-
UncategorizedUncharted‘s Studio is in Charge of The Last of Us
The PS3 exclusive title The Last of Us is being developed by Naughty Dog, the studio that brought us the Uncharted Trilogy. The game’s introductory trailer showed a young girl and an older man, presumably her father or some relative, fending off an invasion of deranged mutants infected by whatever pandemic that forms the game’s…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedTony Hawk’s New Game is Tony Hawk HD
Having teased such an announcement earlier in the week, at tonight’s Spike VGAs skate legend Tony Hawk made it official: after a short hiatus in 2011, his series will be back in 2012 with Tony Hawk HD And it sounds pretty great. Rather than risk screwing everything up with a new game like the last…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Road Reggie Winners
We got the ‘Shop Contest back on the track last week thanks to Nintendo of America honcho Reggie Fils-Aime and a life-size Luigi bumble-bee kart. Cygnus_Mal chucked the spiny shell at 19 other contestants, so he finishes first! The usual gallery of lunacy awaits inside! aardvarkattack (2)catches Reggie stuck in morning traffic on I-5. lemonmanlemonman…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
No TV? Watch the Spike Video Game Awards Here, Live
If you’re somewhere without a cable television or, worse, no television at all, you can still follow the action from tonight’s 2011 Spike Video Game Awards live, right here. Courtesy of Spike and MTV Networks, we’re glad to bring you live streaming video of the broadcast. A half-hour pre-show begins at 7:30 pm, which you…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
A ‘Big 64’ of College Football Sounds Like a Nice Idea, Until You Try It in a Video Game
For the past two years, Stick Jockey has, at the end of the season, used EA Sports’ NCAA Football to supply an alternate-reality simulation of a postseason involving a true college football playoff, one that invites every conference champion. I’ve become resigned to the utter fantasy of this idea ever happening in my lifetime. What…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Next Metal Gear Game is Brought to you by Bayonetta’s Developers
It appears the trailer for the next Metal Gear game, Metal Gear Rising, has leaked ahead of the Spike Video Game Awards. If it’s real, it contains an interesting little conclusion. The trailer ends with the revelation that Rising , which has long been out of the public eye, is now being “produced” by Hideo…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Indie Developers Unhappy with their Placement in the New Xbox Dashboard
If you count the directions keyed on the D-pad (or the left stick) it takes 17 button presses to reach the Indie Games section of the Xbox Live Marketplace under the new Xbox dashboard, which released this week. It takes only eight buttons to get to the Xbox Live Arcade and Games on Demand catalogs.…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedNext Year’s Games and This Year’s Winners, Live on Both Coasts, at the Spike VGAs Tonight
Oh man. Heisman Trophy? or Spike Video Game Awards? Heisman Effing Trophy? Or Spike Effing Video Game Awards? We have this problem every year. Actually, I’m going Spike, because the Heisman, unlike the VGAs, doesn’t tell you what next year’s big games will be. Ostensibly an awards gala, the VGAs’ biggest news value is in…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Club Nintendo Coins Will Soon Buy Virtual Console Games
Nintendo Coins, the virtual currency Club Nintendo members receive for doing things like registering their game and hardware purchases and answering surveys, will soon be able to buy Virtual Console games, according to an announcement that was briefly live on the Club Nintendo site. NeoGAF user Spike took that screenshot before the news was taken…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedSkyrim’s Flying Louis Letrush and His Amazing Bear Flambeau
That’s the thing about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; even the game’s many bugs are spectacular. Take, for instance, this video. You think: So what, one of the game’s character’s, Louis Letrush, running on a running horse. Seen it! But have you seen the bard using his horse’s ears as a set of parallel bars,…
By Brian Crecente Published December 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Buy Bulk and Save
If you’re shopping for yourself or more than one gamer this holiday season, this is the weekend to go. Major retailers continue to offer combination deals for buying two or more titles. The Moneysaver has more than 50 bargains on hardware, software, and digital downloads. Check them out now! Software • GameStop offers Buy 2,…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Xbox Live is Free This Weekend in Europe [Corrected]
On the heels of the new dashboard rollout this week, Xbox Live’s Gold level services are free to all this weekend. In addition to multiplayer gaming, features like Video Kinect are also available to Silver (free) subscribers. The weekend includes free previews and discounts on downloadable films (like The Hangover) as well. Enjoy. [Correction] I…
By Owen Good Published December 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Oh, Good. More Duke Nukem DLC Coming Next Week
Can’t get enough Duke Nukem? (That’s—I say, that’s a rhetorical question, son, you’re not supposed to answer it.) Well, good. Gearbox done whomped up even more DLC for the game. Give the devils their due, despite a withering, almost universal critical rejection of Duke Nukem, Gearbox Software and 2K are earnest in their post-release support,…
By Owen Good Published December 9, 2011 -
UncategorizedMinecraft’s Blocky Water Made Wondrous, Shimmering, Natural
I’m a HUGE Minecraft fan. Sure, it could use a bit more hand-holding, but in general I’m a big fan of the game and how much it coaxes creativity out of everyone who plays it. I even like the way the game looks. So when Luke detailed how to pretty up the game, I pretty…
By Brian Crecente Published December 9, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Daily Show Gleefully Rips Into Free-To-Play Gaming
On Monday’s episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, shouty correspondent Aasif Mandvi took on free-to-play iOS games like GameView’s Tapfish In the game, which is entirely free to download, players maintain an aquarium full of virtual fish. There’s a catch, of course—at some point your fish will probably die, and if you’d like,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
From Skyrim Meme to Lady’s Flesh
Skyrim‘s “Arrow in the Knee” meme didn’t only inspire an epic dubstep anthem. It also inspired this tattoo. As pointed out on Reddit, guards in the game often say, “I used to be an adventurer like you, until I took an arrow to the knee.” Tattoo artist Nikkisny originally uploaded the tattoo to website FunnyJunk,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Rookies Arrive This Weekend in NBA 2K12
With the NBA set to get back to work on Christmas, NBA 2K12 can start bringing in rookies who were drafted in June but went unsigned throughout the league’s lockout. Series producer Erick Boenisch told Kotaku last week that the game will drop in signings, trades and free agent moves as they happen, rather than…
By Owen Good Published December 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
This week I rediscovered my love for DC Universe Online thanks to its “Lightning Strikes” DLC, to the point I was up at 1 am last night and swearing at the television when I couldn’t connect to the server. MMOs are a helluva drug. I don’t know how I fell in with this one, probably…
By Owen Good Published December 9, 2011
