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PlayStation Network Summer Sale Includes Some Amazing Deals
You’ve got a little less than a week left to buy games like GTA: Chinatown Wars, Fat Princess and PixelJunk Shooter for half price. The Playstation Network Summer Sale runs through Monday, Aug 9 in the U.S. and Canada. Here’s a break down of what you can get: PS3 Fat Princess – $7.49 sale; $14.99…
By Brian Crecente Published August 3, 2010 -
Monday Night Combat’s Product Grenades and Random Bacon
This video gives us a 15-minute taste of upcoming strategy third-person shooter Monday Night Combat with bonus developer commentary. Monday Night Combat, due out on Xbox Live on Aug. 11 for 1200 points, has a lot of things going for it including fun weapons like a Product Grenade, which fills an enemies screen with ads,…
By Brian Crecente Published August 3, 2010 -
StarCraft II Fastest Selling Strategy Game Of All Time
It took StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty just 24 hours to become the best-selling PC game of the year, with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, according to Blizzard Entertainment. Another half million copies sold in the game’s second day of availability, making StarCraft II the fastest-selling strategy game of all time, the company…
By Brian Crecente Published August 3, 2010 -
The Sims Gets Medieval On You
A new Sims game revealed today that drops the popular characters in the Middle Ages will feature “compelling gameplay never seen before in the history of The Sims”, according to publisher Electronic Arts. The Sims Medieval, the first in a series due out in spring 2011 for the PC and Mac, will have players create…
By Brian Crecente Published August 3, 2010 -
My Dreams Were My Ticket Back Here
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: WELCOME BACK BRIAN CRECENTE Thanks Ash, it’s good to be back. I spent last week in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico laying by a pool, reading, drinking and eating. Occasionally I swam. But not much. About halfway through the week the family and I took a boat to a private beach once…
By Brian Crecente Published August 2, 2010 -
Madden NFL PSP Bundle Confirmed
Sony may not have confirmed that there is a Playstation 3 Madden bundle yet, but they did unveil a new Playstation Portable Madden 11 bundle today. The PSP bundle comes with a Black PSP-3000 (i.e. not a PSPGo) and the Madden NFL 11 UMD game for $169.99 starting on Aug. 10. Still no word on…
By Brian Crecente Published August 2, 2010 -
Play Michael Jackson The Experience at Germany’s GamesCom
Ubisoft’s Michael Jackson The Experience will be playable at this month’s GamesCom in Germany, alongside Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, R.U.S.E. and a slew of other upcoming titles. Ubisoft’s Gamescom line-up will give attendees a chance to play the multiplayer mode of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and check out a presentation on the single player campaign. Other…
By Brian Crecente Published August 2, 2010 -
Museum of Contemporary Art To Host Blizzard Exhibit
Blizzard Entertainment plans to host an art exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei this month. The Fights, Flights & Frights – Inside the Storm exhibit will draw from 15 years worth of works drawn from their popular game series, including StarCraft, Diablo and WarCraft. The show, which kicks off on Aug. 20,…
By Brian Crecente Published August 2, 2010 -
Metal Gear Arcade Finally Showing Up In Japanese Arcades
Metal Gear Arcade, the 3D arcade shooter first revealed last summer, is finally starting to pop up at arcades in Japan, but only for a limited-run public test. The game, spotted in arcades in Yokohama and Tokyo, features 3D glasses, life-sized plastic guns and can link up to four cabinets for multiplayer matches. It also,…
By Brian Crecente Published August 2, 2010 -
EA’s Create Has You Designing Your Own Puzzling Levels
Electronic Arts unveiled a new game this morning that seems to blend the best of LittleBigPlanet’s level creation with Scribblenauts’ imagination and puzzle solving. Create, due out this November for the Mac, Playstation 3, PC, Wii and Xbox 360, has players creating levels, designing and solving puzzles in a free-form open world. “Create uses families’…
By Brian Crecente Published August 2, 2010 -
Reviews
Gunnar Phenom 3D Glasses Review: A Slick Extravagance
Whats the worst thing about 3D? The glasses. Gunnar Optiks realized that and decided to come up with their own line of fashionable, pricey 3D glasses. Let’s take them for a spin. Loved Stylin’: Today’s movie theater RealD 3D glasses are big headache-inducing affairs, so clunky that they manage to avoid being even geek chic.…
By Brian Crecente Published July 29, 2010 -
Reviews
Alan Wake’s The Signal Review: A Short Dash
Psychological thriller Alan Wake hit the Xbox 360 a few months back delivering a taut, deftly-written experience that straddled the line between television and video game. The disc-based game was broken into chapters that open and close as if they’re television shows, and the game itself wrapped with the sort of cliffhanger expected in a…
By Brian Crecente Published July 26, 2010 -
A Tour of Capcom’s Comic-Con Booth
Didn’t make it to Comic-Con? Don’t worry neither did we. But Capcom did and they were nice enough to film this video for us of their booth. Man, it’s packed in there, even the Capcom guy, WITH a camera, had to wait in line in the Capcom booth. Insane.
By Brian Crecente Published July 23, 2010 -
Hasta La Vista
To: Everyone From: Crecente OK guys, I’m off to Mexico for a week’s vacation. (Feel free to sing along). When I get back I will officially be 40 years old. Yes, I’m that old. Frightening. My plans for the next seven days? Read books, kayak, perhaps surf, swim, lounge, drink, eat and sleep. See you…
By Brian Crecente Published July 23, 2010 -
Starcraft II is Shipping, But You Still Can’t Play It
Don’t Panic! The server’s wont be up until the day the game ships. If you got the box copy early just relish that fancy box art because if you try to play early this is the message you’re going to receive.
By Brian Crecente Published July 23, 2010 -
Sand on My Back, Joystick In My Hand
Growing up in the 70s in Maryland, there was nothing more rewarding than a trip to the beach. But it wasn’t the sun, sand or the surf that attracted me, it was the boardwalk. This week’s celebration of the summer of gaming here on Kotaku reminds me of those trips. Each summer, Ocean City Maryland’s…
By Brian Crecente Published July 23, 2010 -
$500 Worth of Flight Controllers For the Insane Flight Sim Addict
Mad Catz just rolled out a new line of pro flight controllers for the type of flight sim fanatics who want to be able to tinker with fuel mix and mindfully watch for warning lights while pretending to fly. The new line includes $200 di-cast alloy rudder pedals, a $150 throttle, pitch and mixture system…
By Brian Crecente Published July 23, 2010 -
Sony Remains Committed To Massive Shooter MAG
It has been six months since Sony launched their massively multiplayer online shooter MAG and as with many online games, time has started to dwindle their numbers. MAG fan and Kotaku reader JG Mills wrote to us to ask: “How long will Zipper & Sony support the MAG servers as their user numbers are dropping?”…
By Brian Crecente Published July 23, 2010
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