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UncategorizedSometimes You Conquer the Road, Sometimes the Road Conquers You
How do you create a competitive driving game with only one car? Bernhard Handler’s Roadeo offers a simple and elegant solution. Player one drives the car, and player two steers the road. Oh for those heady days of youth, when playing a multiplayer game on a PC meant you either had two joysticks hooked up…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Twin-Stick Space Combat Shooter Fusion: Genesis Hits Next Week for $10
Space combat, twin-stick shooter Fusion: Genesis hits the Xbox 360 on Nov. 9 for 800 points ($10). You can see the game in action here. The developers will also be releasing Fusion: Sentient for Windows Mobile 7 on the same day for $3. You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at [email protected].…
By Brian Crecente Published November 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedSay Hello to Modern Warfare 3’s New Multiplayer Matches and Modes in This New Trailer
Activision’s 800-lb gorilla FPS franchise gets a lot of its muscle from its multiplayer and this clip shows what’ll be different and new in Modern Warfare 3. New modes—like Kill Confirmed, which tasks players to get dog tags of downed opponents—will show up along with the abilities to tweak and share settings into custom modes.…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 - Reviews
Kirby’s Return to Dreamland: The Kotaku Review
Kirby was always a simple video game character. He was a pleaser. Today, he’s a rebel. In the vintage of his heyday, one that Nintendo has attempted to uncork again with this season’s Wii game, Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, Kirby charmed players by being cute. He was—and is again—a pink blob with puffed cheeks and…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedJimmy Kimmel Smashes Bandstand As Donkey Kong
Jimmy Kimmel went full video game for the Halloween airing of Jimmy Kimmel Live. The late night host dressed up as Donkey Kong, at one point tossing a barrel into the bandstand. Other show members dressed up as a variety of video game characters including Frogger, Pac-Man, Pikachu and a ill-formed clutch of Tetris pieces.…
By Brian Crecente Published November 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis New Trailer Shows Off Syndicate’s Co-Op Corporate Warfare
The controversially re-booted Syndicate will be sporting co-op play, shown off in this shiny cyberpunk trailer. We’ve got seeing-through-walls vision power, enemy-tracking bullets and some kind of area-effect blast. Also: Everyone wears trenchcoats. Except the rent-a-soldiers, of course. You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Non-Gamers Pick the Winner of the GameCity Prize, and They Picked Minecraft
None of the members of the GameCity Prize jury are gamers, but the odd collection of actors, musicians, politicians, and journalists recruited to judge seven of the most entertaining video games of the year sure picked a winner. A new project from the folks that put on the annual GameCity gaming celebration at Nottingham Trent…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Activision Uninvites Celebrity from Modern Warfare 3 Party After Learning She’s a Porn Star
Dutch porn star Kim Holland was invited and then quickly uninvited from a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 VIP party in Amsterdam later this month after the game’s publisher discovered what she did for a living, Eigenwereld reports. The last-minute uninvitation has Holland questioning Activision’s seemingly hypocritical take on sex versus violence. Holland, an…
By Brian Crecente Published November 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedMeet the Guys Who Make Skyrim’s Magic Happen in This New Video
Bethesda’s released a taste of the documentary that will come with the collector’s edition of Skyrim. The clip shows how the members of the development team grapple with the challenge of providing a wide-open canvas for an individual, player-driven experience. Todd Howard and his cohorts clearly have a sense of the risk of their endeavor…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Extravagant Collector’s Editions are Overwhelming Video Game Collectors
If you thought spending $149.99 for a massive collector’s edition is too much, what about folks like commenter Gemini-Phoenix, who feel compelled to purchase every limited collector’s edition that comes out. Let’s hear his desperate please to publishers in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. In the world of collector’s edition (CE) video game collecting, we…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
As Corporate Propaganda, the Blackwater Video Game Shoots Blanks
There’s no way you can expect Blackwater to be a good game. Ten minutes with it reveals that impossibility. The completely unintuitive controls, the wooden, stiff animation and the below-average graphics and voicework don’t take long to deflate any expectations of quality. But I had different expectations. The name Blackwater is synonymous with the phenomenon…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Gears of War 3’s Horde Command Pack Delayed
The Horde Command Pack release for Gears of War 3 scheduled to hit today is temporarily delayed due to unspecified technical issue, according to the Epic Games forums. “We apologize to those of you who are anxiously awaiting to play. We know this is disappointing news as we’ve seen a lot of posts today showing…
By Brian Crecente Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to November. Welcome to more Talking Amongst Yourselves about video games. Have at it in the comments section. The images atop each TAY are made by you, the readers. Well, they are made by you making some sort of video-game-oriented manipulation of a classic painting, preferably one tied to what’s going on in games…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Quiver at the Sight of Lord of the Rings: War in the North‘s Collector’s Edition
I arrived home after a weekend away to find a long cardboard box waiting for me, and within it was the PS3 collector’s edition of Lord of the Rings: War in the North. It’s a long and skinny box, a different shape than the large, square statue-holders from other games. I opened ‘er up and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedDriver San Francisco Races Back to the Dark Ages of Mobile Gaming
Before the Android and the iPhone mobile gaming seemed a hopeless endeavor, where every game released felt like a cereal box toy facsimile of a more complete console experience. Gameloft’s Android version of Driver San Francisco remembers those days all too well. Our own Stephen Totilo called the console version of Driver San Francisco “the…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Every McLaren Ever Made Lovingly Recreated for Your Digital Driving Pleasure
Simraceway, an online racing simulator, has achieved a gaming first: It will feature high-detail virtual models of every McLaren car ever made, giving gamers the chance to, yes, test drive the entire McLaren back catalogue. The McLaren name, of course, is iconic in racing and high performance cars. The McLaren racing team was first founded…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedHalo Combat Evolved Anniversary Launch Trailer Shows Off Updated Graphics for Master Chief’s Birthday Party
This new clip for the 10 anniversary re-mastering of the first Halo game takes a narrative approach to the lore of the sci-fi shooter series. The decades-long war with the alien Covenant collective has humanity pushed to the brink of total defeat and you—yes, you, the guy controlling the last of the Spartans—are the only…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Boy, They Like Halloween
Planet | NEW YORK: Heidi Klum and her husband Seal at her annual Halloween party (Photo: Evan Agostini | AP) A Celebration of the Art of the Uncharted Trilogy Uncharted 3 is out today! In honour of the occasion, I thought now would be a good time to have a little Uncharted party here on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Yoda Is a Real Bastard When He Drinks and Drives
Yesterday was Halloween. Parties also raged all weekend, and even adults dressed up in funny costumes. Some of them ate candy and other drank booze. And in Germany, one 42-year-old man dressed as Yoda got arrested—probably because the Force was not with him. And also because he got in a traffic accident—a hit and run…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
The WoW Murder Was More Horrific Than You Can Imagine
Back in spring 2010, two teenage boys—Kruse Wellwood and Cameron Moffat—raped and killed 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor before mutilating and burning her body under a bridge. Then, one of the boys told a friend on World of Warcraft what they did. Their crime was gruesome, but that’s only half the terrible story. In the latest issue…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2011