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Baseball’s New Playoff Format Will Be Supported in MLB 2K12, Whether It Happens This Year or Not
Though not yet officially ratified by Major League Baseball, a 10-team playoff format said to take effect this season will be supported in the season-long modes of Major League Baseball 2K12 when the game hits shelves on Tuesday, 2K Sports confirmed to Kotaku. A 10-team playoff, in which two wild-card qualifiers from each league play…
By Owen Good Published March 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Lawsuit Against Facebook, EA, Zynga May Be The Attack of a Patent Troll
GameTek LLC was originally the company that once operated as a video game publisher known for TV game show adaptations. But since the 90s wave of those games has washed over, and the company shut its doors in 1997 after hitting bankruptcy, it has since become the business license of an unknown company. What is…
By Tina Amini Published March 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhy Can’t Every Game Let you Skip Long-Winded Cutscenes with Violence?
Asura’s Wrath is a game brimming with excellent ideas, most of them involving punching, and while complaints that it’s more cutscene than gameplay are valid, it also features what could be the greatest scene-skipping mechanic in gaming history. Video games (and popular fiction in general) are filled with villains all-too-eager to have a little chat…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedIt Wouldn’t Be Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Without These High-Tech Toys
This isn’t modern warfare, kids. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier brings a whole new level of technology to the battlefield, giving players access to the sort of convoluted electronic goodies that would make your average Call of Duty soldier look like your grandmother trying to program a VCR. Hell, I’ve just dated myself by mentioning the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Zynga Launches Its Own Website, Edging Away from Facebook
The time when your Facebook newsfeed isn’t clogged up by Farmville request from friends may be coming soon. Social gaming powerhouse Zynga launched its own dedicated website today, the first step in eventually hosting its vastly popular games somewhere other than the world’s largest social networking site. In an interview with Gamasutra, COO John Schappert…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Sony’s Going to Reveal The Next Wave of Vita Games on March 9th
So, if you’ve been lucky enough to snag a Vita since Sony’s latest handheld made its debut, you’re probably enjoying its standout titles. Sony wants you to know that there’s more on the way. According to Andriasang, the PlayStation company will be announcing updates on games and services in an upcoming webcast.
By Evan Narcisse Published March 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Help Us Say Something Nice About Fighting Gamers
The fighting game scene has taken a lot of criticism this week due to the controversy surrounding one player’s harassment of another player on Capcom’s internet reality show Cross Assault As Kotaku has covered these stories, a number of readers in the comments and elsewhere online have questioned why it appears that only negative stories…
By Kate Cox Published March 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Check Out What’s New On Kotaku Melodic, Our Very Own Music Section
Brought to you every Thursday, from 7pm-9pm (EST), Kotaku introduces video game music from menu screens to entire soundtracks and everything in between. The most recent batch of stories include: When I Fell in Love with Grandia III, I Really Fell in Love with a Song Hop on a Bicycle and Cause Some Mischief With…
By Tina Amini Published March 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
UPDATE: Fighting Game Webcast Issues Statement on Harassment Jokes
Level|Up, the website that produces the Wednesday Night Fights streamcast, has indicated that Christian “ETR” Cain and Martin “Marn” Phan will not be invited back onto the web series. You can read the full statement in an update of the original post here
By Evan Narcisse Published March 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
SSX Carves the Slippery Slope of Mount Game Reviewer
Just like the fine sport of extreme snowboarding itself, SSX‘s review scores start off pretty high and then suddenly drop. Okay, so technically they start off low and then abruptly rise, but that doesn’t work as a snowboarding metaphor. Either way, the SSX series has triumphantly returned, making its big debut on current generation consoles…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Latest DmC: Devil May Cry Screens Have Fans Seeing Red
Check out the latest batch of screenshots for the upcoming Devil May Cry reboot. Fans might well be disappointed with the stylistic ditching of Dante’s iconic white hair (which actually does appear in his Devil Trigger mode), but there’s no denying that these images scream style. DmC: Devil May Cry releases sometime in 2012, and…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published March 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Original Prince of Persia Gets a Gorgeous HD iOS Makeover
Speaking of Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, a beautiful high-definition remaster of his original masterpiece is now available for the iPhone and iPad, complete with new modes and animated cut scenes. Who’s up for a field trip to Persia?
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Wonderful Old Letter From One Gaming Legend To Another
Before John Romero co-created Doom he was just a kid. A very smart kid. When he was a teenager, he wrote a letter to Jordan Mechner, a very smart man who made a game young John Romero liked very much. Romero had taste, because Mechner’s Karateka was awesome, as was his later invention, Prince of…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedGravity Rush Floats to the U.S. on June 12th
Ever since it peeked out in early looks at the Vita’s launch line-up, Gravity Rush became the game I was most excited about for Sony’s new gaming handheld. Japan’s had it since the system’s launch there but North America’s had to wait to hear about a release date. We finally know that the game will…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Game Club is Back! We’re Playing Mass Effect 3
Hey Game Club, it’s been awhile. 2012 is already shaping to be a year of dramatic changes. We wanted to make sure our next Game Club was suitably epic, so we’re playing Mass Effect 3 One of the year’s biggest and most talked-about games, Mass Effect 3 is already a contextual powderkeg, inciting discussions across…
By Mike Epstein Published March 1, 2012 -
ReviewsJourney: The Kotaku Review
This is the story of a scarf. I’d knitted it off and on for most of life. I never felt any hurry to complete it; in fact, I never really knew how long I wanted it to be. Just, every so often, I’d pick it up and weave another couple of rows. Over the years,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed III‘s Official Box Art Verifies Revolutionary War Setting
Looks like that rumored image we ran last night of the protagonist from Assassin’s Creed III checks out—Ubisoft has posted the official box art from the game to Facebook that depicts the same tomahawk-wielding gentleman. In addition, Game Informer has shared the art from their cover story on the game, further confirming the setting. Looks…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedWTPT: This Halo: Reach Sneak Attack Is More Humiliating (and Hilarious) Than Teabagging
We all have our secret moves and special style to playing a particular first-person shooter (I like snipers, for instance), but have you ever tried the Bum Bait move? Rooster Teeth introduces this hilarious move in video form. I think we can admit that some of our actions in games are predictable. After all, seeing…
By Tina Amini Published March 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedCircadia’s Simple, Ingenious Puzzles Breaks Down Music Games to Their Best Parts
Circadia doesn’t look like much when you start it up. Even after the tutorial, all you’re getting is a black screen with a white and colored dots on it. The goals are simple. The controls, even moreso. All you do in Circadia is tap colored circles to send out musical tones that need to hit…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedNoobz Movie Trailer Promises Another Terrible Movie About Gamers
Featuring a once-funny Jason Mewes and a Michael Cera look-alike—and a special Adam Sessler appearance!—is this ghastly trailer that will apparently be an actual film at some point (this Summer). A crew of friends and gamers get together to travel to LA for a Gears of War 3 tournament, dead set on winning the thing.…
By Tina Amini Published March 1, 2012