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On the Bright Side, The Nintendo 3DS Video Service Can Only Get Better Than This [UPDATE]
Our very own Mike Fahey warned me that there were no new videos to watch on the 3DS today, despite today being some sort of 3DS Video Service launch day. Given that I trust Fahey about as far as I can throw him with one hand, I had to go to my 3DS’ eShop and…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2011 -
Duke Nukem, Jason Rubin, the Rockeeter, and Scourge the Hedgehog All Have New Comics Out This Week
I was supposed to recommend the week’s best new comics yesterday. I’m a day late. Fitting, I guess, because one of the new comics is tied in to Duke Nukem Forever. That’s my excuse. On with the recommendations… Comics You Should Consider Buying (from comics shops) Daredevil #1 A new series for Marvel’s blind super-hero…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2011 -
Is this the Motion-Controlled Swordplay You Actually Wanted?
Last week, I ran a video that showed a Nintendo rep playing The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword using the required Motion Plus advanced Wii Motion Control. I thought it was cool, but many readers expressed disappointment that you’re still using motion control to trigger the moves of your character in the game. You’re not…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2011 -
There is Some Sort of Last Guardian Something or Other in the Ico/Shadow of the Colossus PlayStation 3 Port
There is “Bonus Content” in the new September 27-dated PlayStation 3 prettier versions of PlayStation 2 classics Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Yay! It mostly involves dynamic PS3 themes and videos. Oh. Some of the video is about the games’ spiritual sequel, the long-awaited The Last Guardian. Hopes raised, by the official PlayStation Blog!…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2011 -
How Blatantly Does the New Spider-Man Trailer Rip Off Mirror’s Edge?
The new Spider-Man movie trailer is cool. It’s also a bit familiar to those of us who played and enjoyed the 2008 video game Mirror’s Edge. How similar? Watch. You might notice some amazing, spectacular coincidences.
By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2011 -
The PlayStation Vita is Smaller Than You Think
This is a PSP 2000. Hiding under it is a PlayStation Vita. An actual Vita, not a fake one The Vita was running Hot Shots Golf, but you can’t see that. You can only see two things: 1) The Vita, impressive futuristic gaming handheld that it is, isn’t much bigger than a PSP 2) that…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2011 -
The PlayStation Vita is Larger Than You Think
What’s the point of having two analog sticks on the successor to the PSP if you can’t reach them at the same time, right? The good news: it’s slimmer than you think. As seen today at a New York City PlayStation 3 and Vita showcase.
By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2011 -
The Wii U Has One Big Problem, But Still May Be the Signature Gaming Console of Our Times
I haven’t held a Wii U in more than a month. I hadn’t even watched videos of myself playing it. But I just watched a bunch, as I tried to make sense of what Nintendo is trying to accomplish with its next big video game machine and as I endeavor to figure out just how…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2011 -
The GoldenEye Double-Remake for Xbox 360 and PS3 Runs Fast, Adds a Few Things
With no new James Bond movie coming out soon enough for Activision, we are indeed getting another polish of the GoldenEye remake for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, as a screenshot dumpl from yesterday more or less confirmed. Today, the game is official, announced in the form of a press release that manages to…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2011 -
Drool over Bastion, a 21st-Century Throwback to the Glory of the Super Nintendo
Bastion is a brand-new game out on Xbox Live Arcade this week. I’ve been playing it in advance of release for a few days and have been loving it. I’m pretty sure it’s very good, but I’m also pretty sure that this is the kind of game people like me who grew up playing the…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2011 -
Infamous 2 is the Post-Katrina Video Game that America Deserves
The trend this year in video games, only about a decade late, is to let players repel an attack on New York City. See Crysis 2 this spring, Modern Warfare 3 this fall, and other games that put a virtual gun in their player’s hands and some fantastic evil in their sights. The enemy isn’t…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 18, 2011 -
The Faces Behind Gaming’s Blockbuster Voices
Today is unofficial voice-acting day here at Kotaku. We’ve considered how important voice actors are to video games. We’ll be listening to how their work would have impacted the classics. But right now: here’s a quick look and listen at some of the faces behind some of the biggest games of the current era. So,…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 15, 2011 -
The Day After Comcast Cut Off His Internet
Former Xbox executive Andre Vrignaud recently knocked Comcast for killing his broadband Internet for a year. He railed against what he considered unreasonable limitations. What next? He has written about the aftermath—and counters some criticism—on his blog, Ozymandias.
By Stephen Totilo Published July 14, 2011 -
Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Will Borrow Gun-on-Gun Feel of Call of Duty 4, De-Emphasize Verticality of MW2
A reduction of the number of so-called hotspots on the multiplayer maps of Modern Warfare 3 will alter and accelerate the flow of action in this fall’s installment of the Call of Duty franchise juggernaut, one of the game’s creators told Kotaku this week in New York City. The makers of Modern Warfare 3‘s multiplayer…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 14, 2011 -
A Green Lantern Finale, an X-Men Split, The Old Republic and More New Comics Recommendations
There are new comics in comic shops and available for download on many of your favorite digital devices (no, not your microwave) every Wednesday. I have recommendations for you. One of them is a limited time offer… for a digital comic. Go figure. Comics You Should Consider Buying (from comics shops) American Vampire: Survival of…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2011 -
L.A. Noire ‘Isn’t Complete Yet’, Rockstar Says [UPDATE]
There is a new L.A. Noire mystery: what comes next for the hit detective game? Something… but its creators won’t say what just yet “The game isn’t complete yet,” a Rockstar spokesperson told Kotaku when we asked them yesterday if the release of the game’s final, announced piece of downloadable content, the Reefer Madness Vice…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2011 -
Continuity 2 Would Make Super Mario One Paranoid Plumber
What if Super Mario was locked in a room and the walls kept moving around him? What if up became down, left became right, the floor below him moved to the right and was replaced with another? What if someone turned his world upside down and he started falling up? It would be tough for…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2011 -
The Next Pocket God Update Adds Zombies
They’re putting zombies in the next free update to the iPhone and iPad Pocket God: Journey To Uranus, possibly because there are no other successful video game series to add zombies to. Watch the trailer. The zombies fit right in to Bolt Creative’s virtual pygmy torture device playset. The update, officially entitled Pocket God: Journey…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 12, 2011 -
The New Zelda Didn’t Make Me Angry, Not a Bit
It has come to my attention that people get angry about Zelda video games. This should have been obvious. People can be angry about anything, and I do recall some anger when the bad-ass Zelda game shown by Nintendo in 2000 turned into a Zelda that looked like a children’s cartoon. (And was excellent, by…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 12, 2011 -
A Game Called Achron and the Theory That Games Would be Better With Time Travel
In the first mission of the upcoming computer game that Chris Hazard, PhD, has been trying to make since 1999, our hero, a man named Holloway meets himself. In the second mission, Holloway’s foot soldiers are killed in an ambush. But time can be backed up. The men can be given new orders in the…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 11, 2011
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