In pro wrestling, a chair shot is when you hit someone with a metal folding chair, usually in the head area. You’ll see one of those in the Saints Row the Third clip, along with all manner of open-world madness. Since it’s out today, you can get your gangstafied crazy on right now. You can…
Black Box’s Frostbite 2-powered racer puts the pedal to the metal today and EA’s released a trailer that’ll take you from 0-60 as far as Need for Speed The Run‘s story and gameplay features. You get glimpses of the characters played by Christina Hendricks and supermodel Chrissy Teigen. Of course, there’s Sean Faris as main…
Yesterday, we had human faces disappearing in Bethesda’s hit action RPG. Today, in glitch-or-feature news, it’s dragon skin and sinew that’s nowhere to be seen. Being nothing but a skeleton doesn’t stop this dragon from putting up a fight, though. [thanks, tipster Peter] Skeletal Dragons in Skyrim? [YouTube] You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author…
The latest hardware/software configuration of Sony’s game console will be themed around the movie adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s mega-popular boy wizard. $250 gets you a 160 GB PS3, a 2D/3D Blu-Ray of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 and a voucher to download the first two films in the series. On the games…
We live in an age of gaming gorgeousness. Gamers’ lives nowadays are filled with fancy normal mapping and illumination engines, powered by slickly encased hardware that outputs onto super-sharp screens. In short, there’s a lot of thought given to aesthetics in the present day. But, it hasn’t always been this way and an upcoming art…
Only a few short days stand between you and what’s being called one of the best ever entries in Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series. And, if you live in the greater New York City area, it’ll be one day less. The Japanese game giant’s holding a launch event in its Nintendo World store in Rockefeller…
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, Splinter Cell Trilogy … there’ve been plenty of HD re-issues for beloved games over the last few months. But, in the video above, I’ll show you why the work that 343 Industries and Saber Interactive has done on Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary outclasses all…
When a show’s been around as long as the Simpsons, it’ll periodically touch on the cultural ripple effect generated by the video games industry. Last night’s episode of the long-running cartoon—”The Food Wife,” which deals with Marge’s obsession with foodie culture—took Homer and art to a fictionalized version of video games’ biggest trade show, with…
It’s been ten years since Bungie gave Xbox gamers the first Halo game, a console first-person shooter that didn’t feel like the weak sister to the genre’s PC alpha dogs. From that single title grew blossomed one of video game’s most successful franchises, one which reshaped what it meant to play video games with other…
Gameplay-wise, the Max Payne titles get remembered for a few things: bullet time, the iconic shootdodge and using painkillers to refresh health. But things have changed since we last saw the hardboiled cop in Max Payne 2 eight years ago. Rockstar knows this and is tweaking the Payne formula a bit—but not too much—for the…
Here’s how you know Minecraft has arrived: the popular sandbox adventure title made a cameo appearance on Let’s Make a Deal. Twitter user @CodyBlues snapped pics of host Wayne Brady donning a pixellated Steve head on this morning’s episode of the syndicated games show. We’re not sure what the deal on the table for contestants…
Invisibility’s been a power in video games for a long, long time. But one Elder Scrolls V player managed to make his avatar all see-through without benefit of any spell or ability. YouTuber MrTheVestman happened upon a random combination of collectibles that takes his countenance clean away. He’s kind enough to walk viewers through it…
People love building real-world things in Minecraft. Buildings, works of art, board games, starships. (Okay, those aren’t real. Yet.) However, there’s a distressing lack of ways to build Minecraft things in the real world. One brilliant solution gets floated here and it’s such a patently obvious idea that you’ll howl at the fact that such…
We already know that over 120,000 PC users joined DC Universe Online in 24 hours after the Sony Online Entertainment title went free-to-play, but now the publisher’s revealing more about how big the shift has been for them. In the week since DCUO became FTP, one million new would-be metahumans have joined the game’s ranks.…
Your Dovahkiin may be all sorts of bad-ass, but this video features the cutest Dragonborn of all. Thrill to this imaginary game’s pixilated vistas! Gasp at the exciting downhill skiing sequences! Wish that someone makes this into something actually playable! Skyrim Trailer – Retro Edition [YouTube] You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this…
Hey, fighting game fans, hope you didn’t delete your save files from the pre-Ultimate version of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Because playing as the big bad from MvC3 in UMvC3 is significantly easier if you’ve still got that data on your console’s hard drives. According to a post over on Capcom Unity, all you need…
What can you glean watching Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime on last night’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon? You can you learn that, apparently, all-star developers Koji Kondo and Eiji Aonuma are jealous of Reggie’s appearances on the after-dark talk show. Viewers will also see Fallon get called a ‘natural swordsman’ and get gifted…
One thing we need to own up to with all these video game icons coming up on 15, 20 and 25 year anniversaries is that we’re getting older, too. Just yesterday, Crecente was talking about all the trouble he has peeing lately. Poor guy. With that aging comes memory loss, so you might need a…
It’s Game of the Year season. You know what that means. All the AAA games that you’ve been waiting for are jockeying to break into your saving account. It also means that various commentators and outlets on the video game medium—Kotaku, included—are stumbling over themselves to add even more hype to games like Arkham City,…
When you think about it, there’s always been a rhythm to stealth video games. The start-stop-start of hiding, moving and hiding again. Darting in and out enemies’ fields of vision. If you move out of time, then the whole sequence gets messed up, just like playing a song. Or a music game. The smart lads…
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