Worth watching: this UGO-created trailer that shows what it would be like if the Robert Rodriguez-directed action movie Sin City was actually Sim City. It’s pretty funny. Definitely not fake. Definitely. Sim City: A Game to Kill For – NOT FAKE TRAILER [HD] [YouTube]
If you like old games, life is good in 2013. We have digital access to a wide library of retro titles ranging from NES classics to random Japanese imports like Makeruna Makendo 2. Services like the Virtual Console and PlayStation Network allow us to re-play old games without rummaging through our closets for the Super…
No dubstep, no angry men blowing up other angry men. Just a dude enjoying himself in the jungle, while shooting a crossbow bow and turning invisible and doing other Crysisy things. The shooter Crysis 3 will be out on February 19 for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. For more, check out Tina’s impressions
Designer Chris Taylor has canceled his troubled Kickstarter, just four days before funding was scheduled to end. Wildman, an action-role-playing game that promised to be “evolutionary,” had earned roughly $504,000, more than half a million short of its $1.1 million goal. The Kickstarter was due to end on Friday. This project has been troubled for…
The people behind Virtue’s Last Reward can’t seem to figure out how to patch a save-erasing bug that affects the 3DS version of the Japanese visual novel. Publisher Aksys has posted a “workaround” for the bug, which will erase your entire game if you save while solving puzzles in the PEC room (or Crew Quarters).…
It’s been a year and a half since Square Enix released the PSP role-playing game Final Fantasy Type-0 in Japan, and the publisher has not yet said a word about a possible U.S. release. Enter the fans. A group of dedicated translators are doing their best to release an English version of Type-0, and you…
Wasteland 2, the tremendously successful Kickstarter project that earned close to $3 million when it was funded last year, is starting to shape up. Here’s your first look at gameplay footage from the post-apocalyptic role-playing game. Looks great, no? As the folks behind it say: The first part of the video is a collection of…
Remember that Dead Space 3 glitch to help you avoid paying microtransactions? EA says it’s not a glitch
Last week, as you might recall, I promised to play Fire Emblem: Awakening with permadeath on. I also promised to continue battling no matter what happened: in other words, if any of my party members died in combat, they’d be dead for good. This was a mistake. I want to tell you a little bit…
I have no idea what Square Enix is teasing, but it’s certainly piqued my interest. A few minutes ago, I got a strange e-mail via a Square Enix press list: from: [email protected] via kotaku.com reply-to: [email protected] to: [email protected] date: Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:27 AM subject: What is the hardest case to solve? mailed-by:…
Nintendo is coming out with a new Wii U package, and it’s full of zombies. Starting February 17 in North America, you’ll be able to find this $390 “ZombiU Deluxe Set,” which comes complete with a black deluxe Wii U and GamePad, a digital copy of Nintendo Land, and a ZombiU disc. It also comes…
Activision-Blizzard sold 12 million copies of Diablo III, the company said today in an investors’ report.
Sex sells. Except when it doesn’t. Two years ago, when the people at Atlus tried to convince big-box stores to distribute their newest game, Catherine, they found that companies like Walmart and Target weren’t interested in selling sex. Store reps were turned off by the game’s box art, which features a shirtless man trapped inside…
This is the first official trailer for The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, aka that Walking Dead shooter that has absolutely nothing to do with the Walking Dead games that everyone loves. Survival Instinct is out March 19 for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. March 26 for Wii U. What do you think? Any interest?
Valve boss Gabe Newell is speaking at the D.I.C.E. show in Las Vegas today, and you can watch the livestream right here. The respected developer almost always has smart and interesting things to say, so expect an entertaining speech. Will he talk about Steam boxes? Movie plans? Ricochet 2? Let’s see. The speech starts at…
This is Anodyne, a top-down 16-bit Zelda-like game created by two guys: Sean Hogan and Jonathan Kittaka. On one hand, we’ve seen a lot of action-adventure indies that try to clone that addictive, delightful, swipe-solve formula that makes the Zelda games so good. On the other hand, can you really have enough Zelda clones? I…
You might remember “Enter The Freeman,” a very cool short Half-Life film we featured a few months ago The fan-film’s creators are crowd-funding $75,000 to turn it into a whole series, which may or may not be welcome news to Valve, considering that CEO Gabe Newell just announced he’d like to make movies with director…
If you want a physical copy of upcoming dungeon-crawler Class of Heroes 2, you can pre-order for $35 on the website
We already knew that part one of Assassin’s Creed III‘s three-part downloadable content pack, The Tyranny of King Washington, will be out on February 19. Now we know about the next two. Part two launches March 19. Part three is out April 23. That’s for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Each part of the trilogy…
Via GameFront, here’s how to take advantage of an exploit to farm unlimited resources in horror-survival game Dead Space 3, which came out yesterday for Xbox 360 and PS3. This, of course, means you won’t have to pay for microtransactions in the new EA-published game, which allows you to pay real money in exchange for…
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