The asynchronous multiplayer in Demon’s Souls helped make Atlus’ 2009 PS3 exclusive a cult hit. And now it’s going away forever. The online component of From Software’s first Souls game let players enter the adventures of other users to help or hinder their battles against the game’s notoriously brutal enemies. Being able to grief or…
Bullet time. It used to be the thing that separated the Max Payne games’ operatic gunfights from everything else in video games. Then it got adopted by everybody and became as unexciting and commonplace as jumping. But, this new video shows how the slo-mo shooting gets a major upgrade in Max Payne 3 Rather than…
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 Throwback Thursday, everyone. This TAYpic by The_Real_Pan1da7…
The voice-command feature that had been joked about for Bethesda’s hit RPG will actually be coming to the Xbox 360 as a free title update. You’ll be able to execute more than 200 commands in Skyrim via Kinect voice recognition. As seen in the video above, you’ll be able to assign hotkeys, control AI partners,…
At least that’s what some people seem to think when looking at this teaser for a teaser. Kratos did want vengeance and was in need of redemption, after all. We’ll all know if Kratos is coming back for more blood and fornication next week.
Really, EA, do you have to make the first gameplay footage for the next Medal of Honor game so damn dark, huh? We know the Frostbite 2 engine that the game’s being built on can do all sorts of wonderful, amazing-looking things but we need to be able to see said things. From what we…
The first Darksiders won a loyal following of fans for its badass remix of the Legend of Zelda’s dungeon-crawling gameplay. But you couldn’t really differentiate the way that main character War played. He was a bruiser with weapons that worked the same way for everyone. But Death will be more individualized, once players get their…
The sequel to one of the most popular PS2 games will be arriving on the Xbox 360 and PS3 this fall. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 re-assembles Jin, Xiaoyu and the other brawlers of the King of Iron Fist tournament for a nother go-round, with a few new special features. You’ll still be able to play…
It’s Wednesday! Get rid of your limbs! 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! Feast…
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…
Part of Panel Discussion’s mission is to look at the ways and places where comics and video games intersect and here in Crossover, we’ll be talking to game creators about the comics stories and creators who’ve shaped their sensibilities. So far in Crossover, we’ve spoken to game creators about comics. This time, we’re talking to…
You know how some jokes make you laugh because they feel like they’re hitting on some essential truth? That’s how Mad Magazine’s skewering of Siri and Apple’s recent labor woes comes across in these fake ads from the comedy institution’s upcoming issue. The Foxconn scandals degraded some of Apple’s vaunted invulnerability and these faux advertisements…
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
Who is waging the public opinion battle between anti-gay “family values” groups and the video game creators who dared to allow same-sex romance in their massive new Star Wars game? The anti-gay crowd says the Star Wars defenders are getting help from spam-bots. (Would they be spam-droids?) Anti-gay controversy over The Old Republic began in…
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! Indigo Prophecy‘s the game getting a macabre tribute…
Anders Behring Breivik—the man who confessed to killing 77 people last year in the worst mass murder Norway has ever seen—has been found to be legally sane by court-appointed psychiatrists, according to the Associated Press. The new finding—by psychiatrists Terje Toerrissen and Agnar Aspaas—negates a previous assessment by other mental health professionals, which had declared…
Listen: all you gamers who grew up on Dungeon & Dragons, R.A. Salvatore or Gauntlet should be reading DC Comics’ Demon Knights. Written by Paul Cornell, the monthly series throws together a motley crew of medieval adventurers out to defeat powerful necromancers for personal reasons that vary wildly. The basic approach may sound like standard…
It certainly looks like there’s going to be a Wasteland 2 game. The crowdfunding efforts by inXile Extertainment have way exceeded the announced goals, to the point where Chris Avellone and Obsidian Entertainment will be joining to flesh out the team building the eagerly-awaited RPG. And now inXile CEO Brian Fargo has revealed the first…
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 looked like it was dead in the water for a while, with reports that dev studio GSC Game World was going out of business. But then the Kiev-based collective resurfaced on Facebook this year and indicated that work was underway for the sequel to their acclaimed shooter. That was way back in January,…
So, Street Fighter x Tekken came out and met with widespread acclaim. Good for Capcom. Now it’s Namco Bandai’s turn to produce a fighting game crossover that follows up on an idea that once looked impossible. When might the Tekken company’s answer be coming out? The guy who made SFxT has no idea. “Honestly, I…
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