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The Word is Fight, Fight, Fight
NCAA Football 13 is the week’s biggest console release, bringing with it roleplaying enhancements to the game’s career mode and the chance to relive the glory days of more than a dozen Heisman Trophy winners. Downloadable titles round out the remainder of the week. Tuesday • NCAA Football 13 (PS3, 360) • Quantum Conundrum (PSN)…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Check Your Inbox for an Invitation to LittleBigPlanet Karting‘s Beta
The closed beta for LittleBigPlanet‘s racing spinoff, LittleBigPlanet Karting begins on Tuesday, with codes and invitations going out very soon to the anointed participants. If you haven’t yet signed up, fear not—codes will be distributed during the entire beta period, which lasts July 10 to July 31. You can register here, but the only way…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Something in This Image will Probably be Featured in Medal of Honor‘s Multiplayer Trailer This Week
Medal of Honor‘s community operation is out there trying to gin up a ton of activity on its Facebook page, promising the release of the Medal of Honor: Warfighter multiplayer trailer once they reach 100 percent of … something. We’re told we’ll get there if we vote, like and comment on every poll and cover…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Feel Free to Mod Borderlands 2—You’ll Just Have to Do It Without an Official Toolkit
For a time, Borderlands‘ makers considered developing and releasing an official mod toolkit, but realized that its community had hacked the game apart and already accomplished much of what a software development kit would deliver. So SDK plans were shelved as redundant and unnecessary. “The best thing we could do for the community was get…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Red Dawn‘s Writer Didn’t Actually Write Homefront‘s Script, Say Ex-Developers [UPDATE]
In a superb autopsy of Kaos Studios, closed three months after it finished Homefront for THQ, Gamasutra‘s Leigh Alexander paints a vivid picture of a studio doomed by meddling, duplicitous executives, and filled with underqualified managers, overworked developers and even an overflowing urinal. There’s a lot of anonymous sourcing, which means there’s a lot of…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Halo 2 High-Definition Remake Said to be In Development
The latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine UK says that 343 Industries, maker of last year’s Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (and, of course, this year’s all-new Halo 4), has similar plans for Halo 2 “Following the success of remake Halo Anniversary, 343 Industries has now started development of Halo 2 Anniversary,” the magazine says in…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Sci-Fi Author’s Sword-Fighting Game Hits its Fund Raising Goal
Coming into the final two days of its fund raiser, CLANG, the arena sword-fighting concept proposed by renowned science-fiction writer Neal Stephenson, was short about $50,000 of its total $500,000 goal. Overnight it made up that difference and then some, standing at about $504,000 (from more than 8,000 contributors) with more than a day to…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
DayZ Creator Ponders a Free-to-Play Standalone Version
DayZ, the Arma II mod that places players in a tense, realistic survival against a zombie outbreak, is easily one of the most compelling PC games of the year. It’s amassed more than 400,000 users since its release in April and, if its current rate holds, will surpass half a million sometime in the next…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Give ‘Em a Hand
Creating a night light out of a severed hand probably isn’t a great way to reassure children frightened of the monster under the bed. An Assassin’s Creed retracto-blade gauntlet probably isn’t an age-appropriate toy, either. These are our two exploitables for this week’s edition of the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. Unhand me! I’ll post the source…
By Owen Good - Culture
Sunday Comics: Cold Dead Hand
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published July 2.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published July 4.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
By Owen Good
