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Three More Fallout: New Vegas Expansions On The Way
Fallout: New Vegas expansion Dead Money will be released for PS3 and PC on Feb 22, according to the game’s publisher Bethesda. That Xbox exclusivity was temporary. Three more expansions will hit all three platforms simultaneously “in the coming months.”
By Stephen Totilo Published February 4, 2011 -
HD Halo Remake Coming In November?
The rumored HD Xbox 360 remake of the original Halo: Combat Evolved will be released on November 15, 10 years after the Xbox classic debuted, Joystiq reports. Series creator Bungie wouldn’t be involved. Microsoft hasn’t confirmed, though we’ve asked.
By Stephen Totilo Published February 4, 2011 -
A More Beautiful Call Of Duty Replay
YouTube is clogged with drearily long replays of Call of Duty: Black Ops. They account for most of the most popular gaming clips on the giant site. Thankfully, someone has finally made a better, more beautiful one. YouTube user IVIachineX sets his first-person shooter clips to music. He edits them. He adds special effects. He’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2011 -
One Ethereal Thing To Get Right About Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
There is a quality that is hard to define but is essential for a great Lego game, John Smith told me yesterday. The man who helps make the many popular Lego video games was trying to articulate it for me. “When you think, ‘I wonder if there’s a…'” He paused, playing the role of pondering,…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2011 -
Three Hours Or 30 Minutes, What’s The Right Daily Dose Of Gaming For Kids?
In one frame, a mom who cut her kids off from video games and other electronics for six months. In the right frame, a game designer who says kids benefit from up to three hours of gaming a day. In the middle: a Fox News host who limits her kids to 30 minutes of gaming…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2011 -
The Wii Experience, As Summed Up By 12 Plays With Familiar Names
They really did it, and last night I witnessed it. On a frigid evening in New York City, the Ars Nova theater managed to stage a dozen short plays all named after Wi games. Most of the “Wii Plays,” as we’ve noted before, had little to do with video games. Wii Tennis is about a…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2011 -
The Case Of The Identical Rabbit Games
There are two ways to buy a game about a violent rabbit on Apple’s Mac store. You could pay the game’s creators $10 or you could buy the version that is making them angry. That one costs two bucks. That choice between Lugaru and Lugaru HD is one that the creators of the game never…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 2, 2011 -
A Video Game Dream House, Built Before Your Eyes In Hyper-Speed
Most 18-minute videos on YouTube are dreadfully boring, but Curtis Paradis, avid Sims 3 user, puts on a stellar show speed-building the most elaborate house I’ve ever seen in a video game. The house is elaborate. Lots of windows. Lots of furniture. It’s basically a mansion, something I’d never have the money for in real…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 2, 2011 -
Transformers Vs. Zombies, DCU Online’s First Issue And More
My weekly round-up of comics — some of them about video games — is back, in a slightly new format. Read on for my recommendations. Our Week In Comics column will run every Wednesday, the day new comics are released in comics shops across America and, increasingly often, for download on the iPhone and iPad.…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 2, 2011 -
How To Control SOCOM With The PS3’s Gun
When I played SOCOM 4 today, I controlled it with the forthcoming PlayStation 3 Sharpshooter peripheral, a shell that houses a PlayStation Move. This scheme is not mandatory, but it works. SOCOM developer Ben Jones explains how. Jones’ explanation gives you the pertinent details. It’s hard to assess how good the Sharpshooter will feel during…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 1, 2011 -
How To Kill A Super-Hero Using Foursquare
Foursquare could be more deadly than Kryptonite, according to the smartly-written — really! — 60th issue of the latest Supergirl comic. A bright Harvard guy makes a crowd-sourced Foursquare-style app that lets supervillains hunt super-heroes. Mark Zuckerberg meets Lex Luthor? Shades of Foursquare backfiring site PleaseRobMe.com, Gawker Stalker, and all that good stuff. Here are…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 1, 2011 -
SOCOM 4 And The Modern Shooter’s Flirtation With Call Of Duty
The new SOCOM is like a lot of other sequels these days. It’s changed just enough to worry fans of the older games, changed just enough to take a crack at a more popular competitor. SOCOM, meet Call of Duty. You could mistake SOCOM 4 for being something other than a true sequel to the…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 1, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s a new month here at Talk Amongst Yourselves. We are still Kotaku’s official forum, where you can talk about video games all you want. We’ve got new artwork for you to riff on. February’s art is Katsushika Hokusai’s 19th-century print The Great Waves of Kanagawa. We present it here with a 16×9 crop so…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 1, 2011 -
Get your image featured in the next installment of TAY! All you need to do is put a joke or some sort of witty word-ballooned comment on top of this month’s image. Two technical notes: 1) post your submissions at 640-pixel width. 2) the image needs to be in a 16×9 aspect ratio, which for…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 1, 2011 -
Inside The Inside Of The Inside Of A Great Gaming Tchochke
The upcoming downloadable Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game Stacking has something cooler than a spin-off action figure. It has a doll. A nesting doll. Publisher THQ sent me one of the $48 Stacking dolls. I’ve unstacked and stacked it a few times. I’ve even done it on video for you to watch. The dolls…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 31, 2011 -
PlayStation Revivals On NGP That We’d Like To See
Many of the games being made for Sony’s PSP successor, the NGP, appear to be build upon past PlayStation greatness. If that’s how it goes, might we suggest a few more? The following are not real games — at least not as far as we know here at Kotaku. They are flights of fancy, each…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 31, 2011 -
HaloCraft II Mixes Zerg With Master Chief
HaloCraft II: Arrays of Liberty is not a real video game. But the fantasy mash-up of Halo and StarCraft II does have a trailer. Odds of this occurring in real life are low, but, hey, at least the people who invented Halo are now a little more closely affiliated with the people who make StarCraft…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 31, 2011
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