Just got back from a Sony showcase a few blocks from Kotaku’s NYC office. Heading back over there post-haste. Had a few minutes to try to wreck a car in Gran Turismo 5 and learn about the game’s head-tracking. A Sony representative was showing Polyphony Digital’s upcoming PlayStation 3 racing game, and let me drive…
The Saboteur, EA’s game about aiding the French resistance against the Nazis, has optional in-game nudity, but only alludes to actual sex. It’s an obvious distinction, but not one often discussed by those who discuss mature content in games. But that distinction did come up during an interview between Saboteur lead designer Tom French and…
John Riccitiello, the gaming-savvy head of Electronic Arts, doesn’t want anyone to pirate games. But those who do, he told Kotaku, present a new market that EA needs to make money from. How? By selling people who grab games digitally — without paying for them — post-release downloadable content. “They can steal the disc, but…
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To: Ashcraft From: Totilo Re: Where Are *You* From? I was born in Freehold, New Jersey as was Bruce Spingsteen. I grew up in Peekskill, New York, which is where Mel Gibson is really from (not Australia). And here’s another surprise I have for you: It’s a story. A story about one man’s Saturday afternoon…
Cliff Bleszinski tried to fill Brian Crecente’s podcasting shoes last week. This week: Bleszinski has passed the guest-hosting loafers to Amy Hennig. The creative director of Uncharted 2 will guest-host our live podcast this Wednesday. Call in! Hennig joins Ken Levine, Tim Schafer and Bleszinski in Kotaku Talk Radio‘s short podcasting life. On Wednesday at…
Kim Swift, best known for being one of the students-turned-Valve-developers behind Narbacular Drop and team leader for its better-known successor Portal has left the house of Half-Life for the den of Dark Void. Swift is joining Airtight Games, the studio behind Capcom’s almost-finished jet-pack action game Dark Void. She will be a project lead. “I’ve…
The work of technology artist Cory Arcangel, a bit well-known for his Super Mario Bros. art/hack seven years ago, is part of an exhibit running in London. The artist reflected on what his Mario-with-just-clouds means, at least, to him. Speaking of “Super Mario Clouds,” he tells The Guardian’s Keith Stuart: “I knew that the clouds…
There are two ways Zelda games can be great. The newest entry in the series, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks summits one of those rarefied heights. There are the Zelda games that are great in ways that influence an industry and nearly mandate that they be played. These groundbreakers include the very first Zelda…
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Hundreds of you gave us a scare and contributed pictures of yourself in your most metal poses for our Brutal Legend contest. We’ve randomly selected 40 winners who will receive Brutal Legend t-shirt prizes. See if you’ve won below! But first! All winners will only receive a T-shirt if they do the following: 1) Send…
To: Luke From: Stephen Re: The True Meaning Of Cricket Sorry, Luke, but it sounds to me like you’re neglecting cricket. I bet cricket wants to be loved. I bet cricket wants some attention. But, no, you just let cricket prattle on in the other room while you and the guys drink beer. Cricket told…
We reviewed stuff this week, including stuffs that were not released recently. Know what that means? It’s December and we’re doing catch-up reviews of games we missed in 2009. (I bet I know what half of the comments will say.) Ravensword: The Fallen King Micro-Review: Hack, Slash, and Finger-swipe In which freelancer Matt Cabral explains…
The publisher of Madden, Dead Space and The Sims will release fewer games next year, reacting to market changes and embracing lessons its competitors are just now learning, the head of EA told Kotaku. “We’re building our games differently and we are building fewer of them,” EA CEO John Riccitiello said in his interview with…
Readers of Kotaku can discern this week that EA CEO John Riccitiello covered many topics during his recent interview with this site. One of those, of course, was EA’s Pandemic Studios, which was all but shut down last month. Timing is never good for an action that lays off 200 employees and shutters a studio’s…
When last Kotaku reported about the future of Command and Conquer, there was an editorial eyebrow raised skeptically. But the boss at EA believes that real-time-strategy needs “fundamental innovation.” His pitch might change your expression. During Kotaku’s interview this week with EA CEO John Riccitiello we turned to recent news that hallowed PC real-time-strategy series…
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Why would Kotaku review a game that you could start and finish quicker than dinner? To make sure you play it. Small games don’t often get a lot of critical attention. Nor do free ones. But don’t ignore the work of David Shute, who made a game called Small Worlds that is small and free…
To: Ashcraft From: Totilo Re: Are You A Cosplayer? Ash, I once cos-played as a vampire, but some other guy got in the way of the one picture of me doing it. Why is it that when you run into a wall in a video game your character usually keeps running? Why hasn’t that been…
Box sent by Nintendo containing both a copy of the new Zelda DS game and a noise-making device that was probably supposed to make a sound when the chest was opened.
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