It’s been a virtual flood of leaks and glimpses this week for Beyond Good & Evil 2. There’ve been comments about tech requirements and a screenshot of the sequel’s gameworld. Now, a video flythrough of the environmental design has popped up. Now, this footage has popped up before in a presentation that developer Michel Ancel…
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One of the best-loved games ever will be hitting the PlayStation Network, as Deus Ex gets released as a download in Europe next week. Eurogamer cites confirmation from Square Enix that the Ion Storm-developed title will be out on the 16th for £7.99. It’s not clear if this Deus Ex will be the original PC…
Move over, Sunday service collection plate. You’re being replaced this coming Sunday by ThatGameCompany’s Flower, as the brightly colored PlayStation 3 title becomes possibly the first video game to be incorporated in a religious service. The idea for bringing Flower to church started with Andy Robertson, a writer who runs the GamePeople website and writes…
In yet another evolution of Xbox rumor, The Verge reports today that Microsoft’s game console will be adding full web-browsing functionality with a special version of their Internet Explorer software. The article claims that users won’t need to have the Kinect motion-sensing accessory to use the modified browser, but the software’s been tuned to work…
Now that thousands of people have done Ubisoft’s job for them, players everywhere can finally get a look at the new gameplay lurking inside Assassin’s Creed III This new trailer lets us hear Ratonhnhaké:ton speak at length about his split Native American/European heritage and shows off loads of gorgeous snow-covered open-world action. Many of the…
Marvel’s just announced that their premiere superhero team will be hitting game consoles later this year, confirming recent rumors about such a game’s existence. Designed for use with Xbox 360’s Kinect camera and Wii U’s gestural inputs, Avengers: Battle for Earth will be a motion control game developed by the Ubisoft Quebec studio. Marvel says…
Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! Angry Impoverished Dude’s a boss! The bread and…
“I want to take all these rich kids into a poor environment and make them realize they can enjoy it.” That’s a bold statement from game designer Vander Caballero, who’s leading the development of Papo & Yo But the upcoming PlayStation release aims for bold things, like letting players experience the dysfunctional relationship Caballero had…
Maybe the Pandaren race coming to World of Warcraft isn’t cute enough for you. Or maybe they’re too cute already. Wherever you fall on this crucial issue, there’s one thing you need to know. Those pandas? They can dance now. According to MMO Champion, the latest beta patch enabled the male and female Pandaren warrior…
Going from the person most co-workers know as a man to one they will know as a woman is a challenge most people won’t ever have to face. Doing it in the sports division of a video game company probably adds a ridiculous degree of difficulty. But when EA Sports producer John Worrall became Kelly…
A month or so ago, it’s entirely likely that you were caught up in the frenzy surrounding Draw Something, trading goofy doodles back and forth with friends as you played the popular word-guessing game. But now, you might be one of the millions of people who’ve unceremoniously dropped Draw Something out of their lives. The…
The Angry Birds franchise has only been around since December 2009. Yet, today, Finnish developer Rovio announced that its hit mobile game has been downloaded more than one billion times. For some perspective, the U.S. Census’ world population currently estimate around 7 billion people on planet Earth. Even if you’ve got folks who’ve grabbed all…
Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! The only thing worse than being Angry Impoverished…
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…
You might know Michael Avon Oeming best for drawing the cartoony yet gritty tales in the hits series Powers, written by Brian Michael Bendis. But the artist’s also a well-regarded writer in his own right. Oeming’s next work will be coming out from Dark Horse and Kotaku‘s got an exclusive look at the moody interior…
When Max Payne 3 comes out next week, it’ll be the long-awaited return of video games’ best example of work done in the film noir tradition. There’s been some concern that the franchise might lose some his its shadowy edge by moving to the tropical climes of Sao Paolo. But the change in scenery for…
As controversial as it’s been, DC Comics’ upcoming prequel to the Watchmen hold have also piqued the interest of comics fans everywhere. The book I’m most looking forward to is Minutemen, written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke. The lives of the first generation of costumed heroes—who were in a team called the Minutemen—in the Watchmen…
Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this
So you’re lucky. Your significant other wants to sit down and play a game. And not just any game, either. The title that’s piqued interest is Just Cause 2, Avalanche Studio’s stunt-tastic open-world shooter. But Reddit user rfry11 found his lady love stymied by what he says are poor design choices and bad tutorials that…
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