A deadly cocktail of nerd poisons, featuring the toxic element from EA’s Command & Conquer series combined with a few equally sly Dune and Star Wars references, as seen in Lady Gaga’s (slightly NSFW) “Telephone” video. Thanks, Matt & Charles!
Black is back, as Japan went all in on PSP purchasing recently, giving the PlayStation family the win in the weekly hardware contest, nearly doubling sales of the Wii. PlayStation Portable sales saw a big jump in Japan this past week, according to Media Create’s latest figures, a little surprising when a pair of Nintendo…
How did the combination of Deus Ex’s brand of cyberpunk, the Greek myth of Icarus and baroque fashions almost turn Deus Ex: Human Revolution into a futuristic Renaissance fair? With very good intentions by the new Deus Ex team. Eidos Montreal art director Jonathan Jacques-Belletete offered an in-depth, behind the scenes look at the art…
Firaxis Games co-founder and Civilization creator Sid Meier expanded the minds of GDC attendees by talking about the psychology of game design and breaking some bad news to us. Everything we know, Meier argues, is wrong. Meier’s keynote at this year’s Game Developers Conference, titled “The Psychology of Game Design (Everything You Know Is Wrong),”…
Since much of Kotaku will be spending part of its weekend rubbing elbows with game developers, hopefully securing hot inebriated scoops from those developers, there won’t be much time to play games this weekend. We might squeeze something in. I am looking forward to playing a little Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes HD this…
Yes! The IGF Awards are happening right now at this year’s Game Developers Conference, a chance for indie developers to be handed awards under bright lights and for those indie developers to give short, awkward speeches. Let’s do this!!! While the show is focused on indie, often quirky games—ones that eventually work their way to…
It’s been almost four months since a Pokemon game was the bestselling game on Japan’s software chart, but Nintendo’s newest Pokemon Ranger title for the Nintendo DS ends that dark period for the franchise. Whew! Pokemon Ranger: Hikari no Kiseki outsold everything else the Japnaese video game market had to offer this past week, according…
Just as it did with its colorful puzzle game Critter Crunch, Capybara Games’ Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes is getting the high-definition once-over, making the jump from Nintendo DS to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade later this year. Ubisoft and Capy’s high-res port of 2009’s best puzzle-RPG looks to maintain the same solid…
How does Metroid producer Yoshio Sakamoto explain his Nintendo DS megahit Tomodachi Collection—still a Japan-only release—to the non-Japanese GDC attendee? By putting high-level Nintendo execs in weird Tomodachi Collection situations, including Sakamoto’s own virtual crush on Samus Aran. Sakamoto showed a quick video during his Game Developers Conference session, which he felt was critical to…
Yoshio Sakamoto, the Metroid co-creator and WarioWare producer, says that his latest game, Metroid: Other M, was originally planned to be an on-rails adventure. If that sounds like Metroid sacrilege to you, thank co-developer Team Ninja for changing Sakamoto’s mind. Sakamoto said at his Game Developers Conference session “From Metroid to Tomodachi Collection to WarioWare:…
Activision’s True Crime series goes back to the drawing board with a Hong Kong action-adventure reboot, a game that puts the player in the role of an undercover cop, one who knows how to use a freezer door in a fight. In True Crime, players infiltrate a low level Triad crime syndicate as Wei Shen,…
Zipper Interactive’s recently revealed SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs is one of the games we were least expecting to be fully playable with the PlayStation Move controller. Can a hardcore online shooter stay competitive with a motion control scheme ? Fortunately for the less curious SOCOM fan, the Move controller is not a requirement. The game…
The Shoot is Sony’s first light gun shooter for the newly named PlayStation Move controller, an arcade-style sci-fi shoot ’em up with a twist, in that you have to twist. Set in an environment that looks like an alien cyborg invasion of a Hollywood film shoot—at least in the levels we played; later levels appear…
Sony’s press conference at the 2010 Games Developer Conference is about to begin, and Kotaku is there, bringing you the news as it happens. Join us as Sony shares its deepest, darkest secrets with the world. Click to viewPlayStation GDC 2010 Liveblog
The shitcanning of Infinity Ward leads Jason West and Vince Zampella and the ensuing litigation that followed isn’t just disappointing to Activision and Call of Duty fans, it’s also a total bum out for high level Electronic Arts execs. EA chief operating officer John Schappert weighed in on the Infinity Ward vs. Activision debacle at…
PC gaming service OnLive, officially unveiled at last year’s Game Developers Conference, was finally dated and priced at this year’s show. The on demand streaming game arrives June 17th in the United States, priced at $14.95 USD per month. But wait there’s more! OnLive is comping the first three months worth of service to the…
Add one more name to the pile of potential monikers for Sony’s soon to be detailed PlayStation Motion Controller, the PlayStation Move. The PlayStation Eye-powered motion control wand, previously known by some as Gem, referred to by others as PlayStation Arc may actually be named PlayStation Move, if a recently filed European trademark is any…
Crystal Dynamics is going digital for Tomb Raider star Lara Croft’s next adventure, an isometric, puzzle-focused and arcadey spin on the 15-year-old franchise. is Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light rebooting in the right direction? Now, it may not be fair to label Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light a “reboot” as Crystal…
Pink-haired bounty-hunting cat-girl Kit Ballard is the star of Blade Kitten, a PlayStation Network platformer that’s less furry than its 2D/3D platformer predecessors Crash Bandicoot and Klonoa, but very promising given the mental comparisons I made while playing the game. Krome Studios brought a playable Blade Kitten to GDC, helping us to better understand what…
Nintendo is making a big deal of upcoming Nintendo DS game WarioWare D.I.Y. at this year’s Game Developers Conference, handing out miniature Warios that are not only easy to build, but make a great distraction when people are trying to post. Curse you, papercraft Wario.
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