Kinect: Disneyland Adventures, which appears to be a surprisingly good game, finally has a release date: November 15, the target date for people buying stuff for Christmas. The game also has a batch of new official screenshots, which you can see here. Plus, Microsoft says the game’s tour of mini-games based on Disneyland rides will…
The new SSX will be a heavily networked game, so you’ll never feel lonely snowboarding. A presentation of the new game at EA’s Gamescom press conference in Germany today focused on the game’s many ways for people to compete against each other. They didn’t show any actual multiplayer. They showed socially-networked player. One example: any…
Mega-publisher EA tends to publish interesting, unsafe bets in February. In 2009, they released Dante’s Inferno; in 2010, Bulletstorm. Today the company said Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a promising single-player action RPG of unusual pedigree, will hit Feb 7, 2012.
The motion picture beats the still image again. Sure, today’s new Battlefield 3 screenshots were impressive. But this trailer, showing a 64-player battle in the game’s Caspian Sea level, looks better.
The new Mass Effect 3 trailer, debuting at Gamescom in Europe today, is all about combat. Specifically, it’s about shooting, the weakest part of BioWare’s series. The shooting looks a lot better this time. So do the graphics. I’m sure Mass Effect 3 is still a role-playing game, but could it also prove to be…
The next iteration of Warhammer Online will be a free-to-play online PC game, focused on three-way team combat, as announced by BioWare chief Ray Muzyka at an EA showcase in Germany for Gamescom today. Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes extracts what our MMO-loving Kotaku writer Mike Fahey says was the best aspect of Warhammer Online…
How does EA start a press conference in Europe? With soccer football, of course. EA is bringing back their FIFA Street franchise. Announced at EA’s Gamescom conference, it will feature 25 locations, from London to Rio de Janeiro. It uses the FIFA 12 engine. Made by EA Sports’ Vancouver studio.
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 Xbox, EA 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. We’ll be updating…
Take a look at the debut trailer for Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, coming to you from Gamescom in Germany. New details are hitting as I write this as well, so refresh this for an update. The short-short version: the game will use a standard Xbox 360 controller for mech movement; Kinect for starting the engine,…
Confirming our August 8 report, Nintendo confirmed today that Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, Mario Strikers Charged and Punch-Out will sell for $20 starting August 28 as part of the Nintendo Selects line.
I’m sure that, like snowflakes or explanations for the finale of Lost, no two DOTA games are alike. But when a non-DOTA player like me sees a pair of group shots of DOTA games, I can’t help but wonder about the range of visual variation in one of gaming’s hottest genres. These shots show, clockwise,…
When I was young and couldn’t really stop my older brother from playing whatever he wanted to play next on our cousin’s Nintendo, my brother liked to play Elevator Action. If we went to our cousins’ house for the holidays, he went to the basement to fire up that game. I wanted to play other…
Were those real DOTA 2 screenshots we saw earlier today? Maybe. Is this a real trailer for the game, released by Valve today? Definitely. DOTA 2: Valve’s most Blizzardy game ever? The game will make its public debut at Gamescom 2011 in Germany this week as part of a 16-player $1 million tournament called The…
Great wars deserve great video games. Or something. Maybe that’s true. Maybe it isn’t. But I do know that the Cold War—a war of cheesy movies, ridiculous potential world-ending brinksmanship and, oh yeah, the meddling in the affairs of most of the nations on this earth—deserves an absurd video game. It gets one in the…
Being neither pirates nor attendees of the most recent Gears of War preview event, we haven’t played the campaign for Gears of War 3 Thank goodness Gears executive producer Rod Fergusson Tweets out links to interviews people do with him and impressions they publish about his stuff. That helped me learn a few things about…
In 48 hours, we’ll know exactly what Valve’s DOTA 2 looks like, thanks to the kick-off of a million-dollar tournament for the new game in Germany. But maybe we’re looking at it right now. A batch of purportedly leaked DOTA 2 screenshots are now circulating through the web, most of them via dota2.cn, all of…
Herman Melville was born well ahead of his time, wasting his writings on paper when the great Moby-Dick deserved a more impressive platform: Facebook. History has been bent in a corrective direction by Zynga-weary game designer David Fox. The brave Fox has finally brought Melville’s great novel to Facebook in the form of Melville, a…
Pioneer Trail is the brand-new, massive sequel to FrontierVille, one of the most popular games on Facebook. It’s got a few twists that are going to throw any FrontierVille fan for a loop. But it also has hints of where the people who made it at Zynga might be going… directions that any hardcore gamer…
The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive rumors were true. Valve Software announced the game today and already added a listing for it to Steam In a press release, Valve said that “CS: GO features new maps, characters, and weapons and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust, etc.). In addition, CS: GO will introduce new…
The hate of fake games and fake gamers goes back at least to 1988. That’s when a reporter from the esteemed magazine Newsweek was trying to make sense of the “fun, low-brainpower” games kids were playing in America and wanted to understand how some awful Atari-like crash could be avoided in the new age of…
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