Don’t know your parallax occlusion mapping from your custom shape based bokeh depth of field effects? Don’t worry about it! Crytek, maker of Crysis 2, illustrates what new tessellation and displacement mapping technology, part of the game’s new “Ultra Upgrade” pack, means for you, PC gamer. The free DirectX 11 upgrade for Crysis 2—with a…
Gamers who prefer their operating systems designed by Apple will also have a chance to take a bite of Duke Nukem Forever‘s “pain cake” this summer, when Aspyr brings 3D Realms, Gearbox Software and 2K Games’ raunchy first-person shooter to Mac OS X this summer. Having not yet played Duke Nukem Forever, I can’t explain…
You could be on the receiving end of a “free” copy of co-op dungeon crawler Crimson Alliance, pictured above, Xbox 360 owners, if you go all-in on this year’s “Summer of Arcade” games for Xbox Live Arcade. What’s on the list? It’s a pretty good one, including graphically beautiful games like Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet…
Bad enough to write Nintendo a letter? On actual paper? That’s what some passionate North American Nintendo fans have resorted to, pleading with paper and ink for Nintendo of America to bring more Wii games stateside, including The Last Story, Pandora’s Tower and Xenoblade Nintendo of America has not confirmed those games for release in…
The original MMO set in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars Galaxies, is ending its online existence this December, making way for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Contracts expire and so too must the occasional online community. Star Wars Galaxies designer Raph Koster, also notable for being lead designer on Ultima Online, offers his…
Angelenos, Santa Monicans and sundry Southern Californians, if you’d like to play some video games outside this weekend, join us for Giant Robot’s “Game Night 5” in Los Angeles on Saturday night to get your hands on future indie hits Skullgirls and Skulls of the Shogun Giant Robot, with a little help from my friends…
Global Thermonuclear War is coming back to the big screen courtesy of the man who brought a battle between two Donkey Kong high score warriors to film. Seth Gordon, director of 2007’s The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is re-directing WarGames Deadline reports that Gordon is tackling a reboot for MGM of the…
The dual-type Ghost/Poison Pokémon Gengar gets a super creepy redesign by artist Gavin Mackey. Just try going to sleep tonight… Related Rampages: Patrick Star | Raticate Gengar – Commission by Gavin Mackey / SoupAndButter Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix.…
Star Wars Galaxies, the original massively-multiplayer online role-playing game based on George Lucas’ universe, will go offline later this year after more than eight years of service, Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts announced today. In a letter to Star Wars Galaxies players, the game’s developers call the closure of the MMO and its trading card…
Barring a surprise delivery of my copy of Shadows of the Damned—hurry up, Amazon!—I’ll be playing more Dungeon Siege III this weekend. Maybe I’ll do some Trenched multiplayer. Wanna join me? ‘Cause I might have a few codes… There are still a few multiplayer-leaning achievements I need to get in that game, so your enlistment…
Ending a two year hiatus since the last Team Fortress 2 “Meet the Team” video, Valve unleashes “Meet the Medic,” an introduction to the man behind the Übercharge. It was worth the wait. There are sneak peeks at some of the new content promised in this week’s “Über Update” amidst this insane medical action drama,…
If you’ve waited this long to finally play a game of Team Fortress 2, now may be the best time. Or at least the cheapest, as Valve is giving Team Fortress 2 away for free—forever—with the team-based first-person shooter now solely supported by microtransactions. Valve’s Robin Walker tells Develop that Team Fortress 2 won’t fund…
It’s not really a fantasy role-playing game unless it ships with a map, preferably cloth, charting the mystical, magical regions of such and such. Thankfully, Bethesda Softworks won’t leave aficionados of the cloth map wanting with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim That is, if they pre-order. Bethesda has confirmed today that anyone who pre-orders Skyrim…
One of the most intriguing components of BioShock Infinite, just one of the reasons why the game was nominated “Best of Show” at E3 2011 by critics, was the gameplay concept of tears, the rifts in space-time that can be controlled by your sidekick Elizabeth. BioShock braniac Ken Levine explains the fictional science behind those…
Japan’s bestselling video game right now may be a PlayStation Portable title—Level 5’s Cardboard Senki—but The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D wasn’t far behind, helping to put the Nintendo 3DS back into first place this week. Only about 2,000 units separated the first and second place game’s in Japan this week, with Senki…
Twisted Pixel’s sequel to 2009 explosive action-platformer ‘Splosion Man, the more feminine Ms. ‘Splosion Man, comes to Xbox Live Arcade on July 13, boasting 50 all-new single player levels, 50 multiplayer levels and a “2 Girls 1 Controller” mode
Jamie Kennedy, star of Son of the Mask, Malibu’s Most Wanted and Wii game Real Heroes: Firefighter doesn’t always deliver brilliantly inspired performances. See his E3 2007 Activision press conference hosting gig, for example, which he’s still really really sensitive about, according to a recent Twitter tirade. Kennedy, responding to a Twitter exchange between former…
Would you pay for a new version of the classic Snake for your iPhone? What if this version, Hard Lines, was one of the best variations on Snake ever, full of gameplay modes, pretty visuals and, believe it or not, humor? Spilt Milk Studios’ Hard Lines may not re-invent Snake, a game freely available on…
Kotaku readers, here we are at the hump of this workweek. Let’s get over it with some stimulating off topic but topical conversation about things new, amusing, entertaining and enlightening. Let’s shoot the shit. Pray for me, Kotaku readers, for I visit the DMV tomorrow morning. Who knows if I’ll make it back alive, so…
The all wizard, all the time PC game Magicka got its promised dose of all-new player-versus-player combat this week, an event that demanded this trailer that demands your attention for its smart use of absolutely no gameplay whatsoever. We’ve already seen gameplay, after all. So what we needed was Tarantino-inspired live action comedy, somehow still…
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