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Reviews
Trenches Micro-Review: An Interesting Take on Tower Defense
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of waiting for the perpetually delayed Plants Vs. Zombies to make its way onto the iPhone. Fortunately, Trenches has been satisfying my itch for side-scrolling tower defense gaming. Trenches drops you smack dab on top of enemy lines during World War I’s gas, artillery… and yes,…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2010 -
World of Warcraft: The Audio Book
Richard Knaak’s World of Warcraft Stormrage is getting the audio book treatment, BlizzPlanet points out. Simon & Schuster will be releasing the novel as eAudio on Feb. 23, meaning that you’ll be able to play World of Warcraft and read World of Warcraft at the same time. Track down some World of Warcraft Game Fuel…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2010 -
Perfect Dark Xbox Live Arcade Playable By Press Next Week
Perfect Dark, remastered for the Xbox 360’s Live Arcade with a 60 framers-per-a-second framerate, is making an appearance at next week’s Xbox 360 X10 gaming summit in San Francisco. Rare tells us that the game will be playable at the event, and that we can expect to “find out some more tidbits” concerning Perfect Dark’s…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2010 -
G-Switch Runs and Flips
We need more mash-ups in video games. You know, like when a DJ takes two great songs, or two awful songs, and turns them into something all together different, but still recognizable. Take for instance G-Switch. It plays an awful lot like the bastard child of forever-runner Canabalt and gravity-flipper VVVVVV. And it’s pretty great…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2010 -
Death of A Wii
At the ripe old age of 3, my Nintendo Wii has officially gone to join the celestial Wii Music choir. Let’s hope it doesn’t take drums. I first received my Wii nine days before Nintendo rolled out its new motion-controlled console to masses of gamers and non-gamers on Nov. 19, 2006. That doesn’t sound like…
By Brian Crecente Published February 4, 2010 -
Get Lost With Your Lost
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: INTERNET PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT LOST!! Again with the Lost! Man, I can’t go anywhere these days without running into. Sometimes I feel like the survivor in a TV pop-culture zombieland. And I don’t watch sports either. It’s like I’m slowly being removed from society, at least the bits that…
By Brian Crecente Published February 4, 2010 -
Surfer Mag: We Need A New Surf Game For Fun, For Training
Surfer Magazine wants a new surf video game. And they have a point, why don’t we have more games about riding the waves? But Surfer associate editor Alex Wilson’s opinion piece is driven more by the desire for video gamers who surf to have a chance to train out of the water to perfect their…
By Brian Crecente Published February 4, 2010 -
The Plasmids and Tonics of BioShock 2
BioShock 2 hits next Tuesday and MTV’s Russ Frushtick wants you to be prepared, so he’s put together a handy-dandy guide to the game’s plasmids and tonics. The list includes 10 known single-player Plasmids, and the mention of a single secret one. My favorite among the batch has to be the level 3 decoy which…
By Brian Crecente Published February 4, 2010 -
Reviews
Crush The Castle Micro-Review: Fun With Trebuchets
The lords and ladies of Arcturia have had it far too good for far too long, with their fancy castles and fancy clothes. It’s time to bring in a medieval siege weapon and do some crushing. The App Store on iTunes is packed with physics-based games that have you tossing, flicking and shooting one object…
By Brian Crecente Published February 4, 2010 -
You Got Your Guitar Hero In My Zombieland
Leave it to a gamer to come up with a set of rules to help survive a zombie apocalypse. Early into zombie comedy Zombieland we learn that Columbus is a Code Red-chugging, World-of-Warcraft playing college student. But what did he do for a living before people went all cannibal on him? According to this deleted…
By Brian Crecente Published February 4, 2010 -
Cold Turkey
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Three Days. No Coffee. I do that sometimes, just for fun. I watched almost zero television for a month while I was in Australia. Also fun. The only downside of kicking coffee for me are the vicious headaches I get. By the way, I’m too lazy to look it up,…
By Brian Crecente Published February 3, 2010 -
2010 Life Love Game Design Challenge Offers $2.5K Prize
This week is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention week, it’s also the kick off for the third annual Life. Love. Game Design Challenge. The flash design contest challenges developer and budding developers to create a game that deals with teen dating violence without using any violence in the game. This year’s winner will…
By Brian Crecente Published February 3, 2010 -
Join Us For a Chat with Developers From The Sims on Kotaku Talk Radio Now
Join us live today on CBS Radio for our latest episode of Kotaku Talk Radio with two special guests from Electronic Arts’ Sims team. This week marks the tenth anniversary of a little game called The Sims. Our guests today are MJ Chun, associate producer of Sims 3, and Charles London, Sr., art director for…
By Brian Crecente Published February 3, 2010 -
Happy 10th Anniversary Sims
On Jan. 31 2000 Electronic Arts open the floodgates to another one of Will Wright’s off-kilter, but strangely addictive games. Over the next ten years the Sims franchise sold more than 100 million copies and became the best selling PC franchise of all time. You may not have been around when the first game hit,…
By Brian Crecente Published February 3, 2010 -
Phasers Set to Fun
Life in the 24th and 25th century wasn’t all about shooting people with phasers, knocking around aliens and “making it so.” No, the Star Trek universe also has its share of fun diversions including a wide array of drinks, sports, games and even a video game that was highly addictive and sapped a person’s will…
By Brian Crecente Published February 3, 2010 -
Events
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Electric Toothbrushes Are Great Man, gaming travel starts earlier and earlier each year. We’ve already been to Vegas for CES and now I’ll be taking a trip to Microsoft’s X10 in San Fran next week and later in the month Totilo will be heading out to DICE in Vegas. And…
By Brian Crecente Published February 2, 2010 -
Reviews
MAG Review: World of Shadow Warcraft
It’s the year 2025 and a mandated world peace gives rise to three Private Military Corporations. The rise of the PMC also gives birth to the shadow war, a raging worldwide battle fought for profit and power rather than political ideologies. The backdrop of PlayStation 3 exclusive MAG isn’t weighed down with things like plot…
By Brian Crecente Published February 2, 2010
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