According to Crysis 2, one of the biggest shooters coming to consoles and PCs this fall, there will be two ways to save the Big Apple in early September of 2023: Like a predator; or like a tank. Developers from German development studio Crytek came to the New York City of 2010 this week to…
It might be your nervous hands or my deceased ancestors that make the pointer on a regular Ouija Board move. On an iPad Ouija Board, there could be another culprit: a computer programmer. Fair or foul? There are already three Ouija-Board style apps for the iPad, which may be the ideal device for virtual Ouija…
Just got done with an entertaining meeting with some of the top people behind Plants Vs. Zombies, Bejeweled, Peggle and Zuma. They don’t talk much about future plans, but made Kotaku readers one guarantee. “I promise your readers there will be a Plants Vs. Zombies 2 in the next one to 10 years,” Popcap co-founder…
The news this morning that Konami will publish Def Jam Rapstar raises hope among the hip-hop-minded among us that maybe, finally, the world will get its first — or second, you may argue — great rap game. For all the hip-hop crossover with video games — the rappers playing video games, the rappers rapping about…
As of April 1, 2010, the Wii game that gets played the most by the people who have it is still Super Smash Bros. Brawl. 75 hours. 10 minutes. Since the day they got it. But a new contender is rising. (Click the chart to enlarge) Every month Kotaku updates a list of the so-called…
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You can download our newest podcast today and hear a few firsts: 1) Me trying a game live on the show 2) A caller asking a developer how it feels to have about four million people hate his game 3) A man from Zynga, makers of Farmville, admit that a Farmville movie would be terrible.…
A couple of big-brand video game comics series end this week, but I can’t stop shaking my head at the Superman series that feels like it should never have started. You all know the origin of Superman, right? Krypton. Rocket. Smallville. Superpowers. Metropolis. Every too often, the powers at be at DC Comics decide that…
Scrotality: name of the Achievement awarded to players of this month’s upcoming Dead To Rights: Retribution should they make the game’s playable dog chomp a bad guy’s groin. I committed this maneuver — in the game! — this morning. It’s some frightful business. As is Shadow’s ability to rip a guy’s throat out when he…
Sign #6583 that the Wii has made it big: There is an EA Sports Active ad on my orange juice carton.
Do not mess with the rules of Scrabble. That was the lesson of yesterday, the day many people thought the rules would soon be changing. Blasphemy by the Scrabble-makers? Snobbery by the fans? The heated reactions seemed familiar. There are, after all, people who don’t want the rules of Scrabble to be changed. There are…
Good news, Crackdown fans: The signature voice of the 2007 Xbox 360 game is back for this summer’s sequel. Better news: He’s not sick this time. Michael McConnohie was the no-nonsense voice of The Agency, the seemingly benevolent (or were they?) police force of which the playable hero of Crackdown was an officer. McConnohie’s voice,…
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In the beginning, I played video games. And, often, I played the role of God. Make that: slightly after the beginning. I was born in 1976, went to Catholic school and was an altar boy, had an Odyssey 2 in the early 80s and eventually a Super Nintendo plus a library of game cartridges that…
Word from the Scrabble makers at Mattel is that proper nouns will be fair game for Scrabble players as of this summer. [UPDATE: Not so fast concerning this “rule change.”] The BBC reported the change of rules for the 72-year-old game with the following explanation from a spokesperson for Scrabble co-rights-holder Mattel: A spokeswoman for…
“I don’t think there’s any garbage that’s getting advertised on television that people are getting fooled into buying. ” – Me on GameTrailers.com’s Bonus Round, theorizing that millions of people don’t get snookered into buying bad games any more Jump to the fifth minute of the latest installment of GameTrailers.com’s Bonus Round for a discussion…
My morning Crackdown 2 appointment started awkwardly last week. Double-booked. Game not running properly due to a technical mix-up. And then, those things rectified, I cheerfully mentioned one my favorite Crackdown features: Oh, the sequel’s creators said. We cut that. You may not agree that transforming cars were among the best elements of the 2007…
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Call it a missing chapter, an added short story or simply an extra sprinkling of Heavy Rain, but you may as well call for a do-over. The first downloadable episode of Heavy Rain, the acclaimed February serial killer drama for the PlayStation 3 from development studio Quantic Dream, offers a new chapter set early in…
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