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That Other Most Beautiful PS3 Game Will be Out This Spring
We’ve drooled over the beta version of Journey, a dream-like adventure game coming to the PlayStation 3. The game is quiet, mysterious, lovely, sometimes co-operative with a second player and, as of today, scheduled for a spring 2012 downloadable release
By Stephen Totilo Published September 27, 2011 -
The Minecraft Version of the The Simpsons Intro is Amazing
What is the brick-building, world-shaping game Minecraft good for? So many things. Including re-creating the intro of The Simpsons. Enjoy. The Simpsons opening in Minecraft [YouTube, via ThinkGeek]
By Stephen Totilo Published September 27, 2011 -
The Pros and Cons of Playing Futuristic Tetris
Nintendo 3DS will let you play augmented-reality Tetris. Augmented reality. Do you know what that means? Tetris on your desk. Tetris just floating out there in thin air for you to play. It works…okay. Take a look at our first playtest of AR Tetris in the video we shot at Kotaku HQ in New York…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 26, 2011 -
Two New Sonics, Two Different Reactions if You Don’t Touch the Controller
The first time my friend showed me Sonic The Hedgehog on his Sega Genesis, he made me put the controller down so I could see how much more attitude Sonic had than my Mario. Sonic, you see, would get pissed if you left him idling. He was no goofy plumber. He’d tap his toe. He…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 23, 2011 -
Zynga Shed Three Million Gaming Addicts Last Spring, But Still Have Plenty
Usually Zynga, makers of FarmVille, can brag. Not today. Zynga reports they dropped from 62 million daily users to 59 million last spring. Profits dropped 90%. Why? Few new games and lots of hiring and acquiring, says news site Scribbal
By Stephen Totilo Published September 22, 2011 -
There’s a 3D Classic on the Nintendo eShop Today. It Might be ‘Popular With Women.’
We’ve got ourselves a new 3D classic in this week’s Nintendo Download…. TwinBee. Remember TwinBee? Konami shooter? Only released in Japan? I asked Twitter if the game was any good and Twitter, in the form of @c_pruett told me: “It’s a nice top-down shooter for people who wouldn’t play other top-down shooter. Popular with women,…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 22, 2011 -
First Pages of DC Comics’ High-Tech Blackhawks Series
Our regular comics coverage has been nearly overrun with DC Comics’ New 52, which is the dominant thing in the world of American comics right now. DC, the publisher of Superman, Batman and Ambush Bug, is rolling out 51 new first issues this month (plus one last month). They’re starting (or re-starting) a ton of…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 22, 2011 -
A More Detailed Look at the First Max Payne 3 Trailer
The game’s bullets are rendered as physical objects in the game. Bullet Time is back. Those details and more are revealed in the new annotated version of Rockstar’s first trailer for Max Payne 3. Check it out at Rockstar’s site
By Stephen Totilo Published September 22, 2011 -
$30 Forza 4 Season Pass Adds Cars to to Your Xbox 360 through April
Look, you might be considering spending $60 on this fall’s Forza Motorsport 4, if you’re a racing fan and you’ve got an Xbox 360. But would you consider spending $90? You’ll save money if you do that, Microsoft said in a press release today. That added $30 will get you a Forza 4 “season pass”—giving…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 22, 2011 -
Halo, Mass Effect 2, DC #1s and — New Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans Top This Week’s New Comics
Each Wednesday brings new comics worth reading. Some of them are about video games. This month, a lot of them are new DC super-hero comics, since that company is re-launching everything. Read on for recommendations of this week’s best stuff and for my capsule reviews of DC’s second wave of new books… Comics You Should…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011 -
What It Will Take to Win the Next Console War
Veteran video game designer Soren Johnson doesn’t pick Great Motion Controls or Best Graphics as the most important weapon in the next generation of video game console wars. He picks the thing that Apple’s doing so well. Know this about Soren Johnson: he helped figure out the mathematical formula for religion (video game version). He’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011 -
Biggie Smalls Plus Warcraft is Weirdly Amusing
The language is not safe for work and disconcerting if you’re not used to white people earnestly reciting profane rap lyrics that use a certain word… but with those warnings out of the way, check out Warning of Warcraft. This video, made by video game voice actor Oliver Vaquer, taking Biggie’s hit song Warning and…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011 -
The Best Gears of War 3 Glitch So Far
We like Gears of War 3. We also like laughing at glitches. But when our intern Chris told me he found a Gears glitch that involved one of our Gears heroes falling through the world, I frowned. We’ve seen this kind of glitch so many times. But then intern Chris told me that the glitch…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011 -
This is Diablo III Running on my MacBook Air Without Breaking a Sweat
I don’t have the best MacBook Air, but I’ve got a pretty good one. 1.7 GHz Intel Core I5. 4GB of RAM. Can it run Diablo III? It sure can. Watch. (Now all I need is a mouse! Trackpad = Diablo death.) UPDATE 5/21/12: Here’s the finished game running on my Air You can contact…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 20, 2011 -
Tips for Kicking COG Ass in Gears of War 3‘s Beast Mode
If you have Gears of War 3, you should play the Beast mode. It’s the most satisfying way to team up with friends, play a few rounds and—this is key—be done in half an hour. You play Beast Mode if you’re in a rush, which is what Gears producer Rod Fergusson told me several weeks…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 20, 2011 -
If These People Don’t Like Star Wars: The Old Republic, There’s No Hope
Can you tell if someone is having fun by the look on their face while they are playing a game? What if that person is dressed as a Jedi and is playing upcoming massively-multiplayer online game Star Wars: The Old Republic? OK. What if the person is dressed to fly a TIE fighter? I snapped…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 20, 2011 -
How Crytek Can Make a Better Homefront, and Why It May Not Matter
Is the new Homefront necessary? Pardon that imprudent question, but when a man is drowning in a sea of first-person shooters, may he question the next bucket? This morning we got the non-surprise news that THQ will bring us a Homefront 2 coupled with the surprise news that the game will be made by Crytek,…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 20, 2011 -
Mafia Wars 2 Coming to Facebook, with 3D Graphics and… a Grand Theft Auto Edge?
Forget the farms, the adventures, the empires and the allies. Love them or hate them, Zynga will soon release what they’re calling their “most bad-ass game to date,” Mafia Wars 2 How bad-ass can a Facebook game be? How Grand Theft Auto can they go? The debut teaser trailer here shows no gameplay but does…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 20, 2011 -
These Are the Gears of War 3 Bonuses You Have to Pay For
Gears of War 3 has day-one downloadable content. It won’t make you better at the game, but it’ll make your guns in multiplayer better-looking. Would you spend $3 or $4 to paint your Lancer, shotgun and the rest of your arsenal with flowers? You can. Yeah, these kinds of silly additions would have been free…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 19, 2011
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