Brian Crecente

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Late Night Dinner

Date: 12/9/2010 Time: 17:00 Location: New York City If you didn’t have the time to read Kotaku today, here’s your five-minute glimpse. Lawrence Of Arabia Inspires Next Year’s Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception U.S. Pegs Kim Jong-Il’s Second Son As A Gaming Loser First Live Demo of Uncharted 3 Hits TVs Nationwide Next Week Kotaku’s 2010…

First Live Demo of Uncharted 3 Hits TVs Nationwide Next Week

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon will show off the first live demo of hotly-anticipated Playstation 3 exclusive Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception next Monday, Dec. 13. Show producer Gavin Purcell Tweets that developers Naughty Dog will be on hand to demonstrate the game to show host and gamer Fallon.

Lawrence Of Arabia Inspires Next Year’s Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception will draw inspiration from the life of T.E. Lawrence’s days as an archaeologist in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula when it hits the Playstation 3 late next year, Entertainment Weekly reports. The magazine reports that the game will play with the theme of deception while also focusing on Nathan Drake’s…

The Visually Sumptuous Infinity Blade

Gaming on the iPhone has now perhaps its greatest champion, a sword and magic fighter created by the team behind Gears of War. The $6 game, due out tomorrow, delivers the sort of graphics and gameplay familiar to console gamers, but long thought impossible on an Apple device. In this video I take a look…

The Mixer

Dear Ash, Welcome to the future. Apparently it will be all video. If you didn’t have the time to read Kotaku today, here’s your five-minute glimpse. Who Is Hunting Batman In Arkham City? How A Great Cartoon Became Three Great Flash Games Final Fantasy VIII’s Other Main Character Joins Dissidia Duodecim Would You Call This…

Apple Loses Its iPhone Game Guru

The man in charge of making sure that Apple’s popular portable devices play games well is no longer with the tech titan. Graeme Devine joined Apple’s iPhone Game Technologies division last year. Devine tells Kotaku that his last day at the company was Friday. He says he left the company to return to game development,…

How A Great Cartoon Became Three Great Flash Games

Luke isn’t the only huge fan of Adventure Time at Kotaku. I love watching the trippy adventures of Finn and sidekick dog Jake. And now, thanks to Cartoon Network, I can play the games. Sure, none of these are the, perhaps, overly complex game by cartoon creator Pendleton Ward. But they’re still pretty great. One…

Mirror’s Edge Coming to Browsers

Today Google made lots of news: They unveiled their new “cloud based” browser, they opened up a Google Store and, they started carrying a library of in-browser games including a new Mirror’s Edge title. Electronic Arts is teaming up with Google to bundle Poppit! with future releases of Chrome and say that thanks to Google’s…

Come Drink With Kotaku

To: Ash From: Crecente Not you Ash, that would be great, but the airfare would make it a crazy expensive bender. No I’m talking all of the folks out here in New York willing to brave the cold to hoist beers, talk games and maybe land some sub-par swag. DO IT! What You Missed The…

Come Party With (Almost Half) of Kotaku Tonight

There may be only three of the seven of us here in New York this week, but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to have a little reader gathering. We’ll be converging on Brooklyn’s Barcade at 8 p.m. tonight to do a bit of drinking, playing and talking. Swing on by if you’d like to…

Call of Duty: Black Ops is Seeping Into Our Heads, Setting Up House

Message from God, insight into our subconscious, predictions of the future: Many believe dreams offer some level of insight into something deeper than simply our daily preoccupations. So what can one read into the sudden surge of dreams featuring shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops. REMclounds, which tracks Twitter and Facebook for dream retellings, says…

Watch Other People Play Real Video Games on Your iPad

No, you still can’t play titles like Assassin’s Creed II or Borderlands on your fancy iPad tablet, but you can watch other people play those games thanks to OnLive’s Viewer. Well, you can if it works. Our attempts to use Gawker Media’s “smokin'” WIFI was met with mixed results, working one out of four attempts.…

Pac-Man, Pong, Space Invaders Shoved Into Black Eyed Peas Video

What’s with Black Eyed Peas’ latest album and its many allusions to video games. Their first video for album The Beginning looked a little bit Minecraft, a little bit 3D Dot Game Heroes. This video features cameos from Pong, Space Invaders, Pac-Man and others. But somehow I can’t see Fergie gaming.

In A Big Room With a Lot of TVs

To: Ash From: Crecente I’m sitting in the mothership as I write this. To my left: Mike McWhertor and Stephen Totilo. To my right: the glow of a waist to ceiling grid of giant televisions, each tracking the top stories across all of Gawker’s network. Mike’s laptop is buzzing, I’m going to punch it when…

Is the Future of PC Gaming Massive and Online?

This week, exceedingly popular computer game World of Warcraft undergoes a cataclysm, reshaping not just the game’s landscape but how you play in the game. But World of Warcraft’s reboot is nothing compared to the turmoil the entire genre is undergoing. Massively multiplayer online role-playing games, once the home of fantasy, magic and swordplay, is…

Minecraft: The Music Video

Some bands may borrow the aesthetic of Minecraft for their songs, but I think this may be one of the first Minecraft music videos.

Half Way to Three Free Hot Pursuit Cars

Gamers have just six days left to earn three new free cars for Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit. Late last month Criterion challenged players to get the Need for Speed Hot Pursuit trailer to 1 million views by Dec. 12. As of this morning it’s hovering at roughly 510,000 views. If the video can make…

New Tomb Raider To Trace the Origin of Lara Croft

Developer Crystal Dynamics is working on a new Tomb Raider meant to be an origin story for Lara Croft, the studio said today. “Forget everything you knew about TOMB RAIDER,” said Darrell Gallagher, Head of Studio, Crystal Dynamics. “This is an origins story that creates Lara Croft and takes her on a character defining journey…

Wow That Was Both a Short and Long Week

To: Ash From: Crecente I had three days off, but it still feels like it was a suppppper long week. Probably because I packed so much into today and yesterday. OH! Also I had to spend a lot of time scheduling my trip to New York. McWhertor, I and Totilo will all be there for…