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Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition Hitting in February 2012, Includes All Four DLC Packs
Those of you who held off on getting the post-nuclear adventure set in the Fallout universe’s version of Sin City with the hopes of getting a beefed-up edition have just hit the jackpot. Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition ties together all of the add-ons—Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, Courier’s Stash and…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 3, 2011 -
45 B-Ball Greats Coming to NBA 2K12 This Holiday with the Legends Showcase Add-On
Listen, I’ve been a New York Knick fan all my long-suffering life, but I never thought onetime dunk champ Kenny “Sky” Walker would ever be deemed a video game legend. But there he is, sitting on the new list of incoming all-stars that 2K Sports will be adding to their hit basketball game. For 9.99…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 3, 2011 -
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YouTube’s Original Programming Looking to Focus on Indie Game Development, Pro Competition
It’s been making the rounds that YouTube’s looking to ramp up the production of home-grown original content for users to consume. A report over at Forbes details what exactly will be airing on Start, the channel that centered on capturing the eyeballs of video game enthusiasts. The shows will be produced by a partnership of…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 2, 2011 -
Need for Speed The Run‘s New Multiplayer Trailer Puts the Pedal to the Medal
The newest video for EA Black Box’s cross-country racer shuns all that out-of-car stuff for some good ol’ online drafting-and-passing action. The ability to create playlists of the various race types gets shown off, as well as some apparently new Autolog functionality. There appears to be some kind of real-time updating of a player’s standing…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 2, 2011 -
Catch Up on Your Modern Warfare History with This Video
If you don’t remember why the exact reason New York City’s getting bombed in the Modern Warfare universe, here’s your chance to catch up. Courtesy of Xbox Live guru Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, this video spells out the chain of events that lead up to the soon-to-release FPS threequel. For all the people who claim…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 2, 2011 -
Here’s How We Were Introduced to GTA IV Four Years Ago
So, the day is upon us where we’ll finally get the first glimpse of the next entry in the storied Grand Theft Auto series. It’s been more than four long years and, since then, the bittersweet saga of Niko Bellic has become a fond, distant memory for most gamers. Still, the trailer that introduced the…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 2, 2011 -
Celebrate All Saints’ Day with New Screens and Details for Saints Row the Third
Other games might vie for “best” game of the year, but Saints Row The Third looks like it’ll be going for the “most over-the-top award. THQ’s announced a handful of new details about the upcoming threequel. Initiation Station, the game’s character creation interface, is open to the public after a short beta. You can use…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 -
Delayed? Nuh-uh! Gears of War 3 Horde Command Is Live Now, More Free Maps Coming on Thanksgiving
After some difficulties getting out of the gate, the newest DLC for Epic’s hit Xbox 360 exclusive is out in the wild and ready to play. Microsoft’s also announced that it’ll be rolling our free Gears 3 content on Thanksgiving, too. (That’s American Thanksgiving, not the Canadian variant.) The Versus Booster Map Pack will deliver…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 -
These New Max Payne 3 Screens Bring Grit, Bullets and Explosions
According to the Rockstar official site, these new screens for Max Payne 3 represent new features for the upcoming game. You’ll be able to trigger Bullet Time events via certain parts of the environment and enemies will show individual reactions to being hurt in battle. Natural Motion’s behavior system will create more nuanced movements in…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 -
Battlefield 3 Development Started on PC, But Switched to Consoles
Despite a launch that’s seen 5 million shipped in its first week, Battlefield 3‘s debut has not been without issues. Most of the praise has come for the PC version of the game and the assumption’s been that that where the main development of the military FPS happened, with that code ported over to the…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 -
Say Hello to Modern Warfare 3’s New Multiplayer Matches and Modes in This New Trailer
Activision’s 800-lb gorilla FPS franchise gets a lot of its muscle from its multiplayer and this clip shows what’ll be different and new in Modern Warfare 3. New modes—like Kill Confirmed, which tasks players to get dog tags of downed opponents—will show up along with the abilities to tweak and share settings into custom modes.…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 -
This New Trailer Shows Off Syndicate’s Co-Op Corporate Warfare
The controversially re-booted Syndicate will be sporting co-op play, shown off in this shiny cyberpunk trailer. We’ve got seeing-through-walls vision power, enemy-tracking bullets and some kind of area-effect blast. Also: Everyone wears trenchcoats. Except the rent-a-soldiers, of course. You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 -
Meet the Guys Who Make Skyrim’s Magic Happen in This New Video
Bethesda’s released a taste of the documentary that will come with the collector’s edition of Skyrim. The clip shows how the members of the development team grapple with the challenge of providing a wide-open canvas for an individual, player-driven experience. Todd Howard and his cohorts clearly have a sense of the risk of their endeavor…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 -
As Corporate Propaganda, the Blackwater Video Game Shoots Blanks
There’s no way you can expect Blackwater to be a good game. Ten minutes with it reveals that impossibility. The completely unintuitive controls, the wooden, stiff animation and the below-average graphics and voicework don’t take long to deflate any expectations of quality. But I had different expectations. The name Blackwater is synonymous with the phenomenon…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 -
Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary Launch Trailer Shows Off Updated Graphics for Master Chief’s Birthday Party
This new clip for the 10 anniversary re-mastering of the first Halo game takes a narrative approach to the lore of the sci-fi shooter series. The decades-long war with the alien Covenant collective has humanity pushed to the brink of total defeat and you—yes, you, the guy controlling the last of the Spartans—are the only…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 -
The New Trailer for Lollipop Chainsaw Offers Tricks and Treats
What you’ve got to love about Suda51 is the way his avid embrace of junk culture and grindhouse aesthetic informs everything he does. The buckets of gore in all of his games, the lucha libre wrestling mask he used to do interviews in and the foul-mouthed, hormone-plagued tension in No More Heroes and Shadows of…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2011 -
Get the Lowdown on Goldeneye 007: Reloaded’s Mi6 Ops in This New Trailer
There’s less than 24 hours before PS3 and Xbox 360 owners get to engage in hot and heavy James Bond action on their consoles. But, there’s more than just a campaign and multiplayer on the disc. This new video introduces the game’s Mi6 missions, separate chunks of gameplay that task players to complete different objectives…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2011 -
Let’s Hope the Angry Birds Store Is Structurally Sound
Angry Birds is not going away. It’s penetrated the zeitgeist in a way that compares to Pac-Man, Tetris and Super Mario Bros. And now there’s a retail shrine going up in China dedicated to Rovio’s feuding piggies and birdies. According to BetaBeat’s report, the store will be undercutting those profiting from the heavily bootlegged brand’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2011 -
Happy Halloween! Here Are Your Costumes, Kotaku
Salutations on Samhain, Kotakuites. Halloween falls on a Monday this year, which means that many of you are nursing candy hangovers after dressing up this weekend. Some good-to-great game- and nerd-themed Halloween costumes wound up in our inbox over the last week or so and we’ve decided to share them with you. The images in…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2011
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