Finally, a reason to buy an iPad: there’s a version of classic (and highly addictive) board game Carcassonne on the way. The game, ported to the device by TheCodingMonkeys and the suitably Germanic Hans im Glück (publishers of the actual Carcassonne board game), will also be available on the iPhone, but it’s the iPad version…
I really liked the first Skate, but haven’t been keeping up with the series since because, well, it all looks the same. You skate, you fall off, you try again. I do love it when a series jumps the shark, however. Not like the Fonz. Or Sonic. But when a game literally challenges you to…
So, Halo creators Bungie are working with Activision on a new piece of IP. For the next ten years. I hope for everyone’s sake it’s not a first-person shooter! For Bungie’s sake, this is because the team has already released a first-person shooter. Lots of them. In fact, between marathon and Halo it’s all the…
When Nintendo first revealed the 3DS handheld, many people pointed out it wasn’t the company’s first foray into 3D. But while the Virtual Boy did indeed precede the 3DS, it wasn’t Nintendo’s first piece of 3D technology either. That honour goes to the Famicom 3D, an accessory released only for the Famicom system in Japan,…
Flush with pride over the game’s 119th update, Valve today released another update for online shooter Team Fortress 2, designed to honour those that have been with the game since its launch all the way back in 2007. Along with a few minor tweaks to the mechanics of the game, it introduces three types of…
We’ve been complaining about the lack of Team Fortress 2 collectibles for months now. We even did it yesterday. That complaining stops today, however, with the reveal of a gorgeous statue based on the game’s “Heavy”. It’ll stand a whopping 12 inches tall, and come in both red and blue flavours (with exclusive variants with…
In case you just joined us, Kotaku has only been around this century. And yes, it’s always been based on a formula of baby-sick green and Amsterdam-hooker pink. But what if we’d been blogging in the last century? It’d look a little something like this. Except substitute the headlines for ones involving the Sega Saturn,…
Kingdom Hearts fans, who we know like things cute, will surely snap up these new figures from Square Enix, which are not only based on Kingdom hearts characters, but are incredibly, impossibly cute. There are five available – Sora, Cloud, Tifa, Axel and Riku – with the catch being you need to buy them as…
Giant robots aren’t just for fighting! They can also be used for…construction work! And…complex song & dance routines! A group of Armored Core: For Answer players have sat down and recorded an insane 18 hours worth of footage, in which the game’s giant robots do little but tap toes, swirl around and generally make like…
Oh God, it’s so terrifying Meet the Padded Puppet Pouch! It’s a…padded puppet pouch for the DS, that pulls two jobs as both a puppet and a pouch for your DS. Just like the name says! It’s by CTA Digital, and while we’ve chuckled at most of the company’s previous efforts in the gaming peripheral…
I love Sid Meier. Not just because he’s a great game designer, but because he’s a generally smart guy, as evidenced in this interview with IndustryGamers in which he talks “social” gaming in terms you should all understand. “I think it’s a new frontier”, he says. “I don’t think it replaces any other forms of…
Tecmo Bowl Throwback parties like it’s 1987
First things first, this lab makes repeat appearances. There are allusions to somebody being “revived”, and a look at that clock reveals what may well be a 2010 date (albeit in the Japanese back-to-front style). Here’s a missile launch. Hard to tell what exactly is going on, but it looks like it’s at the coast,…
There are few better ways to end your Wednesday (or start your Thursday!) than with a game you’d previously never even heard of, but now can’t wait to actually play. Today’s case in point: ilomilo. It’s a puzzle game by Southend Interactive. You know, the Swedish team behind Tecmo Bowl Throwback and R-Type Dimensions on…
Chinese World of Warcraft players, bummed at the challenges they face trying to play expansion Burning Crusade on a PC, could always lower their already-low graphical expectations and play the game on a…Famicom That’s it, up top. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, for the Famicom. This version, created not by Blizzard but by pirates,…
God of War is a unique series, in that three different men lead the development team for each of the three games. How, then, would David Jaffe – original creator of the series – have ended things? I’m not going to spoil the actual ending, but I can tell you that Jaffe’s vision for how…
While you were probably happy seeing proof of the imminent arrival of the black Wii on American shores, retailer GameStop is less so, sending a lengthy email to its stores earlier today in the wake of the console’s “leak“. In a delicious irony, reader thecenturyslayer now passes along the following piece of internal correspondence, which…
Do Team Fortress 2, only set it in the Wild West. Looks simple on paper, but is it really that easy to copy Valve’s successful formula for multiplayer shooters? Lead & Gold: Gangs of the Wild West is a team-based online shooter, where you can play as either the red or blue side, and then…
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