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New NASA Photo Suggests Signs of Flowing Water on Mars
Revise Red Faction. Update Doom. Go back to the drawing board with that Total Recall remake (actually, please just stop making that). NASA announced today that they may have possible evidence of flowing water on Mars. Official caption for today’s NASA image: “An image combining orbital imagery with 3-D modeling shows flows that appear in…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2011 -
Happy 20th Anniversary, Bungie, This is Your Life
The folks at Bungie are celebrating 20 years of doing whatever it is Bungie does… make games, I think! Halo, Marathon, mystery projects for Activision and stuff. They’ve created a nearly one-hour long documentary about themselves, promising never-before-seen material. They’re calling it “O Brave New World”. Official description: “…a feast of infotainment sure to satisfy…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2011 -
In our WikiLeaks, Cyber-Hacking Era, a Time Travel Video Game May Be a New Line of Defense
I was already interested in Dr. Chris Hazard’s complex time travel war video game when he mentioned the military was interested in it as well. The military cares about a time travel game? Sure, Hazard told me. He mentioned that he’s been talking to three and four-star generals lately at military conferences. “They are very…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2011 -
The New Spider-Man isn’t the Only New Comic Worth Checking Out this Week
Good luck squeezing into your local comics shop this week. Plenty of strangers will probably be dropping in to pick up the new Spider-Man comic with the new Spider-Man in it. But squeeze on in, because there are some cool new comics out this week. And there are some good old ones available for legitimate…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 3, 2011 -
Simple Question…What is Sega?
We recently discovered that the first “frequently asked question” in the Xbox section of the website Team Xbox is “What is the Xbox?” Sometimes the most obvious questions are the best ones, so, inspired by Team Xbox, I turned to Twitter and asked: “What is Sega?” The First Answer I Got “The publisher of Platinum’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 3, 2011 -
HBO Go Coming To Consoles, HBO Vaguely Says
The HBO Go app that lets people watch HBO shows from iPads and other things that aren’t cable boxes is coming to unnamed game consoles, according to a Gigaom report of a recent Time Warner earnings call. The app has been specific to certain providers (blocked by Time Warner Cable in New York, for example),…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 3, 2011 -
Nintendo’s Problem Isn’t Hardware—They Stopped Making Killer Games
Nintendo’s biggest problem isn’t hardware—it’s games. The proper noun that should send Nintendo watchers the most chills isn’t Apple—it’s Wii Fit Apple is merely the topic of a question, the one about who Nintendo is competing with. The other is an answer—possibly the missing answer—about what Nintendo needs to be a confident giant again rather…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 3, 2011 -
This is Pinball Using Live Human Bodies
In the amazing version of tilt-free pinball shown in this video, one person is the pinball. Other people are the flippers. Or sometimes fences are the flippers. Maybe a manhole cover is the hole down which the human pinball will be lost. This is giant-sized pinball, as imagined by director Aaron Hughes in a terrific…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 2, 2011 -
Somehow, Disneyland Adventures has Become my Most Anticipated Kinect Game
Shortly after I air-hugged a virtual Mickey Mouse and before I realized that Disneyland Adventures is a love letter to pre-Pixar, pre-CGI, hand-drawn Disney Animation, I decided that this fall’s big Disney Kinect game is my most anticipated video game for Microsoft’s hands-free controller. Of course, there aren’t that many Kinect games to choose from…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 1, 2011 -
It Looks Like Metroid Starring a Flying Saucer, But it Plays a Little Differently
Can I have six minutes of your time? I’d like to show you what’s good—and what’s not-so-good—about Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet the beautifully-animated downloadable Xbox 360 game coming out this week. Think Metroid with a flying saucer, drawn by the incomparable Michel Gagne. Enjoy the video, folks.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 1, 2011 -
Kinect Star Wars is Supposed to be a Little Better Now
We played Kinect Star Wars a couple of times last month at E3. Our own Owen Good wasn’t impressed. Neither was Brian Crecente. I got my chance this week and shot some video to give you an extra look at the game. Bear in mind two things as you watch the video here: 1) A…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 29, 2011 -
My Tour of Deus Ex Art Ended in the Bathroom
In SoHo, New York City, down among the art galleries, there is an exhibition for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It’s in the Wooster Street Social Club, where they have a wall of posters promoting the virtues of human augmentation and a wall of posters that protest against it. I stopped by today, a day after…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 29, 2011 -
Duke Nukem Forever is No Halo Follower, Upgrades to Four-Weapon Inventory
The PC version of Duke Nukem Forever will be getting patched, and that patch will enable the game’s hero to carry four weapons instead of just two (take that, Master Chief!). The official Gearbox forums list a few other coming changes for PC, but none detailed just yet for future Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 29, 2011 -
Will the Seventh One Make You Cry?
AERIS GETS HIT WITH A GREEN SHELL – A fake logo for a late 2011 3DS game. (Hand-crafted by Kotaku reader NoGood56er) 3DS In Crisis, Nintendo Must Execute a Drastic Plan B The historic price drop of the 3DS announced overnight by Nintendo is a transparent acknowledgement by the most successful company to ever make…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 28, 2011 -
The New York Yankees of First-Person Shooters Welcomes the Negative Feedback
I couldn’t get Robert Bowling to use the words Battlefield 3 in a sentence. He’s an Infinity Ward guy, which means he’s a Call of Duty and Modern Warfare guy. And I guess that means that, in public, he’s not going to try to talk about Battlefield 3, the latest taste-test challenge to the mighty…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 28, 2011 -
Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3 Creators Sound Off on 2011’s Biggest Rivalry
EA’s Battlefield 3 and Activision’s Modern Warfare 3 are on a collision course this fall. They have legions of fans, many of whom have strongly worded opinions about the rival games. But what do the people behind the games have to say about the competition? Brian Crecente and I met with both sides and tried…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 28, 2011 -
Resistance 3 Beta Starts August 4
The early access part of the beta for Sony’s biggest exclusive first-person shooter of the holiday, Resistance 3, kicks off a week from today, on August 4. It will include two maps and two of the game’s five muliplayer modes, according to the PlayStation Blog, which has details about how to get in it.
By Stephen Totilo Published July 28, 2011 -
3DS In Crisis, Nintendo Must Execute a Drastic Plan B
The historic price drop of the 3DS announced overnight by Nintendo is a transparent acknowledgement by the most successful company to ever make video games that it is struggling. Nintendo cut the price of its flagship gaming handheld by an extraordinary 32%, while making some dramatic turns. It appears to be pivoting to deemphasize 3D…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 28, 2011 -
A new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and more Halo are Among the Biggest New Comics of the Week
Ever Wednesday there are new comics in comics shops and available for (legitimate) download. But there aren’t new Alan Moore comics, every Wednesday, so this one is special! Read on for some recommendations: Comics You Should Consider Buying (from comics shops) Criminal: Last of the Innocent #2 The second issue of Ed Brubaker’s latest crime…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2011 -
The Sneezing Radio, the Human Avatar Machine, the Menstruation Harness and Other Awesome Museum Pieces
We expect objects to talk to us. That’s the core concept of the excellent exhibition Talk to Me running now, through November 7 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. If you are interested in video games, radios that sneeze, Rubik’s Cubes for the blind or any of the many other ways. If you can…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2011
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