<![CDATA[Kotaku: Story]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Story]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/story http://kotaku.com/tag/story <![CDATA[If You Can Gets Past All the Stabbing, There's Story in This Assassin's Creed: Revelations Trailer]]> According to Ubisoft, this is a trailer highlighting the story of Assassin's Creed: Revelations. That's odd, because I'll I can see is more than two minutes of Ezio showing me why I love the Assassin's Creed series so much. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5846549&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ah, So That's What's Happening in Anarchy Reigns]]> The Tokyo Game Show trailer for Platinum Games' Anarchy Reigns neatly summarizes the game's story before jumping back into footage of people beating each other up. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5841174&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Gears of War Timeline Leads Right Up to Midnight Monday]]> Need a refresher course on Gears of War history on the eve of the release of the third installment? Epic Games has posted a handy timeline that takes you from the Pendulum Wars to when you slip that puppy in your Xbox 360 next week. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5840781&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[There's a Hard-Hitting Story Behind Anarchy Reigns' Battle Royale]]> What, you thought Platinum Games' online multiplayer brawler was just a bunch of super-powered beings battling each other for no reason? No sir, there is some sort of story going on in Anarchy Reigns; it just happens to involve a lot of punching, kicking, and stabbing. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5824391&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How Long Should A First-Person Shooter Story Be?]]> In today's Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Crushinator ponders the correct length for the single-player story in the increasingly multiplayer-focused first-person shooter genre. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5786750&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How The "Heroes" Of Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One Come Together]]> Bringing together four leading characters from the Ratchet & Clank series together and making them cooperate to survive is an excellent idea, as long as you've got a strong story to back it up. Let's see how Insomniac does it. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5784388&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Three Heroes Converge In Call Of Juarez: The Cartel]]> Ubisoft's controversial third entry in the Call of Juarez series tells the story of three very different above-the-law heroes, and players can step into the shoes of any one of them, both online and off. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5775683&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What's The Story With Catherine?]]> Grisly murders, deadly nightmares, and a marriage proposal followed immediately by a one-night-stand? What exactly is going on in Atlus' Catherine? the game's official website gives us the skinny. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5679518&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Story Time With Fallout: New Vegas]]> See the Obsidian team talk about the story of Fallout: New Vegas, which starts off with you being shot in the head and dumped in a shallow grave. Then things get nasty. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5640787&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tortured Souls Fight The Power In Rise Of The SixString]]> One of three rebel clans fighting against the vile Order in Power Gig: Rise of the SixString, Rise is comprised of a lead vocalist with murdered parents and a guitarist kicked off of her farm. This is one heavy game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5603490&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Random House Wants To Write Video Game Stories]]> The Random House Publishing Group is taking its storytelling expertise "one step further", forming a group dedicated to crafting original story content for video games and collaborating with developers on existing IP. like Stardock's Elemental: War of Magic. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5482797&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Weyland-Yutani: Building Better, Bloodier Worlds]]> Lance Henriksen slithers back into the role of Charles Bishop Weyland in this story trailer for Rebellion's Aliens vs. Predator, once again managing to sound comforting and sinister at the same time. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5432184&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Straight Story of 'Gay Tony']]> Calling it "the straightest Grand Theft Auto ever," largely for effect, PopMatters' G. Christopher Williams says The Ballad of Gay Tony hews to some hetero-driven crime-novel representations of both sexualities, but in the end is about much deeper themes. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5419658&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Aion's Story Explained With CG]]> This CG trailer for NCsoft's Aion tells the entire background story for the game, saving me the trouble of typing it all out. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5337530&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tying Together Dead Space Extraction's Story]]> How does a development team create a whole new story for a prequel like Dead Space Extraction for the Wii while maintaining ties to established fiction? If only there was some sort of video explanation... More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5332361&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[You Got Plot In My Street Fighter]]> .html Yes, I know there's a wonderful tradition of storytelling behind the Street Fighter series. