To: Ash From: Crecente Re: No Pizza, No Life I’ve been playing Mecho Wars for a chunk of the day on my iPhone. It’s a pretty neat Advanced Wars-style game, though I can’t same I’m a big fan of the art style or unit names. The base mechanic though is great. I know there are…
For those of you looking forward to picking up a copy of Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits, don’t forget that it doesn’t work with Nintendo’s DSi. Despite coming with an adapter that lets you use the game with either the original DS or DS Lite, the game doesn’t include anything to let you use…
It would make sense for Apple to expand their reach into gaming in light of the success of the iPhone and iPod Touch, Gameloft CEO Michell Guillemot told Kotaku today. Late last month Yves Guillemot, Michel Guillemot‘s brother and the CEO of Ubisoft, said that he didn’t think Apple’s gaming success would stop with the…
A new twist in iPhone gameplay extends Firemint Real Racing to YouTube with automatic video captures of your races that are then uploaded to the service for all to view. Gamers have to link their Real Racing and YouTube accounts to use the service which then sends videos of your Time Trials and league racing…
Don’t have the scratch for a Father’s Day card this year round, or just plain out forgot? Don’t worry Nintendo has you covered.
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: The American Toilet Is Very American Today was Trish’s birthday. I suspect I enjoy it more than she does because it gives me a chance to pamper her. Yesterday we went to a nice Italian restaurant with her parents. This morning I paid for a trip to a spa for…
DJ Hero, the turn-table sporting rhythm game, will come with an entirely fresh playlist of mash-ups created by DJs specifically for the game, developers told us. While the more than 80 mixes, which include songs by everyone from the Gorillaz and David Bowie to Nirvana and Rick James, will all be debuting in the game,…
Red Faction has been delivering first-person-shooter flavored environmental destruction since 2001, tasking players with revolution both on Mars and on Earth. With Red Faction: Guerrilla, players return to Mars to once more stir up trouble in an open-world game promising unheralded destruction from a third-person perspective. Can a third take on the same general concepts…
Aliens: Colonial Marines, Gearbox’s Aliens shooter, is still very much on, but won’t be arriving this year. When it does hit, there will be a DS version as well though, Gearbox president Randy Pitchford tells Kotaku. Colonial Marines was first announced in 2006, then slated for a 2008 ship date. Later that was pushed back…
E3 brought with it an avalanche of news, previews and interviews. So much hit the site over two weeks that plenty of great stories may have missed your radar. Here’s a quick list of ten big stories you may have missed had you not been paying attention. Shigeru Miyamoto accidentally confirms “Kind Code” to Kotaku…
Blizzard is starting to gear up for the StarCraft II Beta, the company said recently in an email sent out to game writers. The email, which asks game writers to make sure they have a Battle.Net account set up and a request in, says that Blizzard has no date yet to announce for the start…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Today I Fell Asleep On The Floor OK, now you can ask me if I’ve recovered from E3. The answer, by the way, is still no. But maybe next week. What you missed: Project Natal Does Not Require Red Jump Suits to Play Gears Of War 2 On PC? Try…
This year’s annual E3 Expo gathering of video game developers, publishers and players brought with it an unprecedented look at the games we’ll be playing over this year and next as well as the technology that will shape the games to come. Here are the staff of Kotaku’s picks for the best of 2009’s Electronic…
Gearbox Software artists are sensitive about the whole cel-shading thing for Borderlands. They like to call it gritty realism or concept art. But how did a game so far along get a total art make-over? It almost didn’t. Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox, said that a couple of artists got together and started complaining about…
A bit earlier today I gushed about the look of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. Here’s a better look at some of the characters found in the game.
Capcom returns to Raccoon City in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, dropping gamers back into the zombie-killing action in a game that plays like a on-rails shooting title, but promises to deliver a sense of action and suspense. Can those two even go together? What Is It? Capcom’s on-rails shooter for the Wii boasts two-player…
With more than 125 million copies sold on more than 30 platforms, Tetris is rolling into its 25th Anniversary with a bright future. Alexey Pajitnov developed the puzzle game while working at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1985. In 1991, he and Henk Rogers founded the Tetris Company to prolong the life of the…
Tatsunoku vs. Capcom promises to let you play as some of your favorite characters from Japanese animation studio Tatsunoko, makers of G-Force, but it also threatens to be slightly too casual for fighting fans. So which is it? A casual pass, or an anime fans must have? What Is It? Released in Japan in December…
When Kudo Tsunoda took to the stage on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon earlier this week he and everyone else playing the game were decked out in matching red jump suits, leading some to speculate it was because of tech issues. Not so, says Microsoft. The red jump suits had nothing to do with Natal’s…
Haven’t we had enough of zombie games already? No, and really, I can’t seem a time when we will. Konami’s top-down zombie killer blends undead flesh with Robotron to produce something uniquely fun, but is it too derivative? What Is It? Zombie Apocalypse drops you into a world where infected undead outnumber humans in a…
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