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ReviewsTop Gun Review: Minus Tom, Minus Loving Feeling, Plus DualShock, Plus Multiplayer
There are two things to know about the new Top Gun jet combat game: 1) Its creators have changed lines from its ’80s Tom Cruise inspiration for the worse and 2) it’d be better if it wasn’t about Top Gun. In 1986 everyone went to see the movie Top Gun, a movie about a fighter…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 24, 2010 -
Beware The Ghost Writer
To: Ashcraft From: Brian Totilo Crecente Re: Welcome Back! Why, hello there, fellow Brian. Man, my flight from Germany was eventful, but I am so glad that we had Totilo working at Kotaku last week. Golly, he sure wrote some great posts about David Hasselhoff and Playboy magazines. You’d think that’s what we hired him…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 23, 2010 -
Lessons From The Medal Of Honor Beta
If not for you fine Medal of Honor beta testers, we would’t be able to shoot a bullet through the opening between a guy’s legs in the final game. We can thank you for other things as well, brave testers. An EA man explains on the PlayStation blog how the developers of his company’s next…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 23, 2010 -
PAX Is Our Next Event
Where in the world is Kotaku headed next? With half of our team back from Germany and Gamescom 2010 we will stay put only briefly. Next week, we hit PAX in Seattle. Specifically, I will be hitting PAX. The show starts a week from Friday on September 3 and runs through Sunday. Will I find…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 23, 2010 -
iTunes Chart Topper: Dysentery Returns
The iPhone version of The Oregon Trail brings its own beloved brand of interactive illness to this week’s chart. Plus: more top-ranked iPhone and iPad zombie games than ever before. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 17 2 2 Madden…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 23, 2010 -
What’s So Special About Rage
There are people who are excited about Rage, the next game from id Software, makers of Doom. And there are people who say they don’t get it. It’s a first-person shooter. With car combat. What are these people missing? “There’s nothing that we’re doing besides technology that really hasn’t been done before,” Rage creative director…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 23, 2010 -
We Get A Surprise DeathSpank Sequel Next Month
In one of the fastest sequel turnarounds you’ll see in gaming, last month’s fun and funny fantasy action game DeathSpank will be succeeded in September by DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue. It turns out they were making two DeathSpanks all along. The new DeathSpank, Thongs of Virtue, is a promised 50% longer new adventure that brings…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 23, 2010 -
This Man Does Not Know His Super Mario Bros. [UPDATE]
Discovery Channel host Bear Grylls does not appear to be familiar with Super Mario Bros., Half-Life, Ghost ‘N Goblins (Or is it Ghouls ‘N Ghosts?) or Doom. Call it a hunch… Update: MTV’s video embed is busted; watch clip here Click to view MTV Shows
By Stephen Totilo Published August 20, 2010 -
The 3rd Birthday In Motion, Wrecking New York
We haven’t seen much lately of The 3rd Birthday, the next game in the Parasite Eve series. Released on phones in Japan in 2007, it’s coming to PSPs. As Ashcraft wrote, this game’s all about Aya Brea and her guns.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 20, 2010 -
Street Fighter, Tekken Creators Duel And Hunt Each Other, Ridiculously
The creators of Street Fighter and Tekken have been squabbling in Germany. They’ve been battling (playfully, with pranks) over Twitter all week. Who won? Take a look. It starts innocently on Tuesday of this past week. Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada shows up at his hotel. He Tweets a photo: Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono is…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 20, 2010 -
Snoop Blows Up Van, Then Blunders
Snoop, part-time rapper and full-time celebrity pitch-man who seems to say no to nothing, agreed to blow up a van in Las Vegas to promote Mafia Wars. That’s Mafia Wars Vegas, the free game on Facebook. A couple of problems: (Warning, profanity.) Click to viewLive Videos by Ustream Snoop almost ruins the camera angle, blows…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 20, 2010 -
Nintendo May Be Getting Better At Live-Action Metroid Commercials
This is the Metrod Other M commercial, showing us a live-action version of heroine Samus. We showed it to you earlier, but it begs to be compared to other live-action Metroid spots. Can we agree this is an improvement from the live-action Samus from this old Game Boy Advance commercial? But let’s take it back…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 20, 2010 -
What If Marcus And Dom Actually Helped Each Other, And Were Fantasy Heroes?
It’s hard to not think of Gears of War while playing Hunted: The Demon’s Forge. It’s hard not to assume the Epic’s blockbuster shooter would be superior to the Hunted’s upcoming fantasy riff. But Hunted adds a good spice: co-operation. Sure, Gears of War is technically a co-op shooter. In the first two Gears games,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 20, 2010 -
Multiplayer Not Guaranteed For BioShock Infinite
The first BioShock game had no multiplayer mode, a rarity for first-person shooters. BioShock 2, which was overseen by a different creative team, added multiplayer. The series’ next game may not, BioShock’s original creator told Kotaku. “Here’s what I have to say about multiplayer,” Irrational Games creative director Ken Levine said as I broached the…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 20, 2010 -
Gamescom 2010: Day 3 Round-Up
Our guys in Germany can’t stop playing video games and can’t stop writing about them. This is the last 24 hours’ worth of Gamescom 2010 coverage. From Blizzard news to Killzone 3 impressions to David Hassheloff fighting David Hasselhoff… News Diablo III Fans, You Better Prepare for BlizzCon Interviews Why Lords Of Shadows Will Be…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 20, 2010
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