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UncategorizedThe Roots Offer a New Take on the Unofficial Theme Song of E3 2012
My, what a week it’s been. Almost every member of team Kotaku convened in Los Angeles to bust our legs running around getting all the best video game news we could grab, and we are all bushed. If there was one trend I noticed at E3 2012 (beyond the guns and bows and helicopters and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Guy’s Halo 4 Mohawk Should Win ‘Best Hair of E3’
Meet Ryan Hakik, freelance video game tester and Halo fan. He’s got something on his head. I shot this quick interview with him yesterday at E3, just outside of the Halo 4 part of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 booth. It’s a little hard to tell in the video, but that 4 lights up. Best hair-do of…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedWatch StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm‘s Upgraded Protoss and Zerg Units Duke It Out
Today, Blizzard detailed the many new units that will show up in Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm. Rather than just describing a bunch of abilities and units, they decided to also show them in action in this Protoss vs. Zerg match. Over the course of the 24-minute match, you can see many (maybe all?)…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Rather burnt to a crisp here, coming out of Los Angeles, and not sure I’ll be playing much of anything this weekend as I recover my mental faculties from E3. There’s still a lot left to say from what we saw down there, and it’s hard to break out of mental note-taking, since you can’t…
By Owen Good Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedSuper Meat Boy vs. Bear Platypus-Monkey. Someone’s Gotta Win.
You are summoner extraordinaire in Diluvium, a small game that arose from the TOJam game jam earlier last month. You summon animals by typing in their names, and you can create a totem pole of up to three animals. There can only be one of each animal on the playing field at once, and the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedHere Are Even More Unreal Engine 4 Demos. These Have Guns.
Did you see today’s hot new Unreal Engine 4 graphics demo? And read about how it will change the games we play on the next Xbox and PlayStation, perhaps? Well. We have even more UE4 demo videos to share with you. These are some crude game prototypes that Epic principal artist Shane Caudle cooked up…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Madden 13 is Mostly Law-Abiding in Its Physics—Though It Does Jaywalk at Times
If you can sit up straight and squirm in your seat at the same time, I did when I got the news Madden NFL‘s creators revealed they were going to go for it this year, with their “Infinity Engine” offering real-time physics. It is a long overdue feature, something seen even in a striver title…
By Owen Good Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedHere’s Proof That Final Fantasy VII Will Actually Run On Your Vita
In case you were worried that the Vita couldn’t handle your PSOne Classics version of Final Fantasy VII or something, here it is in action. It looks great, too! You might not be able to tell from the video, but the graphics are really slick. Square’s classic role-playing game will be available this summer when…
By Jason Schreier Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Committing Genocide in Pokémon Helps Me Shape Who I am
For me, beating a game isn’t in reaching the end point. Finishing a game is easy enough. Having the highest stats, the best gear, exploring and experiencing everything though? That’s not as simple. Still, reaching that “optimal state” is my personal holy grail. Once the path toward that optimal state is clear to me—once I…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft Promises 2013 Watch Dogs Release, Remains Cagey About Platform
We’re still guessing about whether Ubisoft’s highly impressive Watch Dogs is in fact one of a few of E3’s stealth-reveals of the next generation of gaming. What we saw sure seemed too intricate and advanced to run on current gaming consoles. But Ubisoft has remained cagey about when and on what platforms the game will…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
THQ Sold Out to EA Sports Because It Didn’t Break Even on UFC 3
In hindsight, it should be no surprise that THQ jettisoned its expensive exclusive license to make video games with the UFC’s imagery and fighters. The company is hurting badly and had gone through a huge, soul-searching reorganization, jettisoning its kids-stuff division and completely bailing on E3 this year as its stock price hovers around 66…
By Owen Good Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Fresh Look at The New Multiplayer Units in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
This video demonstrates all the latest updates that have been made made to StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm units since they were unveiled at BlizzCon last year. Some very cool stuff in here. The Protoss units on display are the Mothership Core, the Oracle, and the Tempest. Terran gets the Battle Hellion, Warhound, and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Star Trek Boldly Goes To Your Living Room, and Looks Really Good Doing It
I was six years old when Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered. For the next seven years, I watched it every Saturday night with my parents and often, during the last two seasons, with my best friend and her parents as well. I was as nerdy as a nerdy child could be, and I loved…
By Kate Cox Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
These Guys Took Their Missed E3 Booth Babe Connections to Craigslist
If you’ve attended E3, chances are you’ve probably had some interaction with booth babes. There’s simply no avoiding them, even if they are one of the tackier aspects of gaming’s biggest convention. But not everyone feels uncomfortable around booth babes. Some guys love ’em, and some guys even fall for them. A quick perusal of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedNatural Selection 2 Is a Genius Mash of Counter Strike and Starcraft
Have you ever played a real-time strategy game and wondered what life was like for the pawns you send out to battle? What if those soldiers weren’t brain-dead fighters, but could actually carry out smart decisions on their own, without you telling them to do so? Natural Selection 2 breathes life into an otherwise lonelier…
By Tina Amini Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
E3 2012 Proves That JRPGs Are Still Kicking
Unless you’re a huge fan of dubstep and Michael Bay movies, you probably weren’t too excited after this year’s E3 press briefings. It was an especially disappointing slew of conferences for role-playing game fans, who were greeted by precisely zero new RPG announcements. Everything was very brown. The industry seemed locked into a future of…
By Jason Schreier Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
‘The Painting Obama Fears’ Is Actually The ‘Modified, Uncredited Assassin’s Creed Character Art That Obama Fears’
The folks at Wonkette and Mock, Paper, Scissors have noticed that a new $70-$4000 “painting” of late, right-wing muckraker Andrew Breitbart by artist David Bugnon looks awfully similar to character art from Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. No credit! Pic via Wonkette
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
A-Yup, Lost Planet 3 Shoots Its Sci-Fi Critters with an Old-Timey Rifle
Lost Planet 3 happens in space. More specifically, future space. And it’ll have the star-faring ships and unlimited-ammo pistols that make sense in a sci-fi series. But the threequel will also let you blast a centuries-old bolt-action rifle at those nasty Akrid. What’s up with that? Even, if you account for the fact that LP3…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 8, 2012