Another handy Power Up Rewards e-mail from GameStop arrived in my inbox today. A game that you can download to your 3DS without going into a store is “exclusively at GameStop.” GameStop isn’t even selling it for an exclusive price. Does anyone in gaming use the word exclusive correctly?
Some games nearly make me miss my subway stop. Some games tempt me to keep on playing them while I’m walking down the street. This is one of them. It’s Rymdkapsel, and it’s the minimalist real-time-strategy game with a Tetris twist. It’s downloadable and out for PlayStation Mobile platforms now. It’s brought my PlayStation Vita…
Here we go again. I’m at a preview of a big game coming from Ubisoft, hoping that it’s going to be as terrific as it seems. I can be skeptical, but I’ll be damned if I can cease being optimistic. Watch Dogs is looking and sounding good We’re in a conference room. Same one where…
Rockstar North’s decade-old Manhunt game—the game that made their Grand Theft Auto series seem tame—will be downloadable on the PS3’s PlayStation Network for $10, according to the Rockstar Newswire In this game, you’re a death row inmate who is being cajoled to kill people in the most grisly ways possible. Sounds a bit much, yeah?…
The fifth Mario vs. Donkey Kong game is upon us, though this is now the Mario and Donkey Kong series: Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move for the Nintendo 3DS. Any good? Yeah, good little puzzle game with some weird not-as-good mini-games. It’s $10, download-only. I’ll give you a tour. Just watch the…
Do you love video games? More importantly, are you able to communicate your love of video games through the 21st-century medium of online video? Then we should talk. Kotaku is looking for more New York City-based video editors—people who can capture, edit and narrate interesting video-game-related clips. It’d be like being a popular video game…
American gamers love first-person shooters, but imagine a game console that didn’t have any. Imagine one with no Call of Duty and no Battlefield. No Metro Last Light. No Wolfenstein. No big new FPS from Bungie. No big FPS from Respawn. No Killzone. No Halo. No Counter-Strike. No BioShock. No Borderlands This shouldn’t be that…
If the original Star Wars movie was shot in Minecraft, a) we’d be living in an era of time travel (please let us know when Half-Life 3‘s coming out. Thanks.) and b) it’d look like the video above. One out of two ain’t bad. Check out the start of A New Hope, Minecraft-style. The short…
A little more than two weeks after its big, albeit imperfect 2.0 update to SimCity, EA is preparing to roll out a new update that’s full of even more tweaks and fixes. Update 3.0 is coming this week. Will this be the one??? Patch notes, straight from EA-owned SimCity development studio Maxis: Update 3.0 Notes…
If any intrepid readers want to cook up a quick Need for Speed: Most Podracer, Battlefront: Bad Company or even a Death Star Space (ok, that last one doesn’t really work), send it over. We’ll publish and give you credit. Thanks! UPDATE: OK, here we go. Death Star Space up top is from Kotaku reader…
The very good solo/co-op heist game Monaco will be available for download to the Xbox 360 on Friday, May 10. It’s already out on PC. $15. Highly, highly recommended.
Remember Me is -gasp- an original game coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on June 4, a month that’s usually bereft of any interesting new games to play. Why care about this one? Take a look at the video above. You’ll see a third-person action game that has some standard platforming and some…
The tepid critical and commercial reaction to this year’s God of War and Gears of War prequels will hopefully send a message that I’ve been wanting the powers that be in all of entertainment to receive for years: Many of us who like a thing don’t care about what happened before whatever happened in the…
I know how to have fun playing a Mario game, a Zelda game or a Metroid game. I get Pikmin. I get Fire Emblem. Hell, I got Cubello. But I never got Nintendo’s Animal Crossing series. Help me understand! I’ve tried the GameCube version, the DS one and the Wii one. Nintendo kindly sent me…
I was looking through my computer for an Animal Crossing image and found this image entitled Animals_PlayDead.jpg. From June 2010, via the good people at Microsoft. I had to share, because, well, this picture is just great. Really sells how…. special… the Kinect is/was. Feel free to annotate it.
Couldn’t wade through yesterday’s 5,000 word Kotaku preview of GTA V? Here’s the short version, in 62 words: Set in and around Los Santos (aka Los Angeles) You juggle playing three characters, switching at will in the open world, warping to wherever on the map one of them is going about his life Characters meet…
NYU’s fourth annual No Quarter exhibition of new indie games takes place tonight in downtown Manhattan and is well worth attending if you can get in. Learn more and/or RSVP here Going there ensures you’ll be able to play some interesting new games. (Like this one from the 2011 No Quarter.) As a bonus, you’ll…
The co-op heist game Monaco appears to be missing whatever qualities an online video game must possess in order to turn the strangers who play it into jerks. I’m worried about telling you this, because I’m worried that I’m wrong and that Monaco is as prone to being ruined by the burrs of humanity. I’m…
Here’s a neat new trick. You can run the Unreal Engine 3 real-time tech demo Epic Citadel in a web browser. Get a “Nightly” version of Firefox. Then go here. This HTML5 FAQ explains more. How high can you get the framerate?
The things that stick out to me about Grand Theft Auto V are not the major things I was supposed to focus on when I saw the game in action at Rockstar HQ this week. But I’ll tell you those smaller things first, anyway. There’s a nine-hole golf course in this game. You can play…
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