Yesterday we told you about Star Wars: First Assault, the troubled multiplayer shooter that may never see the light of day thanks to uncertainty at the development studio LucasArts. First Assault was to be a downloadable “predecessor” to Star Wars: Battlefront III. It was supposed to come out this spring, but LucasArts froze all hiring…
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm doesn’t officially go live until tonight at midnight Pacific time, but if you’ve got the new StarCraft II expansion installed already, you can play it right now. To prepare for the launch, Blizzard has disabled Global Play, the feature that lets you switch between servers on the online network…
Wii action-RPG Pandora’s Tower will be out in North America this April, publisher Xseed said today. You can check out the first U.S. trailer above. With Nintendo focusing on their newly-launched Wii U and third-party publishers sticking with game consoles that can output in high-definition, this may very well be the Wii’s swan song. Farewell,…
Last October, we saw a listing for Star Wars: First Assault, an unannounced Xbox Live Arcade game developed by LucasArts. Today, Kotaku can reveal that Star Wars: First Assault is a downloadable multiplayer shooter that was originally slated for release this spring. The game supports up to 16 players—one eight-person team of rebels and one…
Let the zerg rushing begin. StarCraft II‘s first expansion comes out tomorrow, and to celebrate, Blizzard is streaming StarCrafty things all day. The Heart of the Swarm global launch event, which you can watch using the embedded stream below, is hosted by the much-beloved Sean “day9” Plott. They’ve got cameras at a bunch of the…
Xi3’s Piston—the first unofficial Steam Box console—will launch this holiday at a starting price of $1,000, the hardware manufacturer announced today. If you preorder it before March 18, you’ll get a $100 discount. The Piston is the first PC designed specifically to play games in your living room using Steam’s Big Picture mode. Valve is…
Anyone who bought SimCity will get a free video game, publisher EA said tonight. Apologizing for the crippling server issues that have rendered the new simulation game near-unplayable for the past week, Maxis boss Lucy Bradshaw wrote in a blog post that anyone with a copy of SimCity activated before March 18 will get a…
Does the world still care about Japanese role-playing games? Do people still want to buy them? Do they still deserve our attention? Ask your average gamer—or your average game developer—and they’ll tell you that the JRPG is a dying genre. They’ll tell you that Japanese RPGs haven’t evolved, or that nobody buys them anymore. That…
Holy crap. Kotaku reader Will Turnbow and his wife made this cake for their daughter’s tenth birthday, and I think it’s no exaggeration to say this is the coolest thing you’ll see today. Based on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the cake includes Skyloft, the Sealed Grounds, the Faron Woods, and a ton of…
A team of developers is looking to make a single-player city-building game that seems like the anti-SimCity—and they’re asking for $250,000 on Kickstarter to make it happen. Called Civitas, the project promises to be a SimCity clone that you can actually play offline, which might come as welcome news to fans burned by the recent…
Everybody’s sick of this SimCity disaster. Everybody! Even Chris Kluwe, a punter for the Minnesota Vikings and big gamer, has taken to Twitter to say some… colorful things about SimCity, and about EA’s decision not to let people play the game offline. Behold: Gotta love a guy who isn’t afraid to speak his mind.
Yesterday, a video game shattered yet another Kickstarter record: in its first 24 hours, Torment: Tides of Numenera raised $1.7 million, becoming the fastest Kickstarter to earn a million dollars Tides of Numenera is a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment, a role-playing game that came out for the PC back in 1999, and it’s received…
Psyched for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm? Check out this large Q&A with some of Blizzard’s developers.
Hey, remember when video games came out and then you could actually play them? As we enter day 3 of the SimCity launch debacle, EA has decided to turn off “a few non-critical gameplay features” in order to let people play on the servers, which have been broken since the game launched on Monday night.…
To the Moon, a lovely and emotionally evocative indie adventure game released in 2011, is getting a sequel… sorta. The game’s called A Bird Story, and it’s a short adventure that will be out this summer. Creator Kan Gao likes to think of it as a bridge between the first and second To the Moons.…
When season one of The Walking Dead hit last year, a lot of people assumed that the episodic adventure series would turn into an annual thing. Many of us thought season two would be out in 2013. But alas. Season two of the critically-acclaimed series might not hit til fall of 2014, according to Telltale…
See that image? If you try to play SimCity on the U.S. servers right now, you probably will. It’s a little different from the image we saw last night, and the server issues we saw all throughout yesterday, but the problem remains the same: people who bought SimCity can’t play it. Right now it’s 8pm…
One of EA’s top executives says the website VideoGamer fabricated news yesterday when they reported that Dead Space 4 was no more. The VideoGamer report, which cited an anonymous source, said that “EA has ceased development on Dead Space 4 and effectively axed the series following lower than anticipated sales of Dead Space 3.” According…
Inxile’s Kickstarter for their spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment is live now and already rolling in the dough.
Maybe you bought SimCity today. Maybe you were hoping to fire it up after a long day of work. Maybe you’ve been waiting for this game for years now, and you were psyched to finally check it out. Maybe you didn’t mind the whole “online only” thing, because you keep your computer connected to the…
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