Infinity Ward may have created Call of Duty but publisher Activision has always wanted to take the hit war-game series into different directions. Most of those efforts stalled—like the third-person variant that dev studio Sledgehammer was working on—and the public never gets to see what might have been But what you’re seeing above is animation…
Microsoft, publisher Ubisoft and developer RedLynx all thought they were ready for the release of Trials Evolution on Xbox Live yesterday. Turns out they weren’t. Players logging onto Xbox Live on Wednesday were met with long load times, missing ghost replays and an inability to connect. Just how many people were crashing their way on…
My time with Trials Evolution got me thinking a lot about human perfectibility. It’s essentially the principle that no matter how good a person is at something, given enough will and effort, there’s still ostensibly room for them to get even better. That idea seems to be one that developer RedLynx banks on. “Yeah, you…
After the monstrous success of the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter campaign, it’s impossible to escape talk of video game development powered by the internet’s largest crowdfunding destination. Part of all the buzz comes from the perception that there’s a lot of money out there that people want to contribute to help produce entertainment that they’d…
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! It’s about time that sad, ol’ greyhound in…
It’s already a matter of record that Anders Behring Breivik wrote about using Call of Duty to hone his marksmanship before he shot 69 people to death last year. But yesterday he testified in a Norwegian court about the roles that the first-person-shooter series and World of Warcraft played in his life leading up to…
Capcom’s caught a lot of heat for the on-disc locked content that shipped with Street Fighter x Tekken. Fans have loudly complained that they’ll be paying for characters that on a game disc they’ve already paid for once. But Namco—the sometime rival and sometime partner of Capcom—won’t be following in those stumbling footsteps. In a…
It’s looking more and more like this year’s Call of Duty is going to be a sequel to 2010’s Black Ops. A retail source forwarded the following image from a poster received today. It’s been widely speculated that this year’s Call of Duty game will be a sequel to Black Ops, which was developed by…
THQ’s in dire straits, financially. Marvel—now a wholly-owned division of Disney—has lots and lots of money. Maybe, if the former buys the latter, they hold hands and make beautiful games together? That’s what comics culture website Bleeding Cool seems to think. Editor Rich Johnston pieces together comments and business dealings from Marvel, Disney and THQ…
Spin Up mixes a lot of different influences into a fresh-feeling whole. It’s got a bit of Donkey Kong‘s ladder-climbing DNA spliced with the infinite running of Canabalt, only the perpetual movement’s vertical in this game. This may sound like a weird recipe but Spin Up hinges on a key difference that makes the game…
Some video games operate around incredibly innovative ideas and it’s natural that the people behind them would want to patent them. And while those awesome ideas gets explained in page after page of text, sometimes it’s just better to draw how a mechanic is going to work. However, some of the people submitting patent applications…
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! Today’s tasty TAYpic is the work of angryrider…
THQ has announced a new release window for their fantasy action sequel on the newly-launched official site for Darksiders II. Previously announced for a June 26th launch, the game is now due out sometime in August, with exact dates varying by region.
You know, I never realized how much I missed Sly Cooper until I recently laid hands on an in-development build of the master thief’s upcoming game. There’s a particular charm in how the larcenous raccoon created by Sucker Punch manages to combine stealth, humor and platforming into an attractive whole. I mean, I hate raccoons…
The company behind Farmville has money. Lots of it. And, for more than a year, they’ve been buying up smaller development houses left and right. But, Rovio—the development house that created mobile megahit Angry Birds—turned down Zynga when they came calling with mountains of cash. An article on the Bloomberg business news site reveals that…
Just in time for his return to consoles, Max Payne’s also going to be making a debut into the comics world. Announced today, a new series coming from the House of Ideas will delve into Max’s early years—during the era of the first two MP games—with art from Fernando Blanco. The scripts will be written…
Time’s tighter this week but we all still need comics. Here’s a handful that you should check out this week. Chime in with what you’ll be getting in the comments below. Reset #1 Indie comics legend Peter Bagge takes on interactive media culture. Bagge’s not a gamer or a tech enthusiast as far as I…
China Mieville’s been trying to break into comics a long time. The native Londoner has busied himself with becoming an award-winning fantasy and science-fiction author in the meantime, turning out acclaimed work like Perdido Street Station and the upcoming Railsea A few years ago, it looked like Mieville’s big break was all set to happen,…
Cliff Bleszinski didn’t grow up reading comic books. He was all about video games and movies as a kid. But that all changed when he started reading Preacher, the blasphemously brilliant series written by Garth Ennis, and drawn by Steve Dillon. The series published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint opened Bleszinski up a whole new…
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.
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