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Star Wars iOS Games Get Stay Of Execution
Just a day after we reported that one iPhone/iPad Star Wars game would be pulled from iTunes by Friday — and just hours after we received confirmation that all Star Wars iOS games would be yanked — we’ve learned that all of these games will be kept on iTunes after all. “All Star Wars apps…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2011 -
Zynga Protests That Their Games Are Creative, And That Numbers Breed Fun
“We used to give people 10 horseshoes when they start [FrontierVille] – then we did a little test of, ‘Well, what if we gave 15?’ We thought that maybe the would help them get over the hump of building the cabin because we noticed that people who make it to finishing the cabin were more…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2011 -
Captain America Turns 70, Sonic Braces For Dr. Eggman’s Next Scheme, And More
Wednesday = new comic books here in the United States of America. Many new comics are junk. Let me tell you about a few ones that are not, some of which are even about video games. Plus, there are some classics and some classically-ridiculous comics debuting on the iPad this week — for people who…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2011 -
SOCOM 4 Turns The Hurt Locker Into A PlayStation 3 Sport
War video games let us pretend we’re in movies. They may let us pretend we’re in actual war, but come on, not really. We’re the great hero in war video games. We are fighting impossible odds. The music swells. The bullets cause us only brief problems. We heal. We triumph. We remove bad guys from…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome back to another installment of Kotaku’s official gaming forum where you can talk about your favorite and least favorite video games all you want. We’re running another classic image today, from reader Aryxandre. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2011 -
NYC’s Freedom Tower Stands Unscathed In New Video Game
Almost 10 years since terrorists destroyed New York City’s World Trade Center towers, the building that was supposed to proudly replace it still isn’t complete. In the 2023 of the new video game Crysis 2, it is. This is the Freedom Tower, One World Trade Center — whatever you want to call it — a…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 29, 2011 -
In Two Days, iTunes Will Take This Star Wars Game Away
My nephew’s favorite iPhone game will be pulled from iTunes later this week because the people who released the game are losing the Star Wars license. This is what happens when video games are sold only as official downloads and not on discs. On any given day, they can disappear, and you may never be…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 29, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to the official Kotaku video game forum, where you can talk about games all you want. We’re going with a classic March image today, crafted earlier this month by reader limp89. Submit your image to #TAYpics. Only two days left for images this month. (Read this thread for directions on how to do a…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 29, 2011 -
Multiplayer God of War In The Works?
Sony wants to hire someone for their God of War team who could, according to a job listing at Gamasutra, handle “Designing and implementing systems and tools to support networking needs (such as in-game communication, client-server, match-making, leaderboards).” Hmmm. Whatever could they be planning for the popular but previously single-player God of War series? Or…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2011 -
The 105 Loading Screens Of 3D Dot Game Heroes
I loved the cube-based art-style of 3D Dot Game Heroes, but I didn’t love the game. And who loves loading screens? Vimeo user David Kupfer solves almost all of my problems at once by compiling the 105 loading screens from 3D Dot Game Heroes. I like looking at them more than I liked playing this…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2011 -
Assassin’s Creed Fans, What Happened Here?
Near the conclusion of the new Da Vinci Disappearance missions available for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, a character discovers what seem like map coordinates. Where do they point? Google maps has the spoiler. The coordinates are 43 39 19 N, 75 27 42 W, which, according to Google Maps, points to a small bit of land…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2011 -
The Mathematics Of Seduction And Other Devious Solutions To A Spy Party‘s Problems
Chris Hecker, who strikes me as not the kind of man who enjoys going to parties, spends a lot of time thinking about parties and the tricky things spies might do at them. He does this for a video game he is creating. He ponders the number of inconvenient sips it takes to chug a…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2011 -
Orcs Must Die, Preferably Due To Multiple Causes
I knew that I would be killing orcs when I played Orcs Must Die at the PAX East gaming convention recently. I knew I would live, and I knew orcs would (virtually) die. I did not know I could kill them in so many ways. Orcs Must Die is a tower defense game. It is…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 25, 2011 -
The Most PSP Game On The 3DS
What would a PSP-style game look like on the 3DS? Samurai Warriors Chronicles has the cut-scenes, the voicework, the multiple loading screens — and the ambition to look and play like a PS2-era home video game — that make it a lot like a PSP game. But the game is a 3DS launch title. Samurai…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 25, 2011 -
Trust Us, Ridge Racer Has The Best 3D On The 3DS
It is hard to show you the 3D graphics of the Nintendo 3DS. It is nearly impossible. So please trust me when I say that the ordinary graphics of Ridge Racer 3D look extraordinary when the Nintendo 3DS slider is activated. I can’t show you in the video here, though I try hard to explain…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 25, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Friday’s Talk Amongst Yourselves, a place where you can talk about video games all you’d like to. Thanks to Mythos for today’s image. (And a happy birthday to Mythos, as well!) Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Stephen Totilo Published March 25, 2011 -
You Could Help Write The Assassin’s Creed Encyclopedia
For those of us who would like to read an Assassin’s Creed encyclopedia, please consider that the people who are making an official one are looking for contributors. Submission rules are detailed at the Ubisoft Workship
By Stephen Totilo Published March 24, 2011 -
Watch The Latest Debate About The 10 Best Video Games Of All Time, Cheering And Booing Allowed
What are the 10 best video games ever made? We’ll never know, but damn it, we can try to find out. Our favored method for this is Canon Fodder, a game concocted by myself and video game consultant N’Gai Croal. All we do is take a list of the 10 best games and put it…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 24, 2011 -
A Side-Scroller With The Tactical Smarts Of A Halo
Earlier this month I played a game that felt, in the best of ways, like a side-scrolling Halo. Mixed with Metroid and some Shadow Complex. The game, Fallen Frontier, should feel a little like Halo. Three of the four people making the game at start-up Moonshot Games used to work on Halo games at Bungie…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 24, 2011
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