The newest Tomb Raider game will get a major feature update next week, when developer Crystal Dynamics adds online multiplayer support for Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light. There’s just one little catch. The online co-op patch for Lara’s downloadable game is only coming to the Xbox 360 version next week, on October 27.…
If you wanted to own the God of War Collection for the PlayStation 3, but couldn’t in good conscience bring that box art into your home, Sony has good news. That pair of PlayStation 2 ports is going digital. The God of War Collection sheds its Blu-ray coil for a PlayStation Store release in North…
It’s hard to know whether the makers of Vanquish take their game, a brash, testosterone-gushing space fight against hundreds of mindless Russian robots, seriously. Straight-faced or not, Platinum Games’ Vanquish is seriously entertaining. Players step into the jet-powered Augmented Reaction Suit worn by chain-smoking hero Sam Gideon to take down a Russian terrorist group. The…
Who’s ready to chat about things that aren’t video games? And who else is excited to get up tomorrow morning to see what a multi-billion dollar corporation will be selling us in just 24 hours? I’ll admit, as a Mac user, I’m on the hook for Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event in San Francisco.…
The Legend of Zelda’s Link re-imagined as an aging elf—and looking like he’d be right at home in World of Warcraft—by artist Damien Canderle for ZBrush Central’s “Age of Legends” Comicon Challenge. Elder Link [ZBrush Central – thanks, Corey!]
Get ready to reach for the replay button, as this brief Halo: Reach clip highlights one of the best multiplayer kills we’ve seen to date in Bungie’s newest sci-fi shooter. Either through luck, communication or plain old hard work—or some combination of all three—this outstanding airborne kill feels like it belongs on a Successories motivational…
Sid Meier’s deeply addictive Civilization series is coming back to the Mac platform later this year, thanks to publisher Aspyr. The company confirmed its plans to bring Civilization V to Apple computers “this holiday season.” Aspyr did not narrow down the release date for the turn-based strategy game any further, only mentioning that the Mac…
PlayStation 3 owners are in for a treat this week, with the arrival of Double Fine’s Costume Quest for the North American PlayStation Store. What else do we have in this bag of digital goodies? A pair of new PSone import titles, Aqua Panic! (emphasis theirs), the downloadable release of Tomb Raider: Underworld and “fun…
Delivering another “Eff you!” to the Man, this time to His accepted-as-norm pricing schemes, Super Meat Boy’s creators have revealed that they’ll launch their arcade platformer already on sale, then raise the price of the Xbox Live Arcade game later. It might just be crazy enough to work. See, Team Meat’s plan is to drop…
Publisher THQ will be the undisputed publisher of games bearing the Ultimate Fighting Championship brand until 2018, the company announced today, further highlighting plans to bring UFC mixed martial arts games to everything THQ and Zuffa Inc., the sports promotion company credited with legitimizing the UFC, announced their extended partnership today, noting that they plan…
An in-depth explanation of DJ Hero 2’s “Empire Mode” for those who want to simulate a DJ career. DJ Hero 2, as played by FreeStyle Games. DJ Hero 2 multiplayer explained. The music of DJ Hero 2. 83 mash-ups of 105 songs. This is what it looks like when Deadmau5 DJs in real life. When…
The original Vanquish teaser featured no gameplay, but it did result in a cool outfit being made. More Vanquish gameplay, courtesy of Sega. The opening to anime “Neo Human Casshern.” Shinji Mikami says Vanquish is heavily inspired by the Tatsunoko cartoon. Some of Vanquish’s greatest action moments happen while leaping over cover and kicking in…
The Rock of the Dead trailer. This too has Rob Zombie in it. Sega’s The Typing of the Dead. It might be a better idea to download the PC version of this instead. You’re going to fight a lot of worms in Rock of the Dead. You’re also going to fight a lot of zombies…
What did I do during my week-long vacation? Nothing much, but it’s the topic that will kick off tonight’s open thread in which we smarmily question “How is this news?” My days off from Kotaku—minus having to write up a Castlevania: Lords of Shadow review and field a few calls from EIC Brian Crecente—were uneventful…
Big Bucket Software’s The Incident—one of my favorite iPhone games of 2010—has graduated to version 1.2, adding dozens of new items and features, like the option to turn your iPhone into a dedicated controller for the iPad version. The newly updated The Incident also adds retina display and Game Center support, for anyone with an…
Dozens of Facebook applications, including Zynga’s wildly popular casual games FarmVille, Mafia Wars and FrontierVille, transmit user data in violation of the social network’s privacy settings, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ‘s investigation finds that apps like FarmVille have been transmitting identifying information to “dozens of advertising and Internet…
This LEGO-fied version of the infamous Metal Slug from SNK’s series of the same name is more than just a rad brick-based recreation of the tank. It features amazing handling. Peer “mahjqa” Kreuger, the creator of the Metal Slug inspired “Metal Grudge,” calls it “pretty much a sportscar tank.” He’s not kidding. Watch how well…
Sega’s next entry in its popular Yakuza (nee Ryu ga Gotoku) series pits its cast of Japanese gangsters—and hostesses!—against the living dead, resulting in total madness. Want proof? Here’s eight minutes’ worth of Yakuza: Of The End. In addition to ridiculous amounts of zombie slaying, the requisite Yakuza mini-games appear to be intact. There’s ping-pong,…
The studio best known for making Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno is expanding, welcoming more developers—and more than just action adventure games—into its fold, including EA’s venerable Command & Conquer strategy game series. Electronic Arts senior VP and group general manager Nick Earl tells Gamasutra that more games, including the Command & Conquer title that’s…
Nintendo’s Pokemon Black and Pokemon White enjoy another first place showing in Japan this week, nearly another quarter million copies sold to Nintendo DS owners overseas. The monster hunting game easily takes down newcomer Red Dead Redemption in Japan. But Rockstar Games’ wild west adventure moved a very respectable 97,000 copies in Japan this past…
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