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Portal Picks Up a PlayStation Move Controller, Returns to the PS3 With New Levels
Developers Sixense have announced that a bunch of new Portal content is coming to the PlayStation 3. It’s called Portal 2 In Motion, and is DLC for the existing game that takes full advantage of Sony’s PlayStation Move peripheral. Crafted as DLC for the core game, P2IM was developed by Sixense, and brings 20 new…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
Not Even The Elder Scrolls Online’s Cinematic Trailer is Helping
It’s a sad state of affairs when you’re not even feeling a game’s cinematic trailer, but then, that’s about par for the course with me and The Elder Scrolls Online. The game itself just doesn’t look, or sound like an Elder Scrolls title. And neither does this trailer. If you’d told me that was Lord…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
Nintendo Didn’t Show This Wario Game, But Maybe it Should Have
The 3DS Excepted, new Nintendo hadware launches over the last decade or so have almost been defined by the Wario games released at or near their launch. Combining quirky mechanics with an almost requirement to play them socially, they do as good a job of any game of making the most of a system’s unique…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
This New Wii U Game is About Tanks! Tanks! Tanks!
Pardon the excitement there, it actually wasn’t excitement. Namco Bandai’s debut Wii U game is actually called Tank! Tank! Tank! It looks like the union of a 90s arcade game, Facebook titles and my worst nightmares about giant mechanical spiders. Which now I see them together doesn’t look like such a bad thing.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
The British Zombie Game Shows What the Wii U’s Controller Screen Can do
Ubisoft’s ZombiU had one of the more interesting trailers from yesterday, but, um, all we saw was cinematic stuff. Nothing from the actual game. This? This is nothing but the actual game. OK, Nintendo (and Ubisoft), you know what, you want to sell people on just what that second screen can do, this is helping.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
Dead Island Returns With Sequel to Hoodoo Your Voodoo
Dead Island, the zombie survival action game from 2011 that some hated and some couldn’t get enough of, returns with a sequel, Dead Island Riptide. Techland’s game will be for “consoles” and PC, and will be…well, that’s all we’ve got.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
FIFA 13 Brushes Shoulders With E3, Lionel Messi
While the innocent bystander might be hard-pressed to notice the difference between this and FIFA 12 – especially since everyone’s wearing last season’s kits – fans will pick up things like increased physicality and AI teammates that maybe, just maybe, will actually make a decent run in on goal.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
Phew, I Feel Like an E3 Chaser, Don’t You?
VIDEO GAME NEWS, ALL DAY, ALL THE TIME. E3 can get a bit much, can’t it? Sometimes you just need to take a deep breath, relax, and knock back a Kotaku E3 chaser. Like this one. Get the taste out of your mouth, even if only for an hour or two. Enjoy.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
Sound Shapes is Still Making the PlayStation Vita Look Interesting
For reasons known only to Sony and the Gods above, the company went an entire E3 press conference without mentioning the wonderful Sound Shapes. One look at this clip, showcasing some content for the game produced by the artists and musician behind Sword & Sworcery, will make you wonder why the hell that was.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
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The Art (and Guns) of Halo 4
Fine Art doesn’t stop just because E3 is going down. It just gets a little more poignant. Today we’ve got some official art from Microsoft’s Halo 4, some of it previously seen but much of it brand new. It’s a mix of content, some of it concept art, some of it in-game objects, others character…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
Michael Ironside Isn’t Sam Fisher Anymore. This Other Guy Is.
You don’t fuck with Michael Ironside. If you give the man a Splinter Cell script and he doesn’t like it, he will come at you. Just like he came at Ubisoft in this trailer for the new Splinter Cell game, Blacklist, telling of his origins with the series. Ironside, the long-time voice of hero Sam…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
This Version of the Naughty Hitman Trailer is Even Funnier
The latest Hitman trailer, which was basically about a guy punching a lot of very (too?) sexy women to death, caused a bit of a fuss. It’s a little much, yes, but can’t we all see the lighter side of things?
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
Kotaku’s Winners & Losers of E3 2012, Day One
There were a ton of things shown off today at E3, not technically the first day of the show (that’s tomorrow!), but counted as such by virtue of the big press conferences that go down. Some of it was good. Some of it was awful. Let’s recap and see which was which. Monday is often…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
Star Wars 1313 Looks Absolutely Amazing
I don’t know how it plays. I haven’t played it! But the new Star Wars game, 1313, looks incredible. This clip we’ve got here shows the PC version of the game, and while it looks cinematic, it’s said to be entirely in-engine. Most of it being, clearly, gameplay footage. No further info on release dates…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2012 -
Harry Potter’s Author Helping Sony With an Interactive PlayStation…Book…Thing
It’s either the cutest or the most ridiculous thing we’ll see at this year’s E3, but it’s a thing: Sony has developed an interactive book. It’s called Wonderbook (trailer above), and it works by being read in front of a PlayStation Eye camera, which can turn the pages into interactive animations on a TV screen.…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2012 -
Assassin’s Creed Confirmed for Vita, Stars a Lady Assassin
Sony and Ubisoft have confirmed earlier reports that Assassin’s Creed will be coming to the PlayStation with an all-new title, starring a female assassin and set roughly in the same time period as Assassin’s Creed III Called Assassin’s Creed: Liberation, it’ll ship on October 30, and will also come in a bundle brinigng the first…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2012 -
New Black Ops Game Coming to Vita
Call of Duty was one of the first games announced for the Vita, but we’ve seen or heard almost nothing since. That changed today, when Sony revealed that Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified will be out on the handheld this holiday season.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2012 -
The Next Game From Heavy Rain’s Creators Stars Ellen Page
David Cage and his Quantic Dream studio have taken the stage at Sony’s E3 press conference to unveil a brand new game called Beyond Which is exactly what we were expecting them to do. The game is about a girl called Jodie, who will actually be played by actress Ellen Page (Juno, Inception). That means…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2012
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