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Finally a Game To Play on my 3DS
SUE: | This is my first time playing Cave Story. It’s quite fun. No wonder so many people suggest it. (Photo by Brian Crecente) Thank Ratchet and Clank for This Wonderful Disney Game The latest Ratchet & Clank game is wearing a Disney costume While Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension is based on…
By Brian Crecente Published June 29, 2011 -
Somewhere Between Predator Drones and Battlefield Have We Lost Sight of the Horrors of War?
Predator drones and other high-tech weaponry are turning war into video games and making the use of military force a more, perhaps too, palatable option, an Aljazeera op-ed piece argues. In The Virtue-less war of the ‘Nintendo bomber’, Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, a Glasgow-based sociologist and the co-editor of Pulsemedia.org, writes that clinicalizing war with the…
By Brian Crecente Published June 29, 2011 -
Shangri-La’s Moving Walls, Nasty Monkeys and Pungee Traps
Is it just me or are these zombie maps for Call of Duty: Black Ops getting increasingly complex with each new download pack? This time around map pack Annihilation gamers get a chance to take on the zombies of the fabled city of Shangri-La. That means angry little monkeys, some neat pungee traps and lots…
By Brian Crecente Published June 29, 2011 -
Millions of Virtual Farms Worth Tens of Billions of Real Dollars
The company behind FarmVille, Mafia Wars, CityVille (and perhaps the death of PC gaming) may be going public this week, valued as high as $20 billion, Reuters reports. A source familiar with the initial public offering tells Reuters that Zynga plans to raise $1.5 billion to $2 billion and could file paperwork as early as…
By Brian Crecente Published June 29, 2011 -
Thank Ratchet and Clank for This Wonderful Disney Game
The latest Ratchet & Clank game is wearing a Disney costume While Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension is based on an upcoming television movie for Disney’s popular cartoon, the game play will feel very familiar to fans of Insomniac Game’s famous lombax and robot. That’s because the PS3 and Wii title is developed…
By Brian Crecente Published June 29, 2011 -
Capcom Denies Used Game Sales Had Anything to Do With “Forever Saves”
The inability to start fresh on a copy of The Mercenaries 3D after someone has played it was a design decision that had nothing to do with second-hand game sales, Capcom tells Kotaku Saved data on copies of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is permanent. Since Nintendo 3DS games are saved directly onto the card,…
By Brian Crecente Published June 28, 2011 -
Aliens, Arcades, Pulsing Apples: These Are Call of Duty‘s Latest Multiplayer Maps
The Annihilation map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops just hit the Xbox 360 bringing with it four new multiplayer maps and another zombie-killing cooperative adventure. Here’s a quick look at the multiplayer maps Drive-in, Hanger 18, Hazard and Silo. There’s some interesting little things in each of the maps. Hanger 18 seems to…
By Brian Crecente Published June 28, 2011 -
Check Out this $950 Version of Pong
iTari looks to turn the iPad into a full blown television console for a mere $950. That’s the cost of an iPad, two iPhones and the cables needed to hook the iPad into the television. Steep cost of entry aside there’s also the whole lack of support issue with only Pong running on the iTari…
By Brian Crecente Published June 28, 2011 -
This Thursday Retro Game Master Takes on Super Fantasy Zone
This week on Retro Game Master The Kacho takes on Sega Mega Drive classic Super Fantasy Zone in an epic struggle to avenge the death of Opa-Opa’s father. Released in Japan in 1992 on the Sega Mega Drive and Europe a year later, Super Fantasy Zone didn’t make it to the U.S. officially until it…
By Brian Crecente Published June 28, 2011 -
Tiny Addictive Towers
Tiny TOWERING Towers | I lost much of my weekend to the iPhone’s Tiny Towers. And it wasn’t just me. Tristan and Trish too spent the weekend operating elevators, stocking stores and building floors. Damn you, Russ, Damn you to hell!!! (Photo by Brian Crecente) First Amendment Trumps California in Supreme Court Battle Over Violent…
By Brian Crecente Published June 27, 2011 -
Kotick, Riccitiello, Levine and More Praise Supreme Court Victory
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court put to rest, perhaps finally, the debate over not only whether video games are protected speech, but whether they are art. We reached out to more than half a dozen of the best game makers and publishers in the U.S. to get their reaction. Read on to read what…
By Brian Crecente Published June 27, 2011 -
Wimoweh Your Way Through This Zombie Video
Pungee stick grenades, exploding wind-up monkeys all set to a catchy tune! While I doubt The Kingston Trio will be singing when you play the Shangri-La map in Call of Duty: Black Ops’ upcoming download map pack, everything else will be in there. The pack, along with a clutch of multiplayer maps, hit Xbox Live…
By Brian Crecente Published June 27, 2011 -
Playstation Portable Dual Packs Brings $15 Two-Game Bundles To Stores
New PSP Dual Pack bundles featuring two bundled games grabbed from the “Greatest Hits” and “Favorites” collections hits both retail and the Playstation Network store this week. The first three set to hit stores this week are: Secret Agent Clank and Daxter; Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow and Killzone Liberation; and Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror and…
By Brian Crecente Published June 27, 2011 -
Crysis 2 Gets Sexy on the PC Today, Map Editor on Wednesday
As predicted, Crysis 2’s Ultra Upgrade hit today, giving PC gamers full DirectX support for the shooter. What’s that mean? If your computer has the brawn you’re going to get tessellation, water rendering improvements, high quality HDR motion blur, and higher quality texture formats. Starting Wednesday computer gamers will also be able to pick up…
By Brian Crecente Published June 27, 2011 -
Video Games Are Ruled Protected Speech, Now What?
Ending a years-long battle with California legislators, the U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled that video games are protected free speech and that their sale to minors can’t be criminalized. More important than that historic ruling is the reminder by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice that video games, like books, plays and movies, communicate ideas.…
By Brian Crecente Published June 27, 2011 -
Hold Onto Your First Amendment Rights…
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide today on Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, a case that could make the sale of “ultra-violent” video games to children illegal in California. Here’s your primer on the case. Decision could come any moment.
By Brian Crecente Published June 27, 2011 -
Retro Game Master Episode 1: Ninja Gaiden
In this first episode of Retro Game Master, our hero, Shinya Arino, faces off against grueling Nintendo Entertainment System game Ninja Gaiden Released in Japan in 1988 on the Famicom to coincide with the release of an arcade game by the same name, Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden featured 20 levels spread over six acts and a…
By Brian Crecente Published June 24, 2011 -
Bodycount Mantra: Gun, Bullet, World
Codemasters has an enthusiastic write up about their upcoming shooter Bodycount over on the official Playstation Blog. Codemaster community manager Benjamin Bateman calls the shooter a “gun centerfold” and says that everything about the game is focused on the experience of “squeezing the trigger, hearing bullets tear through the air and watching them obliterate enemies…
By Brian Crecente Published June 24, 2011 -
Check Out this Sexy, Custom Resident Evil 3DS Case
This custom 3DS case came to Kotaku from Capcom along with an embargoed copy of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. While I’ve seen a few 3DS cases in stores, this is the first fitted case I’ve gotten my hands on and it’s pretty rad. In particular, I’m a fan of how subtle it is. There’s…
By Brian Crecente Published June 24, 2011
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