Alex Griendling knows that there is a problem with most modern calendars. They mark the weekend and include the holidays. But they don’t include important moments in time travel. You can get some fancy calendar that includes years and years of Christmases and Flag Days, but did they mark the day when the Terminator came…
Women in Grand Theft Auto games have had many roles. Mom. Girlfriend. Nightclub manager. Criminal. Lots of roles. Just never the main one. On the eve of the release of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, and with no inside knowledge about who will be the star of this new game, I find…
People who are fans of words that mean what they’re supposed to mean are probably not fans of the rhetorical loophole exploited by the term “free-to-play”. Many of the most popular games on PCs, cell phones and tablets are “free-to-play”, or “free 2 play”, as the phrase is often spelled in order to free it…
When the people at Ubisoft aren’t making a thousand Just Dance games, they’re making a thousand Assassin’s Creed games. I play the latter and enjoy most of them. But can I like this new one that’s called Assassin’s Creed Recollection? It’s… different. What I know, I know from a Ubisoft press release. Recollection is a…
Some smart gamers eye the addition of multiplayer modes to formerly single-player franchises with the kind of suspicion that classical music aficionados might have if they heard their favorite violinist gave a guest spot at their next concert to Kanye West. The people at BioWare have indeed disrupted their symphony. They’ve added co-op multiplayer to…
Goodbye, Vietnam. Paradox Interactive’s acclaimed and comical multiplayer wizard computer game will be getting an expansion called The Stars Are Left. It will pit up to four players against monsters in “a horror-mystery inspired byt he Cthullhu Mythos.” So says the PC-gaming champions at Paradox. They say that the expansion, made by the Magicka madmen…
Every week, there are lots of new comics out in comics shops around the world. There are also fresh new and old ones sold legit on digital devices, every Wednesday. I don’t recommend you buy all of them. Just some of them. My recommendations for this week: Comics You Should Consider Buying (from comics shops)…
The creators of the enjoyable open-world Infamous games nto their super-hero cities. They’ve done it before, and, hey, we like when developers make jokes So cheers to the Infamous development studio Sucker Punch for taking a gentle jab at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in this week’s downloadable PlayStation 3 vampire adventure, Infamous: Festival of…
A decade ago, Rockstar Games was trying to be funny. Starting in February of 2001, all the way to the 18th of October, just before the most important game release in their company’s history, they were trying to make people laugh about Grand Theft Auto III. They did it with a fake online newspaper chronicling…
The video website Vimeo is a good place to find video game trailers, clips of people flying Wii Remote-powered drones and people having Kinect mishaps. It’s a place where folks upload their create-a-wrestler for WWE video games. That brings us today’s random finding: the work of one Tommy Else, who used WWE Raw 2 a…
Above is the first trailer for GTA IV. Remember that? It came out at the end of March 2007 and answered questions about the next GTA, even as it raised a bunch of new ones. It showed graphics that shamed its contemporaries, revealed Liberty City (aka New York City) as the location and introduced us…
Strengthening long-standing rumors for years that the next Grand Theft Auto would be set in Los Angeles or a fictional version thereof, a source familiar with the game told Kotaku today that those rumors are true. GTA V will be set in some version of L.A., bringing the famous franchise to a place that last…
Kirby’s Return to Dreamland is the first Nintendo-published game for the Wii since June and only the third of the year, but scarcity alone does not guarantee quality. Nor does the fact that this Kirby game allows him to do what he hasn’t done for years: inhale his enemies. So Kirby sucks, but is Kirby’s…
Jack Thompson, active nemesis of any video game that he believes causes real world violence, was disbarred on September 25, 2008. Website GamePolitics notes that his disbarrment kicked in Oct 25, 2008 and that, three years to the day later, we get an announcement of GTA V. Jack hates GTA
Dragon Age Redemption, the official live action web series by Felicia Day and friends, hits the halfway mark today with a release of the third of six episodes. In this installment, she’s stabbing a guy who wants to help out. Pretty good episode, and, so far, my preferred way to get live-action interpretations of video…
In a year full of headlines about Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, it’s possible to think that the forces that shape the future of what we’ll play and where we’ll play it is now solely in the hands of the people who make plastic and metal boxes. Or maybe it’s in the hands of the…
Sorry, we can’t tell you what city the next Talk Amongst Yourselves takes place in. Can’t tell you what platforms it’ll be on. Even worse: we don’t have a trailer for it, so come Nov 2, you still won’t know. Recover from your disappointment by talking here about video games. After all, that’s what TAY…
I first realized that Batman: Arkham City had Lost jokes in it when I overheard one of the game’s thugs complaining about how the show explained the famous TV show’s mysterious island. A reader pointed me to a better joke, one Tweeted about by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof, who noted: “Crud. Now I’ve gone and…
We’ve reviewed Batman: Arkham City. We’ve offered tips so you can start playing it the right way. We’ve cobbled together instructions for how to grab the many downloadable additions to the game (how good are you at leaping through hoops?). We’ve explained that Catwoman stuff. Here, in one handy place, is our Batman: Arkham City…
Pokémon Rumble Blast is the first Pokémon game for the Nintendo 3DS, but it’s not a real Pokémon game any more than the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon or Pokémon Ranger games are. This is no role-playing game involving turn-based battles and gym trainers. You’re controlling Pokémon directly in this one, collecting some 600 of them in…
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