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EA Yanks Busted Battlefield 3 Shooter from App Store
It came in stealthily, like a Navy SEAL on a night mission. And now Battlefield 3: Aftershock ‘s been dishonorably discharged after seemingly falling below EA’s expectations. News of the pulled app comes from Touch Arcade, which cites original source IGN. When reached for comment, EA replied to Kotaku with the same statement seen elsewhere:…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 22, 2012 -
Mario Tennis Open Serves Up Online Play for the 3DS on May 20th
The latest entry in Nintendo’s racket sports franchise will be hitting the 3DS on May 20th, five days before its Japanese counterpart. Nintendo says that there’ll be comprehensive online support for Mario Tennis Open and you can see Mario, Bowser, Princess Peach and more characters volleying in the trailer above.
By Evan Narcisse Published February 22, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Here is where you can speak your mind, wanderers. Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves, where we gather on a daily basis to discuss the joys and wonders of gaming all rolled up into one. It’s a celestial JRPG battle in this TAYpic, where the work of Yankton, the Circus…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 22, 2012 -
Watch Super Smash Bros Creator Masahiro Sakurai Talk About Kid Icarus: Uprising’s Multiplayer
Expectations have to be running high for the multiplayer component of Kid Icarus: Uprising. After all, it’s the designer beloved for pitting Nintendo’s all-stars and B-listers against each other in crazy free-for-all battles who’s in charge of the game. In the video above, Sakurai details the weapons and modes that you’ll find in the upcoming…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 22, 2012 -
Activision Removes French Games Journalists From Alleged Blacklist
Remember that purported Activision blacklisting of French website Gameblog that had everyone up in arms over the weekend? And that comment by Activision that said everything was just a big misunderstanding? Well, whatever that misunderstanding was, it’s been cleared up. Gameblog reported that they received a call today that effectively resumes communications with Activision. Editor-in-chief…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 21, 2012 -
Sharknife 2: Double Z Might Have the Best Superhero Origin Ever
I’ve been waiting a long time for more Sharknife. Corey Lewis’ east-meets-west adventure series seethes with video game logic in the same way that the Scott Pilgrim books do—from label-mate Bryan Lee O’Malley. I first read the adventures of the skateboarding robo-ninja hero in 2005 and have been pining away for a sequel ever since.…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 21, 2012 -
The Panel Discussion Dozen: 12 Comics That Will Suck the Blood Right Out of You 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 February 21, 2012 -
Panel Discussion Starts Now
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
By Evan Narcisse Published February 21, 2012 -
Talk Among Yourselves
You are all royalty. Did you know that? Well, you are here, at least. That’s because this is is Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves, where we gather on a daily basis to discuss the joys and wonders of gaming all rolled up into one. PS3 downloadable Fat Princess inspired Pan1da7‘s heiress-hefting…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 21, 2012 -
Bogus Pokémon Yellow Game Is Now Number Two on the Apple App Store
Early this morning, we wrote about the surprise appearance of a Pokémon game on Apple’s iOS storefront. Y’know, the one that’s apparently a broken scam? Despite that, developer QEAB’s Pokemon Yellow is sitting at #2 on the App Store’s Paid Apps chart, right behind the fully-functional and actually-pretty-good Grand Theft Auto III When downloaded on…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012 -
Capcom Teases Intra-Company Crossover With Asura vs. Ryu Image
You’ve got to hand it to Capcom: they’re not above crossing the streams to see what happens when their franchise characters meet up with other brawlers. Whether it’s the Marvel vs. Capcom series, X-Men vs. Street Fighter or Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, the powers-that-be at the Oska-based publisher will pit Ryu and crew against anybody if…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012 -
ReviewsAlan Wake’s American Nightmare: The Kotaku Review
Going into Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, I’d worried that I hadn’t played the DLC that followed the 2010 game that introduced Remedy’s literary action hero. I loved the long-brewing Xbox 360 exclusive but, after months of never being able to slot in The Signal and The Writer add-ons, I’d decided to skip them after repeatedly…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Praise be [Higher_Power_Of_Choice]! This is Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves, where we gather on a daily basis to discuss the joys and wonders of gaming all rolled up into one. Pit hasn’t yet made his return to a starring role in the upcoming 3DS title Kid Icarus: Uprising Apparently, Pan1da7—there’s no…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012 -
Interactive Mass Effect Fan Film Lets Viewers Go Paragon or Renegade
There’s quite a few fan-generated homages to Bioware’s sci-fi universe out on the interwebs but surprisingly few use the twist that “Assignment” does. Featuring two Alliance operatives named Hale and Meer, the clip by Sneaky Zebra Productions lets players choose between alternate endings pegged to Mass Effect’s signature good-guy Paragon or kind-of-a-jerk Renegade behavior poles.…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012 -
Reporter: Activision Blacklisted Us Because I Refused to Pull Call of Duty Sequel Story [UPDATE]
Yesterday, reports that a sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops would hit this year circulated all over the internet, sourced to a product page that went live on Amazon. Gameblog.fr reported on this apparent slip-up, as did other French websites, but they refused to pull the story when asked by Call of Duty publisher…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 18, 2012 -
Esports
Major League Gaming and Mad Catz Team Up for An Xbox 360 Controller With Some Pros and Some Cons
With the collective profile of eSports rising over the last decade, you’ve seen an ever-increasing prominence of the kind of endorsed accessories and products that hover around physical sports. Gaming mice, keyboards and gamepads that promise to make you better, faster and more accurate sell to hardcore fans who want an edge in matches where…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 17, 2012 -
The New SSX’s Ready to Take You Around the World in These New Videos
The dev studios working on EA’s upcoming snowboarding reboot are using satellite data to recreate some of the world’s most iconic mountan ranges. How do the results look? You can take a gander in three clips above, which take you to near the South Pole, the American Midwest and into a plucky Pacifica principality. There’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 17, 2012 -
Sleeping Dogs Screenshots Give Glimpses of Open-World Hong Kong Chaos
First we had that crazy live-action trailer, complete with obligatory Asian crime movie kitchen fight. Now come screens from the game formerly known as True Crime Hong Kong, showing off chases on land and water and some combat besides. Sleeping Dogs is due out later this year.
By Evan Narcisse Published February 17, 2012 -
Black Ops 2 Reportedly Outed by Amazon as This Year’s Call of Duty
French game site Gameblog.fr reported earlier today that Amazon’s French digital storefront leaked details about the next installment in Activision’s blockbuster FPS series. The site claims that a product page for the sequel to the 2010 Call of Duty title went live on Amazon.fr and that, after they reported this, Activision France requested that the…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 17, 2012 -
Witness the Interspecies Fighting Game Insanity of the Animal Kaiser evo.3 Trailer
I’d never heard of Animal Kaiser before seeing this video but, after seeing animals doing backflip bodyslams off the top rope of a wrestling ring, I can only weep at the fact that this game isn’t in my life. This trailer’s hyping the release of the latest title in Namco Bandai’s Japan-only beast battle series,…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 17, 2012
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