Electronic Arts today let us know that the next Need For Speed, the one following today’s release of Hot Pursuit, will hit in the spring of 2011. That’s really all they tell us about Shift 2 Unleashed, opting instead to drop this trailer on us and more adjectives than I think I’ve ever seen in…
To: Ash From: Crecente I published our first gift guide today. You know what that means? You’d better start looking around for presents for your loved ones, if you do that sort of thing. Only a month and a half till the holidays. Get to it. What you missed Killing Castro Marvel Pinball: From Comics…
With just two weeks until the busiest shopping day in the U.S. hits, 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 iPhone and iPad don’t warrant game gift giving too. Now…
My first, perhaps my only visit to Cuba came last week in a video game that asked me to kill the man responsible for taking my grandfather’s property from him and who changed the country so dramatically it ensured our family would never return. But what stuck with me most about that much talked about…
Smurfs are smurfing their way up the Smurfing iPhone and iPad charts. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Smurfs’ Village (Capcom) Free (Paid DLC) 1 — 2 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 27 1 3 Tap Zoo (Street View) Free (with paid DLC) 2 3…
The biggest video game of the year isn’t making any fans in Cuba’s government. Here’s why… About 5.6 million people bought Call of Duty: Black Ops when it went on sale earlier this week. The first-person shooter had a bigger opening than any movie, any video game, any… book. But not everyone was delighted about…
I’m not sure at what point my test drive of the Call of Duty: Black Ops remote control truck became an attempt to blow things up, but it was easily within the first ten seconds. Of course I didn’t succeed. The RX-XD add-in that comes with the prestige edition of the game certainly looks like…
Tara and Seth are getting married. They also happen to love Portal. So they hired Gawker artist Sam Spratt to design their save-the-date for their upcoming spring wedding. Seth tells Kotaku that he and his fiance are both big sci-fi geeks and love the game Portal. They wanted to do something incredibly different and quirky…
Our first look at L.A. Noire in action included some pretty amazing graphics. Strike that, it included some pretty amazing facial animation. The graphics are about what we’ve come to expect from Rockstar Games, but those facial tics, the worry lines, the creases, those were an impressive display of taking a bit of an actor’s…
Splatterhouse is getting a bloody, modern remake later this month, but that’s a gamble. The classic 1988 arcade Splatterhouse? We all know that’s a fantastic game, and now you can play it on your phone. I’m not just talking to you iPhone owners out there, Namco says they’re bringing the 88 title to more than…
OK, hold onto your hats and duct tape your socks on, Sony Computer Entertainment of America tells us that Gran Turismo 5 is going on sale in North America on Nov. 24. Honest to goodness, cross their hearts and hope not to have to delay it a forty millionth time. Why do I sound so…
To: Ash From: Crecente I got a turkey in the mail today. It was an entire turkey, smoked. It came from the smokehouse wizards in New Braunfels, Texas. They are magical with their meats…. Hmmm, that didn’t come out right. I once spent a week in New Braunfels covering a very high-profile murder trial that…
This image of active Call of Duty: Black Ops players was snapped by reader The Dude at 11 p.m. eastern time last night. Note the nearly 3 million active players and the fact that seemingly the only people not playing Black Ops last night lived in the Rocky Mountains…. sorry, I had things to do.
Unlike the package of bullet-riddled rotten meat sent to my house earlier this year, this jug of Bulletstorm Orange Juice promises to deliver Amazing Bulletstorm Stories! packed with 100% PULP! What’s that mean? Well according to the OJ’s ingredient list: “Bulletstorm was written by Rick Remender, author of the Punisher. Bulletstorm takes players on a…
Viacom, like any good media conglomerate, loves big bottom lines… and it cannot lie, you other investors can’t deny that when a subsidiary walks in with itty bitty net earnings you’ve got to sell it… OK, that didn’t really work. But here’s the important thing: The makers of Rock Band and Dance Central will continue…
A life well lived is a life well documented on Facebook, it seems. This is Facebook as Facebook’s creators see it, a place free of annoying Farmville beggars, ad-backed instant messages, friendships and pokes. A place where life scrolls down in a single column packed with photos, life-changing one-liners and painful status updates. This is…
It’s here, the first real trailer for gritty 40s detective game L.A. Noire and it’s going to blow you away. I’ve always been bothered by how out of sync, how unreal, digital actors look in video games. That’s exacerbated in the sorts of games they expect you to read anything into the folks you run…
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