How will the newly-announced Nintendo 3DS show 3D graphics without requiring 3D glasses? One solid theory involves cameras (but wouldn’t require a new machine). Another, here, involves a motion sensor in a portable, a trick the iPhone already does. As you can see in the video, iPhone game WordFu, which we wrote about a year…
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To: Luke From: Not-Owen Luke, I am not Owen, though I do sometimes watch sports. Not much sports, but I do like boxing. I caught the replay of the last Pacquiao fight this morning, and boy was it dull. My wife has been trying to watch some NCAA men’s basketball tournament this weekend, but I’ve…
post What’s the point of a beta test for a video game these days, other than to drum up publicity? The makers of upcoming PlayStation 3 game ModNation Racers say it got them to add a feature. During the Game Developers Conference earlier this month, game producer Dan Sochan told Kotaku that the public beta…
Next month, Jason Rohrer, innovative developer of Passage, is releasing Sleep Is Death. The multiplayer video game combines adventure gaming with a second player’s need to craft new, reactive scenes in mere 30 seconds intervals. Caught Sleeping [Boing Boing]
For five bucks, a Dante’s Inferno player can have the most powerful Dante in video games. The Dark Forest add-on pack for Dante’s Inferno, released at the beginning of this month, is a an uncommon piece of single-player-oriented downloadable content. As aggressive as publishers have been to issue DLC for big console games lately, they…
Each week we record a live audio call-in show, modeled off of all those drive-time talk radio shows on the radio. We do this, in part, so you can listen to Kotaku while obeying the speed limit. If you’re not already downloading Kotaku Talk Radio, find it in iTunes or in the Zune marketplace and…
I spoke to the men running the studio behind many of the world’s biggest role-playing games a couple of weeks ago, to discuss a variety of things. I left with a bonus: The BioWare Vision Statement. Here is that vision, from the mouth of Ray Muzyka, EA’s general manager for (as he named them) BioWare…
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With the use of some red ink and some blue ink, we reviewed some video games this week. Links to the results are below. How’d we do? Brother In Arms 2 Micro-Review: Oh, Brother Where Art Thou? In which Brian Ashcraft could have sworn he was playing Thumbs: The Game Scrap Metal Micro-Review: There’s a…
The stylish, HD-retro PixelJunk games are among the highlights on the PlayStation platform. But another cult favorite, Demon’s Souls, beat the series to its latest clever innovation. The spring update to the first PixelJunk game, PixelJunk Racers, will add the ability for players to summon and race against the ghost of any player on their…
I care little for kart-racing games and seldom generate any user-generated content. So, to be honest, I did not rush at the chance I was given last week to play ModNation Racers at Game Developer’s Conference 2010. My mistake. ModNation Racers is indeed a kart-racing game built on a foundation that supports and encourages user-generated…
Last week, game developer Tommy Refenes publicly called Apple’s app store “awful” and “horrible.” This week, Apple yanked his game from their store. There are a couple of reasons that may have compelled Apple to remove Zits & Giggles, a pimple-popping game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, from the App store: Possibility 1: Its…
Attaining a platinum medal in the PlayStation 3’s God of War III rewards players with the address to mystery web page Spartans Stand Tall, according to multiple Kotaku readers who must have excellent God of War skills. What’s it mean? So far, we’ve got is this web address: http://www.godofwar.com/spartansstandt… It takes you to a web…
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The game you see here will include a calorie counter. Lose weight by delivering a punch to the gut, followed by a head butt. This is Motion Fighter, a motion-controlled bare-knuckle brawling game unveiled last week for the PlayStation 3’s new Wii-style wand controller, the PlayStation Move. During an interview with Kotaku, Sony vice president…
No, in this post you will not find the algorithm of entertainment, the theorem of thrills or the postulate of pleasure. But you will find details on how one unlikely game may, accidentally, calculate fun. The game is Dante’s Inferno, EA’s enjoyable and lurid re-imagining of the classic poem. The application of a possible mathematical…
Next week, Nintendo will release the largest Nintendo DS yet seen in America, the pocket-busting DSi XL. But I have played a DS game that no DS can display — on my TV with a giant, virtual stylus. Max & The Magic Marker is a downloadable game from Press Play, in development for a couple…
For about fifteen bucks a month, you can play World of Warcraft or most other massively multiplayer online games. That’s the genre standard. Could the next big MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic shake that up? In an interview with Kotaku at Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco last week, Ray Muzyka, general manager of…
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