One of Activision’s big fall games is a revival of its open-world True Crime series, the closest thing the publisher has to a Grand Theft Auto. At least one part of the game that I saw at E3 had me thinking more Assassin’s Creed. And I’m not talking about the part on motorcycles. True Crime:…
According to some text I saw on the screen of Ubisoft’s big new Tom Clancy game, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier takes place “sooner than you think.” Good news. That means we’re getting octo-camo soon, and three friends we can trust in a firefight. I was allowed to look but not touch a demonstration of spring…
Call of Duty: Black Ops benefits from a large screen. The bigger the screen the better, I learned last week. That is because Call of Duty games are giant acts of detonation. We are no longer storming Normandy Beach in Call of Duty. We are no longer one of many against an overhwelming force. From…
Kirby’s Epic Yarn is my pick for Best-Looking Game of E3. My pick for Best Game That Looks Like It Was Made Out Of Yarn. My pick for Best Game That Had A Kirby Mech That I Missed. Kirby’s Epic Yarn is one of two side-scrollers coming from Nintendo this fall, part of the gaming…
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The new iPhone operating system, iOS4, is available now for iPhone owners, requiring a big new download of a bunch of applications and add-ons, including a new iTunes… so give yourself time, Apple owners. You get multi-tasking on your phone for your troubles.
To: Brian From: Stephen Re: I’m (Not) Afraid of Americans You love L.A.? That’s weird. I don’t understand how anyone could love L.A. But that is just the thing a New Yorker would say, isn’t it? Is L.A. awesome enough to host a real-life version of Pilotwings? New York is! (That was from last week.)…
If we ran a video game company, maybe, just maybe, those of us who play video games would be like John Riccitiello. We really could be a boss. We could believe we’re the good guy. And we would know things about video games. We would possess in our core the knowledge absorbed by holding a…
If there comes a day when Kinectimals works, it will be better than Nintendogs. That day is not guaranteed. At E3 last week, I played my first official Xbox 360 Kinect game in the manner one would play with a hard-of-hearing tiger cub: fearless of a mauling, warmed by its cuteness, frustrated it couldn’t hear…
At E3, Warren Spector, one of the lead people behind the original Deus Ex and now in charge of making an impressive Mickey Mouse adventure, said he was content to not be making a “sunglasses-at-night” video game. Others still make the stuff. The original Deus Ex from the year 2000 was supposed to be the…
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At E3, Nintendo showcased numerous 3D versions of games we’ve played and sometimes loved before. Star Fox 64 in 3D. The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time in 3D. A bunch of 8-bit classic Nintendo Entertainment System games. They all appeared on the 3DS. Some, like Star Fox 64 3D were playable, with updated…
One of the coolest things at E3 2010 was the zoom function for Xbox Live Arcade game Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. I had to see it. You do too. I shot the quick video for this post after I confirmed that I hadn’t been misled by the game’s E3 trailer. That trailer showed a lot…
Certain bodies were needed to work E3 2010. These bodies had to strut, pose, wear armor, professionally wrestle, mock-rap badly (on behalf of another media outlet, I believe) or just sit and look unpleasantly pregnant. Good job, everyone! *The guy in image no. 10 was probably just a regular show attendee, but the shell he…
Some people got “Nintendo thumb.” Others complained of “Wii elbow.” Should we next worry about “3DS Headache”? The novel glasses-free 3D display of the Nintendo 3DS has “no health issues,” Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told Kotaku this week, though he added a caveat regarding the youngest of Nintendo consumers. “We are working with…
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The Kotaku Talk Radio E3 podcast spectacular was recorded earlier this week and now you can download it to hear six members of Kotaku debate the big news of the show and name some of our favorite E3 games. Host: Brian Crecente, with Brian Ashcraft, Mike Fahey, Owen Good, Michael McWhertor and Stephen Totilo (none…
The next console Metal Gear game, Metal Gear Solid Rising, will bridge the gap between Metal Gear Solid 2 and MGS 4, the game’s developers revealed at E3 this week. Plus, we’ll finally find out how Raiden became cool. Metal Gear Solid Rising producer Shigenobu Matsuyama told reporters here in L.A. that the game will…
I shot this image of Castlevania: Harmony Of Despair from the new game’s E3 trailer. Harmony of Despair includes many characters and supports multiple players. But does it really ever look like this? Or is this a trailer trick? Castlevania games typically show a player’s hero in one room of a large castle or other…
Near the beginning of my trip out here in Los Angeles for E3, I heard the oddest of rumors: Microsoft’s controller-free sensor array, Kinect, would only work if you were standing up. No way, right? For the last several days I’ve been peppering the conversations I’ve had with game creators at this massive video game…
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