Spanish police this morning say they have arrested three involved in the hacking of Sony’s Playstation Network, which lead to Sony shutting down the Playstation 3’s network for a month, locking nearly 80 million gamers out of playing online. All three were freed without bail pending formal charges. The New York Times reports that they…
I can barely ask the question before Tomb Raider’s Karl Stewart has an answer. “That will never happen again,” he says. “We want to create a visceral experience. We want people to look at Lara and see the psychological aspect of her character. “Having a real Lara out there doing cartwheels kind of destroys that.”…
Aliens: Colonial Marines will be an Aliens experience in three acts, an interactive exploration of the story that follows Alien 3, which promises to delve into both the horror and the action of the storied franchise. That’s a tall order, but Gearbox Studio’s president Randy Pitchford says his team is up for it. Pitchford’s knowledge,…
Aliens: Colonial Marines is everything I’d want in an Aliens game starring tragically overconfident space Marines. It is spectacular with sprays of gunfire, acidic green blood, and horrific death. It is the rolling retreat of Marines in the face of an ocean of crawling, face-hugging, meat-rending xenomorphs. But before we get into the half hour…
Earlier this week we learned that Gearbox Software’s Aliens: Colonial Marines is coming to the Wii U. Today the developer explained some of the really cool ways you’ll be playing the game with Nintendo’s tablet-like controller for their new console. The most important thing Randy Pitchford told us during our discussion about the Wii U…
There is something wonderful about air chainsawing zombies. And air cleavering them. And air sheering them. I stand in a darkened room facing a big screen, feet apart, my hands are held in front of me as if I’m holding a chainsaw. On the TV I am. More specifically, two disembodied virtual arms and hands…
Fable: The Journey is an odd amalgam: a mix of on-the-rails shooter, of hand-waving magic, of Fable storytelling. It is, Peter Molyneux tells me, a departure from the numbered Fable games. “One, two, three was all about the bloodline and you played a hero and you had the destiny of a bloodline,” Molyneux said. “In…
The recoil of guns in Battlefield 3 is deeply satisfying, especially when it’s followed by an enemy staggering and then falling. There’s still much to be seen and experienced with Battlefield 3, but at this year’s E3, Electronic Arts is giving press a first chance to go hands on with the game’s multiplayer. In particular,…
Two player cooperative gameplay pops in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s Survival Mode, shown to press at the E3 Expo today. In the new mode, one of several coop modes coming to Activision’s fall shooter, players have to survive increasingly difficult waves of enemies. Infinity Ward’s Mark Rubin joined me for my session of…
This is Resident Evil as I remember it: Eerie, tense, long moments of exploration punctuated by brief, startling encounters. Resident Evil: Revelations, due out next year on Nintendoʼs 3DS, is a brand new title with roots firmly planted in the early days of Resident Evil, back when the game was unequivocally about surviving the horrors…
We’re here down front at Nintendo’s 2011 E3 press conference. This is the last of the big press conferences of this E3. And with Nintendo’s next big console expected to be unveiled and detailed, perhaps it will be the best as well. What do we know about the next Wii? Officially, not a whole lot.…
With a story penned by New York Times bestselling author Jim DeFelice, overhauled dog fighting and the ability to hop into the controls of a gunship, Ace Combat Assault Horizon is working hard to change the way you think about the series. The biggest change seems to be the way players will handle dogfights. The…
No Tomb Raider reboot has been as substantial, none could be as meaningful. In delivering to gamers a young, inexperienced Lara Croft, Crystal Dynamics doesn’t seek to just reboot the series, but to make it’s heroine into something we as gamers connect with emotionally. It is a gamble, but when that looks like it will…
Hot Shots Golf for the NGP is everything you love about the series with some smart additions that lean heavily on the portable’s special capabilities. I had a chance to check the toonish golfing game out last month and really loved what I saw. The first think I noticed when I picked the game up…
Players have created more than two million mods and tracks on their own for popular PS3 kart racer Modnation Racers, and all of them will be playable on the NGP version of the game when it hits, Sony says. The yet-to-be-named NGP version of the game was designed from the ground up for Sony’s upcoming…
Our second look at Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, a year after it was first revealed, shows a much-changed, much more tech-heavy, augmented-reality shooter than what we remember seeing in 2010. The game’s setting remains firmly planted in the shadow wars of the “near future,” though the spectacular tech of what Ubi insists is coming soon,…
This may be a bit of a leap. But we’ve spotted Gearbox Software’s Randy Pitchford in the VIP section for Ubisoft’s upcoming press conference. We’ve also heard, through sources, that he’s here to talk about a new game they’re working on for Ubisoft. Could it be a new Brothers in Arms? It would mean three…
With the promise of more fluid combat, vicious melee attacks, tougher enemies and a nimbler Commander Shepard, Mass Effect 3 is shaping up to be the game Bioware says will be definitive Mass Effect experience. “Mass Effect was always designed as a trilogy,” Bioware game director Casey Hudson told a gathering of press, “and Mass…
LOS ANGELES, CA | A woman picks up a mock grenade launcher at the EA exhibit at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 16, 2010. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) The Unsung Secret of Great Games-and How Some Games Get It So Wrong Any great video game…
Sony’s new gaming portable is priced just right, at least in the company’s eyes. In fact, the NGP’s price was determined before they started designing the dual-thumbstick portable. While Sony Computer Entertainment’s head of worldwide studios Shuhei Yoshida declined to tell Kotaku the official price for the NGP, something we suspect may be unveiled at…
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