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Spectator Mode: Lionheart: King’s Crusade
Another day, another look at a PC game you may have slept on. Today, it’s Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade. Total War fans, step inside. I’ve heard people call this a Total War clone, but that’s a little unfair. LKC puts you in command of either Crusader or Saracen forces during the time of the Third Crusade.…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2010 -
Yup, That’s A Boss Battle
As seen on Threadless, via Rampaged Reality
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2010 -
Resident Evil Creator To Develop Games For…Bethesda
Tango Gameworks, the new studio headed up by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, has just been bought by Zenimax Media, the firm which also owns Oblivion developers Bethesda and Doom creators id. Mikami, whose last project was the just-released Vanquish, will remain in Tokyo with his team, where he will stay on as the head…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2010 -
One Sure-Fire Way To Slow Vanquish Down
Junkboy, the man to thank for 22 of the sweetest “demakes” we’ve seen all year, has a new piece up for lovers of Platinum Games’ latest effort Vanquish. Called “Wank-ish”, it takes the sickeningly-fast 3D shooter and turns it into a 2D game ala Wild Guns I liked Vanquish, but a lot of the time…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2010 -
Someone Is Making A Van Helsing MMO
Universal Studios is working on more than just a Michael Jackson game, with word slipping out yesterday that an MMO based on mythical monster hunter Van Helsing is also in development. Handling the game will be a partnership between SEE Virtual Worlds and Entropia Universe creators MindArk. There’s not much else to tell at the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2010 -
BioShock Creators Had Monster Island On Their Minds
Continuing their welcome tradition of showing us games they never actually made, Irrational has this week lifted the veil on Monster Island, a title the BioShock developers never finished (though we wish they had). First conceived at the beginning of the decade, Monster Island is described by Irrational as an “action/strategy console game” that took…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2010 -
Nintendo DS Sales Fall Through The Floor
In the six months leading up to September 30, 2009, Nintendo sold 11.7 million DS units worldwide. In the six months leading up to September 30, 2010, that figure has dropped by nearly half, to 6.69 million. It’s to be expected, of course. Not only is the DS getting a little long in the tooth…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2010 -
PC Gaming Week Confessional, Luke Edition
We are all over PC gaming this week, but what do we know about PC gaming? Each day, one Kotaku editor will reveal their PC gaming knowledge and share some memories. Yesterday you read about Ashcraft’s experiences, now it’s my turn. Are you a PC gamer? You bet your ass I am. While I own…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2010 -
Famous Developers Share Their Favorite PS2 Games
This week is the tenth anniversary of the PlayStation 2’s launch in North America, and as part of the celebrations Sony rounded up a bunch of big-name developers and asked them what their favourite PS2 games were. Don’t worry, it’s not just Sony or Sony BFF developers giving their thoughts; everyone from Ken Levine to…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2010 -
Threepio, R2 Break Into A Store To Play Video Games
When they’re not starring in movies or cartoons, Star Wars’ C-3PO and R2-D2 like nothing more than to…break into a large British electronics retailer, turn on all the TVs and play some video games. And that’s probably the least entertaining part of this commercial for Currys & PC World Megastores, in which Threepio plays the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2010 -
Woman Kills Baby For Interrupting Farmville Session
A 22 year-old woman from Jacksonsville, Florida has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son over a game of…Farmville. Alexandra V. Tobias says her three-month old child, Dylan Lee Edmondson, had been crying while she was trying to play the popular Facebook casual game. This angered Tobias, who told authorities that she shook the baby,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2010 -
Take These Scott Pilgrims Home With You
Having starred in his own motion picture and video game, comic star Scott Pilgrim is now rendered in small plastic form, ready for you to take home and…do whatever you want with him. Going on sale next April (!!!), there will be two figures available, one in a t-shirt with a bass guitar, the other…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010 -
Dragon Age II Trailer Rises To Power
If Dragon Age II’s last trailer was a little too pre-rendered for your tastes, you may enjoy this new one more, as it’s naught but in-engine footage. I get a really strange vibe from this game. Not in a bad way, just in a…you know when a movie sequel has a different director to the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010 -
GameStop Robber Shot Dead By Police
Police in Orlando have shot and killed a man who was attempting to evade arrest after holding up a GameStop store. The unnamed suspect robbed the store on South Kirkman Road with a gun earlier today, before attempting to escape in his car. Police gave chase and eventually caught up with the man, who after…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010 -
American McGee’s Little Red Riding Hood
While American McGee’s Spicy Horse Games is busy at work on the new Alice game, some of the team have enough spare time left over to release cool little iPad applications like Akaneiro. It’s mostly a straight-up storybook, taking the classic tale of Red Riding Hood and transplanting it in fuedal Japan. It does have…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010 -
I’ve Always Wanted To Slam Dunk A Baby
And now, thanks to Happy Wheels, I can live the dream. Happy Wheels is what would happen if ExciteBike was run by Jackass, only instead of drinking horse juice and punching each other in the balls, they were losing limbs and endangering the lives of small children. The game’s running on a browser, so you…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010 -
Lots Of Footage Of People Playing Real 3DS Games
While we’ve seen plenty of screenshots and trailers for Nintendo 3DS games, one thing we’re short on is quality, real-time gameplay footage. Let’s fix that! We’re of course limited by the fact the 3D doesn’t work through a monitor, and that these are some pretty shaky shaky-cam shots, but they’re better than nothing! There are…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010
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