The formerly Japan-only downloadable DS game that wowed us with its tricky no-glasses-needed 3D graphics appears to be set for a May 17. The game, known as 3D Hidden Picture in Japan, will be called Looksley’s Line Up, and you can see for yourself if the footage above matches the brand-new DSiWare date and description…
Cross a few more names off of the Modern Warfare 2 credits as the departures continue from Activision studio Infinity Ward. [Updated with one more name] Senior designers Mohammad Alavi and Chad Grenier (update: and Brent McLeod) are out, along with programmer Chris Lambert and designer Jason McCord. That brings the list of departures from…
This Monster Hunter Tri Wii unboxing is A) A marketing stunt, B) a video recording of an amazing and wonderful event, C) this guy’s shtick
People who live to age 100 are awesome, I think. It’s good, right? Living to triple digits? Apparently so-called centenarians are not just impressive people but potential video gamers. That’s got me thinking, what would I play at age 100? I’d never thought about gaming at age 100 before, not until I found an article…
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The United States Supreme Court may decide whether to hear a landmark case affecting the sale of violent video games as early as next week, the California Attorney General’s office told Kotaku today. Before the highest court in the country is the decision whether to hear arguments regarding California’s legal battle against the video game…
As is so often the case, the press I’m reading about comics is about crossovers. Blackest Night. Siege. They are, despite the hate they get — the suspect claims of “event fatigue” — the most popular thing in comics. Technically, we’re at something of a lull in crossover comics. DC just finished their Blackest Night…
EA Sports Active 2.0 is probably going to be a healthy product when it is released: software marshaled for good. EA Sports Active 2.0 as demonstrated for me last night was something else, something somewhat intriguing and probably, amusingly dangerous. You see, EA Sports Active 2.0, set for PlayStation 3 and Wii release late this…
Six monitors, bolted together, might make your gaming better. It will certainly make it take up more room and, as Kotaku learned yesterday, it introduces a couple of new complications. Complication 1: It’s expensive. Yesterday, in New York, I got to see graphics-card-maker AMD’s six-monitor gaming set-up in action. They call it the Eyefinity 6,…
The next big golf video game on the Wii, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 adds mini-golf. Why? Best answer I got from EA Sports yesterday is because they like to add something every year. But is it true mini-golf? Donning my average-man cap, I asked some EA Sports representatives who were showing the new Tiger…
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Why have been people yelling at professional athletes who fumble and fall and anger them when those athletes are on their TVs and can’t hear them? Because these people have been getting ready for the Xbox 360’s Project Natal. From an interview with Xbox 360 project manager Marc Whitten, who discusses some non-gaming applications of…
Some video game voice-acting isn’t very good. Thank goodness there’s a website that records the worst of it. The excellent site Audio Atrocities has some wretchedly great clips from role-playing game Two Worlds. Here’s one: Click to view Itoldyouho sound bite Odd use of “ho,” if I do say so myself. Go to Audio Atrocities’…
When the concert ticket, the downloaded album and the official t-shirt aren’t enough, there is the official video game of the band. Why play Linkin Park’s video game? It is for the fans. The trailer for Linkin Park: 8-Bit Rebellion title shows a side-scroller, a throwback to the run-right-and-punch-the-guy brawlers of Double Dragon and River…
A day after making Halo 3 available to Xbox 360 owners as a downloadable game, Microsoft let Kotaku know that while loading times may be impacted in this version, gameplay should run as well as it always did. Recall that Halo 3 creators Bungie Studios had advised gamers to play Halo 3 from a game…
Exactly how many bullets can kill a person? How many apples can one man carry? In real life, the answers vary. In a video game, real life must be explained in numbers. That includes religion: how it spreads, who believes. A couple of weeks ago, while I was pondering some of video games’ unusual intersections…
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In our line of work here at Kotaku we see games early, before they come out. Sometimes these games change, before you play them the first time. Who is to say that a change is for the better? The developers, probably, who are among the only people participating obsessively with — playing — the game…
Back in 2008, the people who made Halo 3 had a warning for fans: Play the game from the disc; not from a harddrive. Today, Microsoft has a seeming contradictory sales pitch. [UPDATED: Microsoft comments] Today, Microsoft, the company that owns Halo revealed that Halo 3 is available for purchase and download onto the Xbox…
Kotaku readers braver than I am have dared to sing a song about the travails of Modern Warfare development studio Infinity Ward — and recorded themselves. Prepare to update your custom soundtracks, people. NOTE: These are not radio edits. Some curses included. Lyrics by Kotaku reader Blood Eden, set to The Fray’s How To Save…
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