Brian Crecente

New York Comic Con: It’s a Wrap (Up)

That’s it, all our coverage, our pictures, our impressions and our stories from this year’s New York Comic Con. In case you missed something here’s our full run down: Cosplay The Cosplay of NYCC (Part 1) This Blue Dragon ‘Shu’ Mascot Is Really Creepy The Cosplay of NYCC (Part Two) Culture Square-Enix Brings Toys, Not…

KenKen Makes Math… Fun?

The New York Times this weekend started running a new numerical logic puzzle from Japan called KenKen next to their crossword puzzle. It’s sort of like sudoku, but with math involved. I found this web version of the game that lets you play online and get your solutions right away, without having to wait around…

Snoop Dogg Gets Variety Show, Coming to Rock Band

Grammy-Award nominated rapper and man-about-Hollywood Snoop Dogg just landed a new MTV-aired variety with benefits. The benefits? He’s also going to be releasing songs from his “impressive catalog of hits” on Rock Band. The TV show, called Dogg After Dark, will feature interviews, sketch-comedy and musical performances. It has been picked up for a seven…

Four New Glimpses of Brutal Legend

Due out this fall on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, everything I’ve seen about Double Fine’s Brutal Legend just leaves me hankering for more. But I’m tightly gripping my pessimism until after I see some lengthy hands-on gameplay with the Jack Black vehicle.

The Chronicles of Riddick – NY Comic Con

The Chronicles of Riddick’s appearance at the weekend’s New York Comic Con brought with it a half dozen screen shots and a new trailer. Buy or rent?

Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack Hits March

Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1 hits the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 in March with four new maps, including one for the game’s cooperative Nazi Zombie mode. Nightlife is a multiplayer map in war-ravaged Berlin. Knee Deep will have you attacking fortified Japanese positions in a jungle setting. Station takes…

Light Bikes is a Handful of Tron Fun

I downloaded Light Bikes to my iPhone last night, I was surprised to find how fun it was in short blasts. The 99 cent iGame has you maneuvering a light bike in a third-person perspective ala Tron against three computer-controlled light bikes. The graphics are fairly basic, but it works. You hold the iPhone sideways…

Hideo Kojima to Keynote Game Developers Conference

Hideo Kojima, the man behind the Metal Gear series and director of Kojima Productions, will talk about creative game design challenges and the design philosophies behind the Metal Gear series at this year’s GDC. Solid Game Design: Making the Impossible Possible, will be Kojima’s first appearance at the Game Developers Conference. “The Game Developers Conference…

Scholastic Called Out For Selling Games in Schools

I was surprised. late last year, when I discovered venerable publisher Scholastic selling video games during their annual book fair at my son’s elementary school. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one. The U.S. publisher of Harry Potter books is under attack by a children’s advocacy group for marketing toys, lip gloss and video games to…

Update: Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. Demo Hits Consoles This Week

A downloadable demo for Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. hits the Xbox 360 on Feb. 11, Ubisoft announced today. The demo will arrive on the PC and Playstation 3 on Feb. 26, in North America. The 360 version will hit at 2 a.m. Pacific time. For those living in Europe you can get the PS3 version of…

Dead Rising 2!

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Goodbye College Loan, I Hated You! Yes! Dead Rising 2. Turns out that video your translated the japanese characters off of was a bit of viral marketing that hit days before the official announcement. Nice to see that your translation of that Famitsu article wasn’t wrong. I wonder if anyone…

Force Unleashed Wins Writers Guild Award

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was honored for best videogame writing at the annual 2009 Writers Guild Awards over the weekend. The awards, presented by the Writers Guild of America, West and Writers Guild of America, East, are for achievement in writing for screen, television, radio, news, promotional and video games. The writing was OK…

Why Dead Rising 2 May Not Have Photography

The first thing most of us noticed when Capcom confirmed Dead Rising 2 was the lack of the original title’s lead Frank West. The second? Where’s the camera? There’s an argument for not including the camera, so prevalent, so beloved in the first Dead Rising, in this sequel. In the original Dead Rising you play…

New York Comic Con Cosplay, Previews and Toys

Jim Reilly spent a good chunk of his weekend hanging out at the New York Comic Con so you didn’t have to. Here’s a run down of the posts filed so far from the event: Prototype Preview: Slick, But Not A Stand Out New Wolfenstein Features Otherworld X-Men Origins: Wolverine Preview: A Bloody Good Time…

F.E.A.R. 2 TV Ad Is Almariffic

Warner Bros. Interactive just dropped this new television advertisements for upcoming shooter F.E.A.R. 2 on us. Not as creepy as I think it should have been, but it still manages to work a couple of good startles in there.

inFamous in Four Shots

Here’s four new screenshots for the Playstation 3 exclusive to along with our preview of inFamous.

Namco Confirms Ditching Splatterhouse Developers

California-based developer Bottlerocket Entertainment is no longer working on Splatterhouse for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, Namco confirmed to Kotaku today. “We have decided to part ways with BottleRocket Entertainment but we are committed to bringing Splatterhouse to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 later this year,” a Namco spokesperson told Kotaku. “At this…

Indie Games Summit Includes Rants, iPhone HowTos and a Little Love

This year’s Independent Games Summit will include talks from the people behind World of Goo, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Audiosurf, Flower and EA’s Play label. To name just a few. The full list for the Game Developers Conference indie fest just hit the site. Here’s a run down of what looks like some of the more…

Pokemon Boutique Invades Toys R Us

Pokemon, already a mainstay at Toys R Us nationwide, are getting dedicated areas inside the national toy story chain and the chain’s flagship Times Square store is getting a Pokemon boutique. The Toys R Us Times Square Pokemon boutique opens in April and will remain open until the end of the year. Other stores around…

Dead Rising 2: It’s Real And It’s Spectacular

We were pretty sure that Dead Rising 2 video was real on Friday, now we’re positive, with Capcom officially announcing the game coming to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Capcom says that Dead Rising 2 will take the franchise to a “new level of zombie-killing fun with tens of thousands of zombies” and a…