A downloadable expansion pack is in the works for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen which will include ten new characters, three new maps and a new difficulty mode, Activision announced this morning. The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 pack, which is being developed by Luxoflux, hasn’t yet been priced. Here’s the full break down: More…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Wanna Play “Smashed Sta Barrier”? My birthday isn’t until later this month, but my in-laws are leaving for Australia a the end of the week so they decided to give me a present early: A new skateboard. I haven’t properly skateboarded in years, decades even. When I was younger, much,…
The team behind mobile game Palm Heroes is working on porting the popular turn-based strategy game to the iPhone. The team hopes to raise enough donations to deliver it to the platform for free, they say on their site. The turn based strategy game, originally developed for cell phones, includes six classes, 48 heroes, 4…
A concrete island in New York’s Times Square will be getting a sandy beach, swimming pool and “tropical lounge” next week to help promote Nintendo’s upcoming release of Wii Sports Resort. The faux island getaway on Times Square’s Military Island, 7th and Broadway avenues, will be open to everyone from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.…
iPhone’s answer to Advance Wars, Mecho Wars, received a pretty substantial update to the game yesterday, free of charge. The latest patch for fairly fun real-time strategy game seems to answer a lot of the issues brought up in my and other reviews of the game. Most significant is the addition of info tiles for…
Midway’s UK studio was shut down this morning and all staff let go as the time to find a buyer for the studio behind Wheelman and Necessary Force ran out, a Midway spokesman told Kotaku today. “We can confirm we closed the Newcastle studio this morning, our time,” said Geoffrey Mogilner, Midway spokesman. “During the…
To: Ash From: Crecente We finally have official staff biographies. It’s pretty interesting stuff. I knew about your other book, but I didn’t know what your degree was in. And I didn’t know all about Fahey’s checkered past. What you missed: FTC Calls Out Video Game Reviewers in Proposed Endorsement Rule Changes Looks Like That…
Real or a put-on, Jimmy Fallon’s apparent love of video games gives our favorite hobby quite a late night stage on NBC, so why not make the best of it? Fallon sent someone to cover E3, played Tiger Woods a round of golf on the Wii and checked out Project Natal, but I think there…
June came and went without the promised Fallout 3 downloadable content from Bethesda and July and August will too, the developers now say. The first downloadable content will now be Broken Steel, not the promised Operation: Anchorage, in September. Worse news, Bethesda says they’re “hoping” that it will be by “the end of September.” That’s…
When I saw WET earlier this year, one of the things I really liked about the action title was it’s artistic rage mode. But it’s kind of hard to properly explain the fast-paced, over-the-top mode. Fortunately, GameTrailers has our back.
An attorney with Nielsen has contacted Kotaku asking we remove the image of a new Lara Croft from our site, saying that the picture was leaked without their permission. The site that originally posted the images, Four Player Co-Op, says that Crystal Dynamics also contacted them asking to take down the pictures. Sounds like the…
The Federal Trade Commission, it seems, has determined that bloggers aren’t journalists, or should at least be treated differently. The commission, in the process of reexamining the disclosure rules for their truth-in-advertising guides, are now calling out bloggers as a potential issue. The commission says it is looking into the legitimacy of blogger opinion and…
To: Owen From: Crecente Re: Today Trish drove from somewhere in Tennessee to somewhere in Kansas, that’s about 650 miles. What did I do? I sat in the middle row writing features, news and columns. What I didn’t do was give away any schwag because no one asked for any. Hmmm, maybe I should have…
The fiction of a video game’s universe is fertile ground for novels, sprouting dozens of books annually that tap into gaming’s beloved and unknown back stories. Few though have had to tell a story in a universe almost completely controlled by the gamers themselves, the very people most likely to read those novels. That’s what…
More than anything, Forza Motorsport 3’s greatest challenge is perhaps its greatest strength. As racing franchises continue down a diminishing road of more, with detailed engine tuning, real world physics, realistic damage modeling and road wear, they often leave all but the most devoted fans of their games and autophiles in the dust. But not…
Dante’s Inferno is a complex undertakling. While the source material and it’s use in a game still doesn’t sit well with me, the setting is rich, deep and, if you trust this video, being fully explored. Now about those Doggy-Style enemy creatures.
In an industry driven by creativity there sure are a lot of very similar titles for video games out there. Game Daily points out 20 words that show up way too often attached to the name of a game. The list includes everything from the innocuous (age, legend) to adjectives (darkness, eternal) to a simple…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: The new commenting system went live today bringing with it the ability to edit comments within a window of time and a super-class of user whose comments will hopefully be the most thoughtful, interesting among our vast pool of commenters. The idea is that thoughtful commenters will be recognized and…
Modern Warfare 2 has once more been renamed, shifting back to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 after ditching the franchise name for a few months. Why the back and forth? It’s not really clear. But this is what Activision has to say about the name game: “Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2 is the direct…
As seen on a tweet from Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling.
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