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Hey Nintendo, More Games Like This, Please
If you think Nintendo is just an assembly line of Mario, Zelda and Pokémon , you’re probably missing some of their most interesting games. Take Ketzal’s Corridors, for example, an excellent new puzzle game from Nintendo and developer Keys Factory. It’s available for download on the Nintendo 3DS’ eShop. Ketzal’s Corridors is the kind of…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 20, 2012 -
We May Soon Have To Tell You Which Games Aren’t Coming Out On May 15
Max Payne 3 is coming out on May 15. Diablo III is coming out on May 15. A Game of Thrones game is coming out on May 15. That’s not enough. Today, we have news that PixelJunk 4AM, the PlayStation Move-controlled interactive music performance program (it’s not quite a game, but is fun!) will be…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 20, 2012 -
In Dust 514 PlayStation 3 Armies Will Do Jobs For PC Players, Until It’s Time For a Double-Cross
Dust 514 is an upcoming free-to-play first-person-shooter on the PlayStation 3 that will connect to the massively-multiplayer online game Eve Online. This much we’ve known for several months, but pardon me for still having trouble processing how it’s going to work. Enter David Reid from CCP, the company behind both games, CCP, who demoed 514…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 19, 2012 -
Massive Plants Vs. Zombies iPad Update Hitting Any Minute Now
The people behind Plants Vs. Zombies are adding a ton of new stuff to the iPad version of the game today. That is, it’s “new” if you haven’t played other versions of the game, that is. But, hey, these added modes, all of which have appeared in other, more expensive versions of the game, are…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 19, 2012 -
In Defense of the Infinite Combo, Which Only Ruins Street Fighter Matches Sometimes
If I were to punch you in the stomach and you could punch me back, we’d call that a fair fight. (No offense, but hopefully I’d win.) If I could punch you again and again a dozen or more times in a row and you couldn’t stop me—you literally could not raise your hands to…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 18, 2012 -
If You’re Female, Online Gaming Is A Festival of Compliments and Flattery, Comic Asserts [UPDATE]
If you play a video game online, accidentally kill your pals (virtually) and let the word out that you’re female, you’ll be showered with kind words. That’s according to The Oatmeal an online comic that contrasts this experience with that of screwing up online while male. If you’re a guy and do that, you’ll be…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 18, 2012 -
The Best New Feature In The Next Medal of Honor Might Be… a Wife
Over a month ago, I saw the new Medal of Honor. Over a month ago, I sighed. We are stuffed with first-person shooters like a summer mosquito is stuffed with blood, and at times I consider my interest in these things just about sucked dry. I feel that on my cynical days, which I guess…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 18, 2012 -
Exclusive: Grimlock Rampages Through a Transformers Game That Actually Looks Good
We’ve got the first in-depth footage of Transformer: Fall of Cybertron‘s Dinobot hellraiser, the mighty Grimlock. This is more proof that we are in a good year for Transformers games. Fall of Cybertron‘s creators sent us this clip to show off how you can play as one of the all-time Transformers greats, a great who…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 18, 2012 -
Grimlock Gallery
By Stephen Totilo Published April 18, 2012 -
Watch Lovely New Footage of Halo 4, All 9 Seconds Of It
We won’t make you watch all nine minutes of today’s not-that-funny Conan O’Brien skit about Halo 4. We’re cutting to the chase. Specifically: a little bit of multiplayer with much better lighting than we’ve usually seen in the Halo games. In the sketch, Conan and sidekick Andy Richter goof around in a voice booth, recording…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 17, 2012 -
The Domino’s iPad Game Could Transform The Way We Order Pizza (And Get Jobs)
People who lack vision might call Pizza Hero a mere video game. If they do, they’re seeing only a slice of—no joke—what could be an extraordinary development in our society. We are talking about Pizza Hero, a pizza-making video game from Domino’s that can be downloaded for free on the iPad. But we are also…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 17, 2012 -
There’s a Space Shuttle Riding On The Back Of a Jumbo Jet This Morning
The Space Shuttle Discovery got flown to Washington, D.C. today, on the back of a 747 jumbo jet. Regular folks are snapping some terrific photos as Discovery makes its way to the Smithsonian. Here’s a sampling from various online sources. Follow the #spottheshuttle tag on Twitter for tons more amazing photos. Add your own in…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 17, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallMaybe I Liked GoldenEye For Weird Reasons
Earlier this week, we published an intelligent takedown of the beloved Nintendo 64 James Bond first-person shooter GoldenEye. Maybe, our guest writer wrote, this game was a little bit flawed. Maybe the campaign was monotonous and the multiplayer map design was weird. Maybe we can still love the game despite or because of its flaws.…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 14, 2012 -
CultureTotal Recall
The Greatest Justification For Messed-Up Video Game Graphics I Ever Saw
I’ve forgotten most of the things I read in video game instruction manuals when I was a kid. But one thing I read in the instruction manual for the Commodore 64 version of Double Dragon stuck with me. It taught me something about the reality of video games. I’m talking about a note in the…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2012 -
Fantastic, Odd Art Made From Bullet Hell Video Games
Oliver Payne makes stickers out of the bullet-hell graphics of Japanese shoot-em-up arcade games and sticks them on pages of a Greek sculpture catalogue. The results are unexpectedly wonderful. See more of his work below. Or, if you’re in Tokyo, look for them at the Nanzuka Underground gallery, where they will be featured in an…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2012 -
Mario Is Written For Simpletons, Assassin’s Creed Is A Gore-Fest And Other Problems Crippling Video Games
A lovely profile of the ever-fascinating game designer Jonathan Blow in the Atlantic magazine is bundled, online, with a sneer about the world’s non-Jonathan Blow video games. The profile’s writer Taylor Clark is trying to establish what’s special about Blow and his intent to make games like Braid and the forthcoming The Witness use the…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2012 -
Behind on Schoolwork? Distracted at the Job? Let Us Know If You Need a Kotaku Suspension
A loyal Kotaku reader contacted me yesterday to notify me that they needed to focus on schoolwork and would like to be blocked from our site for a bit. I didn’t want to ban this reader, so I offered a one-week commenting suspension. They accepted it and are now, hopefully, productively Getting Things Done. I…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2012 -
We Searched For A Single PlayStation Vita In A Room Full of Handheld Gamers
Two days into my attendance of the PAX East gaming convention last weekend, I finally saw a PlayStation Vita. Nintendo DS and 3DS systems were everywhere among the convention’s thousands of gamers. But the Vita, launched in February in America, was about as common a sighting at the show as an uncaged lion. On Sunday,…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2012 -
The Easter Bunny Is Watching
This is not an article about sports video games. It should be. Our regularly, scheduled Sportaku section runs in the spot this Easter Bunny animated GIF is going in. But our Sportaku writer is getting on an airplane. So enjoy the bunny. Or be scared. Or both. The Bunny was filmed by me on Easter…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 12, 2012
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