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Hands-On With Playstation Move’s Wii Sports Resort
Among the titles for the PS3’s Move motion controller being shown off at the Game Developers Conference today is Sports Champions, a very familiar sounding casual sports title. Sports Champions will include half a dozen casual sports that can be played with one or two of the microphone-like Move controllers in hand. On display at…
By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2010 -
Zombie Infection: Resident Evil Done the Same
Quick! Name that game. If you said anything with the words Resident and Evil in it, you’re wrong, but don’t be hard on yourself for confusing Gameloft’s upcoming iPhone game Zombie Infection with Capcom’s long-lived “not a zombie” game. The third-person shooter co-stars and man and woman working for a secret government agency assigned to…
By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2010 -
Splinter Cell Conviction in Your Pocket
Gameloft’s upcoming release of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction looks to bring over the feel and style of the Splinter Cell reboot to the iPhone in a four to five hour experience. And in many ways, it seems to succeed. My time spent playing the game on the iPhone yesterday gave me a chance to…
By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2010 -
Scenes of Video Game Hell Invades San Fran Hotel
Video game art folks will be taking over San Francisco’s Hotel Des Arts, on Thursday, packing the five-floor boutique hotel with art from Dante’s Inferno and inspired by other video games. The second-story lobby of the hotel will be filled with last year’s Into the Pixel exhibits, while the walls of the fourth floor of…
By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2010 -
The Kotaku RSS Feed Two-Step
You may have noticed, if you’re reading this through an RSS reader, that we’re not all quite there anymore. Have no fears, there is a solution. As of earlier today, Kotaku’s default RSS feed is an excerpt-only feed. Unless you’re a VIP. Fortunately, you’re all VIPs to us. So here’s how to get back to…
By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2010 -
Street Fighter IV iPhone Hits Tonight
Ready? Fight! Because Street Fighter IV is coming to Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. As Kotaku posted previously, the game is played like most iPhone titles, press “buttons” in the corner of the screen. The virtual button and joystick do take up a great deal of on-screen real estate. It is worth noting that the…
By Brian Crecente Published March 9, 2010 -
Ready For God of War III? Come Chat Live With The Game’s Director
This Wednesday, God of War III director Stig Asmussen joins us live from the Game Developers Conference on our weekly podcast to take your calls. God of War III hits Playstation 3s next week, so I’m sure you’re bursting with questions for Asmussen. No problem, he will be on Kotaku Talk Radio this Wednesday at…
By Brian Crecente Published March 9, 2010 -
Adorable Voltron? Try Adorable Predator, Bumblebee, Yoshimitsu
Remember that painfully adorable Voltron cosplayer Ash posted about a few days ago? Well, that was nothing. Turns out that the little girl sporting that robot armor is Belldandy, a professional cosplayer backed by a dad with some serious crafting skills. How serious, check out their full site, and these amazing samples. The Grim Adverturez…
By Brian Crecente Published March 9, 2010 -
Win Phone 7 Games Include Achievements, Avatars, Gamertags
Windows Phone 7 games will include the ability to unlock achievements on a phone as well as pulling in a user’s gamertag, 2D avatar and even let gamer’s know when it’s their turn to play. This will all come thanks to an update to XNA Game Studio 4.0 being unveiled at the Game Developers Conference…
By Brian Crecente Published March 9, 2010 -
Own The Xbox 360 That Helped Kick the Mayor of Baltimore Out of Office
Want to own a piece of Baltimore history, a bit of gaming that helped unseat a mayor of the east coast city? The city is auctioning off an Xbox 360 that prosecutors say then-mayor Sheila Dixon purchased with gift cards meant for the poor. The Xbox 360, and a single controller and copy of Need…
By Brian Crecente Published March 9, 2010 -
A Deeper Look at Shank Gameplay
Kotaku darling, Independent Games Festival finalist and soon to be Electronic Arts-published game Shank gets a bit more face time this week as GDC kicks off. To celebrate, developers Klei released this new video showing a bit more of the 2D brawler gameplay. If you’re at GDC, you can swing by the game’s kiosk Thursday,…
By Brian Crecente Published March 9, 2010 -
GDC: Day Zero
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: I AM NOT DEAD…YET! Myself, Mike McWhertor and Stephen Totilo are all flying out to San Francisco tomorrow to start our GDC coverage. It will be fantastic, informative and, I hope, entertaining. The schedule is packed from breakfast to midnight snacks with interviews, gameplay sessions, hands-ons, lectures and parties. I’m…
By Brian Crecente Published March 8, 2010 -
PS3 Owners: Here are Your Borderlands’ General Knoxx Codes
It may have taken a bit longer, but today Gearbox Software was kind enough to send along this batch of free codes for the PS3 version of Borderlands’ expansion pack The Secret Armory of General Knoxx Just grab a code and enter it over in your PSN account. First grabbed, first served. Alright, hop to…
By Brian Crecente Published March 8, 2010 -
My Trash-80 Powered Gaming Roots
It’s easy to post pictures of your current gaming rig, your oodles of games, to brag about achievements and trophies, but none of that means a thing. True gamers have roots and I want to see them. What do I mean? Take for instance this picture, circa 1987, of my bedroom. Note the distinct lack…
By Brian Crecente Published March 8, 2010 -
iPhone Chart Toppers: Monopoly…. Hits the Top?
Monopoly! Number one! Never! Here’s the full list: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone game reviews Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Monopoly (EA) $4.99 3 11 2 Call of Duty: World at War Zombies (Activision) $9.99 6 3 3 Final Fantasy (Square Enix) $8.99…
By Brian Crecente Published March 8, 2010 -
The Never-Ending Game: World of Warcraft’s Impact on Borderlands
It could become the never-ending game. Released nearly five months ago, sci-fi shooter Borderlands continues to dominate sales charts and, much more importantly, the attention of gamers. That’s because the people behind the game, Gearbox Software, keep rolling out new chapters for Borderlands, extending the mythology and fun of the game $10 at a time.…
By Brian Crecente Published March 8, 2010 -
Five Pounds in One Day
To: Ash From: Crecente Every three or four years for most of my adult life I get hit with this bizarre, and very nasty, stomach bug. It usually hits me in the evening and has in the past always resulted in my being taken to the emergency room where a doctor declares that he has…
By Brian Crecente Published March 5, 2010 -
The First Ever Gloriously Big, Gloriously Detailed Shots of an iPad Game
There has been much talk about gaming on the iPad, but not a whole lot of delivery. In fact, I can only think of one game that I know of that will be made specifically for the iPad: Trism Spinoff. But even that didn’t have much in the way of details. Today, though, Secret Exit…
By Brian Crecente Published March 5, 2010
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