Valve released new details on the first downloadable add-on for Left 4 Dead 2 today at Microsoft’s X10 event, explaining how “The Passing” will handle the meet up with the original Left 4 Dead survivors. Now, let’s have some media. These ten new screens of the new episode, coming to the PC and Xbox 360…
Valve is showing the first downloadable content pack for Left 4 Dead 2, “The Passing,” at today’s X10 event. The new campaign is now aiming for a March release, the start of new content for the zombie apocalypse shooter. In “The Passing,” players will meet up with the original Left 4 Dead’s survivors, Francis, Bill,…
Radical Entertainment, developer of Prototype and The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, has been hit with substantial layoffs today, according to development sources close to the Vancouver-based studio. Approximately 90-plus employees have been let go, sources say. That’s about half the studio’s headcount, apparently, affecting two of the three development teams at the Activision Blizzard owned…
Can’t say I’m a sports fan on par with our own Stick Jockey Owen Good, but we agree—the Real Time presentation in Sony Computer Entertainment San Diego Studio’s MLB 10: The Show looks spectacular, especially in motion. The baseball sim’s “seamless animations and positional intelligence” is the highlight in this clip of the PlayStation 3…
Welcome to Kotaku Off Topic, where a nightly post full of not necessarily video game related conversation can be about humor and anthrax laden heroin. Earlier today, I was reminded of one of my favorite Saturday Night Live sketches. Not surprisingly, it involved the amazing Phil Hartman who played the role of Judge Wopner in…
Animated short film Logorama is the intertwining story of the Michelin men police taking down Ronald McDonald while two Pringles logos hit on a curvaceous Esso oil mascot. With some 2500 logos, which game companies make cameos? On my first viewing, I spotted some of the more obvious, including Sega, Nintendo (three appearances), Xbox and…
The lack of true widescreen support in the recently released BioShock 2 isn’t the only shortcoming that has PC gamers steamed. The lack of gamepad support, including the Xbox 360 controller, isn’t sitting well with the typically keyboard-and-mouse loving crowd. The official 2K Games forums (and the Kotaku tips line) is teeming with unhappy PC…
Now that Disney owns comic book company Marvel, what will become of the video game output of the two companies? Sounds like more Marvel games heading to the Xbox 360 and PS3, more Disney games to the Wii and DS. Disney CEO Bob Iger said during a quarterly earnings call that the home of Mickey…
Publisher Activision Blizzard is hoping for a better year for the video game industry in 2010, expecting retail and digital sales to up 8 percent in the U.S. and Europe. And it’s calling the Wii to perform strongest this year. Activision is expecting the Wii to outsell its competitors, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3,…
Bizarre Creations’ luminescent racing video game Blur, its first title for owner Activision, will be getting a beta test in March, the game’s publisher announced today, giving drivers a chance to take it for spin in advance of its release. Activision CEO Mike Griffith announced the mutiplayer beta test for Blur today, but didn’t offer…
Given the “disproportionate contribution” that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 provided to Activision Blizzard’s well-padded bottom line, it won’t come as a surprise that the next Call of Duty game is coming this holiday season. See? You’re not surprised. Activision Blizzard confirmed its plans to “continue annualizing” the first-person shooter franchise with the still-unnamed…
Despite doing business in “difficult times,” super publisher Activision Blizzard had a better than expected holiday quarter, with $1.56 billion in revenue during the company’s Q4, bringing the yearly haul to $4.28 billion. How did Activision do so well? Activision Blizzard CEO gives props to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the “#1 best-selling title…
Sega has announced the increasingly common pre-order bonuses for the North American version of Yakuza 3, a downloadable quartet of additions to the PlayStation 3 exclusive gangster game. Want to Battle for Survival and get more bowling challenges? Pre-order! While the pre-ordering bonus business may induce feelings of consumer ickiness, plopping down a few bucks…
Good evening, everyone. Thanks for joining us for this Kotaku Off Topic meeting, where we have some non-video game related synergizing and knowledge transfer to do. Let’s exercise best practices and think outside the box tonight. Tonight’s off topic strategic initiative, at the end of the day, is about facilitating and leveraging my distaste for…
Square Enix has been surprisingly mum on plans to bring a limited edition of Final Fantasy XIII to North America. Japan gets one, as does Europe. What do we get? At the very least, an Xbox 360 “special edition” bundle. According to a recent retail listing, Microsoft will be backing the role-playing game’s launch with…
Level-5, superdevelopers of Professor Layton, White Knight Chronicles, Dark Cloud and recent Dragon Quest games, already have plenty on their plate. But CEO Akihiro Hino says the Japanese role-playing game experts have unannounced PlayStation 3 and Wii on the way. According to a report from Japanese news outlet Dengeki by way of Andriasang, Hino said…
Your Xbox Live Arcade and Games on Demand budgeting for February can begin, thanks to Microsoft’s schedule for the month’s new digital releases and deals, including a more affordable version of Battlefield 1943 for Xbox Live Arcade. A handful of new games are also planned for “on demand” releases, including Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil…
Ubisoft’s just announced Ghost Recon: Future Soldier gets its first trailer, a teaser if we’ve ever seen one. Don’t expect gameplay as you hit the play button, but prepare for radical invisibility cloaks! Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is coming to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, PSP, Nintendo DS and Wii this fall, with an…
Big changes are coming to Blizzard’s multiplayer service Battle.net, as the StarCraft II beta test and release date edge ever closer. While you wait for Activision Blizzard to bring good news, get caught up to speed on Battle.net’s massive overhaul. Blizzard’s official preview covers much of what we already knew about the revamped Battle.net, including…
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