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5135746&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Explore Dead Space Narrative With No Known Survivors]]> EA continues to display an amazing amount of dedication to the story aspects of their upcoming sci-fi horror shooter Dead Space with the launch of No Known Survivors, a website that will feature two tragic stories from the Dead Space universe, told through the use of 3D animations, voice talent, original video and interactive elements. The website launches with nine body parts floating through space, each of which will morph into the shape of a mutated necromorph body part before becoming clickable, with one a new chunk of content activated every Monday, starting this week. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5042459&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Dead Space Devs Talk Story]]>
Finally something about EA's horror sci-fi game Dead Space beyond simply telling us it is scary and in space. I've been worried about the game's story since I first heard about the title, but seeing the developers discuss the amount of work and detail they've put into the main character's back story alone makes me feel a great deal better about the whole thing. The most reassuring bit of all was their acknowledgment of that universal truth...sci-fi and horror work against each other, so you have to tone down one for the other to work. Alien did so well because it was a horror movie that made you forget you were in outer space. Jason X, on the other hand, failed because...well, because it was Jason X, but the point still stands. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=387514&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hellgate - A Novel Purchase]]> When I first played Hellgate: London during the late stages of beta, I was somewhat less than impressed. I loved the concept and the graphical style, but the gameplay seemed kind of empty and hollow to me for some reason. Then one day will wandering through a local bookstore I picked up a copy of Hellgate: London Exodus, the first in a series of game-based novels by Author Mel Odom, whose name I recognized from several books in the Shadowrun series years ago. The story chronicles the early days of London's invasion, following templar Simon Cross as he seeks to avenge his father's death at the hands of demons that he once refused to believe in and the rise of the sorcerous Cabalists to power. After reading through the 466 page story I immediately went out and purchased the game, and found myself enjoying it more than ever. Having immersed myself in the fiction, suddenly the game seemed much more developed and interesting to me. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=331445&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Archetype vs. Stereotype, The Dealio]]> In Activision employee James Portnow's weekly column, he justifiably calls out the gaming industry for creating stereotypes where they mean to create archetypes.
we tend to end up with stereotypes when what we're looking for is archetypes. If you look at almost all of the most memorable videogame characters...they are all archetypical. The problem is that the line between an archetype and a stereotype is very subtle and, as established above, conveying that subtlety in the limited context of a videogame is often too much to ask.
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=299548&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ken Rolston Talks Story, Kinda Scares (Excites?) Us]]> "I'm spraying you guys hard in the mouth, knocking you down," said Ken Rolston, his brow glistening. And other than that awkward innuendo, no, including that innuendo, Rolsten's creamy white beard and stoic to animated dynamics remind me of my junior year high school English teacher. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=291942&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Symbolism and Story in Silent Hill 2]]> Leigh Alexander, scribe behind Aberrant Gamer, has an excellent analysis detailing how symbolism drives story in Silent Hill 2. It's an article with a "deep reading" of the game—analysis too often reserved for 18th century romantic literature and Far Side cartoons. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=280769&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Gamers With Jobs Takes an In-Depth Look BioShock]]> Julian "Rabbit" Murdoch over at Gamers With Jobs took the trek to Irrational Games' studios in Quincy, MS and had a chat with ken Levine about BioShock. Of course, in and of itself, this is nothing new. Levine has been interviewed up one side and down the other about his creepy underwater brainchild, but what sets this article apart is it's attention to the details of the story and not just the gameplay. There's a great breakdown of the game's plot as well as a showing the comparisons between it and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. If you are a BioShock fan and looking to learn more than just surface details, this is a great piece of weekend reading. Flynn De Marco More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=267497&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Retailer Organization Vows to Pull San Andreas]]> If you want a sexy copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas you better hit a store now and cross your fingers. The Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association says all of their members will immediately stop stelling the now AO-rated game. More »
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