Eager to get your hands on Bethesda and Splash Damage’s Brink? We’ve played it a ton already, but if you’re interested in Brink‘s brand of team-based shoot ’em up action and you happen to be in Boston this weekend, say for PAX East, you can get your hands on the game this weekend in an…
Already released in Japan as Furi! Furi! Sarugetchu, the PlayStation Move-powered Ape Escape is finally coming to North American fans of monkey snatching this summer. It is simply called PlayStation Move Ape Escape. In PlayStation Move Ape Escape, players use the Move controller as a fan, monkey snatching net, slingshot and more, all in the…
Do you know Gal Gun—or if you prefer, Gal☆Gun—the Japanese shooter for the Xbox 360 that’s all about shooting high school girls with a “pheromone shot” and is mostly wall to wall upskirt shots? Then you probably know about the back and forth “pantsu” drama that threatened to keep the Japan-only game panty shot free.…
Composer and sound designer Jake “Virt” Kaufman follows up his Super Mario Bros. hi-def sound design experiment by giving 8-bit games like Tetris, Pac-Man, Mega Man, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda and Contra the “ultra nextgen AAA” sound design treatment. My favorite maybe be the brief, horrifying sounds of Asteroids. Kaufman trades the thumping…
There’s even more more than meets the eye in the next Transformers game, High Moon Studios’ take on the Michael Bay explode-a-thon Transformers: Dark of the Moon. This is a movie game from the studio responsible for the great Transformers: War For Cybertron, so maybe silence your movie game prejudices. We got a peek at…
In tonight’s off topic open thread, can we give it up for cold cereal? Particularly, let’s give Cap’n Crunch his due for his years of impressive service in the field of delivering sugar rushes to children’s mornings. But Crunch may be on his way out, taking his crunch berries with him. Me, I’ve always been…
How best to explain the wonderfully unusual Trenched? It’s true that it’s a tower defense game. It’s also a third-person shooter, a deeply customizable war game with loot drops and online player progression. This is World War I-era trench warfare, only this time, the good guys have giant gas-powered mechs and the bad guys are…
Stripping the familiar 8-bit sound effects from Super Mario Bros. and replacing them with realistic “nextgen AAA sounds” makes for an unsettling, but awesome, audiovisual experience. You’ve never heard coins collected with this level of fidelity. Promise. This audio remix is the work of composer and sound designer Jake Kaufman, a video game music pro…
The warfare of Xbox Live Arcade hit Toy Soldiers advances ever closer to the modern era with Toy Soldiers: Cold War, a battle between action figures from the 1980’s. Leaving the grim battles of World War I behind, Cold War pits Rambo toys and canon fodder with a kung-fu grip against a Red Menace. The…
There is another great war in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings saga, a bloody battle set in the northern regions of Middle Earth. This front is the setting of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, the fantasy world’s equivalent of the Allied invasion of Normandy, says developer Snowblind Studios. They’re the…
Would a really sweet and totally accurate physics engine really add much to the addictive gameplay of world-carving indie hit Minecraft? Perhaps not, but this build and destroy demo—”Minecraft + Physics!”—according to its creator would certainly make it easier on the eyes. Chris Delay of Introversion Software, makers of Uplink, Darwinia and DEFCON, is responsible…
The Nintendo 3DS had a great second week in Japan, with another 200,000 gamers snapping up stereoscopic 3D hardware. But it was a PSP game that dominated the software charts (again), with Square Enix’s dramatic fighting game adventure Dissidia 012: Duodecim Final Fantasy dominating the sales charts. The latest Dissidia sold an impressive 286,117 copies…
Surely, the writers of CBS crime drama NCIS know what a massively multiplayer online role-playing game is, right? And that they don’t involve “high scores” in the Pac-Man or Galaga sense? Of course they do, so we’re taking this recent cameo of faux-MMO Fear Tower 3 as good-natured ribbing. It may be the most successful…
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It’s been too long since we checked in with the Kotaku readership and asked, “Hey, what are you listening to?” Tonight’s open thread, a Themed Tuesday, will let us ask again. These days, I seem to listen to nothing but podcasts: This American Life, Freakonomics Radio, the Giant Bombcast, New York Times front page… and…
North American gamers will get their hands on Deus Ex: Human Revolution on August 23—earlier than our Australian counterparts. We’ll also get a reasonably priced “Augmented Edition” for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC when the third Deus Ex game arrives. What’s in that $69.99 USD “Augmented Edition”? The following digital goods: a new…
If you were in attendance at this weekend’s launch fiesta for Nintendo DS game Pokémon Black and White, you might have seen ’90s musical sensation The Presidents of the United States of America belting out their newest jam “Can’t Stop (Catchin’ ‘Em All).” If you weren’t fortunate enough to bask in that pop pap, please…
A decade on from American McGee’s Alice, a stylishly gothic and twisted interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland, gamers are given the opportunity to return to this twisted world with Alice: Madness Returns. It’s not crazy to delight in that not much has changed over the past decade for Alice, is it? For those unfamiliar with…
Mega Man and the gang play a little game of King of the Hill in this killer entry for UDON’s Mega Man Tribute Contest created by Joe Ng and GENZOMAN More great Mega Man Tribute entries can be found HERE! Mega Man Tribute – Lines by Joe Ng (Twitter) | Colors by GENZOMAN Need your…
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