The Nintendo DS game based on the Aliens franchise that leaked more than two years ago looks like its finally going to happen. Proof? Aliens: Infestation for the DS, a side-scrolling, alien-shooting platformer, was just rated by the ESRB. The Entertainment Software Ratings Board’s description of the game sure sounds a lot like the one…
I’ll catch up with the Kotaku Game Club this weekend by putting an end to Shadows of the Damned, the Suda51 joint that reportedly didn’t sell very well last month. Shame about that. But I’ll give it its due! The other game still on my list to finish is Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo…
Greetings, Kotaku readers. Got time to join us in another off-topic thread? Good. Maybe we can talk about movies, since this post happens to be movie-centric. So, that first trailer for The Thing (linked below) is out and it looks… alright. A few too many moments of people being yanked into the darkness by some…
Respawn Entertainment, the studio birthed by the fired founders of Infinity Ward, have a new art director with a very impressive resume. Matt Codd, Respawn’s new art director, has contributed to films Saving Private Ryan, Serenity, Chronicles of Riddick, Transformers 3, and many, many… many more. The official Respawn web site has a new interview…
Artist Nina “spacecoyote” Matsumoto, an occasional Simpsons Comics contributor, has good news, everyone! She’s finally managed to mash-up beloved RPG Chrono Trigger with Futurama in a surprisingly good fit. Matsumoto explains her Chrono Futurama fan art is “Inspired by the names of my current Chrono Trigger team. No, I haven’t gotten to Magus yet.” She…
Ubisoft’s Driver: San Francisco is a strange thing, what with its comatose protagonist and the supernatural ability of our driver to leap from car to car to car via the game’s “Shift” system. Weirder is the game’s single-player trailer narration. Sure, it gets the job done, explaining the intricacies of Driver: San Francisco‘s lonelier mode.…
French publisher Ubisoft may be the latest company to lock out online multiplayer modes to anyone who buys their games used. A report from Gamerzines says that Ubi will soon introduce the “Uplay Passport,” the latest one time use code scheme required to get your game online. The site says that Ubisoft will kick off…
Battlefield 3 players will their own social network and stat-tracking site—just like Activision’s Call of Duty: Elite—when the DICE developed shooter hits later this year. First shots of the “Battlelog” interface have sneaked out, offering us our first glimpse at how we’ll connect with other Battlefield fans. Battlefield 3‘s Battlelog got an early showing thanks…
If an iPhone game can surprise me, like Magnetic Baby does (but just a little), it’s because I seem to have become accustomed to playing with gravity and leaping through wormholes and understanding the physics of sentient little blobs in my video games. In Bravery Plus’ Magnetic Baby, you control a cute orange blob with…
Are you going to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con? Then you must love video games, a medium that has a stronger presence than ever at the annual gathering of people passionate about comic books, toys, superheroes, sci-fi and everything nerdy enough to pack a convention center. Video games are big—really big—at this year’s show. Top…
The people who teased their PC exclusive shooter with a single screen shot last month have finally unveiled the mysterious sci-fi project they’re working on. This is Hard Reset, the cyberpunk first-person shooter from people who worked on Painkiller, Bulletstorm and The Witcher 2 PC Gamer has exclusive details on this “dark sci-fi” shoot ’em…
Japan’s hottest game right now is not made in Japan, which doesn’t happen often. Maybe more surprising is that four of the top 10 games on the country’s bestseller list weren’t made in Japan either. Rockstar Games and Team Bondi’s L.A. Noire enjoyed first place distinction in this week’s software chart, with more than 70,000…
It’s a mega heated battle in Marcus Penna’s rockin’ UDON Mega Man Tribute Contest piece! More submissions can be found HERE! The Mega Man Tribute Paperback is now on pre-order at Amazon! MOERO! Fiery Retro Futuristic Battle by Marcus Penna (Flickr) (Twitter) Via: gamefreaksnz Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head…
Hello, Kotaku readers. Time for another open thread, where you can chat about video games, vent about Netflix’s new rate hike, espouse your distaste for budget deficit talks or any other thing that crosses your mind. I’m still on the fence about this new Netflix rate and plan change, as I’m one of those dinosaurs…
Warren Louw pulled out all of the stops when taking Mega Man X out of this world! He submitted an incredible UDON’s Mega Man Tribute Contest piece. More Mega Man Tribute submissions can be found HERE! Mega Man X by Warren Louw (CGHUB) (Facebook) (Twitter) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so,…
What will the $750 million buy out of PopCap Games, makers of Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled, do to the beloved developer of quirky, casually engaging games? It could mean you get future PopCap Games faster—but it doesn’t mean the end of games like Peggle in World of Warcraft. Despite PopCap Games making versions of…
Ken Levine and Irrational Games are going to get all weird on you with the next BioShock game—not BioShock Infinite, the one after that, the one coming to Sony’s new PlayStation Vita at some point. BioShock creative director Ken Levine tells IGN that the next entry in the series that he announced at E3 2011…
The beloved but dormant X-COM series, the strategy game franchise created by Mythos and Microprose, is getting a revival in the form of a first-person shooter next year, offending the sensibilities of old-school PC gamers. Why would 2K Games do such a thing? Christoph Harmann, president at 2K Games, explains to MCV that—sorry, fans of…
There may not be a ton of new games to download from the North American PlayStation Store this week, but what it lacks in quantity, it makes up for in the Catherine demo and Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax.” There’s much more than just intriguing demos and catchy pop songs for Rock Band 3, of…
Electronic Arts is performing another round of “online service shutdowns,” taking dozens of multiplayer games and demos offline forever. So, if you’re still playing Army of Two or Skate online, you won’t have the option much longer. The latest round of shutdowns affects games on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii and PSP, spanning…
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