• contest

    The Best Dirt As Voted By Kotakuland

    Our Fracture contest has drawn to a close and Kotakuland has chosen the winner. Many thanks to all who entered and congrats to all the finalists. The winning entry is "Dirt Portal." Will the individual who created this please shoot us an email at kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom to claim a copy of the game Fracture? Thanks. More »
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    Comment by AxelMinami: Everything that involves portals, cake and lies is made of win. 6 Responses | Other threads

  • fracture contest

    Fracture Contest! Last Day For Entries

    This is it! Monday. The last day for entries for the Fracture contest. The good news is that we've only gotten a handful of entries. So if you enter, the chances of you actually being a finalist are much higher. And if your chances of being a finalist are higher, then your chances of actually winning are even higher! We're giving away a copy of Fracture, a multi-platform title that features deformable terrain. So, make something with dirt. Anything! Take a picture, put a Kotaku sign on it and send it to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom. So dirty. More »
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    Comment by Witzbold: You would think an art student would have actually sculpted something from mud by now eh? 2 Responses | Other threads

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    Moon Patrol Diorama Of DIRT

    There's one word for this, and it's "AWESOME." Reader Hardware sent along this entry for our Fracture dirt contest. Hardware writes: "For my entry, I thought what would be better made of dirt than the original terrain deformation game: Moon Patrol!" That's right, we're giving away a copy of Fracture, a multi-platform title that features deformable terrain. So, make something with dirt. Anything! Dirt painting, dirty sculpture, dirty dirt dirt. Take a picture, put a Kotaku sign on it and send it to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom. Dirrrrrrrrt. More »
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    Comment by AnonymousNoob: Poop looks like poop. 1 Responses | Other threads

  • fracture contest

    Win Fracture, So Easy, So Dirty

    Yep, yep. We're giving away a copy of Fracture, a multi-platform title that features deformable terrain. Here's the contest: Make something with dirt. Anything! Dirt painting, dirty sculpture, dirty dirt dirt. Take a picture, put a Kotaku sign on it and send it to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom. Good luck! More »
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    Comment by Brine: What's the deadline? 3 Responses | Other threads

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    The Greatest Dirt Beard, Perhaps Ever

    Behold! The magnificent dirt beard. That's right, our Fracture contest is in full-swing. Kotakuite Temperature writes, "For this contest, I decided to grow a magnificent dirt-beard. Only 3 days growth!" Awesome. Simply, awesome. Don't know what's going on? Let's bring you up to speed: We're giving away a copy of Fracture, a multi-platform title that features deformable terrain. So, make something with dirt. Anything! Dirt painting, dirty sculpture, dirty dirt dirt. Take a picture, put a Kotaku sign on it and send it to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom. So dirty. More »
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    Comment by somesthetic: hey, he didn't really grow that, he just put dirt over his hair beard! 2 Responses | Other threads

  • fracture

    Fracture Review: Breaking New Ground

    LucasArts' 3rd person shooter Fracture has gone through a lot of changes since we first saw it back at E3 2007, but one thing has always remained the same - changes. The ability to raise and lower the earth plays heavily into Fracture's gameplay, giving your character the upper hand against the DNA-altering Pacifican rebels who seek to take over a United States quite literally divided. Having watch the game go through many changes, including a complete revamp of the main character, I was afraid that such rapid changes in direction might lend themselves to an average shooter that relied on an interesting mechanic to prop up mediocre gameplay. Was I wrong? Love and hate divided, the game's fate decided, after the jump. More »
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    Comment by wezlypipz: I'm suprised that your review doesn't point out the obvious flaws like incessant enemy spawing, frustrating difficulty on hardcore mode... 12 Responses | Other threads

  • fracture

    Fracture Demo Hits Next Week

    A demo for upcoming LucasArts sci-fi shooter will hit the Playstation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace on Sept. 18, LucasArts announced today. More »
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    Comment by onepoker: Lucas arts is played out this is just more crap from a studio that has sucked for years! sorry chewey I... 5 Responses | Other threads

  • game design

    'Tactical Landscaping': Architecture for Games

    The game-related posts on architecture blog BLDGBLOG are few and far between, but generally worth waiting for. This week, Geoff Manaugh took a look at Fracture and Celestial Impact, especially in terms of the game mechanics of deforming or otherwise changing the terrain. Looking at game design elements from an architectural perspective is a fascinating one, but Manaugh goes on to ponder if architects tried their hand at designing for games: More »
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    Comment by raiseplease: Please, no. Architects are so clueless when it comes to actually making usable structures as opposed to pretty ones. I... 2 Responses | Other threads

