Nintendo’s new console can support two of its screen-controllers, or GamePads, Nintendo announced during it’s E3 2012 press conference this morning. Nintendo has been coy about whether the Wii U can support two controllers since last E3 when the company first showed its upcoming 2012 machine. Last year, Nintendo designer Katsuya Eguchi told us that…
The open-world action game Sleeping Dogs was one of the surprise hits of a recent pre-E3 tour of major upcoming video games by a gaggle of video game reporters. What was once a game left for dead, abandoned by Call of Duty publisher Activision is once again without the True Crime name it had at…
The best thing I can tell you about Little Big Planet Karting, if you liked Little Big Planet: As with Media Molecule’s beloved collect-and-create side-scrolling platformer, LBPK is designed to have players collect items while they race-items that can be used in the create mode to make more and more extravagant racing levels of their…
Sports Champions 2 was set up in the corner of a recent Sony showcase, and, honestly, I felt bad for it. No piece of game code needs sympathy and there’s nothing ostensibly wrong with Sports Champions 2 to merit such pity. It’s just that it feels like a byproduct of a bygone era already, as…
The new SimCity, set for release on PC early next year, looks delightful. It doesn’t look like it plays all that differently than the old ones, just updated, as they might say, for modern times. You draw some roads; paint some zoning lines, watch homes and business sprout. You connect power stations to power lines…
EA’s 2013 revival of SimCity will sport one of the more controversial features of modern PC gaming: an always-online requirement, even in single-player. Developers of the game confirmed this during a recent demo of the new title for Kotaku “This is a mutiplayer game,” producer Kip Katserelis at EA development studio Maxis said, explaining the…
“The Dead Space experience that people know and love is intact,” Dead Space 3 art director art director Ian Milham recently told me and a bunch of other reporters for whom he was demoing next year’s sci-fi action game. Isn’t that the kind of thing you say only when you’re changing a ton of stuff?…
Weapons don’t rust and enemies killed at checkpoints stay dead, but that’s not what makes early September’s Far Cry 3 so different from Far Cry 2 Nah, what makes it different is that this year’s Far Cry is about maybe losing your mind on a remote jungle island, where a brother and sister pull you…
The developers of this fall’s Assassin’s Creed III swear that the game’s protagonist, the 18th century half-Native-America/half-British assassin Connor won’t just kill redcoats in Revolutionary-era America. He might fight colonists… they even have Connor acknowledge that in a new E3 video demo, but they still aren’t showing it. So, for now, watch more redcoats die.…
The turn-based strategy revival of classic PC game X-Com continues to impress. Here’s the game’s E3 trailer. Even the cross-section of the base looks good. (And the game plays well, too.)
Production began today on Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man 3 at, of all places, Epic Games, the North Carolina studio that makes Gears of War, according to local TV station WRAL. (Marvel tweeted a photo from the set, presumably from the North Carolina/Epic shoot.) “Scenes were being shot inside and outside the Epic Games studios,…
Here is Rod Fergusson, director of production at Epic Games, sporting his Gears of War: Judgment-oriented T-shirt. WORLD EXCLUSIVE. (As seen by me in the green room at Spike TV’s All Access E3 stage.)
This is it. E3. The biggest video game news of the year. You can watch it all as it happens right here, thanks to our friends at Spike TV. We’ve brought you Microsoft’s Xbox 360 showcase keynotes from Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and Sony already. Today, the Wii U leads Nintendo’s keynote, right before the floor…
A 2/3 whip-smart, 1/3 kinda-out-there video from Nintendo yesterday outlined the company’s online strategy for the Wii U. It’s a fascinating strategy designed to bring people together to give them hints in games and to engender empathy among the gamer population. And that’s just part of it. If you watched closely, it appeared that Nintendo…
Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance will be out in North America on July 31, but the new trailer for the Nintendo 3DS game is out today. This one starts Sora and Riku. Like what you see? And if you’re confused about Kingdom Hearts lore at all, consider studying up on it
“It’s not meant to be a hoodlum game,” says the developer at new studio Cleverbeans who recently showed me his game about mobs who can attack each other by running through city streets and hurling whichever benches, signs or cars are available as projectile weapons. Oh, it’s not at all a hoodlum game if you…
At a recent showcase for THQ games such as Darksiders 2 and Company of Heroes 2, the moody first-person shooter Metro Last Light stood out most effectively. It had an upsetting live-action trailer.s And it had a creepy demo involving two Russian survivors of a nuclear attack who exited the protection of a fortified underground…
The Los Angeles Convention Center is coated in E3 banners. They’re everywhere! Inside. Outside. There’s even a Tekken Tag Tournament 2 pick-up truck driving around. En route to picking up my E3 press badge, I shot this documentary for all of you. It’s in three parts (the Tekken Tag Tournament 2 pick-up truck is in…
Nintendo will be webcasting a special Wii U-centric edition of their Nintendo Direct online video series on Sunday, one that “focuses on the concept behind WiiU.” It will air on Nintendo’s Wii U Facebook page, 6pm ET, 3pm PT. We’ll have full coverage, too. Nintendo’s actual E3 press briefing is on Tuesday and you can…
You wouldn’t know it from reading many popular DC Comics, but there are limits to how violent the adventures of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman can be. At least in video games, and probably movies too. That puts Ed Boon and his team of Mortal Kombat makers in the kind of conundrum classic to video…
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