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The Traveler’s Guide to E3
Once a year all things video game descend on Los Angeles for a nearly week-long celebration of gaming. The Electronic Enterainment Expo is three days of gaming, parties and news. But it’s also a lot of work, whether you’re there for business or just to take everything in. The show floor is packed wall-to-wall with…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2011 -
Farewell UMD
MUSEUM DISPLAY | A man looks at Universal Media Discs (UMD) that are used in Sony’s initial entrant into the handheld gaming device market, the PlayStation Personal (PSP), on opening day of the 10th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) May 12, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) We Played the NGP’s…
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
Check Out These Batman: Arkham City Batarang Controllers
Batman: Arkham City is getting its own LED-lit, bat-logoed controller, Power A tells Kotaku The officially licensed Batman: Arkham City controllers for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 include LED illumination effects with the ability to switch between seven built-in colors, dual rumble motors and soft-touch grips. The Xbox 360 version also includes an Xbox…
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
Rainbow Six Set to Invade New York With Home-Grown Terrorism
A new interpretation of the classic Rainbow Six, the tough-as-nails tactical shooter that asked gamers to carefully plan out the nuance of a breach like a choreographed dance, is in the works, a source familiar with the unannounced Ubisoft shooter tell Kotaku We’ve also heard that the game will in many ways be a departure…
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
Little Deviants Explores Everything Wondrous About the NGP
Packed with more than 30 minigames, Little Deviants is the perfect game to get to show off all of the features, controls and bells and whistles of the NGP. During my time with the game, I had a chance to check out three of the games in the collection. In the first, I tried my…
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
Pool is King on NGP’s Hustle Kings
Pool title Hustle Kings was the least impressive of the NGP titles on display last month during our title with Sony’s new portable. But that doesn’t make it a bad game. My short time with the pool game, developed by VooFoo Studios, gave me a sense of the controls, which are a solid port of…
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
Wipeout 2048 Delivers Voice Control, PS3 Competition to the NGP
Futuristic anti-grav racer Wipeout is a great fit for portables. It was a launch title for the original Playstation Portable and it looks like the latest iteration will be a launch title for the NGP. Wipeout 2048 offers smooth controls and liquid fast graphics as you zip around the game’s multi-tiered tracks against up to…
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
Super Stardust Delta Delivers a Shifted Perspective On the Shoot-Em Up
Not all NGP titles are reinventions of games found on the Playstation 3. Sometimes, like in the case of Super Stardust Delta, they’re simply an evolution. The changes made to shift Stardust onto Sony’s upcoming portable seem relatively minor: You still play with two thumbsticks, blasting enemies and rocks as you zip around the outer…
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
Uncharted Golden Abyss Delivers a Home Console Experience
Uncharted Golden Abyss is the best reason, but certainly not the only one, to buy Sony’s still-codenamed Next Generation Portable. It is a game that delivers what you’d expect from a console, it cuts no corners, offers no excuses. This is gaming on the go without the need to make do. This is the reason…
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
Everyday Shooter‘s Evolution Arrives on NGP as Sound Shapes
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that one of the most interesting, most surprising games coming to Sony’s new portable is the one from the man behind Indie darling Everyday Shooter In Everyday Shooter you’re presented an “album” of shoot-em-ups, each with its own gameplay-influencing music and aesthetic. You play through the album like some…
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
Reality Fighter Puts Your Face, Your World in NGP Brawling
It looks like Face Raiders has a challenger. When Nintendo’s 3DS launched in March we were blown away by its clever use of augmented reality gaming to bolster what was a relatively humdrum launch line-up. In particular, Face Raiders, which turned familiar faces into enemies, was a favorite among the gamers and non-gamers at Gawker…
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
We Played the NGP’s First Wave, The Future of Portable PlayStation Gaming
Uncharted Golden Abyss is the best reason, but certainly not the only one, to buy Sony’s still-codenamed Next Generation Portable. [Read our impressions] The Artsy Surprise Sound Shapes View the screenshots | Read our impressions Augmented-Reality Combat Reality Fighters View the screenshots | Read our impressions Today is NGP Day On the eve of E3……
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
By Brian Crecente Published June 2, 2011 -
OK, We Get It
Aliens Vs. Nerf Guns | A Colonial Marines gun shipped to our offices today. (Photo by Crecente. The Modern Warfare 3 Files: Team Perks, No Nukes, New Killstreaks It’s a fair guess that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will follow in the footsteps of last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops, shattering sales records…
By Brian Crecente Published June 1, 2011 -
The Modern Warfare 3 Files: Team Perks, No Nukes, New Killstreaks
It’s a fair guess that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will follow in the footsteps of last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops, shattering sales records and bringing even more people to video games. But it’s typically not the single player campaign, detailed here, that draws in those record-breaking numbers. While many, including myself,…
By Brian Crecente Published June 1, 2011 -
“I work for the company. But don’t let that fool you…”
Aliens Vs. Colonial Marines | A poster depicting the U.S.S. Sulaco from Aliens. (Photo by Crecente. Poster sent to my home from a C. Burke. ) Next Year Will See A Return To Metro 2033‘s Horrific Russian Underground They call it their flawed masterpiece. Released last year, 4A Games’ Metro 2033 gave gamers a chance…
By Brian Crecente Published May 31, 2011 -
Lord of the Rings: War in the North
By Brian Crecente Published May 31, 2011 -
Next Year Will See A Return To Metro 2033‘s Horrific Russian Underground
They call it their flawed masterpiece. Released last year, 4A Games’ Metro 2033 gave gamers a chance to experience a different sort of apocalypse, one untainted by Western views and culture. Metro 2033 was an apocalypse shaped by old world fears, and Russian ethos. Based on the novel of the same name by Russian author…
By Brian Crecente Published May 31, 2011 -
I’m In Awe of FIFA 12’s Precision Dribbling
Our dive into all things FIFA 12 last week at Electronic Arts started out with a blistering critique of everything wrong with FIFA 11 by one of the people involved in both games. The team wanted to deliver more of a revolution than an evolution with the coming of FIFA 12, we were told, but…
By Brian Crecente Published May 30, 2011 -
End of Nations Is Packed With Unrealized Potential
The promise of blending a real-time strategy game with legions of gamers around the world in a persistent online environment is great. But pulling that off remains a challenge. Earlier this month, I had a chance to sit down with End of Nations, Petroglyph Games’ attempt at cracking the code for a working, successful MMORTS.…
By Brian Crecente Published May 30, 2011
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