TOYS | Darius Mason protects my den table from a Red Faction Armageddon invasion. (Photo by Crecente) The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: The Kotaku Review The stench hits me first. Before the gurgle and hiss, the skittering of twisted claws against bare stone, the stale air of the abandoned mine delivers a stomach-churning whiff…
It’s only 45 seconds long, but for this early look at StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, you may still want to sit down.
Hail to the king baby, 2K Games just released a a Duke Nukem Forever Soundboard for the iPhone and iPad. The free app includes such darling phrases as: “I’ve got balls of steel” Anybody mind if I take off my pants?” “I had eggs for breakfast, your mom had sausage” “My job is to kick…
NOT POCKET CHESS | The Automaton Chess Player, shown in New York in 1845 Original Artwork: Illustrated London News. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Modern Warfare 3 in Action Leaves Me Wanting… But What? Modern war in modern cities: Gunfights in the walled canyons of New York City’s Financial District, rolling battles in the subterranean…
Twisted Metal dev David Jaffe tweeted this first look at the booth art being prepared for the game’s E3 outing next month. “BEHOLD: THE RISE OF SWEET BOT!!! Aka: a side of the still work in progress Twisted Metal E3 Booth. I’m loving it!” [davidscottjaffe]
Everything about Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning seems designed to lose my interest. There’s the title, the high fantasy setting, the silly race names. The entire game seems like a pastiche of all of the action role-playing titles that came before it. But then I played it and suddenly I was enthralled. I suppose it stands…
Ignore that this is a 3D game for Nintendo’s latest portable. Ignore that it’s been nearly a decade since we’ve seen a new title staring Joe Musashi. Embrace, instead, the fact that this is a Shinobi that fans of the 1987 side-scrolling arcade game may recognize and could come to love. I only had about…
Modern war in modern cities: Gunfights in the walled canyons of New York City’s Financial District, rolling battles in the subterranean train tunnels of London. This is the promise of Modern Warfare 3, as revealed during a press event in Los Angeles last week. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 doesn’t reinvent itself, but it…
CURSE YOU RED BARON | French scientist, engineer and aviator Robert Esnault-Pelterie, inventor of joystick control in aircraft. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) I’m A Little in Love With My New iPad Arcade Machine Last night I sat in front of an arcade machine in a darkened room of my house and played ’80s…
Last night I sat in front of an arcade machine in a darkened room of my house and played ’80s arcade games until well past midnight. While I haven’t given up on the idea of building a little arcade in my home, Ion’s iCade does a good enough job of replicating a form of the…
Markus “Notch” Persson tweeted a picture today of his popular PC game Minecraft running on the Xperia Play. The game, it seems, is set to be shown off during E3 on the Sony Ericcson device. Developer Mojang also confirmed to Kotaku this morning, that it will be appearing on Android before iPhone. [@notch]
NUDGENUDGE, WINKWINK | Dead or Alive Dimensions compelling photography mode. (Photo by Crecente) Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Goes Free and Online Only This Summer This isn’t Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, but it may be better, delivering tactical action and fast-paced play in an online only, free-to-play computer game. Ghost Recon Online goes into beta this…
What’s that I spy in this email from Sony Ericsson? Could it be Minecraft? Packed with imagery and references to Minecraft, it seems a safe bet to assume that the Sony Ericsson E3 party for their Xperia Play phone has got to be, at least in part, about the popular indie computer game. The party…
Called it! As we reported, along with just about everything else about the game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will indeed be hitting on Nov. 8, 2011, according to an Activision press release and last night’s trailer. The release also goes on to say the game is in development by Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer…
This isn’t Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, but it may be better, delivering tactical action and fast-paced play in an online only, free-to-play computer game. Ghost Recon Online goes into beta this summer with plans for a broader release in the second half of the year, and from what I played I can’t wait to spend…
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