Square-Enix explains why they’re letting users of their new Core Online service play some old games for free, so long as they watch about a minute of ads for every 10-20 minutes of game time. Quoted from their FAQ. More details on how Core Online works here
The other day, an EA spokesperson invited me to go to Germany to go to some Porsche driving school in order to, in a roundabout way, play more of the next Need for Speed. (I declined.) Today, Capcom sent me a really heavy box. A $300 chess set was in it. Yes, it’s cool. No,…
The United States government commemorated the one-year anniversary of Iran’s imprisonment of American-citizen/former-Marine/former-game-developer/accused-spy Amir Hekmati by asking for his release. Here’s their full statement: Press Statement Victoria Nuland Department Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC August 29, 2012 Today marks one year since Iranian authorities detained U.S. citizen Amir Hekmati. We are relieved that…
Old Conventional Wisdom: Square-Enix is ripping us off left and right New Conventional Wisdom: They’re, um, letting us play some of their old games for free. They’re nice people, after all. Look, Square-Enix is such a big company that they can encompass both Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy. They can price-gouge and demonstrate the wonderful…
Straight from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s livestreamed Nintendo Direct event today, here’s more of Animal Crossing for 3DS, which Japan gets this November and America and Europe get next year. Clothes-designing is nice, but, wow, look at those houses! In order to fit in players’ lives, Animal Crossing allows people to customize the store hours…
Nintendo’s latest “Nintendo Direct” showcase is streaming live right now. Japanese-only, focused on 3DS and Wii. Watch it.
The Mass Effect games we play in the future could be so different from the ones we’ve been playing for the last seven years. That is one of the messages of Leviathan, the second single-player expansion to Mass Effect 3, the first since launch day. Here is a short, well-made $10 adventure set in the…
PlayStation All-Stars‘ newest fighter is Evil Cole. Is Sony running low on characters? Bring on Happy Kratos!
There’s a new $10 single-player expansion for Mass Effect 3 called Leviathan out today, but it’s not readily apparent how to start it. Here’s a tip: after you buy it and download it, check your in-game message terminal. You’re looking for the message in the screenshot above. This may seem obvious, but let’s just say…
More OnLive turbulence. Controversial founder Steve Perlman is out; working on other projects. Gary Lauder takes over.
The official release date for the Wii U may have just leaked today during a presentation by gaming accessory-maker PDP at a GameStop managers’ conference in Texas. A rep for PDP was showing the company’s fall line-up at the conference and wrapped their presentation by saying the peripherals would be available just ahead of the…
“This needs to be a subtle art style to go with a subtle game,” Chris Hecker told me during our latest conversation about one of the contenders for World’s Most Interesting Video Game. All Hecker and I were ostensibly doing was talking about the first look he was giving me at the characters in Spy…
It’s not that scary. Its first campaign might be its worst. But after making a bad impression when I played it back in May, Resident Evil 6 is now a game I’m looking forward to a lot. What changed? Oh, I played it for about seven hours this weekend. I think it should be obvious…
Peter Molyneux’s new game gets a name change, but not, sadly, to Cube of Duty. It’s Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube
The good people at Sega want to make the most of the world’s love of Twitter, so they’re being vigilant about people who Tweet in the voices of their characters and they’re trying to get blurbs about their games in front of people who are just searching for stuff… You know, like if they’re searching…
Around 8am ET today, readers of Kotaku were able to see the next iteration of the Kinja discussion platform that was designed by our parent company Gawker Media. To be less jargony about it, you’ll notice that the parts below the articles look different, the parts where many readers post replies. (You call them “comments”;…
Was there a sequel in gaming history more disappointing than Yoshi’s Story? We can’t think of one. If you can, tell us.
Maybe we’ve been wrong about Nintendo. Maybe we’ve been wrong to be thinking in terms of Nintendo vs. Apple or Nintendo vs. Microsoft or Sony. Maybe we’ve even been wrong to think Nintendo’s big thing this fall is a new console. After I interviewed Nintendo president Satoru Iwata last week, I’m thinking that the angle…
We’ll have tennis and dirt-biking in Grand Theft Auto V, but can we not also have a dragon that breathes fire while someone (the dragon?) does the Skyrim Fus-Roh-Dah shout? Yes, we can, thanks to the ever-wonderful mod community that keeps on tweaking the PC version of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV. Follow YouTube GTA…
After news broke yesterday that Nintendo Power seems all but doomed as a print publication and may be finished outright, I reached out to the biggest fan of Nintendo Power that I know of: Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski. Yes, before he led the creation of Gears of War, worked on Unreal Tournament and became one…
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