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Trine 2 Gets Six New Stages in DLC Release This Summer
Frozenbyte, the makers of Trine 2, informed the site XBLA Fans at GDC that the game will be getting six new stages plus other content in downloadable content to arrive this summer. The package will also include a new story and new character skills. Frozenbyte’s Mikael Haveri said fans should expect plenty of puzzles. Additionally,…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
Bethesda Settles Lawsuit with Mojang, Whose Next Game Can Be Called Scrolls
Over Twitter, Mojang founder and Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson said his company and Bethesda Softworks reached a settlement in their trademark dispute over Scrolls, the name Mojang has chosen for its next game. “The settlement is that we give them the trademark, get to keep the name, and won’t make an Elder Scrolls competitor…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2012 -
UncategorizedEven if the Audio is Faked, Fat Mega Man’s Street Fighter X Tekken Ending is Just … Bizarre
The guy who uploaded this admits the audio is dubbed over, but he says that it’s the English sound file from the the on-disc DLC of Street Fighter X Tekken This is the ending for Original Box Art Mega Man, who releases (with Pac-Man) for free on Tuesday, and he name-checks two major publishers, including…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
Expansion Plans
StarCraft II‘s next expansion, Heart of the Swarm is available for pre-order—at two different prices—so be sure to pick the one that’s about $20 less while it still lasts. That value, plus discounts on this week’s new releases, and next week’s too, highlight this 60-deal edition of The Moneysaver Software • StarCraft II: Heart of…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Best of Kotaku, This Week
Another week survived! It’s particularly momentous because it was the Game Developers Conference all week, during which we brought you the most interesting segments, speeches, panels and news. First up, though, is the picture above which is a mashup of adorable Pokémon characters drawn by Olly Moss. Taken individually, they’re perfect for you phone background.…
By Tina Amini Published March 10, 2012 - Uncategorized
Survey Says 56% of U.S. Households Own Gaming Consoles
Over half of homes in the United States own current-generation gaming consoles, according to a survey put together by the Nielsen Group and released today. That’s up six percent from last year The survey has some other interesting facts, but here’s the point I found most salient: The Web is increasingly important in generating awareness…
By Jason Schreier Published March 9, 2012 - CultureTotal Recall
Total Recall Will Return Next Week
Happy Friday everyone! Unfortunately for Total Recall fans, Kirk is out and about at the Game Developers Conference. But Luke will be providing you with old school gaming goodness as soon as Monday. Sit tight! In the meantime, you can browse through past Total Recall articles. Oh, and in case you were wondering, that image…
By Tina Amini Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Day the Dorito Shell Tacos Made Kotaku Nauseous
We get a bunch of weird things in the office, especially because we share the editorial space with our sister sites, like Gizmodo for instance. Today, Taco Bell brought Gizmodo a stack of boxes filled with a dozen tacos each. But these aren’t just any tacos. No. These tacos are wrapped in a Dorito chip…
By Tina Amini Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Spy Party‘s Chris Hecker Calls Out Players, the Press, and Developers for Lack of Variety in Games
Why are so many games just copies of past games? Who is responsible for this state of affairs? Does the industry need more variety to survive? At the “Game Developers’ Rant” session at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Spy Party developer Chris Hecker made a call for more variety in games. The rants…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 9, 2012 -
UncategorizedTwirling Robots Rarely Look This Pretty
This is a real-time motion test for ROBOTA: Vengeance, run on the Unity Engine. At first it looks really good. Then you realize that it’s slated to be released on iOS and Android. Suddenly it looks holy shit good. The creators, Sixits Studios, are trying to crowdfund a whopping $100,000 to finance ROBOTA: Vengeance, which…
By Jason Schreier Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Can We All Please Ignore Roger Ebert From Now On? Thanks.
Let’s stop giving a shit what Roger Ebert says about video games, and art, OK? We’ve tried like hell to make him into a punching bag, and neither he nor the rest of America gives a crap for the fact we choose to feel so insulted every time he says something about video games. This…
By Owen Good Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Week in Evil DLC
Downloadable content. Everyone hates it—but everyone buys it. Yes, even you in the comments, smart guy. Here’s a look at the latest package of extensions and pre-order bonuses designed to crowbar the last dollar out of your wallet. Can you still respect yourself if you buy it? Street Fighter X Tekken: The Dirty Dozen Available:…
By Owen Good Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘I’d Rather Be Sodomized’
Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. This week, Backhanded Box Quotes could have given over the entire feature to the fanboy backlash against Mass Effect 3. There are many day-one complaints against the space-opera RPG below, and also…
By Owen Good Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Tables Diablo III PVP in Favor of a Timely Release
In its continuing quest to release Diablo III sometime before the rabid fanbase burns the building down, Blizzard has decided to drop the game’s player-versus-player arena combat feature for release, adding it into the game via patch at a later date. Diablo III maestro Jay Wilson made the announcement earlier today via the Diablo III…
By Mike Fahey Published March 9, 2012 -
UncategorizedThese Guys Tied Game Controllers To Their Butts, For a Good Reason
Doug Wilson makes unusual games, like this one that you have to play on all fours, with a PlayStation Move controller tethered to your rear end. It’s called Dog the Wag It’s goofy. It’s not quite his best game, though it might be his wackiest. His best game is probably the graphics-less Johann Sebastian Joust,…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Biff Tannen’s Special Tournament Edition Gives You All the Conference Champions Right Now!
Hey, are you a sports fan on the go? Who has time these days to watch the big game, or bother with messy DVR, or boring highlight shows? With Biff Tannen’s Sports Almanac, we’ll give you the weekend’s biggest matchups before they happen, thanks to these highly accurate peer-reviewed scientific simulations of sports video gaming’s…
By Owen Good Published March 9, 2012 -
ReviewsMLB 12: The Show: The Kotaku Review
When you have done so much right for so long, to the point that very little needs to be changed, the paradox of your success is that what you offer risks becoming stale. For years, MLB The Show has been one of the most universally acclaimed video games, regardless of genre, and its improvements—while observable—sometimes…
By Owen Good Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Activision Wins Small Battle in Large Call of Duty Lawsuit
Publisher Activision took home a small victory in its longstanding legal battle against Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vincent Zampella earlier this week, convincing a Los Angeles judge to drop a fraud claim against it, according to a news report. Bloomberg reports that State Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle dropped one of two…
By Jason Schreier Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
One of the Worst Features of Mass Effect 3 Is in this Week in Gaming Apps
It’s Mass Effect 3 week, and BioWare’s latest is so powerful and compelling it even made it into a Gaming App of the Day post—and a fairly negative one at that. Oh well, at least we’ve got Snake Mass Effect 3 tie-in Infiltrator did not make a good impression on Evan Narcisse, so much so…
By Mike Fahey Published March 9, 2012