A while back, we’d detailed the new experience system that the latest Gears of War 3 DLC will be introducing. Well, the Fenix Rising add-on goes live today, so you can start your journey to 3x Gold icons in the new maps of Epic Games’ threequel. Let’s see how fast it’ll take the first Gears…
“Boy Severs Arms After Playing Video Game” read the headline of a story that ran on CNN‘s iReport site earlier this morning. It’s the stuff of nightmares for video game advocates, another chance for those who demonize games’ effects on human behavior to crucify the medium. But, here’s the problem with unscreened crowd-sourced news, which…
At the end of the first Prototype, the island of Manhattan suffered tons of property damage after hoodie-wearing protagonist Alex Mercer completed his quest to dish out viral justice. From what we’ve seen of Prototype 2, the city’s become NYZ, a massive hot zone seething with poor, Blacklight virus-infected citizens that new hero James Heller…
How much does it take to make an indie game? How long until one makes a profit? The metrics on this kind of thing are always mysterious but a new post on Indie Fund’s official website gives some enlightening information with regard to the first game funded by the small-developer investment collective to see release.…
We’ve already passed on details about the pre-order loot that early birds in the United States will get with their reservation money, that being early access to the Cemetery multiplayer map. Europe will be getting that same online arena by pre-ordering from the following retailers: UK: Game AU: EB Games DE: GameStop ES: GameStop FR:…
Those panels up above, featuring mulleted stand-ins for Kotaku staffers past and present? One of your very own peers wrote them. And it caused much merriment in Kotaku Tower, so thanks for that. In case you missed it, Dark Horse gave Kotaku readers the chance to write their own captions for a page from the…
I’m not going to lie to you: that golden-haired, human-faced, griffin-looking creature early in this video for Square Enix’s action/RPG gives me the creeps. Put an animal head on a human body—as with the numerous shark men seen in this Heroes of Ruin trailer—and I’m fine but something about the opposite screams crime against nature…
The video above is supposed to be an homage to the 1980s graphic adventure games published by Sierra On-Line. But, if you watch the whole thing, you’ll spot some characters who weren’t part of that defunct publisher’s stable. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing 8BW perform live and they put on a great show. They’ll…
There’s been a weird quirk about Brian Azzarello’s writing assignments for DC Comics: the less the super the hero, the more powerful his writing’s been. Best known for his decade-long crime masterpiece 100 Bullets at the publisher’s Vertigo imprint, Azzarello’s also tried his hand at in its caped crimefighter universe, too. While his grittier sensibility…
Team Ico’s two classics—Ico and Shadow of the Colossus— will be coming to the PS3’s digital storefront on January 17th. For $20 each, you’ll be able to download the games to your hard drive. [PlayStation Blogcast, via Joystiq]
Indie developers Simogo have loosed another glimpse of their stealth/rhythm/platformer mash-up and the clip makes me need this game in my hands as soon as possible. You can see how the sneaky-toon character movement gets perfectly synced to BSB‘s wonky jazz instrumentals, making you hold both the whole song and patrol patterns in your head…
Even as Rocksteady Studios’s turned out two stellar Batman video games, other visions of the Dark Knight have shown up in Batman: Brave and the Bold and DC Universe. (Gotham City Impostors doesn’t really count since players aren’t controlling Batman, just his bizarre fan club.) A new blog post from visual artist Julie Farrell there…
Sumioni: Demon Arts wowed our own Brian Ashcraft at last year’s Tokyo Game Show, so much so that he declared it the prettiest thing going on Sony’s new handheld. While it seemed likely that the Acquire-developed game would head westward, things were still up in the air even after Sony announced the launch line-up for…
There’s a fair amount of buzz surrounding the upcoming sci-fi/western mash-up from LightBox Interactive. You’ll finally get to see what all the hollering’s about when Starhawk‘s public beta goes live on January 18th
You won’t be able to escape the scariest town in all of video games in a few short weeks. Konami’s outed the release dates for the upcoming portable, remake and console iterations of their horror franchise and they’re all within a few weeks of each other. On March 6th, the games you may’ve already played…
The App Store’s rotten with platformers. Everywhere you turn, there’s some developer revisiting his or her childhood with their own take on the hoppy/jumpy left-to-right adventure genre. Many of these stink or are otherwise unremarkable. But 5th Cell’s Run Roo Run is different. You might expect to find some complicated evolution of jumping action from…
You did vote to get your favorite games into The Art of Video Games exhibit, didn’t you? If not, don’t crying that Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom didn’t make it into the show. Anyway, we’re only two short months away from the exhibit’s opening of at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian’s announced…
It’s not news that you can get a plastic gun to play a video game where you get to shoot other human beings. It is news that you can get gun controllers that exist with the blessing of the U.S. Army. Today, we learned that accessories maker CTA Digital will rolling out officially licensed U.S.…
Details about Ninja Gaiden 3‘s Collector’s Edition came through a whole back but Tecmo’s finally seen fit to show everyone what it looks like. As mentioned before, you’ll get a two-figure Duel of the Masked set and a downloadable demo from Dead or Alive 5, the upcoming entry in Tecmo’s fighting game series. There’s a…
It’s been a rocky ride for Namco’s Katamari games ever since Keita Takahashi left the Japanese publisher. The odd, left-field whimsy that the game designer imbued 2004’s Katamari Damacy with dwindled with each sequel. Still, Stephen Totilo’s last look at Touch My Katamari made me wonder if Namco might be finding their way back to…
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