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Assassin’s Creed III‘s Top Creator Is Answering Your Questions Right Here, Right Now
Do you have a question about Assassin’s Creed III? Would you like Alex Hutchinson, the creative director of this fall’s big game, to answer it? Ask your question in the box below. Hutchinson will be answering the best ones starting at 5pm ET. We’ve got him here for a half hour. Go! UPDATE: Here’s a…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Browser-Based MMO Runescape Boasts 200 Million Players… and Counting
When you talk about MMORPGs in the United States, most minds jump to World of Warcraft. And yes, with subscriber base that peaked at twelve million and still hangs out around ten million, WoW was and is a big deal. But Runescape, a free-to-play browser-based MMORPG from British company Jagex, makes every subscription-based game ever…
By Kate Cox Published July 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
You Are The Protagonist Of This First-Person Graphic Novel
Lots of video games are made to be played from the first-person perspective. People regularly complain about this. But what about a first-person comic book? That’s a little less ordinary. This twist in presentation was enough to make even old, cliched zombie trophes feel new in Brian Ralph’s graphic novel, Daybreak. The reader is pulled…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Video Game That Feels Like A Dream
While standing behind the demo for Papo & Yo yesterday at a Sony event, watching the game in action as I waited for my turn to play, the first thing I noticed was that the main character doesn’t walk up stairs. He just sort of glides. So when I got my hands on the controller,…
By Jason Schreier Published July 19, 2012 -
UncategorizedJann Lee Takes on Tina in Dead or Alive 5‘s Tag Mode
With Tina and Jann Lee returning to the ring in Dead or Alive 5, there are just too many pretty characters in the game to choose just one. Luckily there’s Tag Mode. Taking place inside an electrified wrestling ring surrounded by screaming fans (hopefully not screaming because they’re being electrocuted, but I’ll take it), Dead…
By Mike Fahey Published July 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
This Week’s Coolest Nintendo Download Transforms Your DSi Into a Tiny Programming Tool
This week’s Nintendo downloadables include the 3DS release of the Game Boy’s Kid Icarus and Tumble Pop, a new puzzle game by Nikoli and a colorful action adventure game from Aksys, but the title I’m looking most forward to isn’t a game at all. It’s a game creator. Well, Petite Computer isn’t just for creating…
By Mike Fahey Published July 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Half-Life 2 Art Director Laments The Stale State Of Modern Video Games
If there’s one man who knows from originality in video games, it’s Viktor Antonov. He’s the man responsible for the oppressive, beautiful art design of City 17 in Valve’s masterpiece Half-Life 2. One of the main reasons that I’m excited about the upcoming Dishonored is that Antonov will be art director. Just check out this…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Mastermind Behind the Ouya Console Is Answering Your Best Questions Right Here
Julie Uhrman want to make a $99 hackable Android-based game console, and now she’s got about $5 million in Kickstarter pledges to make that dream a reality. But since news broke about the ambitious Ouya device, many gamers have had many questions. Some have been answered in official interviews; some on Ouya’s Kickstarter page. Today,…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2012 -
UncategorizedOh Look, It’s A Crapload More Resident Evil 6 Gameplay Footage
Man, at this rate, we’re not even going to have to play Resident Evil 6, we can just watch it. Then again, after reading Jason’s article about Let’s Play, it actually sounds like a kinda cool idea. At any rate, three new videos of the game have hit YouTube—you can watch them here. Lots of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Creative Director of Assassin’s Creed III Will Answer Your Questions Live on Kotaku at 5pm ET
We’re so in love with our new live, reader-led Q&As that we’re doing two of them today. At 1:30pm ET, you’ll be able to ask questions and get answers from Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman. And then, at 5pm ET, come back and do the same with Alex Hutchinson, the creative director (read: top game developer)…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2012 - Esports
Heroes of Newerth Ready to Give All Players All Heroes for Free
Heroes of Newerth, originally launched in 2010, is one of the many multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games clamoring for attention these days. The genre grows more popular almost daily, with millions worldwide logging in to the generally free-to-play games and millions more tuning in to streaming matches online. Heroes of Newerth is trying a…
By Kate Cox Published July 19, 2012 -
UncategorizedFieldrunners 2 Is a Huge Improvement Over the First Fieldrunners
It’s been four years since the first Fieldrunners, the hit tower defense game which was what everyone with an iPhone seemed to have long before Angry Birds took over. Subatomic Studios has finally created a sequel, a rather large game that makes the first one look like a tech demo. The core gameplay is the…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2012 -
ReviewsTony Hawk HD: The Kotaku Review
In 1999, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater showed millions of people the world over that their fingers could talk. There’s a language that comes built into certain video games. Buttons become verbs, launching virtual figures into new landscapes. Combinations of inputs string together whole sentences that make you fluent in physics, aesthetics and sometimes even ideas.…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
How Ratchet & Clank Does Tower Defense
Yesterday’s news that the next Ratchet & Clank involves tower defense elicited at least one groan from a reader who recalled what a wretched addition tower defense was to last year’s Assassin’s Creed. Tower defense games may be popular—who doesn’t love setting up rows of towers to kill marching enemies?—but some series just don’t need…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Thursday. You’ve made it this far. The weekend is within reach. Do not falter, heroes. Go on and talk about the games you’re playing, loving and hating. Head over to Talk Amongst Yourselves, the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Go to the TAY…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Blizzard CEO: We Know Diablo III ‘Isn’t Perfect’
Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime has addressed player concerns with action-role-playing game Diablo III, promising improvements in a statement on Battle.net today Noting that the launch of Blizzard’s highly-anticipated sequel had “many challenges,” Morhaime noted that the team had fixed the majority of technical issues—like the much-mocked “error 37” issue that prevented players from logging into…
By Jason Schreier Published July 19, 2012 -
UncategorizedCheck Out the Largest Map in Battlefield History
In September Battlefield 3‘s next expansion, Armored Kill, brings five new vehicles, a tank superiority game mode and the sweeping sands of the Bandar Desert, the largest map in the history of the franchise. Let’s take a look at the first gameplay trailer! Look at all that sand. It’s like a budding George Lucas romance…
By Mike Fahey Published July 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Joy Of Playing Video Games Without Actually Playing Them
Playing video games can be wonderful. Sometimes not playing them can be even better. See, games are often time-devouring. Tedious. Difficult. Annoying. You might not want to spend hours of your life grinding for experience points to kill a dragon or shooting up bloody clouds of soldiers en route to some submarine. (There’s always a…
By Jason Schreier Published July 19, 2012
