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Towns, Blocks, and Treasure Hunters Round Out This Indie Royale Bundle
You can now download the “Indie Royale Alpha Collection,” one of those lovely cheap indie bundles that gets you a bunch of games at a decent price. This one features three games: Towns, a city-building game in the vein of Dungeon Keeper or Dwarf Fortress; 3079, a sci-fi first-person “lovechild of Minecraft and Fallout; and…
By Jason Schreier Published February 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
How Much Better Does Max Payne 3 Look on PC?
Today’s Rockstar released the first images of Max Payne 3 running on PC, and while no exact comparison shots are available, taking a look at similar screens for the console version reveals substantial differences. Just look at the image above. On the left we’ve got two of the three PC shots released today. On the…
By Mike Fahey Published February 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Google Glasses To Augment Gamers’ Reality
Google is in the news this week not so much for their software and search offerings, but for their hardware, and whispers of an item yet to come. According to the New York Times, Google is developing a type of Android-based glasses that will, in some way, project content immediately into the wearer’s field of…
By Kate Cox Published February 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Gamer’s Last Name Deemed Obscene by Xbox Live Cops [UPDATE]
A gamer says his handle has been censored by Xbox Live because it seems too much like a slang word — even though it’s his last name. Christopher Gooche uses his surname as his gamertag on Microsoft’s online service. He says he’s been using “Gooche” as a name since the days of the original Xbox…
By Jason Schreier Published February 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
DC’s Animated Young Justice is Old Enough for Its Own Video Game
Superboy, Robin, Kid Flash, Miss Martian, Aqualad, and Artemis are about to enter their second season as one of Cartoon Network’s most popular animated series, Young Justice. That calls for a video game, don’t you think? Little Orbit certainly thinks so. The small developer is hard-at-work on Young Justice: Legacy, the interactive entertainment tie-in to…
By Mike Fahey Published February 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Next Medal of Honor Gets a Name and a Date, Won’t Have Multiplayer by Battlefield 3 Developers
Your return to the role of a Tier 1 Operator will be in a game called Medal of Honor: Warfighter, which will reportedly be out this October. Game Informer‘s website, citing the latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine, is reporting that the heavily hinted-at sequel will once again be made by EA’s Danger Close studio.…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedTake a Look at One of Ghost Recon Future Soldier‘s Missions in This Trailer
Listen, I’m looking forward to the amped-up tech-of-tomorrow in the next Ghost Recon as much as anybody. But the upcoming installment of the tactical action game is currently sporting one of the stupidest tag lines in recent memory: “Only the Dead Fight Fair.” Worse yet, Ubisoft gets a former Navy SEAL to utter it in…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Confirms the Return of NBA Live
Kyrie Irving, the NBA’s No. 1 overall draft pick for 2011, appears to have outed EA Sports’ intention to return to the NBA Live name when it publishes a simulation basketball title this fall for the first time in three years. “In Orlando for #AllStar checking out the #FutureOfBasketball with @EASPORTSNBA. Get to see the…
By Owen Good Published February 23, 2012 -
ReviewsMutant Blobs Attack!: The Kotaku Review
I still remember when I saw The Blob. Not the original film, the 1988 remake. I was probably around ten years old, and we were having a Christmas party. The big kids had gone off into a separate room to watch horror movies. I came in right as what I call “The Yo-Yo Scene” was…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedSure Looks Like Jet Set Radio‘s Headed to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network
The House of Sonic’s dropped a vague but drip-filled teaser that strongly suggests that the beloved inline-skating, graffiti-tagging Jet Set Radio game will be hitting modern consoles soon. The killer soundtrack and high-contrast, brightly colored cartoon art style made developer Smilebit’s Dreamcast game a hit, but Sega never reissued the game—even as they’ve rolled out…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect 3 DLC Triggers Fan Outrage, BioWare Response
Some Mass Effect devotees have expressed disgust at developer BioWare’s decision to release paid downloadable content alongside Mass Effect 3‘s launch, taking to message boards and Reddit to complain about what some have called a “disgusting” business practice. As Kotaku broke Tuesday, Mass Effect 3‘s first piece of DLC is called From Ashes. BioWare has…
By Jason Schreier Published February 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
If Only Historians Had Auto-Load
Preservation of any art or technology is always a tricky business, and it’s no secret that video game preservation is particularly thorny. Because games are so intertwined with the platforms on which we play them, we lose a number of them just as our platforms evolve. (For example, I recently found two old favorites on…
By Kate Cox Published February 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedWTPT: A Guide To The Beautiful Vacation Spot Of Rapture
Bytes Breaks presents a video guide on BioShock‘s underwater city of Rapture. I’m sure many of you know this vacation spot well. The serene waterscapes, the very socially-inclined inhabitants, and the many activities available for young children. The city even provides each one of your young girls with a body guard! That sounds safe. The…
By Tina Amini Published February 23, 2012 -
Uncategorized‘Have You [BLEEP]ed My Mother?’ And Other Great Moments In Skyrim
The latest edition of Unnecessary Censorship is as funny as it’s ever been, taking Jimmy Kimmel’s well-done formula to the world of Skyrim for extra [BLEEP]s and [BLEEP]s. Now if only we could censor all those memes. Warning: This video contains spoilers for the game’s Dark Brotherhood questline.
By Jason Schreier Published February 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedTrust Me. Fairway Solitaire Is an iPhone Solitaire Game You Should Play.
When you write about video games for a living, you get so many e-mails about how great certain new video games are that they can’t possibly all be true. The people who send these e-mails are often being paid to tell me how awesome game x or y is. That’s what we call unreliable sourcing.…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedDo Not Attempt These Painfully Awkward Video Game Pickup Lines on Other Living Creatures
“A lot of black girls, some of them are too light. Some of them are too dark. But you? You’re like the Perfect Dark.” When Bay area pickup artists Simple Pickup are tasked with getting girls’ phone numbers using lines incorporating video game titles, that was the best they could do. How can they possibly…
By Mike Fahey Published February 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedJourney Down to a New Adventure Game in March
Despite my oft-professed love for classic adventure games and new iterations on the genre, The Journey Down slipped completely under my radar until this week. The original game, which has always been described as chapter one in an episodic adventure, is a small, free PC download. However, indie developer SkyGoblin has recently announced an HD…
By Kate Cox Published February 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Two Enter, Two Leave Kotaku‘s Power 40
In January, we debuted the Kotaku Power 40, our admittedly impossible-to-perfect list of the most powerful people involved in video games. We aim to assess these people’s current level of influence on… what we play, how we play, how we get our games and/or what we think of games. Today, we present our first revision…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Who’s Looking for Some PS Vita Friends?
There’s a new Sony handheld on the market, and one that makes better use of the PlayStation Network’s friend features than the PlayStation 3. Commenter Grizzly_Chin believes this calls for a Vita friend exchange post. Speak Up on Kotaku agrees. So I got my Vita today and I think it’d be cool to add some…
By Mike Fahey Published February 23, 2012