In this video, Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Serenity) talks about his voice work in Halo ODST as Sgt. Buck.
The annual Independent Games Festival is now taking submissions for the 12th annual festival which takes place duing the 2010 Game Developers Conference. Entries to the festival are due in both main and student showcase categories by November 2009. The finalists for the main competition will be announced on Jan. 4. Games selected as finalists…
I’ve often said that more important than the stories, the writers, the pictures and videos to Kotaku, are the commenters. You are Kotaku’s lifeblood, the thing that drives us to inform and entertain. Your input is often invaluable. The ever-growing sense of community is really what makes Kotaku what it is today and continues to…
Earlier this week my son and I checked out the iPhone’s augmented reality Seek N Spell game. The game uses the iPhone 3G and 3Gs’ built-in GPS to locate the gamer and then scatter virtual letters around their real world location. You then have a set amount of time to locate the letters and use…
Due out next month, G.I. Joe The Rise of the Cobra hasn’t been making many favorable impressions around Kotaku tower. These screens from the Playstation 3 version of the game don’t really do much to change my mind. The game will let players take on the role of one of the game’s dozen playable G.I.…
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: This is… Trish has now officially sold nine copies of her novel, Riding For a Fall, on Amazon’s Kindle. I told her that that makes her a novelist. She disagrees. So I asked her how much she needs to make before I can call her one. Apparently the magic number…
Due out by the end of the summer for the iPhone and Touch, Gangstar West Coast Hustle is Gameloft’s take on an open-world crime game, AKA Grand Theft Auto. Gangstar has players taking on the role of a gangster in a 3D recreation of what sounds to be a reconstruction of a fictional L.A. As…
There was a time when gaming was left more to the imagination than the pixel-count. When the written word was mightier than the joystick. Adventure games started as just black on white, or perhaps green on black. Word told the story. Words described the scenery and through words people played. Text adventures like Pyramid 2000,…
At 98, the father of modern pinball still has some lessons to impart to the video game industry. It was in 1948 when Steve Kordek revolutionized pinball. Asked to design a new pinball at the last minute for the upcoming pinball trade show, Kordek decided to add flippers to his design. Competitors were using six,…
It sounds like the current state of online play for UFC 2009: Undisputed is a bit of a mess. Fortunately, publisher THQ says they know all about it and are working on a patch. Neven Dravinski, UFC Producer, tells gamers that the entire development team play a lot of online matches and read the boards…
PopCap Games today released a standalone World of Warcraft-themed Peggle mash-up for free on their website. The game comes with ten new levels and includes the “sights, sounds and storyline” of World of Warcraft… plus unicorns and rainbows. Levels in the freebie include “Too Soon, Executus” and “The Traitor King” and new challenges include “Phat…
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: What is this? Man, that sounds intense. I hope Micro is OK. That looks like a Halloween sucker. My dad took us to the Huddle House this morning, a Southern Georgia tradition. The chain serves big breakfasts like: two fried eggs, hash browns, two pieces of toast, two pieces of…
The western shooter seems to be a conundrum to developers. Despite valiant efforts, and great games, few have ever enjoyed the runaway success of their modern warfare counterparts. In Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Ubisoft adds an interesting twist to the genre, having gamers play as either of two brothers with distinctly different play…
This first developer diary for upcoming Ubisoft action-title Assassin’s Creed 2 gives us a glimpse into the backstory of the main character. The graphics and some of the play looks improved for this latest iteration, but will it be enough to outperform it’s predecessor.
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: These Bugs, So Creepy, No Biting If you hate mosquitoes, you would hate Georgia.. and Florida… and several other states. What did you end up doing over the weekend? Since it was a long one here I spent it playing croquet, sipping mint juleps and biking… seriously. It’s the only…
Capcom just posted this up on their blog, an adorable kid bopping his way through the Mega Man 2 and 3 themes while fending off a little brother. I’m surprised this video didn’t end in tears, as it would have had I tried to pull that with my older brother… I totally would have too.…
A bevy of classic LucasArts games are coming to Steam over the next month, LucasArts Games announced this morning. First news of the announcement came from LucasArts’ Twitter feed: “So lets see who will be happy: LucasArts has partnered with Steam. Digital adventurey goodness.” The back-catalog hitting Steam’s PC on-demand gaming service includes LOOM, The…
Fight Night 4, like many of EA Sports’ titles, allows you to use a camera and their “GameFace” tech to import a version of your mug into the game. Not content to play as the prerendered fighters in the game, or as themselves, the brothers KindaGamey decided to try and import the face of their…
The number of hours that gamers play is at an all time high over the past few months, according to a new study from Nielsen. The Value Gamer: Play and Purchase Behavior in a Recession also shows that gamers have increased their purchase of used games to “record-breaking totals” since Nielsen began tracking used game…
Piracy, the video game industry’s multi-billion dollar problem, may have met its match. The solution to the illegal copying of video games perhaps isn’t a law enforcement task force or volley of lawsuits, but the legitimization of the act itself. Last week news broke that The Pirate Bay, one of the largest websites in the…
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