  • Games Convention 2008

    Fracture Multiplayer - The View From Germany

    I'm relatively sure that my experience with Fracture's multiplayer mode at the Games Convention in Leipzig is a whole lot like what AJ experienced on her experience in San Francisco, only we had much better beer. She's already gone over the modes, the guns, and the grenades, all the while fulfilling Kotaku's quote of fisting references for the next three months, so I won't bore you with those details. The event here in Leipzig was set up as a team affair, with six stations set up on one side, six on the other. Journalists took turns taking on the other team until the matches were over or the tremendous heat inside the room shorted out the power strips. At one point, as you can see in the picture below, they had to turn off an entire side, resulting in a spontaneous free for all death match taking place on the working half. More »
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    Comment by freespeech3: it's official, from now on anything new in video games is a gimmick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more » | Other threads

  • Fracture

    New Fracture Walkthrough Talks About Multiplayer

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    Comment by NYKnicker: The guy in the video ran his chatterbox too much, as for the game - it appears to be a... 1 Responses | Other threads

  • fracture

    Fracture Multiplayer - Fisting And Other Indoor Sports

    Fracture’s multiplayer is everything you’d expect from a shooter with online capabilities. A 16-man 12-man blitz of violence with exploding death, capture the flag and many a shotgun to the face. More »
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    Comment by bobtheduck: @robinandtami: You have a star? Nice strawman, there... more » | Other threads

  • fracture

    Fracture Impressions - How Is This Different Than Halo?

    Last week, I went to the stronghold of George Lucas LucasArts in the posh Presidio of San Francisco for some hands-on with the multiplayer mode of Fracture. Too bad I can’t tell you about it, because the embargo expires tomorrow. More »
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    Comment by mrrobsa: Sorry AJ, but I'm not a fan of your writing, you seem uninformed. Not everyone uses Halo as a (console) FPS... more » | Other threads

  • fracture

    Fracture Shows Off Pacifican Rhino, Assault Vehicle

    The community Fracture site updated today with details on a new weapon and a new vehicle. More »
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    Comment by boopadoo: @ApertureScienceIntern: Look at it this way; if it took place on the East coast, it would be called "Antlatican." Either way,... more » | Other threads

  • fracture

    Fracture: Here Is Fracture

    You can generally tell how much a company is pushing a game at a trade show by the amount of assets they make available for it. Having said that, here are three screenshots of Fracture, a game that was briefly presented by LucasArts between The Clone Wars and Force Unleashed, as if to say here...you're going to have to watch this if you want to get to the good stuff. There wasn't much new information on Fracture. It's still a global conflict that pits two forces against each other using terrain restructuring weaponry, a feature that set last year's E3 on fire but this year was just sort of there. I guess I'm just not all that excited about the title as it stands, especially when they sandwich it between two hefty doses of Star Wars, as if it were an intermission or something. Anyway, here is Fracture. More »
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    Comment by mind in rewind: @merebito: You know what bugs me even more? They changed the name of the main character to Jet Brody.... more » | Other threads

  • fracture

    New Fracture Trailer: Terradeforming in Action

    And here's another trailer, this new one for Fracture courtesy (world exclusive of course) of Gametrailers. It gives us a look at the terrain deformation integral to Fracture's storyline and gameplay — under a narration from, apparently, President Wayne Palmer of 24. More »
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    Comment by N-Bomb: What if the made Populous into an FPS? >.> more » | Other threads

  • website

    LucasArts Breaks Ground On New Fracture Website

    LucasArts and Day 1 Studios is getting ready to release their terraforming shooter Fracture this fall, and they're rolled out the newly updated website for the game to help get the hype train started right! Along with the standard videos, screenshots, and developer blogs, the site is launching a brand new community-oriented Wiki site that will allow fans to interact and access exclusive content meant just for those who care enough to hang about and their friends in the gaming press. More »
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    Comment by Sullyville: I need a name that's more masculine.How about Dick Pound? more » | Other threads

  • hardware

    Why Don't Next-Gen Games Give Us Next-Gen Gameplay?

