You might think that the difference between Nintendo’s famous brothers is that one likes to wear red and the other wears green, or that one of them can sometimes jump a tad higher. But there’s another key difference. Luigi, the creators of the next Luigi-starring game from Nintendo say, is more emotional. That is essentially…
For the first four and a half hours of the new God of War, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the game was made by malfunctioning robots. They were given the God of War formula and with swiveling clamp-hands, they made what is technically a God of War game. Kratos is angry! Chain-blades must be…
I ran a test yesterday. I loaded the always-online SimCity—the game that EA says just can’t be easily made to run offline—and then pulled the proverbial cord. I switched off my Internet to see how long I could keep on playing. It didn’t last long, but what I discovered intrigued me. Prior to the official…
In what might seem a wee bit familiar to fans of a certain city-building video game, the folks at ComiXology have had to apologize for offering a product that their servers can’t handle. Two days after the leading digital seller of comics announced a short-time offer for 700 free, downloadable first issues of Marvel comic…
Between now and 11pm ET on Tuesday, March 12, you can download some 700 first issues from Marvel Comics for free. And… it’s legal! The ComiXology Comics app for iOS and Android is offering 700 Marvel comics as part of a Marvel promotion announced at this weekend’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. You could probably…
Richard Garriott, aka Lord British, was carrying a backpack full of fascinating things, when he stopped by Kotaku‘s offices last week to talk about his next game, Shroud of the Avatar What was in the backpack? His very first computer role-playing game—he’s holding it in his hand right here; it’s all in ASCII code on…
The maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset leads an all-star panel about VR that you can watch live at 7pm ET.
BioWare’s final Mass Effect 3 meeting is happening right now. Read Tweets from it and about it
The city in the above image was created in the beta for the new SimCity and demonstrated that, as always, if gamers can draw some male genitalia into a game, they will. Really, they will Previous SimCity games only let players draw straight rodes into their cities. The new game lets you draw curved roads,…
Last month, Sony started trying to convince us that we will need a PlayStation 4. The system is coming out at the end of the year. This month, the new God of War for PS3, God of War Ascension, might as well be an argument that we don’t. (Before we get too far into this,…
With SimCity‘s launch debacle entering its third day and the game remaining inoperable for many people, EA is shifting its tone and promising a resolution, but with no time or date for the fix. “We are aggressively undergoing maintenance on the servers and adding capacity to meet demand,” read a statement posted to the game’s…
Last spring, a SimCity producer told us EA was taking steps to “prevent” a Diablo III-style always-online launch debacle
The new pirate-themed Assasin’s Creed will unite the best traits of Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and Assassin’s Creed III, the game’s associate producer, Sylvain Trottier recently told me. How? Trottier talked me through what the Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag development team believes are the best features of…
What ever happend to the “Tropes Vs. Men in Video Games” series? GameRanx investigates
1) I sure wish that a game like Battlefield 3 or any other online shooter could be as fun for neophytes like me as it appears in this trailer for the final expansion to Battlefield 3, but I’m sure I’d just die a lot if I tried to hop in and play. 2) There is…
Plenty of game developers profess their love for Team Ico’s beautiful PlayStation 2 games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. But few of them have made games that bear the traits of those quiet, lovely adventures. The folks behind the new Tomb Raider tried to do that. And then shifted course. That’s revealed in a…
Actress Mila Kunis was supposed to be answering questions from BBC Radio 1’s Chris Stark about her new movie, Oz the Great and Powerful. But he was really, really nervous. And she was—is—a great sport. A few minutes into this most unusual interview it seems that, off-camera, someone in a position of authority starts thinking…
They don’t make many games that let you sail wherever you want to go on the sea, battling other ships, discovering islands, hunting for treasure. But they do make some games like that. In fact, Nintendo made a Zelda all about that: 2002/3’s The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for GameCube. Naturally, if you…
Most of this month’s Gears of War Judgment on Xbox 360 takes place before the three existing Gears of War games. But there will also be a short campaign called “Aftermath” that takes place concurrently with the near-final moments of Gears of War 3. The brief two-hour-or-so campaign follows two series regulars, Baird and Cole,…
We’ve been here before. It’s time to tell you about a new Assassin’s Creed This part went oh-so-well a year ago. Many of you were enthusiastic back then about a new character, a new continent and a new era. Many of you were not as enthusiastic in the fall, when you played the resulting game,…
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