The developers at Way Forward, veterans of recent 3D remakes and sequels to games like Contra and A Boy and His Blob are turning BloodRayne, a 3D action game series about a sexy lady vampire that launched nine years ago, into a 2D action brawler. They’re emphasizing blood over sex appeal. Lots of blood. And…
In Assassin’s Creed II, Ezio Auditore became a skilled assassin. In Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood he became a master assassin and one of the most suave killers in video game history, casually lifting a finger to trigger a posse of minions to overwhelm his prey. What you see here is the older Ezio of this fall’s…
U.K.-based video game publisher Codemasters e-mailed its customers today to tell them that the company suffered a major online security breach one week ago. The breach has exposed gamers’ personal information, though Codemasters, the publisher of the recent Dirt 3 and Operation Flashpoint: Red River says payment information was not obtained. “Unfortunately, Codemasters is the…
Conceived in 1997, born in 2011. Duke Nukem Forever is no longer vaporware. It comes out in Europe today; it’ll be out in North America next week. For real.
Atsushi Inaba, a producer at Platinum Games, denied today that his studio is working on the next big Metal Gear, despite some whispers to the contrary. “I am aware of the rumor that says [Devil May Cry and Bayonetta creator Hideki] Kamiya is working on Rising,” he told Kotaku through a translator during an interview…
Before letting me watch the Assassin’s Creed: Revelations trailer that spoils Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, representatives from Ubisoft made me sit in this chair. It’s the Animus from the series—sort of!—and is a fine chair to recline in while watching Assassin’s Creed trailers. (I experienced no memories of past lives while reclining in this thing.)
I checked out some of the new features of Mario Kart 3D at the Nintendo booth today. In addition to looking pretty, partially thanks to Donkey Kong Country Returns developer Retro Studios, the 3DS version adds customizable vehicles, flying sections and “underwater driving”. Mario Kart 3D will be out some time this year.
Don’t watch this trailer if you didn’t finish Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. If you did, this is a tease of what happens with series hero Desmond in this fall’s Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. Looks to me like the Desmond parts of this game will be like the virtual-reality training missions of Brotherhood. But that’s just a hunch.…
The people who are making the 10th-anniversary Halo remake call Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary a “gift to the fans.” Players of the original Halo—players like me—might wonder if a “gift to the fans” (retail price $39.95) should include, ugh, that Library level from the first game. That Library level was tedious. Seemingly endless shooting in…
They’re making a portable Silent Hill game for Sony’s Vita (you know…Sony’s next handheld… the PSP2, the NGP). And it’s a multiplayer game. Huh? Creepy, lonely, slow-moving, frightening Silent Hill as a multiplayer game? Folks on the Silent Hill team at Konami wouldn’t tell me how the Vita’s Silent Hill: Book of Memories will pull…
There are many games at E3. But only one of them is the non-video-game Ninja What is it doing here? I It’s part of the Indiecade exhibition, a showcase for some creative and/or wacky games. You could be playing Ninja right now with your best friend, your mom or even your mailman. Watch the video…
This is the Wii U console, the part of Nintendo’s big new gaming machine that’s been getting a lot less attention than its stunning screen-based controller. I got my hands on the console today. Take a video tour with me. A few important notes: 1) There is an error in the video… I thought that…
American Wii owners who’ve looked lustfully at some acclaimed Japanese Wii games will have to lust some more. During a wide-ranging interview with Kotaku, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said he had “nothing to announce” regarding whether role-playing games Xenoblade and The Last Story as well as action game Pandora’s Tower would be coming…
The Kinect integration in next year’s Mass Effect 3 just might be a great idea. Pardon the skepticism, but after two Mass Effect games that did just fine without any connection to Microsoft’s hands-free sensor, it is a surprise. We found out on Monday, officially, that Mass Effect 3 includes optional Kinect support. (That had…
In a wide-ranging interview with Kotaku regarding the new Wii U console, one of Nintendo’s chief game designers, Katsuya Eguchi, confirmed that the system’s proprietary disc format will hold 25 Gigabytes of data. That squares with our own reporting from before E3 and puts Nintendo in a good place to run games that fill up…
Nintendo’s Wii U controller is such an extraordinary device that we’ve been hearing some skepticism from readers that the company would expect gamers to have more than one of them. After all, the thing looks expensive. It’s got a screen, and a mic, and a camera, and lots of buttons. Is Nintendo going to expect…
Hulk Hogan passed Yoda in the halls of E3 today. No punches thrown. No force choke applied. Hulk was here to promote his Kinect game, Hulk Hogan’s Main Event. We’ll be showing Hulk’s encounter with another short, but less green person, in the near future. That person just might be me.
This November’s Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, will have LAN support. And you can thank the folks who hacked the PlayStation Network for that. This is the deal: The developers at Uncharted studio Naughty Dog were making a game that would include a three-person co-op mode and a 10-person multiplayer mode that they’re very proud of.…
This is New Super Mario Bros. running on the Wii U. As with all of the Wii U software being shown at E3 in Los Angeles this week, it’s Only A Prototype. Surely, though, the people at Nintendo will make some sort of Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii U. And maybe, as in…
This is only a test. A test to show off what kind of HD graphics the Wii U can produce. It is also a test to show off how lovely the game can look even if you’re playing it just on your controller. I’d love to show you the HD version of this video, but,…
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