-
Dust 514 Will Be Free to Play, No Cover Required
Upcoming shooter Dust 514 is doing a lot of unusual things. It’s a PlayStation 3-exclusive first person shooter that ties into and relies on events in the world of PC MMO Eve Online It’s also a free-to-play game, except that last summer developers CCP confused many by saying that the supposedly free-to-play FPS wasn’t actually…
By Kate Cox -
Slaughter All The Things In Bloodforge
Mythology-based revenge thriller Bloodforge, from UK-based developer Climax Studios, is slated to hit Xbox Live Arcade this spring. Bloodforge promises to tell the tale of Crom, a warrior who gives up fighting for the sake of his family but then finds himself unwillingly pulled back in and then devoting the rest of his life and…
By Kate Cox -
Research Finds That Winning Makes You Mean
Apparently, being a gracious victor in a competitive situation really is hard to do. Everyone can remember an elementary school teacher cautioning kids against being either sore losers or bad winners. A new study out of Ohio State University finds that perhaps there are reasons being a bad winner is so common. Researchers found that…
By Kate Cox -
Top Colleges for Game Design in North America
For the third year in a row, among its other rankings of colleges and universities in the North America, the Princeton Review has ranked the top game design programs. Video games in all their forms and genres continue to become ever more mainstream, and the business and industry making them continues to grow along with.…
By Kate Cox -
Nintendo 3-0 This Year Against Patent Trolls
A company like Nintendo faces lawsuits with some regularity. The complexities of the U.S. patent system leave plenty of room for legitimate inventors and patent trolls alike to file infringement suits against whomever they wish. In 2010, IA Labs LLC, a company based in Potomac, Maryland, filed suit against Nintendo over the Wii Fit Balance…
By Kate Cox -
Holy @!#?@! Man Spends 68.5 Hours Playing Single Game of Q*Bert
When most of us think of a long session spent playing a single game, we think of spending a day or maybe a weekend immersed in story or competition. Eight or ten hours, maybe more, spent on the sofa or at a PC while the player loses track of time. One man, this morning, just…
By Kate Cox -
They Need To Be Fed to the Monster at the End
They Need to be Fed is, aside from being a mouthful to remember and say, a gravity-based puzzle platformer. Only in this case, gravity doesn’t necessarily apply in the way you feel that it should. Rather, each little center of mass — the blocks from which the player’s avatar needs to leap — seems to…
By Kate Cox -
Help Us Say Something Nice About Fighting Gamers
The fighting game scene has taken a lot of criticism this week due to the controversy surrounding one player’s harassment of another player on Capcom’s internet reality show Cross Assault As Kotaku has covered these stories, a number of readers in the comments and elsewhere online have questioned why it appears that only negative stories…
By Kate Cox -
iPad 3’s Upgraded Display Will Be a World of Difference for Games
Apple fans are eagerly awaiting next week’s announcement about the iPad 3. We’ve previously reported that the new device is widely rumored to have an upgraded “retina display,” vastly improving the resolution which, in turn, makes apps and games look better. But reading about resolutions is one thing. What do the numbers actually mean? What…
By Kate Cox -
Kingdoms of Amalur DLC To Add Fates, Estates, and Pirates
The first major DLC addition for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is due in March, and it has pirates. “The Legend of Dead Kel” himself is the core of the new content, but the DLC promises to add a rather significant expansion onto the base game, providing a whole new northern island area — Gallows End…
By Kate Cox -
The Banner Saga To Begin Waving This Summer
Indie developer Stoic Studio has released the first trailer for their new Viking-themed turn-based strategy role-playing game, The Banner Saga The three developers who form the studio all previously worked at BioWare, and drew attention with the earlier announcement of their new title. While details regarding the game are still scarce, the art speaks for…
By Kate Cox -
Leaked Pics Appear to Show a Sprawling, Gorgeous SimCity 5
A set of seven leaked images assumed to be concept art for SimCity 5 have surfaced today, along with rumors indicating that the game is 30% of the way through development, and will be released in 2013. Users at NeoGAF have posted the images as well as a translation from a print edition of German…
By Kate Cox -
Morsel Kombat: One Man’s Quest To “Finish” His Meal
In the eternal struggle between man and lunch, there can be only one victor! It takes dedication, preparation, and a vat of ketchup to defeat the breaded foe once and for all. The nuggets may fight back, but it is a fighter’s task — nay, his silly, funny, comic duty — to FINISH THEM. Morsel…
By Kate Cox -
Uncharted-Themed Shoes Can Guide You in Drake’s Steps
Perhaps Nathan Drake should have written all his notes on his shoes. Surely, they’d be harder for nefarious baddies to steal repeatedly than journals are? Or the maps on the toes could have proved useful as well, guiding him around various jungles and deserts. Alas, for Drake himself the best purpose for these custom Nikes…
By Kate Cox -
New Super Nintendo (Yes, Super Nintendo!) Game Is in Development for 2013
For the folks out there who can still lay hands on a working Super Nintendo system, good news: there’s a new game slated to come your way next year. Development, publishing, and production company Super Fighter Team are calling Nightmare Busters a “masterful run and gun game for the Super Nintendo, Super Famicom and all…
By Kate Cox -
The Boondock Saints to Continue Their Quest From Consoles
The Boondock Saints missed its mark with critics, but the 1999 film was, and remains, a cult favorite. The tale of style, crime, vigilantism, words you can’t say on television, and blood will soon be adapted into a multi-platform game. G4 spoke with Matt Scibilia, president and CEO of developer Critical Mass Interactive. In that…
By Kate Cox -
HD Jet Set Radio Blasts Onto Consoles and PC This Summer
Last week’s teaser is now this week’s confirmation. Sega will be releasing a revamped HD version of Dreamcast favorite Jet Set Radio for digital download on an as-yet-unspecified date this summer, on XBox Live, PlayStation Network, and PC. Jet Set Radio drew attention at its original release in 2000 for its then-innovative use of cel-shaded…
By Kate Cox -
ReviewsAsura’s Wrath: The Kotaku Review
Asura is an angry, angry man. It’s right there in the title, really: Asura’s Wrath. The game tells the story of one man’s rage-fueled superpowers, as he seeks revenge on those who betrayed him, kidnapped his daughter, and left him for dead. One can’t really blame the guy for feeling wrathful. Asura certainly lives in…
By Kate Cox -
No Need to Love Lucy; Just Like Her Facebook Game
There is always another television property out there that can yet be mined for its game tie-in potential, it seems. I Love Lucy, 1950s classic and staple of late-night reruns for decades, will be making its entry into the Facebook game space soon thanks to Entertainment Games, Inc. In a press release, the social and…
By Kate Cox -
PSN Gamers’ Choice Awards Voting Opens Tomorrow
Last year, Sony piloted their PSN Gamers’ Choice Awards, and they apparently liked the results enough to repeat the endeavor this year. This year’s awards include nominees in ten total categories, up from 2010’s four. The featured games received high user ratings after their release on PSN. Voting runs through next Tuesday, March 6, and…
By Kate Cox
Kate Cox
Kate Cox's posts