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Resident Evil On The 3DS Looks Very Good And Familiar
Wasn’t it the PSP that was supposed to make gamers feel like they could hold console games in their hands? Here’s the upcoming Resident Evil: Revelations played on a Nintendo 3DS. That sure looks like RE4 and RE5. Resident Evil Revelations is among the first wave of games coming from Capcom for Nintendo’s upcoming 3D,…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2010 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
We just added vector graphics to Talk Amongst Yourselves. Thanks to reader MrMrScott for the upgrade. Now please carry on, everyone, and talk about video games here. Submit your best images to #TAYpics. Only a few days left with this image!
By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2010 -
ReviewsReview: Fable III
We want to be king, do we not? We want, at least, to try it, to reign wise and strong, loved, perhaps, or feared. Fable III is the video game that could let you learn which kind of ruler you might be. At least, that was the plan. Fable III is the third game in…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2010 -
Costume Quest Becomes Healthy Food
Super Mario cakes? Doom jello sculptures? No edible homage to video games would be surprising unless the edible homage was… healthy? One inspired cook made a dish of Costume Quest for her boyfriend to eat and for us to admire. The source material is the recently-released downloadable Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 Halloween role-playing game…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2010 -
How To Marry Another Gamer Online Via Fable III
Two of the guys behind Fable III celebrate the eve of Fable III’s North American release by showing us how players can marry each other through the game’s online co-op. But they censor the sex. Voila! A a baby appears. Look for Kotaku’s Fable III review soon. If only we could get our reviewer to…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2010 -
PC Gaming Week Confessional, Totilo Edition
We are all over PC gaming this week, but what do we know about PC gaming? Each day, one Kotaku editor will reveal their PC gaming knowledge (Uh-oh!) and share some memories. First up is me, your deputy editor. Are you a PC gamer? Sure. But if a game is also on consoles, I play…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2010 -
The Nintendo Download: $8 Artsy Game vs. $2 Flashlight
Bit.Trip Fate might be another game in a musically and graphically inventive series. Flashlight is a flashlight. Bit.Trip Fate might be fun. Flashlight might save your life (according to the official product description). Decision time, NIntendo download consumers! Our Mike Fahey usually chronicles the Monday releases brought to Nintendo systems by the ever-unusual collection of…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2010 -
John Lennon’s Imagine Album Coming To Rock Band
John Lennon’s most popular solo album, Imagine, will be “among the first albums” available for download following this week’s launch of Rock Band 3, according to the game’s developers. Hyping this week’s release of Rock Band 3, MTV Games and Harmonix revealed that the legendary Beatles’ full 10-song Imagine album will be paid downloadable content,…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2010 -
ReviewsReview: God of War: Ghost of Sparta
To the people on buses and benches, necks bent and eyes locked on their Angry Birds, make way for one of the best 2010 portable games that you need buttons to play, the one starring an angry Greek god who rips wings from birds. God of War: Ghost of Sparta is a palm-sized epic video…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2010 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s time to talk more about video games and to wonder where all the TAYpics have gone. With a week of October to go, the #TAYpics supply is running low. Reader MrMrScott gets us out of a jam today, but Kotaku needs you, dear readers, to submit your best images for Talk Amongst Yourselves to…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2010 -
The Tale Of A Black Ops Pirate
On YouTube, in four parts, there is the tale of a man with military training and a $250 outlay spent on an illicit, leaked copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops. He got busted by the piracy police and confesses. Settle in for an hour to watch the story that begins with a Tweet, a…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 22, 2010 -
‘Pac-Man Meets Trials HD’
Radiangames is the most astounding indie developer on the Xbox 360, progressing from making a pretty Geometry Wars clone in May to pumping out three lovely and unusual new shooters since then. Now we get “Fluid.” Radiangames’ Luke Schneider describes Fluid as “Pac-Man meets Trials HD,” which made no sense until the trailer started playing.…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 22, 2010 -
Diablo III Will Have Player Vs. Player Ranked Battle Arenas
Diablo III will let my team beat your team in an arena. The big news at the Blizzcon 2010 kick-off today was that the game doesn’t just have its fifth and final class. It’s got player vs. player arenas, with team support. Blizzard Entertainment’s Chris Metzen debuted a trailer during the opening ceremonies that revealed…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 22, 2010 -
Blizzard Offering Pre-Loaded World of Warcraft Cataclysm
Want World of Warcraft: Cataclysm as fast as possible? At Blizzcon today, company boss Mike Morhaime revealed that Blizzard will soon be offering digital pre-orders through their online store. Gamers can pre-order it, pre-load it and have it ready to go Dec. 7, midnight Pacific.
By Stephen Totilo Published October 22, 2010 -
Moonkin Hatchling Is The Next World of Warcraft Charity Pet
The last World of Warcraft charity pet, a Pandaren Monk, generated $1.1 million for the Make a Wish foundation, so Blizzard is going to offer another. Revealed today at Blizzcon 2010: A Moonkin Hatchling. (not pictured) On sale in November.
By Stephen Totilo Published October 22, 2010 -
Visit A Place Where It Is OK To Hug Arcade Machines
In Manhattan, there is this place where you are supposed to hug an arcade machine, where there’s one arcade cabinet made of wood, another made of Papier-mâché and where you can play games you may have heard of but probably never played. The place is called the Babycastles arcade, an art exhibition in New York…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 22, 2010 -
13 Hours
To: Ashcraft From: Totilo Re: TONIGHT GOT BUSY I slept for 13 hours last night. I was that sick. Yikes! I could have been spending that time playing video games. At least some of it. Today I worked from home. I don’t know how you other Kotaku guys do it. I can’t stand working from…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 21, 2010