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Kind of Cool, Kind of Creepy
Kind of cool, kind of creepy. I played Google Shoot View in front of Kotaku‘s NYC HQ. -Stephen Totilo For the Right Price These Gamers Will Die For You This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: “I will take bullets for you,” it read. And he did. Contact made,…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
Lost Winds, One of WiiWare’s Best, Looks Good on the iPhone
Here is a trailer for Lost Winds, a ballyhooed WiiWare game that is coming to iOS devices later this month. It’s from Frontier Developments, who created this wind-blown platformer before becoming a leading Kinect developer for the Xbox 360 (See Kinectimals, Disneyland: Kinect Adventures.) We liked the game a lot when it was on the…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
BioWare Co-Founder Gets Himself a Star Wars: The Old Republic Tattoo
Can this month’s Star Wars: The Old Republic fulfill years of development effort and hype? Can the new massively multiplayer game from BioWare achieve World of Warcraft-like success? Will it survive as a subscription-based MMO or have to switch, as so many of them do these days, to Free 2 Play? These are old, tired…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
Dustforce is, Thankfully, Not Really about Dusting.
I played an early version of the upcoming computer game Dustforce about a year ago, when I was a judge for the Independent Games Festival. The beat-em-up—well, broom-em-up—was in need of a tutorial and/or a gentler learning curve. Otherwise, it was a lot of fun. Up top is a look at a new trailer for…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
She’s Level 35 in Skyrim. She Makes Villagers Kill Her Dragons.
Some pacifists are nice people who wouldn’t harm an elf. Others would cast a spell on a town full of people and have the crowd beat the elf to a pulp. The second kind of pacifist isn’t really a pacifist, of course. She’s a manipulative monster who keeps her hands clean. That’s who 20-year-old vocal…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
Modern Warfare 3 Gets a Bundle of Tweaks with Tonight’s ‘Hot Fix Update’
A slew of multiplayer tweaks will take effect in Modern Warfare 3 via an update to the game tonight, according to Infinity Ward. They include nerfing the Type 95 and fixing Dome map exploits. Read the full change list
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
You May Have Seen These Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Screenshots Recently
The first official screenshots for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance are now on the brand new Metal Gear Solid website (where, oddly, the age-gate only goes back to 1960… stay away, old people!). The shots appear to be snapped from the big Revengeance trailer that debuted over the weekend. Still, they’re stills and they’re nice to…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
Everything we Know about The Last of Us
Well, what do you know? The people who made Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter and Uncharted are now making something terrific-looking called The Last of Us The trailer for Naughty Dog’s new PlayStation 3 game premiered on Saturday. A few details have been trickling out, too. Let’s round them up and see what we’ve got.…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
Mark Hamill, Tara Strong (aka The Joker and Harley Quinn) Both Miffed about the VGAs
The two lead voice actors from this year’s Batman: Arkham City ripped the Spike Video Game Awards on Twitter last night. They both lost in their respective categories, but, they said, that’s not why they’e complaining. Mark Hamill, doubly famous for his roles as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars and as The Joker in Batman…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 11, 2011 -
Video Game Awards Show Host Gets Teabagged. This Ain’t the Oscars.
If you win an Oscar and ramble through your acceptance speech, the orchestra will drown you out and the cameras will cut away. But, if you’re a game developer and you prattle too much at the Spike Video Game Awards, you might have a man drop his crotch on our face. It’s called teabagging. It’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 10, 2011 -
If You’re Going to Add a Penis to a Game, Do it the Battlefield 3 Way
Few things confirm the ingenuity of gamers as effectively as the lengths they’ll go to add penises to video games that don’t include penises. Battlefield 3 may be a war video game full of phallic symbols, but it didn’t ship with drawings of genitalia. But the gamer in the clip here added one in the…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 9, 2011 -
I’m on Board. The PlayStation Vita is Going to Launch with a Bang.
The PlayStation Vita is a contender. I know a lot of people aren’t taking it seriously, because there are so many reasons not to. (See: Apple, 3DS, PSP “failures” and more.) But they should. You should, too. Two days ago, at a Sony showcase last week, I played four PlayStation Vita games and watched a…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 9, 2011 -
Super Stardust Delta is the Kind of Download-Only Game You’ll Get on the Vita
Every PlayStation Vita game will be downloadable, but some, like Super Stardust Delta will be download only. This one will be out for the machine’s mid-February North American launch. For someone like me who played the PlayStation 3’s Super Stardust HD obsessively, Delta looks quite right to me. I do apologize for the glare in…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 9, 2011 -
This is the PS Vita Game I Want Most
Sorry, Uncharted: Golden Abyss and WipEout 2048 and all the rest of you PlayStation Vita launch games. You’re not my favorite. You’re not the game I most want a PS Vita for. This game is. It’s Escape Plan, a black and white touch-controlled side-scroller about which other people at Kotaku have already been buzzing. I…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 9, 2011 -
It’s Time to Drool over Journey Again
The last time I showed you Journey, I showed you the desert. Let’s go… underwater? What I’ve got for you to look at here is a short video of a new area in ThatGameCompany’s lovely-looking spring 2012 PlayStation 3 game. The last time we showed you the game, we were running direct-feed footage of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 8, 2011 -
Yes, Uncharted on the Vita is Like Uncharted on the PS3.
Do we want our console games on our handhelds? Do we want a game in our pocket that plays like a game on our TV? That was the promise with the PlayStation Portable and that is now a promise, thanks to certain games, of the PSP’s successor, the PS Vita. Take a fresh look here…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 8, 2011 -
Student Who Never Goes Anywhere without their iPhone
Ah, the iPhone. The person who has the iPhone—and who never doesn’t have the iPhone—only needs one gift. But surely there’s more than one to recommend. iTunes Credit You can’t go wrong with this. You’re basically giving the person cash, but you’re narrowing down the possible uses of that cash to the stuff on iTunes—books,…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 8, 2011 -
Unit 13 is, Unexpectedly, a PlayStation Vita Game That Matters
I missed the first item we ran on Unit 13. I forgot the second one existed. But now that I’ve played this “launch window” game for the PlayStation Vita, I’m paying attention. I think you should, too. Unit 13 gives a generic first impression. It’s a third-person military shooter made by Zipper Interactive, the creators…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 8, 2011 -
Touch My Katamari Finally Changes Katamari Damacy
Once upon a time, Namco’s Katamari Damacy was the freshest of games. You controlled a little green guy who rolled up stuff to make a bigger and bigger ball that could roll up bigger and bigger stuff. Then Katamari Damacy got stale. Namco made too many similar sequels. The game’s inventor, Keita Takahashi left Namco.…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 8, 2011 -
These are the Vita’s Touch Controls for Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. They’re Optional.
The PlayStation Vita’s version of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has everything the console version has. Plus: the ability to make Wolverine beat up Frank West while under the control of the tip of your finger. The upcoming Vita has a touch-screen (and a rear touch panel), so Capcom’s latest version of their latest fighting…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 8, 2011
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