If you’re in a hurry, you simply need to know that the PlayStation Vita is a very good portable video game machine that excels in ways that Sony hasn’t bothered to hype. If you’ve got time, well… let’s start with a true story: I recently had the opportunity to look over the shoulder of a…
The big video game joke of 2011—and certainly the most repeated line—came from Skyrim, a game populated by guards who used to be adventurers, just like you, before they “took an arrow in the knee.” Sorry if you thought you were done with that line. Can you tolerate it one more time, just to learn…
Here are 19 shots of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, a game I think has a good shot at being very good
In the next major Transformers video game, you will be able to issue orders to a massive, rampaging Metroplex. You will be about to control Bruticus. You will be able to transform, as Grimlock, from robot to Tyrannosaurus Rex. You’ll breathe flames from your jaws. You will be able to fulfill the fantasies not of…
I sometimes play Words With Friends, and I play it the way I play Scrabble: using words that a) I know and that b) I’m sure are words normal people would use. I don’t use wacky words (which isn’t to say any word I don’t know is “wacky”—in some cases I’m the ignorant problem). But…
Who needs multiplayer video games? Skyrim was a single-player hit. So too was last year’s Batman game, Arkham City (unless you’re counting the online leaderboards for its multiplayer challenge modes). In an age when so many games get tacked-on multiplayer to fill out a list of back-of-box bullet points, how did these two games not…
I had a chat with Sefton Hill, chief game designer at Rocksteady Studios, in Las Vegas last week. The man’s team just made two terrific Batman games, so it was time we talked. Off-limits topics: The thing about Harley Quinn at the end. OK to discuss: Lots of other stuff. Stuff you might consider to…
We’ve been promised substantial downloadable content for last year’s blockbuster Skyrim, but it sounds like Bethesda is thinking really big. “For Fallout 3 we did five DLCs,” Howard told me during an interview last week at the DICE Summit. “That was a very aggressive path for us. Our plan now is to take more time,…
I have a nearly irrational dislike for retro video games. I assume most of the old “classics” wasted my youth with their needlessly bottomless pits and/or a hunger for my quarters. Do old video games deserve my scorn? Will no one speak up for the quality of these things? I sought an answer to my…
The people behind Mass Effect 3 will hoist copies of the sci-fi game into space via weather balloons next week. Gamers in Berlin, Las Vegas, London, New York, Paris and San Francisco can track (via MassEffect.com), catch and play them.
Red-hot Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum used to play Angry Birds, since that’s what they put on his iPad for him. Then they put Temple Run on there for him. “I’m addicted to it,” he said. Addiction’s bad, former Senator, Santorum! Temple Run is a free iOS game in which you just keep running and…
Less than a year ago, EA told PC gamers it would give them something that many PC gamers probably thought they didn’t need: a competitor to Steam. Another PC storefront for downloading games. Another PC service for connecting PC gamers. Another thing to install and… wait, where’d the EA games go on Steam? EA’s service…
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was a wonderful game on the PC and a fine game on the Xbox 360. On the PlayStation 3, however, it had issues for some players. Lag issues. Horrible, game-killing lag issues. Issues that made some Sony console owners shout that the game shouldn’t be Game of the Year. What…
The PlayStation Vita is built to last more than half a decade and is designed to confound pirates more than it confounds the average gamer, Sony’s head of worldwide game development, Shuhei Yoshida, tells Kotaku “We are designing this PS Vita to last five, six, seven, eight years,” he told me in an interview in…
Lumines was one of the best games on the original PlayStation Portable. It was sort of a rave version of Tetris, which was a very good thing. The successor to the PSP is now upon us, and so is a new Lumines, subtitled Electronic Symphony The game could stand to be a littler harder, but…
The name of the game is perverted, but Touch My Katamari is still a winner among the PlayStation Vita launch line-up. The game may have touch controls, but who needs them? The Vita has twin analog sticks, and that’s what Namco’s great everything-rolling game needs. I play the game on my Vita in this video…
Until about, oh, early last week, Psychonauts 2 seemed like an idea—or maybe a wish—that would never become a video game. But then the man who made millions making Minecraft, Markus “Notch” Persson, offered, over Twitter, to “make Psychonauts 2 happen.” Tim Schafer, whose Double Fine Productions made the first beloved Psychonauts game told Notch…
The Last Guardian is the the PlayStation 3 game that the people who most want PlayStation 3 games want. It’s also the biggest Sony title that appears to be in risk of vanishing before our very eyes. First shown in a pair of trailers in mid-2009, it was a no-show at E3’s 2010 and 2011.…
We met with a company called NKOK at Toy Fair 2012. They had a Twisted Metal toy to show us. This is how they showed it to us.
The next line of Skylanders toys—those figures that can be synced to video games of the same name—include some sort of “light technology.” Whatever. I ran into the guy who runs the Skylanders development studio at the airport last week and mocked that silly bit of hype. They have lights in them, I told him.…
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