Remember this? The console we used to call Durango was covered in black-and-white stripes? We couldn’t show the pre-release machine to you then. But now you can see it, as featured on GameTrailers’ Xbox One behind-the-scenes special and spotted on Twitter by @Talaviir. Maybe it was for security, maybe it was just to look cool.…
Microsoft tells Polygon that the great dev studio Rare will be bringing back one of its old series for Xbox One and will show it at E3. For the love of god, let it be Blast Corps! (It most likely won’t be Blast Corps.)
You’ll have a dog in the next Call of Duty. You’ll be able to lean. You’ll be able to slide. And in multiplayer, you’ll be able to customize your character’s avatar, switching bodies, heads and more. Call of Duty: Ghosts is making its public debut today as part of the reveal of the new Xbox,…
Greetings from Washington State, Kotaku. I’ve parachuted in to check out the new Xbox, which will be revealed today. (Probably because Microsoft got tired of all the leaks, right?) We’ll have lots of coverage, including a livestream of the day’s big 1pm ET/10am PT Xbox Reveal conference. You know the drill. A trickle of coverage…
After tomorrow, the next new console announced will be the… 1) Apple Something, 2) The Wii 3, 3) The PlayStation 4 1/2, 4) ____________. Any guesses?
Seven months after the publication of an article about the troubled development cycle of his studio’s last video game, Denis Dyack is finally sharing his views on the article. Naturally, we have some thoughts about his reply. Dyack’s response appeared online on Sunday in the form of a 33-minute video, which you can watch above.…
The excellent, expansive Batman: Arkham City was always going to be a tough act to follow, and Batman: Arkham Origins, this fall’s next in the series, does not immediately make a strong case that it will surpass its predecessor. That may seem like a harsh assessment of a game that was just shown to press…
It was recently established that the 2013 gamer is perplexed by some parts of 1994’s Super Metroid. The 2013 gamer is having some issues with 1990’s Super Mario World, too. We can see these struggles on the Nintendo Wii U’s Miiverse, a community accessible primarily through Nintendo’s new console. The Miiverse enables gamers to take…
You may love Gran Turismo. I don’t play them. Just not my thing. But when I see Gran Turismo 6 running in the corner of a Sony PlayStation event in Santa Monica, I ask the only GT-related questions I can think of. Are you guys rendering the bottoms of cars in greater detail? I ask…
… was a year ago, but it was brief, just to prove that it was a real game so I could vote for it for a pre-release E3 game critic’s award… The second time I played the game was last night. And, as you can see above and below, it really does look that damn…
Nintendo will make several of their unreleased Wii U games playable at more than 100 Best Buy locations during the week of E3, according to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. Details are scarce, but it appears to mean that, instead of squeezing into the Los Angeles Convention Center during the week of June 10…
Platinum Games’ swarm-of-super-heroes action game The Wonderful 101will launch on the Wii U on September 15. We’ve liked what we’ve played, so this is good news!
Sonic Lost World, the next Sonic game, will launch exclusively on the Wii U and 3DS, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said today in a Nintendo Direct video. It’s part of a new Nintendo-Sega partnership. UPDATE: A Sega press release indicates that this is a three-game deal: “Sonic the Hedgehog has proven incredibly successful on Nintendo…
The PlayStation Vita is a good, powerful handheld machine that’s run some piss-poor first-person shooters. After rushed, clunky Resistance and Call of Duty shooters, the system will get a Killzone in September. It merely needs to be mediocre to improve Vita FPSing dramatically. After having played the Vita’s Killzone: Mercenary last night at a Sony…
Less than two years after vowing to deliver on an “unprecedented partnership” with Nintendo, gaming giant EA is quiet on the Wii U front. “We have no games in development for the Wii U currently,” company spokesperson Jeff Brown told Kotaku yesterday. He did not rule out the chances of EA developing for the Wii…
As I play an advance copy of the newest version of Nintendo’s beloved Animal Crossing games, I’ve again been pondering the nature of Tom Nook, a character who could teach Bowser and Mother Brain a thing or two about tormenting a Nintendo gamer. Tom Nook, if you don’t know, is one of the recurring characters…
Imagine a video game that includes 33 Batmans (Batmen?), 130 Green Lanterns and even Aztek The Ultimate Man. Imagine a game that, its creators say, includes ever super-powered hero or villain in DC Comics’ nearly 80-year history. That game is real. It’s scheduled for a fall release. The game goes by the name Scribblenauts Unmasked:…
The creators of the huge new video game Watch Dogs reject the black and white choices video games often give you when they want to give you a moral dilemma and make you feel something. They’re striving to go beyond that, to color their new game about hacking, driving, shooting and being an urban vigilante…
UPDATE, 12/4/14: This story appears to have been based on a hoax that was intended to trick us into publishing a false article. An indie developer said as much online last night and in a subsequent e-mail to me, saying that he and a friend decided to play a “harmless” prank to see which of…
I’m tired of Aliens and Star Wars references in video games. But references to HBO’s great drama The Wire? I’ll take more. Above, a scene from the interesting upcoming game Watch Dogs, which enables you to hack into—and see through—security cameras in a modern Chicago. Below, the presumed inspiration: When I asked the game’s senior…
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