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Twisted Metal Sets Game Critics’ Skulls Aflame
After a decade of lurking in the darkness just outside of gamers’ views the evil clown rides back into town, guns blazing, engines roaring, and game reviewers rarin’ for a shot. In the world of car combat, Twisted Metal has reigned supreme since the original game hit the PC and PlayStation back in 1996. Potential…
By Mike Fahey Published February 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
The PlayStation Vita Needs a ‘Dislike’ Button
Sony’s new PlayStation Vita handheld sports a good amount of ways to connect with people. It will let you share your trophies, passively trade and unlock game content, and even broadcast how you’re feeling about the games you’re playing. Well, to a point. As it turns out, the Vita won’t let you tell people if…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 14, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Past and Future of Psychonauts 2
Until about, oh, early last week, Psychonauts 2 seemed like an idea—or maybe a wish—that would never become a video game. But then the man who made millions making Minecraft, Markus “Notch” Persson, offered, over Twitter, to “make Psychonauts 2 happen.” Tim Schafer, whose Double Fine Productions made the first beloved Psychonauts game told Notch…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 14, 2012 -
UncategorizedSkullgirls Picked Just the Right Day to Reveal the Deadly Nurse Valentine
You just know the team at Reverge Games have been giggling to themselves for the past week in anticipation of today’s reveal of Nurse Valentine, the Skullgirls fighter with a prescription for pain. Body bags, scalpels, and other implements of clinical destruction mark the repertoire of Nurse Valentine, continuing the 3D fighter’s habit of mixing…
By Mike Fahey Published February 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Watch This, Play This and Then Have a Happy Valentine’s Day
Continuing in our long-standing tradition (aka yesterday) of Watch This, Play This are three pieces of entertainment to stave off that bitter Valentine’s Day loneliness, or that romantic dinner you totally forgot to plan but that you promised your significant other you would. Oops. WATCH: Kicking off this Valentine’s Day is a video of Jimmy…
By Tina Amini Published February 14, 2012 -
UncategorizedRatchet & Clank Terrorize These Hapless Businessmen
Ratchet might not want to harass anybody when he uses Clank as a helicopter, but sometimes it just can’t be avoided. In this video, which we shot at the New York Toy Fair on Sunday, you can watch the anthropomorphic feline ride around like an out-of-control… well, helicopter. [Music: Flight of the Bumblebee]
By Jason Schreier Published February 14, 2012 -
UncategorizedBeat Hazard Ultra is the Game Photosensitive Seizure Blurbs Were Warning You About
Until now your iTunes music library has remained passive, patiently waiting for you to allow it to waft delicately to your eardrums. With the release of the iOS version of Beat Hazard Ultra your music is now a deadly predator, lurking in your playlist, awaiting the call to be transformed into explosive levels of eye-melting…
By Mike Fahey Published February 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
See Curt Schilling Shilling Kingdoms of Amalur on Jimmy Fallon
38 Studios founder Curt Schilling uses tales of baseball triumphs past to hook Late Night host Jimmy Fallon and then brings Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning in for the kill. While Schilling comes across as completely excited about the release of his company’s first major game, Fallon himself looks like he’d much rather talk baseball for…
By Mike Fahey Published February 14, 2012 -
UncategorizedFirst PlayStation Vita Ad Gives Bad Advice
Here’s Sony’s first video advertisement for the powerful PlayStation Vita, an ad that the publisher says will be plastered on Fox, Comedy Central, and ESPN (among other networks) in the near future. The tagline? “Never Stop Playing.” You probably should stop playing at some point, though. To eat. And sleep. And read Kotaku
By Jason Schreier Published February 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Survey: There’s a 1 in 10 Chance Words With Friends Will Get You Some Action
We all know that the “social” space has changed the dating scene. Facebook has thrown all sorts of new tools and little wrinkles our way. Now that the virtual hangouts have caught up with crowded bars as a place to meet a mate, social games are finding a new way to shine. Zynga ran a…
By Kate Cox Published February 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Stop Copying World of Warcraft, Start Making a Better MMO
Commenter Kinecticdamage tries to shock massively multiplayer online game developers out of their World of Warcraft-fueled haze and on track to create something truly unique and beautiful in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. “In case of Doubt, copy WoW“, a message to MMO devs. I don’t know if there are any MMO analysts, business angels,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mostly Dead is Slightly Alive: Where Adventure Games Are Hiding
Double Fine’s record-breaking Kickstarter adventure has, over the past few days, rekindled the perennial discussion about the entire genre of adventure games. The classic adventure has had its death announced dozens, if not hundreds, of times over the past decade or so, with at least an equal number of rebuttals. When adventure game god Tim…
By Kate Cox Published February 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves, where we gather on a daily basis to discuss the joys and wonders of gaming all rolled up into one. It’s Valentine’s Day, the day on which we remember that falling in love can be like falling into a hole. That must be what user CG420, creator…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 14, 2012 -
UncategorizedMaking The Last Guardian is Very Hard, Sony Admits
The Last Guardian is the the PlayStation 3 game that the people who most want PlayStation 3 games want. It’s also the biggest Sony title that appears to be in risk of vanishing before our very eyes. First shown in a pair of trailers in mid-2009, it was a no-show at E3’s 2010 and 2011.…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 14, 2012 -
UncategorizedNew Fray Trailer Channels the Spirit of X-COM
Strategy buffs should get a kick out of this trailer for Fray, which French developer Brain Candy officially announced for pre-order today. I saw this simultaneous turn-based strategy game last year at an event in New York and thought it looked pretty damn neat, so it’s good to see that things are progressing nicely.
By Jason Schreier Published February 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Child Left in GameStop Leads to Neglect Arrest
Attention parents of the world: GameStop is not a babysitting service. That fact was made abundantly clear to 21-year-old Kethia Dagrin-Francois of Florida when police arrested her for child neglect after her five-year-old son was found wandering the parking lot of Boyton Mall. According to authorities shoppers discovered the young boy wandering the parking lot…
By Mike Fahey Published February 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Prepare for a Bunch of Mass Effect 3 Plastic to Invade Earth Soon
Commander Shepard’s battle against the malevolent Reapers may be coming to an explosive end this year, but the associated Mass Effect plastic goodies have only begun to fight. You can tell an intellectual property license is popular when it’s got items coming out from different companies and Mass Effect‘s got stuff coming from Dark Horse—who…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 14, 2012