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Watch This, Play This To Make Your Monday Better
It’s time to make your Monday better through the magic of video games. We present to you our first daily installment of Watch This, Play This. For 30 minutes, we’ll give you things to… watch or play, all linked to from this page. WATCH: Let’s start with the video up top. A most absurd Skyrim…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 13, 2012 -
ReviewsLittle Deviants: The Kotaku Review
The first thing I ever heard about the PlayStation Vita game Little Deviants was that you could touch the Vita’s rear touch panel to poke flat ground in the game into hills. Doing that would cause a spherical deviant who was sitting on the flat ground to roll. Brilliant, I thought! The first thing I…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 13, 2012 -
ReviewsSuper Stardust Delta: The Kotaku Review
The best physical attributes of the PlayStation Vita are the machine’s big screen and twin analog sticks. They are conveniently what Super Stardust Delta uses best to make one of the cheapest launch games for Sony’s new gaming portable one of its best. Super Stardust Delta is a twin-stick shooter of spaceship vs. aliens and…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 13, 2012 -
New Unofficial Call of Duty Elite Slogan is Just an Activision Joke [UPDATE]
Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg jokingly announced a new slogan for Call of Duty: Elite today: Call of Duty Elite: It’s not a douche move. That’s as of some time in September when a guy who was rallying people back in the spring to boycott the world’s first subscription service for Call of Duty changed his…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 10, 2012 -
And Now For Our Biggest Changes Yet: The Kotaku… Network
One month ago, we promised you change. We promised you the kind of change that wouldn’t betray our roots as a site built on a passion for writing and reporting about video games. We simply wanted to make this site better than ever. Get ready. Everything before today was prelude to our biggest transformation yet,…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 10, 2012 -
Your Guide to the New Kotaku Network
Starting on the evening of February 12, Kotaku will begin to offer scheduled programming. Your listings are above. What does this mean? We’re changing. Not completely, of course. We are still a website. We are still one built on a love for video games and a passion for both reporting and writing about them. (You…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 10, 2012 -
Arkham City Makers Aren’t Making a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game
A rumor swirling around a few weeks ago pegged Rocksteady Games as the developers on a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game. Rocksteady chief Sefton Hill told Kotaku that, while the rumor was amusing, they’re doing no such thing.
By Stephen Totilo Published February 9, 2012 -
To My Fellow “Almost-Offline” Gamers: We Are the 20%.
It’s okay if you don’t want to play video games online with tons of people. I’m with you. And so are lots of other people. Lots of other people. On Tuesday, I was bantering with Peter Moore, the second-in-command at the massive game publisher EA, about Battlefield 3. He was “delighted” about the game, a…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 9, 2012 -
EA’s Next Battle Plan: More Battlefield 3, More Military Shooters, Guns, Guns, Guns
There is plenty of room in our gaming lives for more Battlefield 3, more Bad Company and many more military first-person shooters from EA, the giant game publisher’s number two boss told Kotaku this week. “I think the genre is big enough, and they’re different experiences,” chief operating officer Peter Moore said during a brief…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 9, 2012 -
I May Stink At Wind-Up Knight, But You Should Play It
I’d like to recommend a game I am bad at. I think you’d be better at it than I am. Plus it’s pretty and, did I mention that on Android it’s free? The game is called Wind-Up Knight, and I’m having trouble timing my wind-up knight’s jumps. The game is a runner, one of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 9, 2012 -
This Is All The Free Stuff You Get If You Attend the DICE Gaming Summit
People pay thousands of dollars to hobnob with their fellow captains of the video game industry here at the DICE Summit just outside of Las Vegas. Or they call themselves a gaming journalist (that’s editor-in-chief to you!) and attend for free. And when you register, they give you a bag of stuff. A bag of…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 8, 2012 -
Sign #589 That the Wii Is On The Wane
There will be no Wii version of EA’s Tiger Woods series this year. There could be a Wii U version, but EA confirmed to Kotaku that the Wii is out. A couple of years ago, the Wii was the series’ flagship platform. This year, Xbox 360 Kinect gets the spotlight (PS3 is still supported, too.)
By Stephen Totilo Published February 8, 2012 -
No, Wait. This Is a Video Game for Grown-Ups
Have you ever made a video game character fear you? Have you ever imagined you could do that? Don’t think about the ghosts in Pac-Man dashing away from you because you ate the power pellet. Think about a realistic-looking game set in a quake-broken but realistic-looking city. Think about men in that city, men who…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 7, 2012 -
These Guys Are Paid To See The Slightly Scary Future of Video Gaming
N’Gai Croal and Andre Vrignaud have seen the future of video games. They don’t want you to be scared even though things are about to be very different. The former Newsweek reporter and the former Xbox platform strategist and PC gaming strategy director for Intel are now video game consultants, which means they fly around…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 7, 2012 -
You May Punch Heavily-Armed Buddhas and Giant Elephants in Asura’s Wrath, And You Might Like It
How appropriate that a game as bonkers as Asura’s Wrath was mailed to me on a disc that only contained some chapters from its middle. Who cares how this game begins? It’s not like it would suddenly make complete sense. Having only played the game’s middle, I know little about who Asura is. He is…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 6, 2012 -
Warning: Playing The Next Resident Evil Alone Might Bum You Out
It might be as fair to write about playing Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City solo as it would be to rate a fish’s ability to haul itself across dry land. But during this past weekend, I played March’s multiplayer-intended Resident Evil game as a single-player game. I hope this fish can swim better than it…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 6, 2012 -
A Nintendo Game Worth… Watching
Here’s something small that could mean something big. It’s the back of the box for the new Wii game Rhythm Heaven Fever. Nintendo is selling the idea that the game isn’t just fun to play, but that it’s fun to watch There are many games that are fun for spectators. The Grand Theft Auto games…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2012 -
Check Out This Ex-Game Developer’s Terrific Photos of Cops
Antonio Bolfo was an animator at Harmonix, working on video games such as Guitar Hero. Then, with the legacy of September 11 on his mind, he joined the New York Police Department. He started bringing a camera along and snapped photos of the police at work. And then he left the force and made photography…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2012 -
Battlefield 3 Is Much More Interesting When Giants Join the Fight
YouTube user LiquidMyPhone found a very large soldier on the battlefield of Battlefield 3. We have no idea how to replicate this, but we would if we could. Battlefield 3: WTF big guy glitch [YouTube]
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2012 -
The Video Game Industry’s Lobbyists Spent $1,000,000 Pushing for SOPA and Other Issues Last Fall
Remember last month when many people were mad about the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act? Remember the war between politicians who said these bills would repel online piracy and opponents who said it might break the internet and/or kill free speech online? Gamers’ biggest target for their ire about those bills…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 2, 2012
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