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Deus Ex, Gears of War, Sonic The Hedgehog Have One Thing in Common Today: New Comics
New comics arrive in comics shops every Wednesday. New and old ones hit online comics apps on Wednesdays, too. After a week’s break from E3, I’m back to recommend a few, though, I’m sorry to say that this week is light on promising new books. Here are my recommendations as well as the normal run-down…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 15, 2011 -
The Wii U’s Online Strategy is a Rorschach Blot
The WIi U will have better, more impressive online functionality than any Nintendo console before it, we learned last week at E3. What does that mean? Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, told us: “We’ve spent a lot of time talking to a variety of publishers about what they want in an online environment.…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 15, 2011 -
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is a Grand Adventure That Won’t Pull a Lost (They Promise!)
“If you’re a fan of Lost, Assassin’s Creed Revelations level design director, Falko Poiker, told me last week, “then you know that it really sucks to be left with questions.” After three Assassin’s Creed games that have piled on questions…. about the Assassins, about the Templars, about the possible end of the world in 2012,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 15, 2011 -
Uncharted 3‘s Creators Plan To Fix The Right Things
A couple of years ago, in the summer before the release of the second Assassin’s Creed I found myself discussing the many things that were wrong about the flawed first game in the series. Once in August and then again in September, senior people on Assassin’s Creed II walked me through some of the many…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 15, 2011 -
I Couldn’t Properly Understand The ‘Kiss Controller’ Until I Glued One To My Tongue
Things were getting weird last week when the cheerful game developer and digital media artist Hye Yeon Nam started gluing a sensor to her tongue, weirder still when she had me glue one to mine. There I was, a couple of hundred paces from the massive PlayStation and Nintendo exhibitions at the E3 circus of…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 15, 2011 -
9 Minutes of Us *Trying* To Play The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
On the final day of E3, Kotaku intern Michael Epstein and I were running on fumes. I couldn’t hold a camera still and he couldn’t z-target. Nevertheless, we endeavored to play all three parts of the E3 2011 demo for this year’s big Wii game, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Please forgive the shakes;…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 14, 2011 -
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations‘ Altered Multiplayer Mode Rewards Better Killers—and Swifter Victims
The unusual competitive multiplayer mode that was introduced in last year’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood will be changed for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations They’re not turning it into Call of Duty or like anything in any other major multiplayer game. It wil still be an assassination game that rewards stealthy players. But the there will be tweaks.…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 14, 2011 -
Nintendo’s Two Reasons For Making a New Wii Now
We’ve been playing the same old Wii since 2006, which makes the calls for Nintendo to create a new Wii—Wii HD! Wii 2? Wii-As-Powerful-As-The-Xbox-360!?!—about… four years old. As recently as last November, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime was telling Kotaku that it wasn’t time to talk about a new Wii yet. Now, it is…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 14, 2011 -
Crowd Jeers News that AT&T Is Exclusive 3G Provider for New PlayStation
The announcement last week that AT&T will be the exclusive 3G provider for the hot new PlayStation Vita did not go down well. The scene is Sony’s big PlayStation showcase in Los Angeles last week, an event that helped kick off the annual E3 promotional circus of upcoming video games. We’ve got several thousand video…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 14, 2011 -
Multi-City Zelda Concert Tour May Dip Into Canada, Ocarina Unconfirmed
Announced at E3, there will be a Legend of Zelda concert series this fall, commemorating the 25th anniversary of Link and Zelda’s first adventure. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime tells Kotaku that there will be tours in Japan, Europe and North America. He is hoping that the multi-city North American one, which is the…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 14, 2011 -
Mix Spore with LittleBigPlanet, Put it on the 3DS and… Wait, What’s That Coil of Yellow Stuff?
Picture Lives, which I sometimes accidentally call Picture This was one of my favorite surprise finds at E3. It’s a downloadable game from Nintendo that will be sold through the 3DS’ eShop. I’d never heard of the game before and had to figure this one out on the fly. Enjoy the video of this very…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2011 -
Nintendo Doubts You Can Take the Wii U to the Bathroom
Prior to E3, as details of the next Wii were becoming clear, I had a dream that I could play the games on Nintendo’s next console in my bathroom The idea is that the Wii 2—which we now know will be called the Wii U—can stream games that normally run on your TV onto the…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2011 -
The Wii Jaws Game is for Kids, the 3DS One Isn’t
This fall’s Jaws: Ultimate Predator will be released on the Wii and 3DS and, in it, you’ll play as a shark. No surprise there. That’s how it worked in 2007’s Jaws Unleashed As the shark you chew boats and people. You’ll rip off limbs, but only on the 3DS version of Ultimate Predator. Like the…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2011 -
The E3 2011 Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Line Was Short (and Not Real)
The long-awaited Half-Life 2: Episode 3 wasn’t really at E3, but YouTube master of digital manipulation FreddieW shows us what could have been… though, surely at least eight people would have lined up for the game. (Thanks to everyone who sent this in.)
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2011 -
The Long Path to Discovering that God Hand is Awesome
How great was God Hand, a 2006 PlayStation 2 game that IGN gave a 3.0 out of 10 to? Very, very great, Kotaku reader Bondage Zombie finally realized. And with that eureka he has sworn off looking at review scores, as he explains in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku Whenever a new game is released,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2011 -
Homefront Studio Shut Down, Series Creation Shifting To Montreal
The New York City-based developer of Homefront, Kaos Studios, has been shut down, according to a source close to the studio. It’s not clear if the shutdown was due to the performance of the game, the high cost of operating a studio or some combination of factors. We’ve reached out to THQ for official confirmation.…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2011 -
Can the Swedish Super-Gamer Conquer Kid Icarus 3DS? Yes He Can.
In the first of three videos I shot of Kid Icarus: Uprising at E3, you can see here the efforts of one Swedish super-gamer who was making his third attempt to conquer the previously-unconquerable third level of the game’s E3 demo. Watch as he beats this level into submission. (The next video in the gallery…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2011 -
There Will Be No Gold Wii Nunchuk
There will be a gold Nintendo Wii Remote Plus coming out late this year. Nintendo plans to bundle some of them with the new Zelda, Skyward Sword, and sell others separately. But what about a gold nunchuk? You’ll need some sort of Wii nunchuk attachment plugged into your gold (or white or black) Motion-Plus-enabled Wii…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2011 -
Duke Nukem Forever Appears to Be A Full-Priced Mess
Some time on Saturday, as I was playing Duke Nukem Forever on my Xbox 360, I realized that in all the conversations I’ve had with people from Gearbox Software—the company that heroically salvaged this game from its decade-plus sink toward oblivion—no one ever said this game would be wonderful. They reveled in accomplishing the impossible…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 12, 2011
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