    Here's an excellent point (kind of) made by a Lucasarts rep with regards to their upcoming environment-shifting shooter Fracture:
    While a lot of games are pushing the limits of what can be done visually in games, we also wanted to push gameplay to levels that literally could not be done on the previous generation of hardware.
    Putting the hype for their own game aside, this is something that's been shitting me off for months now. Here were are, more than two years into this console cycle, and how many titles have given us new ways of playing games (that old hardware just couldn't manage), rather than just prettier ways of playing old ones? Let's see, we've got Dead Rising, and we've got....um....well, maybe Oblivion, and...that's about it. Disappointing. More »
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    Comment by AntiheroKing: I think there's a bit of dispute over what exactly consitutes "next-gen gameplay." If by this article, it is given... more » | Other threads

  • gdc08

    Fracture

    After the Star Wars: Force Unleashed presentation, we sat tight in the Lucas Arts auditorium to check out some bits of their new game, Fracture. Lucas Arts has been working with Day One studios to create what they hope will be a fresh new IP in their corral. Unfortunately from what I saw it doesn't seem to be much of a contender, at least at this point. The story is based around a future Civil War over genetic engineering and the bits that we saw took place in the San Francisco of the future. The battle mechanic is all involved with manipulating terrain. Weapons can be used to rain down rocks on your enemies, giant spikes of earth can be brought up to repair bridges or hills can be created to block you from enemy fire. Giant vortexes can also be created that will sink the earth, dragging in everything around it. More »
  • gallery

    Fracture Hero's New Look

    LucasArts' terrain rearranging shooter Fracture's main protagonist, Jet Brody, has obviously had a visit from the Extreme Makeover team. Gone is the short bushel of hair atop his head that brought back fond memories of House Party movies past, replaced with a more conservative closely-shaved number. He's also lost his attention-magnet yellow and white ensemble for an equally battlefield impractical red number, which makes him look like he's ready for a round of Unreal Tournament III once all this silly civil war business is sorted out. Definitely a marked improvement! More »
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    Comment by valuepack: Tough to say whether it will just be linear "run around until you figure out what spot you're supposed to... more » | Other threads

  • clips

    Fracture Terrain Deformation Dev Diary

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    Comment by stereoa: @ ANDROVSKY Was Magic Carpet fun? From the wikipedia entry it sounds amazing, and I had no idea Peter Molyneux was... more » | Other threads

  • e307

    E3 Schwag: Total Disclosure

    I went to the E3 Media & Business Summit and all I got was this lousy Rock Band t-shirt, a Fracture notebook, a Trauma Center: The New Blood pen and a Microsoft ass cushion. I also was forcefully handed an E3 hat. The notebook I won by placing first in the informal Fracture multiplayer tournament, so one could argue that I deserved to own this piece of schwag. Obviously, in no way does the collection of any of this crap affect my opinion on any of the games I played, press conferences I watched or industry expos I attended. The best news? Some Kotaku reader will be getting this and much, much more.
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    Comment by Irenicus: Atleast the shirt is something you can use, as it aint an obvious geek shirt. more » | Other threads

  • e307

    Fracture: Testicular Shock Wave and Impressions

    Ladies, let me describe to you what it's like to have your balls ache. More »
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    Comment by pariahman: Please have Joel Johnson see Denny Thorley of Day 1 at the LucasArts MP demo today. Denny knows of the... more » | Other threads

  • rumor

    Force Unleashed, LEGO Indiana Jones at E3?

    A tipster sends word on some Lucas Arts announcements they say will be hitting during E3. First, the tipster says that a trailer for Force Unleashed will be released on Thursday about halfway through E3. The trailer will also be showing up on Entertainment Tonight, the tipster goes on to say. More »
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    Comment by larzini: The LEGO Indy trailer's up at the LucasArts site. Perhaps the saves from the LEGO Star Wars games can be... more » | Other threads

  • if the earth's a rocking don't come a knockin'

    Clip: Fracture Terrain Trailer

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    Comment by Wavedash: I don't know. Looks like very controlled circumstances really. Looks like it takes an area around the triggered weapon, makes... more » | Other threads

  • ip freely

    LucasArts Reveals Fracture

    LucasArts formally announced details on their new shooter Fracture today, now in development at Day 1 Studios and scheduled for a summer 2008 release. More »
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    Comment by gdamascus: @_spike: Unfortuantly, it seems that game designers have yet to realize that they don't have to use the motion controls... more » | Other threads

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