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The Kinect Will Let you Get the Mad Hatter’s Autograph, Starting November 15
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
The New SSX Sort of Has 100,000-Player Multiplayer
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Is Your Crazy EA Game of Next February
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.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
Holy Moly 2. Battlefield 3‘s New 64-Player Trailer Looks Lovely
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.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
The new Mass Effect 3 Trailer Proves Mass Effect Can be a Pretty Shooter
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes is a New 6v6v6 Game, Free to PC this Fall
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
FIFA Street Debuting in Early 2012
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.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
All Your Gamescom 2011 Day Zero News Right Here. Battlefield 3. Gears of War 3. Mass Effect 3. 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 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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
The New Kinect-Only Steel Battalion Has a Weird Story, Supports Interactive High-Fives
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,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 16, 2011 -
If you Squint, these Four DOTA Games All Look the Same
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,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 15, 2011 -
I Just Wanted to Let My Brother Know there’s a New Elevator Action on the Way
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 15, 2011 -
This is Definitely the First Real DOTA 2 Trailer
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 15, 2011 -
Toy Soldiers: Cold War is the Perfect Game for our Stupidest War. And I Can Prove it in this Video.
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 15, 2011 -
Gears of War 3 Campaign is Trickier, Less Linear and Better-Written than its Predecessors
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 15, 2011 -
DOTA 2 Experts Believe These are Leaked DOTA 2 Screenshots
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 15, 2011 -
MelVille is like FarmVille With Much Better Writing (And a Whale)
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2011 -
FrontierVille Sequel Pioneer Trail Gets Zynga a Little Closer to Making Hardcore Games, Limits Friends
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2011 -
New Counter-Strike is Real, hits PS3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC in Early 2012
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2011 -
Video Game Snobbery Started a Long Time Ago
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2011
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