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Beer-Battered Kotaku Talk Radio
We invite you to listen to the newest episode of Kotaku Talk Radio right here, or download the one-hour show to your favorite MP3 player. This is an experimental episode. Crecente was traveling, so Mike McWhertor and I teamed up for this New York – Los Angeles edition. In this episode, we try a new…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 21, 2010 -
Don’t Worry About The Witness
Some gamers who loved Jonathan Blow’s Braid were perplexed when early footage of his team’s next game, The Witness, debuted on Kotaku last month. To those alarmed or confused, Blow offers some encouraging words. “The only two guys who have played The Witness to completion have said it will be better than Braid when it…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 21, 2010 -
How Many Of These NES Games Can You Name?
In this video, you can see more than 700 Nintendo Entertainment System games, supposedly every unique North American NES game ever released, 1.1 seconds allotted to each. How many can you name? They’re in alphabetical order, if that helps. This is an impressive compilation by the folks at NES Guide. It celebrates the silver anniversary…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 21, 2010 -
Fallout: New Vegas Updated, PC Bugs Squashed?
As promised, Fallout New Vegas publisher Bethesda says they’ve patched the PC version of the new role-playing game and are working on updates for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions soon. “We have just released an automatic update for the PC version of Fallout: New Vegas that resolves quest and scripting issues,” Kotaku was…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 21, 2010 -
For The First Time, Rockstar Games Previews A Game With A Rhyme
We knew Rockstar Games was going to include a cooperative multiplayer gamers vs. zombies horde mode in the October 26 Red Dead Redemption expansion Undead Nightmare. Who knew they were going to make a poem about it? See/hear it here.
By Stephen Totilo Published October 21, 2010 -
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam Is $15
In its continued attempt to get you to play military shooters that aren’t Call of Duty, publisher EA is building the hype for this winter’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam expansion. It costs $15. It has four multiplayer maps. And? And it has “true war dialogue”, according to a press release issued today. That would…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 21, 2010 -
The Triumphs And Possible Mistakes In An Early Nintendo 3DS Game
I recently played a new game on the Nintendo 3DS and I’ve now got visions of the Nintendo DS’ shaky launch line-up. Allow me to share some thoughts about what is working, and what isn’t. The 3D in the Nintendo 3DS remains impressive, but there are some obvious problems with how it will function, problems…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 21, 2010 -
Angry Birds Is Now From The Makers Of Madden [Update]
Giant games publisher Electronic Arts who you know from playing Dead Space, The Sims, Madden, and so on is buying the publisher of Angry Birds, Chillingo, for $20 million, the LA Times reports. What’s this mean for Angry Birds gamers? Chillingo publishes but doesn’t develop hits such as Angry Birds and Cut The Rope, two…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 20, 2010 -
Apple Thanks Valve, Briefly Acknowledges Mac Gaming
How much of Apple’s 90-minute keynote today is about games? This keynote is all about their computers so… does a few seconds impress you? In the first few minutes of the briefing, Apple chief operation officer Tim Cook name-checked Valve, commending the company for adding the PC company’s Steam service to Mac computers. “This is…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 20, 2010 -
Fallout New Vegas Patches Coming
We just received comment from Fallout: New Vegas studio Bethesda about reports of bugs in the new game. Patches are coming, they say. We’ve updated our story with a note on one possible immediate fix. Just cross your fingers that this doesn’t happen.
By Stephen Totilo Published October 20, 2010 -
Super Mario Used To Shoot Bullets
The original plan for Super Mario Bros. was for video game’s biggest hero to shoot enemies with bullets rather than toss fireballs at them, according to Mario’s creator. As part of a 25th anniversary celebration of the Nintendo classic, legendary Nintendo designer and Super Mario Bros. lead creator Shigeru Miyamoto explained the change in Mario…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 20, 2010 -
ReviewsReview: Invizimals
People compare Invizimals to Pokémon. People may also compare it to the sadly-still-fictional Star Wars chess, last played by Chewbacca and R2D2. Try one more comparison: This game is like a flying contraption made prior to the Wright Brothers’. Invizimals is an augmented reality video game, one of the few games you can buy that…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 18, 2010 -
A Visual Guide To Invizimals
Invizimals Trailer, in which the augmented reality tech works so smoothly. This trailer features scenes from Invizimals’ many live-action cut-scenes. Flashbacks to the glory days of CD-ROM games. This is a time capsule, kids! Sony’s other recent attempt with augmented reality gaming, Start The Party for the PlayStation 3, as shot by me for a…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 18, 2010 -
MicroBots Is Like Space Invaders Inside Your Guts
Unlike most video games, MicroBot starts with a hypodermic needle. MicroBot is a twin-stick shooter, the progeny of Geometry Wars and descendant of Space Invaders, but those games occurred in outer space, their players laser-blasting squads of enemy ships. EA’s new game, a downloadable title set for release on consoles in winter 2011, takes place…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 18, 2010 -
How They’re Pushing Kinect In Manhattan
This is Kinect outside of Macy’s in New York City’s Herald Square. There were no Kinects in the window displays at GameStop a block south. What kind of crowd do we think Microsoft is going for with their no-controller controller? (The earlier clip I cite in this video is this Times Square Call of Duty…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 15, 2010 -
The Next Kingdom Hearts Is One Of 2011’s First Notable Games
Eleven days into 2011, we get a new Kingdom Hearts that is unusual even by that series’ standards. On January 11 in North America, Square-Enix will release Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded, a Nintendo DS sequel to Kingdom Hearts II that involves fighting through a digital “datascape” of the diary Jiminy Cricket kept during the first Kingdom…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 15, 2010
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