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Here’s Your First Look at Desmond in Assassin’s Creed III
You know, people focus on Altair and Ezio and Connor as the faces of Assassin’s Creed, but Ubisoft’s historical action series is really Desmond Miles’ story. So it’s a bit weird that we haven’t seen what the Assassin descendant looks like in Assassin’s Creed III’s new Anvil engine. The screens here come from Assassin’s Creed…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 4, 2012 -
Looks Like Xbox Live Is Down For Some People
For the second time in less than a month, Microsoft’s online service for the Xbox 360 appears to be experiencing problems affecting a broad swath of users. Here’s what the official Xbox Live status page says: Members will experience difficulties attempting to login to Xbox LIVE. Our engineers are hard at work to find and…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 4, 2012 -
Assassin’s Creed III‘s Native American Hero Had A Very Hard Life
This teaser for Assassin’s Creed III is different from the blitz of video we’ve been getting as the threequel nears release. In the clip, you see a bit of Connor’s life from before he became an Assassin. The scenes of him running through the forest look beautiful but get harshly contrasted when he comes home…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 4, 2012 -
New Super Mario Bros 2 DLC and Real-World Pokémon Hunting Descend Onto the Nintendo Download This Week
Used to be that Nintendo and downloadable content were two terms that you almost never saw together. But that changes in a big way this week as the company rolls out the first wave of add-on coin packs for New Super Mario Bros 2 on the 3DS There’s also Pokémon Dream Radar, a downloadable augmented…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 4, 2012 -
Medal of Honor Warfighter’s Open Beta Starts Tomorrow, But Only on Xbox Live
If you’re all excited about EA’s upcoming multinational FPS, then tomorrow’s your lucky day. The open beta for Medal of Honor Warfighter comes exclusively to Xbox 360 tomorrow, bringing with it a new game mode called Hotspot. Hotspot requires co-op teams to scurry back and forth across the map to defend or lay siege to…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 4, 2012 -
The Best Thing Cliff Bleszinski Ever Did…
… was be visible. “So what,” you might say. “Isn’t that part of his job?” Actually, it isn’t. In his role as Design Director at Epic Games, all the man sometimes known as Dude Huge really had to do was work on the developer’s games. He could have brainstormed, play-tested and guided the Unreal, Gears…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 3, 2012 -
The Most Terrifying Thing about Telltale’s Walking Dead Series? Not Being Able to Control the Camera How You Want
Lots of people have been lavishing love onto Telltale Games’ adaptation of the Walking Dead. The terror of the zombie apocalypse—first imagined in Robert Kirkman’s comics work—comes across as deeply personal in the episodic video game series. People have cried playing these games. But another, angrier emotional response has been bubbling up, too, generated not…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 3, 2012 -
Conan, What is Best on iPad? God of Blades’ Endless Slashing Comes Pretty Close.
I loved Conan comics as a kid. Every swordfight the Cimmerian had with another warrior ratcheted up an incredible amount of tension in my teenage heart. It’s not that I ever thought about Conan losing. Rather, it was the idea that so much depended on the steel and sinews of Robert E. Howard’s famous barbarian.…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 3, 2012 -
Survarium Developers Talk About Stopping Cheaters Even Though Their Game Isn’t Out Yet
The next game from the folks who once made the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. titles won’t be out for a while, but they already know that people will be trying to exploit it. They’ve got plans to stop those ne’er-do-wells. In the video above, you’ll get a look at how Survarium is coming along, with info on the…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 3, 2012 -
Help Fund This Documentary Series about Video Game Design and You’ll Meet People to Help You Make Your Own Game
Most crowdfunding projects for video games work one way: you front some cash and get a game that someone else makes. Sure, you get warm fuzzies from helping achieve their dream and you might get a shout-out in the credits but it doesn’t get you closer to bringing your own game idea to life if…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 2, 2012 -
Five Comics That Cross Boundaries This Week
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 2, 2012 -
This Graphic Novel Shows Why Mermaid Sex Is a Very Bad Idea
Nobody really gets scared of mermaids. I mean, yeah, there are much more frightening things underneath the surface of the sea, like sharks, octopi or stingrays. But that doesn’t let mermaids off the hook. (Why, yes, that pun IS intentional.) When you get down to it, they’re a slightly disturbing myth. We may be pretty…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 2, 2012 -
Xbox Site Says That the Karateka Re-Make Is Coming Out in November
Microsoft’s official site for their game console has been known to let things slip out before they’ve been publically announced. Like that one time it outed Halo 4 before last year’s E3 Jordan Mechner has talked about the re-imagination of his classic kung-fu adventure before but no release date has ever been mentioned by the…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 2, 2012 -
ReviewsResident Evil 6: The Kotaku Review
The old dread isn’t coming back. You remember it, don’t you? The shock of terror when you stumbled in on a zombie chomping on a corpse in the first Resident Evil. Or when the undead dogs jumped through the window? Those are signature moments—along with the compulsive hoarding of typewriter ribbon—that anyone who’s played the…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 2, 2012 -
This HD Remake of Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee Is Sure Looking Sharp
As of this August, we had only seen one screen of the HD remake of cult favorite Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. But Oddworld Inhabitants unveiled pre-alpha footage of the work-in-progress at Eurogamer Expo this weekend. Along with a look at the game, it was announced that the remake’s official name is Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee – New…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 1, 2012 -
Call of Duty Developer Offices Get Attacked By Zombies, Sort Of
Treyarch has made cool-looking stuff in the Call of Duty video games, including the introduction of the series’ fan-favorite Zombie modes. You wouldn’t know it, though, for how boring their offices looked. But, thanks to art collective IAm8Bit, visitors can now tell that these folks really know the undead. The video above gives a look…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 28, 2012 -
Reviews
Looper Might Be the Best Time Travel Movie Ever
Note: This review originally ran on Tuesday, 09-25-12. Forget The Jetsons, DC Comics’ Legion of Superheroes or any other shiny, happy vision of the future. The decades ahead of us aren’t guaranteed to get much better than the present. Truth is, everybody makes bad decisions that trap us into lives we don’t see coming. That…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 28, 2012 -
Thousands of Developers Want to Make Games for the Ouya
Let’s say you’re someone who put up their hard earned money to back the Ouya. You already believed in the hack-friendly Android-based game console enough to help it become one of Kickstarter’s biggest success stories. But you might be wondering just how many developers are going to be making games for the thing. Well, in…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 28, 2012 -
Watch CNBC Painfully Try to Make Angry Birds and Bad Piggies Jokes
Listen, CNBC, I understand that there’s a lot of complex data flying all over the global economics maps at any given time. And anything that a TV producer can do to make all that parsing and projection seem even a little bit fun or plugged into pop culture must feel almost like an obligation. But,…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 28, 2012 -
Make Other Players Kill Any Character in Hitman: Absolution With the Game’s Contracts Mode
This sizable chunk of gameplay footage highlights Hitman: Absolution’s user-generated content feature. In the new Contracts Mode, players can craft and distribute specific missions for each other within the single-player levels. The walkthrough shows off a Contract mission and how to create one. With the ability to have nearly any character in the game, Contracts…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 28, 2012
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