News of Lost Planet 3‘s announcement leaked earlier today, but here are the official screenshots, revealed by publisher Capcom at the Captivate event in Rome earlier this month. Development studio Spark Unlimited (best known for the poorly-received Turning Point: Fall of Liberty) is helming the title, a prequel to the first Lost Planet game. Which…
Rockstar today released the full list of achievements for upcoming third-person shooter Max Payne 3, which will be out May 15. You’ll get trophies for pulling off headshots, ingesting painkillers, collecting Golden Guns, dangling from chains, and killing your friends, among other gory acts. Check out the full list on Rockstar’s website The Achievements and…
Book One of Adam Rippon’s Dragon Fantasy was non-stop 8-bit nostalgia. Book Two doubles that. You can get a brief glimpse of the upcoming indie role-playing game in this video, shot at PAX East last weekend. The first few episodes of Dragon Fantasy are already out on the iTunes Store, but the new-and-improved 16-bit second…
Here’s the PAX East demo of Orcs Must Die 2, the sequel to last fall’s popular downloadable tower defense game. Although we didn’t get a chance to check out the new cooperative mode in this PC-exclusive sequel, we did see the new Sorceress class and some of the new physics mechanics. And you can hear…
This neat, super-tricky video will put your video game knowledge to the test. Can you guess all 20 games these planets are from? Check the YouTube description for the full list of answers. [YouTube]
Sometimes Mario’s just gotta vent a little. And sometimes just stomping on turtles isn’t enough. The newest Dorkly video, which debuted during the comedy site’s hilarious panel at PAX East this past weekend, shows off just how violent Nintendo’s iconic plumber can get. It’s adorable For more sick and twisted video game comedy, follow the…
The founders of Penny Arcade pulled a fast one on one of their most notorious foes this weekend, hitting Paul “Ocean Marketing” Christoforo with a prank they say has been in the works for the past three weeks. Christoforo, who set off an Internet firestorm several months ago when he sent a series of inflammatory…
Proving that he doesn’t need Community to be meta as hell, actor Joel McHale dissects the anatomy of a viral video in this new commercial for Nintendo’s 3DS handheld gaming system. Really, who wouldn’t want Mario and Luigi on their writing team? Joel McHale Goes Viral for Nintendo [YouTube]
PAX East 2012 is no more. Legions of gamers have returned to their nests. Boston is finally at peace. But for three days, the East Coast morphed into a cosplay-stuffed playground for all things gaming, a wonderful wonderland of Mass Effect characters and developers who look like cats. We had a great time out at…
Mark of the Ninja doesn’t look like your average stealth game. You won’t be hiding in cardboard boxes or waiting 10 minutes for soldiers to turn around. And it’s all two-dimensional. Mark of the Ninja, which developer Klei Entertainment first announced February in the form of a neat text adventure, is more reminiscent of platformers…
You can see many of the ideas behind what would become indie gem Bastion in its original 2009 prototype, which developer Supergiant Games is showing off at its booth during this weekend’s PAX East. But it sure looks different. Before there were Gasfellas and Windbags, there were random bits of placeholder art from Dungeons &…
Dear Harmonix, I do not ask for the stars, nor for the moon. I ask only for Call Me Maybe to be included in Rock Band Perhaps you’ve never considered putting this wonderful melody in your music games. Perhaps you’ve never even listened to it. I stand here today asking—nay, begging you to reconsider. Carly…
Speaking at an MIT conference today, Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two and publisher of Grand Theft Auto, criticized the practices of THQ, the company behind Saint’s Row. Zelnick predicted that the struggling THQ won’t last much longer. [Joystiq]
Because I will be off in Boston for PAX East during tomorrow’s edition of Random Encounters—and because it lands smack in the middle of our panel, Take Over Kotaku—there will be no JRPG column this Friday. Sorry! Instead, you’ll get to watch the horror hilarity as Kotaku readers take over the website for their own…
Publishers Nexon and Valve will collaborate to bring the shooter Counter-Strike Online 2 to Asian territories, they said today. In a press release explaining very little about how this will be different than older Counter-Strike games, the publishers write: Counter-Strike Online 2 will offer enhanced graphics, more realistic gameplay and powerful impact sensations powered by…
Minecraft creator Markus “Notch Persson” has been tweeting all sorts of details about his upcoming space simulator, the oddly titled 0x10c There’s a full unofficial roundup over at a new website called 0x10.cc, but here’s some of the salient stuff: There will be a monthly fee for multiplayer, because free-to-play games are “a scam,” Persson…
Cortana sure looks blue in this brand new Halo 4 art, which will be on this month’s cover of the gaming magazine Game Informer The May issue of Game Informer will show off some pretty pictures of the highly-anticipated upcoming shooter, as well as more details about the story and multiplayer mechanics May Cover Revealed:…
I have no idea how YouTube user thedotnetkid trained his fingers to play Scramble with Friends this well, but I want to learn. “So far my best score is 3700 points in one round,” he says in the blurb of this new video he uploaded to prove that he isn’t cheating when he racks up…
Developer Wayforward (A Boy and His Blob) will revitalize the old-school brawler with Double Dragon: Neon, to be released digitally on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this summer. You’ll also be able to play it at PAX East this weekend.
Xenoblade Chronicles taught me an important lesson: Never trust the Internet. You see, for the past few months, everybody everywhere on the web has been hyping the hell out of Monolith Soft’s new Wii role-playing game, which publisher Nintendo will release in the United States this Friday (though it’s been out in Europe for almost…
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