Rumored by Reuters last night, Microsoft this morning confirmed that they are buying Internet voice talk and video service Skype for $8.5 billion. They also confirmed that the service will “support” devices like the Xbox, Kinect and Windows Phone and that it will be connected to Xbox Live and other Microsoft communities. They will also…
While still unannounced, sources who have seen the game in action tell Kotaku that the next Call of Duty will be a Modern Warfare 3 that pushes the bar on what people have come to expect from the series. And it hits this fall. The yet-to-be announced sequel is under development by Infinity Ward, though…
AD ART | A modified Brink ad spotted by reader Israel in a New York subway. Photo: Israel) Is the bin Laden Kill Game Cathartic, Educational, or Just Ghoulish? Osama bin Laden hunches quietly in the darkness of an Abbottabad basement, rifle clutched in his hands. He swivels smoothly left. Stops. Then swivels smoothly right.…
The deadline Sony set for itself to start restoring service to their online gaming and music networks passed over the weekend with no update and no success. Today Sony officials told Kotaku that there is no new estimate for when they plan to start putting the service back online. “We’re working hard, doing everything we…
Brink will still hit the Playstation 3 as planned despite the ongoing Playstation Network outage, the developer tells Eurogamer. While the game mostly lives online, it does have the ability to be played with bots and in single-player mode. [Eurogamer]
Osama bin Laden hunches quietly in the darkness of an Abbottabad basement, rifle clutched in his hands. He swivels smoothly left. Stops. Then swivels smoothly right. His face is frozen in a thousand mile stare, eyes unblinking. “We found him.” The game developer sounds relieved. The virtual bin Laden, created over a rush of all-nighters…
Gamers can play through the final, fatal moments of Osama Bin Laden’s last stand in Abbottabad, Pakistan in the latest, last episode of video war game Kuma War II In The Death of Osama bin Laden, players are randomly selected to take on the roles of either U.S. Navy SEALS or the men defending Bin…
MOMMY DEAREST | A Fear 3 family photo in frame sent to me by the folks at Day 1 Studios for Mother’s Day. Photo: Brian Crecente) Kill Osama Bin Laden on Saturday One hundred and six missions later, virtual war ends for Kuma War with the playable, video game reenactment of the killing of Osama…
One hundred and six missions later, virtual war ends for Kuma War with the playable, video game reenactment of the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Earlier this week Kotaku broke the news that Kuma Games was returning to their semi-retired Kuma War first-person shooter series to create a final mission for the game that recreates…
Two long-time members of hacker group Anonymous tell the Financial Times that members of the loosely organized entity are likely behind the hacking attack on Sony, despite the group’s official denials. “The hacker that did this was supporting OpSony’s movements,” one member of Anonymous told the FT, naming the group that went after Sony earlier…
Motorstorm: Apocalypse is a fun, frenetic rolling tour through a world torn asunder by natural devastation. This is the sort of driving you’d never want to do in real life. But what if you had to? Don’t worry, Jalopnik‘s got your back. How to drive away from a tsunami Amazingly, videos of tsunami waves coming…
European Parkour tour Beyond the Brink had Daniel Ilabaca recreating the freerunning of Splash Damage shooter Brink in the real world. This video gives you a look at the running from a first-person perspective in both the game and reality.
Brink has some shocking large numbers connected to it. There are, for instance, 45 ways to die in the game and one hundred times the weapon sounds. But those are the small numbers. The big numbers? They run into the quadrillions. Wait did I just make that up? Here is the full rundown of crazy…
Goblins all around me, I be hacking them all up, hacking them all up… [Thanks Dominique]
Sony’s had a tough month or so. First they had a series of denial of service attacks to deal with, and then, perhaps connected, a massive intrusion of several of their networks that forced them to shut down most everything they had online. We’re all hoping that the service returns in time for this weekend,…
BUZZ | YouGov tracks brand awareness. This graph shows positive buzz plummeting for Sony in the days following the breach. (YouGov) A New, Five-Minute Look at Id’s Baby They made Doom. They made Quake. And next from the makers of mono-syllabic first-person shooters that always, at least, look great, is Rage. We’ve got a new…
Minecraft gamer Capp00 set out to recreate his real-world home inside the block virtuality of Minecraft He wanted to create a 1:1 model, but the Minecraft world isn’t big enough to handle that. It just wouldn’t do it, he says. So he decided to go with an 18:1 scale. Capp00 also made a couple of…
Super hard, super gibby platformer Super Meat Boy gets its own level editor on Steam today. “We always wanted to release a basic level editor, but the idea started to balloon when we decided to buy servers and program a fully automated level portal (Super Meat World) to support these levels as a bonus chapter…
THQ may no longer be making a 3DS version of their Grand-Theft-Auto-like Saints Row for Nintendo’s 3DS. Saints Row: Drive By was apparently canceled by the publisher, according to a report by Joystiq. The Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network spinoff was also destined for a 3DS remake. It now seems unlikely that will happen.…
Portal 2‘s Atlas and P-Body in all of their LEGO glory (Flickr, thanks James)
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