Stephen Totilo

Thank Video Games For The Next Great Batman

Comic book mastermind Grant Morrison, says his new comic, Batman Inc, is “an attempt to do a comic influenced by the storytelling structures, images, senses of scale, movement and perspective and so on that I’ve absorbed from games.” Morrison knows what he’s doing and elaborates splendidly at IGN. [SDCC 10: The Corporate Batman, art from…

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This Game Is Suitable For Framing

Platformance: Castle Pain is a $1 game that was just released on the Xbox 360’s Indie Games channel. Jump through the castle, die a lot — as I did — and keep reviving at the nearest candle. Beware the ghost.

These Three Screenshots Are From The Same Game

Three screenshots, all from the same PlayStation 3 game. Look closely and you can figure out which one. Credit the developers for diversity of content, shall we?

Summer Video Game Movie, Banjo Kazooie

Even if you owned a Nintendo 64 and loved playing Banjo Kazooie as I did, you may not think of Rare’s bear-and-bird action game as a summer game. One wonderful part of it was. Listen to this first clip. It is summer. Let me explain. I refer you to Click Clock Wood, a late-game Banjo…

In The Quest For The Best Resident Evil Controls, Motion Gets Another Turn

Does anyone know what the best way is to control a Resident Evil game anymore? At least Capcom keeps doling out options, including PlayStation 3 motion control, which I sampled this week. We’ve been hearing about motion control support for Resident Evil 5 since last year, and our own Brian Ashcraft played RE5 with Wii-like…

Do You Demand A New Surfing Game?

I used to work for a guy who just didn’t understand why there weren’t any great surfing video games. I couldn’t explain it. Does the world need one? We’ve had some surfing games. In the early 90s, for example, I played a lot of the surfing mode in California Games on my Atari Lynx. I…

Two God of War Ghost Of Sparta Stats

At a PlayStation event in New York this week, I played the PSP’s God of War: Ghost of Sparta and learned some details. 1) A Sony producer said the game will be 25-30% longer than the first PSP God of War, based on the playtests and focus groups now trying the game. (The earlier portable…

This PlayStation 3 Controller Is Shaped Like An Assault Rifle

Your PS3 controller is shaped like a big plastic mustache. Ours is shaped like a gun. This is a $65 PS3 Assault Rifle Controller (not a light gun!). From CTA Digital: the people behind the Wii bowling ball

Killzone 3 Looks Great, Plays Different, Sort Of Adds Yoshi

I got my first hands-on with the PlayStation 3’s Killzone 3 this week. Fantastic graphics are a franchise given. I liked how this one plays and how it made me think of Mario’s dino. Killzone 3 plays faster than Killzone 2. It is still a first-person futuristic war shooter with a cover system, but development…

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We Played Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep For 10 Minutes, In English

The first time I played Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep I was in Tokyo, well aware that I couldn’t read the Japanese menus of the flashy new PSP installment. The second time was this week. The game was in English. A translation alone does not make a Kingdom Hearts game comprehensible. Latecomers to the Kingdom…

Medal Of Honor Developers Now Known As Danger Close [UPDATE]

We thought the new Medal of Honor from EA was being developed by EA’s L.A. studio and EA’s DICE team in Sweden. Not quite. Medal of Honor is being made by Danger Close Games, according to the new EA site linked here. New name for EA L.A.? UPDATE: We’ve got the confirmation, via an offiicial…

Alan Wake Expands Mysteriously Next Week

The first downloadable expansion for this spring’s celebrated Xbox 360 horror game Alan Wake arrives next week. It’s called The Signal, and it’s a mystery. The official description of The Signal indicates that our writer-hero Alan Wake continues to be “ravaged by dark forces” as he longs for his wife. “In ‘The Signal,’ Alan finds…

Alan Wake – The Signal Screenshots

Is This The PlayStation 3 Game With The Most Trophies?

Three Platinum PlayStation 3 Trophies on one disc? And that’s not all? This November’s Sly Collection contains three full PlayStation 2 Sly Cooper games on one PlayStation 3 Blu-Ray disc. Plus it will include PlayStation Move mini-games. A Sony producer who showed Kotaku the collection this week said that each of the Sly games will…

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Single-Player, Deadlier Than Ever

A good assassin benefits from having minions. That’s what I learned watching some of the single-player portion of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood this week. At a PlayStation press event in New York, I sat beside Ubisoft brand manager Eric Gallant as he played two few-minute bits of Brotherhood and explained how the life and abilities of…

Four Fantastic PlayStation Move Tech Demos, With A StarCraft Twist

I don’t know how amazing the games of PlayStation Move, September’s Wii-like PlayStation 3 motion controller, are going to be. But the tech demos continue to be terrific. Here are four of the newest. All videos were shot by me in New York earlier this week. Demonstrating the Move demos is PlayStation researcher Anton Mikhailov.…

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Three More Looks At Fable III

Fable III screenshots, Comic-Con 2010 edition. Like what you see?