The people who are making the next Call of Duty will barely tell us anything about the new game’s multiplayer. Oliver North won’t, either But Mark Lamia, the head of the studio Treyarch that is making the game, says this in a press release heralding the new game today: “And in multiplayer, we’re embracing all…
If Darth Vader and Captain Kirk ever meet, I hope they will not do so while ice-skating. When Optimus Prime finally crosses paths with Harry Potter, I trust they will not spend their first hour together bowling. Since 2007, Sonic The Hedgehog and Super Mario the plumber have co-headlined three video games. That’s not as…
We’ve seen the amazing new Call of Duty, and we can’t wait to play it on November 13. Today, we’re telling you all about it… PLUS: How many Call of Dutys is this? | The fake debut trailer that made us laugh | The leaked poster that started it all | Review: The First Call…
They’ve sort of added multiplayer to Skyrim via the game’s new Kinect voice-control update. Not real multiplayer. Not the kind that lets two people play the game together or against each other. No, they’ve simply added voice commands. But when a friend barges in on your gaming session and yells “ally attack” and then “quicksave”…
Protesters around the world are commemorating today’s May Day with rallies in support of workers and against the economic and political powers that be. Much of this has been peaceful or at least standard Occupy-style protest-and-arrest, but in Seattle, in the same downtown area where tens of thousands of gamers gather each year to attend…
I went to Paris last weekend, which is an extravagant thing to do if you live in New York and should probably be making shorter weekend commutes. But I had a rare chance to go and so off I went, out Thursday overnight, back Monday afternoon. I wasn’t supposed to be working, but I can’t…
The full run of downloadable content for Max Payne 3 is available for pre-order starting today, two weeks before the game’s console release (and about a month before it’s PC release). All of it is multiplayer, and all of it can be bought in one $30 gulp if you don’t want to buy it all…
Earlier this week, I received a wood-framed clock in the mail. It was a promotional tchotchke from the people making Dishonored, the kind of thing a big video game company sends a gaming reporter to make sure they remember their game existsā€”and perhaps to cultivate some favorable emotions about the game. It is, of course,…
The guy on the left is Al Lowe, adventure game pioneer and lead creative force behind the Leisure Suit Larry games. The guy on the right is Tim Schafer, adventure game pioneer and lead creative force behind Day of the Tentacle and other LucasArts classics. When I took this photo, in February, Tim was on…
The Sims is video gaming’s great virtual dollhouse, inside of which a bunch of virtual people are made to experience joy, heartache and weddings that spontaneously turn into infernos. I found out about that last incident this morning, while helping grab images for our writer Kate Cox’s terrific story about the pros and cons of…
Here at Kotaku, we’ve fallen in love with the possibly-broken-but-who-cares-because-it’s-awesome video game Dragon’s Dogma. We have hopped on the bandwagon despite or because this is the kind of game that lets you fight a goblin who asks “who let the dogs out?” We do not want you thinking that Dragon’s Dogma will be a perfect…
We’ve been skeptical about Capcom’s upcoming knights-and-magic game Dragon’s Dogma for about a year. And then Capcom sent me a near-final copy of the game so I could play it. My skepticism increased. Dragon’s Dogma appears to be one very messy, clumsy game, full of bad dialogue, cumbersome menus and annoying supporting characters. Its theme…
USA Today reported yesterday that the Facebook version of Angry Birds had a flunking score of 65 in terms of respecting users’ privacy, according to a group called PrivacyChoice Today? PrivacyChoice gives the same app a glowing 89 (check it yourself). The Angry Birds folks “amended their policy, as did one of the companies collecting…
Geoff Keighley, Game Trailers TV host and master of the world exclusive video reveal is currently in hype mode for Thursday’s installment of GTTV and is promising the following in a new promo for the show.. “A huge PlayStation 3 exclusive…” “…this new game that will definitely be the talk of the Internet…” “the next…
“The very first death threat I got was when we decided not to support dedicated servers in Modern Warfare 2,” Robert Bowling, the former public face for the Call of Duty series, recently told me. That was in 2009. He’s had many more since, including batches of them every month throughout last year. “They were…
There must be something about the number three that signals that Rockstar Games is done messing around and is about to get serious. Grand Theft Auto III? That 2001 masterwork let the world know that Rockstar was ready to take over single-player video gaming. Eleven years later comes another “three” (they don’t do many of…
Nintendo 3DS systems in North America will be able to get a firmware update on April 25 that will allow system owners to organize games and apps saved into the system in folders. It will also support software patches.
A new side-scrolling Super Mario Bros. game called New Super Mario Bros. 2 will be released for the Nintendo 3DS this August, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced today in Japan. The game is a follow-up to the Nintendo DS mega-hit New Super Mario Bros. as well as New Super Mario Bros. Wii, both of which…
Valve Software boss Gabe Newell has said kind things before about mega-publisher EA’s upstart rival to Valve’s popular PC gaming service Steam. That may have seemed charitable, given that EA’s new Origin service competes with Steam and even by EA’s own standards may not be as good as Steam for years. So, how’s Gabe liking…
After asking Valve Software boss Gabe Newell a bunch of questions about the Half-Life games on the new Seven Day Cooldown podcast, an interviewer finally cut to the chase: “My final question and the question in the back of all your fans’ minds and everyone has been waiting to ask you for a long time:…
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