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Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Is More Than A Four-Character Expansion
Many of the facts about the upcoming home version of Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition leaked already. It adds four characters: Evil Ryu, Oni, Yun and Yang. It improved the game’s spectator mode, adding an Elite Channel that lets people watch games contested by players with 3000pp or more. It lets you follow up…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 12, 2011 -
Running While Gunning Featured In Two Upcoming Resident Evil Games
In a break with controversial tradition, you won’t have to stop to shoot in either of the next two Resident Evil games. You can run-and-gun in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City; you can run-and-gun in Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. Raccoon City is a team-based shooter, meant to be played either as black ops squad…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 12, 2011 -
Dragon’s Dogma Is The Devil May Cry Team’s Next Big Gamble
The first time I saw Dragon’s Dogma, I thought that the creators of the recent Devil May Cry sequels were making a mash-up of God of War and The Elder Scrolls. And I thought that that was a bad idea, a bad use of the labor of the largest development team to ever create a…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 12, 2011 -
Asura’s Wrath Is Insane, See?
Asura’s Wrath may be the wildest game on the horizon. It’s an action game from Capcom and the people who made .hack, but more importantly, it’s about a man named Asura who has to fight the giant finger of a god, among other things. I saw this game last week at a Capcom showcase in…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 12, 2011 -
See The Battles Of Street Fighter X Tekken, Plus A Dino Crisis Wink
Street Fighter X Tekken is a tag game, some of the heroes of Street Fighter against the heroes of Tekken. Fighting in such places as a Dino Crisis stage or in front of a ruined Capcom office. Enjoy a look at some of the game’s fights and look for more information about the game later…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 12, 2011 -
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Is A Firefight In Dangerous Darkness
The next big Resident Evil for consoles, Operation Raccoon City, will take players back to 1998, the timeline of Resident Evils 2 and 3, except you’ll be the bad guys, taking aim at hero Leon Kennedy as a member of a squad of Umbrealla Corporation goons. Check out some new sights from the multiplayer squad-based…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 12, 2011 -
Frank West Regains The Lead Role In Dead Rising 2: Off The Record, A Surprising Remake
Chuck Greene wasn’t the hero of Dead Rising 2. Chuck Greene wasn’t the man who faced down the slow flood of zombies stumbling through the casinos of Fortune City. Chuck didn’t whack a few hundred zombies with baseball bats and halt the groans of many more with sharp objects. Chuck Greene didn’t do these things.…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 12, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Kotaku’s official forum. You can talk here about video games. Me? I’m in a rush. Big stories coming today…. carry on. Thanks, Tosh.Ownage, for today’s image. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Stephen Totilo Published April 12, 2011 -
The Happy Distraction Of A Good Video Game
VIRTUAL COMFORT | FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN: Two boys find a welcome video game distraction this past weekend in a gymnasium being used as a shelter for some of the victims of the nation’s earthquake disaster. (Photo by the AP) The Creator Of The Video Game Cartridge Has Died Jerry Lawson, the engineer that lead the Fairchild…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 11, 2011 -
Name The Old Video Game References, Retro City Rampage Edition
Retro City Rampage is an homage to old games, old games like the first Grand Theft Auto and even older games such as… well… can you spot the references? This is the official movie-style poster for the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade and WiiWare game. The game’s pixel artist Maxime Trépanier painted it and filled it…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 11, 2011 -
Brink Does The Unthinkable, Moves Up A Week
Upcoming shooter Brink isn’t delayed. Just the opposite. The team-based shooter that’s designed to make amateurs feel like pros will now be coming out a week earlier than planned, on May 10 in North America (instead of the 17) and on the 13th in Europe (not the 20th), according to publisher Bethesda Softworks.
By Stephen Totilo Published April 11, 2011 -
World’s Most Annoying Kinect Mod?
A very annoying alarm is ringing. It won’t stop. Not unless you stand in the box, in front of the Microsoft Kinect, and raise your arms. This was a student project for the Performance and Technology Lab at UCLA and possibly the world’s most annoying mod of the Xbox 360’s Kinect sensor. “I noticed some…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 11, 2011 -
Fear Itself Arrives To Torment Marvel’s Icons, But What’s A Nonplayer?
This is a week for Marvel to shine in comics shops, if their new epic can live up to the hype. Plus, there’s a surprise video game comic this week with some lovely art. Wednesdays are new-comics days in America. These are my weekly recommendations about which comics to buy in comics shops and which…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 6, 2011 -
So I Took My 3DS To The Eye Doctor…
A couple of days before the Nintendo 3DS officially went on sale in the United States, I brought the machine to a pair of eye experts, so they could look at the thing and I could look at them. I’ve never taken a video game machine to the doctor before. It’s not been part of…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 6, 2011 -
Skulls of the Shogun Is The Wu-Tang Advance Wars We Didn’t Know We Needed
It helps if you can hear the soundtrack. It helps if you loved Advance Wars. It might even help if you liked listening to the Wu-Tang Clan or watched Kill Bill a decade ago and developed a love for an old martial arts movie like Shogun Assassin. These things will help, but if you don’t…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 5, 2011
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