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A Hero Among Super Heroes
I want to be perfectly blunt with the team behind DC Universe Online, no allusions, so I tell them right off the bat: I haven’t really liked a massively multiplayer online game since Ultima Online’s late 90s alpha. Ultima Online ruined me for MMOs, I explain. DC Universe Online faces a second challenge as well,…
By Brian Crecente Published December 3, 2010 -
Everquest 2 May Be Getting Its Own Cataclysm Soon
Next week’s world-changing expansion for World of Warcraft may not be the only cataclysm to hit a major massively multiplayer online game soon. John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, tells Kotaku that the publisher has been considering a similar game-wide reset for EverQuest II. “We are looking at it closely, we have been for…
By Brian Crecente Published December 3, 2010 -
The Gingerbread House That Nintendo Built
OK, they didn’t really build it. But Nintendo did send along the supplies, complete with Nintendo-themed candies. Trish, Tristan and I built the Gingerbread house, complete with a trapped Mario, waiting for his princess to save him. Rudolph by J.E.L.L.i.
By Brian Crecente Published December 3, 2010 -
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam Getting Bonus Map ‘Operation Hastings’
Classic Battlefield: Vietnam map Operation Hastings is coming to Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam, but only after a little online teamwork. Starting Dec. 21 Electronic Arts will start tracking how many times players resupply, revive, heal, spot and repair for one another, once 69 million of these team actions have been amassed the nap map…
By Brian Crecente Published December 3, 2010 -
Twisted Pixel’s Ms. Splosion Man Coming Fall 2011
The next game from the makers of indie hits The Maw and ‘Splosion Man is pink and wears a bow in her… hair? Twisted Pixel Games doesn’t have much to add to the news that their next game will apparently be Ms. Splosion Man. Here’s their tongue-in-cheek press release in all of its silly glory.…
By Brian Crecente Published December 3, 2010 -
Rock Band Reloaded Delivers Single iPad Coop
Rock Band Reloaded hit iTunes today for the iPhone and iPad bringing with it a bunch of neat new features like the ability to sing along to your favorite songs and for two people to play on one iPad. We’ll be writing up a bit more about our thoughts on the game once we’ve had…
By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2010 -
Video Game On Demand Service Adds $10 Plan
Streaming video game service OnLive plans to start offering a flat-rate video game plan for their on demand service starting next month, the company said today. The PlayPack, already available in beta to OnLive Game System owners, will cost $9.99 a month and launch to all OnLive members on Jan. 15. The PlayPack joins the…
By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2010 -
A Look At Darkspore’s Cooperative Multiplayer
Electronic Arts is giving us an advanced look at how cooperative play is going to work in upcoming action role-playing game Darkspore. The four-player coop mode felt a lot like cooping through the old Diablo games, but with that distinct spacey, Spore feel to it. Have a look.
By Brian Crecente Published December 1, 2010 -
The Mountain
To: Owen From: Crecente The wood has been delivered, the main floor emptied, so we’re heading to the mountains for most of a week. T&T and I our going to go find solace at my parents’ mountain cabin while a team of people tear apart the flooring on our main floor and put in all…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
Capcom Slashes Prices on Games, Clothes, Flummery
Capcom Store’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales includes 20 to 50 percent off a wide selection of dealios, thingamajigs and video games. Among the list: Dead Rising 2 Bobble Budd Sett for $15.96 Okami for the Wii for $13.99 Resident Evil 5 for the Xbox 360 for $10 Monster Hunter Freedom for the PSP…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
Monster Hunter Portable 3rd’s Astounding Opening Movie
This won’t be what you see while playing the soon-to-hit-Japanese-PSP Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, but it sure sets the mood. Capcom told folks earlier this year that Monster Hunter 3rd would be arriving on the PSP this month.
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
Dirty Dancing Meets Minecraft Via The Black Eyed Peas
What If The Black Eyed Peas made a music video in Minecraft or with 3D Dot Game Heroes? It wouldn’t look exactly like this, but I bet someone out there could make these pixelated people in either of those games. Beyond the video game aesthetic of the music video for The Time (Dirty Bit), which…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
Trainz Simulator 2010 Engineers Edition Getting Multiplayer
You may never have heard of Trainz, but if you’re into train simulators it is the best, perhaps the only, game for you and now the million-copies-sold game is getting multiplayer. Starting this January Australian-developed Trainz Simulator 2010 is going into open beta with multiplayer, with plans to have the new feature go live by…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
Watch This Trailer One Million Times, Get Three Free Cars for Hot Pursuit
Criterion is delighted with the response to arcade racer Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, as they should be. So they’re giving away three new cars, but there’s a catch. The dev team put together a pack of three supercar convertibles that includes the Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible, the Lamborghini Murciélago LP 650-4 Roadster , and…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
Pokemon Invade Thanksgiving Parade, Menace Papa Smurf
Man, can you imagine being that little Papa Smurf statue in the bottom left of the screen and then looking up to see a big, yellow Pikachu hovering over you.. staring. While Pikachu was busy glaring at the diminutive Papa Smurf, a collection of 14-foot tall Poke figures rolled along the parade path. Enjoy! [Thanks…
By Brian Crecente Published November 25, 2010 -
The Best Video Game Black Friday Deals and How To Get Them
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the parade! Delight in your dinner! Prepare for tomorrow’s battle. There are two types of people in the world. Those of us who want nothing to do with the bedlam, the insanity, the ferocity of Black Friday’s plentiful, big deals. And those of you who live for the moment. This survival guide…
By Brian Crecente Published November 25, 2010 -
Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t Worry, We’re Still Here
While most of us (really all of us) are busy eating Turkey or sleeping, there will still be a steady stream of stories coming to you from Kotaku. That means a survival guide to Black Friday, a review, videos, and plenty and plenty o’ stories. How did we do that? MAGIC! KA-BLAM!!!!
By Brian Crecente Published November 25, 2010 -
Kotaku’s 2010 Windows Phone 7 Gift Guide
We’re down to the last day or so before the peak of consumerism kicks off, it’s probably a good time to start thinking about what sorts of gifts you want to give and get this year during the holidays. And don’t think that digital platforms like the Windows Phone 7 doesn’t warrant game gift giving…
By Brian Crecente Published November 24, 2010 -
Activision’s Half Million Dollar Indie Contest Delayed, But Still Alive
The deadline to announce the winners for Activision’s $500,000 independent game development contest came and went… a month ago without word of any winners. What happened? Have no worries, Activision tells Kotaku, the contest finalists have been selected and notified, but the process is taking a bit longer than they expected. “We’ve concluded the first…
By Brian Crecente Published November 24, 2010
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