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GoldenEye N64 To Wii Comparison, Dam Vs. Dam
This fall’s GoldenEye game on the Wii isn’t a shot-for-shot remake of the Nintendo 64 James Bond original. It doesn’t even use the same maps. But let’s compare overlapping locations. This is the Facility level in the N64 game. So is this. This is the Facility of the new game from a new screenshot released…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 16, 2010 -
From The Top Of The Ladder, Painfully
WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2011 will add a new move-set, Kotaku learned yesterday. Finishers from the top of the ladder, 10-15 of them. Publisher THQ was keeping a lot of details about the fall wrestling game quiet, holding off on big announcements until next month’s Summerslam WWE pay-per-view and surrounding hype event. We can tell…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 16, 2010 -
Three Interesting Xbox 360 Ideas That Died
The newly canceled 1 vs 100 Xbox Live game show isn’t the only clever idea for the Xbox 360 that has met its meteor. Let’s review some 360 initiatives that seemed cool but now seem dead. Re-Invented Music Videos Back in 2006, Lumines Live was going to mix the wonderful horizontally-oriented Tetris-style game Lumines with…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 15, 2010 -
Does The Gears Of Warring Of Harry Potter Go Too Far?
The next Harry Potter game is a darker third-person magic-shooter with a cover system. No chainsaws in this game. But it sounds like even the people making Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 sense an overstep here. As Brian Crecente reported in his positive June impressions of Deathly Hallows, the video game based…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 15, 2010 -
Kinect Kind Of Compatible With Push-Ups
For a week in June, Team Kotaku played Microsoft’s hands-free control system Kinect, standing up. Kinect has problems with seated players, we reported. Yesterday, I tried doing a push-up in front of it. I was trying — no, testing — the Kinect-enabled version of EA Sports Active 2 at a showcase event in New York…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 15, 2010 -
‘I Just Don’t Like Living In A Culture Focused On Meaninglessness’
Nick Marroni wants to expose corruption, one video game at a time. That makes Nick Marroni a dissident, a rebel, and, well, a very odd game designer. He’s 28. He lives with his folks in Detroit. He once sold lawn care and was good at it, though he regrets the chemicals that work foisted on…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 14, 2010 -
How About A 4D Racing Game?
Earlier this week we brought you a story about a man who is making a video game that is laid out across four spatial dimensions. It’s a platformer. But what, we had asked him, about a 4D racing game? In Marc ten Bosch’s in-development 4D game Miegakure, a character can climb across what merely looks…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 14, 2010 -
ReviewsDeathSpank Review: Best Game Involving A Purple Thong
If you like laughing and you like loot, if you can catch a Monkey Island reference and know why purple text is a positive thing, then DeathSpank is your game. Plus, it is gorgeous. DeathSpank is a comedy game from adventure game great Ron Gilbert and Hothead Games. It mixes the action gameplay of Diablo…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2010 -
This Is California’s U.S. Supreme Court Argument Against Violent Video Games
In a 59-page brief filed to the U.S. Supreme Court this week, the state of California makes its best argument about why it should be a crime to sell a child a very violent game. The brief reiterates arguments California officials have made against violent video games during its five-year battle with the video game…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2010 -
Video Games Get The Most Hate
Nintendo is determined to transform hatred of video games into love for video games. Not easy. Nintendo’s CEO Satoru Iwata recently reminded an audience of Nintendo stockholders that video games have, as recently a 2009, generated more disdain among the Japanese public than any other form of entertainment. “We should try our best to produce…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2010 -
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Do The Right Thing
The Ft. Wayne Indiana History Center is honoring one of its local heroes, Philo Farnsworth, a television pioneer. A resident writes in to the local paper requesting that another great local creation be celebrated: The Magnavox Odyssey. In a letter to the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette, a man named David Lee Ennis writes: Regarding the…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2010 -
To-Do In NYC: Discover The Future Of Video Games, Circa 2040
Next week, I will join talented game designer Eric Zimmerman and talented Take-Two CEO Ben Feder to tell the world what video games will be like in 2040. For this knowledge, we’re charging 10 bucks. We’ll be on a panel entitled The Future of Gaming which will be hosted by the New York Gaming Meetup…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2010 -
Nintendo Doesn’t Want To Criminalize Obsessed Fans
Ever see a Pokemon tribute video, a Zelda fan film, or a Super Mario Bros. gaming mod and wonder how the people who made it got away with it? Don’t Nintendo’s lawyers know how to use the phone? This is how a Nintendo shareholder asked the question in late June: In connection with Nintendo’s basic…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 13, 2010 -
Star Treatment
If you are somebody, and you visit Nintendo’s New York offices from out of town, you get your very own greeting in the lobby, running on a flat-screen TV. I’ve never seen this at a game company before. Horii is the creator of Dragon Quest, including Dragon Quest IX. The other two gentlemen on his…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 12, 2010 -
Reviews
Flametail Review: Space Burn
Could the video game Snake be improved by setting the snake’s tail on fire? Of course! Flametail is a recent downloadable release for the Nintendo DSi’s DSiWare service, which means that you are about to read about a game that gets less press than your fingernail clippings. You are reading about a game that is…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 12, 2010 -
The Man Who Will Bring Us To The Fourth Dimension
Marc ten Bosch is the only man I have ever treated as if he had a super-power. Not super-strength. Not heat vision. Something better. I believed, because it is sort of true, that he can see the fourth dimension. That would make him a special class of person. Depending on your perspective, it could make…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 12, 2010
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