Timegate’s Section 8, one of last year’s more interesting efforts in the multiplayer shooter space, is available on PC and Xbox 360. For some reason, it’s also coming out on PlayStation 3. You get the feeling Timegate missed the boat on this one; had a PS3 version launched alongside the 360 and PC copies, people…
Gaming academic (and Kotaku guest editor) Ian Bogost shares with the world this scan from a 1982 issue of Videogaming Illustrated, in which 1982 celebrities share their thoughts on the video games. Being 1982, we’ve got a stellar lineup, including comedian Mel Brooks, Superman’s Christopher Reeve, and another comedian, Chevy Chase. And remember, this is…
Long-time Kotaku Tower darlings King of Games are hitting 2010 running, announcing a new line of shirts based on classic NES title Excitebike, along with sneak peeks at an upcoming Zelda range. These two Excitebike shirts go on sale this Saturday, one short-sleeved, one a 3/4-sleeved retro football shirt. They’re ¥6000 & ¥7140 respectively (USD$66…
3D is, if the television, film and game industries are to be believed, the future. Whether they’re right or not is still up for discussion, but just in case they are, you may as well know how it all works. Here’s how the three main types of displaying 3D images in the modern era work.…
While Scribblenauts ultimately failed to live up to many people’s (perhaps unfairly lofty) expectations, it was still an admirable piece of work. So it’s nice to see that it’s punched well above its weight in terms of sales. The NPD Group has quietly released statistics on the five best-selling Nintendo DS games of 2009, and…
Andrew Kepple put this Team Fortress 2 animation together. It’s not machinima. It’s not a comic. It’s what would happen if TF2 had come out in the 50’s, and been jointly produced by Looney Tunes and John Kricfalusi. It’s a story of love, war and…sexual metaphors played out via Garry’s Mod.
It’s time to get reacquainted with some awfully British-Empire-sounding places like “The Customs House”, in these screenshots for Uncharted 2’s latest downloadable content pack. To recap, there’ll be two new multiplayer maps and some new multiplayer skins made available, all based on levels and characters from the first Uncharted game. Sadly, neither of the levels…
Last week, I asked you to let us know how many of you owned a high definition television set. Your answers are now in. Let’s take a look! I posed the question because, in the wake of comments from Epic’s Mark Rein and the continuing discussion over games which cater to owners of HDTVs, I…
While we at Kotaku have known Xbox Live has been coming to Windows Mobile for a while now, it appears that later today, Microsoft will finally get around to officially unveiling the project. Some lazy security at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona (due to open later today) has allowed these shots to get out,…
In case you missed it – and let’s face it, you probably did – over the weekend, Microsoft decided that the perfect place to promote Project Natal was…on TV show Smallville. Here it is, complete with French subtitles, which make it look a lot sexier than it actually is. What’s best about it is not…
THQ and the Sci-Fi Channel (I refuse to call them Syfy) announced last week a new deal where the two companies will cooperate on various ventures. One of them is a cartoon based on de Blob. Sci-Fi will soon be launching a “kids brand” aimed at little ones, and the colorful blobs – created by…
As we told you last month, the first two games in the Final Fantasy series are on their way to the iPhone. Here, in Square Enix’s patented iPhone-o-vision, is a trailer for the pair of classic re-releases. Still no release date, sadly; all we get is a “available soon” at the end of the clip.
Mass Effect 2’s soundtrack is pretty great, but you know what makes it better? Fan-made Hip-hop tracks devoted entirely to that most badass of pursuits: scanning a planet for minerals. This is “Those Minerals”, by Kabuto the Python, available for free on community music site Tindeck. Depending on your tastes, the rapping may be a…
That Final Fantasy sponsorship of the NBA All-Star weekend came with some strings attached, it seems; namely, that there’d be ads running depicting the game as available on the Xbox 360, with nary a PS3 logo in sight. Reader Christian points us towards this Microsoft-sponsored clip that ran during ESPN’s broadcast, complete with Leona Lewis…
Yesterday, Microsoft drew a green line in the sand, showing off much (but not all!) of the platform holder’s lineup for the remainder of the year. There were screenshots, trailers, even interviews. Here’s the pick of it all. What most excited you? For me, it certainly wasn’t Peter Molyneux’s promises. While I admire what the…
If you were among the first people to pick up THQ’s Darksiders, you will have noticed a coupon inside the box, with a code on it and instructions to hang onto it. Hope you did. Because the publisher finally got around to finding a use for them today, announcing that those who still have a…
Once upon a time, Alan Wake was a game coming for both the PC and Xbox 360. Then mention of the PC version began to simply disappear, culminating in the final announcement yesterday that the game’s for the 360 only. A statement from Microsoft reads: Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the…
Developer Ironclad doesn’t call Diplomacy, the second add-on to its popular PC space strategy title Sins of a Solar Empire, an expansion. It’s called, fittingly, a “micro-expansion.” Rather than add a host of things that “clip on” to the existing title – new races, etc. – Sins Of A Solar Empire: Diplomacy instead seeks to…
Sam Fisher may be missing his fancy green goggles in these screens, but you know what? He doesn’t need them. That lovely sweater more than makes up for it.
Sony say the company received “thousands” of applications for its new reality series, “The Tester”. Uh, it’s not thousands when you cut and paste the same dozen people over and over and over again.
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