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UncategorizedUbisoft’s Post-It War Gets Video Documentation
Over the summer, Kotaku did a fair amount of war correspondence. This particular war wasn’t happening in Iraq or Afganistan, but rather in Paris. It was an ongoing Post-It War between game developer Ubisoft and its neighbors, the French bank BNP. It started with small characters in office windows, then quickly spiraled out of control,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Are You Ready For Some Battlefield?
Battlefield 3 –Our copies of tomorrow’s big game arrived this morning. The Queen of Blades is No Match for the New and Improved Blizzard DOTA Kerrigan. The Queen of Blades. The most feared woman in the known universe, destroyer of worlds, and murderer of millions. The greatest leader the Zerg has ever known. Kerrigan is…
By Brian Crecente Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
These Shank 2 Co-Op Screens are a Bloody Good Time
Klei Entertainment’s upcoming Shank 2 brings a new brand of extreme slice-em-up to the stage with its co-op gameplay. We’ve already seen some of it in action off-screen, and it certainly looks like a lot of team-stabbin’. Klei sent along a grip of new screenshots from both the single-player and teh co-op. I thought I’d…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dr. Robotnik Just Didn’t Think Things Through
What do you do after you’ve turned every animal in the world into a robot? Don’t ask Dr. Robotnik; he’s got no freaking clue. If I were Dr. Robotnik I’d totally dress them up in little outfits. Click to view You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Isn’t Fooling Game Reviewers
On November 1, Nathan Drake ventures into the hidden depths of the Earth to capture the most elusive treasure he’s ever sought — the heart of game reviewers everywhere. Some think they’re just a myth. Personally I don’t think such a thing even exists, but if they do, than Nathan Drake and Uncharted 3: Drake’s…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Won’t World of Warcraft‘s First Neutral Race Cause Player Vs. Player Pandemonium?
With Pandaren players able to choose either Horde or Alliance in the Mists of Pandaria expansion pack, World of Warcraft‘s arenas and battlegrounds will soon see an outbreak of panda-on-panda violence. I asked the game’s senior game producer Ray Cobo how players will tell Pandaren apart once the fur starts flying. As new Pandaren players…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2011 -
UncategorizedBatman: Arkham City‘s Mockery of Lost is Funny
I first realized that Batman: Arkham City had Lost jokes in it when I overheard one of the game’s thugs complaining about how the show explained the famous TV show’s mysterious island. A reader pointed me to a better joke, one Tweeted about by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof, who noted: “Crud. Now I’ve gone and…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 24, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Newest Dreamcast/Neo-Geo Game Mashes Metroid with a Commodore 64 Classic
It’s been out of production for years but garage coders and hardcore fans of the Dreamcast have been keeping it alive with fresh content and inventive hacks. The latest example of the former comes from German studio NG:DEV.TEAM in the form of Gunlord. The side-scrolling shooter appears to show the influence of the old-school Commodore…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Which of the Console Companies will an Apple “Smart Television” Kill?
There’s going to be another round of consoles. There’s another Xbox coming, another PlayStation. Anything could happen in the next couple of years before they’re released. For instance, Apple could start selling “smart televisions”. There have been “Apple TV” rumors for years, even before there was the current bolt-on AppleTV. (Here’s one of today’s.) But…
By Joel Johnson Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Everything We Know and Think about Batman: Arkham City
We’ve reviewed Batman: Arkham City. We’ve offered tips so you can start playing it the right way. We’ve cobbled together instructions for how to grab the many downloadable additions to the game (how good are you at leaping through hoops?). We’ve explained that Catwoman stuff. Here, in one handy place, is our Batman: Arkham City…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 24, 2011 -
UncategorizedUncharted 3 Video Shows the Best Way to Punch Your Way to Victory in Multiplayer
The video of Harrison Ford playing Uncharted 3 last week was clearly meant to communicate some kind of blessing from Indiana Jones to Nathan Drake. And Indy’s a professor who taught lessons with his fists. This video features Naughty Dog’s Robert Cogburn talking about how you can do the same in the studio’s hotly anticipated…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Solo StarCraft II Player Thanks You For a Shorter Heart of the Swarm Campaign, Jerks
During BlizzCon 2011 this weekend I got to ask Starcraft II senior designer Jonny Ebbert what was in store for the solo player in the upcoming expansions and why Heart of the Swarm‘s campaign is nine missions shorter that Wings of Liberty‘s. You whiny bastards. Not you folks personally — well, not all of you…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Quick Thoughts About My Battlefield 3 Review
Editor’s Note: We ended last week at Kotaku without any review copies of Battlefield 3. So did a lot of other outlets. Console and PC copies arrived in our laps today, a day before release, but a select few outlets, including our pals at Joystiq, got a PC copy last week and reviewed it today.…
Arthur Gies, Joystiq Published October 24, 2011 -
UncategorizedGE Brings Good Things to Life in Minecraft with Recreation of Edison Memorial Tower
Say what you want about their loophole-happy tax practices, but General Electric’s a company that understands invention. And the making of things. So, it’s kind of a natural fit that the company’s GE Show would do an episode featuring the world’s most successful alpha release. You’ll see Minecraft used to recreate the Edison Memorial Tower,…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011 -
UncategorizedZombies Do Not Understand Pumpkin Carving, But Damn Can They Dance
It’s Pumpkins Vs. Zombies as PopCap’s zombie temp worker tries his hand at gourd gutting and cutting. Then a rave breaks out. It’s great to see the folks at PopCap having a great time preparing for Halloween this year, and any video that starts with the undead and ends with dancing is an instant classic.…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Should You Buy Pokémon Rumble Blast? No.
Pokémon Rumble Blast is the first Pokémon game for the Nintendo 3DS, but it’s not a real Pokémon game any more than the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon or Pokémon Ranger games are. This is no role-playing game involving turn-based battles and gym trainers. You’re controlling Pokémon directly in this one, collecting some 600 of them in…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 24, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe New Gameplay Trailer for Inversion Makes Things Topsy-Turvy
I’m the kind of guy who’ll always give games that muck with the core precepts of spacetime at least a gander. Rewinding and freezing time, opening up wormholes and otherwise bending the forces of the universe spices up otherwise ordinary gameplay. That’s the thinking behind Namco Bandai’s upcoming shooter Inversion, which lets you reverse gravity…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Cube of Cubes, or a Perplexing Way to Play 16 GameCube Games
Blessed with a surplus of ancient Commodore 1702 monitors and a handful of GameCubes, Personal Computer Museum curator Syd Bolton stacked them all together to form a pleasantly confusing cube of cubes. After debuting his cube of cubes at a recent Game Night held at his Ontario, Canada museum, Bolton took a little time out…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Cheapest Price Ever for Kinect and Two Games
• Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor with Kinect Adventures and Child of Eden (download code) is $107.24, free shipping from Buy.com. Next best is $120 from Amazon. The previous best Kinect deal was a $114 net value ($139 w/ $25 bonus credit) from Amazon, but that was for the original bundle without Child of Eden. [Dealzon]
By Owen Good Published October 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Get Your First Look at Minecraft on the Xbox 360 In Vegas Next Month
Minecraft for the Xbox 360 will be playable at MineCon in Las Vegas next month, the game’s developers tell Kotaku. MineCon runs on Nov. 18 and Nov. 19. The fan event will also mark the official launch of the computer version of Minecraft. That’s right, it will finally be finished.
By Brian Crecente Published October 24, 2011