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NGP Is Four Times More Powerful Than…
We’ve established that the Sony’s upcoming portable wonder-machine, the NGP, isn’t quite as powerful as a PlayStation 3. Further clarifying how much this thing can bench press, Epic’s Mark Rein tells us that the device, which can run his company’s Unreal graphics engine (think Gears of War, Mass Effect, Infinity Blade, etc), has four times…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 3, 2011 -
Next Wii Zelda Looking Unlikely Before June
Nintendo Wii fans got a huge game last May in the form of Super Mario Galaxy 2, but chances for an imminent release of the next Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, dimmed when Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told Kotaku today that we’d find out more about the game at E3. The…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 2, 2011 -
The Batmobile Is Out, But Who Knows About Robin
“We’re not making a racing game,” one of the creators of this fall’s Batman Arkham City politely told me today when I inquired when I asked him whether the Batmobile would be featured in this fall’s big video game Dark Knight sequel. No Batmobile. No driving. This caped crusader hitches rides on the undercarriages of…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 2, 2011 -
A PC Fit For Battlefield 3
The rig DICE game developers used to run Battlefield 3’s debut live gameplay demo yesterday, as seen at the game’s showcase event in San Francisco. And as a bonus, their mousepad. Read our impressions of Battlefield 3. Watch the latest trailer.
By Stephen Totilo Published March 2, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
This is the place to talk about games, Kotaku readers. Your forum. Have at it. Thanks to reader Krakenstein2 for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics. (Grab this month’s source image here and feel free to present any 640×340 riff on all or part of it that you’d like.)
By Stephen Totilo Published March 2, 2011 -
Battlefield 3 Resumes Hostilities With Call Of Duty
For a few years now, the people at Electronic Arts have been trying to make a better ice cream sundae. It’s hard to improve the ice cream sundae, of course, because it’s already a sure crowd-pleaser. Some might even question why, though obviously ice cream sells really well and that’s probably one of the main…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 2, 2011 -
Infamous 2 Will Have, In Theory, An Infinite Number of Levels Thanks To You
Revealing a secret they say they held for two years, the game developers at Sucker Punch said today that Infamous 2, their open world electrified super-hero game, will let people create their own levels for the game. The goals for the June 7 PlayStation 3 exclusive, as described here in San Francisco at the Game…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 1, 2011 -
The 3DS Can Help You Have Random Pirate Duels With Strangers
Put a video game on the Nintendo 3DS and weird things can happen, including random pirate battles. With Game Developers Conference ramping up around me in downtown San Francisco today, I walked into a hotel and briefly tried Lego Pirates of the Caribbean 3DS. Sure, there are game developers to talk to around here, but…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 1, 2011 -
ReviewsPixelJunk Shooter 2: The Kotaku Review
For one third of PixelJunk Shooter 2, players will command a small spaceship whose guns and thrusters must contend with the small problems of creatures that belch missiles or lava and with the large problem that the caves through which it flies are intestines churned with the processes of digestion. For the remaining two-thirds of…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 1, 2011 -
Bam! Pow! Kinect Can Turn Your Life Into The Batman TV Show
When I punch a man in real life, no cartoon words pop up in front of my fist. But on the 1960s Batman TV show that kind of thing happened when heroes traded fists with villains. Now, thanks to the Xbox 360’s Kinect sensor array and students at Carnegie Mellon University, we can enjoy that…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 1, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s March and we just can’t stop giving you new installments of Kotaku’s official video game forum, now with new art. This month’s work is Paumgartner Altar from Albrecht Dürer. It comes recommended by reader FiveSpeed who surely must know that the painting may be a bit busy but is surely rich with potential visual…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 1, 2011 -
Ping-Pong For Perverts, Another Secretly Smart Video Game Innovation
It’s an odd scene to be a part of. I was sitting on a couch in the penthouse of a Manhattan hotel, a guy who works for video game publisher Sega at my side. A bunch of other men stand near us. Everyone is watching the TV, which runs a video game that is mostly,…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 28, 2011 -
Another Glimpse At The Most Ambitious Kinect Game
Call it Project Milo. Call it Milo & Kate. Call it, last we heard, canceled. You can also call Lionhead Studios’ attempt to use the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor array to let players interact with a virtual boy a more ambitious effort than anything else we’ve seen using Microsoft’s popular new tech. But we’ve seen…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 28, 2011 -
Yes, Really, The New Dragon Age Facebook Game Is Worth Playing
There are so many games on Facebook, and so few worth playing. But there’s a new one based on the acclaimed Dragon Age universe. And it’s made by a team led by EA2D’s Mark Spenner and Soren Johnson, a guy who made a mighty fine version of Civilization (and is pretty good at solving the…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 28, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, where you are invited to talk about video games. Thank you, Hisilarn, for today’s image. End-of-month notice!We need new art for March. Submit a nomination for your favorite public-domain paintings over at #TAYpics. I’ll choose something that’s 16×9 or at least close to it, so please only suggest landscape images.…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 28, 2011 -
They’ll Make You Afraid, Then Sell You A Game
The people who want to sell you the video game Homefront aren’t selling pillows or hot cocoa on a cold day. Their pitch isn’t cozy. It appears to be… fear? At the big E3 show last year, they marched a fake invading army past the Los Angeles Convention Center (pictured above). Next week, outside the…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 25, 2011 -
‘Severed’ Means Multiple Things In Dead Space 2
I thought that next week’s downloadable two-chapter expansion to Dead Space 2 was called Severed because it involved a certain Dead Space character who chopped off his own hand. Wrong. That guy was in Dead Space Extraction, the Wii and PlayStation 3 game that served as both a prequel to the Dead Space saga and…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 25, 2011 -
An Excellent, Knotty Diversion
Entanglement is the first video game I’ve played that looks like a bowl of spaghetti, though it plays more like a challenge to create the bendiest boulevard in Sim City or Civilization. The game is a descendant of Pipe Mania, a puzzling challenge that has players laying out a circuitous route by applying pieces to…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 25, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum. Comment here about the video games you love and about the video games you hate. Thanks to acamas for today’s image. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Stephen Totilo Published February 25, 2011 -
PSP Price Drops To $130 On Sunday
New PSPs will cost $129.99 starting on Sunday, February 27, according to a Sony press release issued this morning. That cuts $40 from the system’s current list price. Considering buying a PSP now? Check out our PSP buyer’s guide
By Stephen Totilo Published February 25, 2011
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