Jonah Wade is a madman whose paid soldiers are blowing up Shanghai. Also, he used to make action movies to recruit soldiers. That’s one of the many absurdly excellent ideas in the unfortunately choppy Army of Two: The 40th Day. The mutli-million selling Army of Two series is back with a console sequel, the first…
Late 2010 will improve our ability to play video games without a controller in our hands. But even if you skip getting a Project Natal, there will be ways for you to motion-control your TV with a hand wave. The New York Times reports that the Xbox 360’s Project Natal is just one of many…
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To: Totilo From: Totilo Re: Totilo / Hey Look! Whale In A Can Would you look at the time? Man, it’s like, past time to be writing the Day Note. Good thing Crecente is actually off today and not checking the site. He’d see that this Day Note is late. Good thing he’s away. What…
I previewed BioShock 2 today, but I did not describe how the series’ Plasmid powers have changed since the last game. Thankfully, MTV Multiplayer did. Take it away, my former blog: Scout An extremely unique plasmid, this allows you to basically turn into a ghost at will. In “ghost” form you’re invisible, but you can…
Ads for Mass Effect 2, drinking laws. (As seen outside the subway station one stop past Kotaku’s NYC office, thanks to someone missing his stop due to listening to a This American Life segment about The Penguin meeting Mary Poppins.)
If Wii MotionPlus or Microsoft’s Project Natal are the next generations of video game motion control, what, you may wonder, is the next generation of controlling a video game by blowing your breath at it? A company called Zyxio showed a new four-sensor system called SensaWaft that allows users to blow a mouse cursor across…
Game companies hate when people trade in gaming goods at game shops. Gamers hate the propensity for Xboxes to break. But were it not for these two things, an alleged crime would not have been exposed. From the files of news-from-December-about-something-that-happened-in-November comes the Daytona Beach, Florida News Journal’s tale of a purloined Xbox. On November…
BioShock 2, which I’ve been previewing, is a great-looking game set in an underwater city populated with interesting enemies, Big Sisters and Big Daddys. Too bad publisher 2K Games isn’t showing off the beautiful undersea world often visible outside.
Two levels deeper into BioShock 2 and unwilling to spoil any of the major events in the game, I will instead share a feeling I’ve gotten from a preview of next month’s sequel from 2K Games: Bad things are coming. Previews of BioShock 2 hitting the Internet today, including this one, are based on the…
An ex-NBA star recently asked a group of children where playing Xbox will get them. He was promoting fitness, so he probably expected a negative answer. And he got one. Here’s the Deseret News reporting on the noble effort of former Utah Jazz player Mark Eaton promoting fitness through an National Basketball Association program called…
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Since the Simpsons’ TV showed launched in 1989, more video games have been made about them than just about any non-game franchise this side of Star Wars and Dragonball Z. Unfortunately, the medium doesn’t have much to show for it. On Sunday FOX TV will air a 20th anniversary celebration of The Simpsons TV show…
An anonymous blogger filing under the heading “Rockstar Spouse” has penned a letter of complaint about working conditions at Red Dead Redemption development studio Rockstar San Diego. The lengthy posting appeared yesterday on a user blog on the game development site Gamasutra and was signed by “Determined Devoted Wives of Rockstar San Diego employees.” The…
It’s 2010 and we are still reviewing games, still refusing to put scores on them, still loving, still hating. Here’s your weekly index of new Kotaku reviews. Darksiders Review: Harbinger Of The Apocopylypse In which “demonic growth” displeases Luke Plunkett Bayonetta Review: To Infinite Climax Action And Beyond In which Michael McWhertor mentions things widely…
Touch Arcade was lucky enough to spot Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery, an iPhoned/iTouched version of last year’s DS game of the same name on Apple’s app store this week. Too bad the game was taken down. Discovery stars the same Ezio de Auditore featured in the hit Assassin’s Creed II, but focuses on telling a…
Satisfying the unknown need for a thinking-person’s Breakout, Trajectile is (psst) a new DSiWare game from the veterans behind the acclaimed PixelJunk series and a brick-breaking breakthrough. It also might be the best non-golf golf game made in some time. Trajectile is the second DSiWare game from Q-Games, the small Kyoto-based company run by original…
Despite sharp graphics, fun gameplay, creative Wii controls and unprecedented use of a weird shirtless cartoon boy to demonstrate said controls, Capcom’s 2007 Wii game Zack &Wiki never sold big. Hey, it’s only the 13th best-reviewed Wii game ever. The news comes via Gamasutra’s coverage of the struggles third-party companies continue to face on the…
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As the first full day of the Consumer Electronics Show wore on, stories exploring the digital guts of Microsoft’s Project Natal gave way to gamer anxiety that the hands-free controller can’t work with high-end 360 games. Reports covered by Kotaku this morning indicated that the Natal would use 10-15 percent of the Xbox 360’s “computing…
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