Activision notched an unexpected hit this year when they mashed up collectible toys and video games to create Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. The idea of static toys that you could bring to life inside of a playable world appealed to kids and adults alike, including Kotakuites Brian Crecente, his son Tristan and Mike Fahey. Sales for…
The company most responsible for making Facebook a gaming destination will start to have their stock traded on Wall Street today, with shares going for $10 each. The initial public offering will likely make Zynga the second most valuable video game company after Activision but ahead of Electronic Arts. Company CEO Mark Pincus and other…
They crank out a lot of Street Fighter and Resident Evil but Capcom also has a history of putting out weird, unique games like Okami, God Hand and Viewtiful Joe. Rageaholic adventure Asura’s Wrath seems to follow in the legacy of such idiosyncratic games. We’ve written a bit about the mythological sci-fi action brawler, but…
You might be celebrating GTA III‘s 10th Anniversary by playing it on your iOS or Android device, with that version freshly out today. Rockstar’s celebrating in a different way, though. On their official site, the developer’s revealing all kinds of trivia and minutiae about the open-world crime game that put them on the map. For…
Hot on the heels of the near-mint Deluxe Edition NES we posted about today comes word of an even rarer Nintendo artifact. Placing multiple popular games on one single cartridge, the Super Nintendo Campus Challenge cartridge was created for promotional competitions all over the world. There are reportedly only three in existence and one’s shown…
The single-player campaign of Capcom’s upcoming humans-vs-bioengineered zombies-vs-humans title has you controlling an all-new squad of characters in Resident Evil‘s most iconic locale. But Operation Raccoon City‘s multiplayer will let you play as some more familiar faces from the survival horror series’ history. The trailer above showcases out Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield, Hunk and other…
Ever since Team Ninja’s been in charge of the modern-day Ninja Gaiden franchise, no character kills bad guys quite the way that Ryu Hayabusa does. Tecmo’s been teasing out the specifics of his next outing for a bit and finally passed along word of when we’ll be able to play as the viciously gifted shadow…
Nearly pristine. Frozen in time. That’s what the claims are for a rare 1985 edition of the Nintendo Entertainment System being sold on eBay. Wrapped in plastic in a handled cardboard box, the NES up for grabs is apparently in the same state that retailers received it more than 20 years ago. It’s a Deluxe…
Two great flavors of geek culture collide in this custom map for Blizzard’s RTS super-success. Starrcaft player/modder Kenneth Tran’s built an homage to Episode V of George Lucas’s space fantasy films, substituting planet Braxis for the icy world of Hoth where The Empire Strikes Back took place. On The Dominion Strikes Back, the Rebel faction…
Seeing as how the original version of Crush on the PlayStation Portable was all about shifting perspective from 2D to 3D and back, it’s fitting that Sega’s liked-but-ignored platformer gets a second chance at life on the 3DS. The trailer above—with British narration a tad reminiscent of Stephen Frye’s work for LittleBigPlanet—re-introduces Danny and explains…
You’ll never look at video games’ interstellar soldiers the same way again after watching this production by the MAKE design studio. The creators there made the clip pro bono—generating work which looks like it took weeks, if not months, to finish—to drum up support for the Child’s Play charity started eight years ago by Mike…
You think you’ve built yourself a burly PC that can withstand the intensive demands of today’s most impressive games. But how sure are you? 3DMark can help you find out. Long the gold standard of PC benchmarking tools, 3D Mark’s latest version charts performance along multiple vectors and can be customized for specific uses. It’s…
I’ve shown you how the upcoming PS3 motion magic title handles and now these new screens let you peer into the underworld you’ll be adventuring through. As previously mentioned, the prestidigitation magic title will be available next spring.
Suda51’s upcoming mash-up of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie version, mind you) and grindhouse horror flicks just scored some scary-sweet box art that Warner Bros. Games is sharing with the world. You’ve got heroine Juliet Starling and her disembodied head sidekick next to a locker that looks just like the ones from Glee. Hmmm. The…
Once upon a time, there was a PS3 exclusive called Sorcery. It looked like the kind of high-definition motion-control game that would pull in gamers skeptical of what Sony’s Move controller could do. It even got nominated as one of the best games Kotaku saw at last year’s E3. Yet, it suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.…
Lots of folks have wondered about whatever happened to PS3 exclusive Sorcery. After more than a year of silence, Sony’ just announced that the Move-centric motion-control game will hit in Spring 2012. Look for our hands-on impressions later today.
In Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood sits Alamo, a giant cube sculpture by Tony Rosenthal which dates back to 1967. The artwork, a.ka. the Cube, lives not far from New York University, The New School, and few other landmarks. It’s been in music videos by Cypress Hill and other groups and has been the subject of…
You’ve heard of flops, a.k.a floating point operations per second, before in video game circles. Who can forget the riveting moment in former Sony exec Ken Kutaragi’s 2005 E3 PS3 presentation when he talked about how many gigaflops the system’s processors would be capable of? Boring tech presentations aside, flops are great indicators of computing…
When Microsoft announced earlier this year that Double Fine would be making a Kinect-based Sesame Street game, many wondered if the developer studio behind Psychonauts and Brutal Legend were leaving their own original ideas behind for a lucrative license. But Nathan Martz, project lead on Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster, says that it was…
Get used to this kind of alert, Xbox 360 owners. After last week’s “Future of TV” dashboard update, Microsoft’s going to be partnering up with—and then letting everyone know about—content providers of every stripe all over the world. The newest bunch of content-centric apps are available today, with YouTube the most impactful of the bunch.…
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