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The Great PAX East Kotaku Reader Takeover Experiment
For the next hour we’ll be handing control of Kotaku over to our PAX East readers. They’ll be writing stories, suggesting images, moderating comments, and who knows, maybe one of us will get fired! Follow all the action from the PAX East Takeover Kotaku panel right here. Warning: we’re letting reader liveblog as well. This…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
This PAX East Billboard Blows Everyone’s Sick-Day Cover Story
Most of Boston’s PAX convention happens over a weekend, making it easier for working stiffs to attend. But it starts on a Friday, which can be a bit tricky for anyone with a day job. Most years, it’s probably easy enough to just call in sick and hope your boss doesn’t follow gaming that closely.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Crap-Ton of Movies Were Made Into Games in 2006
How many movie-based video games come out each year? Ask most people who play games and you’ll get the same response: Too many. Because most movie-based video games suck, get it? That’s true and all, but the intersection of Hollywood and… whatever the video game version of Hollywood is is interesting. How many film-based games…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Official Model for Mass Effect‘s Samara, Dressed Up As Samara
Today at PAX East, Stephen Totilo ran into a familiar face—Rana McAnear, the actress who provides the official model for Mass Effect‘s Asari Justicar Samara and her unhinged sex-killer daughter Morinth. He took a moment to shoot this quick video of her in her awesome Samara outfit. There’s cosplay, and then there’s the actual person…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
You Might Just Be Seeing Photorealistic Graphics Like These in Tomorrow’s Video Games
These aren’t photographs. They’re screenshots created via Brigade, a realtime CPU/GPU path tracer created by Jacco Bikker. Posted on the blog of Sam Lapere—who works for cloud computing company OTOY—the details and depth-of-field effects look amazing. Lapere claims that these results rival what’s possible on today’s higher-end PCs. If we’re lucky, the PCs and, fingers…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Free Mass Effect 3 Resurgence Pack Mixes Up Multiplayer Next Week
Bummed that the extended Mass Effect 3 ending DLC won’t contain any new playable content? All the new playable content you could ever want is right around the corner; you just have to believe in multiplayer. The Resurgence Pack brings a ton of new playable characters and two fresh new maps (thank goodness) to the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedIon Racer Stays Fun Without the Need For Speed
Though racers are a natural for a device with an accelerometer and no physical controls. Their drawback is how they handle speed. Tilting the device forward fundamentally alters your viewing angle, making fast-twitch reactions difficult for newcomers. Ion Racer (99 cents, iOS devices) a futruristic race game taking cues from WipEout, shrewdly avoids this problem…
By Owen Good Published April 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Might Be the Only Way a Live-Action Pac-Man Movie Could Ever Work
Production company Steelhouse and writer James Farr have just answered one of life’s greatest questions: How do you make a live-action film about a yellow ball with eyes that runs about a maze eating dots and ghosts without resorting to a man in a giant foam suit? The trick, it seems, was keeping Pac-Man a…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedCall “Shotgun” with This Latest Max Payne 3 Weapons Trailer
Shotguns. They’re for when you really, really hate an enemy. Nothing’s better than walking right up to annoying thugs and blasting their faces, chests and limbs wide open. Or maybe that’s just me. This latest video from Rockstar Games’ upcoming noir shooter showcases the buckshot-spewing weapons that you’ll be deploying in close quarters down in…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
G.I. Joe and Cobra Hired Just About Anyone in the 80s
Meet Darklon, one of Destro’s Iron Grenadiers. He lives in a cast-iron castle in the Alps, where he dispatches his powerful mercenary army via a crack squad of telephone solicitors. That’s right, he’s Cobra’s chief telemarketer. Darklon’s bio is just one of the 20 hilariously horrible G.I. Joe and Cobra file cards featured in Patrick…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2012 -
UncategorizedResident Evil: Operation Raccoon City‘s New “Spec Ops” DLC Will Make Good Guys Out of You Yet
I didn’t much like the squad-based shooter set in Resident Evil‘s hometown when it came out last month. But some of you all did. You’re in luck, then as Capcom’s announced new add-on content that lets you play as ORC’s would-be heroes. The U.S. Spec Ops characters— Harley, Dee-Ay, Tweed, Willow, Shona or Party Girl—…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Good Friday! Even if you’re an agnostic, this first Friday of April’s still extra special because it’s the first day of PAX East. Huzzah! Not going to the amazing games festival happening in Boston? Well, you can still have a grand ol’ time at Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Extended Mass Effect 3 Ending Will Add Variations, Not Choices
The ending that you get in Mass Effect 3 will have a greater likelihood of varying from the one I get starting this summer, when the people making the game release the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut The free, downloadable add-on, which was revealed by the game’s developers at BioWare on Thursday, will highlight the…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Original Hard-Boiled, Slow-Motion Max Payne Goes Mobile Next Week
We’ve still got another month before the third installment of Max Payne hits the Xbox 360, PlayStation3 and PC. Why not spend that time reliving the original on the iPhone or iPad? In honor of the upcoming Max Payne revival, Rockstar Games is releasing a remastered version of the 2001 original for iOS devices and,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2012 - Uncategorized
Joe Danger Coming to iOS, Bringing Shark Wrestling With It
Slowly but surely, Hello Games’ lovable stuntman Joe Danger keeps making his way to new platforms. After debuting on PS3 and then hitting Xbox 360 last year, the Super Dave of video games will be defying death on iPads and iPhones soon. A Gamasutra interview with Hello Games co-founder Sean Murray offers up some details…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 6, 2012