Last Friday UC Berkeley’s StarCraft 101 class kicked off, offering students a chance to receive general credits for learning about the art of war in the popular strategy computer game. GamePro was on hand for the first class, recording a three and a half minute chunk of the class, which started out with the instructor…
The sequel to 2004’s Red Dead Revolver, Rockstar’s take on spaghetti westerns, is coming to the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 this fall, Rockstar Games announced this morning. Red Dead Redemption is the story of former outlaw John Marston and will take place at the turn of the 20th century when the “lawless and chaotic…
If you’re going to be at the New York Comic Con later this week, you might want to check out the panel hosted by Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal and MTV’s Stephen Totilo. The two will be talking with Fallout 3’s Toff Howard and BioShock’s Ken Levine in what they’re calling Vs. Mode Live. The one hour…
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Writing About Jobs We still have plenty of time before Killzone 2 official hits, but I’ve been receiving a lot of messages from people asking why we haven’t reviewed the Playstation 3 exclusive. The simple answer is, it’s not ready to be reviewed yet. Sure the on-disc experience is mostly…
The New South Wales Police are asking people to contact them if they see retailers selling World of Warcraft or other massively multiplayer online games. Both the police and the attorney general’s office in New South Wales say that the New South Wales Classification Enforcement Act prohibits publishers and retailers from selling unclassified computer games…
A 27-year-old Missouri man was arrested for having sex with a 15-year-old he met on Xbox Live. Edward Stout faces federal charges of coercion of a minor over the Internet and traveling across state lines to engage in sex with a minor. Stout, a card dealer on a riverboat casino, met the teen last March…
Best Buy may be taking a page from Hollywood premiere events for big video game events in the future. The change is being led by a store full of ambling zombies and a chainsaw-wielding Dr. Salvador. On March 13, the Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania Best Buy will convert part of their store into a haunted house. They…
The official site for Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings now includes a nice selection of screens and some new gameplay details. In Staff of Kings, Indiana Jones will be racing from San Francisco to Panama on a quest for the Staff of Moses. Most importantly, you will be able to wield your Wii…
Mega Bloks, best known for their over-sized, LEGO-like building toys for ham-fisted infants, is releasing Halo Wars-themed toys this summer. The deal cut between Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising, which handles licensing for the teen-rated game, and MEGA Brands will see the toy maker developing construction toy sets based on the key characters and…
We’ve heard June for Prototype before, but now it’s official. In their run down of what’s happening at this week’s New York Comic Con, Activision says that Prototype will be coming out in June. If you believe British retailers that would be June 27, at least in the UK. Activision will be giving fans a…
Video game use among children is, if you happen to be a parent, a worrisome issue. Even I worry about it with my own son. Today’s Irish Times has a fairly thoughtful story up about the topic. Instead of running around worrying that video games are to blame for all of today’s wrongs, the article…
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: “Now The Hell Will Start” We published K, our monthly features magazine, on Saturday. The reaction seemed to be mostly positive, though some people did seem a little confused about it. We’re never going to print or sell the thing, that would be crazy. First off it would cost too…
Yes, impressions. Not the review. We decided to hold off on our formal review until we can play the Playstation 3 game online under more typical conditions. Instead I’ve written up some of my initial thoughts from playing through the entire single-player campaign on the average difficulty setting. It’s easy when playing a game in…
The second annual Life. Love Game Design Challenge went live today, the first day of National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week in the U.S. The object of the competition is for people to create a Flash game about teen dating violence prevention and to do so without violent content or a violent theme.…
iPhone appears to be one of the main drivers behind mobile gaming growth, according to the comScore report released on Friday. iPhone owners accounted for 14 percent of mobile game downloaders in November, with 32.4 percent of all iPhone users reporting they downloaded a game in the month, compared with a market average of 3.8…
I’ve been playing around with Payback on my iPhone for the past week or so. The game is a top down action game very reminiscent of the original Grand Theft Auto. Did I say reminiscent? It’s really closer to a copycat. I haven’t really played it enough yet to write up a formal review, but…
This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo is taking a giant step towards returning to the glitzy, people-packed shows of three years ago, with attendance expected to be about ten times last year’s show and the exhibit halls nearly the same size as the shows that once included ear-splitting rock bands, fire juggling and bikini-clad models. E3…
Excerpts from Columbine: A True Crime Story, a victim, the killers and the nation’s search for answers by Jeff Kass Reprinted with express permission of the author In 1995 Eric and Dylan, as freshmen, entered a new Columbine High. The school had undergone its first major renovation, tagged $13.4 million and a ceremony welcomed the…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Tonight, I Went On A Date So I just got a picture in my email from Denver Children’s Hospital showing all of the toys they received thanks to the donations Kotaku readers made to last year’s Child’s Play Funde Razor. Check out those dolls! And a wagon. All for children…
Things in Germany got nasty this week as the annual Games Convention, once the largest video game convention in the world, suffered a life-threatening schism. Despite bringing in more than 200,000 visitors to its Leipzig conference center last summer, game publishers decided to break away from the city to move things to the larger venues…
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