Stephen Totilo

Activision Earnings Way Higher Than Activision Expected

The publisher of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft released a sunny financial report today, and revealed that Guitar Hero is big in Europe. Activision Blizzard pulled in $981 million in revenue in the first quarter of this year ending March 31. That’s up from the company’s projected $860 million (which happens to be…

Madden Wii Developers Re-Re-Think Motion Controls

EA’s football developers may be ushering in a third era of Wii motion control game development — a better one. Remember when Wii controls involved swinging your arms wildly or making gestures that could more easily be inputted with the press of a button? The developers of the next Madden on Wii are trying to…

Henry Hatsworth Creator Left EA On His Wedding Day

Kyle Gray achieved his biggest goal at EA and now has three or four more. Having filed his taxes early this year, Kyle Gray, 27, had April 15 free to do two other important things. Dressed in a suit and bowler hat, he went to work at EA Tiburon, the studio where he led the…

Producer: Why There Isn’t A Star Trek Game Adapted From The Movie

X-Men Origins: Wolverine got its own movie-based game. This weekend’s Star Trek movie will not, unless you count the downloadable spin-off. We asked why. Big movies get video game adaptations, most of the time. For better or worse. But that’s not happening with this weekend’s Star Trek film, which is getting the spin-off space-combat game…

1 vs 100 Could Be Achievement Treasure Trove

For Xbox Live Gold members playing Microsoft’s next experiment, Achievement points — lots of them — will be free. 1 vs 100 has one thing in common with every other Xbox 360 game. The massively multiplayer Xbox 360 game show will have Achievements. And that means that even people who don’t want to play it…

1 Vs 100 Preview: An MMO Game Show

Microsoft wants to make gaming a prize-winning endeavor with a console-first massively-multiplayer trivia game for Xbox 360. Is a giant game show just what Xbox Live needed? What Is It? 1 Vs 100 is the sometimes-live 13-week game show being released for free to all Xbox Live Gold members later this year. Prizes are awarded…

EA Showed More Love To PC And DS Last Year

One giant games publisher. Ten gaming platforms. Lots of shifting support from 2007 to last year. EA backed some, bailed on others. EA published 111 console, PC and handheld games during its 2008 fiscal year, not counting cell phone games. According to the company’s official financial filings, here’s how they spread their efforts: EA game…

Obama Is Latest Butt Of ‘President Evil’ Joke

The people behind the new Barack Obama joke comic aren’t the first ones to smack the image of a U.S. president onto a Resident Evil image. The new “President Evil” comic book coming this July from Antarctic Press was an inevitability. The comic features Obama teaming up with political friends and foes to turn back…

Here Are Your 10 Most-Played Wii Games

According to our research, Super Smash Brothers Brawl is the Wii game that collects the least amount of dust. But two other games are surging toward top status. Since September of last year I’ve been tracking the usage stats for top Wii games. Earlier reporters are at MTV Multiplayer. Today, I bring the concept to…

Why Kotaku?

Never mind why your new Deputy Managing Editor has come to Kotaku. Why are you here? What kind of person leaves a nice games-reporting job at MTV News, gives up running their own blog to work under the iron fist of one Brian Crecente? Me — your new Kotaku deputy managing editor. People asked me…

Stephen Totilo Bio

Stephen Totilo is a reporter based in Brooklyn, New York. He’s the editor-in-chief for video gaming site Kotaku. Prior to joining Kotaku, Totilo worked for four years as MTV News’ first full-time video game reporter. His work appeared on-line and on-air across MTV, MTV2, MTVu, MTV’s international channels, MTVNews.com and the MTV Multiplayer blog, which…