Something big, potentially, is brewing for Pac-Man who celebrates his 30th birthday this year. Namco Bandai is holding an event next month, timed with the E3 video game expo, with a surprising guest in attendance. That would be Avi Arad, formerly the CEO of Marvel Studios and producer of the comic book company’s films, including…
Modern warfare first-person shooters have a new contender in Medal of Honor, EA’s current day reboot of the former World War II shooter series. The game’s second trailer puts less emphasis on explosive action than it does tugging at heartstrings. Oh, there’s an explosion or two near the end, so don’t think that this new…
The latest Ubisoft game to bear the Tom Clancy name is H.A.W.X. 2, the sequel to the original, million-selling arcade-style flight sim. Billions of dollars in virtual aircraft will once again be blowing up this fall. Now in development at Ubisoft Bucharest, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 will land on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC…
Everyone’s favorite second-rate princess saver, Luigi, will be playable in Super Mario Galaxy 2, a major selling point for the Wii owner who detests blue overalls worn with red. Luigi, it appears, can do everything his brother Mario can do, whether that involves strapping on the Bee Suit again, riding Yoshi or wearing that new…
It’s Tuesday night, Crecente’s out for the night and he left the Kotaku Tower liquor cabinet unlocked. So let’s party like it’s 1999, except that we have better internet connections and the party consists of off-topic conversation. (Who wants Schnapps?) While you’re sharing your thoughts with the class, I’ll be reading that Daniel Clowes book…
Who will direct the big screen adaptation of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune? The LA Times reports that the film’s producers and Sony, the studio backing the flick, have a short list of favorites that includes David O. Russell. Who’s that? You may know him best as the director of Gulf War drama Three Kings…
The Mac faithful will have more than just Valve-developed games at their disposal when Steam makes the transition to Apple computers next week. At least two more games, first-person shooters Killing Floor and Red Orchestra Ostfront 41-45, are coming too. Big Download confirmed with publisher Tripwire Interactive that it’s porting its pair of Unreal Engine-powered…
How much would you pay for a copy of World of Goo, Gish and three additional games that don’t prominently feature black blobs dripping with indie cred? Thanks to the Humble Indie Bundle you pay exactly “whatever.” Wolfire is offering a five game bundle that includes Aquaria, Penumbra: Overture, Lugaru, Gish and World of Goo…
Konami’s update to 16-bit platformer Rocket Knight is showing more visual promise, the high-flying adventures of the armor-wearing Sparkster reigniting our interest in modernized old-school gaming. For anyone unfamiliar with the adventures of Rocket Knight or the complex stories that often accompany anthropomorphized furry mascots, heroic opossum Sparkster must rid his home of the Kingdom…
Welcome to the newer, earlier, more Tuesday-flavored North American PlayStation Store update, which brings with it more shooting, shootin’ and shoot fighting. The rescheduled PlayStation Store update brings with it the no-longer-timed-exclusive Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package, the PlayStation Network version of Lead and Gold and the UFC Undisputed 2010 demo. Hey!…
This xtreme!!! It may not induce a thirst for tossing back a Mountain Dew or inspire us to shred something, but the PlayStation Network release of Castle Crashers is not tame looking by any means. The official Behemoth Development Blog sets up our first look at the new competitive mode coming to Castle Crashers—you know,…
You know what was missing from the original Hydro Thunder? That’s right. Exploding barrels. Thankfully, developer Vector Unit has corrected that oversight in Hydro Thunder Hurricane, coming to Xbox Live Arcade. The new developer taking the Hydro Thunder reins from Midway promises all-new ways to enjoy wet and wild speedboating action with a handful of…
The head of Hunted: The Demon’s Forge developer, inXile Entertainment, doesn’t take comparisons of his dark dungeon crawler to Gears of War unkindly—even if you’re labeling it Spears of War and Gears of Warcraft. inXile CEO Brian Fargo takes that as a compliment, but when showing us the latest version of Hunted: The Demon’s Forge,…
Why the long faces? Because these four screen shots comprise our only update on Splash Damage’s first-person shooter Brink, a game that we would’ve had a brand new look at were it not for one attention-starved volcano. Bethesda’s recent preview event was absent one game, due to Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupting and preventing London-based Splash…
Quake and Doom makers id Software may be treading well worn post-apocalyptic territory in Rage, but for all the grotesque mutants and post-cataclysmic disaster, this Mad Max-style story of survival looks like… fun. Some of that may be due to the bright, blue-skied environments rendered by the developer’s id Tech 5 engine. There’s an uncommon…
Your first day in Fallout: New Vegas starts badly as you recover from being shot in the head, left for dead in a post-nuclear wasteland and apparently so worse for wear the town doctor can barely put you back together. Obsidian Entertainment’s newest contribution to the Fallout universe—the developer was born from the ashes of…
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