Brian Crecente

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 the social platform Battlelog, according to the post on the official website for the game. The beta is set in Paris…

A New Homefront is Coming and the People Who Made Far Cry Are Making It

The folks behind Crysis and Far Cry have teamed up with THQ to work on the next Homefront, the publisher said this morning. The game isn’t due out for another 1 1/2 to 2 years, the company said in a press release. “We see Homefront as a really strong universe that has a lot of…

Mommy Dearest

Pregnancy: The Game – 1UP’s Matt Leone got pregnant for Tokyo Game Show. Talk about commitment. The 2011 Guide to Fall Video Games Traditionally one of the busiest times of the year for major game releases, this fall game makers seem to be focusing on an increasingly loud mantra: More » Radballs Is, Like, A Totally…

Rumor: Xbox as Comcast, Verizon Cable Box Imminent

Microsoft has been saying for months, for years, that they’re in talks with folks at cable companies about using the Xbox 360 as a cable box, but Digiday reports today that the company is close to signing deals with Comcast and Verizon. Citing multiple sources, digital media site Digiday reports that Microsoft is exploring a…

How Gears of War 3 Deals With Salty Language When You Don’t Wanna Hear It

We already knew you could turn on mature language and gore filters for Gears of War 3, but here’s a look at how that language censor works in action. Be warned, if you want to experience the Xbox 360 shooter completely free of lightly spoiling dialog, you might want to give this short video a…

Angry Birds Tournament Held 32,000 Feet In the Air

The Angry Birds Asian Challenge will have gamers competing in the popular casual game aboard a Finnair flight from Finland to Singapore later this week, the airliner said today. An Angry Birds non-alcoholic beverage and fried eggs will be served at the Helsinki Airport press conference to kick off the competition. What this all about,…

The 2011 Guide to Fall Video Games

Traditionally one of the busiest times of the year for major game releases, this fall game makers seem to be focusing on an increasingly loud mantra: Quality over quantity. There will still be plenty for gamers to do in the lengthening nights and colder days, but perhaps not as much to pick from. Here’s a…

Tokyo Game Explosion Day 4: From Massive Crowds to Plentiful Play

The Tokyo Game Show smashed all (TGS) records again this year, bringing a whopping 222,600 people to the massive convention center to play games, dress up and check out the PS Vita. Our own Brian Ashcraft and Luke Plunkett were there from the first day to the last (yes, even the on the weekend) to…

Lord of Souls

The Elder… Novel? – This Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion novel landed on my doorstep today. I’ll have to read it after I finish up that StarCraft: Ghost book I’m chugging through now. Tokyo Game Explosion Day 2: Faux Fights, Real Hostesses, Monster Hunter and Testicular Fortitude The Tokyo Game Show rolled on today. There were…

The Most Amazing Double Dragon You’ll Ever See

A laser-cut Double Dragon II as seen at the Old School Video Games Show at Gallery 1988 Venice. The image was laser-cut into plywood and then framed in bambo. Photos by Aled Lewis. Aled is a London based designer and illustrator whose work appears on t-shirts, on posters and in books and other assorted miscellaneous…

Dead Island: The Kotaku Review

This is the part where I’d try to artfully describe how I meticulously took apart a zombie with an electrified fire axe on a pristine beach, sky-blue waters lapping at my knees. I even took notes. I’d probably explain that on my second play-through of Dead Island I switched from the Xbox 360 button-pushing attacks…

Tokyo Game Explosion Day 2: Faux Fights, Real Hostesses, Monster Hunter and Testicular Fortitude

The Tokyo Game Show rolled on today. There were boats, booth companions, news and gamplay. There was even a fake fight. And all of that before the Tokyo Game Show opens its doors to the masses over the weekend. Here’s a complete round up of Brian Ashcraft and Luke Plunkett’s coverage from Day 2: Final…

Retro Game Master Episode 12: Golden Axe

This week on the season finale of Retro Game Master the Kacho takes on Golden Axe. Released in 1989 by Sega for the arcade, this high fantasy side-scroller beat ’em up later made its way to a number of different consoles. In the game players take on the role of a dwarf, a barbarian or…

Patches, The Good Kind

Tokyo Game Show – There was a time when patches weren’t just to fix broken things. Holding Out Against a Hero You see the icon, you read the name, you boot it up, you think Tiny Heroes is about deploying a diminutive unit to plunder the gold from the dungeon laying out there before it.…

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Quiet Little Moments Make Battlefield 3 Stunning

The first thing I notice when I maneuver Sgt. Henry Blackburn, 1st Recon Marine, through the smoking door frame of the Tehran apartment complex isn’t the smoldering bodies lying on the ground nearby, it’s the piece of paper drifting through the room. I follow it with the tip of my gun, watching it drift around…

Dead Island Devs Push Back DLC, Refocus Energy on Bug Squashing

Dead Island‘s expansion packs, both announced and not, may be hitting later than planned as developers refocus their energy on fixing the game, Deep Silver tells Kotaku “Right now the Dead Island development team’s priority is working on fixes and updates across all platforms so that we can take care of all of the fans…

Dead Island Nears 2M

Buggy, but fun hack-and-slash zombie role-playing game Dead Island shipped more than a million copies to stores in the first few days of release and expects to send out 2 million globally by the end of week, the publishers say. Of course, these aren’t sold to gamers numbers, but it is still pretty impressive.

A Chance to Play Through Dead Island’s Pre-Story?

This is sort of known, but I thought still worth talking among you fellow (few?) Dead Island fans. In this screenshot of the game’s menu we see three bits of unlockable content. The Ripper Mod is the weapon blueprint you get with a pre-order of the game. The Bloodbath Arena is a $10 downloadable pack…

A (Light) Guide to Star Trek Infinite Space

I picked up this handy-dandy Star Trek Infinite Space guide while meeting with the Gameforge folks here in New York earlier today. I thought you might find some of the details on the free-to-play MMO interesting. Here’s a video of the space combat, in case you missed it. Don’t forget to click on the tiny…