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UncategorizedI Played XCOM: Enemy Unknown With An Xbox Controller. It Works.
Given its pedigree, you might expect XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the October-scheduled throwback to a classic computer strategy game, to be playable only by mouse and keyboard. Can’t work any other way, right? I played the new turn-based strategy game on a PC last week in Santa Monica. I played it with an Xbox 360 controller…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Major League Baseball 2K‘s Cancellation Looms on Grim News from Game’s Creators
Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of 2K Sports, notably left Major League Baseball 2K out of its planned releases in its coming fiscal year in a call with investors today. Kotaku asked Take-Two Interactive if it could confirm the end of the series, and it released this statement: “Our legacy Major League Baseball agreement will…
By Owen Good Published May 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedIndie Gem J.S. Joust Is Flagrantly Cloned [Update]
Die Gute Fabrik’s hugely enjoyable screenless indie game Johann Sebastian Joust is the latest victim of app-store cloning. An iOS game called Papa Quash released yesterday apes not only Joust‘s core mechanical idea, but shamelessly lifts its marketing, imagery, and overall vibe. Both Joust and now Papa Quash are games that are played outside of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
X-Com First Person Shooter Severely Delayed Yet Again
The bold first-person shooter take on classic strategy game X-Com, long in development by BioShock 2 creators 2K Marin, has been pushed back another year by publisher Take Two to some time between April 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014
By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Five Comics That Question Everything You Know This Week
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Rainbow Bridge: Marvel and DC Comics Bring Same-Sex Superheroes into the Spotlight
This morning, the ladies of ABC’s The View were talking about a celebrity wedding. Happens all the time, right? But the celebrities in question were the X-Men, not the Kardashians. And the wedding? It’s going to be super-fast adventurer Northstar marrying his longtime boyfriend Kyle. Definitely not your typical talk-show fare. While this storyline was…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012 - Reviews
The Massive Delivers a Chilling, Water-Logged Look at the End of the World
Most pop-culture apocalypses crank up the volume, right? Whether it’s alien invasions or natural disasters, the end of civilization as we know it tends usher in a whole lot of noise pollution. So, the palpable silence left by mankind’s near-extinction happens so quietly is one of the best things about The Massive Now, of course,…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedMarvel Heroes‘ First Gameplay Trailer Features Wolverine, Black Widow and Some Clown Named Deadpool Kicking Ass MMO-Style
After a long time fighting secret development wars, Gazillion Entertainment is finally letting the world look at the massive multiplayer online game featuring dozens, maybe even hundreds of Marvel Comics characters This quick teaser packs in a few Avengers, a couple of mutants and two of Marvel’s biggest bad guys. Marvel Heroes has a storyline…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Protecting a World That Hates and Fears It, Panel Discussion Starts Now!
Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this
By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
If You Have a TV Nearby During E3, Turn on Spike TV
In two week’s time, the E3 press conferences will be over. You’ll have seen the biggest newest from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft. You’ll know all about the Wii U, the next big things for Xbox 360 and the future of PlayStation. But how will you have seen this news? If you are near…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
I’m Actually On the Bandwagon for a Vita Game Called PulzAR. Join Me?
The first time I saw the word PulzAR on a list of upcoming PlayStation-brand video games, I laughed. Or did I scoff? One of the two. PulzAR?? Really? Having played Halo, I should know that you can’t judge a game by its name. I didn’t have to. PulzAR, I would soon learn is an augmented…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedOkay, Sure. Maybe The Kinect Can Teach Me Kung Fu.
“It’s just good for dancing games.” That’s been the unofficial but commonly held belief about the Kinect for a good while now— Dance Central and Just Dance have long been the most impressive games to play with Microsoft’s motion-detector. But what about a fighting game? Specifically, a kung fu fighting game? Several fitness games have…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedThree Dollars Adds a Pack of Penthouse Pets to Saints Row the Third
THQ continues to milk the living hell out of its best thing going with today’s release of the Penthouse Pack for Saint’s Row the Third, bolstering the ranks of players’ gangs with a quartet of models from America’s minor league nudie mag. Minor league might be a little harsh, really. I’d say that Penthouse has…
By Mike Fahey Published May 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Layoffs Hit Star Wars: The Old Republic Developers
It’s been a roller-coaster ride for the sprawling Star Wars-based MMO from EA Bioware. The Old Republic‘s solid debut couldn’t help the game from losing a sizable chunk of players. Now BioWare Austin is losing some of the developers that helped build the game, too, according to a statement issued today by BioWare founders Greg…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Kingdoms of Amalur Developer Lays Off Some Employees After Missing Payroll
The future continues to look grim for Rhode Island game developer 38 Studios. After missing a May 1 loan payment and failing to make payroll last week, the beleaguered studio has had to lay off some employees. Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee confirmed to local network WPRI yesterday that 38 Studios would be letting an…
By Kate Cox Published May 22, 2012 -
ReviewsGhost Recon: Future Soldier: The Kotaku Review
Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon franchise has always occupied the “tactical military shooter” space a bit uneasily. The series initially focused on brutally lethal engagements in long, outdoor spaces but with the Advanced Warfighter games of the mid-2000’s evolved to cast the player as a technologically enhanced one-man army, pitting him against tanks, helicopters, and platoons of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedRap Videos Straight Out Of Skyrim Are Surprisingly Familiar
Alcohol, bragging, dancing women, reappropriation of the word “word”…this rap video featuring MC Dovahkiin, also known as Big Dragonborn features all the necessary components for a modern rap video. I suggest you stay until the end, where the female rapper steps in and stylistically puts everyone else to shame (the experience just would not be…
By Tina Amini Published May 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Sandbox Proves That God Really Just Wants to Draw Simpsons Fan Art
Pixowl’s The Sandbox places players in the role of a fledgling deity, grants them the power of pixel-particle elements, and sets them loose in their own single-screen world, free to do as they please. What pleases them seems to be drawing fan art. Starting with a blank canvas, players can lay down some water and…
By Mike Fahey Published May 22, 2012