Don’t mind all the barking. Please talk about video games right here. Thanks to reader Jackalope for today’s fine image. Submit yours at #TAYpics
My cat has co-starred in a number of stories I’ve posted about Microsoft’s Kinect in the past couple of weeks, mostly by accident. She likes prowling through our house, making cameo appearances in videos I shoot. Not with Kinectimals, though. She is fascinated with Microsoft’s virtual cat game, which I discovered while I was reviewing…
The main difference between the newly released Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is that the PS3 version has eight “exclusive” missions. I played them last night to see if this is a difference with significance. The free downloadable missions involve Nicolaus Copernicus, the newest historical figure to be woven into…
The next Pac-Man, called Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, looks great. It’s another trippy, techno remix of a classic Namco arcade game. More are coming, the company revealed today. New Galaga and new Metro-Cross. Galaga Legions DX will be the next Galaga, according to a company press release. Namco puts no date on it, but it…
The first Assassin’s Creed was an interesting but repetitive experiment. Two years later, Assassin’s Creed II was an improvement in almost all ways. One year later, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, woefully misunderstood prior to release, is arguably the best one yet. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood returns gamers to Renaissance Italy and into the virtual body of expert…
A lovely shrine to things that were excellent in the 1980s, as seen on the Flickr page of Touch Arcade editor Blake Patterson. Cool computer room, Blake!
It’s gift guide season here at Kotaku, though all the image we have today tells you is which game not to buy. Lesson learned, carry on and talk about video games, will you? Thanks to reader jaz350z for today’s image. Submit yours at #TAYpics
This official trailer sets up the game’s single-player storyline. You’re seeing bits of the game’s missions in here. Your reviewer plays two of the game’s virtual training missions. This separate mode includes at least 22 platforming and combat challenges, each of them with a target score and an online leaderboard. This is the game’s multiplayer…
Every month we dig into the numbers to find out which 20 Wii games are played the most by the average person who has them. For November, one game finally breaks the 80-hour barrier. That game, of course, is Monster Hunter Tri, the newly-crowned most-played/most-loved Wii game. This is the latest chart we’ve pulled for…
If you’re in New York City this Thursday, you can play Chris Hecker’s incomplete but already-excellent two-player game Spy Party. The game pits one player as a spy, who has to walk their avatar through a cocktail party, secretly planting bugs and doing other subtle spy things. The other player is a sniper who views…
The new trailer for Bulletstorm features a man yelling, in frustration, the phrase “Son of a dick!” [NSFW language warning, obviously.] The upcoming game may not have the sexuality of the long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever, but it sure seems like it could be the new king of gleefully inappropriate violence. Duke, the longtime king of…
The next Assassin’s Creed is out on Tuesday. But people already want to know about the next one — will there be one in 2011? The official reply they’re getting is a cagey one, of course. “There will be something around Assassin’s,” Yves Guillemot, the CEO of Ubisoft, the company behind the Assassin’s Creed series,…
Two big sequels will be out later than expected. Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Driver: San Francisco, both showcased this past E3, now won’t be out until between March 2011 and April 2012, according to an update from publisher Ubisoft.
The scenery is lovely. The wind whistles. It’s quiet. And then something happens. This is the latest in the wonderfully minimalist “Things You Won’t Expect” clips made by YouTube user Chris101b. He makes them from Halo Reach, and while all aren’t as postcard-perfect as the new Things You Want Expect #11 (above), Chris deserves credit…
The president of Nintendo of America and I have something in common: Neither of us has ever played the Virtual Boy, the odd virtual-reality Nintendo gaming goggles that flopped in the 90s. We haven’t, so the Virtual Boy needs you. See, once in a while here on Kotaku we write about the upcoming Nintendo 3DS…
It’s TAY time. Time to talk about video games. Thanks to Bard of Awen for today’s sneaky image. Submit yours to #TAYpics
Nintendo wanted to sell a million copies of Metroid: Other M, which wasn’t a bad game. They won’t, not by the end of the year in America, and now they’re trying to figure out why. Was it the quality of the game? Do people not care about Metroid? Was it really a problem, as some…
Flickr user Sirekat likes to take Lego mini-figures out on the town. To the Louvre. To the Centre Pompidou. To the artsy places in Paris, including a museum for video games, seen here. A good time was had by all, I hope. As seen on Sirekat’s Flickr stream
This Wii has had a great run, but surely Nintendo’s console is primed for replacement? Nintendo of America’s top guy, Reggie Fils-Aime, told Kotaku today that a successor to the Wii doesn’t have to come out in 2011. Of course he’d say that, right? He’s got Christmas 2010 coming and he wants the world to…
According to the instruction manual for The Sly Collection, a PlayStation 3 game released this week, Gran Turismo 5 is out now. We know that is wrong. Then again, last month, I walked into a GameStop and saw this: Gran Turismo, once set for a Nov. 2 release is now supposed to come out on…
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