Kotaku: Weapons

If the New Syndicate Has to Be a First-Person Shooter, It Better Have Awesome Weapons

Mike Fahey — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:20:00 EST

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The shooting might be less tactical, but that doesn't mean it has to be less entertaining. Let's take a look at the arsenal Starbreeze Studios has cooked up for next year's Syndicate reboot. More »

I Wield the Mighty Doomhammer

Mike Fahey — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:30:00 EDT

Does this make me Warchief? Weighing in at 18 pounds and forged from steel, Epic Weapons' Doomhammer replica is one mighty meat tenderizer. If I can scrape up $300 we might have a new banhammer on our hands. More »

The Killing Tools of Rage Are Many and Varied

Mike Fahey — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:20:00 EDT

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id Software's Rage might feature a massive scope, a twisting and turning plot, and a focus on exploration, but these haven't taken away from what id does best: Killing people, places, and things with a wide variety of deadly weapons. More »

Burn Red Dead Redemption's Zombies With Fire

Mike Fahey — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:40:00 EDT

Or splash them with holy water. Or lure them with zombie bait. Or shoot them with their own body parts. It's a dirty job, but John Marston has to do it, and this latest trailer shows us how. More »

Gears of War 3 Multiplayer in 34 Stills

Brian Crecente — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:00:00 EDT

New weapons, new maps, new characters. Gears of War 3 has them all. More »

Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch Has More Than 50 Weapons

Mike Fahey — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:20:00 EDT

With more than 50 classic Mega Man weapons represented, upcoming fan made game Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch has something to kill everyone. More »

The Sound And The Fury Of Fallout: New Vegas

Mike Fahey — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:20:00 EDT

Players will be running into plenty of things they want to shoot in the New Vegas wastes. The second Fallout: New Vegas developer diary shows off plenty of ways to kill them. More »

First Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Details Slip From The Shadows

Mike Fahey — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:40:00 EDT

With a 15 hour long single player adventure, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is far more than a multiplayer side story in the Assassin's Creed universe. It's time to join the Brotherhood, as Ubisoft details Ezio's continuing adventures. More »

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Teaser Site Bears Its Claws, Fans, Syringes

Mike Fahey — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:00:00 EDT

Join Ubisoft as they give rise to a new era, with a countdown website showing off fans, claws, and other implements of destruction that will likely appear in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, masquerading as a website for Templar front Abstergo Enterprises. More »

Know Your Red Steel 2 Weapons

Mike Fahey — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:00:00 EDT

Ubisoft's Red Steel 2 hits stores this week, so you'd best get familiar with the weapons you'll be using to get the job done. More »

More Details On God of War Comic, Books... Knife?

Brian Crecente — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:40:00 EDT

This October, God of War die hards will be able to get their hands on the United Cutlery replica Blades of Chaos and the first of six issues of the new comic series from DC Comics. More »

Don't Cross The Streams While Using Wolfenstein's Particle Cannon

Mike Fahey — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:00:00 EDT

As true during World War II as it was in the 1980's - if your weapon fires a particle beam, never, ever cross the streams. More »

The Cut Scene: Inside The Video Game Weapon Replica Business

Mike Fahey — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:20:00 EDT

Down the street from a Kroger shopping center and a Wal-Mart in Marietta, Georgia lies an arsenal. The Empire Swords shop looks unassuming enough from the outside, but once you step through the doors... More »

Gun "Enthusiast" Makes Real Gears Lancer That Can Really Kill You

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:40:00 EST

The Gears of War Lancer replica is certainly cool to pose with and the Nerf version is definitely... cute. But neither packs the actual killing power of the real-life version with working chainsaw attachment. More »

Gears of War 2 - The Non-Review Review

AJ Glasser — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Gears of War 2 is a hard game for me to write about. Partly because (drum roll, please) I didn’t play the first one and mostly because of all the restrictions placed on last week’s three-day GOW2 marathon. I’m not really allowed to talk about campaign mode’s “plot spoilers” and I can’t talk about ~~the glorious Horde mode~~ multiplayer until October 15 (not sure if that includes co-op campaign mode). More »

Game Guns Are Fun Guns, Not Real Guns

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:30:00 EDT

You use a lot of real guns in games today. Heck, I spent nearly all weekend playing Call of Duty 4, and am now convinced I can work the assault rifle arsenals of both the American and Russian armed forces. I really can't though, and Popular Mechanics are here to remind me that despite looking and sounding real, most in-game guns don't behave like they're real. Take Rainbow Six Vegas 2, for example. Developer Philippe Theiren:

"I take these weapons, and look at what defines them, or what people think defines them. For an Uzi, people think it fires lots of bullets, and it's really inaccurate." That, he knows, has nothing to do with reality—if anything, Uzis are considered some of the most reliable and accurate submachine guns around. But the 80s (and Miami Vice in particular) offered us the Uzi as a low-life villain's weapon, spit-fire and out-of-control. "So I make it fire faster than it should. It's about taking the personality of a weapon, and making it shine in the game,"

