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Uncategorized7 Seconds Of Brand-New BioShock Infinite Gameplay
Formerly one of 2012’s most anticipated games, BioShock Infinite will hopefully be a highlight of February, 2013. But a game out of the public eye can be a game we begin to worry about. What can assuage concern? Not box art. Not models. No, we need to see gameplay. And we need to play this…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedPortal On A TI Calculator, AKA Thing #52 I Wish I Had When I Was In High School
Yes, this is real. Yes, you can download it. No, I’m not excited that you use a TI calculator every day and no, I can’t just be happy for you. In my day we did actual math in math class. I want cool things, too! Hmph. Portal on a TI calculator! (new video) [YouTube via…
By Tina Amini Published December 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedIf All You Want to Do Is Kill Enormous Dragons, This is Your Game
Stunning combat games like Infinity Blade and Avengers Alliance are nice and all, but they waste a lot of time in-between battles with exploration and poking at items. In Glu Mobile’s Dragon Slayer you slay dragons. That’s it. You also upgrade and manage equipment and, in order to truly excel at the game, spend a…
By Mike Fahey Published December 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Dragonborn Is The First Skyrim DLC That Actually Feels Like An Expansion
When Skyrim first came out, Bethesda had lofty promises for the game’s downloadable content. Skyrim‘s DLC will feel like expansion packs, the developers assured us. Reality has told a different story. Skyrim‘s first DLC, Dawnguard, was a disappointing add-on filled with boring, samey quests. The second DLC, Hearthfire, was basically Barbie’s Playhouse with dragons Third…
By Jason Schreier Published December 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedRobot Unicorn Attack Goes Retro
The Erasure-powered glory of Robot Unicorn Attack has seen many different iterations, from the original Adult Swim flash game to the mobile app, heavy metal to Christmas to a Facebook evolution. Now PixelJam takes us back to the very beginning with Retro Unicorn Attack Some might say that Adult Swim is beating a dead horse…
By Mike Fahey Published December 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Oh. Aero Porter is a Yoot Saito Game. That Explains Everything.
I used to love SimCity so much that I bought SimEverything, which is why I didn’t just play SimTower but studied a game guide in a bookstore in order to discern how to best manage the game’s elevators. Elevator management! The joy. I liked my GameCube enough that I gave Odama an honest try, despite…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow To Access Skyrim‘s New ‘Dragonborn’ Content That Releases Today
New Skyrim DLC releases today. We’ll have impressions up for you in just a short while, but in the meantime you might want to know how to actually access the content yourself. Game Front is here to the rescue, explaining everything you need to know in the video above.
By Tina Amini Published December 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Hitman: Absolution Site Wants You To Threaten Your Friends With Really Tacky Insults [Update: Square Enix Apologizes]
Look, it’s already pretty clear that the folks at IO Interactive like a particularly adolescent style of joke-making, what with the closet-humping and all. But the latest effort at promoting the Square Enix published game invites you to fling their poor taste at your Facebook friends. It’s pretty tacky. As spotted on Rock, Paper, Shotgun,…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhen Dragons and Unicorns Fight, Everybody Wins
A crazy mix of arcade and defense gameplay with a sweet sense of style, Digital Harmony’s Dragons Vs. Unicorns is available for free in the iTunes App Store today. It’s not as cool as Dragons Vs. Unicrons, but it’ll do nicely.
By Mike Fahey Published December 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedSomeone Made An Entire Song Out Of Random Wii U Noises. It’s Pretty Catchy.
From the snapping noise a Wii U game case makes to the menu music, this Wii U song by YouTube user jimmy incorporates a whole bunch of sounds the Wii U can make. And the result is great. But it does kind of get awkward in the middle there.
By Tina Amini Published December 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Reddit says that back in August, Valve registered three movie site domain names. Wait… three? (via PCGamesN)
András Neltz Published December 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedIt’s A Desperate Fight For Survival In The Opening Hours Of Tomb Raider
You’re a young woman, crash-landed on an uncharted island in the south pacific. You’re wounded, it’s pouring rain; there are wolves everywhere. Your shipmates are scattered to the wind, and you’re starving to death. There are scores of people already inhabiting the island, evil men who are hunting you and your friends for some unknown,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedCut the Rope Creators Peel the Lid Off Pudding Monsters
With Cut the Rope and Cut the Rope Experiments, UK developer ZeptoLab created a pair of the most popular games on any mobile platform, along with one of the most beloved mobile mascots, the candy-munching OmNom. If anything can build on that success, it’s pudding. Due out later this month, Pudding Monsters looks to be…
By Mike Fahey Published December 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft’s Weird Alice in Wonderland Cameos
Ubisoft’s two big holiday releases don’t just share numerals and second words starting with “cr”. They also both begin, bizarrely, with almost exactly the same quote. Yes, of all the books, movies, TV shows and historical figures that are out there for developers to lift quotes from, both Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed III…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 4, 2012 -
Kotaku EastWatch E.X. Troopers in All its Alien Bug-Stomping Glory
E.X. Troopers is a spin-off title to Capcom’s Lost Planet series—though it may not seem like it at first glance. Unlike the realistic graphical style of the main series of games, E.X. Troopers is presented entirely in a manga-esque style. The game’s cutscenes even come complete with panel frames and written onomatopoeic sound effects. The…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published December 4, 2012 - Kotaku East
Does Call of Duty Camo Work in… Tokyo? Let’s Find Out.
You know in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, when Lt. Price and Cpt. MacMillan wear those “ghillie suits“? The camo outfits look like they’re wearing grass and foliage. Those come in handy while sneaking about the Russian wilderness. They’re less handy when in urban jungle known as Tokyo. Or are they? Japanese site Rocket…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 4, 2012 - Kotaku East
Internet Defends Man Accused of Reading Porn in Public. Things Get Ugly.
“This guy is like totally reading a dirty magazine on the train,” the high school student’s tweet read. Accompanying the tweet was a photo a man, his legs pressed close as he read a magazine. The tweet, and the visible photo of his face set off a flurry of comments online in Japan. This man…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 4, 2012