Well, it’s so far (officially) unannounced, but quick mention of Heroes of Ruin and a single piece of artwork from the game appeared on the developer’s Facebook page earlier today. That developer would be Orlando-based n-Space. That’s the development team behind Gamecube game Geist and numerous Nintendo DS games based on the Call of Duty,…
Looks like I might be up to my eyeballs in lens flare this weekend if I play some Dungeon Siege III, as I intend to do. There’s an Xbox 360 build I haven’t gotten to yet, which I shall correct. I also need to spend a lot more time with L.A. Noire. Good thing this…
One of the Wii’s better light gun-style games is coming to the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Move in all of its gory, foul-mouthed glory. Sega’s The House of the Dead Overkill – Extended Cut arrives this October. The Extended Cut in this remake’s title comes from the two new scenarios added to the Wii original.…
Being a god in Ubisoft’s From Dust ain’t easy. Though you can manipulate the elements of this world, you’ll sometimes feel less like an all-powerful deity than you might a hopeful local politician, a cog in a powerful, sluggish, bureaucratic machine. You may feel as powerful as a child on a beach, building a sand…
Well, Kotaku readers! This was a busy day! Let’s blow off some steam and unwind with our nightly dose of off topic conversation, lead by you. I’m too beat to kick it off. Why so busy? A visit to Blizzard Entertainment in lovely Irvine, California, that’s why. Getting there is usually a breeze, getting back…
The first batch of downloadable… kontent for NetherRealm Studios’ new Mortal Kombat keeps it “klassic” with fancy, old-school ninja duds, fondly remembered fatalities and (at least) one new character, red ninja girl Skarlet. So says series co-creator Ed Boon, who tweets “The 7 Klassic outfits & 3 Klassic fatalities that were retailer exclusives will be…
Can a physics based platformer stand out—not to mention be a treat to play—on the iPhone? It can when you’re piloting fine porcelain in a bizarre, hazardous dreamworld while playing Storm In A Teacup Storm In A Teacup is one of the latest games from iPhone and iPad publisher Chillingo, the people who sell Angry…
The Nintendo 3DS remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time does more than just give the Nintendo 64 original a visual makeover and bring it into magical stereoscopic 3D. It has (at least) three potentially exciting new features. As shown in the video above, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D has…
Inmates at China’s Jixi prison labor camp are tasked with backbreaking, mind-numbing work: mining rock, carving chopsticks by hand, and assembly line work. Some are even forced to endure grueling video game play, farming for gold in online games. That’s no joke. The Guardian reports on the conditions at a Chinese labor camp that allegedly…
The people at Double Fine Productions, of Brutal Legend, Costume Quest and Stacking fame, are releasing their next game in June. That’s Trenched, remember? You don’t remember? Well, if you’re not in the mood to click the link to Kotaku‘s preview of Trenched, it’s an entertaining blend of tower defense tactics, third-person shooting from the…
The house is full with this group of backseat gaming legends! Artist Nina Matsumoto has them all fighting for the controller. (Complete List) Check out the gaming store that commissioned this piece HERE Related Rampage: Transbender Backseat Gaming by Nina Matsumoto (Blog) (deviantART) (Twitter) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head…
Fans of World War II era aerial dogfighting may want to enlist in Konami’s Birds of Steel, coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation courtesy of developer Gaijin Entertainment (IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, Apache Air Assault). Birds of Steel promises to bring online and offline Axis versus Allies aerial combat to consoles, stuffing “over…
A game about stripping the clothes off of vampires in otaku haven Akihabara is Japan’s bestselling game right now, the curious and cleverly titled Akiba’s Strip for PSP. That game easily beat the new Dead or Alive and Valve’s Portal 2 overseas. Dead or Alive: Dimensions settled for second this week, a debut not so…
Sony confirms today that a new PlayStation 3 bundle will go on sale this month—the one we told you about a few weeks ago—one including a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops and a 160GB console. Even better? The $299.99 USD asking price also gets you a “First Strike Content Pack” and a fancy…
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier‘s box art seems to think so, or at least the version uploaded to (and then removed from) Xbox.com today, touting Kinect support for the oft-delayed Tom Clancy game on Xbox 360. Could the delay of Future Soldier to sometime between March 2011 and April 2012 have something to do with Kinect…
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is still a big, thunderous shoot ’em up mixed with Ork-eviscerating action. Not much has changed here: Space Marine is booming, bloody violence in the most unpleasant of alien environments. Our latest hands-off look at Space Marine was much like the last one. We followed hulking Space Marine Captain Titus who…
Kotaku readers, it’s Tuesday. So, tell us dammit, for lack of a better phrase, about what you’ve been taking in through the eyes and ears. And it doesn’t just have to be about video games, for this is an open thread. As mentioned recently, I partook in the viewing of The Kids Are Alright, The…
Ms. Splosion Man is full of surprises. First, it’s called Ms. Splosion Man. Second, you can control two Ms. Splosion Mans at the same time with its “2 Girls 1 Controller” mode. And now there’s an early access beta? It would appear so! In order to test the multiplayer side of Twisted Pixel’s Splosion Man…
Developer CD Projekt has teased console versions of The Witcher games before, but it looks like it might actually happen for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. The game’s producer talked around it to Eurogamer and the ESRB now has a rating for an Xbox 360 version. Maybe at E3, then?
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