Some people look amazingly cool when they try upcoming PlayStation 3 motion game Kung Fu Live. They step in front of the PlayStation Eye and do their kung fu moves with panache. But how do cosplayers look? [UPDATED with more!] See more of these sights — including some people who do look cooler while playing…
Dragons can be good guys. One fire-breathing flying lizard can be if you’re the dragon. In Hoard, princesses and happy towns are on the wrong side of history. The Penny Arcade Expo was in overtime last Sunday when I reached the folks at Big Sandwich games and convinced them to ignore any approaching forklifts. I…
Me to the lady showing the new Tron game for Wii this past weekend: “Don’t you think a reporter would have a more favorable impression if you let him win?” Lady to me: “This makes it more memorable.” Who knew that Tron was made for trash-talking? Tron Evolution: Battle Grids, the Tron game for Wii…
If the impressions and video we ran of Retro City Rampage yesterday didn’t send the message that the upcoming downloadable console game is a love letter to gaming past, then perhaps these official promotional boxes will?
Strangely-detailed hypothetical situation: You are a video game reporter, you have an early build of Civilzation V and you have a couple of hours to play the game against three people. You’re playing as the Arabs, at Prince difficulty. You will start slowly. But you will win. You will begin the match late. It’s your…
We got Halo Reach in a silver briefcase today. I took it to the roof for an unbriefcasing video, guest-starring the distant Empire State Building and a blimp. This is really just the standard edition plus doodads plus briefcase. You can’t buy the briefcase edition, because it’s just a mailing method for press, to get…
Blur your eyes as you look at a new fantasy massively multiplayer game, and you won’t know whether you’re looking at World of Warcraft or not. But there are differences. There always are. Take Rift Planes of Telara, for example. The people at Trion Worlds were showing their MMO, Rift, at Penny Arcade Expo last…
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One of the minor mysteries of the 2010 video game year is why Ubisoft showed the world screenshots of the newly-revealed Outland last week, but didn’t show the game’s bullets. It’s a bullet-hell platformer. It looks better with bullets. The whole selling point, at least to people who know their video games, is that Outland,…
Frobot is a WiiWare game that mixes Robotron shooting with gameplay riffing on the dungeon design of the original Legend of Zelda. It adds an afro-wearing robot and is tough enough that you’ll start on normal difficulty with 30 lives. We last covered the game at PAX East in Boston, where it was revealed that…
As with Slam Bolt Scrappers, Retro City Rampage was one of the games I saw at Penny Arcade Expo last week during my “lightning round.” In PAX’s final hour, I raced to get to more games. Hark! An exclusive! Game developer Brian Provinciano pretty much had his finger on the button of his Wii development…
Video game designer Dave Perry predicted a few years ago that a day would come when a company released a high quality game you’d expect to pay full price for but will play for free. It would change everything. When the polished free games come out, Perry speculated, it will be hard to pay $60…
The developers say it is a little bit of Katamari Damacy and a little bit of Gish. Before Penny Arcade Expo I didn’t know know Tales From Space: About A Blob existed, let alone what such a combo makes. This single or co-op game launches in January as a downloadable game for the PlayStation 3.…
Ilomilo (first letter is an “i”, second an “L”) is great to look at. But how do you play this game about two cube-people needing to meet? Maybe let a Kotaku guy and a Giant Bomb guy play, sans directions. On second thought, maybe that’s not how you do it. Giant Bomb‘s Brad Shoemaker and…
It has not been easy to explain to people why Slam Bolt Scrappers, an early 2011 downloadable PlayStation 3 exclusive, is a lot of fun. Watch the video here with the sound off and you may still not get it. But… perhaps I narrated this video of Slam Bolt Scrappers well enough that you will…
With the power of video games enabling us, we’ve been able to make James Bond a klutz and Darth Vader a hero, but who expected that Disney would allow us to make Mickey Mouse a selfish, dangerous jerk? At the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle last weekend, Disney was letting people play the first level…
‘He gets up.’ That’s the line I can’t forget from Penny Arcade Expo last week. Duke Nukem had some good one-liners, sure. But Bastion is the other game people couldn’t stop buzzing about. To understand it, you needed to listen to it. Bastion is a top-down action role-playing game that looks like just a pretty…
Talking about video games is one of the things you can do at Kotaku for free. Do it here, will you? Thanks to Yossarian for a terrific Rubens riff. Submit your image for Talk Amongst Yourselves to #TAYpics
We recently reported that Independent Games Festival grand-prize-winning heist game Monaco was given a graphical makeover. Now you can see it in action, with game developer Andy Schatz providing play-by-play. I shot this video at the Penny Arcade Expo while Andy narrated. Four people played the game, using Xbox 360 controllers, while sitting on a…
We’ve heard back from Sony about today’s report that a key Uncharted voice-actor is doing new Uncharted recordings. Emily Rose, voice of Elena Fisher, is in L.A. recording voice-work with Uncharted 2 development studio Naughty Dog for some downloadable content.
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