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The First Screenshot of The Elder Scrolls Online Sure Looks Like World of Warcraft
Game Informer has posted the first screenshot from The Elder Scrolls Online. Sure looks like a fantasy MMO to me! I have to say, the more we learn, the less excited I am about this game. Frowny-face. The first screen and details surrounding the The Elder Scrolls Online [Game Informer]
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Facebook Games are the Worst Way to Tell Stories
The overlap in intended audience between Empire and The Hunger Games Adventures is probably vanishingly small. Both are found on Facebook but, in tone and in content, aim themselves completely different ways. It seems unlikely that very many players would approach both for long enough to realize that the two are, in every way that…
By Kate Cox Published May 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Cabin in the Woods and the Horror of Video Games
It was a dark and stormy night. (It was a violent and war-torn night.) It almost felt like a horror movie. (It almost felt like a video game.) The cabin in the woods seemed quiet. Too quiet. Surely all sorts of monsters lay within. It seemed like a good time for a spoiler warning. (The…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 4, 2012 -
EsportsWhat My Favorite Fighting Game Character Says About Me
I almost flunked out of college because of Mortal Kombat on the Genesis. (Yes, that’s how old I am.) Classes skipped, papers turned in late and reading assignments left barely skimmed, all because I was trying to perfect my Scorpion technique. And while the undead ninja from the gory fighting series is a favorite of…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Four Reasons You’re In Love With That JRPG Character
When I was a kid, I used to spend almost every summer at day camp. I’d ride the bus up across the Tappan Zee Bridge to upper-lowstate New York, where I was unceremoniously dumped on the grounds and told to go hang out with the other kids in my age group. We’d run around fields…
By Jason Schreier Published May 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Post Your Comment of the Week Nominations Here
Kotaku: Lay upon me your Comment of the Week nominations here, please. I need to know who was the wittiest this week. Who was the funniest. Who was the most handsome. Tell me in the comments down below, and link to their comment. Otherwise tomorrow’s Best of Kotaku will be a lonely, lonely place for…
By Tina Amini Published May 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed III Will Feature Ben Franklin’s Bawdier Side
No, no, no, Ben Franklin won’t be an inventor who gives you gadgets in Assassin’s Creed III He will, however, somehow express his not-well-publicized “love of women,” according to ACIII creative director Alex Hutchinson, as detailed in a new story in the Penny Arcade Report Franklin didn’t just establish the post office and spend much…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
“Psychopaths” at LucasArts Led to Cancellation of Star Wars: Battlefront III, Former Studio Exec Says
Star Wars: Battlefront III was once a game well and truly in development, at UK studio Free Radical. Since its 2008 cancellation, it has been supposedly off and on more times than anyone can count. Like many studios, Free Radical had its fair share of ups and downs, hits and misses over the years. But…
By Kate Cox Published May 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
When A Kickstarter Fails
Sometimes video game Kickstarters just don’t take off. In fact, that’s most of the time. For every monumental success like Double Fine or Wasteland 2, there are ten projects that remain undiscovered and unfunded. One of those failures was Class of Heroes 2, a Japanese RPG for the PSP and sequel to a game that…
By Jason Schreier Published May 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow Multiplayer Bullet Time Works in Max Payne 3
Bullet time! The supernatural act of slowing down time as you either shoot a gun or dodge the bullets of someone shooting at you! It was in Max Payne. It was in The Matrix How in world do you make bullet time work in a multiplayer shooter like Max Payne 3? It makes sense when…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Is What It Would Be Like If Batman Was Trained To Be A Fruit Ninja
A journey for vengeance takes one man down a wild path that he can’t overcome on his own. He needs to be trained. In the ways of the…Fruit Ninja? Why a Fruit Ninja? Because think of all the incredible puns you can be making, that’s why! You laugh now, but you’d probably be quite the…
By Tina Amini Published May 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedI’ve Seen the Future of Mobile Sports Gaming and, for Better or for Worse, It Looks Like Big Win Hockey
After two years of playing console ports with virtual control pads on my iPhone, I think I’m starting to grasp the future of team sports video games on mobile devices. And it is nothing like what I play in my living room. It’s more like what I expect to play on Facebook, and Big Win…
By Owen Good Published May 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedTo Think Batman Was Just an Instagram Pic Away from Being an Avenger
Sure, he’s a founding member of the Justice League, but does the Justice League have a Hollywood blockbuster film in theaters? If there’s one thing Bruce Wayne knows, it’s where the money’s at. Too bad he doesn’t know Instagram. Boo Ya Pictures‘ latest Avengers short raises some compelling questions about the whole Marvel / DC…
By Mike Fahey Published May 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Now You’re Baking With Portals
First off, wow. We’ve seen lots of Portal cakes floating around the Internet. Usually with expected taglines of “the cake is a lie.” But this cake is absolutely exceptional, and it’s certainly not a lie. It’s not often you find the famous Portal cake caught in the never-ending bounce between portals, a fun activity for…
By Tina Amini Published May 4, 2012 - Uncategorized
Shigeru Miyamoto Explains Why the Vita Isn’t “a Very Strong Product”
Given recent sales trends, Nintendo probably isn’t that worried about the PlayStation Vita posing any kind of a threat to their own 3DS. But that doesn’t mean that haven’t thought about Sony’s device. Over at Edge, an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto has the Nintendo game design legend praising the specs of the Vita but also…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 4, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Authorized Story of the Next Aliens Video Game Will Change the Way We See Aliens and Alien3
The much-hyped Ridley Scott movie Prometheus isn’t the only big Aliens-related project that might change the way we think of one of sci-fi’s best series. The next Aliens video game counts. It’s canon. And the people who are making it think it might finally solve some key mysteries in the film—and even make the films…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 4, 2012