Slightly disappointing, if only from a "what if Red Dawn happened to me" point of view, but interesting nonetheless. More »

Square Enix Cuts Down Sword Pirates

Mike Fahey — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:20:18 EST

Odds are many of you already own one or more Final Fantasy replica weapons - and that frightens me - but at least they are generally of the more shoddy, unlicensed sword replicas you were likely to find on the cheap via eBay or Bob's Discount Cutlery Emporium. Now Square Enix is taking steps to get those sharp, pointy objects out of the hands of fans, having filed a federal lawsuit in the Central District of California against those whole would infringe upon their intellectual property. At least four manufacturers are named in the suit, which came about after the US Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol seized a crate of counterfeit swords designed in the style of famous Final Fantasy weapons. Square Enix investigated, and while many resellers ceased their rampant reselling, the companies targeted by this lawsuit refused to cooperate, calling down spiky-haired justice upon them. More »

Halo Sword For Sale...Costs $125, Life And Soul

Mark Wilson — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:20:32 EST

We're sure that we have more than a few sword collectors in the audience—you know who you are because on your wall you have a few ninja stars, some Conan memorabilia and a duplicate of the Highlander sword. Why do you collect these things? Where do you find the money? More »

Soul Calibur Director Katsutoshi Sasaki on Weapons, Characters and Storyline

fdemarco — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:00:00 EDT

Back when I lived in New Orleans, my friends and I would get together on Friday nights and play video games until the wee hours. Eighty percent of the time the evenings were dominated by one game: Soul Calibur 2. My friends would practice during the week, becoming proficient enough with certain characters to come back on the weekend and kick some serious ass. When I heard I would be covering Soul Calibur IV, I was looking forward to checking out the game, but the reality of the situation turned out to be even more exciting: I would be interviewing the series' director, Katsutoshi Sasaki. More »

Bungie Profiles the Spartan Laser

Mike Fahey — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:40:03 EST

Mmm, the Spartan Laser. This is not a laser that reads data off of a DVD, or entertains your cat. No, this is a burn a hole through Wyoming sort of laser. The kind featured in the classic movie Real Genius, only with 100% less giant feathered Val Kilmer hair. Bungie has posted a profile of this powerful weapon on their page, providing censored specs of the M6 G/GNR, examples of use, and strategies for making it an effective tool in your arsenal. ' More »

Clip: Diddy Kong Racing DS Missle Shooting

Brian Crecente — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:00:21 EST

There was some talk yesterday when I posted that Diddy Kong Racing DS clip about what the weapons were like in the game. They're tricky, that's what they're like. Check this clip, for instance, to get a good gander at how precise you need to be to smack someone down with a missile. And yes, the cars seem to get stuck on things awfully easy. Arrrgh.... and I don't mean that in a piratey way. Brian Crecente More »

New Halo 3 Rifle In Great, Great Detail

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:40:43 EST

Bungie has posted details—very in depth details—on the assault rifle the Master Chief will be using in his third shooting spree for the Xbox 360. The MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System preview should let future Halo 3 players know how suitably they'll be armed and provides a look at weapon strategies. Handy. More »

Counter-Strike Gets Weapons' Balance

Brian Crecente — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:30:04 EST

It appears that Steam's innovative new pricing system for weapon and equipment has lead to other tweaks for PC shooter Counter-Strike: Source. More »

Ten Best Weapons in Gaming

brownlee — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:00:00 EDT

If GT had any sanity rattling around in their cerebellums at all, this list of the Top Ten Video Game Weapons would be Painkiller's entire arsenal and five other guns. It isn't; they don't. And there's a lot of often gibbering hyperbole. But it's still a lot of fun early on a Friday Morning. More »

GRAW Weapons

Brian Crecente — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:07:14 EST

Darkzero has put together a monster list of all of the weapons that are in Ghost Recon Advance Warfighters. More »

More Sunder Details

Brian Crecente — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:00:21 EST

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And now for some of the surface military weapons for this still-unknown game. I've included a full scan this time so you can check out all the details. More »

Revolution Game Leak: Guns and Blades

Brian Crecente — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:06:53 EST

As you can see, this post will have the guns and blades from the leaked document. Has anyone heard of a game called Sunder: Land of Divide? More »

Revolution Game Weapon Details Continued

Brian Crecente — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:02:18 EST

The first batch of weapons I put up didn't look quite as nice as this second batch. This time there's a lot more detail as well. The images on the jump all came over as a single page scan. I took it apart to make it easier to view in pieces. More »

Ten Most Kickass FPS Weapons Ever

Brian Crecente — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:33:25 EDT

I just noticed that Games.Net, the people who brought us the Ten Mario Sellout Moments, has a whole list of top ten feature stories. Some of the more interesting include Ten Hugely Over-Rated Games, The Coolest Modern Video-Game Characters and Games to Play When You're Stoned. I really liked the Most Kickass FPS Guns Ever list. More »