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The Dev Behind Crysis Is Making A Mobile Game, And It’s Not What You’d Expect
Crysis has long been a benchmark for PC hardware, a high-octane series packed to the brim with nasty aliens and powerful graphics. So it only makes sense that developer Crytek’s next project is a cartoon game for your phone. Coming this spring for iOS and Android, Fibble is a physics-based puzzle game starring adorable extraterrestrials…
By Jason Schreier Published March 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedFun, Pointless Things To Do With a Portal Gun and a Plumber
We recently reported that Mari0, the Super Mario Brothers-meets-Portal mash-up-game, had launched. Does Mario need a Portal gun? Well, no. Not really. He managed just fine in his 1985 adventure with only basic jumps and fireballs at his disposal. He can squash goombas and rescue princesses just fine without Aperture Science’s latest, greatest device. But…
By Kate Cox Published March 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow Stretching Your Thumbs Could Make Your Games Feel Better
The University of Utah News Center reported today that their engineers are hard at work developing a new video game peripheral that stretches the skin on your thumbs. But why, you ask me, would I want little red tactors located on the center of the controller’s joystick to awkwardly move my thumb skin around? Because…
By Tina Amini Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect 3‘s Reapers Are Invading The Earth Right Now
If you hear something outside of your window, do not be alarmed. It’s just the Reapers. To pump us up for Mass Effect 3‘s launch tomorrow, the brilliant minds at BioWare have constructed an alternate reality on Twitter in which the series’ menacing villains have arrived on Earth’s soil. Using the hashtag #solcomms, participants have…
By Jason Schreier Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Roger Ebert Not-So-Subtly Reminds Us What He Thinks of Video Games
Roger Ebert is a very smart man and a very sharp and entertaining writer who just happens to think very, very poorly of video games. Sometimes our gamer discussions leak out into the mainstream, as recently happened with Michael Thomsen’s piece in Slate. In his article, as we reported, Thomsen challenged the idea that a…
By Kate Cox Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Femshep Takes a Stab at Mass Effect 3‘s “Take Back the Earth” Trailer
Mass Effect 3‘s “Take Back the Earth” trailer was lovely and all, but for many fans of the franchise it featured the wrong main character. Entertainment Weekly‘s PopWatch has an exclusive trailer that fixes that oversight. Go look! [EW.com]
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Show Some Respect, This is a Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist
Meet Wrench, the first fighter revealed for Kung Fu Factory’s upcoming downloadable fighting game Girl Fight. You know, like Bum Fight, only with girls. Now before anyone gets angry, keep in mind that this post is running during Kotaku‘s Off-Kilter humor block, which is quite frankly the only place I could imagine putting it on…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Cloud Strife is a Hero, a Lover, a Woman, a Rabbit; He is All This and More
One of the most iconic figures in modern role-playing, Final Fantasy‘s Cloud Strife cuts a very distinctive figure, largely due to a combination of spiky blond hair and his ridiculously huge Buster sword. These features set him apart. They also make him ridiculously easy to twist into whatever form the fan artist so desires. Like…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedGreat Moments in Video Game Humor: Now With More Horse Penis
Ah Disgaea, always going that extra step to make its turn-based strategy gameplay more exciting. Take this zombie, for instance. No one is scared of zombies anymore; they’re everywhere you want to be. If you saw a zombie on the street you’d more likely hug it than run screaming. At least until you saw the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Dorkly Weekly: An Ode to Mortal Kombat‘s Crappiest Character
Let’s see who we’ve got representing Earthrealm in the Mortal Kombat tournament, in which the fate of the entire planet hangs in the balance. We’ve got a god, that’s always good. A cybernetic special forces commado; sure, I’ll take that. A mall cop? Pass. Okay, so officer Kurtis Stryker wasn’t a mall cop. He might…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
In 1985 “Real Gamers” Were a Completely Different Animal
When you hear the term ‘gamer’ these days it’s safe to assume that it refers to a person that regularly plays video games. Way back in 1985, however, “real gamers” carried leather dice bags, sat around paper-cluttered tables for hours on end and rarely possessed a pair of X chromosomes to rub together. At least…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Motocross Bikes Soar at Awkward Angles in Trials Evolution‘s Newest Screenshots
You may perhaps remember that racing/platforming/puzzleish XBLA game Trials HD about injuring yourself on a motocross bike. Its sequel, Trials Evolution seems to be even more genre defying. Not satisfied with only meshing three unlikely genres together, RedLynx—the developer behind Trials—has thrown in first person shooting, arcade shooting, and pinball (that’s a genre, right?) as…
By Elyas Gorogo-Baker Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Motorstorm RC Races Onto North American Vitas for Free
Games are a commercial endeavor, complete with cross-promotional marketing. Sometimes the messages have questionable ties, but other times, the match is too good to miss. So it is with Scion’s (a Toyota company) promotion of the Vita version of Motorstorm RC. According to an announcement on the PlayStation blog, not only is Motorstorm RC launching…
By Kate Cox Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
These Fable: The Journey Screens Will Make You Wanna Waggle
Just try not to move your arms up and down as you thumb through these screens for Fable: The Journey, the Kinect game that publisher Microsoft will release for Xbox 360 this year. Who says controller-free games can’t be pretty?
By Jason Schreier Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
EA Pulls Simpsons Game from iTunes Due to Overwhelming Popularity
Following EA’s pull of Battlefield 3: Aftershock from the App store two weeks ago, EA recently revealed that The Simpsons: Tapped Out is getting the same treatment. But while Battlefield 3: Aftershock was plagued with crashes and connectivity issues, EA is pulling The Simpsons: Tapped Out for an entirely different issue. Pocket Gamer reports that…
By Tina Amini Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Here’s How To Pronounce The Name of Assassin’s Creed III‘s Protagonist
Today we found out that the hero of Assassin’s Creed III, who calls himself Connor, was born Ratohnhaké:ton Here at Kotaku, we consider it our duty to answer important questions like “How the hell do I pronounce Ratohnhaké:ton?” So I asked Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft for an official guide. Their response: Ra-doon-ha-gay-doo’ So there you…
By Jason Schreier Published March 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedSteel Battalion: Heavy Armor Is The Hardest-Core Kinect Game Yet
Holy crap, this tank is taking fire from all sides, I can’t see anything, I need to vent out the smoke but one of my crew members just got shot and we can’t stay still for too long or enemy soldiers will climb in and kill us, and I can’t reach the vent button, and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Minecraft Creator Is Unsurprisingly the Winner of This Year’s BAFTA Special Award
The British Academy Video Game Awards will award Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson with its “Special Award” at this year’s ceremony, it said today. The annual BAVGA (ok, so it doesn’t have as nice a ring to is as BAFTA) ceremony—presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts—doles out awards to deserving games…
By Tina Amini Published March 5, 2012
