Some might say that Sony’s upcoming brawl game, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, is something of a Super Smash Bros. clone. Maybe Sony agrees. PlayStation® All-Stars Battle Royale E3 Trailer [YouTube]
Sony will bring its PS1 Classics service to Vita this summer, it said today at its press conference. Announced games so far include Tomb Raider, Arc the Lad, JetMoto, Final Fantasy VII. Presumably the lineup will be a lot more robust when it’s actually out, like the actual PS1 Classics that are currently available on…
You’ll be able to use your PlayStation Vita to control LittleBigPlanet 2 on the PlayStation 3 if you buy Sony’s new downloadable content, the publisher said today at its E3 press briefing. The DLC pack will also include a new story and other new content.
Here are some new screenshots for Watch Dogs, Ubisoft’s original new action-adventure game that looks absolutely spectacular thus far. No word on which consoles Watch Dog will be on.
It’s true. Ubisoft’s Just Dance 4, out this October for Wii, Xbox Kinect, and PlayStation Move, will feature Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe I know. I know. I can’t stop squealing either. Here’s part of the 40-track song list, announced by Ubisoft today: • Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepsen • Disturbia –…
Here’s a first look at Avengers: Battle for Earth, which Ubisoft will release this fall for Wii U and Xbox 360/Kinect
Seen today at Ubisoft’s press conference, here’s another look at Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Here’s a great trailer for Crysis 3, shown today at EA’s E3 press conference. Crysis 3 is out next February for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Nintendo will host a special event to show off software for the 3DS, it said today. The briefing will run from 6-7 PT on Wednesday night and Nintendo will live stream the whole thing. (We’ll also be there, covering everything.) For those keeping count, that’s event number three for the big N: there was the…
Here’s the E3 demo for the upcoming first-person shooter that EA showed off today. Medal of Honor Warfighter will be out on October 23 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.
Here’s a new trailer for the upcoming simulation game, which EA will release next February for PC. Pretty, eh?
EA just showed off Dead Space 3, which, as expected, will have a cooperative multiplayer mode In a new trailer that EA just showed at its E3 press briefing, we can see presumable protagonist Isaac Clarke teaming up with fellow hero Earthgov Sergeant John Carver to shoot aliens on a frozen planet called Tau Volantis.…
Okay, so it was closer to 1,000 steps. Still, lots of steps. This is St. John’s Fortress, located in Kotor, Montenegro. It’s basically a greener version of the Throat of the World, an exhaustingly enormous landmark from Bethesda’s popular role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. See the resemblance? (I reached out to Bethesda this…
Konami will include a demo of the wonderfully titled Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance with Zone of the Enders HD this fall, it said today. The demo will show off several of the upcoming action game’s new combat mechanics.
Thirty minutes. That’s all I need. Thirty minutes to decide whether or not a role-playing game is worth playing. It’s that first half-hour that comprises an RPG’s most important moments. It’s when we meet our hero. It’s when we find out what he or she wants. It’s when we’re introduced to the game’s world and…
Here’s the latest trailer for Defiance, an upcoming massively multiplayer online game that will come coupled with a television show that its creators say will be affected by the way players play. It’s a ridiculously ambitious goal that could set a whole new precedent for the way different forms of media interact. Or it could…
The other day on Twitter, fellow Kotaku writer Kate Cox mentioned she had just finished Xenogears, Square’s classic PlayStation role-playing game. Since Xenogears is one of my favorite games, a classic up there with the best RPGs ever, I bugged her roughly 19283493849284924 times to come chat about her experiences for Random Encounters. Eventually she…
We spend a lot of time watching video game characters talk. Sometimes they’re perched in dimly-lit inns, plotting out their next moves over frosty mugs of Genuine Medieval Ale. Other times they’re exchanging snarky quips between rounds of troll-hunting or alien-squashing. Or sharing awkward pleasantries after robotic sexual encounters. Japanese role-playing games are especially dialogue-heavy.…
Here’s a look at the history of the Unreal Engine, put together by Kotaku video editor Chris Person. Unreal, isn’t it? It’s spectacular to see how Epic’s powerful gaming engine has evolved over the years—and how our standards have evolved with it. Just a decade ago, we thought those goofy faces at the beginning of…
From reading Valve’s employee handbook, you might get the impression that the Half-Life creator is freewheeling, chaotic, and structure-free. But Portal co-creator Kim Swift, who left Valve a few years ago to join a different studio, says it ain’t all that anarchic. “I disagree with the suggestion that they have no structure there,” Swift told…
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