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All Your Gamescom 2011 Day Three News Right Here. Borderlands 2. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Sonic Generations. And Lots More.
The giant Gamescom show in Germany continues and we’re awash with impressions, screenshots and videos about the biggest console and PC games (not much for handhelds there). Which games do you care about? Take a look through this round-up to get the latest from Gamescom Day 3. This story will be updated throughout the day.…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2011 -
Peace for Our Time. Battlefield, Call of Duty Makers Play Battlefield 3 Together
EA execs talks smack about Activision’s Call of Duty. Wants it to rot. Predicts it will collapse, and soon. Activision execs rolls their eyes at EA, sigh and suggest there’s enough room for EA’s Battlefield 3 and all the Call of Duty/Modern Warfares to co-exist. Meanwhile… In Germany at Gamescom today, Robert Bowling, creative strategist…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2011 -
Trash-talking Battlefield Publisher Predicts Call of Duty Will Collapse ‘In 2-3 Years’
EA, the publisher of this fall’s Battlefield 3, responded today to a call from their competition for cooler rhetoric with some heated trash talk. “Welcome to the big leagues Eric,” EA spokesperson Jeff Brown said in a comment issued to Kotaku but adressed to Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision and the man who said in…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2011 -
Our Excitement for Capcom’s Biggest Game Ever Remains Low
There are some games we at Kotaku love writing about. Skyrim‘s one. Assassin’s Creed. Whatever Atlus game our Mike Fahey’s obsessed with this month. And then there are games like Dragon’s Dogma which we pass around coverage duties of like soldiers passing around the hand grenade that just fell into their foxhole. There’s something about…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2011 -
Scourge The Hedgehog, We 3, and I Think They Killed Lois Lane in this Week’s Most Interesting Comics
New comics come out on Wednesdays. So why is my weekly list of new-comics recommendations running on a Thursday? I blame the avalanche of gaming news, screenshots and trailers tumbling out of Gamescom. I briefly found space, however, to recommend some comics. These are the ones I think you should consider buying, either in shops…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2011 -
Call of Duty Makers Say Competitor’s Anti-Call of Duty Talk Harms the Gaming Industry
EA CEO John Riccitiello, head of the company making this fall’s premiere Call of Duty competitor, Battlefield 3, recently said he hopes that Call of Duty would “rot from the core.” In Germany, this week, Riccitiello’s counterpart at Actvision, CEO Eric Hirshberg, fired back, defending not just his company’s Call of Duty/Modern Warfare franchise but…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2011 -
All Your Gamescom 2011 Day Two News Right Here. Modern Warfare 3. Dark Souls. A Drip of Portal 2. And So Much More.
Video game news is being made right now in Germany, and we’re putting it all together here so you can keep up with the latest from Valve, Sega, the Minecraft crew and more…. What’s the biggest news coming out of Europe during one the biggest gaming news shows of the year? Find out right here.…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2011 -
These are 16 Versions of Who You Might Be in Skyrim
You can pick a gender and a species for the hero or heroine you’ll control in the dragon-filled lands of Skyrim. The people making the epic November 11 role-playing game show us 16 of the many possible looks four our lead character in a batch of new screenshots today. I want to be one of…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2011 -
Finally, We Can See What DOTA 2 Really Looks Like
We longer have to wonder what DOTA 2 looks like. Our days of watching gameplay-free trailers are over. We can watch people play the game, streamed live over the Internet, and see it for ourselves. Or, if your streaming is poor, your timing is off or you just like keeping this window open, you can…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2011 -
Nintendo of America, You Are Really Smart (Or Mean!)
The games some American Wii owners have been pleading with Nintendo to release in the United States are finally being translated to English and released… in Europe. In a body blow as devastating to American Wii loyalists as the one the floored King Hippo, Nintendo of Europe announced today that they’ll follow up the European…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2011 -
Nintendo Has ‘No Plans’ To Release the Wii-Minus in America
The new Wii that won’t play GameCube games—which we’re unilaterally renaming the Wii Minus—may be a European exclusive, it seems. A company rep tells Kotaku that Nintendo “does not currently have any plans” to release it in America.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2011 -
All Your Gamescom 2011 Day One News Right Here. Diablo III. World of Warcraft. DMC. And an Absurd Amount of Other News.
Blockhead – Crecente shows his true face while working in the Gamescom press room. Video game news is being made right now in Germany, and we’re putting it all together here so you can keep up with the latest from Blizzard, Capcom, Sony and more…. What’s the biggest news coming out of Europe during one…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2011 -
Nathan Drake Has New Friends in Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Still Your Best-Looking Vita Game
This new trailer for the first portable Uncharted game, the PlayStation Vita’s Uncharted: Golden Abyss looks very nice. But the point of this one isn’t to ogle the graphics but to meet a new character, Marisa Chase, who joins Jason Dante as part of series hero Nathan Drake’s crew in the new adventure. Can’t Drake…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2011 -
Borderlands 2, From the Angle You’ll Be Playing It
One of the four new Borderlands 2 images released for Gamescom shows what the game looks like in the first-person perspective. You know, the angle from which you’ll actually be playing the game. The other three show some lovely environments and character art. Enjoy. Our guys in Germany will be playing the game this week…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2011 -
New Starhawk Screens Make it Hard to Keep Our Expectations in Check
StarHawk is one of the 2012 video games we’re most excited about at Kotaku. We like sci-fi. We like sci-fi. We like shooters. We like space combat. And we like games that, in single and multiplayer let you air-drop not just your vehicles, but your base. We like what we’ve been told about this PlayStation…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
The Newest Uncharted 3 Screenshots Toss Nathan Drake onto a Dangerous Plane
There are easier ways to catch a flight than chasing a plane with jeep, climbing up its landing gear and then fighting a large man in an open cargo bay. But that’s how Nathan Drake catches a plane in November’s PlayStation 3 exclusive Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception These new screenshots released today during the run-up…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
PS3 Price Drops to $249, Effective Now [UPDATED]
The PlayStation 3 will now cost $249, down from $300 for the 160GB model, according to a Sony announcement today. That price drop is effective immediately. No word on the price of the more expensive model, the $349 320GB model. Update: Sony tells us that the 320GB unit will now sell for $299. The 160GB…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
There isn’t a Second of Gameplay Footage in this Resistance 3 Trailer, and I don’t Mind One Bit
The first trailer I ever saw for Resistance 3 was live-action. The most recent one I’ve seen is all stylish artwork inspired by the designs of artist Olly Moss. I usually like to see gameplay in video game trailers, but I’ll make exceptions for trailers this cool. Resistance 3 will be out next month on…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
Lumines and a ‘New Iteration’ of Assassin’s Creed Coming to PlayStation Vita
They’re showed us a screenshot (bullshot?) of Rayman Origins running on the PlayStation Vita today, but the most exciting news from Ubisoft regarding their support for PlayStation Vita involved some other games. Ubisoft will bring a new Lumines to Vita. That would be a new version of the beloved puzzle game that is regarded by…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
Every PlayStation Vita Game Will Be Downloadable
Every game released for Sony’s impressive new handheld gaming system, the PlayStation Vita, will be downloadable in the PlayStation Store, Sony’s incoming head of European operations, Jim Ryan, confirmed today during a PlayStation press conference in Germany. Some Vita games will be available in regular stores, of course, offered on the Vita memory cards.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011
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