Xbox 360 owners, calm your fears. Soon, your Xbox 360 Avatar will reflect your passion for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, says Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling. I know, it was touch and go there for a minute. Bowling said via his Twitter feed this weekend that he’s “not sure we’ll be doing…
The public beta for Zipper Interactive‘s massive action game MAG got a few more willing testers today, as the program has expanded to the game’s biggest enthusiasts: those who pre-ordered the game. In Canada. If that’s not you, consider this a friendly reminder that if you’d like to participate in the upcoming MAG public beta…
In the second portion of the newest Bonus Round discussion, Geoff Keighley, Michael Pachter, Tom Russo and I talk about two of this year’s most anticipated games, Double Fine’s Brutal Legend and Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed II. If you thrive on cautious optimism and the soothing words of Wedbush Securities Michael Pachter, always available for reasoned…
How could I have possibly been surprised to discover that there is a thriving Power Wheels customization community on the internet? And why was I not surprised to have come across it for Halo-related reasons? Fortunately, thanks to the folks at Bungie, we’re all that much more knowledgeable about the DIY Power Wheels modder set.…
Publisher THQ is doling out savings via Steam this week, starting today with half off all things Titan Quest. That’s a decent game from the defunct Iron Lore Entertainment for just ten bucks American! More deals throughout the week… [Steam]
Swedish developer Fatshark’s Lead And Gold: Gangs of the Wild West may look like a dusty retro re-take on Battlefield or Team Fortress, but… that might be why we like the look of it so much. With a smaller class count—there are just four “archetypes,” the Blaster, Deputy, Gunslinger and Trapper—Lead And Gold may look…
The list of Xbox 360 Achievements for Left 4 Dead 2 appear to have just “confirmed” the game’s two, still-to-be-officially-announced final campaigns and revealed new items, new infected and… clown nose honking?! The 50 new Achievements, newly listed at Xbox 360 Achievements, don’t really venture into spoiler territory—there are no plot points revealed here—but we’ll…
Still waiting for the PlayStation 3 to get another price drop? You’re in luck, as the now antiquated, much larger version of the PS3 is now going for a completely reasonable $249 at SonyStyle.com. But wait… there’s more! In addition to being cheaper (and huger!) than the newer, slimmer PS3, the 80GB model up for…
Konami’s overhaul of the original Silent Hill may be making a later appearance than previously planned. Retailers have bumped Silent Hill: Shattered Memories release date about a month, meaning the game could miss Black Friday availability. According to listings from GameFly and GameStop—typically the quickest retailers to react to delays—the Wii, PlayStation 2 and PSP…
Our fellow bloggers over at sister site Fleshbot—don’t go there, it’s all naked boobs and erections!—offer a kind introduction to adult film star Raven Alexis, a self-confessed World of Warcraft “geek.” After going through the “How long have you been doing hardcore?” motions, we get to the interesting stuff — Ms. Alexis’ five-year-long career in…
Epic Games, makers of things Unreal and Gears of War, are fully on board with this Project Natal thing that Microsoft has cooked up. VP Mark Rein calls the company’s popular Unreal tech “the unofficial engine of Natal.” In an interview with OXM UK, Rein says he also considers Unreal the “economic engine of Natal,”…
Dante Alighieri will have to share writing credit with screenwriter Will Rokos, should the game win any awards for its screenplay. The Academy Award nominated Rokos has been pegged as responsible for the story line for Dante’s Inferno. That means that Visceral Games‘ action game could be as good (or even better!) than Monster’s Ball,…
Having sufficiently conquered the handheld platform with clever games like Drawn To Life and Scribblenauts, developer 5th Cell is moving onward and upward to console platforms. That includes a “pretty big” unannounced Xbox Live Arcade game. 5th Cell co-founder Jeremiah Slaczka teases his studio’s XBLA game in a new interview with Gamasutra, one that goes…
Konami’s modern-day revival of the Rocket Knight Adventures series was formally announced this week. Good news, for those of us who remember Sparkster’s 16-bit outings. Today, we get another taste, now in trailer form. GameVideos has the first HD clip of Sparkster in motion, sporting sharp new polygons and more pixels than all other Rocket…
Skilled modder “ZapWizard” is going above and beyond for a project tied to the “Dismember the Alamo” zombie film festival ambling to Alamo Draft House later this month. He’s recreated the theater in great detail in Left 4 Dead. What’s more, Mr. Wizard is aiming to have the Alamo Draft House-gone-horribly-wrong playable at said film…
While we were certain that Electronic Arts was going to revisit classic racer Road Rash last year—we trust ex-Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach without reservation—the publisher denied it was in development. Well it was at one point. An early, pre-vis clip from the seemingly canceled Road Rash was sniffed out by blog superannuation, a game…
The fourth quarter game release onslaught has begun, meaning there’s no lack of games to play at Kotaku Towers West this weekend. What will make the cut? Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection for one. Forza Motorsport 3 for another. And, time willing, I’ll get a little Left 4 Dead “Crash Course” DLC time…
Erasing any doubt that the video game based on the Clash of the Titans remake wouldn’t, for some strange reason, come to these United States, Namco Bandai has reassured us today that it will. Whew! That was a close one. Officially announced at Gamescom to be in development by developer Game Republic—known for its work…
Watch where you do the Running Man in PlayStation Home, PS3 owners. As of today, it gets a little more dangerous with the addition of wearable Wolverine claws in Sony’s virtual social space. In an effort to promote the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, this year’s best mutant action-comedy, on Blu-ray and DVD, Twentieth Century…
Nintendo and Sony both issued hardware price drops in Japan, effective October 1, on the Wii and PSP-3000, respectively. The clear winner from those cuts? The PSP. The PSP’s new 16,800 yen price almost helped dethrone the nearly unstoppable Nintendo DSi. The cut tripled week-over-week PSP sales, but fell short of surpassing the DSi by…
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