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You Can Get Your Prestige Re-Up On in Gears of War 3 Today with the Fenix Rising DLC
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 17, 2012 -
CNN Thought Gamer Chopped Off His Arm, Missed ‘Joke’
“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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 17, 2012 -
New Prototype 2 Digital Comics from Dark Horse Explain Why New York’s Such a Hellhole
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 17, 2012 -
Q.U.B.E. Shows One Way for Indie Games to Get Money and Make it Back
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.…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012 -
Upgrade Your Arsenal with These Max Payne 3 Pre-Orders
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:…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012 -
The Force Was Strongest With These Star Wars Comics Caption Winners
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012 -
Heroes of Ruin’s Going to Make You Fight Off Lots of Angry Shark Men in Lots of places
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012 -
8-Bit Weapon’s Latest Music Video Sports Iconic Game Characters as Guest Stars
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012 -
Princess Diana Goes Fishing for Monsters in This Wonder Woman #5 Preview
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 16, 2012 -
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Coming to PlayStation Network Next Week
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]
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
Beat Sneak Bandit Will be the Jazziest Game You Play All Year
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
Get a Glimpse at an Elseworlds Batman in the Cancelled Gotham by Gaslight Game
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
Sumioni: Demon Arts, a.k.a. the Vita’s Best-Looking Game, Will be Coming to the West
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
You’ll Get Your Chance to Build-&-Battle When Starhawk’s Public Beta Opens on January 18th
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
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
Silent Hill Will Fog Up All of March With Three New Games
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
The Makers of Scribblenauts Give You More Bounce to the Ounce With Run Roo Run
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
The Smithsonian’s Going to Throw a GameFest to Celebrate The Art of Video Games and You Should Totally Go
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
The U.S. Army Pulls the Trigger on Realistic Video Game Controllers
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.…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 12, 2012 -
Here’s What You Get For Pre-Ordering Ninja Gaiden 3
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 12, 2012 -
This Touch My Katamari Trailer Needs 500% More Crazy To Be Really Katamari
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 12, 2012
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