Stephen Totilo

Reggie To Play Donkey Kong With Jimmy

Brief programming update: The person who will play Donkey Kong Country Returns on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight is Nintendo of America chief Reggie Fils-Aime. First time a video game executive gets on late night network TV?

The Halo: Reach Techno Music Was Intentional

Watch the E3 live gamplay footage of Halo: Reach and, 67 seconds in, you might hear…. is that techno music? That’s part of the game’s soundtrack? Why, yes it is! While the Halo series is known for having music that is so sweeping and lovely that you could set your wedding to it, it doesn’t…

Jimmy Fallon’s Killzone 3 Enthusiasm Increases In 3D

We told you Jimmy Fallon would play Killzone 3 on his Late Night show yesterday, and we were right. Jimmy Fallon with 3D glasses playing PS3 game Killzone 3. Or, as the game’s developer calls it: “Blackhawk Down in space.” Click to viewNote how much more excited he seemed when he was playing the game…

Tron Happened To These Game Controllers

These official Tron video game controllers from Disney will run you $50. The PS3 and Xbox 360 ones are wired. They’re scheduled for release alongside the Tron Evolution video game, which is tied to December’s Tron: Legacy movie.

Their Orders Are To ‘Make A Better Donkey Kong Country’

The man who created Donkey Kong had some specific advice for the people who are making the next Donkey Kong game: The gorilla better slap the ground properly. “He was very clear from the get-go about his expectations for the ground-pound,” Retro Studios’ Bryan Walker told me, speaking of a meeting top Retro people had…

Donkey Kong Country Returns Screenshots

Dead Rising 2 Creator Will Make Your Life A Little Easier

The scariest element of the original Dead Rising video game wasn’t the oil slick of zombies flooding the game’s vast shopping mall. It was the game’s save system. Series creator Keiji Inafune has heard the screams. The sequel is different. This summer’s Dead Rising 2, set in a city based on Las Vegas, will let…

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We Talk Video Games With Jimmy Fallon, Who Knows The Score

It is a cliché to say it is a cliché that a celebrity seemed like a normal person. So let’s just say that, in his office today, Jimmy Fallon seemed just as concerned about the next GoldenEye as you, though maybe more excited about the next Star Fox. Technically it is Video Game Week at…

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Armada Of The Damned Is More Than A Pegleg Fable

If the creators of the next Pirates of the Caribbean game had shown me the game’s ship combat, I might not have been looking at their game and thinking “Fable clone.” Not that a Fable clone would be bad. In looks and in some manners of the land-based parts of its game design, Pirates of…

Dead Rising Creator Has a Request For Us

Keiji Inafune is worried that you might think that Capcom doesn’t want to work with Western game developers anymore, that the studio that made Mega Man, Street Fighter and Resident Evil would happily just back games made in Japan. Well, technically we had heard that the company that backed the Western-developed original game Dark Void…

Halo: Reach Will Be Harder Than You Think, Less Spacey

The next Halo game will probably have the toughest enemies in series history, I learned this morning when I wasn’t flying a spaceship (!) in Halo: Reach. But they’ll only be tough if you force their hand. Bungie’s Brian Jarrard played through part of the mid-game mission Long Night of Solace in an office in…

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Russian President Tweets, Is One Step Closer To Playing FarmVille

Russian President Dimitri Medvedev joined Twitter today. Why? Maybe because, according to his Twitter feed, he visited Twitter HQ. And then went to Apple, Tweeting this image. Naturally, Barack Obama has already Tweeted at him. Medvedev is now following Obama. How soon until he is playing FarmVille?

Steel Diver Is Nintendo’s Secret Recommendation

I threw a verbal elbow at some Nintendo people this past E3 and asked them to tell me which game I needed to play among the ones I might have easily missed. Two of them said right away: Steel Diver. The submarine game on the 3DS? The one I messed with for 10 seconds before…

He Looked Too Much Like Inky, Blinky or Clyde

Man appears to be on the verge of becoming a Pac-Man meal outside of Pac-Man’s 30th birthday party in Los Angeles last week.

Epic Mickey Is, In Theory, The Game of the Year

Warren Spector, who knows more about Mickey Mouse’s ears and video game creation than I do, thinks Epic Mickey has a shot. “My goal is always to make the best game ever made,” he told me last week in Los Angeles. He was sitting backstage at Disney’s massive E3 booth, proud of the Mickey Mouse…

New Zelda Continues Disturbing Right-Handed Brainwashing

The hero of the Legend of Zelda is left handed, just like Nintendo’s top-designer Shigeru Miyamoto and me, right? Not in the new Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. In theory, Link has been turned right-handed because he is being controlled with the Wii Remote, a device many gamers hold in their right hand. Even I…

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Nintendo Files Downloadable Games Strategy In ‘What We Don’t Do So Well’ Category

Nintendo’s approach to downloadable games for Wii and DS is something the company “do[es]n’t do so well,” Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told Kotaku last week. He promises an unpredictable solution. “We look at what we do well. We look at what we don’t do so well,” he said during an interview at E3…