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OnLive Gains Cred With Free Indie Games Festival Nominees
While members of the video game industry and press are attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week and getting a chance to view the Independent Games Festival awards ceremony on the show floor, OnLive is giving you a chance to feel included, and this very fortunately involves playing games. As of today…
By Tina Amini Published February 27, 2012 -
ReviewsAsura’s Wrath: The Kotaku Review
Asura is an angry, angry man. It’s right there in the title, really: Asura’s Wrath. The game tells the story of one man’s rage-fueled superpowers, as he seeks revenge on those who betrayed him, kidnapped his daughter, and left him for dead. One can’t really blame the guy for feeling wrathful. Asura certainly lives in…
By Kate Cox Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Hawken Team Given $10 Million Because Hawken Looks Awesome
Indie multiplayer shooter Hawken, which stole my heart, stuffed it in a mech then begged me to come get it back, has always attracted attention for how good it looked despite it being the product of a small studio, Adhesive Games. Note I say small and not poor, because the guys who are working on…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Best Film of the Year Didn’t Need Talking. Do Video Games Need Graphics?
Last night at the Academy Awards, a silent film won best picture. Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist, a movie about silent film star George Valentin, is itself a classic silent film—for the most part, it has no sound effects or dialogue, just music and on-screen action. Several new video games like the Move-enabled competitive game Johann…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Creator of Final Fantasy Just Wants to Have Fun
Hironobu Sakaguchi doesn’t worry too much about the future, he said in an interview with Eurogamer published today. He worries about the now. The creator of Final Fantasy, whose latest game The Last Story hit European stores last week and will invade the U.S. this summer, says he doesn’t have any specifically pressing goals or…
By Jason Schreier Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Okami-Inspired Fan Art Will Be Your New Wallpaper
Foxified | Okami is not a fox, sure, but this is still awesome. (Sakimichan) Pokémon Black and White 2 Catch All the Western Gamers This Fall Announced this weekend for a June release in Japan, the first pair of main series Pokémon titles with the number two in the title will be hitting North America…
By Tina Amini Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Heisman Winner Robert Griffin III Earns NCAA Football 13 Cover
Former Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III will star on the cover of NCAA Football 13, publisher EA Sports said today. The Heisman Trophy winner and projected #2 NFL draft pick will join one of eight other athletes on the game’s box art. EA said in a press release that starting March 12, fans will be…
By Jason Schreier Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
No Need to Love Lucy; Just Like Her Facebook Game
There is always another television property out there that can yet be mined for its game tie-in potential, it seems. I Love Lucy, 1950s classic and staple of late-night reruns for decades, will be making its entry into the Facebook game space soon thanks to Entertainment Games, Inc. In a press release, the social and…
By Kate Cox Published February 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedEvery Action Has a Cost in I Am Alive
The latest developer diary for Ubisoft Shanghai’s I Am Alive goes behind the scenes of the game’s creation. A huge disaster has dragged a city back to instinctual basics, and “90% of the human race is gone.” The diary shows off a handsome amount of footage as to how you’ll survive, using what’s in your…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Study Says Video Games Have ‘Problematized’ View of Religion
Do video games spend too much time emphasizing the violent aspects of religion? A study released by the University of Missouri on Monday says so, concluding that video games present religion in a “problematized” way In the study, doctoral student Greg Perreault looks at five modern games: Mass Effect 2, Final Fantasy XIII, Assassin’s Creed,…
By Jason Schreier Published February 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedAt Least in the New Syndicate They Don’t Run You Over with a Car
I know a lot of people have nostalgia for the 1993 Bullfrog classic Syndicate (myself included). I also know that critical reception to the new game has been a bit mixed. But I will say one thing the new game has going for it: At least they don’t recruit agents by slamming into total strangers…
By Chris Person Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Exploring the Ancient Top Ten Lists of Doom
id Software’s classic first-person shooter Doom is a part of gaming history, forever occupying a prominent place in the collective gaming consciousness. Let’s travel back to 1993, as PC gamers faced impending Doom the only way they could: with funny top ten lists. Harvested from an archive by one Hank Leukart located on the website…
By Mike Fahey Published February 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedTriumphantly Hideous Dialog Makes Evil Zone One of the Funniest Games Ever
Crafted by Yuke’s and published by Titus Software in North America for the original PlayStation, Evil Zone is a fighting game that uses only two buttons for battle. I’m guessing they couldn’t afford more buttons after shelling out big bucks for this amazing voice-over work. “I’m gibbering nonsense!” Often cited in compilations covering the worst…
By Mike Fahey Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Dorkly Weekly: Shedding a Little Light on Limbo
Being chased through a black-and-white forest filled with blowgun-wielding natives, dangling corpses, and the gigantic silhouette of a spider sure is creepy. If only the hero of Limbo had remembered to pack a flashlight. It’s amazing what you discover when you turn the lights up a bit, isn’t it? For more sick and twisted video…
By Mike Fahey Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Are Mass Effect and Dragon Age In The Same Universe? BioWare Responds
It wasn’t a serious question, but I did ask it. And they answered. I was talking to BioWare co-founders, doctors Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, about a lot of things during an interview earlier this month in Las Vegas. The query just popped into my head. Maybe it all crosses over. Here’s how the conversation…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
This Cool Ninja Text Adventure Isn’t Really A Ninja Text Adventure
Well this is some creative marketing. Head on over to markoftheninja.com to play through a ninja-centric text adventure game. It’s called “Mark of the Ninja,” and it’s brought to you by Klei Entertainment, makers of Shank (Well, it’s not really a “text adventure” game like Zork or The Lurking Horror, it’s more of a “choose…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
PSN Gamers’ Choice Awards Voting Opens Tomorrow
Last year, Sony piloted their PSN Gamers’ Choice Awards, and they apparently liked the results enough to repeat the endeavor this year. This year’s awards include nominees in ten total categories, up from 2010’s four. The featured games received high user ratings after their release on PSN. Voting runs through next Tuesday, March 6, and…
By Kate Cox Published February 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Early Mass Effect 3 Winners May Have Jumped Into Legal Hot Water [UPDATE]
The two men who won an early copy of Mass Effect 3 this weekend may have broken both state and federal laws by trying to raffle it off. Two weeks ago, publisher Electronic Arts took copies of the sci-fi role-playing game and launched them into space on weather balloons. GPS devices were attached to each…
By Jason Schreier Published February 27, 2012