5 is that the game uses RE4's controls. Those feel, critics say, dated in all the recent advancements in how players interact with gamers. No wonder, while at E3, Capcom producer Jun Takeuchi hinted that Resident Evil 5 would be getting a revamped control scheme, going as far to say: "So don't be surprised if at the Tokyo Game Show, the controls are different... I'm not confirming or denying anything, but we like to surprise people." After the Microsoft Media Briefing, Takeuchi confirmed that RE5's new controls will be on the TGS showroom floor. While he didn't go into any great detail about the changes, he did refer to them as "Gears-like" controls. We've been hearing rumblings that the new controls will bring run-and-gun style play to Resident Evil — quite a big change for the traditional walk-stop-shoot RE approach. [Pic] More »

Here's Some Resident Evil 5 Play Footage

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:00:13 EDT

Here's a behind the scenes look at upcoming Resident Evil 5 with a few glimpses of it in action. According to the game's producer Jun Takeuchi, the theme for this game is light and shadows. Bright sunlight increases the division between darkly shaded and sunny areas. Also, going from the light to the shade, makes it hard to see. Vice versa is true as well. That's the visual motif for RE5. The above clip is fresh from the Capcom 25th anniversary DVD that's packaged with the new issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu. More »

Resident Evil: Degeneration Trailer

fdemarco — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:00:00 EST

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Movie Critics Use Video Game Label as Insult

Brian Crecente — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:19:27 EDT

Ben Fritz has an interesting column up over on Variety that points out that comparing a movie to a video game is quickly becoming a shorthand way of saying it sucks. More »

Resident Evil Wii Still Coming

kotaku.com — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:40:04 EDT

Whether or not the Wii succeeds will depend on one and only one factor: how many zombies you can brutally eviscerate with the Wiikatana. So earlier reports that Resident Evil would not be coming to the Wii caused many of us to immediately write the platform off completely. Duck Hunt is for fruits: let us spill the black, rotting bowels of the living dead, Nintendo! More »

Evil Arcade Machine Confounds My Skills

Brian Crecente — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:00:33 EDT

I went to the movies last night and got sidetracked by a prize arcade machine in the lobby on the way out. Stacker is a deviously charming game that creates the illusion that you are a button push away from landing a choice prize like a cell phone or Nintendo DS, but in fact have little to no change of ever hitting your goal. More »

Ubisoft Ditches Starforce... Thanks Gawd!

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:22:06 EDT

In a fitting comeuppance for the nexus of evil known as Starforce, Ubisoft has wiped Heroes of Might and Magic V free of the malware and won't use it in future copy protection. The bad, bad, bad anti-piracy system is pimped by Russian gangsters, so unscrupulous that they offer nay-sayers free knuckle sandwiches in some Moscow warehouse. A $5 mil class action lawsuit was brought against Ubi for using loathsome Starforce DRM in their games back in 2004 and continued to be publicly berated for using it. The company took a hint. Do we hate Starforce? Yes, and now so does Ubisoft. More »

An Interview With the Top Xbox 360 Gamer

Brian Crecente — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:00:42 EST

ST The King may have the highest Xbox 360 Gamerscore on the planet. Achieve360Points.com recently interviewed the man behind the 20395 point score (He's also the first to hit 20k). ST says his next goal is to wrap up all of the multiplayer achievements in Quake 4. The most challenging achievement to date, he says, was landing the No Crash Victory: Single Races in Ridge Racer 6. More »