Kotaku: Previews

A Rip-Roaring, Rhyming Hands-On With Saints Row: The Third

Kirk Hamilton — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:00:00 EDT

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About Kotaku Previews

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:00:00 EDT

After launching the Kotaku review template last year, we decided to move on to the next most important aspect of judging games: Judging them before they're finished. Most folks call them previews. More »

The Conduit Preview: Calling Do-Overs

AJ Glasser — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:40:00 EDT

Last night's The Conduit multiplayer event was plagued by major server issues, leaving developer High Voltage Software no choice but to call do-overs. More »

Arkham Asylum, Punch-Out, Wolfenstein: The Previews of GDC

Brian Crecente — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:20:00 EDT

This year's Game Developers Conference was, as is often the case, quite a bit of fun. More »

GameSpot Goes on Hiring Binge

Brian Crecente — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:00:30 EST

In the wake of GameSpot's fairly publicized shake-up in their reviews department, the Cnet owned company is on the prowl for a number of new reviewers. More »

Wii Gameplay Getting Less and Less Enthusiastic Reviews

egauger — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:40:34 EDT

Bit-Tech recently got their hands on the Wii, and as we get closer to the release date and see more and more footage, the hype grows a little worn and the realistic among us grow ever doubtful. More »

Nitty Bully Gritty from 1UP

egauger — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:40:15 EDT

In the rising tide of Bully information leading up to the October 17th release of the game, sites have been getting preview copies and telling us what we're eager to know: exactly what are we going to be doing at Bullworth, and why? More »

Destructoid First-Looks Family Guy

egauger — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:30:30 EDT

Destructoid got a first look at the upcoming Family Guy game, and seem to approve.. More »

Assassin's Creed Preview Spills Controls

kotaku.com — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:40:34 EDT

IGN has an interesting look at Assassin's Creed, including some informative notes on how you actually control a character as fluid as the assassin Altair: More »

Rule of Rose Video Preview!

egauger — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:20:58 EDT

eToychest was kind enough to point this out to me and since I can let no Rule of Rose material slip through my grasp, I am logging it here with mad glee. This video documents a bit of movement and a boss fight, and talks about various dog functions and the overall mechanic of the game. More »

New Spore Movies

egauger — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:20:59 EDT

Three new Spore movies to caress you lovingly with velvety feelers and way too many legs. More »

Official Rule of Rose Site

egauger — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:20:19 EDT

Destructoid points us to the official Rule of Rose site, which officially went live back on the 18th. Seems like everyone missed it, as everyone has missed most of their pre-release milestones. They are sneaky, those spooky schoolgirls. More »

Actual Dead Rising Game Footage

egauger — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:40:59 EDT

Okay. Slow down. Breathe. There's a LOT of video here. Two clips from Hong Kong's Ani-Com gaming convention showing actual gameplay from Dead Rising, kindly submitted by Jason who was actually there. He saw it all! More »

Extra-Squishy Dead Rising Trailer

egauger — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:20:28 EDT

This vid comes from Aeropause. I'm leaving on a road trip on the 5th, but will be bringing a 360 with me so that on the 8th, somewhere in eastern Montana in some god-forsaken Walmart host body of a town, I can plug that sucker into a hotel TV and rock out, zombie-style. More »

Shadowrun Preview

egauger — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:40:45 EDT

Shadowrun is one of those neglected properties, a wealth of cyberpunk pulp amusement that seems so easy to tweak into vast vistas of raw entertainment: a neon-grimy NeoSeattle with all the caffeine, computers and literally monstrous geeks as present-day Seattle, but with that delicious Blade Runner edge. More »

Squishy Shiny Flappy Smackdown: Virtua Fighter 5 Screens

egauger — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:00:20 EDT

Drag Your Second Character On A Leash in Portrait of Ruin

brownlee — Wed, 31 May 2006 10:40:37 EDT

GamesFirst has posted one of those useful compendiums of all available information on the upcoming Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for the Nintendo DS. More »

Destroy All Hippies!

egauger — Tue, 30 May 2006 22:40:00 EDT

Appallingly-named game site Computer and Video Games has a preview of the new Destroy All Humans! sequel. DAH!2 (titled "Make War Not Love") is set in the psychedelic 1960's and features multiple settings, including Japan and Britain (with ninjas and secret agents, respectively), and a whole slew of new opponents. More »

Moroccan Peasants in Guild Wars Expansion!

brownlee — Mon, 15 May 2006 09:40:08 EDT

1UP managed to lube enough palm with greasy benjamins at E3 to get a sneak peek at the new, still-untitled Guild Wars expansion. More »

Gamers With Jobs Looks At Gamer Anticipation

brownlee — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:20:42 EST

Gamers With Jobs has a nice look up at the anticipation factor of gaming: the long period before a game comes out where you read every scrap of information, burn every screenshot into the jelly of your cerebellum, count every second until release. The article's writer, Elysium, likens it to waiting for ketchup to spurt out of a glass ketchup bottle. More »

Tom Chick Rebuts Kotaku's Own

brownlee — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:20:21 EST

Tom Chick — known as a gaming journalist, blog hater and the guy who kissed Nick Nolte's girlfriend on a season two episode of Newsradio — has written a response to our recent editorial by Wagner James Au, Blogging Down The House... More »

Feature: Blogging Down the House

Joel — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:51:09 EST

By Wagner James Au More »