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Nintendo’s Wii U Will Support Two GamePads
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 5, 2012 -
Sleeping Dogs Could be One of Those Summer Surprises
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 5, 2012 -
The Best Things I Can Say About LittleBigPlanet Karting
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
Sports Champions 2, You’re a Lovely Relic
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
The Bustling New SimCity Makes the Old SimCity Look as Still as a Board Game
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
SimCity Is Online Only, But It Promises Not To Repeat Diablo III‘s Mistakes
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
What They’ve Changed For Dead Space 3
“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?…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
This Far Cry 3 Walkthrough is NSFW and a Bit Mad
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
Redcoats Are In Serious Jeopardy in These New Assassin’s Creed III Screenshots
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.…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
Iron Man 3 Started Filming at Epic Games Today. Huh?
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,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
Watch E3 Live Right Here, Right Now
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
We Called it In March: Nintendo Loves the Word ‘Together’
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
Sora and Riku Co-Star In the E3 Trailer for Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
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
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
When Vikings Attack Is Sorta Like Pikmin, Sorta Wii U-ish, But All PlayStation
“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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
Three Important Notes about Metro Last Light
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2012 -
I Found E3, I Found Massive Banners, And I Found the Tekken Tag Tournament Pick-Up Truck
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2012 -
Surprise Sunday Wii U Webcast Will Start E3 Early
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 2, 2012 -
Batman Can’t Be Decapitated in Injustice, Because There Are Limits
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 1, 2012
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