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Here is how you take a three-inch high plastic figurine and pull him into your 3DS, without wires, memory cards, or the device's camera. Just set your character from Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure on that portal, and aim the 3DS at him, and wait for the beam of light. When I did it, I swear I felt the slightest tug when I lined it up correctly. More »
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If you're asking industry heavyweights to make a video to fire up kids about math and science, it's probably no surprise that the video game maker is the one getting the most views. More »
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Activision reveals the next entry in the Guitar Hero franchise, Warriors of Rock, featuring more than 90 tracks, a Gene Simmons-powered quest mode, and new challenges for every track in the Guitar Hero catalog. Check out the first 35 tracks! More »
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Don't get excited about this screenshot. It's from the console version of Transformers: War For Cybertron. But the game still might turn your head. [UPDATE: DS screens added below.] More »
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Marvel's mightiest heroes converge once again in Activsion's Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 to face a foe far deadlier than any they've encountered thus far: themselves. More »
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When Dead Space hits the Wii later this month it will be a mostly on-the-rails shooter. But that doesn't mean it won't be scary. More »
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There aren't quite enough DSi owners around yet to justify Vicarious Visions adapting their portable version of Guitar Hero to work with Nintendo's latest portable, the developers told Kotaku this week. More »
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If Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower, The Rolling Stone's Sympathy for the Devil, Santana's No One to Depend On and Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire can't convince my hippie parents to play Guitar Hero 5, nothing will. More »
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The last time I previewed a Guitar Hero game, I was drawn to the Wii version because it attracted a less-competitive crowd of music fan. Now I'm drawn to it to kick some ass. More »
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Vicarious Visions, developers of the Wii version of Guitar Hero, have some good news for Nintendo's long-suffering online gamers: Guitar Hero 5 won't be using Friend Codes. More »
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Activision brought a playable Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 to its Comic-Con get together this week, giving us our first hands-on opportunity with the sequel, which has changed developers from Raven Software to Vicarious Visions. More »
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One of the top DS development houses in the industry doesn't see the DSi as just a DS Lite plus gimmicks. More »
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They know some gamers will groan. But they're confident: you just need to try it. "It" is not Guitar Hero 5 DS, which you might have expected this fall. There's no such thing. Enter Band Hero DS. More »
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In a battle between DS owners of the Autobot and Decepticon versions of the official Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game, the good guys have the edge. More »
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Poor little Songbird won't be lonely in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, as recent updates reveal that fellow Thunderbolts Norman Osborne AKA The Green Goblin and Venom will be joining the fight. More »
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So, Deadpool is in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2. Marvel fans are no doubt thrilled to bits. And if they're not, seeing this Deadpool May Cry footage should get them there. More »
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Fans disappointed by what they did to Deadpool in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie can find solace this fall, when the original merc with a mouth returns in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. More »
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The DSi should do good business! And where there's good business, there's Activision, ready to exploit that business, in this case with a downloadable DSi title. More »
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And here I thought I knew everything. My brother’s name is Nathaniel – so I should be able to spell Nathaniels, right? Wrong! Vicarious Visions’s David Nathanielsz has a freaking “z” on the end. And don’t you forget it. More »
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My impressions of Rock Band Guitar Hero: World Tour are colored by all the shit I had to go through to even get near the game. It started with a broken BART train. This led to a cab, which I had no money to pay for. The next shit storm occurred when my flight was cancelled. And then, the later flight I got bumped to was delayed by an hour and half. Oh, but it gets better. I get to the hotel with a mere 40 minutes to go before the event starts and the room I'm given is being remodeled. *Cue AJ's head exploding* So, yeah. After all that, Guitar Hero: World Tour fucking owed me a good time. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5050356&view=rss&microfeed=true You thought Activision had killed it off? Oh no. No, no no no no. They were just experimenting. See if they could kill it, then bring it back. To kill us all. Train them to go for our brains, while we're frozen watching this, wondering where Helmet and Stevie Ray Vaughan got to while a bunch of overly-excited teen models cavort in a park. More »
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By now I'm sure most of you are familiar with the seemingly odd transition of Guitar Hero from consoles to handhelds, namely the DS. When Guitar Hero: On Tour was announced a few months ago it left many of us scratching our heads wondering how they would pull it off. Even with the addition of pictures of the add-on peripheral it was still hard to imagine exactly what it would be like trying to play. I finally got my chance to check it out for myself a few days ago and despite former misgivings I actually found it quite fun. More »
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Activision today officially announced Guitar Hero: On Tour for the DS, dropping a few more details about the portable rhythm game. More »
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Guitar Hero DS will definitely not be using the touch screen. Instead, as rumored, developer Vicarious Visions is planning the game for a peripheral (which may or may not look strikingly similar to the above concept). So it's confirmed at last: you will look like a total tool playing Guitar Hero DS. More »
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Evan Skolnick never wrote a Star Trek episode, but he came close. He wrote for William Shatner's Tek World comic, was involved in the Marvel Star Fleet Academy series, and even helped developed a digital Star Trek trading card game no one ever played. He may not have written for Star Trek, but the series has helped him throughout his career writing comic books and now video games. Though I will always remember him as the editor for Ghost Rider 2099, Skolnick is now a producer and editorial director for Vicarious Visions. Today at the Austin Game Developers Conference he talks about the influence the sci-fi series has had on his career in a presentation entitled, "Everything I Needed To Know About Game Writing I Learned From Star Trek". More »
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Gamasutra is reporting that Vicarious Visions' California location has been shuttered by publisher Activision, laying off many, possibly all, of its employees. The team was responsible for the Wii, DS, Game Boy Advance and PlayStation 2 versions of Spider-Man 3, most recently. Reaction to those titles was mixed, with some critics calling it "lackluster" while others felt it was "crummy." More »
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Back in May, the New York State Senate passed a bill that would regulate video game ratings and that bill is on its way to becoming a law. Now, two video game developers based in New York have spoken out in an op-ed column for the Albany Times-Union in an attempt to explain the economic benefits of the game industry and the redundancy of having another system of monitoring video game violence (on top of the ESRB and parental controls) added into the mix. Kathrik Bala, CEO (pictured above), and Guha Bala, president of Vicarious Visions write: More »
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The official site for the upcoming Spider-Man 3 game adaptation is live, giving friendly neighborhood gaming fans a very brief look at the game. Featuring little more than a trailer, some wallpapers and a brief developer blog (all unfortunately wrapped up in a crusty, bitter Flash shell), the site promises development updates from developers Treyarch and Vicarious Visions. With only 93 days before the film and the game's release, let's hope they find the time. More »
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I ll admit it, the Tony Hawk series hasn t interested me since Tony Hawk 2. Sure, I fired up Tony Hawk 3, found it was more of the same and put it down. I was admittedly skeptical before the Thursday presentation for American Sk8land and finally laid the skepticism to rest when I spent an hour with it on Friday. Sk8land plays like a Hawk title should. It s tight, responsive and slick. Vicarious Visions redid the art style, cel shading the entire world and characters. The storyline is kitsch '80s camp and the bits we were showed were great. The tricks are just as sick as ever, and Vicarious Visions is an early adopter of the new Wi-Fi tech Nintendo is using, you ll be able to upload top scoring runs to the net and similarly download runs to watch. The Visions team plans to supplement the game with additional content and will work with Nintendo to gauge how many people really are playing Wi-Fi online. Screens after the jump. More »
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