The future of Assassin’s Creed series promises twists and “something really big,” the writer of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood tells Kotaku. But what about the new game’s cliffhanger ending? ” “We have a lot of twists waiting,” Jeffrey Yohalem told Kotaku during a recent telephone interview. “There’s a lot that’s going to happen that should be…
Failing to learn one of the very important lessons of video game hype, Guillermo Del Toro and his pals at THQ revealed today that their collaboration will be for not one game but a trilogy. Don’t they know their history? Del Toro’s team said that their 2013 game, inSane, will be the first of a…
Talk Amongst Yourselves has got itself a dose of Mass Effect 3 today. Amazing. Admire it and then please chat here about video games. Thanks to killah101 for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics
The phenomenally popular computer game Minecraft which attracted more than two million gamers worldwide while still in its alpha state will go into beta on December 20. With that comes polish, some changes, a raised price and more. Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson made the announcement today on his development blog, promising that the new…
One movie, one keyboard, one controller and four games. That’s the video game stuff we reviewed this weekend. And these are our bottom lines on all of that… Review: Tron: Evolution’s Glow Quickly Fades The Bottom Line: Tron: Evolution wants to be a sexy, high-gloss Prince of Persia, trading desert sands and Arabian castles for…
Beyond Holocaust museums, Holocaust documentaries, and Holocaust action movies we now have the Holocaust first-person shooter. This is our chance to virtually be an escaped Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz, heavily armed, with hundreds of Nazis in our sights. Catharsis? Sonderkommando Revolt, the grisly new Israeli video game that coarsely recreates a rebellion in World War…
Jeffrey Yohalem wanted the blockbuster video game he wrote this year to be different. He wanted Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood to say something about the world today, if he could get away with it. Although few people expect blockbuster video games to carry political messages or weighty ideas, the 27-year-old Yohalem wanted the game to go…
A listing for Mass Effect 3 popped up on the EA online store today, and a plot description describes a fight to take back planet Earth. The listing for the PC version of the game was spotted by gaming blog Destructoid today. The official summary on EA’s store states: Earth is burning. Striking from beyond…
Angry Birds needs no tutorial, not when you have a two-year-old super-fan to teach you how to play the game. Cute kid! 2 year old addicted to Angry Birds Christmas [YouTube]
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The Natural Motion people know their physics. So they made a football game. And then they made a Jenga game. This iPhone Jenga game costs $3 and is out now. In the video I show the regular mode and the arcade mode. If you love Jenga, I guess this is good, but it feels more…
Now this is a bundle: Laser-etched Killzone 3 PlayStation 3. Move Controller. PlayStation Eye Camera. Nike Move sneakers. Nike Killzone combat boots. Sony showed it all to us at a PlayStation event in New York today. This Nike Move PS3 bundle, as we’ve mentioned regarding the shoes inside it, won’t be sold to consumers. But…
I have no idea who the Sarah Palin is of video games nor the Barack Obama of video games. But Gabe Zicherman, chairman of the Gamification Summit knows who the gaming Tea Party is: people who don’t like gamification. “These tea partiers are game designers,” Zicherman wrote earlier this week on the Huffington Post. “Their…
One son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is too busy playing video games to take over the country, according to a video game surprise found among the reams of U.S. government cables disseminated by the Wikileaks organization. In a September 2008 cable, a member of the U.S. consulate in Shanghai writes to the U.S.…
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I will happily argue with anyone that the first LittleBigPlanet was a game more easily appreciated than enjoyed. A marvel of technology and art, maybe not of play. I don’t think the sequel will have that problem. I’ve played Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet 2 for only about an hour, away from the Sony developers and promoters…
Bejeweled 3 is a wonderful game, a collection of mostly great riffs on the pure gameplay concept of matching gems. But two modes — Lightning and Ice Storm — are tough. Courtesy of the game’s developers at PopCap, here are some exclusive tips on how to beat those levels. Good luck, Bejeweled 3 gamers.
While we’re still working on our LittleBigPlanet 2 impressions, have a look at the classic first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D as it’s been recreated in LBP2 by someone playing the beta. Surely, this proves LBP2’s editing tools are flexible. For reference…. this is the real Wolfenstein 3D. And this is what LittleBigPlanet 2 looks like before…
This is the marvelous, charming first several minutes of LittleBigPlanet 2. We’ll have impressions later today of this big January PlayStation 3 exclusive.
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