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Blizzard: Diablo III Hits Early 2012
Looks like we’re going to have to make do with a beta for longer than some of us had hoped, Blizzard this morning said that Diablo III won’t be hitting computers until early next year. “With every game we make, the temptation is always very strong to launch as soon as possible. However, we didn’t…
By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2011 -
It’s Payday
Payday –Simon and Ulf from developer Overkill at a recent New York showing of their shooter Payday. If a Train is Traveling 80 MPH, And the Internet is At 1Mbps, When Will Diablo III Crash? Diablo III is a joy on a desktop. It’s even fun to play on a Macbook Air. But how will…
By Brian Crecente Published September 22, 2011 -
A Closer Look at the $50 Risk: Metal Gear Solid Limited Edition Board Game
First unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con earlier this year, here’s our first look at the retail version of the game that blends the strategy of Risk with the game design of Metal Gear Solid… No, it doesn’t come with cut-scenes. The game goes on pre-sale on Oct. 3, for $49.95. The game takes place in…
By Brian Crecente Published September 22, 2011 -
Here’s Why the New XCOM is Nothing Like the Old X-COM
XCOM is no X-Com That is to say, don’t expect the upcoming first-person shooter XCOM from 2K Marin to be a new version of turn-based strategy classic X-Com Why? In this video, the developers talk us through some of their reasoning, all while walking us through the game’s back-story, technology and gameplay. The idea, they…
By Brian Crecente Published September 22, 2011 -
Play an HD Version of Another World on the iPhone, iPad
Classic, cinematic 90s platformer, Another World (Out of this World to some of you) is available today for the iPhone and iPad. This 20th Anniversary version of the game originally designed by Eric Chahi can be switched on the fly between the original and HD graphics with a two-finger swipe. The game supports both touch…
By Brian Crecente Published September 22, 2011 -
Battlefield 3 Expansions Hit PS3 First
The Xbox 360 might be getting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 expansion packs first, but the PS3 gets Battlefield 3’s expansions first. The publisher said today that beginning with Battlefield 3 expansion Back to Karkand, all “full-blown upcoming expansion packs” for the game will appear one week early exclusively on the PS3, “brought to…
By Brian Crecente Published September 22, 2011 -
If a Train is Traveling 80 MPH, And the Internet is At 1Mbps, When Will Diablo III Crash?
Diablo III is a joy on a desktop. It’s even fun to play on a Macbook Air. But how will Blizzard’s online-only dungeon crawler fare while played on a train traveling 90 miles an hour down New York’s Harlem Valley using a Sprint 3G card? Sure, the specifics may not apply to everyone, but it…
By Brian Crecente Published September 22, 2011 -
The 3DS’ Zen Pinball 3D in Action
Earlier this week we talked you through what Zen Pinball 3D would have to offer on the 3DS when it hits the Nintendo eShop this fall. Here’s our first look at the 3D pinballer in action. Four original tables will be available at launch-Earth Defense and Excalibur, seen in Pinball FX 2 on the 360,…
By Brian Crecente Published September 22, 2011 -
On Rails Mariachi
On the Six Train –Today I was surrounded by mariachi while riding the six to work. They proceeded to perform as if I wasn’t there. The World’s Average Download Speed is 580KBps That figure comes courtesy of a Global Download Report published by the global game-delivery company Pando Networks. The study, which was conducted from…
By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2011 -
Tweet About Bunch of Heroes or This Indie Dev Dies!
I think this is a marketing stunt. I don’t think they’re really going to kill Daniel Benmergui if we don’t collectively talk about Bunch of Heroes. But let’s play it safe, why don’t we? Bunch of Heroes, due out today for the PC, puts up to four players against an army of the undead and…
By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2011 -
Payday: The Heist Lets You Recreate Hollywood’s Best Capers with Three Friends
In my hour spent wearing a macabre clown mask robbing banks, looting armored vans and freeing prisoners, I rarely managed to succeed. It wasn’t because I didn’t have the tactics, or the ability, it was because I had, perhaps, a tad too much avarice. In most of the four scenarios of four-player cooperative shooter Payday:…
By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2011 -
A Speed Run Through a Gravity Defying, Laser-Shooting, Crate Throwing PS3 Game
Technically, by speed run I mean playing through a level of Rochard without dying faster than I did during my brief time with the game. The 2D platformer hits the PS3’s Playstation Network next week for $10. In it you play as the titular Rochard, a hapless space miner armed with a laser gun that…
By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2011 -
Sideway: New York is Maybe Super Paper Mario on the Ceiling, and Floor, And Wall
In Sideway: New York players take on a graffiti artist turned into a piece of his own art after taking on the wrong tagger rival. It’s a shaky premise attached to some mind-twisting gameplay that has your playing as a flat bit of art sliding along the walls, ground, floors and roofs of New York’s…
By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2011 -
Grazing Goats From a Llama-Loving Game Maker
Goat Up is a love letter to perhaps the one genre of game that game maker Jeff Minter and his team at Llamasoft had never made: The platformer. In Goat Up players control a grass-grazing goat as he makes his way up an endless series of platforms, discovering hidden items, and occasionally love, and having…
By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2011 -
Diablo III Skillzzzz
My Witch Doctor’s Skill Tree –And Brian was never seen nor heard from again. Battlefield 3 Open Beta Starts Next Week Battlefield 3’s much-anticipated open beta starts on Thursday, Sept. 29, the publisher said this morning. The beta will run until Oct. 10 and will give players a chance to check out the game and…
By Brian Crecente Published September 20, 2011 -
Ten Minutes With Diablo III’s Witch Doctor
The closed beta for Diablo III Beta kicked off a bit earlier today, granting a lucky few access to an early build of the much-anticipated dungeon crawler from Blizzard. Here’s a couple of videos to show you what greets players when they first log in (below) and what the first ten minutes or so of…
By Brian Crecente Published September 20, 2011 -
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Coming “This Winter,” Capcom Says UPDATE
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City was a no-show at the Tokyo Game Show, according to our folks on the ground, and it still hasn’t gotten a hard release date. Does that mean it could be getting a delay? Reached for comment this week, Capcom tells Kotaku that the game is no longer targeted for late…
By Brian Crecente Published September 20, 2011 -
What Do A Wookiee, A Dead Or Alive Fighter and Scarlett Johansson Have in Common?
First it was planking, now it’s… ScarlettJohanssonning? Yes, that’s a thing. Apparently people are posting pictures of their bare bottoms (and sometimes tops) on the Internet in solidarity with Scarlett Johnansson in the wake of her surprise Birthday Suit image popping up on the Internet, sexblog Fleshbot points out. (NSFW link) Among those posing over…
By Brian Crecente Published September 20, 2011 -
Verizon On Xbox 360 Cable Box Rumor: “Stay Tuned For the Future”
Yesterday we noted that there was a rumor making the rounds that deals between Microsoft and Comcast and Verizon to turn the Xbox 360 into a cable box were imminent. Now Verizon seems to be hinting that someone along those lines could indeed be in the works. In a story titled “A Borderless Entertainment Future”,…
By Brian Crecente Published September 20, 2011 -
From Cosplay to Vita, Boats to Gree, Here’s All of Our Tokyo Game Show Coverage
The Tokyo Game Show is wrapped, and for the most part so is our coverage. And what a lot of stories, pictures, hands-ons and videos there were. Here, in a neat little package for you, is the entirety of Brian Ashcraft and Luke Plunkett’s coverage from the biggest game show in Japan. The newest stories…
By Brian Crecente Published September 20, 2011
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