Valve recently detailed the new downloadable Left 4 Dead 2 campaign, The Passing. It will reunite the heroes of the first game and the sequel. There’s an official poster for it. But without the expected witty tagline. Suggest one, please.
To: Our Man In Japan From: Our Man In New York Re: This Is It Should there be more sunshine? What you may have missed during this very newsy day: Mile Marker 28: Trauma Dev Eyes Call of Duty: World at War for iPhone Married By Master Chief, One Year Later Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate…
Danger. You are at risk of discussing January’s U.S. video game sales data without the proper analysis at the ready. Grab a marker and consider scribbling the following cheat-sheet notes on your hand. For the raw data, check out the NPD’s U.S January video game hardware sales and video game software sales. Fact: The PlayStation…
The long-in-development Alan Wake, one of the most enigmatic titles in development for the Xbox 360, will finally be released on May 18, Microsoft announced today. Earlier this week, the game’s developers gave Kotaku a live demonstration. It was impressive. Alan Wake has been in development by Max Payne makers Remedy Entertainment for more than…
Fable III is at X10. Alan Wake is at X10. Bungie is at X10, presumably with you-know-what. And so too is Kotaku. Brian Crecente has just hustled himself into Microsoft’s big 2010 gaming showcase out in San Francisco. He shot me over some photos and notes that the event’s got some signage issues. Outside, you’ve…
We at Kotaku now know what it’s like to have a release date slip. Tomorrow, thanks to the melting of yesterday’s New York blizzard, we’ll finally do our live weekly podcast. Bioshock 2’s creative director will take your calls. May I quote my own post from pre-blizzard Monday, back when everything was so much sunnier?…
Word just hit from EA that their Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo is “on pace to become the fastest downloaded demo in EA history.” It has been downloaded to Xbox 360s and PS3s more than two million times. In the past week EA has also said that its Dante’s Inferno demo was downloaded three million…
A year ago, I attended a Halo wedding. It was in Orlando. The bride entered to a live rendition of the Halo 3 menu music. A man dressed as Master Chief married bride and groom. Here’s what happened next. A year past their wedding, Desirai Labrada and John Henry have become an inspiration to the…
A person writes in to UK Daily Star sex advice columnist Just Jane. He’s got some problems. He’s dodging the consequences by playing Xbox. Jane says that’s no good. The problem: He was caught having sex with his boss’ secretary in the boardroom, was fired, can’t get the courage to confess any of this to…
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Finally, for real, the StarCraft II beta is about to begin. Activision Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced today during a company earnings call that the closed beta of the highly-anticipated real-time strategy game will launch this month. The beta will be offered in North America, Europe, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and, of course, the place…
Activision Blizzard isn’t going to let poor reviews of Tony Hawk Ride get them down. Sticking to its schedule of annual skateboard releases, the company announced today that it would release a new Tony Hawk game, using the board peripheral. Activision CEO Mike Griffith said in an earnings call today that the new Tony Hawk…
If EA wants its upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2 to begin wresting military first-person shooter dominance away from Modern Warfare, excellence in multiplayer is only one mission objective. How important is the campaign and can it be as good? Yesterday, I played portions of two missions from Bad Company 2’s single-player campaign on an Xbox…
Like the spy agent depicts, the espionage role-playing game Alpha Protocol is stealthily approaching its release, now slated for early summer. And it’s still a tricky game to size up. A few observations from a recent demonstration of the game: It Doesn’t Look Like A Role-Playing Game: At least the Mass Effect games are science…
You’re a man trying to rock a baby to sleep. You’re a woman trying to look sexy for a sleaze. Who cares if you’re having fun, as long as you’re interested? You’re playing Heavy Rain, a video game about people. Many years in the making and a successor to what could most kindly be called…
Reminder: Join in on the Lost conversation and try to help me untangle last night’s episode over at our #Losttalk discussion page. Surely someone’s figured it all out, no?
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Is Avatar-style Sterescoppic 3D going to be big in video games? A report in Consumer Electronics Daily finds few video game publishers ready to sound excited about 3D gaming, except Disney, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t 3D games coming. From the report: Insight Media predicted 15-25 console games will be released in 2010 supporting…
As noted yesterday, Jordan Thomas, creative director of Bioshock 2, will be our guest on tomorrow’s live Kotaku call-in podcast. Show time’s 11am MT, 1pm ET. Call-in and listening details will be live on the site at show time.
I can buy video game’s depiction of intergalactic war, sure. Gaming portrayals of romance are a tougher sell. But there’s another kind of love that’s suddenly popular in games and is being done well: The love of being a dad. I write this article from the disadvantaged position of being married and not being a…
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