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The hardest thing at the end of the year is to parse yourself from the hype you're experiencing and think back to the games you played during the summer, the spring, and yes, 2011's early months. More »
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You might think that getting slagged as an intemperate martinet who alienated and exploited an overworked staff at a studio that completed just one video game before going bankrupt would be, well, limiting to one's future career options. Not Brendan McNamara of the former Team Bondi. More »
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L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition is coming to the Playstation 3 and Xboxz 360 next month, Rockstar said this morning. More »
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Team Bondi, the Australian studio that saved the worst year of its existence for the one in which it finally delivered L.A. Noire, owes its employees more than $1 million, according to papers filed in the studio's liquidation. More »
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Evidence of Rockstar Games reissuing crime thriller L.A. Noire later this year in the form of a "Complete Edition" has reportedly been spotted by Eurogamer Czech. That apparent re-release and the PC version of Team Bondi's game are supposedly slated for November. More »
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Despite (finally) shipping a successful product, it seems allegations of shoddy work practices and claims that no major publisher would work with the team has brought about the end of LA Noire developers Team Bondi. More »
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With Rockstar reluctant to publish LA Noire developers Team Bondi's next game, rumours are circulating that studio founder Brendan McNamara is in talks with George Miller's KMM studio, with the aim of being absorbed into the Mad Max and Happy Feet creators. More »
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There is a new L.A. Noire mystery: what comes next for the hit detective game? Something... but its creators won't say what just yet More »
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Andrew McMillen, who published the original report on IGN claiming poor work conditions at LA Noire developer Team Bondi, has now published on GI.biz what's claimed to be a series of leaked internal emails that don't exactly paint Bondi's boss, Brendan McNamara, in a good light. More »
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Brendan McNamara, boss of LA Noire developers Team Bondi, thinks it's totally reasonable for his staff to be "killing themselves" with long hours because that's what this business is about. The International Game Developers Association begs to differ. More »
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It took seven years. It spanned two console generations. It was the biggest undertaking in Australian games development. And the seven years it took to bring L.A. Noire to store shelves was consistently an unhappy time for many who worked on the game, reports IGN. More »
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At the price of just a few dollars L.A. Noire gamers can see what this spring's gently-paced acclaimed detective adventure would have been like if it was more of an action game. More »
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Rockstar and Team Bondi have more cases for L.A. Noire gamers to play soon. One, Reefer Madness, surely involves a wacky weed of some sort. The other involves the explosion you see above (well, you'd see it if not for that darn age-gate). More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5807397&view=rss&microfeed=true L.A. Noire just came out and no one behind the game has made any official announcements about an L.A. Noire sequel, but this is what Strauss Zelnick, head of Take Two, had to say about L.A. Noire on a call with investors today: "We have every reason to believe that L.A. Noire is another strong franchise for this company." And... "We do see this as a powerful new franchise." This man sounds like he's ready for sequels. No word from the game's developers at Team Bondi and Rockstar if they want to do it again. More »
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The best trailer for the video game L.A. Noire that its creators never made would have featured a man's face. The face would have been that of an unremarkable owner of a liquor store in 1947 Los Angeles, a hard-working type. His face would be creased, just a little, from the effects of encroaching middle age. More »
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Multi-platform video game lovers sometimes face hard choices. But it appears that the decision to play Rockstar Games and Team Bondi's L.A. Noire is a relatively easy one, based on a side-by-side analysis of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game. More »
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The citizens of Los Angeles, as rendered in Team Bondi and Rockstar Games' L.A. Noire are fleet of fun. It is hard to run them down, as we've made clear in video before. But it can be done. More »
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In the runup to the game's release last year, Mafia II's development studio and publicity team tried, with limited success, to set reasonable expectations of the game. "It isn't Grand Theft Auto," I was told, more than once, in emails and in the game's review notes. More »
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I wanted L.A. Noire to be in black and white. It seemed fitting, given the 1947 noir feel its creators were going. I even sapped the color out of one L.A. Noire trailer's last year to see what it would look like. I don't have to wonder any more. More »
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I enjoy L.A. Noire. I enjoy it for reasons that have nothing to do with why I enjoyed Grand Theft Auto IV. Despite superficial similarities, two games are barely alike, which I've carefully explained before. More »
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The real stars of LA Noire aren't the cops, or the cars, or the bloody deceased. They're the fancy hats, of which there are surely more in this single game than there are in every other ever made. Put together. More »
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Rockstar Games has always said that they take complaints about work-place stress seriously. But they've always had a good chuckle about complaints that their New York headquarters is an all-seeing, all-scrutinizing "Eye of Sauron." More »
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To recreate modern-day Los Angeles in a video game, all one has to do is load up Google Earth and go to town, so to speak. To recreate the 1940's Los Angeles of Rockstar's L.A. Noire, one man had to hang out of a biplane. More »
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Video games might finally be done ruining the performances of quality actors. For months, the makers of the video game L.A. Noire have boasted that their interactive 1947 detective story would use new technology to transport actors' real facial expressions into a virtual world. More »
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I need 14 minutes of your time. I'd like just 14 minutes to show you how L.A. Noire, an extraordinary and unconventional interactive detective thriller, plays. More »
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You will need to be patient when you play L.A. Noire. You're a detective, not a soldier; a crime-solver, not a crime-committer. More »
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The next big Rockstar Games release may be hopping on the "online pass" bandwagon, with word of the "L.A. Noire Rockstar Pass" coming from Microsoft today. The 800 Microsoft Point purchase gets you... well, we're not quite sure just yet. More »
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The audience laughed loudly once during the first film festival screening I've ever seen of a video game. More »
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The next big game from Rockstar Games and Team Bondi will be challenging—or easy—in unusual ways. More »
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LA Noire was shown off behind closed doors earlier tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival. It was a strictly no-cameras kind of event, something YouTube user Darkskater7991 seems to have overlooked. More »
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Rockstar and Team Bondi's upcoming crime drama LA Noire is showing off its "bemused broads" and "dapper hats" technology in these four new screenshots for the game. More »
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Elizabeth Short was beaten, sliced lips to ears, forced to eat excrement and then cut in half and drained of blood. More »
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LA Noire's facial animations have gotten a great deal of attention, but Rockstar's gritty crime thriller is more than just a pretty face. Check out the first in a series of videos investigating the gameplay of LA Noire. More »
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Rockstar Game's next game, as ambitious as its last one, will be out in late May, according to a just-released new trailer. L.A. Noire goes on sale May 17. More »
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These are interrogation scenes from 1940s detective game L.A. Noire, the next big thing from the makers of Grand Theft Auto. Can you tell just by looking at the faces, the body language of these suspects who has something to hide? More »
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Disgust, fear, surprise, anger, lies. More »
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Rockstar Games still takes some of the best screenshots in video games, so even if their next game L.A. Noire isn't great — or even if it is — their shots of it will look fantastic. More »
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Rockstar's LA Noire is using some pretty damn amazing technology to capture real-life actor's performances. Gizmodo Australia pays the studio responsible a visit. More »
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Our video games are in color. Even our noir video games set in 1940s Los Angeles. They don't have to be, right? This is a trailer for Rockstar Games' L.A. Noire, with one change. We made it black and white. More »
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Our first look at L.A. Noire in action included some pretty amazing graphics. Strike that, it included some pretty amazing facial animation. More »
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