• Uncategorized

  What It Will Take to Win the Next Console War

  Veteran video game designer Soren Johnson doesn’t pick Great Motion Controls or Best Graphics as the most important weapon in the next generation of video game console wars. He picks the thing that Apple’s doing so well. Know this about Soren Johnson: he helped figure out the mathematical formula for religion (video game version). He’s…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011
• 

  Uncategorized

  This is How the Diablo III Beta Ends

  Last night Crecente took us through the first ten minutes of the Diablo III beta test with his Witch Doctor. Now let’s take a look at the beta’s final moments with my lovely Monk. After helping rid the town of New Tristam of various lingering undead creatures and retrieving the crown of the Skeleton King,…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2011
• 

  Uncategorized

  Sideway: New York is Maybe Super Paper Mario on the Ceiling, and Floor, And Wall

  In Sideway: New York players take on a graffiti artist turned into a piece of his own art after taking on the wrong tagger rival. It’s a shaky premise attached to some mind-twisting gameplay that has your playing as a flat bit of art sliding along the walls, ground, floors and roofs of New York’s…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  NCIS Games Sure to Delight Video Game Playing Senior Citizens

  This fall Ubisoft teams up with CBS to bring the award-winning NCIS series to video games, letting fans of special agent Gibbs and crew perform their own Naval criminal investigations, provided they can figure out that confounded video game system. Enjoyed by elderly people around the world, the NCIS franchise is a wellspring of introductory…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  Biggie Smalls Plus Warcraft is Weirdly Amusing

  The language is not safe for work and disconcerting if you’re not used to white people earnestly reciting profane rap lyrics that use a certain word… but with those warnings out of the way, check out Warning of Warcraft. This video, made by video game voice actor Oliver Vaquer, taking Biggie’s hit song Warning and…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  It’s Time To Align Your Star Wars: The Old Republic Guild

  Phase one of guild creation for The Old Republic is complete, resulting in thousands of pre-game guilds just waiting to form on launch day, but what server will they launch on? That’s where phase two comes in. Let’s get aligned! Having your guild formed before the game comes out is all well and good, but…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  You Have One Last Chance to Make the Right Choice

  Well gang, it’s been fun, but all games must end eventually. So welcome to the very last round of Would You Rather—brought to you by the folks at State Farm. Remember the good ol’ days of being snuggled up in your pillow fort with a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book gripped tightly between your fingers,…

  Sponsored post Published September 21, 2011
• 

  Uncategorized

  The Best Gears of War 3 Glitch So Far

  We like Gears of War 3. We also like laughing at glitches. But when our intern Chris told me he found a Gears glitch that involved one of our Gears heroes falling through the world, I frowned. We’ve seen this kind of glitch so many times. But then intern Chris told me that the glitch…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  Should the Kingdom Hearts Games That Suck Still Count?

  In today’s continuity-shattering installment of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Yoshi Salcedo wants us to settle an argument he’s having with his girlfriend over Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts series. Should we disregard the DS games because they suck? My girlfriend and I are both Kingdom Hearts fans, and as usual we argued over who was…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  Trains, Kobolds, Dancing Women and More in Our Latest Xbox Live Indie Favorites

  Every few weeks we here at Kotaku make a selection of some of the best Indie games that Xbox Live has to offer. These are our latest favorites. You’ll be able to find the list here for reference, or in the “Kotaku‘s favourites” channel in the Indie Game section of Xbox Live’s Games Marketplace. SpeedRunner…

  By Nick Partyka Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  Paradox Talks About Cartel and its Syndicate Roots.

  Paradox’s Cartel is shaping up to be more of a sequel to Syndicate then the official sequel that EA announced last week.

  By Chris Carolan Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Morning all, you prepped and ready for the Battlefield 3 beta? Perhaps you feel you won’t have the time because you were one of the lucky few to get into the Diablo 3 closed beta? Or maybe you don’t give a damn about either because there’s another upcoming release that has your attention. Now’s your…

  By Nick Partyka Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  The World’s Average Download Speed is 580KBps

  That figure comes courtesy of a Global Download Report published by the global game-delivery company Pando Networks. The study, which was conducted from January 1 through June 30th, 2011, tracked the download speeds of 21 million gamers around the world. Most of the gamers Pando works with are in the MMO/Free-To-Play realm, playing games like…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  Grazing Goats From a Llama-Loving Game Maker

  Goat Up is a love letter to perhaps the one genre of game that game maker Jeff Minter and his team at Llamasoft had never made: The platformer. In Goat Up players control a grass-grazing goat as he makes his way up an endless series of platforms, discovering hidden items, and occasionally love, and having…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  She Could Probably Kick Your Ass

  Pon Pon | CHIBA, JAPAN – Yuzuki Aikawa showed up at the Acquire booth at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Are There Not Enough PlayStation Vitas to go Around? The signs were there for Sony. This year’s Tokyo Game Show was shaping up as the biggest ever, and its new Vita…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2011
• 

  Uncategorized

  How Adobe Is Going To Make Flash Gaming Awesomer

  Flash gaming is just about to get better. Adobe is bringing full hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to both Flash and Air. It’s also improving 2D graphics as well. All this would mean that Adobe could bring console style gaming to the Flash platform and improve integration with social networking sites like Facebook. It also makes it…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2011
• 

  Uncategorized

  Nintendo Reminds Japan that the 3DS Has Games

  It does! So stop all that nonsense that the 3DS has zero games. More impressive is that the 3DS has a strong line-up of third party titles. The 3DS might be making its way through a rough patch, but right now, it could just be some temporary turbulence. You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  Japan Likes Gears of War Just Fine, Thank You

  Back when the first Gears of War was launched in 2006, so many Japanese gamers used to turn their noses up at Western games. Slowly, but surely, that’s beginning to change. While at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, many members of the Japanese press I talked with expressed interest and excitement about Gears of War…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  Are There Not Enough PlayStation Vitas to go Around?

  The signs were there for Sony. This year’s Tokyo Game Show was shaping up as the biggest ever, and its new Vita handheld would be many people’s main attraction. Why, then, did the company do such a poor job of actually letting people play the thing? We’ve told you how ridiculous the lines for the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2011
• Uncategorized

  Science Finds Some People Can’t Tell the Video Game World From the Real World

  Research carried out by Nottingham Trent University, and which is soon to be published in the International Journal of Cyber Behaviour, Psychology and Learning, says that hardcore video gamers are having trouble distinguishing the real world from the virtual one. Having polled an astounding 42 gamers aged between 15-21, some of the most extreme cases…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2011