Two versions of Samsung’s new 830 series solid state drives will come with a free copy of Batman: Arkham City, the company’s vice president said during a press conference tonight. Reid Sullivan, senior vice president of mobile entertainment at Samsung Electronics America, announced the giveaway at a press conference in Manhattan tonight by bringing the…
Battlefield 3 –Our copies of tomorrow’s big game arrived this morning. The Queen of Blades is No Match for the New and Improved Blizzard DOTA Kerrigan. The Queen of Blades. The most feared woman in the known universe, destroyer of worlds, and murderer of millions. The greatest leader the Zerg has ever known. Kerrigan is…
Minecraft for the Xbox 360 will be playable at MineCon in Las Vegas next month, the game’s developers tell Kotaku. MineCon runs on Nov. 18 and Nov. 19. The fan event will also mark the official launch of the computer version of Minecraft. That’s right, it will finally be finished.
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception is the follow-up to inarguably the best game released in 2009. That predecessor managed to lock in more than 200 game of the year awards, including ours. How do you think Uncharted 3 will fair in the long shadow of Among Thieves? Here’s our gut check on Uncharted 3, due out…
Pinball played right is an act of violence. Violence against that steel ball trying to slip past your paddles. Violence against gravity urging that escape along. Violence against the glass top that contains everything happening within and violence against the wooden casket packed with hundreds of moving parts, lights and noise. You don’t play a…
As if you needed more reason to anticipate the comping of the next Elder Scrolls game, here’s a look at what the dragon-infested world of Skyrim would look like if it came to flaming, screaming, smoke-filled life. Yes, I’ll take two please.
Today was a good day to be a Blizzard fan. Blizzcon kicked off with a bang in California, revealing a batch of new trailers, more details about the pending release of Diablo III and news of a Panda-themed World of Warcraft expansion pack. Here for your easy perusal is a quick guide to all things…
Wii, Not You –A reader snapped this shot of the new, GameCube-support-free Wii when it arrived in their store. I added the “minus.” (Aren’t I silly.) This is Battlefield 3’s Launch Trailer This is the official launch trailer for Battlefield 3, due out next week. The trailer gives you a glimpse at the game’s fairly…
StarCraft II’s Heart of the Swarm trailer is everything I would want from this latest step forward in Blizzard’s real-time strategy game.
The next World of Warcraft expansion is called Mists of Pandaria, an expansion pack that includes a new race, level cap, class and talents. The expansion pack, which was unveiled at Blizzcon just moments ago but which wasn’t yet dated, will include the new panda-like Pandarens. The expansion takes place on the continent of Pandaria…
Diablo III will be free to play for annual pass World of Warcraft subscribers, Blizzard announced at their convention. Starting today you can go and sign up for the World of Warcraft annual pass. By making a 12-month commitment to World of Warcraft you will get Diablo III free when it launches. In addition you…
The sorta free, sorta not Call of Duty Elite community and website service has a lot of moving parts. Here’s a look at one of those: The game’s Compete features.
Pre-orders of Binary Domain at GameStop will come with the multiplayer map Outside High-rise, Upper City and an unlocked Ninja playable class, The Multiplayer Pack bonus also includes the Hoga Type 69 sniper rifle and Yamato-0 Handgun, according to the press release.
The PS Vita, this video says, wasn’t made by hardware folks, it was the result of what the people who would one day make games for this portable wanted. That seems like the right way to do things. Sure, you’re hardware folks need to take those suggestions and turn them into something that works and…
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Witcher developers CD Projekt RED will be working together to bring The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings to the Xbox 360 in North America, the two said today. The console adaptation is expected early next year.
This is the official launch trailer for Battlefield 3, due out next week. The trailer gives you a glimpse at the game’s fairly unseen single player campaign. “A sinister power is rising in the Middle-East, and Marine Sergeant “Black” discovers how far he would go to defend his country,” according to the Youtube description of…
The early reports, and later confirmation, of Muammar Gaddafi’s death at the hands of Libyan rebels flashed on news channels, websites, Facebook and Twitter this morning. And by next week people will be playing the computer game version of the death. Kuma Games, the people who turned the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden…
Fahey is somewhere over Colorado by now, I bet, winging his way to California and Blizzard’s annual Blizzcon. The show kicks off tomorrow, are you going? Did you know we have a party this year? You should go and meet Kotaku’s resident half-giant.
Video games might be the key to fighting off some of the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, according to research results released this week. The pilot study, conducted by the UCSF School of Nursing and Red Hill Studios, helped more than half of the people with the disease who participated improve their balance, walking speed…
47 billion shots fired, 2.2 billion regenerated health, 19 million lost dog tags, 1.5 billion kills. But Battlefield 3’s raging beta wasn’t just about those numbers, and a little sly marketing to boot, game developers DICE actually used the experience to tweak the way the game works online. Posted on the Playstation blog today, the…
Mode
Follow us
